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still open for requests for this here board!

thus far i have one prompt in progress (kidnapping) and another requested (muzzled)

new btbh board!

this time around i have a game plan and it means madelyne pryor is going to be having a terrible time

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*trying to say i like a fictional character* yeah he activates my predator animal drive

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i hate when i have the perfect idea for a whump scene but i have no ideas for why the scene happens. yeah this guy got kidnapped. for. for plot reasons??? idk you figure it out

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lets scream with mama

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if you're posting a whole fanfiction to tumblr you've got to put it under a readmore boss

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new btbh board!

this time around i have a game plan and it means madelyne pryor is going to be having a terrible time

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the highlight of my night thus far is the image of rogue casually bench pressing 200-pound wolf verna and verna short circuiting for a hot second because she's never been picked up before and doesn't know what to do with it

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fic planning be like:

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hate when people think the only archetype possible for a male sidekick to a female protagonist is a soft boi and/or himbo. like the implication there is that the only reason a man would ever defer to a woman’s authority is if he was a bumbling idiot. love male supporting characters who are smart and strong and confident and can step up when necessary but still kind and humble enough to let someone else take the lead most of the time

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the thing is, i think horror needs to have a little love. it needs to have an obsession. does the parasite in your body love you? it raises you from the dead, it sustains you. this is its body. this is your body. does the haunted house feel intruded upon? is it hungry? what is hatred but adoration?

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fanfiction writers when a character is remotely non-human

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I see transgirl!Jean idk about genderqueer tho explain

yeah! so on the marvel wiki page for the phoenix force (earth 616) it lists the phoenix's gender as "agender," so it was kinda from there (and that while phoenix has mostly had female hosts, it's also had the odd male host) that this whole hc came about.

(also please note that everything else i'm going to say is based on the 90s animated series)

my hc is that phoenix had been in jean's head long enough that she got a pretty good idea of who she (phoenix) was as a person, she had a pretty decent sense of self...except that everyone around her kept referring to her as "she" and after a while....that felt off.

of all people, emma frost is the one who realizes there's something off with phoenix, beyond the obvious (wyngarde is starting to lose his control over her and emma knows that, but no one wanted to listen to her). she pulls phoenix aside and has a discussion with her that helps her realize she would much rather prefer they/them pronouns.

(is this a little farfetched? perhaps. but bear with me.)

and once phoenix is gone, jean has this feeling she can't get rid of, it's like this itch she can't scratch and she has no idea what it is or what to even do about it, but she remembers the conversation phoenix had had with emma and realizes if she doesn't at least try this, it's going bug her. so. she switches. gives it a try. asks scott to use they/them pronouns for them. and it feels so much better.

in short: post-phoenix possession jean realizes she/her pronouns aren't doing it for her and switches to they/them (maybe at some point they try they/she pronouns or she/they? jean can do whatever they want)

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so. in all of this (gestures vaguely). johnathan x madelyne was not the take i thought i needed…and yet

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hey fellas how do we feel about genderqueer jean grey?

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i will ALWAYS clap my hands excitedly and lean forward in my seat when someone tells a character to "keep your dog on a leash" only for it to turn out they're referring to another person

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i think i’ve done as much as i can with this outline which means

it’s time to ✨pick some prompts✨

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update

in case anyone was wondering where i’m at