#cherik stan

[justsomecouscous]

*points to a pair of random fictional gay men that I'm currently obsessed with for no reason and will be for the next month* These are my babies and I love them

*pushes the ones that I'm not currently obsessed with back into my basement* Hush children you can come back out when (if) your hyperfixation returns

[booksandmore]

ohh flowershop au - NO DIVORCE THEM RIGHT THIS INSTANT WHERES THE TRAGIC GAY LONGING BRING IT BACK THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR

[greatkingrat70]

please follow me im funny and mentally ill i think it adds to funny

[capt-ann]

Charles: Please try and be calm, alright?

Erik: I’m going to stay angry. I find that relaxes me.

[myimaginationplain]

xmcu cherik fans who hate on comic cherik lack taste, vision, and imagination there I said it

[rockinxrocco]

cherik stans how are we feeling after xmen 97 ep 2

[imposterogers]

v*gilmaker and m*ttfoggy are never gonna be canon and they have the most mindbogglingly obnoxious fandoms on here. cherik is a god tier ship though. they are the only marvel ship that matters.

we’re on tumblr….. TUMBLR…….. and ur going to say with your whole heart that mattfoggy is one of the most obnoxious fandoms on here? like, do you JUST follow mattfoggy stans? do you just follow ME? have you left your containment area at all or ? baby girl take my hand I can lead u to incredible (horrible) corners of this website

[atjsgf]

... that Xavier apologist part is new. Explain?

I was gonna accuse you of trying to get me killed on the guillotine fetishist website, but then I remembered I put that in my bio fully willingly knowing what site I was on, so, yeah, this one's on me.

Someday if I feel like swinging a bat at a hornet's nest I will write a whole essay about this, but the basics are:

When people say "Magneto was right" what they actually mean is "My politics, which I have projected onto Magneto, are right."

Likewise, when they say "Xavier is a liberal (derogatory)" what they mean is "the politics I have projected onto Xavier, which are the politics I associate with my IRL enemies, are liberal (derogatory)."

Both statements have little to nothing to do with the actual politics displayed by either man in canon.

Magneto (at his best) operates on the assumption that the mutant-liberated utopia is just around the corner. Xavier operates on the assumption that the world we actually have is the world we're going to have for the foreseeable future, and that it's in everyone's best interest to try to improve that world. There's value in idealism, but there's value in realism, too.

"He gave Kurt a watch to make him look human!" Yeah and that watch is the one thing keeping Kurt from getting hate-crimed on the daily so what about it

Recognizing the reality that mutants with visible mutations are often subjected to violence and giving those mutants the ability to ward off said violence =/= endorsing that violence

"But remember how Mystique said she doesn't hide who she is cause she shouldn't have to!" Good for her! This line is then followed by her son staring longingly at her because the filmmakers were allergic to the comics that co-producer Kevin Feige kept trying to sneak onto set like contraband, so maybe we can zoom out and take all of this in context, as a story with characters who have differing political opinions inside the fictional world they live in, instead of a political manifesto for the real world with real world stakes.

Just generally Xavier's politics seem more attached to the reality in which he lives than Magneto's, whose politics seem largely driven by emotion and trauma. It's understandable; that doesn't make him correct.

This all being said: I actually like Magneto as a character more than I like Xavier lmao.

This is an aside but I guess it's kind of related, so I'll throw it here: Dark Phoenix actually briefly introduced the most interesting philosophical and moral quandary in the entire XMCU via Mystique and Xavier's conflict over Xavier using the X-Men in part to garner good PR for mutantkind. Then she dies and they just forget about it lol

Stan cherik

[msfbgraves]

I ship Cherik. Me, and nearly all the X-Men fandom. It's the fandom flagship, and all possible iterations of the pairing may have seen the light of day by now.

We all ship it, while acknowledging that in canon, Erik has often been very willing to actively hurt or endanger Charles, even before the 'beach divorce', and after, too. (I'm referring to the method Erik uses to kill Shaw, knowing full well that Charles is part of that. Him dropping a stadium on Charles, him using Charles as a vehicle to kill all humans). And Charles can be a right bastard, too.

So fluffy!

But we deal with it: fixit AUs, tooth rotting fluff, blood curling angst. Nobody is posting DNI's for shipping Cherik even though their love can be anything but wholesome. We still don't go around calling 'abuse apologist' for writing a coffeeshop AU.

I also ship Silverusso, among a great many other Cobra Kai ships. This is a ship that, I'll grant, didn't start of from an honest place, and both are very willing to hurt the other. There's an age gap between the two, but even though some ship it between a 17 or 18 year old teenager (the timeline is incredibly vague and contradictory about that) and a man in his mid-thirties, presumably, it is also completely possible to ship it between a man in his fifties and one in his very late sixties or early seventies.

Because at some point, the attraction between the two was clearly mutual.

Yes, the canon attraction between them is subtextual, just as the majority of Cherik, but in the same "This subtext is rapidly becoming text" way, or the same way Johnlock never kissed in canon. (It was 2011, deal with it.)

And the fandom has the same range from tooth rotting fluff to blood curling angst.

Except this time, the larger fandom will block you for shipping it on sight.

"This is not a safe space for you!" non-shippers exclaim. "Don't you dare tag the gifs with the ship!"

I thought that was because love is only allowed to exist when it's happy, but then, Cherik isn't, or Hannigram. Is it because of the age gap? But why does that matter between two middle aged men? Is it because of violence in their past? But then why is Lawrusso a perfectly acceptable ship in that fandom? Johnny Lawrence harrassed Daniel LaRusso, pushed him off a cliff, nearly killed him in a mugging. But that's OK as long as they're both teenagers? Or is a power differential OK if it is a group of highly trained, rich, martial artist teenagers against one untrained poor teenager, but not if one of them was an adult at one point and the other wasn't (again, this is highly debatable)?

I mean the actors have absolutely no problem playing a dark sexual tension between the two, then or now. Neither did the Cherik actors. The writers have demonstrably no problem writing lines like: "I like this attitude on you", "It was easy to disrupt your marriage. You let me walk right in", or have a younger Daniel gushing about Silver. And the actors have great respect for each other.

But the non-shippers in this fandom keep making seperate call out posts on their blogs. Not content with saying it's their notp, but forbidding others to even interact with their posts (not comment, interact at all).

It can't be the violence in their past or present (for god's sake, it's cobra kai! How often have Johnny and Daniel fought?) It's not that dark ships are generally unacceptable on Tumblr. It must be that at one point, Daniel was a teenager and Silver was not.

But then, so is Gradence, and that fandom has never compelled me to post my fics on anon, or forbade me to read gifs as dark shippy.

Other fandoms seem to understand that you can be fascinated by love that isn't healthy, and you can go as dark or as feather light in fandom as you please.

Just learn what a NOTP is, CK stans. You're being very weird.

[slaygentford]

do u still have thots/headcanons etc about cherik

Stan carpe brewski

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Erik and Charles saying their goodbyes “you’re psychic Charles you can convince me to do anything” wow erik you slut

11 notes - Posted November 8, 2022

#4

if anyone ever wonders if it’s worth leaving a short comment on an old fic yes it is coz I just got one and it’s got my day off to a great start :) <3

14 notes - Posted October 21, 2022

#3

watching blake’s 7. Avon is climbing rather cautiously down a ladder into a bunker. Meanwhile, up top, people in silver suits are being attacked by people in gorilla suits

16 notes - Posted February 5, 2022

#2

garden’s looking good - I’ll need to water tonight as it’s v dry and v hot

18 notes - Posted July 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

So it’s midnight and I’m lying in the sofa idly scrolling with horrible bosses on the tv - no, I don’t know why either - when a van pulls up outside - I can see the light thru the blinds - and I hear low voices and then a couple of torches (flashlights) are heading for my front door. What do I do:

a. Go upstairs, wake my partner, see if we can see what’s going on from the bedroom window?

b. grab my phone ready to call the emergency services and maybe a knife from the kitchen or that heavy candlestick from the cabinet?

c. Unlock the front door and go running out in my socks and old cardi and chase the van until it disappears round the corner?

If you guessed c. where I show a total disregard for my own safety and forget that I’m not enhanced therefore cannot catch a van on foot and even if I did wtf would I do then, well, you’re right.

Some sense returned to me and i went back home only to find a bag of pastries on our front door step. We have a weekly milk delivery and we’d ordered danish and they’d run out so they said they’d deliver mid week.

I’d been pursuing a couple of milkmen.

24 notes - Posted March 15, 2022

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[britishchick09]

rewrite erik isn’t like most phantoms. he’s a gentle, awkward soul who would never hurt anyone. he’s even purer than cherik!

but then... the red death scene

OH BOY THE RED DEATH SCENE

as his new persona, erik talks in a sophisticated, slightly menacing voice, moving down the stairs with cold elegance, his presence striking fear in all who see him... and all will comply to his desires, lest they wish for death.

this is the erik everyone loves. no longer is he a gawky stringbean who makes carrot spaghetti soup and forgets what a bathroom is. no longer is he a sarah bernhardt stan or a demiboy who longs to be a woman or even a fab opera ghost!

he’s the phantom of the opera

[professorxsmokesweed]

my unpopular opinion is that movies wise i am a cherik stan first comics wise i will kill them both to make mystique happy with only minimal hesitation

[capt-ann]

I am a woman of many impulses and unfortunately for those who know me I rarely deny myself.

So I made a Cherik blog

Yup, sorry, gave in again, anyway go follow @thischerik if you lot are still these lovers o mine 🫶🏼

[sherwoodknights]

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#we can enjoy and appreciate both sets of characters without declaring that people are morally wrong for not stanning ur fave

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Just got told by my parents to shut up because I was talking about Cherik too much at the end of Dark Phoenix

64 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

#4

Anyone else living for the Cap and Thomas rivalry coming back

They're so dramatic I love it

71 notes - Posted September 23, 2022

#3

One of the only thoughts I had while watching the episode was this meme

80 notes - Posted June 12, 2022

#2

Philistine wazzock is going straight into my catalogue of insults

80 notes - Posted September 23, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Mouthpiece is just a less likeable version of Racetrack Higgins and I think its great that Ben Cook is just playing the same character in two different musicals

111 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

after much ethnographic immersion, i have determined that as of 2022, there's actually a roughly equal number of erik stans & charles stans in the current cherik fandom. they just happen to exist in entirely separate spheres & seem to be unaware that the other group exists. if you are suffering from fandom fatigue as a result of feeling that everyone else woobifies your unfavorite, i recommend some kind of cultural exchange that would expose you to a different circle of cherik shippers, because the one thing we can all agree on is that anons whining that everyone else in fandom is so stupid & wrong & annoying is possibly the most annoying thing of all.

80 notes - Posted January 4, 2022

#4

[ID: tweet from @onslaughtverse reading, erik "i'd destroy the world for you" lehnsherr and charles "i'll create a world that deserves you" xavier /end ID]

91 notes - Posted August 18, 2022

#3

new rule: you’re not allowed to call a fandom dead unless you’re actively creating for it

110 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#2

See the full post

126 notes - Posted July 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

but ALSO ON THE OTHER HAND the failure of telepathy. erik who is like "ah so he knows i am a monster" and just goes on like that glumly but also doesn't bother telling charles anything about himself because he already knows, surely he already knows. erik who makes charles his arbitrator of what is good and moral and thinks A Good Person Would Be Against Me Killing Shaw even knowing that he killed my mom, experimented on me, that his death is the only thing that has allowed me to keep putting one foot in front of the other instead of just lying down and dying, this man who knows everything about me and therefore gives me exactly what i am worth and it is the tenderness of friendship but no more, it is sitting three feet away from me in his study. and meanwhile charles is like :) can't wait to get to know him as a real person more than just what my telepathy can tell me because charles knows better than anyone that it doesn't matter what you think and that who you are is defined by what you choose to do (which is why he should convert and not just to give edie the satisfaction of marrying her child off to a nice jewish boy)

164 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

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