Chapters: 36/36 Fandom: Deadpool (2016), Spider-Man – All Media Types, Deadpool – All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Parker/Wade Wilson, Spider-Man/Deadpool Characters: Peter Parker, Wade Wilson, May Parker (Spider-Man), Hawkeye (Marvel), Weasel, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Logan (X-Men), Bruce Banner, Charles Xavier Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Supernatural Elements, Hurt/Comfort, Bonding, Anchors, Psychic Bond, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Slow Build Summary:
Weapon X chose Wade Wilson because of several factors in his life. He was a preternatural. He had extraordinary abilities that could be expanded upon. The cancer just made him desperate enough to agree to whatever they wanted to do with him.
They didn’t just turn him immortal. They destroyed his very soul, tearing him apart and shaping him into something new and never seen before. They took everything he had been and left him with ashes and bones. Soulless.
He killed his creators and went on with his life.
Then he met Spider-Man.
Things started to change.
Something inside him, something that had come out of the ashes and was a nightmarish, terrible thing, sat up and took notice. An intense, single-minded notice.
I stuck it on Ao3 cuz why the fuck not. It’s a one-shot. Might as well.
Guyyyyyyssss this is so good. I am loving everyone’s post-TLJ kylux takes, and this one delivers. I’m so invested in well-constructed getting together stories, and I’m really floored by this particular fic.
Kylo Ren’s POV is complicated, quixotic and believable. I love the way he approaches his relationship with Hux, and his daydreams/Force visions. He seems like a person finally coming into their own, and it works really well. He’s at once insecure and self-congratulatory. He’s working out the kinks. His conflicted inability to look directly at the world and at Hux is delightful. All and all, this is a good and toothsome read. And the language is deft and lovely.
Warning for suicidal actions (Hux), and some vague dubcon. But neither is gatuitous.
Fandom: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017), Star Wars – All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Characters: Armitage Hux, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Additional Tags: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Spoilers, Canon Compliant, Kylo Ren is Awful, Hux Gets to Sleep, Dreaming, Manipulation, Dirty Talk, Power Imbalance Summary: General Hux finally gets some sleep, but his dreams won’t let him rest. Neither will Kylo Ren.
MERRY CRISIS NERDS, HERE’S SOME MORE POST-TLJ KYLUX.
And there’s nothing wrong with theorizing, obviously. You just gotta know how to manage your expectations. There were several things I went into The Last Jedi ardently hoping wouldn’t happen. Those things happened, but were done in a way that set up the next part of the story in ways I hadn’t imagined, and to me that was a great outcome.
The thing is, I didn’t tell myself “If this thing happens I’m going to hate the movie.” I said “If this thing happens, I hope they do it well or I can find a way to love it.”
Reblogging this again, because April is saying something I’ve really been thinking about since TLJ came out, about storytelling and our relationship to it as viewers.
The storyteller’s job IS NOT to give the audience what they expect and what they want. God, how boring would it be if every story you encountered turned out exactly the way you wanted? The storyteller’s job is to turn expectations upside down, to make the viewer/reader think and get engaged.
You can only get engaged if you come to a story and let go of your preconceived notions and expectations. And, in a fandom sense: You gotta let go of your fanon. Fandom is notorious for reducing characters to narrow archetypes. A well-realized character in a story cannot be a narrow archetype. If you’re so focused on your own narrow interpretation of characters that you view canon veering from that interpretation as ‘wrong’, you are never going to enjoy any new canon, ever. And honestly, that is not on the storyteller, that’s on you, as the viewer.
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