Oh that wacky Summers family

The first issue of that X-Sanction thing came out earlier this month, and while I have very little interest in picking it up I’m hardly going to pretend I wasn’t curious about how they’re justifying this whole Cable-comes-back-from-the-dead-to-kill-the-Avengers-thing, so I've been reading some reviews. So far, no great surprises. Cable is – for the second time in three years – suddenly not dead for no well-established reason. He really is out to kill all the Avengers because on his latest visit to the future he found out they’re somehow responsible for preventing Hope from saving the world. The twist, if you can call it a twist, is that he’s in a particular hurry to get all this done because he has only hours left to live before the TO infection kills him.

That’s right folks, Marvel is all set to kill off Nathan Summers for the third time.

(All this when only last week I was having Deadpool spout off a line about how one more death and they’ll be able to use him to teach the kiddies to count on Sesame Street. My hand to god, I honestly thought I was kidding.)

There comes a point in the life of every indignantly over-invested comic-book-fan where you’ve just got to throw up your hands and laugh. This is very much one of those times.

( But seriously folks )

Last minute end of year fic

It's been so long since I last posted fic that I really wanted to at least have something new posted by the end of the year, but it probably goes without saying that I've had more trouble than I counted on getting back into the swing of writing again after all that cosplay stress leading up to November. (All those posts about stuff in recent Marvel comics? You can safely read them as a sort of sideways attempt to get myself back into the writing groove again.) The good news is I'm finally writing again, and I have the next chapter of that high school AU needing only a few last edits and a beta before it's done! The bad news is ahaha no way is that happening by new year's.

But in the interests of having something to share by that arbitrary date, and because I feel the need to celebrate the fact that it appears this will actually still be canon-compliant following X-Sanction, I'm reposting this short fic I wrote for a kink meme request a couple of weeks ago. Very brief context for reposting purposes: the request was for Deadpool and a newly resurrected Cable meeting on the pages of Uncanny X-Force, but I must also credit this recent scene where Spider-Man and Johnny Storm do almost the exact same thing for inspiration as all I could think reading it was, wow, you'd hardly have to rewrite this to do make it Cable and Deadpool instead...

( Script format, as I like to imagine this is exactly how it might go down on page )

And a Happy New Year to you all!