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Hi, internet. Boy, I'm shit at LJ, huh?

I'm tired and cranky and fighting with Photoshop, so I thought I'd bring back a meme to do in between throwing tantrums about fonts:

I currently have 207 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 207 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like

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maybe ours is the cause of all mankind

This was a little ficlety thing that I totally forgot that I wrote! So this will be fun XD

1) Of course Charles makes the first move. He's already been broken so badly, what does he have to be afraid of? - This is the theme of the story, which was inspired by the song "More Adventurous" and particularly the line "I read with every broken heart / we should become more adventurous." But I really love that idea, that Charles is like, "Well, how much worse can he really fuck this up? Might as well just go for it, I already lived through hell."

2) "I do love you," Erik says. [...] "You know I do." This is a theme that I come back to over and over again in my post-movie stories--Erik loves Charles, but he doesn't love Charles more than he hates the injustice he perceives. Love is not Erik's priority and never will be. And I think, sometimes, Charles understands what that means even more than Erik does.

3) He hopes that one day he'll be dedicated to his fledgling school and his students. He hopes that one day he'll think back on Erik with wistful nostalgia for a lost love. - I looooooooove Charles being SO MAD AT HIMSELF that he still loves Erik above all else, even when he KNOWS he should love his school more, he should rearrange his priorities. He's self-aware enough to understand that Erik is the center of his world and thus self-aware enough to be cranky about it.

(Erica wrote a gr8 remix of this story from Erik's PoV, so that's my secret #4: for me to be saved and you to be brave (more adventurous remix))