Your Dose of Odd!Jen for the day
I've come to interesting (and naturally, weird) understanding of myself in recent days.
I have all the maternal instincts of a sock. Kids don't understand me, I don't understand them and if you put us in a room together it's likely we'll just end up staring at each other uncomfortably. (I'm worse with babies.)
However...
Give me a comic book wherein Wolverine is paternal towards Laura (X-23 - who, being a clone-ish, isn't really his daughter but was the closest he had until Dakin turned up. Besides - X isn't evil like Dakin) or a Runaways crossover where he's nice to Molly Hayes (my love for Molly knows no bounds, please come back Mr. Vaughan!) or, for example, the bit in House of M where he's sweet to Layla Miller when she's freaking out. Give me any of those things? And I will suddenly understand what people mean when their ovaries die of cute.
If there was a X-Book that was just about Wolverine and X-23 trying to awkwardly be a family together (just how do you ground a kid that was trained to be a killer from birth?) - I would read the hell out of it.
This is why I'm said that the X-Fandoms don't qualify for Yuletide because, other than wanting literally any sort of X-Factor fic someone would be willing to write (well, maybe not Rictor/Shatterstar given that there's a lot of that already), I want awkward!Dad!Wolverine and awkward!daughter!X-23 fic so bad.
So, in conclusion: the only thing in the world, right now, that makes me ever think kids might be a good thing for me? Is a fictional fucked-up mutant who can't die and is the best there is at what he does.
*facepalm*
(As an aside to that - Hugh Jackman has said that he definitely wants to film the Wolverine sequel in Japan! Samurai Wolverine. I am too excited about that. (One of my favourite Wolverine limited ever is the one where he fights ninja zombies in Japan))
I have all the maternal instincts of a sock. Kids don't understand me, I don't understand them and if you put us in a room together it's likely we'll just end up staring at each other uncomfortably. (I'm worse with babies.)
However...
Give me a comic book wherein Wolverine is paternal towards Laura (X-23 - who, being a clone-ish, isn't really his daughter but was the closest he had until Dakin turned up. Besides - X isn't evil like Dakin) or a Runaways crossover where he's nice to Molly Hayes (my love for Molly knows no bounds, please come back Mr. Vaughan!) or, for example, the bit in House of M where he's sweet to Layla Miller when she's freaking out. Give me any of those things? And I will suddenly understand what people mean when their ovaries die of cute.
If there was a X-Book that was just about Wolverine and X-23 trying to awkwardly be a family together (just how do you ground a kid that was trained to be a killer from birth?) - I would read the hell out of it.
This is why I'm said that the X-Fandoms don't qualify for Yuletide because, other than wanting literally any sort of X-Factor fic someone would be willing to write (well, maybe not Rictor/Shatterstar given that there's a lot of that already), I want awkward!Dad!Wolverine and awkward!daughter!X-23 fic so bad.
So, in conclusion: the only thing in the world, right now, that makes me ever think kids might be a good thing for me? Is a fictional fucked-up mutant who can't die and is the best there is at what he does.
*facepalm*
(As an aside to that - Hugh Jackman has said that he definitely wants to film the Wolverine sequel in Japan! Samurai Wolverine. I am too excited about that. (One of my favourite Wolverine limited ever is the one where he fights ninja zombies in Japan))