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Title: Still Standing
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairings: Kitty, mentions Wisdom/Pryde
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: She's still standing, for better or worse.



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Title: Survival
Fandom: X-Men
Author: Apache Firecat
Characters: Emma, Kitty
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Survival isn't what it's cracked up to be -- neither is wealth or fame --, and family and love always fail.
Word Count: 2,180
Written For: HalfAMoon 2025 Day 11: Fairy Tales or Fantasy
Date Written: 10 February 2025
Warnings: Spoilers, Cannon Character Deaths
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.


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Title: Harsh Truths
Fandom: X-Men
Author: Apache Firecat
Characters: Shadowcat, White Queen
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Teacher Emma Frost embarks a harsh truth to a former, wouldbe student.
Word Count: 2,427
Written For: HalfAMoon 2025 Day 4: Murder and/or Mayhem
Date Written: 2 February 2025
Warnings: Spoilers
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.



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SPOILERS!



Very happy to see Bobby trying to come through for Kitty. I'm not entirely sure he's the best person for the job, however, especially not with their history, which honestly never made much sense to begin with unless Kitty just likes the April/December romances -- although, granted, we know she does with her men (Piotr being with her when she was only fourteen, then Wisdom in later years). I was never really sold on the Bobby/Kitty romance though, and honestly felt that it was just another pathetic nod at the movies. (On a side note, I'm actually excited, after having seen Deadpool & Wolverine in theaters with the husband -- our first theater movie alone, despite the fact that we've been together for SIX years now! -- to give the next Marvel mutants movie a try. Hopefully Disney will handle it all WAY better than Fox ever did!)

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Kitty Pryde was a First for many in many ways, just as she was a first for teenaged comic-book readers back in her day. When she first joined the X-Men, she was youngest on the team BY FAR. That didn't stop her from first leading a team of X-Men, when all their normal leaders were down or away for whatever myriad of reasons, at the tender age of FOURTEEN. I've watched this character grow up over the years, as have, of course, other readers too, but she has inspired me in so many ways. I am, in some ways, a leader. My husband and mother have both come to look at me to lead, whether or I want to or not, and I've many colleagues who look at me at work to lead. I've even had bosses who look at me to lead them... That may or may not hold true today... :)

But Kitty was a first for me in many other ways too. She was one of my first AOL names, the first one that actually stuck, which was Shdwct83. I knew very little about her character at the time, but I'd fallen into my first RPG in an AOL chat room and she was one of VERY few characters open. All I knew about her came from the back of a trading card!





But then, FINALLY, I fell across my first comic, and the rest, as they say, is History! I wasn't even that fond of the character when I first started RPing as her, tbh, but she grew on me in Excalibur and I freaking LOVE what they have done with her since! There are many who say that she's too dark these days, but to them I say think of Days of Future Past and consider the first mini series in which she was in, which was also the first series my late Daddy bought for me, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine.





She rapidly turned dark there (and she was still SO young), and yes, she was able to beat Ogun at that time, but she was able to beat him out of her love for Wolverine and her friends and family back home. She has watched so many of them suffer and die, come back to life and suffer and die again, and again, and again... It's no wonder there is so much darkness in her now. I'm NOT one of those who thinks she's gone too dark. In fact, the below is one of the pictures I use on my work PC as my laptop. I see it every day, and it inspires me EVERY DAY to keep being strong and never let the darkness of this world take me down, even if sometimes I have to answer its darkness with darkness and strength of my own!





I can honestly say my life would NOT be the same without this character!!





Please note that the following is VERY image-filled (heavy loading) and still under construction! This text will disappear once this post is "finished", but I'm probably going to return to it at later dates to add stuff. :)


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Title: The Queen's Success
Author: Apache Firecat
Fandom: X-Men
Pairing/Characters: Banshee/White Queen, Iceman/Christian, Cyclops/Jean Grey, past Cyclops/White Queen, Shadowcat (with mentions of past/on-off pairings with Shadowcat/Magik, Shadowcat/Prestige, Colossus/Shadowcat, and Pete Wisdom/Shadowcat), Lockheed, Bumpkin, Chamber/Jubilee, and cameos from many more X-Men from Emma's present, past, and future
Rating: PG-13/T
Medium: Fic
Length/Size: 19,842
Summary: He is unforgettable, but her ex-partner Sean Cassidy does not fit into Emma's neatly planned life. She refused to get involved with him, and yet no other man has ever matched up to him. And now he’s determined to prove that Emma wants him, too!
Notes: Summary twisted from The Boss’s Virgin by Charlotte Lamb.



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Title: Honoring Her Sensei
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairings: Shadowcat, Wolverine
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Kitty honors Wolverine as best she can.




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Title: Strong, Free, and In Charge
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairing: Storm, past T'Challa/Storm, mentions Gambit/Rogue and Cyclops/Jean
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge/Prompt: FFFC S.93: Bingo - Fortis et Liber - Strong and Free
Word Count: 2,500
Date Written: 4 March 2020
Warnings: Spoilers
Summary: Storm comes home . . . again.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.



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Title: A Knight's Castle
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: Labyrinth
Characters/Pairing: Sir Didymus
Rating: G/K
Challenge/Prompt: FFC s.93: Bingo: Knight's Castle
Word Count: 1,109
Date Written: 6 March 2020
Warnings: None
Summary: A Knight's castle is his home.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.



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Title: Blazing Embers
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairing: White Queen, with references to several het couplings
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge/Prompt: FFFC s.93: Bingo - Phoenix
Word Count: 1,988
Date Written: 6 March 2020
Warnings: None
Summary: She's given so much for the dream, and will still give more.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.




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Title: Blanche, Mistress of Dorothy's Boudoir
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: Golden Girls
Characters/Pairing: Blanche/Dorothy, Sophia, cameos Miles/Rose, Coco
Rating: R/M
Challenge/Prompt: FFFC s.93: Bingo - Charades and r20.05: Temper and Ficlets 59: Film
Word Count: 1,162
Date Written: 6 March 2020
Warnings: Slight AU
Summary: Blanche and Dorothy partake in charades, and much more.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.






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Title: The Ability To Dream
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: Batman
Characters/Pairing: Batman/Catwoman, Joker/Harley
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge/Prompt: FFFC r:20.01: City Lights and Fan-FlashWorks 286: Box
Word Count: 1,656
Date Written: 4 January 2020
Warnings: None
Summary: Selina's falling back into the old trap.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.






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