Were One Month Away!

We’re one month away!

Morpherine week is creeping up on us fast! One month from today we’ll be starting up and we can’t wait to see what all of you create!

I’ve seen some people complaining about Channing Tatum/his accent in Deadpool & Wolverine, and I just want to set a few things straight.

Channing has been on the docket to play Gambit since 2005, but each and every time, the character was cut from the script, he had a prior contract, or the director kept getting replaced until the project was scrapped 4 years later with the Fox/Disney merger.

He has family in Louisiana and grew up in the bayous (albeit in rural Alabama). This character has meant something to him since CHILDHOOD when it comes to representation in media.

Gambit doesn’t speak SAE (Standard American English). He’s a street urchin from Acadia/New Orleans. He grew up speaking Cajun (a mix of Southern American, Canadian French, and España Spanish grammar applied to a mostly English vocabulary) and Louisiana French (an offshoot of Canadian French from Acadians).

Every person I’ve seen online who ACTUALLY GREW UP around people who speak Cajun, Creole, and/or Louisiana French has said that his accent is SPOT ON, maybe even a little too clear.

All this to say: if you can’t understand Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine, you’re not supposed to. That’s the bit: unless you’re used to those dialects and accents, you’re shit outta luck trying to parse it out without help. Hell, even Rogue, who grew up in the South, doesn’t know what he’s saying half the time.

Do you have advice for writing about an animal shelter? I am riddled with brainrot and it's stuck in my head, and I want it to be as accurate as possible.

Headcanon that Remy runs a small cat shelter. Whether from inside the mansion somewhere or has a small building in town for it. He finds strays and takes them in and gives them all the love they could ever want. And he cries when any of them die, which Rogue sits with him during since sometimes when he's not in missions or cooking or cleaning he can become entirely obsessed and focused on the cats.

Oh, ouch. The side by side comparison is making my brain buzz with ideas and when you pointed out that in each scene, the person being/feeling vulnerable hurt a little.

Just another reason that I love D&W

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

People complaining that the X-men are “woke” now makes absolutely no sense whatsoever because they have ALWAYS been an allegory for civil rights and fighting for equality

headcanon that sometimes Logan's enhanced senses make him overstimulated