X-Men Recs Part 3: "two bookends of the same soul"

andraste writes:

"In the late nineties when I got online, there was no Xavier/Magneto fic on the entire internet. I know, because I looked really, really hard. Now I watch this trailer and I see a juggernaut of a pairing that is about to crash down on fandom. I wish I had a time machine and could go tell my seventeen-year-old self that some day she would get all the pr0n she could read *g*."

This set of recs is dedicated to old school fandom.

Meta recs

Erik and Charles in comics canon by ishtar79
"Watching First Class only reminded me of Their Very Epic Love in the comic books, and made me want to share some evidence of it for movie fans who are not currently up to going through decades of comics backstory to get to the good stuff." A five part picspam thesis.

Enemies: A Love Story by alara_r
A Magneto/Xavier ship manifesto, covering five different canons, including the comicverse, the movieverse, and the animationverse.

X-Men: The original animated series by yahtzee63
A rediscovery of the slashiness of the animated series, complete with quiz.

Fic recs

Close Enemies by Andraste
In X-Men: The Animated Series, Charles and Erik spend Season Two running around the prehistoric Savage Land together, saving each other, fighting dinosaurs, and having sex. Well, okay, they didn't have sex in the series. (On screen, anyway.) But they do in this story.

Domestic Bliss by Andraste
In the X-Men comic book series Excalibur, Charles and Erik work together to rebuild the destroyed mutant nation of Genosha, and eat dinner together on the balcony while watching the sunset. (THIS IS CANON.) In this story, they cook pasta and discuss philosophy, and my heart melts a little.