Falling Stars

Six months since the movie came out? Check. Still obsessed? Check.

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The Autobiography of Magneto X by Erik Lensherr by Meghan O’Keefe
"I'll never forget the night when Charles begged me to join his little team. I was walking away from the CIA building. My body was enveloped in the humid night air and I could smell lilacs start to bloom. A tinny voice rang out from behind me, 'Erik! Stay! Wait! Please stay! Don't leave me alone! I need help! You're so powerful! You're so handsome! You're so Eastern European! Hold me!' Of course, Charles will try to say that I was the lonely one, but he's the one who was desperate to invite a group of scamps to live in his mansion. Mansions are large, by definition, and unless mansions are filled with people, they are filled with loneliness. I am never lonely. I am like a panda. I don’t hang around with other pandas because I like the company of pandas. I hang around with them because I'm forced to for the survival of my species." MAGNETO IS AN AWESOME BLOGGER.

X-Men: First Class asofterworld Remixes by xrai_namere
Images from the movie, remixed with asofterworld captions. Brilliant how well they fit.

Fic recs

The Winter of Banked Fires by Yahtzee
This is an epic of a story. Set after X-Men 3, it's a fix-it for the entire series of X-Men movies, with great character stuff for Charles, Erik, Marie, Logan, Hank, and Mystique.

Travel Advisory by Penknife
During the later movies, Erik and Charles find themselves stranded at the same airport in a blizzard. Verbal fencing and glimmers of camaraderie ensue.

your head caught in a waking dream by addandsubtract
An AU in which Charles is sent to a mental institution as a child, and by the time Raven breaks him out, with Eric's help, he's irreparably damaged. This story made my heart go all achey every few paragraphs. Absolutely beautiful.

You Know My Name by dvs
James Bond AU. According to the author: "This story was born from a single and incredibly daft idea. Wouldn't it be funny if Erik was Bond and Charles was a tarty little contact with a fondness for rude names?" Actually more serious and dramatic than it sounds: spies with powers trapped behind the lines of a cold war.

Triangles by zombieboyband
Eric, dealing with repressed longing and internalised homophobia and the nightmare memory of the camps, and Charles, ready to give whatever he can. Partly grim, partly exquisite, all compelling.

The welfare of a child by oddegg
Charles is transformed into a child. Everyone is impressed at how self-sufficient and non-complaining a kid he is. Sean is the only one who realises that something is wrong with that.

The Law of the Universe by kontrapunkto
Written for the prompt: "Erik is an electron and Charles is a proton, but because Charles attracts other electrons, Erik fights them off with his magnetic powers." I love fandom.