Recs: XMFC, The Killjoys/bandom

[starlady]

X-Men First Class
X-Muppets!

X-Men: First Class soundtrack with extra songs (including the end credits track!)

vids!
watch me fall apart on vimeo ANNNGGST
ready for abduction
Friday night LOL

I find that I don't really care for most of the XMFC vids I've seen (not that I've seen a lot, I've mostly been following kuwdora's guidance on fic and vids), because I am so leery of reading random fic in this fandom, so leery. And true enough many of the vids I've seen have really focused monomaniacally on Erik's past and…that's not what I'm interested in exploring. The movie isn't a story about salvation (and the idea of Charles being able to save anyone is laughable, hello, Charles Xavier has massive issues of his own, they just don't make for good summer celluloid), it's a story about survival, and I find Erik's choice at the end, even though I don't actually think it's terribly consistent with the writing up until that point, to be the more interesting part of the story. Giving up true love for what you believe? Yeah, that's heroic, and interesting to me partly because I doubt I could do it. So, in conclusion, the XMFC vid for me is still talitha78's Til The World Ends, it is the essence of the story that I am interested in. But Set Fire to the Rain manages to address Erik's past without getting bogged down in it, and I liked it a lot too.

On another topic entirely
Draculoids Will Never Hurt You by sassbandit and were_duck
My Chemical Romance (Killjoys 'verse)
Gerard hates his job in the art department at BLI. The only good part of his day is hanging with the smokers downstairs, especially Frank, who shares Gerard’s frustration and rebellion against the corporate norms. But when Frank is fired, Gerard quits his job too, and with Mikey’s and Ray’s help, sets off to find Frank, irritate Korse, and turn art into revolution.

I've been hearing about this fic for months, and now it's finally here! I've never read bandom fic before in my life, and I don't know that I will again, but this fic is so good, it's the postapocalyptic anti-corporate art-based music-making revolution fic that you never knew you needed in your life, but you do, YOU DO. ♥ The master post contains art and three fanmixes, too. ♥

Comments

[kindkit]

One of the reasons I am interested in Erik's past, I think, is because the experiences that make Charles want to heal Erik also make it impossible for Erik to be healed (even leaving out Charles's dubious qualities as a healer). Erik is absolutely a survivor, I agree, but he's never going to "get over" the Holocaust precisely because he is a survivor; his whole self was shaped by persecution and survival, and when he says "peace was never an option" that goes a whole lot deeper than Charles understands.

I must admit to preferring my head canon for X1-3, in which Charles and Erik were together for 30 years and Charles did manage to provide enough stability for Erik to heal as much as he ever could, until the worsening situation for mutants finally made their political differences too much to ignore. XMFC is a little too insta-angst for me, what with the love at first sight, the whirlwind romance, the bitter breakup a few weeks (?) later. Of course one could argue that it's harder and more heroic to give up true love for your beliefs when that love has lasted for decades, and you're not young anymore and you're uprooting every bit of stability you've ever known.

Oh, god, why must Charles/Erik be so sad? *whimpers*

[were_duck]

N'awwwww, thanks! <3

[kuwdora]

that's not what I'm interested in exploring

ME EITHER

ahhahahah oh my vid in progress, ahahah

p.s. glad you are enjoying my recs~

[sassbandit]

Thanks so much for the rec!