hi! I saw that post about AUs that ain't coffee shop and you had this tag about xmfc fanfics and YES, YOU HAVE MY UNDIVIDED ATTENTION. CAN YOU SHARE ANY FICS/RECS THAT ARE RELATED TO THOSE AUs? Pretty please?
oohhhh man! xmfc fandom and AUs! there is wayyyy too much to choose from here. we have manifold assloads of AUs. so i’m going to help you but any list i make is not going to cover nearly enough of the amazing variety of AUs we have.
but i’ll start with that more than coffeeshop AU post.
Nation Building and other Diplomatic Negotiations
Politico (specifically not royalty, but a modern democracy AU, but I absolutely love it so I have to rec it.)
Try the Genosha tag for more like this.
Egyptologist/Treasure Hunt AU
Tombs and the Raiding Thereof
On Hearts and the Finding of Lost Treasures
Not exactly rockstar, but hackedmotionsensor’s 80s band AU art
I’d like to include as a subcategory of this, the Fame/Actor AU
The Proper Care of Actors
This is Not Comedy (full disclosure, i guess, this is mine)
Librarian/Bibliophilia/Library setting AU
in the moonlight, on a joyride
The Making of an Exhibition
1920s Con Artist/Bootlegging AU
1920s AUs, not necessarily about lawbreaking
Your soul is a chosen country
Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
Lay With Me Amongst the Grapevines
Between Rage and Reblogging
Magneto vs. The Magical X-Men
AUs like the previously mentioned Time Travel, Rebelling Against the Govt, and Running from the Police I’m not going to bother with really because those are strong themes in X-Men canon and there are too many fics to count about that.
I’m going to do a few more little rec listets about some of my fave AU categories.
Detective and/or Serial Killer AU
Tough little baby telepath
Mutant Criminal Investigative Service
Fantasy Culture Clash AUs
Beloved of Ravens/The Western Shore
The Secret of Dragon Ranch
Other Crabs Cannot Be Trusted
pala’s cat!charles and dog!erik
They are inanimate objects
For anymore crack you may want to just check the infamous “James McAvoy is” post and the cherik!crack post before this gets out of control.
Some XMFC fandom AU specialties are Space AUs, Regency AUs, Fairytale AUs, D/s AUs, and Dadneto AUs. And I think I’d need to do a whole separate list to do justice to those. (If someone else wanted to do those it’d be greatly appreciated!) I have literally never once run out of things to read in this fandom. In fact, opposite. Still too much to read.
For more AU guidance, try:
X-Men Big Bang collections
or your favorite tag on AO3
pixelskylines
romaincrisis
germansingergirl
