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Remember when I was looking forward to the resurgence of interest in Xavier/Magneto fic that I was sure would follow the release of X-Men: First Class? I was being too optimistic. To provide context for this, I'll state up front that I was in X-Men fandom before the movies. I was there when movieverse fic began to overshadow comics-centered fic. Pre-movie fandom was its own thing, and the fandom based on the first two movies was a different, though sometimes overlapping, thing. By the time the disastrous third movie came out, the comics-centered fic-writing paled in comparison to the movie-centered fic-writing fandom. And most of the movie-centered fic-writing fandom drifted away because of severe disappointment with the third movie. Then the comics themselves went through big changes to the worldbuilding and the treatment of longstanding characters-- changes which lots of pre-movie fans didn't like. There's still an X-Men fandom, but it's not like the pre-movie fandom.
Anyway, both in pre-movie days and during the heyday of the X-Men 1 & 2 movieverse fandom, there was a lot of Xavier/Magneto slash. A lot. Some of it had descriptive sex scenes, and some of it just had sexual implications. I don't remember Professor Xavier's disability ever being an issue in either pre-movie or early movieverse fandom. Some writers incorporated sexual side effects into their fic, others treated it as not having any sexual side effects, and some just faded to black and let people who might wonder about the details imagine whatever they found most plausible. Now that XMFC fandom is up and running, the Xavier/Magneto pairing is popular again, but post-injury fic is now An Issue. Apparently, it's weird and many people don't like it, and at least some of the people who do like it treat this preference as an unusually exotic kink rather than as something that comes with the territory. Either it's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG to think someone who has a spinal cord injury might want to and/or be able to have sex, or it's hot in a "Tee-hee, I'm so naughty!" way because spinal cord injury is kinky. Yesterday I saw some stunningly offensive language being used in reference to post-injury X/M fic. Forget that bullshit. I want my old fandom back.
Anyway, both in pre-movie days and during the heyday of the X-Men 1 & 2 movieverse fandom, there was a lot of Xavier/Magneto slash. A lot. Some of it had descriptive sex scenes, and some of it just had sexual implications. I don't remember Professor Xavier's disability ever being an issue in either pre-movie or early movieverse fandom. Some writers incorporated sexual side effects into their fic, others treated it as not having any sexual side effects, and some just faded to black and let people who might wonder about the details imagine whatever they found most plausible. Now that XMFC fandom is up and running, the Xavier/Magneto pairing is popular again, but post-injury fic is now An Issue. Apparently, it's weird and many people don't like it, and at least some of the people who do like it treat this preference as an unusually exotic kink rather than as something that comes with the territory. Either it's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG to think someone who has a spinal cord injury might want to and/or be able to have sex, or it's hot in a "Tee-hee, I'm so naughty!" way because spinal cord injury is kinky. Yesterday I saw some stunningly offensive language being used in reference to post-injury X/M fic. Forget that bullshit. I want my old fandom back.