RECS!
I don't think I really posted about it at the time, but over the summer, like a lot of people, I had an intense love affair with X-Men: First Class. Suffice it to say: a lot of feelings, I HAD THEM. As often happens with summer fandoms, though, the fever eventually broke. I moved on, and eventually returned to my fandom husband, the one I keep
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LOL NOPE. (This is the very definition of fandom to me. ;)
OH HOW I LOVES ME SOME DARK!FIC, TOO. I am very much a fandom-by-mood kinda gal - some days I am ALL about the fluff, some days the darker the better, etc. Sometimes I stay far, far from angst and some days I need ALL OF THE ANGST AND WOE EVARRRR.
That being said, your "fandom husband" analogy is perfect. I, like you, have been in fandom-marriage with Supernatural for SO LONG that it seems like no matter how many times I am like "just you wait, I am totally gonna quit you soon! The divorce is on!" it never happens. I think part of this is because of my initial love of the show and part of this is because the show got to me just right during some big, emotional stuff in my life so I feel like it's embedded in my psyche.
Oddly enough, XM:FC is literally the first fandom I've been with since I first started hooking up with SPN that totally holds my attention and gives me ALL THE FEELINGS the way SPN did in the beginning and oftentimes still does. It's not...quite at the embedded-level of SPN for me but Charles & Erik have definitely wormed their way into my brain and marked territory. Most importantly, XM:FC fic/fandom has been giving me the cathartic feelings that I crave most from fandom. The "a laugh just when I needed one/a good cry when I most needed it" type of moments.
tl;dr I've been feeling darkity dark as of late and SPN hadn't been helping the way it used to. Then easy, breezy but oh-so-angsty-dark-deep XM:FC came along and it's helping me rebuild my happy place.
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