Talk given as part of the European XFEL Users' Meeting, 2016. Topics include: chemical dynamics applications; introduction to the FXE instrument; 'Workshop, From Picoseconds to Femtosecond X-Ray Experiments' (Jan 26); FXE mission; fundamental timescales; simultaneous ultrafast X-ray tools at XFELs; simultaneous techniques at the FXE instrument; Large Pixel Detector (LPD) for Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering; molecular dynamics using the FXE instrument; X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) at FXE; dispersive XAS at XFELs; X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES) at FXE; dispersive XES and X-ray raman at FXE; femtosecond XES reveals “hidden” excited states; liquid WAXS for probing solvation cage; spin crossover in aqueous Fe(II) complexes.