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A Sleepy Paranormal-Scope

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X-Files Collector's Edition: Crazy X-Cops (and Watching the Tragic Ep. Later)

Inspired by @scullys-scalpel 's post (found here.)

Loose chronological order below~

@scullywolf's (Ao3, Masterlist)

X-COPS

""That’s correct, yes. And Agent Mulder… well, his working hypothesis for the case is, as you might guess, paranormal in nature, and–”

“Yes, Scully, I’ve met him.""

When Scully calls him up, Skinner debates the wisdom of-- oh, hang it all, put 'em on tv.

First Person Shooter

""They’re at LAX waiting for their flight home when his phone rings.

"Mulder.”

“Mulder! It’s Langly. How soon can you get to L.A.?”

“Uhh…” He looks around the bustling airport terminal, half-wondering if the guys are here somewhere and this is some sort of joke. “Why do you ask?""

Post X-Cops Mulder and Scully are still in the Cali area when he receives a call from The Lone Gunmen.

@seek-its-opposite​ (Ao3) nothing to hide (Ao3)

""Sergeant,” the man offers gently. “I think you have us all wrong.” He has all the ease of a hostage negotiator but none of the slickness. Despite how much he looks the part of a detective, he cuts an almost iconoclastic figure when he speaks.

“Your irresponsible theories nearly got my officer killed, Agent Mulder.” The sergeant gestures at the crack house, the door splintered on the floor. “To say nothing of how my department looks on camera for taking you seriously.”

“But you did take him seriously.” Agent Scully’s voice sharpens to a stiletto point. Her partner absorbs chaos; she refracts it.""

Post X-Cops Scully is infuriated the local cops blame Mulder for the night's failure, and reams them out in the honor of the man she loves.

@cecilysass/cecily_sass/Cecily Sasserbaum's

We’re Not Here To Get Involved in Personal Problems

""Scully,” Mulder interrupts himself suddenly. “Mangoes.”

She tracks the direction of his eyes, seeking the source of this nonsequitur. A half block ahead of where they are walking, a man and his teenage son work together to lift wooden flats of pale green mangoes from the back of a pick-up truck to a sales cart in their front yard.

Mulder turns to her, his eyes now taking on a manic, child-glimpses-ice-cream-truck gleam.""

Post X-Cops Mulder is in an unflappably good mood despite their empty gas tank; and Scully is-- reluctantly-- swept up in it. A leisurely walk, a mango barter, and a back-and-forth conversation ensues.

@agirlcallednarelle/TabithaJean's Good Morning, Sweet Dreams

""Mmmh,’ she mumbles, straightening up. ‘I’m awake, I’m awake.’

‘Looks like it,’ he smiles. ‘Didn’t you want to shower? Get those sheets all good and fake slept in?’

‘Yep,’ she murmurs, her eyes closed still. ‘I’m gonna do that. I’m getting up. Right now.’

‘You don’t have to, Scully,’ he tells her softly. ‘You don’t have to move.""

Post X-Cops Scully is too bushed to even shower.

@i-gaze-at-scully/ i_gaze_at_scully's Bad boys, bad boys

""Humor me, G-woman.” His voice is as sleepy as he is, with the same bite of electricity that’s keeping him awake. She sighs into the receiver and somehow hears the smug grin that spreads across his face as he resettles himself on his couch. That, she can actually hear: the rustle of fabric, the little crunch as the worn leather gives and the springs complain. She smiles in spite of herself, and decides, in fact, to humor him. 

“The very beginning?”

"Spare no detail,” he implores, and she remembers the panic of their briefing with Skinner after Chaney, years ago."" 

Post X-Cops Scully recaps their night over the phone to Mulder, who drops off (or at least snores) when she winds up to her list of grievances. (Her "unbelievable" floats around my head continually.)

@minuete-blog/Minuete's Out-Of-Scope Assignment - Chapter 8

""The two sat in their usual seats across from a scowling Skinner as they recount the COPS filming the elusive X-File and the somewhat successful bodyguard-turned-sting-operation.   He flipped through the report and underlined a few things for himself."" 

Post X-Cops Mulder wants to investigate another file but is squashed flat by Scully's "no." Instead, She invites him over for another work-night-turned-movie-night.

Girlie_girl7’s Bill Scully meets the X Cops

""Just then someone on the screen says they have a disturbance down the street. Mulder and Scully climb into their car. Scully stops the camera crew from going with them. "No, you go with someone else."

"About time Dana, you take charge.""

Post X-Cops Bill Scully, Jr., is shocked with his nightly COPS viewing; but gets swept up in the melodrama, cheering his sister on.

Sheryl Martin’s Feedback

""Thunk.

"Scully..."

Thunk.

"Scully... stop it."

Thunk.

"You're going to hurt yourself."

Thunk.

"Don't hurt the desk, then - put something under your head."

Thuddle.

"I didn't mean the case file. Besides, we did okay.""

Post X-Cops Scully is AGHAST that her family saw the episode.

ColebaltBlue/colebaltblue's Nothing to Hide

""Agent, you seriously believe we're looking for some kind of-"

"We'll, I'll show ya."

"Oh Mulder, you didn't."

"Didn't what?"

"Show that drawing on national television." Scully watched as Mulder unfoled the picture of wolf-man on screen. "Oh, yes, you did."

"Scully?" Mulder sounded amused, but with just a hint of hurt under it all. She bumped his shoulder with hers by way of apology. He bumped back and all was forgiven.

Post X-Cops Mulder and Scully watch the episode; and she grapples with the heartwarming (but oft frustrating) realization that Mulder cares only for her good opinion.

Erin Blair/Erin M. Blair's Halloween Evening

""Mulder nodded. "Twenty people wanted candy from the 'cool FBI agents' - that's what one of the kids said to me." He saw her give him one of her patented looks. "I don't know where he recognized us from. For all we know, he probably watched the 'Cops' episode with fifty repeated viewings.""

Post X-Cops Mulder and Scully were kept hoppin' on Halloween.

IngridGradient's Filmed on Location

""Mulder can’t help but feel smug about the fact that Scully has been reasonably attentive for the whole thing, barring a few scoffs and mutterings about how they shouldn't have let themselves be filmed. She even appeared amused a few times, basking in the (relative) innocence of their (relative) youth. And she ate the popcorn.

“Well. That was…something,” she says. “I’m still not clear on the M.O. of the creature you were proposing — precisely how it would pass the…the ‘fear’ along its chain of victims. You know what I mean, Mulder? The mechanism, the vector for transmission.”

“Always with the ‘how’ and never with the ‘wow’,” Mulder says."" 

Post Revival Mulder finds the episode and convinces Scully to watch it. Their moods sink the longer it goes on; but they're jolted out of the doldrums by their shock at a "lost scene." (As someone not into smut reading, I just skip that section~.)

AUs and Extras

@wtfmulder/@momdadimpoppunk (Ao3) TXF Fic Snippets

""Mulder pops in through the connecting door while she’s undressing, and she shakes her head before he gets any words out. “Absolutely not,” she says sternly.

“What do you think I’m here for?” He laughs, leaning up against the doorframe.""

In a collection of fic snippets, post X-Cops Scully sinks to the floor of her motel room, batting off Mulder's intentions.

stellar_dust's (Ao3) Cause and Effect (Ao3)

""He laughed. "Come on, Scully, it's a classic. How often do we get to see ourselves together, huh?"

She groaned. "Who says I want to, Mulder? That's what cameras are for. *Personal* cameras."

"... You know, Scully, you're really short," Mulder mused, like he hadn't made a point of noticing that fact at least a thousand times since they'd met.""

In a fic that spans S7's events post The Goldberg Variation, Mulder contemplates magic and trickery and chicanery.

FootlessData507′s Do You Want to Believe? - Chapter 12

""You look around to figure out what’s happened. You can’t move very far, obviously, because of that oxygen mask you are currently dependent on, but it soon becomes clear to you that something is going on in the economy section. You can hear screaming in addition to that strange sucking noise, and a whole lotta beeping and wailing, like there’s an episode of Cops playing in there.

You were in an episode of Cops once. Remember that? How did that not get brought up more?""

In a Pick-Your-Own-Adventure series of events, Scully is determined to have a beautiful flight... aliens interfere, of course; and Mulder gets right in the middle of it.

Do You Want to Believer? - Chapter 28

""Momma Mulder didn’t raise no chump! You put on your mask first, breathing in that sweet, sweet Element Eight.

            O-utstanding.

            Get it?

            Anyway, eventually you get around to helping that kid. Once you’ve done so, you look around to figure out what’s happened....

            You were in an episode of Cops once. Remember that? How did that not get brought up more?""

In that same series of events, Mulder gets a shot at a Cops shoutout.

Defnotmeyo’s (WBM, Alt. WBM) FTF- AKA The Tentative Trio (Alt.)

""The last torn up picture, the one left on top, is her first ultrasound.  One of the ones Mulder wasn’t there for.  The first one.  The first time he felt her hold his hand, kinda quite ‘that way.’

He’s not immune, to Mulder, either.  In that heap of a trash pile is a torn up L.A. newspaper, asking why the FBI was in town, and was partnering with COPS.""

S11 Skinner-- having received CSM's "biological" revelation-- tears his place apart and reflects on Mulder, the man he thinks of as his son.

@onpaperfirst's (Ao3, LJ) Snakebitten

""She went into the bathroom and he heard quiet movement, a zipper, fabric, then the squeak of pipes and water running in the tub. He wished he could fall asleep, nap in front of the TV, so he wouldn’t be waiting there expectantly when she came out, like some creep who’d just been sitting there the whole time, listening to her in there, thinking about her naked, which, well, he sometimes did, but he wasn’t now. 

He watched most of an episode of COPS before deciding she’d been in there too long. You could drown in an inch of water. Not to mention the things they’d seen come up a drainpipe.""

AU-- S5 Mulder and Scully secretly push apart as she investigates her cancer and abduction and he is forced into the long-con of recruitment leading up to The Pine Bluff Variant-- though, as per their bond, they are ultimately pulled back together.

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls's encephalon - Chapter 1

""She wrinkles her nose up at him from where she's collapsed in the desk chair. “I liked Los Angeles,” she says seriously. “I don't like ridiculous movies that over-exaggerate and misconceptualize our jobs. At least that COPS episode showed what we really do.”

Mulder taps his chin dramatically, pretending to be in deep thought. “I seem to remember a certain Jose Chung and his horribly inaccurate portrayal of a certain case,” he says coyly.

She makes a face at him. “At least the names were changed,” she retorts.""

AU-- Mulder and Scully work through his brain disease in S7, with Scully's science ultimately saving his life. X-Cops is mentioned briefly after the disaster of The Lazarus Bowl.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

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Ren's "similar to Umineko" list! (now overhauled)(You're welcome)

Stuff on here reminds me of Umineko for a variety of reasons. If I add to it, I'll just edit this post and add the date I added it to this list. Separated by genre this time.

Under the read-more, with the "why it reminds me of Umineko" blurb after the title rather than a whole plot synopsis like I had done in the previous list

Feel free to rec stuff in tags or in comments etc. if I haven't read/played/watched it it might be hard for me to add it but I'll definitely add it to my own list of things to check out!

VIDEO GAMES The House In Fata Morgana - Visual novel, Unreliable narration, witch haunting an illusory mansion for thousands of years, cycles of abuse and trauma, Gothic setting, romance 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors - Visual novel, "The killer is among us" (lol), murder mystery scoping out paranormal/metaphysical elements and twisting them into its own crazy logic, romance NieR Replicant - It's up to you to find your own happiness whatever that means to you despite the circumstances of the world you're living in or your own birth Alan Wake - Author creates and infers reality around him, horror setting, unreliable narration, creations rallying against their creator Alan Wake 2 - see the above, it's the sequel, except Alan Wake 2 is an actual survival horror. I didn't like Alan Wake 1 much but I'm LOVING 2 so far. The Forgotten City - I haven't played this just saw someone on Twitter say to play it if you like Umineko so I'm trusting their recommendation Pathologic Classic HD - Questions of morality, wishy-washiness on the reality of the fantastical elements of the town's culture, meta universe shenanigans forcing you to contend with "none of this matters, so why do/should I care?" Patho 2 can probably go here too but I am playing that at the moment.

ANIMANGA Naoki Urasawa's Monster - "Why did the culprit do this?" over "Who is the culprit?", murder mystery, cycles of abuse, questions of character identity, the ultimate "victim of circumstances has created the monster" situation Shiki - Sleepy town being annihilated by an unknown threat, humans doing unspeakable things in the name of justice, the question of the antagonist's morality/justice is brought to the forefront and maybe they were right all along...? Princess Tutu - Characters who have been created for a story and are living out a narrative sort of against their will, the narrative as a framing device and also a prison, love love love lots of love, the death of the author and what this means for a tale and the characters within it too--if you can only call them characters I Want To Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die - romantic relationships as a way to combat your personal loneliness, horror and romance and how they intersect...kind of hard to explain this one unless you've finished Umineko but this manga really reads like AU Bato[redacted] to me so far, lots of supernatural elements, learning how to find happiness

TV Succession - Rich people dealing with their abusive and unpredictable father deciding who will be the successor for the family business and dragging everyone else into it, cycles of literally every sort

MOVIES Knives Out (2019) - Rich family called to a house to discuss the ailing patriarch's will only for him to be murdered, murder mystery Haven't seen Glass Onion yet but that too. Decision To Leave (2022) - Confessions of the unspeakable as acts of love, Another time another place maybe it could have worked, I created myself to love you, tragic romance, the sea as a motif representing character worlds Memento (2000) - it's up to the watcher to interpret events as they happen and piece them together, the most unreliable narrator of narrators, just go in blind The Prestige (2006) - Magicians get into a big dick competition and destroy their relationships for the sake of greatness, branches into metaphysical territory for the sake of pursuing magic House (1977) - Group of girls visit an ancient family home, horror setting, love is always enduring for better or for worse, witches, using other bodies to fulfill your own wish

BOOKS The Locked Tomb Quartet - Cites Umineko (and 999!) as an inspiration and Muir is a very very referential reader so it's kind of hard to say stuff without spoiling TLT also so honestly just go read it. Magpie Murders - Murder within a murder And Then There Were None (duh) - Directly inspired Umineko and the murders within Umineko The Last Unicorn - Characters acknowledge they are living in a fairy tale, the unicorn is often called the only 'real' one in the group due to her immortality, dream-like narration and fantastical whimsy, ocean representing character strife House Of Leaves - The metaphysical book of metaphysical books with stories within stories within stories and extremely unconventional formatting, house as a vehicle to tell a horror story IT - Two stories in different times existing side by side to inform the reader how to read it. I never finished reading this either though sorry </3 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - metafiction play about characters and the absurdity of their existence, repeating stories, tragedy is only a story and the characters within only exist to tell that story regardless of their own individuality Wuthering Heights - toxic romance the novel, idk why I didn't have this here yet. Honestly I'm not super big on this book but it's a classic for a reason. Dread, isolated spaces, fucked up romance, ghosts, etc.

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Are you an avid reader of lesbian fiction or WLW books and want to make 2018 a little more interesting? 

Then you might want to check out Jae’s Lesbian Book Bingo. It’s a big, year-long event, with many authors and publishers—including Ylva—donating books for giveaways. You can win amazing books all year long—just by reading! And under the cut is a little list of recommendations to fill your bingo card:

WOMEN IN UNIFORM

Conflict of Interest by Jae

In a Heartbeat by RJ Nolan

Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman

Between the Lines by KD Williamson

HISTORICAL FICTION

Charity by Paulette Callen

Fervent Charity by Paulette Callen

The Lavender List by Meg Harrington

Kicker’s Journey by Lois Cloarec Hart

Backwards to Oregon by Jae

Beyond the Trail by Jae

Hidden Truths by Jae

Shaken to the Core by Jae

Daughter of Baal by Gill McKnight

DOCTORS AND VETERINARIANS

All the Little Moments by G Benson

Who’d Have Thought by G Benson

Not-So-Straight Sue by Cheyenne Blue

Almost-Married Moni by Cheyenne Blue

Heart Trouble by Jae

Falling Hard by Jae

L.A. Metro by RJ Nolan

In a Heartbeat by RJ Nolan

Wounded Souls by RJ Nolan

Blurred Lines by KD Williamson

FANTASY

Caged Bird Rising by Nino Delia

Tread Lightly by Catherine Lane

Banshee’s Honor by Shaylynn Rose

Banshee’s Vengeance by Shaylynn Rose

Shattered by Lee Winter

WOMEN OF COLOR

Falling Hard by Jae

Falling into Place by Sheryn Munir

Pink by KD Williamson

Shattered by Lee Winter

The Power of Mercy by Fiona Zedde

CELEBRITY ROMANCE

Damage Control by Jae

Perfect Rhythm by Jae

Heartwood by Catherine Lane

FAKE RELATIONSHIP & MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE

Who’d Have Thought by G Benson

Rock and a Hard Place by Andrea Bramhall

Contract for Love by Alison Grey (to be published in August)

Just for Show by Jae (to be published on February 21)

Something in the Wine by Jae

Backwards to Oregon by Jae

Face It by Georgette Kaplan (to be published on February 7)

The Set Piece by Catherine Lane

Chasing Stars by Alex K. Thorne (to be published on March 21)

SCIENCE FICTION (INCLUDES DYSTOPIAN/POST-APOCALYPTIC)

Survival Instincts by May Dawney (to be published on March 7)

The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea 1) by Fletcher DeLancey

Without a Front: The Producer’s Challenge (Chronicles of Alsea 2) by Fletcher DeLancey

Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge (Chronicles of Alsea 3) by Fletcher DeLancey

Catalyst (Chronicles of Alsea 4) by Fletcher DeLancey

Vellmar the Blade (Chronicles of Alsea 5) by Fletcher DeLancey

The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

AGE DIFFERENCE (INCLUDES MAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE)

Just My Luck by Andrea Bramhall

Heartwood by Catherine Lane

The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter

Shattered by Lee Winter

FOODIE ROMANCE

All You Can Eat by R.G. Emanuelle & Andi Marquette

Order Up by R.G. Emanuelle & Andi Marquette

LGBTQIA+ CHARACTERS

This category focuses on bisexual, pansexual, trans, asexual, intersexual, queer, and other women-loving women (with the exception of lesbians since they feature in all other squares)

Flinging It by G Benson (bisexual main character)

Dark Horse by A.L. Brooks (bisexual character)

Reintegration by Eden S. French (bi, trans, and lesbian characters)

Perfect Rhythm by Jae (asexual main character)

EROTICA & EROTIC ROMANCE

The Club by A.L. Brooks

Hot Line by Alison Grey

Nights of Silk and Sapphire by Amber Jacobs

The Taste of Her by Jess Lea (to be published on February 6)

Don’t Be Shy by Astrid Ohletz & Jae

Shadow Haven by AJ Schippers

Heart’s Surrender by Emma Weimann

SUMMER READS

Any novel set during the summer months or in an exotic location, e.g., an island.

Not-So-Straight Sue by Cheyenne Blue

Fenced-In Felix by Cheyenne Blue

Where the Light Plays by C. Fonseca

FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE

Coming Home by Lois Cloarec Hart

Beginnings by L.T. Smith

ROMANTIC COMEDY

Just My Luck by Andrea Bramhall

Lost for Words by Andrea Bramhall (to be published in August)

Welcome to the Wallops by Gill McKnight

See Right Through Me by L.T. Smith

ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE

Who’d Have Thought by G Benson

Party Wall by Cheyenne Blue

Up on the Roof by A.L. Brooks

Second Nature by Jae

Defensive Mindset by Wendy Temple

The Red Files by Lee Winter

WORKPLACE/OFFICE ROMANCE

Flinging It by G Benson

Rock and a Hard Place by Andrea Bramhall

Miles Aparrt by A.L. Brooks

You’re Fired by Shaya Crabtree

Just Physical by Jae

Under a Falling Star by Jae

The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley (to be published in April)

The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter

DISABLED CHARACTER

Includes characters with chronic illnesses and mental health issues

Just My Luck by Andrea Bramhall

Just Physical by Jae

Wounded Souls by RJ Nolan

Hold My Hand by AC Oswald

BUTCH/FEMME COUPLES

Lost for Words by Andrea Bramhall (to be published in August)

Departure from the Script by Jae

Just Physical by Jae

Between the Lines by KD Williamson

PARANORMAL

Glass Lions by JD Glass

First Blood by JD Glass

Beyond and Begone by Lois Cloarec Hart

Yak by Lois Cloarec Hart

Second Nature by Jae

True Nature by Jae

Manhattan Moon by Jae

Good Enough to Eat by Jae & Alison Grey

Wicked Things (anthology) by Jae & Astrid Ohletz

Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

The Secret of Sleepy Hollow by Andi Marquette

HOLIDAY BOOKS

Do You Feel What I Feel by Jae & Fletcher DeLancey

Love Beneath the Christmas Tree by Jae

Under a Falling Star by Jae

The Bureau of Holiday Affairs by Andi Marquette

SPORTS ROMANCE

Code of Conduct by Cheyenne Blue (to be published in June)

Rock and a Hard Place by Andrea Bramhall

Romancing the Kicker by Catherine Lane (to be published in November)

Defensive Mindset by Wendy Temple

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE & MYSTERY

Archer Securities by Jove Belle

Fenced-In Felix by Cheyenne Blue

Collide-O-Scope by Andrea Bramhall

Under Parr by Andrea Bramhall

The Last First Time by Andrea Bramhall

Evolution of an Art Thief by Jessie Chandler

The Lavender List by Meg Harrington

Four Steps by Wendy Hudson

Mine to Keep by Wendy Hudson

Conflict of Interest by Jae

Next of Kin by Jae

If Looks Could Kill by Andi Marquette

The Red Files by Lee Winter

Daughter of Baal by Gill McKnight

A Heist Story by Ellen Simpson

Blurred Lines by KD Williamson

Crossing Lines by KD Williamson

Between the Lines by KD Williamson

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter

Under Your Skin by Lee Winter (to be published in June)

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE

The Art of Us by KL Hughes

Face It by Georgette Kaplan

Barring Complications by Blythe Rippon

Getting Back by Cindy Rizzo

Times of our Lives by Jane Waterton

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