#Beshter

[knight-parzival]

The eternal Patriarch

[randomfoggytiger]

I’ve been an x files fan for years now (since 2008ish) but fan fic has never been my thing. If I wanted to give it another go, what writers or pieces of fic would be a good place for me to start? Thanks! 😊

What a dream request, thank you!

Not much of a fic reader? Hm. I drifted to fanfiction because I wanted a canonical hole plugged in; but it sounds like you're looking for quality.

I'm narrowing these suggestions to long-form fics, and going to try to keep them as "fandom approved" as possible. (I'm also cutting back on the "famfic" recs because that's not everyone's cup of tea~.)

Authors whose works could (one could argue, should) be published as novels, in no particular order:

@amplifyme/Lydia Bower, @aloysiavirgata, @slippinmickeys,

@cecilysass, @teethnbone, @dreamingofscully, @sixhours,

@mashnotesofthemythopoeic/Penumbra, @sigritandtheelves/Darla,

@onpaperfirst, @melforbes, @ghostbustermelanieking/skuls,

Jenna Tooms, @seek-its-opposite, @settle-down-frohike,

@frostbitepandaaaaa, @leiascully, @darwin-xf, Beshter,

@scenes-in-between/scullywolf, @scullylikesscience

Here's a brief rundown on each author, to the best of my abilities:

amplifyme

My mother's embraces are frightening in their intensity, and I can feel her fear as though it seeps from her pores. Mulder's arms hold me easily but fully. And there is a calming effect in his touch. He restores me to myself, makes me strong again. I wish I had taken the chance and discovered that years ago.

-Dance Without Sleeping

One of the OGs. Her writing explores the paths of Mulder's and Scully's minds. The Scully in her stories is pragmatic, matter-of-fact, and protective of her secrets. The Mulder in her stories is tender, predictably mercurial, and secretive, as well. The most direct admittance can be the most damaging, and the most healing. Her longest work is, I believe, Dance Without Sleeping; but my favorite, though short, happens to be Light Don't Sleep. Her Ao3 is here.

aloysiavirgata

“That’s a fair question, Senator,” Scully observes in her liquid nitrogen voice. She leans forward in her seat, just a little, just enough, to remind him that predators have eyes at the front of their heads. Scully crosses her legs and gives the Senator the full force of her blue eyes, the hard angles of her good cheekbones.  

She is magnificent, Mulder thinks, smitten. She is Themis, she is Ma’at. One day she will devour the hearts of the unrighteous, his own included.

-Singing of Mount Abora

One of the OGs. She treads the line between poetry and prose so seamlessly you are left, baffled, by her intelligence. Her writing features Mulder and Scully with a little bite: neither are fools, and neither will be trifled with. (They're also wickedly intelligent nerds.) Mulder is Jewish (though that rarely comes up) and was married before (though that only comes up when it comes up.) Canon halts in Season 7, but that doesn't stop her from writing Season 9 masterpieces with Mulder and Scully and their son-- which is where I'd recommend you begin, with By Falling In and In. If that's not your cup of tea, I'd say catch up on her canon divergent Waters of Babylon, Petrichor, and Singing of Mount Abora. Her Ao3 is here.

slippingmickeys

The boy winced and inhaled sharply as her fingers ran over the cleft where the fibula met the talus and she rocked back on her heels, eyeing the darkening horizon. Did he have people nearby? Could she leave him here without guilt? She didn’t really have the time or inclination to take on a project — she and Mulder had tried that before — banding together with other survivors, and it had always ended poorly. And boys his age, as few as she had seen, made her uncomfortable. Her subconscious would scan their features, looking for a genetic echo of the Scully-Mulder’s. Mulder would have to pull her aside and whisper “it’s not him,” and she didn’t have the space in her heart for the guilt. Even now she had to ignore the blue of his eyes and the way his gritted teeth had the same gnathic slant as the only man she’d ever loved.

-North of Zero

One of the OGs. Her Mulder and Scully are practical, capable, sleek survivors. Her writing exists somewhere between the clack of a gun slide and the omnipresence scent of a wild pine forest. She's written extensively on... everything: Colonization, space, POL, case files, mytharc, everything; and well. I'd recommend North of Zero for a starter. Her Ao3 is here.

cecilysass

It’s Mulder, she reminds herself. No matter how long you may have been gone, or what has happened in your absence, you know what to expect from Mulder.

At last he shuffles through the door, and it’s him, definitely him: head bent, looking weary and wilted. He turns to lock the door again, evidently not paying very much attention to his surroundings.

Her heart constricts. “Mulder,” she voices softly.

She can see his whole body go still from behind, but he doesn’t look right away. His back remains to her.

-Pause

One of the OGs. Her Mulder and Scully are weighed by secrets, by their unspoken. Her writing dwells in the silences; and the tones of her work shift depending on the narrative: insular and psychologically exploratory, fast-paced and bitterly overwhelming, slow and unspooling and peaceful-- but always with a bittersweet aftertaste. I would do a disservice if I didn't recommend A Boy on the Beach first; but my personal favorite is Pause (and All the Dead Mulders and Not Orpheus, Not Eurydice.) Her Ao3 is here.

darwin_xf

Mulder. Her genius. Who happened also to be her blithering idiot. A fresh swell of affection overtook her. This is how it was for her, even just talking to him. One minute she was standing in the shallows enjoying or enduring or surviving a day at the beach, whichever kind of day it was. The next she'd find herself walloped and rolled by the rogue wave of her feelings for him. Then she was surfacing, sputtering, salt-blind, struggling to find the steady line of the horizon.

-Vox Mulder: Fired and Wired

One of the OGs. Darwin's writing is clipped and "action" focused. Her Mulder and Scully are fond and quippy and silently torturing themselves with their own repressions or secrets. Vox Mulder: Fired and Wired covers the IVF arc concurrent with Mulder's (secret) brain disease diagnosis; and her notes tearing into canon's handling of the latter arc are incredibly detailed, incredibly satisfying, and incredibly hilarious. Her Ao3 is here.

dreamingofscully

They searched, staying together with Scully’s single flashlight. As she suspected, they didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. The cellar was devoid of sound and light, not a single rat or insect scurrying about. No more traces of the unknown substance.

They followed the trail of viscous fluid back to their room. Their adrenaline-fueled trek left her exhausted, and she was hopeful she would be able to sleep for a few more hours before dawn. Not even her fear could break through the cottony haze that clouded her mind. Collapsing on the bed, Mulder pulled off her slippers. 

-Surely, to the sea

One of the OGs. Her writing is practical and pleading-- the veneer that Mulder and Scully front, and the truth. Her Scully has teeth but prefers silence and distance. Her Mulder stubbornly walks the thin line between opening his partner up or closing her back together tighter. Trust-- in each other, in themselves-- can be broken and mended with the right words, the right meaning. I recommend starting with Surely, to the Sea (and my favorite short fic is this one.) Her Ao3 is here.

Frostbite Panda

“I make you a whole person,” she whispers. The slam of sudden memory is heady, destabilizing, threatening to spin her clean from reality. 

He leans forward, elbows on his knees, a sound escaping him that she cannot identify. Truth be told, he looks a bit ridiculous— wrapped in a green sleeping bag looking like a dormant pupa, not the wrecked and ruined man he was. 

-Four Days on the 63rd Parallel

One of the OGs (I believe.) Her writing is grand and touching, a microcosm of the macro effects Mulder and Scully face alongside, and with, each other. Her Scully is reluctant, doubting Mulder's beliefs but trusting him; and her Mulder is courageous and wallowing, afraid to try for fear of rejection. Four Days on the 63rd Parallel (and its follow-up In a Perfect World) explores what would have happened if Mulder and Scully had been trapped in Antarctica, in a snocat, alone, until help arrived. Her Ao3 is here, and requires you to be logged in.

Jenna Tooms

Then there's the matter of Mulder and his reaction to scissors and the razor. When he was first released from the hospital I took him to his old barber. He made it into a seat, and even let the barber tie the cloth around his neck. At the first flash of the scissors, though, he was up and out so fast for a moment I only stood in the waiting area dumbfounded, the baby in my arms.

He will, however, let me cut his hair and trim his beard--which he grew to cover his facial scars. I let him keep it as long as he lets me keep it neat.

-An Acceptable Level of Happiness

One of the OGs (if I recall.) Her writing is just north of canon, veering off to give us better, brighter spots to land Mulder and Scully. Her Mulder and Scully are soft, seemingly delicate with a touch of steel underneath. They've taken a beating, have internalized that beating, and are being supported wholeheartedly by the other person in their partnership. If you want canon-ish, I'd recommend An Acceptable Level of Happiness; if you want mytharc-ish further down the timeline, I'd suggest Truly, Madly, Deeply, and if you want canon veered off from and returned to-ish after Requiem (16 years later), then I'd strongly lobby for Shooting Star. Her Ao3 requires a log-in, here; but Jenna's works are also on Gossamer (here).

leiascully

“Did you see this?”

She blinked at the screen of Mulder’s phone and gently pushed his wrist until it was at a distance she could focus on. Technology changed but Mulder didn’t. She couldn’t count the near misses with magazines and file folders, the threat of papercuts across her cheeks.

“Ford isn’t going to make Tauruses anymore,” he told her before she’d had a chance to actually read the headline. That was also standard procedure. Mulder was a scrolling marquee of odd headlines and interesting trivia. He was the original clickbait, drawing her in with his promises to change her world and alter her perception.

-Taurus Season

One of the OGs. leiascully's prose captures the essence and magic of ordinary things. Her Scully is secretly a wanderer, her Mulder an errant domestic. There is reciprocity in their strengths and weaknesses; and the world is always more beautifully strange together. I recommend her Visitor series, which rewrites Revival canon along necessary lines. Her Ao3 is here, and requires a log-in.

Penumbra

They slipped among the dumpsters at the back of the building and into the empty quivering night, jaywalking the shadows up the hill streets, ringing the manhole covers. False planetary lights floated about in the foggy sky. Scully opened her fawn umbrella. Mulder glanced often behind them, his fingers pressed into the suspension muscles of her hard young back.

-Bad Radio

One of the OGs. Her Scully is strong and silent and will not be swayed; her Mulder is withdrawn and foreboding. Her most infamous work is Heuvelmans' On the Tracks, but I know her better through this post Gethsemane cancer arc fic: its darkness, its inevitability, its immovable-object-meets-unstoppable-force. Her Ao3 is here.

Prufrock's Love

"He says a horse bit him," Duana translated for her mother. Duana stripped off Lord William's tunic and ruined shirt to reveal the wound. "He damages more clothing..."

Lord William stooped to show Caithrin the twin rows of tooth marks on his left shoulder, still telling his woeful tale....

Not sure what was expected of her and thoroughly intimidated, Caithrin did as she would with her own sons. She made the sympathetic face and clucked over him like a mother hen. Lord William, pacified, settled down on the stool by the fire to let Duana doctor him.

-Hiraeth

One of the OGs. Her Mulder and Scully are messed up, secrets upon secrets, love and miscommunication and chaos towards each other and themselves. Prufrock's prose and dry wit can't be denied; and she's most notably known for Belghor's Prime, a Mulder time-traveling story, and Paracelsus, a Civil War fic that loosely locks into her sprawling, transformative "past lives" series. I, personally, prefer Hiraeth, because the Mulder and Scully I read there aligns (mostly) with my interpretation of canon. Her Ao3 is here.

onpaperfirst

The chip was round and under a microscope the texture looked like fish scales. 

The procedure was over in ten minutes. Three tiny stitches at the back of her neck with a gauze pad taped on top. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did.

-Snakebitten

One of the OGs (if I recall.) Her Mulder and Scully are inherently bound, even if the plot has driven a wedge between them. They speak the same language with different words, they work back to each other with lightning speed, they are chummy, they are contented. Their humor is fantastic. Her longest, angstiest work is Snakebitten, a rewrite leading up to The Pine Bluff Variant; but my personal ones are (surprise, surprise) her "part one" and "part two" short fics, Home, Home and Honey Hi. Her Ao3 is here.

seek_its_opposite

She leaves her rumpled partner in the car with the window cracked while she goes to the front desk, glancing back possessively over her shoulder as the woman behind the counter gets their keys. One room, two beds. “I’m not letting you out of my sight, Mulder.”

She keeps seeing him like she found him, on his knees before the ghosts of his childhood. She sees him praying to the barrel of his gun.

-photosensitivity

One of the OGs (I think?) She writes incredible meta on the series; but she's also written one of my favorite short fics, ever (and I have a lot of those.) You can navigate to the rest of her Ao3 through this link, but you'll have to get through photosensitivity first. >:DDD

settle-down-frohike

“I’m fine, Scully,” indignantly going back to the task at hand. And she’d have believed him too, if he wasn’t looking through her, if his pitch hadn’t been a little too high, if he hadn’t forgotten the fact that her shoes were the very last thing to put on and she wasn’t even out of her hospital gown yet. She allowed it out of pity, mostly. Or humor. But his hands shook, fumbling with the laces like a feening alcoholic.

-for the WIP prompt: hospital

One of the OGs. She writes distraught Mulder incredibly well; and balances him with a Scully who is dry, caring, and bouyant all in one breath. I can't rave enough about her short fics (their links can be found here); but I'd recommend this and this and this because they tie together to form a Redux II whole. Her Ao3 is here.

sigritandtheelves

The world is different now, after so much has been lost. It moves a little slower, takes for granted a little less. It is still a dangerous place—because fear is catching and learning that things are not as they seem can make some go mad with denial and rage and terror at the loss of their footing. But it is also more peaceful, in some ways—because loss reminds us to hold love close. Because all the hearts that stopped beating are still felt in their absence. Because people, in the end, come together in crisis. They don’t only tear each other apart.

“I think we did okay,” he murmurs. “With our quarter century.”

Scully leans her head back to look at him. “Just okay?”

“Mm hmm.”

-Advent

One of the OGs. Her writing is pure sensation: cotton and earth and jeans and nine o'clock shadows and soft skin and the tangible grasp of wishes come true. Advent is her longest fic; but I implore you, on my hands and knees, to read all four of her pages on Ao3-- they're not only the gateway drug to other incredible, incredible short fic writers (ghostbustermelanieking, @baronessblixen, @o6666666, all the authors mentioned here, and so many, many more) but are also a shining example of family fic done well-- a very hard skill to pull off. Her Ao3 is here.

sixhours

Back to sleep. Sleep. No big deal. Just go to sleep.

A minute passes, then two. He’s not tired, in fact, he feels incredibly awake. His heart is pounding, a distracting pulse in his ears. The bed is too soft, too deep, too…real. He can hear her breathing next to him, feel the warmth radiating off her body, his senses screaming at the level of detail, the texture, the vividness of it all. Instinct is a dog with a bone, and it won’t let go.

Something’s wrong.

-Lucidity

One of the OGs. Her writing clips along at an even pace, the story driving Mulder and Scully ever forward. Mulder is most often on the outs, Scully most often peering at her partner silently, trying to figure him out and draw him in. But mostly, the two function independently of each other, content to drift further or nearer as long as they are together. I would recommend Lucidity as a primer. Her Ao3 is here.

touchstoneaf

He did not soften, at first.  Did not edge away, nor did he lean into her.  Much like that awful night when their office had burnt he simply stood cold with shock and while she supported him; the steadfast fidelity of their bond never questioned in the decade that they had been together.

“I was there,” she murmured into his shoulder.  /I’ll always be here./  He could accept it now.  She was finally able to press her arms about him in the night.  Feel the strong bones beneath unblemished flesh; amazed that he was even alive for her to hold after an ordeal that had indeed taken him from her for so long that she had lost all hope.  She shuddered and cinched her arms tighter; felt his ribs shift beneath the silky envelope of his skin.  They creaked in protest, but he did not move, and she spoke like one driven. 

-Amor Fati: Destinata (The Fated Love), Act Three

One of the OGs. So OG, in fact, that the butchery of Season 9's mytharc pushed her to write a mythology replacement. Scully is fearful, anxious, but strong to her core. Mulder is lonely, and loving, and afraid to slip back into dark places. Both push each other to become better than they believed they could be. Her Amor Fati, Destinata (The Fated Love) series is still being written; but it's detailed reconstruction is well-worth the read. Her Ao3 is here.

I separated these two authors out because they're the x and y axes of my personal taste:

melforbes

She falls asleep before him. In some ways, it’s a burden to share a bed with someone, not a pleasure; if he moves, he fears he’ll wake her, but it’s horrible to stay so still for so long, especially when he can’t sleep. But he can see her eyelashes in the dark, and her cheek is squashed against her own pillow, and she checked the room when they arrived to make sure that there were plenty of tissues. Had there been a couch here, even a divan, he would’ve taken to that instead, let her sleep soundly without him. The day of the wedding - he almost tenses at the word wedding, not because he dislikes it but because it feels so strange and unreal, as if it never really happened even though he remembers it so easily and comfortably - they had a makeshift reception in her apartment, just cutting cake with her mother and then sharing slices with the Gunmen after her mother left. If anything, it felt more like a funeral than a wedding reception, so many questions tiptoed around, everything too urgent and human to be a celebration, but between guests, she grabbed part of her slice with her bare fingers and pressed the cake against his face unexpectedly, and he looked at her with surprise, and she laughed in an inward way that made her shoulders move. 

-seaglass blue

One of the OGs (I believe.) I have to start here because seaglass blue is grafted onto my heart. Set before Gethsemane, the author based it on a real couple's journey with impending death; and the way she wrote Mulder's POV-- how she kept us always locked in his head each and every day of his honeymoon with Scully-- is forever burned on my psyche. I don't see the emotional damage, if you will, as unnecessary or melodramatic or traumatic-- it's just a window into the slow approach to the end, or a fear of it. (However, if the writing is too "overlapping" or "run-on" for your taste, I'd recommend aloysiavirgata's gorgeously succinct prose, mentioned above~.) All of her works are fantastic; and, oddly, the rest are usually beautifully cozy (if you can find them on her page.) (Note: authors with their own uniquely similar styles include @teethnbone and @enigmaticdrblockhead -- can't recommend their work enough, particularly The Ansted Graft and this list here, respectively.) mel's Ao3 is here.

skuls

They follow Mulder's trail, Scully's heart thudding too hard against her ribs. Skinner is telling her that Mulder wouldn't do anything crazy when it comes, the headache. Pounding against her skull. And then she hears Will crying out: Dad!

Scully bends over, stomach against her knees, clutching her temple. “Scully?” Skinner is saying. “Scully, what's going on?” But she can't hear him over the roaring in her eyes. William is still speaking, rapid-fire in her mind: They're hurting him, Mom, they're hurting him! Make them stop!

In a flash, she can see what William sees. Mulder barely conscious, being dragged outside through the snow. An axe in the hand of his attacker. “Scully, are you alright?” Skinner protests.

-silent conversations

One of the new recruits (I think.) Her writing is an art form: painting broad, sweeping pictures on the tiniest canvases, in the shortest sentences. Her descriptions, characterizations, and dialogue all serve the plot-- not a hair out of place and not a nook or cranny neglected. I will never be over her short fics, but her longer works are crafted carefully, too. If you want a complete rewrite of the entire series' mythology, then the Half-Light universe does it, and does it better; if you want a Season 8 casefile, then snow in april manipulates Mulder and Scully to a very sinister town; if you want Season 7 to properly deal with Mulder's brain disease, encephalon's got you covered; if you want William to stay with Mulder and Scully, William AU (relent, silent conversations, noises echoing, not out loud) bends in that direction; and if you want a complete rewrite of Samantha's abduction, california winter is where I'd start. Her Ao3 is here.

And lastly, do you want to read long-form fill in series? These three are masterfully done.

Beshter

There were few things in the world that Dana Scully could imagine were more arduous in her the world than family dinner night. Perhaps climbing Mt. Everest in the middle of a howling blizzard would be one. Maybe crawling out of the Amazon rainforest with a broken limb would be another. Even walking single-handedly into the desert with just one canteen of water between you and horrible death under the scorching sun could trump the monthly gathering of the Scully clan at her parent's house in Baltimore to have dinner with her parents.

One of the OGs. Her X-files Seasons covers every crack, crevice, and canyon in the show: Scully's life and family separate from Mulder, the journey drawing her closer into Mulder's world, and her own transformation from the green agent she was to the woman of diamond she became. Her Ao3 is here.

scullylikesscience

Over the course of the weekend, Mulder hardly talked at all. When he did speak, he was abrupt, flippant, and sometimes defensive. He still didn’t want to be touched, nor did it seem to Scully that he wanted to touch her. He kept a wall up around him, a protective shield. She tried to give him what she thought he wanted, space and distance, while at the same time trying to let him know that she was there if he needed her. It was a difficult balance. He seemed glad of her company, yet disinclined to talk to her at all.

-Chapter 87

One of the OGs. Her He is the Master of His Fate, She is the Captain of Her Soul series exquisitely fills in Season 7, Season 8, Season 9, IWTB, Season 10, and S11 while filing over and rewriting the incredibly stupid canon decisions along the way. Her Ao3 is here.

scullywolf

Mulder stirred again and mumbled something she couldn’t make out, and she wasn’t sure if he was talking in his sleep or actually trying to tell her something. She leaned over to put her face closer to his, listening.

“They’re not the same.”

She frowned. “What’s not?”

He shifted, blinking up at her. “Moth men. You might think they’re the same as the Jersey Devil, and the circumstances are similar, but they’re not the same.”

“You mean aside from the fact that this is Florida, not New Jersey?”

-Detour

One of the OGs (I believe.) Her TXF: Scenes in Between series plucks one moment from each episode and builds upon it, providing a window into either Mulder's or Scully's psyches. She even tackles Mulder's (alleged) Season 7 brain disease. Her Ao3 is here.

If you want more fic recs, I have lists catalogued under my Collector's Edition tag. If you want even more fic recs, I wrote a fanfic resource post here. And if those aren't enough to appease your hunger, @lilydalexf and @fine-nephrit have pinned master posts that will probably have something for you.

Hope this helped~! And drop back in sometime-- let me know if you read something you enjoyed, or found fanfic still isn't your preference. :DDDD

[cursecuelebre]

Saint Michael All About Page

I was thinking of doing this for awhile, I should mention Archangel Michael or Saint Michael isn’t a deity so it’s going to be different of how to work with him. But don’t worry I’ll try my best to give best information from sources and my own personal experience.

“Bask me upon your gaze, O’ Heavenly prince of Heaven, I need your help my old friend…” - From my own grimoire

Attributes:

Justice

Divine protection

Death (Deliverance and Immortality)

Symbols:

Sword

Scales

Dragons/Snakes

Air and fire

Color: Red

Offerings

Angelica (A very protective herb that literally means Archangel)

Rue

A rosary

Anything red

Selenite, Iron, Angelite

Rosemary

Frankincense

Praying

Patron Saint of

Police and military

Banking and grocers

Soldiers

People who work in dangerous situations

General Information

An Archangel that is prevalent in Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). Saint Michael in Catholicism. Ancient spirit that has existed before Judaism, Saint Michael might’ve been a god within Chaldean civilization but was taken with Abraham who left for Canaan. In ancient Persian lore he was also called Beshter a spirit that provides sustenance of mankind but I can’t find much information about that. But he’s name means “Who is like God” and a prince refer to being “Prince of Light” and leader/general of God’s army. He is consider to be the Heavenly Prince of Heaven.

In Abrahamic lore he was the one that fought Satan and pushed him out of Heaven. In Book of Enoch he defeats Samyaza and the watchers due to their crimes of forbidden intimacy with humans and disobeying God. He debated Satan over the body of Moses, Satan claims since Moses is a murderer he must be punished in Hell but Michael turns to him saying, "Lord Rebuke Thee." he is usually the angel to evoke during protection, banishing, exorcisms, and cleansing. The pslam he most recognized with is Pslam 91.

Feast day is September 29th.

My own experience

He became one of the first spirits that I had work with beginning of my practice and he has always been a very close spirit I have worked with. Though Angels and Humans don’t have equal relationships I see divine spirits higher and deeply revered than myself as a mortal but I do consider him as a friend/ally. Taught me how to face my fears and encourage to see things deeper than surface level.

He is protective of the person, family members, and the home. I usually call upon him during nightmares and he comes in what I see him as or just a bright blue light either I wake up or the dream changes. I have evoke him for removing the Evil Eye.

i see him as a human figure with wings, he has dark brown hair with white wings. He is very tall and always wears armor and carries a sword.

Tarot:

Justice

Chariot

Magician

King of Swords

Ace of Swords

[doctorhelena]

What are five fics you enjoyed reading this year?

I apologize for taking a few days to answer this, anon - I was frozen in indecision because I have enjoyed reading SO MANY amazing fics this year. In the end, I realized that, although there is no way I could possibly pick my favourite five, that's not actually what you asked!

So, here, in no particular order, is a random selection of five of the many, many fics I've l enjoyed reading this year:

Dance a Tarantella by Beshter (Clint Barton/Laura Barton, but the focus is on their familial relationship with Natasha in the early days after she defected). Also a part of Beshter's fabulous Timeless series (in which Peggy is brought forward in time by Scott Lang to a couple of years before Steve is unfrozen, and the MCU unspools somewhat differently from there).

"Time and Space", aka Chapters 10-12 of My Heart Don't Wish to Roam by @buckywiththegoodhair86 (Steggy) - a Dr. Who AU, part of a very long story that consists of a collection of excellent Steggy AUs.

The Stars Are Cold and Distant (but also Soft and Aching) by Tamoline (PeggyNat) - set in the What If universe with Captain Carter in the future. Note: if you are a Steggy fan who would not enjoy reading a story in which there is a possibility that Peggy might not end up with Steve, this one is probably not for you! But Peggy and Steve's love and affection for each other is not dismissed either.

To Be Where You Are by @roboticonography (Steggy) - I am always very excited when Robot posts a new story, and I have a special fondness for his wartime Steggy - possibly because the very first Steggy fic I remember reading was "The Simple Secret", also by Robot. Anyway, I did indeed love "To Be Where You Are", in which Steve is sent to extract Peggy from a spy mission from which she's late in returning.

A Somebody I'm Longin' to See by @eliza49-7190 (Cartinelli) - an excellent Peggy/Angie fic that does not shy away from the depth of Peggy's grief for Steve or diminish how much she loved him, is realistic about some of the differences Peggy and Angie would have to work through, and also goes into interesting detail about Peggy's work at the SSR after the Agent Carter series is over.

[minuete-blog]

Oh man. I wished I could be as detailed as @agentelmo with the msr analysis. And I really should be getting ready to head out doing mommy errands, but here I am with my two cents. Bottom line: Mulder fell in love first. When did he fall in love is where all the awesome fanfiction comes in. For me, I felt like Mulder started having feelings for her some time in season 1 with the culmination of the stakeout “ice tea in the bag” moment played out. In season 2, both agents pined/yearned for their partnership and then the abduction. Cue in Mulder’s guilt and any feelings he had towards Scully just eating away at him until she returned. Post abduction, Mulder is more tactile with Scully. It could be subconscious; he wants to make sure she is physically there, alive and well. His touchstone. There’s internal conflict for Mulder as he half-hovers/half-steps back as Scully gets back on her field agent feet. He walks that fine line of protector/partner in a Mulderesque way. Then the Samantha/ Scully exchange, which was intense and such a pivotal character development: Mulder choosing to save Scully rather than holding onto his sister. I mean, damn.

I do agree that the Cancer Arc is when Mulder accepts that he is in love with Scully.

Who fell in love first? Mulder or Scully? And when?

I believe it was Mulder in season 2 but I also think it took him till season 4 to admit it to himself.

just two moments of many but to me that’s the start when he fell for her subconsciously…

[ao3feed-agentcarter]

Sketching a Myth

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RxqNEl

by Beshter

Singular stories studying the character of one Peggy Carter.

Words: 952, Chapters: 1/20, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Agent Carter (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Howling Commandos, Howard Stark, Jack Thompson, Harrison Carter, Amanda Carter (Marvel), Daniel Sousa, Michael Carter (Marvel), Thor, Gabriel Jones, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)

Relationships: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa, James "Bucky" Barnes & Peggy Carter, Michael Carter & Peggy Carter

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, What-If, One Shot

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RxqNEl

[dgrayfox]

Beshter-Michael-Mikail. Toreador from books Vampire the masquerade, created by White Wolf Music:  Ulf Soderberg – Tempel Och Katedral Reser Sig

[knight-parzival]

Holy radiance of Presence 9

[randomfoggytiger]

X-Files Collector's Edition: Mulder, To Jew or Not to Jew

While there is no canonical confirmation about fans' (and David Duchovny's and Vince Gilligan's) theories concerning Mulder's Jewish heritage, these fics say "who cares?" and explore the topic, anyway.

Loose chronolgical order below~

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls’s november 27, 1973

AU-- Different outcomes of that fateful day in the Mulder family household.

David Hearne's As Long As It's Not Patrick Swayze

Post Shadows Mulder and Scully watch a movie and bat religious ideas back and forth.

@leiascully's (Ao3) 

OctoberFicFest Day 2: Eat

Post One Breath Mulder is surprised that Maggie wants to take care of him.

Blasphemy?

Post IWTB Mulder is in Biblical times with sandals and disciples... or is he?

@writingwell/RocketMan's (Alt. Gossamer, Xanadu) Elsewhere

Mulder and Scully's car slides off the road; and the two hole up in a Lutheran church, discussing how they're never safe but never bored.

Summer's These Dreams

Mulder and Scully share a dream: saving Jewish aliens from Nazis.

@contrivedcoincidences6/Spooky66/geektime66's

Not Alone (Ao3)

Mulder reflects on religion, faith, and his lack thereof.

i_gaze_at_scully's Unnamed

Mulder is hit hard after a case involving the death of children at the hands of a pedophile.

Thalia D'Muse's Different Religion

Post Never Again Mulder ponders on the ouroboros of it all, and how much the truth has replaced his childhood beliefs.

Lapsed_Scholar's

Atonement

Part 1: Post Memento Mori Scully is furious that Mulder ghosts her for the weekend... then finds out he's turned to a neglected part of his identity out of sheer desperation to save her life.

Lights

Part 2: AU-- Emily lives, grows up with Mulder and Scully, and becomes interested in Mulder's Jewish heritage.

Heirloom

Part 3 (a prequel to Lights): AU-- 13 year old Emily expresses interest in Mulder's heritage; and is reassured that she is his daughter no matter what.

A Devil's Office 

AU-- Mulder does not leave in S9, staying home with William while Scully and Doggett and Reyes get caught up in a demon case. He later confesses to Reyes how much his son reminds him of his sister.

Beshter's Seasons: Fourth

Small mentions of Mulder's Jewish lineage slowly peek through, then spill over in a deluge of family history during the Kaddish case.

Meredith's (Alt. Tumblr)

Catching the Train

Kaddish Mulder wants to wrap up the case as fast as possible to get he and Scully back on the curing-her-cancer track.

The Sin of Submission

Sein und Zeit Mulder thinks his actions might have hurt Scully like Bill Mulder's had Tena. She swiftly reassures him.

bcfan's Hanukkah

Post Kaddish Scully buys Mulder a menorah. He assures her he's a multicultural guy.

@mollybecameanengineer/Sareki’s My Beloved (Tumblr)

AU-- Post Kaddish Mulder, shaken by Nazis and Hasidic Jews and Ariel, rushes into Scully's motel room and tells her his feelings.

incidental's (Alt. Tumblr) Into the Red Sea

Post Redux II Maggie finds Mulder in her church; and they have a conversation about his similarity to Moses's extended family.

Laura Blaurosen's In the Valley of Sorek

Post The Red and the Black Scully is scared to sleep. Mulder keeps her company, and later changes their flights so she can rest.

@amplifyme/wonderland/Lydia Bower’s

Reconciliation (Tumblr, Ao3)

Post All Souls Mulder picks Scully up from her church; and opens up about his religious past and current agnostic position.

denynothing1/Barbara D.'s Illuminations (Gossamer)

Post Drive Scully finds Mulder stumbling through his mother's Sabbatical routine. Tena had cut her son from the rituals, painting him with the same brush as her Nazi-sympathizing husband.

@mchalowitz's (Ao3) un-mulder

Pre-How the Ghosts Stole Christmas Scully is surprised by Mulder's storage wreath.

@90stvqueen/thesexfiles's Carol of the Narcissist and the Naysayer

AU-- Post How the Ghosts Stole Christmas Scully drops in with gifts, and opens a conversation that leads to more.

@aloysiavirgata’s (Ao3, WBM, Gossamer, LJ, Alt. LJ)

The Waters of Babylon (Ao3)

Mulder spends his time in Arcadia recalling on the one time he saw his parents in-love and happy and comparing it to his own failed marriage and relationships.

Gifts/Corundum and Ourania

Post The Goldberg Variation Mulder buys Scully wicked expensive earrings, curtesy of a local jeweler named Herschel.

Unnamed 

Post S9 Mulder and Scully, out-of-practice Jew and lapsed Catholic, spend a weekend ribbing each other over ham, lamb, and The Ten Commandments.

By Falling In And In - 3/5

AU-- William grows up with his parents... but that doesn't mean he's safe from the many misadventures and dangers of being a Mulder-Scully.

@cecilysass/cecily_sass/Cecily Sasserbaum’s The Gentle Art of Dream Interpretation (Ao3)

Mulder dreams of himself, his friends, and his enemies as French Jews during the persecution in Paris. He finds Scully outside; and the two of them finally discuss the topic-- and turn a new page.

DaynaFoxe's The Return of Samantha Mulder

AU-- Post Sein und Zeit Samantha is returned, alive and unaged. Mulder becomes her guardian; and Scully takes them both under her wing as they all readjust (Hanukkah and Christmas included.)

Beduini/beduini's Hurricane Season

AU-- S9 Mulder and Scully and William are trapped with the other disgruntled Scullys during a hurricane.

@sigritandtheelves/DarlaBlack’s Advent (Tumblr)

Mulder and Scully's Christmases develop over the years, mixing in elements of their partnership and family life as they do their best to stop Colonization and save (most of) the world.

Susan Proto's

Barbecue Series 10

AU-- S7 Maggie celebrates Mulder's Jewish holiday with he and Scully and Charlie... and Charlie is not happy.

Barbecue Series 17

AU-- S7 Tena sends her son, fresh from the hospital after a recent round of torture, a special gift.

Life Cycles 15 - The Grand Entrance

AU-- S9 Mulder joins a Jewish church; and Scully's pain tolerance is, once again, proven to be higher than expected (hint: their second child is born very fast and, one could say, very inconveniently.)

IShouldBeWriting's Together We Believe

Post IWTB Mulder's cousin draws he and Scully into a Jewish lore case. Scully sighs, resigned, and gets down to work.

@mangokiwitropicalswirl's (Ao3) The Seventh Time He Asked

IWTB (or Revival) Scully is ready, finally, to get married after listening to years of Mulder's various creative proposals.

@cock-holliday/biggayyeehaw’s Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Reyes, Doggett, and good old Cigarette Smoking Man himself were in a room with a tied-up Chris Carter

It's crack time; and CC has a lot of questions to (not) answer.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

[doctorhelena]

Do you have any new Steve/Peggy fic recs? I’ve done all the classic stuff (Indie, Roboticonagraphy. Etc...). Looking for newer recs and know you’re a fan. Thanks (and feel free to ignore.)

Sure, I have lots and lots of Steggy fic recs! Here are a few newer ones, off the top of my head (this is not an exhaustive list, and I’ll probably forget some authors and stories that I love. So everyone else, please feel free to chime in with more! :)

Warning: some of these are WIPs (which does often come with the territory of newer fics):

like the way you burn and can’t have it both ways by Irony_Rocks (@formerlyir)

Time and Again and Sketching a Myth by Beshter

My Heart Don’t Wish To Roam by BuckyWithTheGoodHair86 (@buckywiththegoodhair86 )

Sleepers of Ephesus by Domenika Marzione (this one says in the tags that it’s past Peggy/Steve, but I assure you, it does not stay that way! :)

The Unforgivable and Rest for the Wicked by sagesiren (@sagesiren)

Also, I’m not sure who else besides Robot and Indie are included in the “etc.”, but here are a few general Steggy author recs (again, I’m sure I’m missing some that I love!):

littlereyofsunlight (@littlereyofsunlight)

sokovianaccords (@thesokovianaccords)

rachlovesligers (@rachlovesligers)

TeaAndATale (@teaandatale)

fluffernutter8 (@theawkwardterrier)

beautifulwhensarcastic (@beautifulwhensarcastic)

[ao3feed-steggy]

by Beshter

Now in the 21st century, Peggy Carter is tasked with directing the Avengers Initiative - if she can manage to get it pulled together, that is. That is harder than it would seem, even for the woman who founded SHIELD, especially when dealing with a temperamental genius, a recalcitrant general, and an alien invasion in New Mexico...and then there is Tony Stark. Peggy finds herself running out of patience and time as she tries to keep the Avengers from failing before they can even start.

Words: 5552, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Timeless

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Peggy Carter, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, Angie Martinelli, Edwin Jarvis, Jack Thompson, Daniel Sousa, Thaddeus Ross, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Cassandra Kam (OC), Juan Machado (OC), Julio Vargas (OC), James Rhodes, Ivan Vanko, Anton Vanko, Justin Hammer, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Jane Foster (Marvel), Darcy Lewis, Erik Selvig, Loki (Marvel), Abomination (Character), Betty Ross

Relationships: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Peggy Carter & Angie Martinelli, Peggy Carter & Edwin Jarvis, Peggy Carter & Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter & Tony Stark, Juan Machado/Julio Vargas (Original Characters), Peggy Carter & Phil Coulson, Peggy Carter & Cassandra Kam (OC), Peggy Carter & Howard Stark

[ao3feed-lokiangst]

A Time To Every Purpose

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Qbqu5Q

by Beshter

Part four of the Timeless series. Loki has arrived on earth and declared his intentions. Having spent the last two years attempting to build then, Peggy Carter pulls together the fledging Avengers, hoping that Scott Lang wasn't wrong about all of this, uncertain on how she can help a group of such different people succeed in what she knows is their destiny - that of saving the world.

The Sequel to Time and Again, Out of Time, and Awaiting Time.

Words: 1821, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Timeless

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Captain America (Movies), Agent Carter (TV), Iron Man (Movies), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Characters: Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, World Security Council (Marvel), Gideon Malick, Jane Foster (Marvel), Darcy Lewis, Betty Ross, Loki (Marvel), Cassandra Kam OC, Julio Vargas OC, Howard Stark, Pepper Potts

Relationships: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Jane Foster/Thor, Bruce Banner/Betty Ross, Peggy Carter & Tony Stark, Peggy Carter & Howard Stark, Peggy Carter & Phil Coulson, Loki & Thor (Marvel), Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov

Additional Tags: Battle of New York (Marvel), Alien Invasion, The Tesseract (Marvel), Loki's Scepter (Marvel)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Qbqu5Q

[knight-parzival]

request with holy cinnamons 

[midnight-blue-blood]

"Hm." Fina crosses her legs at the ankle. Her gaze softens as she delves inward for the much loved story.

"Your Michael was not born Michael, though I know not his first name. He was born in the land between the rivers. Perhaps he was a contemporary of my lineage's proginator... or perhaps not. Much of our earliest known history comes from Mesopotamia, yes? Of course it would. Where the kine gather, the Kindred play. There is a theory that we created the first cities for the same reason kine created pasture-

...Oh. Hm. Tangents."

She clicks her teeth together. The longer she speaks, the more the small motions of false life fade from her.

"As many of our kind did then, he ruled as a god over the living. There was something that happened, an invasion, that sent him fleeing. He renamed himself Beshter and subsequently was lost to history for some time.

He reappears in Rome. He had quite the hand in the art, yes? Of course, who else but your clan could have pushed the arts so far? Quite the influence... During this time he took two lovers. A Ventrue known as Antonius and a Tzimisce known as Dracon.

Now, what do you suppose a Toreador, a Tzimisce, and a Ventrue can do when they put their minds to it? Particularly ones that already have centuries and millenia behind them?"

[Private: RP Thread] @notthatmonroe

The haven is not quite what someone would expect. Or, perhaps, it is precisely what one would expect. The house is likely not much younger than the city itself. It is set back from the road. The grounds are taken over by a lush garden decades in the making, the stragically placed tall grasses and trees hiding the haven from the world around it.

In the spring and summer the garden must be a dazzling display of color. This late in autumn, however, it is a wash of vivid reds and golds.

A single light is on, shining through the curtains of a front window.

[bellesepoques]

=> File: Michael

NAME. Michael NICKNAMES. Michahel, Mikhail, Beshter, Right Hand of God, Viceroy, God’s Champion, Archangel of Mercy, Archangel of Sunday, Leader of the Archangels, Prince of Heavenly Host, Viceroy of Heaven, Guardian Angel of the Roman Catholic Church, Prince of the Virtues, Divine Protector, Prince of Light, Guardian of Peace, Master of Balance DATE OF BIRTH. 01st August (AGE PLAYED (HUMAN). 34) GENDER. Agender (appears mostly in male form) SPECIES. Angel / Seraph / Archangel OCCUPATION. Viceroy of Heaven LANGUAGES SPOKEN. All

HEIGHT. 180cm (5ft9) CHARACTERISTICS. Light-brown eyes, light-brown hair, freckles, rather lanky; when extended: three sets of wings (six wings), radiating the light of a forest fire (FACE CLAIM. Eddie Redmayne)

ATTRACTION. Aromantic / asexual HOBBIES. Reading, watching nature, yoga, philosophical debates, watching how things are made

TRIGGER WARNINGS. war, amputation

BIOGRAPHY. born of embers and stardust, michael was created as the second archangel in existence. from the very beginning on, he only came after god’s light and his older brother, hêlêl, who created and lead with their father what came to be heaven and earth. it was with awe he watched their abilities and closeness, and in exchange the archangel had the chance to live rather easy-going first years, simply supporting and doing what he got told. for him, it was clear that he always could rely on his older brother, and that this was supposed to be the state of this universe forever.

until humanity was created, and god told his angels to bow down in front of them like they bowed down in front of him. michael, full of love about whatever was done by his creator, accepted this without a question -- but not so hêlêl. instead of following orders as he was supposed to be, the older archangel dared to speak against the newest creation, and refused to kneel down. the first shock for michael -- not the last.

despite pleas and best-intended attempts, michael could not convince his brother to follow suit, and after an especially heated argument hêlêl lost his patience ... and knocked michael straight out. as he woke up again under raphael’s care, the world had changed: hêlêl had rallied other angels behind himself and set an ultimatum. it was either them or humanity.

god chose humanity.

as answer, hêlêl raised his sword.

a -- the -- war started, something michael had prepared his whole life for without realising it. it was a harsh battle with many lost lives and too much bloodshed, but in the end god’s side -- and michael as their leader -- won. it changed him like it changed most of them, taking away their innocence, but even after this experience a big part of michael’s heart stayed soft, and so he couldn’t condemn the brother he had admired for so long to death. instead he ordered to cut off his wings, and threw him and the other angels down into the prison their father had created for them.

after the war it became michael’s duty to assume the position of the viceroy of heaven, now as eldest archangel. his war-torn brethren celebrated him as champion of their people, trying to find someone to believe in after they had seen how easy it was to rip a family apart. for michael it was overwhelming; considering he had neither the training nor the wish to become a ruler it was easy to wanting to flee from these new responsibilities, but he knew that he could not let his angels down again. so he assumed the role everyone expected him to be, even if he felt and still feels like he is into a situation way over his head. but he tries his best -- for everyone else.

CHARACTER. michael is a kind and very merciful being, who tries his best to welcome everyone he encounters with open arms. being a good listener and showing himself interested in whatever people want to tell him, he is good in giving advice instead of berating. even with beings he is supposed to be enemies with like demons and evil spirits he tries to reason and talk to them first, trying to find a pleasant deal for everyone instead of attempting any violence. only in cases of dire emergency he shows that he can be a strict leader and strong general, letting go of his empathy and even obeying very cruel orders he got from his father in the name of the greater good. he is absolutely loyal to his family and his father, and despite feeling very often very insecure and overwhelmed, he puts on a strong mask for everyone he cares about.

VERSES. verse i: main. biography as stated. verse ii: human. michael is a human and works as a librarian. he is not very social, actually rather shy, and doesn't know how to deal with most people. verse iii: human ii. michael has a coffee shop with his younger sister, jibrail. corresponding with ;verse: alea iacta est. / ;verse: raphael iii. verse iv: scifi. michael is the lead ruler over the empyrian star system, trying to be benevolent while at the same time extending their domain. corresponding with ;verse: hinc itur ad astra. / ;verse: raphael iv.

TAGS. face claim. | roleplay posts. | quotes. | aesthetic. | headcanons. | verse i: main. | verse ii: human. | verse iii: human ii. | verse: scifi.