#kateyes224

[randomfoggytiger]

Collector's Fic: Mulder, Scully, and Courthouse Weddings

Mulder and Scully and weddings-- do they or don't they? In this case they do and they don't.

Tagging @pookie-mulder, who inspired this idea!

Loose chronological order below~

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls’s

in another world - Chapter 22

it happens in vegas, of course, and it happens because of langly and melissa.... it’s directly following mulder’s breakup with diana, and he’s been moping around the hotel room the entire time; dana is in the midst of stressing over a big test for medical school, and has refused to leave the hotel room so that she can study to the point of driving melissa crazy. 

AU-- Pre-S1 Mulder and Scully meet and marry in Las Vegas.

I wish you would write a fic where Mulder and Scully are married and domestic af. AU, obviously.

...Mulder and Scully are married on August 16, at a courthouse in Virginia. The date has no significance, no probable reason to get married then—and that, Mulder says, is why it's perfect.

AU S7 Scully is appalled at her and Mulder's shamelessly gooey "married" behavior.

#32: It looks good on you.

He says, “Wanna get married today?”

She lifts her head to look at him, her eyes wide with surprise and maybe an ounce of caution. She says, “You're kidding.”

“Dead serious, Scully.”

AU S7 Mulder and Scully get hitched on a spur-of-the-moment October day.

Five Moments Mulder and Scully Shared (And One They Didn't) (Tumblr)

The new weight is unfamiliar on her hand, but not in a bad way. She grabs his hand and presses a kiss half against his finger and half against his own ring as they huddle together on the steps of the courthouse. 

AU Post S11 Mulder and Scully get a second chance at their entire lives; and determine to make better choices with each other.

@silhouetteofacedar/SilhouetteOfACedar's Pearl, Ch. 1 (Ao3)

Scully shakes her head. “Sorry, no. I’m just nervous.”

“We can keep holding hands, if you want,” he says quietly. “Play the part of a happy couple for a few minutes.”

She glances at him to see if he’s joking. He’s not; his face is strangely serious.

He should be joking, she thinks.

AU-- Mulder and Scully wed after her cancer diagnosis.

@mchalowitz's (Ao3) chain reaction, part 5

Mulder doesn’t bring up the proposal for three days. He figures he should mention it before the weekend because after two days apart, the seriousness of it will wear off. It’ll just be an awkward occurrence, not a real offer. 

“Should we get you a ring?” 

Scully coughs out a laugh and glances at him briefly from the filing cabinet.

AU-- Between Scully's cancer and Teena Mulder's drama, Mulder and his partner are able to find a brief, bright spot: their marriage.

@leiascully's (Ao3) Mulder told Scully he would do whatever he could

They get married.  It’s a quickie courthouse wedding with Maggie and Tara as their witnesses.  Bill refuses to be any part of it.  

AU-- Mulder and Scully get married and leave the FBI to adopt and raise Emily.

@myownsuperintendent/MyOwnSuperintendent’s

All a Family

They get married at the courthouse. They bring her mom.... But she smiles during the ceremony, at least, and Scully does too, a little shyly, and Mulder knows he does, in a way he can’t contain.

AU-- Mulder tells Scully about her ova after her remission; and the two have successfully begun an IVF pregnancy and started the adoption process for Emily when they decide to wed for better chances.

Ficlet: “Marry Me” (Ao3)

She stops where she is.  “Are you serious?”

He pauses a moment to consider, and then he says, “I’m serious.” 

...She’s next to the bed now.  “Yes, then.”

AU-- Post Requiem Mulder asks Scully to marry him.

Readjustment

She feels a little bit guilty that she can’t give her mom what she wants, when there’s so much she’s missed out on. Maybe she would have wanted it herself once, but not anymore, now. “We just…we don’t want to wait, Mom,” she says, and maybe that’s silly, since they’ve already waited quite a while. Since they already have a child together, a life, love. But that is how they feel.

AU-- Mulder, Scully, and William are readjusting to life as free citizens no longer on the run... well, Mulder and Scully are, anyway.

@scully-loves-ruthie's Better Call Scully

“Mulder, look at me.  He faces downward eyes locked on hers.  “Do you really believe that you’ll never stake someone thinking they’re a vampire only to find out too late you were wrong... again?”

He stares at her weighing his response before offering a playful smile as he pulls her toward the courthouse

“That’s what I thought.”  She mutters quickening her pace to remain in step with him.

AU-- Post Bad Blood Mulder and Scully get married for "practical" reasons (of course.)

@cauldronoflove/thegoodthebadandthenerdy's All I Need's a Fraction of Your Happy Heart

(Mulder had meant his proposal, sure, but in the end it was Scully who proposed. Neatly and to the point, but so full of an unrestrained want and sincerity that Mulder had covered her hand across the crayon-scribbled tabletop without even checking left or right.)

AU-- S7 Scully reflects on the journey from her recent marriage to Mulder while she and her partner are on a case.

AU/Married/ISTJ reflects how banter had turned to serious convo/duo both proposed/courthouse/giddy together on case-- All I Need's a Fraction of Your Happy Heart - [Archive]

@msrafterdark's (Ao3) MSR // Ficmas Day 30 - Fireworks

Their belongings are all in storage save for a few toiletries and some clothes for their honeymoon next week. They're signing for a house next month. A simple but beautifully elegant wedding dress hangs on the back of the door of Scully's childhood bedroom. A bundle of wedding presents from relatives and friends--including a rather suspiciously-wrapped gift with the initials "TLG" scrawled on it--sit on Maggie's kitchen table. Even AD Skinner is stopping by for the courthouse appointment tomorrow.

AU-- S7 Mulder and Scully enjoy the night before their wedding together.

beduini/Beduini's Legitimate

The baby moves again and he smiles, a wide, cheek-splitting smile. After a few more minutes, he raises up on his forearm once more and looks down at her with eyes shining, as if he'd just solved a case. "Hey Scully, we got married today."

Her lips turn up in a slight, amused smile. "Yes, Mulder, we did."

AU-- Post Vienen Mulder and Scully hit up the courthouse.

Vickie Moseley’s (Ao3, Gossamer)

Mother of the Bride

"Dana," I whispered, holding my breath and hoping my suspicions about this 'appointment' were correct. "Can you tell me what this is all about?"

Suddenly, Fox was on the phone. "Call it an early birthday present, Mrs. Scully. And maybe a late Mother's Day Present, as well."

Post Existence Mulder and Scully wed at the courthouse.

@aloysiavirgata’s (Ao3, WBM, Gossamer, LJ, Alt. LJ) A Tent of Shelter (Ao3)

She smiles at him, her lopsided grin. “Mulder, what can change, really? The taxes. The health insurance. But I think we’ve reached some point of terminal commitment, don’t you think? And you can hardly imagine I’ll be Doctor Mulder. So do I like the idea? I do, very much. But it’s hardly shocking.”

“Scully my love, you need to read more romance novels.”

Post IWTB Mulder wants to get married for his birthday.

@agentscully/agent_scully2084's Important Traditions

With minimal protest, Scully allowed Mulder to carry her over the threshold, laughing as Mulder explained the symbolism of the ancient tradition and appeared to take seriously his duty to protect his new bride from evil spirits.

Post IWTB Mulder and Scully get married in khakis and blue.

@scully/humancredentials's "Did you just call me 'baby' in front of my mother?"

She looks like she’s about to say that yes, something is wrong and that he shouldn’t antagonize her brother that way and even though they’re living together now, even though they’re ink on the paper official, sworn to each other in a courthouse in rural Virginia in front of her mother, her God, and all of their ghosts, it still makes her anxious when it’s on display.

But she doesn’t, doesn’t say any of those things, realizes she doesn’t even really want to.

Post IWTB Mulder is prone to slipping up with pet names after he and Scully tied the knot.

amorfati3215/Amorfati32’s (FFN) AU head canon - Mulder and Scully never separated...

Mulder and Scully marry two months later in a small service at the county courthouse. Scully’s mother gives the bride away while Skinner agrees to be Mulder’s best man. It’s a quiet affair, formal too but it’s exactly what they wanted. 

AU-- Post IWTB Mulder and Scully vacay, wed, and stay together during the hard times.

@broadcastnews1987/audries/@kennedyandheidi/inkspl0tchess's (WBM 1/ 2/ 3) Unnamed

“you’re my wife,” he says, over and over. her fingers are tugging at the tie she’d made him wear to the courthouse. he hadn’t really minded. “you’re my wife, scully.”

Post IWTB-- Three moments are Mulder and Scully tied the knot.

@m0lderitsme's Just a post MSIV fluff piece.

A big wedding was most definitely not for either of them. Plus, they didn’t really have anyone to invited anymore. Sure, Scully could have asked her brother Bill and his wife and son, but she didn’t really want them there. They decided that they’d get married in a very, very quick ceremony with a Justice of the Peace.

Post Revival Mulder and Scully marry with Skinner as their witness.

@flukemen/@pinebluffvariants/pinebluffvariant's Barrows

On a Friday afternoon, Mulder and Scully get out of a cab just a few blocks from the basement where they used to eat hotdogs at midnight and argue over evidence, when they were young. The streets are cleaner than they used to be, back then. The air is too. At least it feels that way today.

Post Revival Mulder and Scully wait in line outside the courthouse... and watch Skinner skip right on through.

@kateyes224's (Ao3)

Unchained Melody

Scully wiggled her small toes on the hard-wood floor, glad to be barefoot.  Her pale ecru dress shimmered in the darkened kitchen, her face half shadowed. She looked up at Mulder, and something in the way she was sitting, staring up at him, her cerulean eyes luminous in the dark, niggled at his brain like deja vu.

After the courthouse ceremony, Mulder remembers one moment when his parents looked really, truly happy with each other.

Honorable mentions:

amorfati3215/Amorfati32’s The Proposal (Parts 1/, 2/, 3/, 4/)

jeri’s (Gossamer) Vulpecula (Gossamer 1/ 2/) (post here)

@rationalcashew/RationalCashew's Dark is the Way; Light is the Place (Tumblr)

Vickie Moseley’s "My Dearest Son"

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

[randomfoggytiger]

To add onto this:

He's also the most stubborn, narrow-minded, cryptic, and misleading man alive. He's also so honest that even when he's lying or gutted his face gives it all away.

And Scully, pragmatic romantic that she is, would rather crack open a case over supper with her medical journals than be given roses and chocolates and be sung sonnets of love. The two create a love language of their own: bantering over corpses, pouring out affirmation about the stars and bugs and sewer creatures, and shifting uncomfortably amidst the cheesy, saccharine romance of the rest of the world.

Is Mulder a romantic dude? Sometimes I wonder what a girl gets from being with him? He doesn't get you to date night dinner, he forgets your damn birthday, he runs off on his own all the time, he doesn't buy flowers? WHAT DID SCULLY SEE AND WHY IS SHE ALL OVER THAT?

A Comprehensive Guide of The Benefits Of Being Fox Mulder’s One and Only:

Finding sunflower seeds in your pockets, even after dry-cleaning

Midnight phone calls to talk about everything and nothing

Constant mental stimulation.  He’ll say the most outrageous things, posit the most outlandish theories, just to see what you’ll say, how you’ll react. It’s a lot like foreplay, you’ve found.

He may not take you out to dinner for a date, but he does know your favorite pizza toppings, how you take your coffee (cream, no sugar) and that you always prefer your turkey sandwich on rye with sprouts, lite mayo, and an extra pickle spear.  

He does usually have that red Speedo tucked into his overnight bag, and you will occasionally catch him swimming laps when your motel has a pool.

He doesn’t take you out to the movies, it’s true.  But every weekend you take turns renting a movie the other hasn’t seen.  Last Friday you made him sit through Steel Magnolias.  You didn’t end up watching much of it.

In years past, he hasn’t marked your birthday in the traditional sense. But he will wrap himself around you under the auspices of teaching you how to hit a baseball, even though you both know damn well you played shortstop for your middle school’s softball team, and call it a very early or a very late birthday present.  

You’re right, he’s never brought you flowers “just because.”  But he brought flowers to your sister’s grave.  He brought you flowers when you’d told him to meet you at the oncology ward the day you told him you had cancer.  He brought a small spray of carnations and baby’s breath wrapped in with a pink satin bow to put on Emily’s casket.  And every year, without fail, on Emily’s birthday, on William’s birthday, and on Mother’s Day, a bouquet of stargazers and pale pink roses will appear on your table.  Even that year he went into hiding.  Even when you were both on the run.  Even after you moved out.  

Impromptu trips to save you from alien cryopods in underground spaceships in Antarctica are never out of the question.  

He’ll think of the silliest reasons to spend time with you.  Including stealing your car keys so he can go ghost hunting with you on Christmas Eve.

He knows how to put that mouth and tongue to good use.  

He lets you fight your own battles, but he always has your back.

He respects you.  Trusts you.  Loves you.  Always, and unconditionally.

He wipes the barbecue sauce from the side of your face.  He tucks your hair behind your ear.  He touches your cheek.  Kisses your forehead.  Rests his hand on the small of your back.  Covers you with a blanket when you fall asleep.

When you ask him, he agrees to be the father of your child, even though the both of you have no idea what that might end up looking like.  He doesn’t care.  All he knows is that he’ll have created a life, something good and pure and innocent, that’s half him and half you.  And that it’s made you happy.  He’s only ever wanted you to be happy.

In short, Anon…Fox Mulder is one of the sappiest, most romantic men that has ever existed.  Anyone would be blessed to have him.  But since she walked into his life, Dana Scully is the only one he’s ever belonged to.

[fine-nephrit]

🥏 Where to find good XF fanfics

👽 On Tumblr

@lilydalexf has an encyclopedic knowledge of fics and continues to be an invaluable resource. You'll find a boatload of themed fic lists, individual rec posts and helpful answers to anon asks.

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@msrlibrary a well-tagged library of MSR fics; each entry includes a short excerpt and a nicely chosen image from the show.

@201daysofxfiles a rewatch blog by fandom veteran @wendelah. Each episode in season 1-7 is paired with its own fic rec post.

@enigmaticxbee an aesthetically pleasing and neatly organized rewatch blog that is packed with great content, including excellent fic rec lists categorized by season, story type, trope, and more. Each episode guide sometimes features related fic recs.

@thatfragilecapricorn30 posts one fic rec every Friday, accompanied by a nice writeup.

@randomfoggytiger curates many fic rec lists sorted by often fun and creative categories.

@cecilysass has a google doc titled "fics I love", which is a fantastic fic list categorized by story type, complete with thoughtful blurbs. She's also shared two episode-related fic rec lists on Tumblr: here and here.

@pookie-mulder writes a monthly fic journal with good recs.

**self-promo plug** I post fic recs on my Tumblr blog @fine-nephrit under #nephrit's fic rec. Plus, I reblog others' fic recs that I come across!

👽 Rec Communities

XF Book Club: the best thing ever, an absolute gem that deserves to be preserved for posterity. During its run, 270 fics were recced and discussed in depth here. The community's intelligent and insightful comments on this blog are sometimes even more enjoyable to read than the fics themselves.

The Fic Filter (xf tag): well-curated selections with short blurbs.

Multifandom Het Recs (xf tag): a major rec site's xf section that offers nice "why this must be read" writeups. @het-reccers

Crack Van (xf tag): another major rec site with a big xf section, featuring endless recs and blurbs

Fancake (xf tag): another major rec community's xf section boasting an extensive thematic tagging system

👽 Personal Blogs

Emily Shore aka Naraht: meta essays, fanvid recs, fic recs—great stuff aplenty

Bad for the Fish aka Scarlet Baldy: fantastic fic list paired with highly enjoyable reviews and analyses of the fics she's read. @badforthefish

Ramblings of a Mind Untamed: reviews of a dozen or so classic fics

xxSKSxx XF Fanfic Recs: still active in 2024! @xxsksxxx

X-Libris: more of a fic library, this is the best place to download nicely-formatted ebooks of pre-AO3 oldies. What I love most is the incredibly detailed and extensive tagging system.

👽 Individual Rec Lists with good writeup

Character Manifesto - Dana Scully: a character analysis and 10 Scully-centric fic recs, categorized by "best of .." selections. Amazing format and choices!

Character Manifesto - Fox Mulder: same format as above for Spooky

bachlava's awesome fic rec essays, covering classic fics and slash fics

ShipRecced blog's classic MSR fics and newer MSR fics recs

luminary's 16-fic rec post

RivkaT recs fics and writers @rivkat

Anna Otto's favorite stories

Syntax6's rec list on her site, great rec list on Tumblr and FTF rec list @syntax6

👽 90s Old School Rec Sites

The Basement Office - Musea: a treasure trove of extensive fic lists with lovely written blurbs, recced by a group of talented writers from back in the day

The Other Side - Fanfic Recs from Beyond the Grave: a large collection of 'scary' or 'spooky' story recs with nice blurbs. Beautiful web design.

the Rookery - Favorite Authors: nice commentary on a list of classic fic writers

X-Files Fanfiction 101: an intro guide to fic categories and what to read for each

The Primal Screamers: a fun site run by a mailing list that hosts fic recs with blurbs, and a 'Coffee Talk' section full of delightful discussions of canon

Idealists Haven - Elemental Fanfic Archive: an archive with rec blurbs

Chronicle X: a large, well-organized archive with blurbs, plus a 'Can We Talk' discussion section of novel-length fics, plus a total of 46 author interviews. Simply incredible!

👽 Special Mention

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Where do you find your next read? What did I miss? Reblog and share your favorites!

[cecilysass]

Hello! You once told me that I could always ask you for fic recs so here I am! I’ve only seen up to S2E17 so idk if you have anything that doesn’t deal too heavily after that. Minor spoilers/references are okay, just nothing major. I’m also not a smut person generally. If you can’t think of anything that fits those criteria, feel free to ignore this! I hope you have a lovely day:)

Okay, I am SO EXCITED about this question, but also nervous, because I don’t want to accidentally include something that will spoil you. I am going to throw a few recs out, and maybe others will think of more?

Universal Invariants by syntax6 This is so, so good. It’s a classic. A novel-length casefile, plus an AU riff on season 1 and 2 through the abduction arc, so I think you are entirely good with spoilers. The big change from canon is that Scully is still with her boyfriend, Ethan. (If you don't know Ethan, he is a character that was originally in the Pilot but cut from the actual show.) There are... other changes from canon, but you’ll see. There's some smut, but it’s not the focus. And there's a sequel to this, too, which you will definitely eventually want to read, but you're going to have to finish season 5 first.

the progression (and regression) of first names by skuls Scully works through some early identity issues in relation to Mulder. This author (skuls) is always delightful, always recommended.

Center Mass by kateyes224 This fic provides a painful, in character explanation for what might have happened between them after the Pilot that could have resulted in so much subsequent slow burn. Hot and angsty, but not really smutty.

Early On by sunflowerseedsandscience This is also an AU season 1 with Ethan, but this one is more focused on Scully slowly feeling her attention stray from Ethan as her relationship with Mulder develops. It's a series with ten (short) parts. It's very engaging. There are some smutty parts.

Eight Things That Could Have Happened In Oregon by Stephen Greenwood No spoilers here, only things that didn't happen but might sound like spoilers. This is wistful, a little sad, beautiful, odd. The First Year by mldrgrl Their first New Year's Eve, not long after the Pilot. I love the hesitant vibe here.

Still Feeling My Father Ascend - cecily_sass This is my own fic, so I am being kind of a self promoter recommending it to you. But it’s a Beyond the Sea post ep, and I know my own work pretty well lol, so I know there’s no later spoilers, or only really minor things that won’t be meaningful until later. It was written for a prompt for an early season fic exchange.

And I'm not going to recommend it exactly, but I do want to mention that one of the first works of XF fanfic was actually written in 1993 and published online in 1994, so during season one. It's called The Sound of Windchimes by Sarah Stegall. It's got some serious CW (noncon) and some pretty wild content (I've read it), but if you're brave or curious and interested in fan history, you can check it out. Here's the fanlore page, which includes links.

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Obviously I can come up with SO MANY MORE fics as you get further along. So just let me know. I would say most XF fic is probably written about seasons 5 / 6 / 7 for whatever reason, so once you're in that range, everyone can give you tons. Anyone have any other favorite early season fic they can recommend? It's sometimes tricky because sometimes early MSR has later details embedded in it...

[thatfragilecapricorn30]

Fic Friday (39)

Title: Center Mass

Author: @kateyes224

Word Count: 12,245

AO3 Description: In the wake of their first case together, Mulder and Scully make a concerted effort to get to know one another...and end up uncovering more than they bargained for in the process.

My thoughts: In honor of The X-Files' 31st anniversary this week, I present to you this fic that is set between The Pilot and Deep Throat. As the author's note states, this fic is an attempt to explain how Mulder and Scully became so close and so quickly. The UST is off the charts and the outcome is not quite what you would expect. There's also a few of fun easter eggs and references to later things that the reader will pick up on. This is definitely one of my favorite early-msr fics!

Enjoy! Tagging @today-in-fic

[enigmaticxbee]

XF Rewatch Series - Fic Recs

When you want to remember how it all was (or series-spanning fics that didn’t fit into my season by season lists):

Episode by Episode Rewatch Series:

TXF: Scenes in Between by @scullywolf - missing scenes for every episode through season 9!

201 Days of X Files by @30xf - through season 4

The FBI’s Most Unwanted by @leiascully - through season 3

All Eyes Lead to the Truth by @admiralty-xfd @fridaysat9 @monikafilefan @gaycrouton - third person perspectives on each episode, WIP currently through season 2

219 by @freckleslikestars - smutty fic for every episode, currently though Jersey Devil, NSFW

First Time, Every Time by @phillippadgettwrites - first time fic for every episode, currently through Conduit, NSFW

Check-In Vignettes:

Birthdays by @syntax6 - birthday fics each season through season 7

if the fates allow by @all-these-ghosts - Christmas with Mulder and Scully, 1993-2016

Movie Night by @i-gaze-at-scully - movie nights throughout the series

Fraternize by @admiralty-xfd @gaycrouton - a series of motel room trysts, NSFW

Inspection by @ingridgradient - for seven years, Mulder and Scully give each other tick checks in motel rooms, NSFW

#45 Hegal Place by @admiralty-xfd DanaScullyMakesMeFeelAutopsyTurvy - There’s never a dull moment when your neighbor is Special Agent Fox Mulder

This Woman's Work by @admiralty-xfd - the series through the eyes of Margaret Scully

Seventeen by @scapegrace74-blog - Explores how Mulder's sexual relationships shaped (and mis-shaped) him as a man. Each chapter represents a different partner. Mulder/Other, ultimately MSR, NSFW

X Files Rewatch Series by skuls - unconnected stories throughout the series, some canon-compliant, some not

if I am hopeful by @all-these-ghosts - Scully ficlet for every season

ever since, ever since, ever since by breakfastsandwich - scully realizes nine times over that mulder may in fact love her

Times Fox Mulder Cried by @frangipanidownunder - every season through the revival

these tornadoes are for you (or times she loved him back) by audries - vignettes throughout the series

5 A.M. by @kateyes224 - Five times Scully found herself awake at 5 a.m., and the one time she wasn’t alone

Kisses by @peacenik0 - two times Scully told Mulder “don’t do that again”, and one time she didn’t

Choose Your Poison by Solia - Five times Scully had too much to drink (and one time she had just the right amount of liquid courage!)

To Satisfy Your Expectant Tongue by @givesmevoice - The power and love of being seen and someone knowing how you take your tea.

Wake-Up Calls by lapsed_scholar - Government-issued cell phones are remarkably identical. (Or, Four times Mulder answered Scully's phone at an incriminating hour, and one time she answered his)

Canon Parallel Stories:

Incrementum by @lepus-arcticus - the progression of their relationship if they started sleeping together in the pilot, NSFW. WIP, currently through season 8

Triptych by @iconicscullyoutfits - married to Diana AU

Nuptiae Sub Rosa by @sisterspooky1013 @xfmaweezy - secret marriage AU

I've got you under my skin by cuits - In a universe where soulmate identifying marks exist and affect a part of the population, would Mulder and Scully's relationship evolve any different? Unfinished but complete through Existence so it still ends in a satisfying place.

Enough by @atths--twice - the progression of their relationship if they started sleeping together when the X-Files are shutdown in season 2, NSFW

He is the Master of His Fate, She is the Captain of Her Soul by @scullylikesscience - the progression of their relationship season 7 through IWTB era

Culmination by @admiralty-xfd - Mulder and Scully's journey of the heart, step by (baby) step.

[onhiatus-xxsksxx]

Okay, so. Rules. Shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag ten people.

Thanks to @amplifyme and @baronessblixen for tagging me. 💕

Slipping Through My Fingers - ABBA

Storytime - Nightwish

Flowers - Miley Cyrus

Angels - Robbie Williams

Sign Of The Times - Harry Styles

Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor - Johannes Brahms

Georgia Rain - Trisha Yearwood

As It Was - Harry Styles

Vivaldi Variation for Piano - Antonio Vivaldi

I'm tagging @scullyswifey @frogsmulder @leiascully @colormetheworld @scullysflannel @trusttnno1 @neednottoneed @o6666666 @i-still-want--to-believe @kateyes224

Don't play if you don't want to. No pressure.

[settle-down-frohike]

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Tagged by @randomfoggytiger and @amplifyme

Guys I have not written in SO. LONG. Years. I won’t say how many. But maybe this will inspire me to give it another go? I honestly had to search my notes.

“The wistful mourning dove, the evening cicadas with their velvet, rhythmic scritch—they made her selfish, and hadn’t they earned the right to be?”

Tagging @teethnbone @mashnotesofthemythopoeic @onpaperfirst @sunflowerseedsandscience @piecesofscully @thegrotesckque @mangokiwitropicalswirl @storybycorey @onpaperfirst @sunflowerseedsandscience @scully-loves-ruthie @solia-dreams @darwin-xf @kateyes224 @syntax6 @suitablyaggrieved @lilydalexf @jamofappreciation @lyndsaybones @scapegrace74-blog @baronessblixen @all-these-ghosts @lepus-arcticus @msrafterdark @syntax6

I think I went over. Let’s say I counted for punctuation and we all know I love my commas. 🥴 But I am genuinely curious about so many of you. Especially from the olden days. What are y’all up to? Do tell.

(If you tagged me and I didn’t tag back consider it included, I just didn’t want to be redundant, I’m weird about rules)

[leiascully]

I was tagged by multiple people to list seven comfort movies, so here you go:

1. Strictly Ballroom 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. Lord of the Rings (yes, all of it, extended edition obv) 4. The Proposal 5. While You Were Sleeping 6. Mad Max: Fury Road 7. Fight The Future

Tagging @suitablyaggrieved @lilydalexf @kateyes224 @fashionbooksboozefeminism @dd-is-my-guiltypleasure @para-amour @broadcastnews1987 or whomever would like to do it.

[amplifyme]

five things you never get tired of writing

I was tagged by @baronessblixen and @jewish-mulder  Thanks to you both!

Rules: List five things you never get tired of writing. it can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. then tag five people!

1) First kisses. I’m a sucker for those. And the more detailed and drawn out, the better. I’ve spent more time and thought writing first kisses than I have some sex scenes. I’m proudest of the one I wrote in Chapter 4 of Games. Not sure I’ll ever top that one.

2) Angst combined with humor. I love it when I’m able to write something that’ll make you moan in pain and than laugh with delight. It’s a fine balancing act and tough to pull off on the regular.

3) Fox Mulder. I’ll never, ever get tired of crawling into his head and poking around. Equally fun is seeing him through Scully’s eyes, because she often notices things he’s not even aware of. He’s a treasure trove, that boy. The gift that keeps on giving.

4) Slow burn romance. As with kisses, I like to stretch out a storyline to the point that it’s almost painful before offering some measure of relief.

5) Random brain dumps. These usually occur when I’m working on another fic and an idea pops into my head that has nothing to do with what I’m writing but just won’t leave me alone. They come out fast and loose and almost without thought. Little gems courtesy of the muse. I take what she gives me so she’ll stick around for the harder stuff.

I’m tagging @storybycorey @leiascully @darwin-xf @mashnotesofthemythopoeic and @kateyes224

[edierone]

five things you never get tired of writing

I was tagged by the lovely @contrivedcoincidences6 -- thank you!

Rules: List five things you never get tired of writing. it can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. then tag five people!

interiority: I gotta get inside their heads (where “their” usually means “Scully”)

emotionally-fraught conversations: in which people are sorta forced to just. fkn SAY IT already (whatever “it” may be)

dumpster-diving rpf: I mean, I don’t write rpf, I don’t, I never have and never would, BUT sometimes I go dumpster-diving and find crummy little notebooks and torn/stained pieces of paper filled with what might seem to be rpf if the reader were so inclined to see it that way? but that’s on them.

the what-if: like in my teenage-Mulder story The Fox and the Wolf, which I describe on AO3 as “one reason mulder might be the way that he is” -- sometimes an idea will grab me and I gotta follow it down the path

deliciousness: call it intense fluff, I like writing pieces that go down like a cup of Mexican hot chocolate (sometimes laced with high-ABV liqueur). 

tagging: @amplifyme, @leiascully, @darwin-xf, @kateyes224, @neednottoneed

[randomfoggytiger]

3rd Selection of Fics that Include Dancing (3/4)

whatliesabove's ghost ship

AU (but not) Tithonus. (I think a dancing daughter counts.)

@cecilysass/cecily_sass/Cecily Sasserbaum's The Boy on the Beach (15/16)/The Boy on the Beach - Chapter 15

AU Post Amor Fati.

Gabrielle's

Dinner and Dance

Pre-Dating?

Alone in the World

AU Scully family death.

@mulders-boyish-enthousiasm/muldersboyishenthousiasm's

They’ll Have a Ball! (both figuratively and literally)

AU(?) Pre-Dating.

apckrfan's (FFN) Mutant Deer - Chapter 1

Pre-Dating.

@writingwell/RocketMan/Darkstryder's (Xanadu) Fade Away

Pre-Dating.

Dancing

AU S9.

@scullyfemme/ScullyFemme's Basketball

Post Millennium.

@cutelilcurtain's (Ao3, WBM) Prompt: Mulder and Scully on their first case after consummating their relationship.

Dating.

Defnotmeyo's (WBM, Alt. WBM) Not Grasping, Tonight

Dating.

mootdiggs's la vie en rose

Dating.

@spookyscullies's (WBM) s o f t   f l u f f : come steal away with me

Dating.

Chiefchopstix's Swept Away

Dating.

scullyvasan's After Darkness

Dating.

@scullys-right-eyebrow-txf/ScullysRightEyebrow's The Only Choice - Chapter 13

Post Hollywood A.D.

@astridncs (Ao3, WBM) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Chapter 1 (Tumblr)

Post Je Souhaite.

lesbianreinaa's Simply the Best

AU Pre-TINH.

Mish/Sec30Row6's Minya Minuet

AU Post Empedocles.

DM's The Dance

Alone.

Donna’s (Gossamer, mulderscreek) A Little Help From Friends

AU Essence.

@sigritandtheelves/DarlaBlack’s February 23, 2004 (Tumblr)

AU Post S9.

@stephy-gold's 60th Years of G-Woman

AU S9.

@alienbaby-babymama/ABBM515's Day 5: Camera (Tumblr)

Pre-IWTB.

@debbierhea/thexfilesbabe/i-am-alittle-on-edge (WBM) We Wander On - Chapter 5

Pre-IWTB.

scullyscrubs's Candlelight Night

Pre-IWTB.

@allyinthekeyofx/AllyinthekeyofX's

Inclement weather 1/2

Pre-IWTB.

Dance 1/1

AU Revival and Cancer arc.

@frogsmulder/Brynstein's The Seeds of Us

IWTB.

@scullyphile's (Ao3) if you're still taking prompts, 19 or 37 or both! :~)

IWTB.

@msrafterdark's (Ao3) A concept : slow dancing on an ill lit front porch late in the evening while it’s thundering and maybe just starting to rain?

IWTB or Revival.

Also skul's one in five billion - Chapter 53 (Tumblr)

Post IWTB.

@kateyes224's (Ao3) Unchained Melody

Post IWTB.

This is an abstract one, so ignore it if nothing comes to you, but I'm curious if there's any fics you can recommend that have the vibe of the dancing sequence at the end of Post Modern Prometheus.

Like carefree, happy, totally in love but repressing it (or not), suave, smiley, that kind of thing. Not actually a tag to the episode itself.

I have innumerable fics that fit this vibe-- so innumerable, in fact, that this category had to be whittle down to dancing stories, then cut down further to only include Post Modern Prometheus scenes. (But don't worry, there'll be a Part II sometime soon~.)

Partying and Pondering Post Post Modern Prometheus

@scenes-in-between/scullywolf's The Post Modern Prometheus (Ao3)

PMP Mulder is still foggy from the drugs (a precursor to the dancing fics; but begged to be included nonetheless.)

@purrykat/mylifeinshadow's The post-modern prometheus (pretty please)

PMP Scully looks up to see Mulder inviting her to dance.

Diana Alexander's Time Slows Down

PMP Scully's thoughts as she dances.

@agentwhalesong (Ao3/Alt. Ao3) Throughout The Years - Chapter 5

PMP Mulder's bittersweet thoughts as he and Scully dance.

Madeleine Partous's (The Annex) Unbound

Post PMP Scully ponders her druggie-like existence as she and Mulder part ways with the Mutato on a highway surrounded by fields.

a_steady_wish's Things You Said on the Highway

Post PMP Scully enjoyed her dance, bantering with Mulder about doing it again some time.

@leiascully's (Ao3) OctoberFicFest Day 16: Dance (Ao3)

PMP Scully has their dance seared into her memory.

@i-gaze-at-scully/i_gaze_at_scully's

Alter the Ending

AU PMP Mulder dances with Scully under the streetlight.

In black and white

AU PMP Mulder and Scully dance under the streetlight, but with a little more existentialism.

@syntax6/syn's (Alt. Tumblr)

Post PMP Mulder beaten down by Mutato's imprisonment and the fact that "Samantha" hasn't reached out again.

@nowwhateinstein's (Ao3) Don't Know Much About History

Post PMP Mulder invites Scully over for a Thanksgiving movie night. (Does it count if it's not Mulder and Scully dancing?)

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls’s Unnamed

Post PMP Mulder and Scully celebrate Thanksgiving on the road.

Mulder42Scully5's Getting Out of the Car

Post PMP Mulder pulls over so he and Scully can dance in the rain.

CSM's C'est La Vie

AU PMP Scully invites Mulder along on a luxury couples cruise.

Enjoy!

[audiofanficpod]

Three Words More by @kateyes224

Read by @msrtheatre0223

Please leave the author a comment if you enjoyed their story 😘

[onhiatus-xxsksxx]

I was tagged by @amplifyme 💕 Thank you!

The aim is to put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs + tag 10 people. I had to use two different playlists for this because songs kept repeating themselves.

1. I’ll Be the Sad Song - Brandy Clark

2. Picture Postcards from L.A. - Joshua Kadison

3. Weak In the Knees - Serena Ryder

4. El Dorado - Ashley McBride

5. Stumbling Over You - Serena Ryder

6. Trip The Darkness - Lacuna Coil

7. Angels - Within Temptation

8. Phantom of the Opera - Nightwish

9. Unleashed - Epica

10. Storytime - Nightwish

I'm tagging @stellagibson @scullyverse @wexleresque @trusttnno1 @frogsmulder @randomfoggytiger @baronessblixen @ellivia @kateyes224 @wtfmulder and anyone else? Who wants to play.

[sunflowerseedsandscience]

I reread Parabiosis probably once a year. It’s probably my all time favorite. And I’m on record on @kateyes224 and @mangokiwitropicalswirl’s podcast as saying “Penumbra, not Patterson” when talking about how there’s fanfic out there that’s a head and shoulders above the quality of plenty of professionally published commercial fiction.

Fic Masterpost

So, in the spirit of full disclosure - all the X-Files fiction I’ve ever written, as memory serves. And some thoughts on how this fine fandom has taught me to write. 

Starbuck (circa 1998)

I’m not kidding, this is really embarrassing, absolute beginner stuff, but we all start somewhere and it’s interesting in an evolutionary sense. I found these on  Zuffy’s X-Files Homepage.

Without The Bee  -  I couldn’t bring myself to look at this one. That title says it all. 

Agents of Change: Return from Antarctica  -  Obsessions—the Scott Expedition and the X-Files—collide. Rough early days, but probably with hints of potential. A legit turkey of a title! 

Penumbra 1998 - 2009

(I’m not going to bother with Gossamer links.) Learning the ropes as I went. Oblivious to so, oh so many things. Rickety, untrained writing, but mindlessly in love with creatively inspired by the churlish charms of our two razzle-dazzle creatures of the night. 

Contact High  -  The last line was plagiarized, pure and simple, from one of Gerald Durrell’s books about his childhood in Corfu. It’s bothered me ever since, so the big thing I took from this experience: by all means steal the rhythm of something, but at least change a word or two. 

Vespers  -  Very stoned ramblings. Inspired by John Leonard’s X-Files essay in The Nation that I’d managed to extract off a microfiche in a university library. I have a soft spot for this fic, probably because Khyber picked it very analytically apart, which was like having Jonathan Galassi or someone suddenly pay attention to you. He introduced me to ‘show, don’t tell’, a paralyzing concept if ever there was one, which I yet only fitfully grasp.

Black Hole Season  -  Still breakin’ all the rules. This one was hugely popular, and amidst all the ballyhoo, Punk Maneuverability emailed me and quietly said: ‘Please pick a POV and a tense and stick with it’—vastly important advice that I was probably too full of myself to heed. This one won a Spooky award, one of the greatest moments of my life that I had to keep completely to myself (therein lies the painful crux of fanfiction.)

Parabiosis  -  I was eating cereal and flipping through the dictionary, and there it was: parabiosis. Who knows what it means. I didn’t have a computer, and was working in the mountains, so I wrote the whole thing out on paper several times, unimaginable now. It flowed through my brain as I scrambled through the woods in the evenings. Nothing will ever be that easy again.

Honeymoon Video  -  Promising title, not much there.

The Cretan Paradox  -  Americana. JET sent me an ear of corn from a corn maze, because she’s thoughtful like that. 

Free Beer Night at the Astrodome  -  Cut years ago in despair out of Heuvelmans’; I think part of it went back in. 

Fathoms Five  -  In one of Gerald Durrell’s books about his childhood in Corfu, his brother steps in a swamp and says that his shoe is ‘full of fathoms five’, so that’s where I got that Shakespearean misquote. I resisted writing this for a long time, but it would creep into my mind as I was falling asleep. I think this is a pretty good story, but it could have used one more draft, so since then, I’ve resolved never to rush to post. Events of this year kind of date this story now. However, it’s rather pleasant to read about a careless, joint-passing, COVID-free 2020.

Fathoms Five Outtakes and gag reels - Sorry about the glitchy old site and bad font.

A random smut biscuit  -  Uncharacteristic, I know!

Octopods  - I loved this one, but it never fit in anywhere.

∩dsᴉpɐᴉsᴉnɯ -  Very flawed, because it was written and posted under a fund-raiser time crunch. I really should overhaul it. The X-Files was ending and I was so depressed when I wrote it, and that’s an unfortunate tincture to saddle a story with. 

The Inscrutable Pair  -  How The X-Files taught me to embrace ambiguity. Goreyesque nonsense à la Gashlycrumb Tinies that also troubles itself to rip off Eliot and Homer. 

(7-Year Cold-Turkey Hiatus From the X-Files)

Gave away DVDs, got some perspective, did a little growing up, tried and failed to write a screenplay, two novels, etc. Then they put The X-Files on Netflix. One lonely night, I thought: what could it hurt to watch Darkness Falls? 44 minutes later, with shaking hands, going for the hard stuff—Redux II. Lol, the hard stuff of ancient philes. 

The Mythopoeic*  2016  - 

Heuvelmans’ On the Track - The nearly suicidal heartbreak that surrounds this story—it was the first X-Files fic I got bogged down in and couldn’t finish, and it left me with a huge mental stigma—sweetens its completion. Under its shadow I tried to become a Real Writer, without success. Give things time, I learned. Just keep working hard. The initial failure of this story taught me stuff that I now wouldn’t trade for anything. 

*I came back just intending to hang out with Philes, and didn’t want to make a big deal, and had no intention of posting fic, so I gave little thought to the name. But, characteristically ostentatious name, check. Still keepin’ it real, pure and self-taught, a bit closer to what Chuck Palahniuk calls a ‘kitchen-table MFA’. Check.

But what I really want to say is this. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to try writing if I hadn’t been in this marvelous fandom, having the method and the means demonstrated all around me by wonderfully competent and encouraging writers for whom I felt such reverence that having them reach out or comment on stuff was earth-shaking. They showed the way, and I followed. Hands on my heart, friends, I owe you everything.

[lilydalexf]

👽 Random X-Files Fic Rec

The world is a better place for having this image of Mulder and Scully enjoying a perfectly lovely morning at the unremarkable house. Title: Firewood Author: kateyes224 (@kateyes224) Summary: Some autumn fluff, written for @leiascully's Octoberficfest challenge. Length: 989 words Classification: autumn fluff Rating: Not rated Spoilers: None listed (but: I Want to Believe) Favorite line: I swear to God, though, if you take down a tree and release any of those glowing green bugs on our property, I’m leaving you. Read the story!