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Collector's Edition: Clones, Clones, Clones

This will be divided into two sections: existential, personal clone fics; and generalized run-ins or case files.

Loose chronological order below~

AM I WHO I AM?

@badforthefish/Scarlet's The Soft Embalmer - Chapter 1

“You sent an Insert outside? I thought we were nowhere near ready for that.”

Mike shrugs. “Well, we obviously aren’t since we’re about to lose this one, but who am I to argue the boss’s decisions? Let’s hope her replacement won’t go digging in her own neck any time soon again. The logistics for these things are a nightmare.”

Simon feels his gut clench unpleasantly. The woman’s pale face hovers in front of his eyes. Not a clone. A person, just like him.

Learn to be monsters.

AU-- Post Ascension Scully was never returned, forever and ever replaced.

@justhereforthechilismoment/Jess Mabe/Jess M.'s The Other Man (keyofx, WBM)

She made the first incision after pricking Mulder with the scalpel and receiving no reaction. Frohike mopped up the thin ribbon of blood that snaked down his neck to the towel as she pulled back his skin and fished gently beneath it with a pair of forceps.

"Anything?" Frohike whispered, and just as she began to shake her head, she felt something touch the tip of the forceps.

"Maybe," she said and felt Mulder stiffen.

"What? What is it?" he demanded.

"Hold still," she said and gave the object a gentle tug. It slipped free easily. She held it up and examined it carefully, but even to her untrained eye, a computer chip was obvious.

A gentle tug from Byers on her left sleeve brought her back down. He pointed to Mulder.

"I think he's passed out," he said quietly.

"What?" Dropping both forceps and chip into the petri dish, she rushed around the chair to find him slumped against the his own arms, eyes closed, breathing rapid. "Mulder!" she said, frantic with no way to tell what was wrong.

Scully (and Mulder) are horrified when the lab pick up something... odd in his blood-- something so odd that it puts into question their entire partnership, and sends them on a rescue mission to Ellen's Air force Base.

Christina M. Simmons's The Road to Emmaus

"If it's not him," said a low voice, close beside her. "Then who is it?" Dana Scully turned haunted eyes up, meeting the expressionless gaze of her assistant director. Skinner's face almost softened... almost... and he almost placed a hand on her arm. Almost. She flinched away... it was a gesture too much like Mulder's. Scully shook her head.

"It's not Mulder. Mulder is..." She broke off, turning sharply away, eyes prickling with tears she would not shed. She had mourned her partner's death... she had wept for him, privately, piercingly, through too many sleepless nights. Even on the crowded street in the dead of night, with police chaos and white-hot spotlights everywhere, the thought was enough to drown her deep in an aching solitude.

Mulder is dead... or is he? Is Mulder even Mulder? And if he's not Mulder, is life worth living?

Louise Marin's Any Other Name

Pulling her hand away from Mulder's touch, Scully turned back to face the Gunmen. "He's been at a place he calls the Clinic. All he remembers is his time there. He escaped and somehow followed his nose to my house. I think…" She swallowed. It was painful to even suggest that he was not the man he was supposed to be. "I think he may be a clone. He said they were planning to wipe his memory of his time at the Clinic. I think, maybe, they were trying to bring Mulder back."

Scully watched as the three faces in front of her all fell at once. When she glanced over at Mulder, she found him looking down at his lap. She looked down at hers too. "He said there were others there like him."

A full minute passed and no one said a word. It was Mulder's soft, low voice that finally stole the silence. "Dana Scully, why do you not believe me?" His downcast profile was unreadable.

AU-- What a disaster: the revelation that Mulder is a clone, the knowledge that nanobyted Skinner knew but kept silent, and the fact that CSM will try to bury everyone's memories of these events.

defnotmeyo/Defnotmeyo's and @wtfmulder's

Unnamed 

She can laugh at him but these punks? One more concentrated burst of laughter and hiding their faces behind their hands and she is going to put them over the bar.

Speaking of.

“I’m serious, Scully. What if they’re abducting cows to study best farming practices in space?”

Another burst of giggles and a glance their way.

AU-- Mulder and Scully overhear a couple laughing at his theories.

Unnamed 

Hank Moody is a clone of Mulder all the way back from when the conspiracy was making clones. That batch went wrong, somehow.

AU-- The X-Files meets Californication.

stellar_dust's (Ao3) Just Coincidence

Doggett stared again at the file he held, tightly gripped, and swallowed. "What d'you know about this picture?"

Pre-This Is Not Happening Scully and Doggett realize who the boys in Herrenvolk were.

Meredith's (Alt. Tumblr) Show of Strength

He has only looked directly at me that first time.

I cried.

She has a stranglehold on my emotions.... The only person I've known that was precious to Her -- how could I not want to touch him, take him into my arms and comfort him? I'd never met the man before and it was all I could do not to burst out in hideous, treacherous sobs.

But he knew immediately, and turned away. Defining me with that simple action as the imposter I am.

Dead.

He knew. And so do I.

AU-- Post Colonization Scully clone is desperate for her own identity.

Jenna Tooms/misslucyjane's (mulderscreek) Shooting Star (Gossamer, mulderscreek)

He closed his eyes, breathing in shuddery gasps. "I knew you," he said, his voice rough. "From the first moment I knew anything, I knew who you were. You were the only thing I had to cling to, the only thing I knew for certain. And now you tell me it's a lie, that my own memories are actually someone else's, that I'm not me? Scully, what does it mean? Who am I, if I'm not Fox Mulder?"

"I don't know," she said. "I don't understand it, I've never understood any of it. I don't know why you were taken away from me in the first place. I don't know why they'd create a clone and kill him—"

"Or hand him over to you," he said bitterly, and she lowered her head and allowed her arms to drop.

"Or that, either."

AU-- Post Requiem Mulder is not returned for many, many years; and even when he is, the truth is a twisting, inconsistent thing-- especially when compounded with intense cognitive issues, potential brain damage, a distant son, and the sense that maybe Mulder isn't who they all hope he is.

cthene's In the Watchfires of a Hundred Circling Camps

“You made me kill him,” he says.

“What?” She approaches him.

“I hesitated,” he explains, watching her in the mirror instead of looking at her directly. “And you forced me to do it.”

Her head kind of shifts on its axis without really shaking no. “I don’t—”

“You willed it, and I had to obey you,” he says.

“Mulder.” She opens her mouth. 

“It’s okay.” He gives the wall a few taps with the back of his head. “It was necessary. He would have killed you if I hadn’t stopped him.” 

“Mulder—” she says.

The floor of his mouth aches, saliva gushing under his tongue, and he vomits into the sink. Strange organs clinch and lurch inside him. A thread of acid dangles from his lips into the basin and he grips the counter, waiting for it to break. He vomits again. 

Post Colonization Mulder is turned-- an inevitability brought on by the Project's tampering since childhood. Scully saves him, by accident... which kicks off another complicated layer of their relationship as they race to Fort Bragg to find their son.

CASE FILE CLONES

@truemyth/TrueMyth's (Ao3) The Arc of Time- Never

How could it dream? It's never known childhood.

How could it dream? It's never touched another living thing.

The dreams that clones don't have.

Pattie's

Their Journey Embryonic

They were tagged, labelled, numbered, inventoried, whatever you want to call it. The offspring of countless women who had suffered the indignities of some godless men with an agenda. Perhaps offspring is a somewhat erroneous term, but many of us believe life is life, and if it contains human DNA, it's more important to us than algae or lichen.

I saw one of then kick.

Erlenmeyer Flask Mulder's disturbing discoveries.

Eugenic Injustice

She spins around in her chair. I love it when she swivels. "All right. What's this all about? A huge piece of evidence? A well-preserved prehistoric Sasquatch?"

AU-- Post Season 8 Mulder finally tells Scully about the destruction of the clone babies and embryos.

After Mandy - Bobby

Bobby produced a tag that had at one time been attached to an I.V. bag in which he had spent part of his gestation.

Mulder swallowed hard, then took a deep breath. The tag read: "Scully, Dana K.", and many other things Mulder found a bit difficult to decipher.

AU-- Post Season 8 Mulder is contacted by the sole survivor of the clone culling: he wants to meet his biological mother before his final deterioration.

Alison

"If your parents aren't here, we have arranged protection for you," Mulder added. "You know what I'm talking about."

"So do the strange people who gave me the bad DNA," Alison cried.

AU-- Post Season 8 Mulder and Scully try to solve a case involving the targeting of an Emily-esque little girl.

We Gotta Get Outta This Place

Well, now that they've had William, Meg, Samantha Ann, the new baby, hybrids Mandy and Alison around a lot, they need a bigger house!

AU-- Post Season 8 Mulder and Scully have a large, blended family of biological and cloned hybrid children.

Youthful Distraction

"You don't look a day over 30, and forgive me if that sounds like a ridiculous comment. I know there are some wild claims about vitamins and cosmetics out there, but... "

Kelly opened a drawer in her desk. "This is the only thing I use underneath my make-up. It's marvelous. It really is. You can keep the jar. I have lots more. Just rub a little into your facial skin every night, and, well, as you can see... And they say it does wonders for men, as well."

Crack-- CSM creates a random clone in order to stop Mulder permanently.

@i-gaze-at-scully/i_gaze_at_scully's No deal

“Go to the bridge. Make the exchange, with one of us. We are expendable. She,” she says, pointing to the woman he thought was his sister, “is not. Save your partner and save us. Please.”

AU-- End Game Mulder learns the truth before he and Clone!Samantha approach the bridge.

@cock-holliday/biggayyeehaw's Fictober 2022 - Day 28 (Ao3)

“How close to the real thing do you think clones are?” He asked softly.

Post End Game Mulder wonders if he will be remembered.

@leiascully's (Ao3) Day 9: Talitha Cumi 

If he got to them first, he’d have two armaments in his arsenal.

Scully would be upset with him for thinking that way. Clones were people to her, not pawns in some endless sub rosa conflict: maybe it was her faith or maybe her science that allowed her to differentiate them.

Post Herrenvolk Mulder reflects on his experiences the past few days.

DBKate's (LJ) Things Bright and Green (LJ)

Scully tried to dissuade him at first, looking at the mute little clone of his sister with nothing but trepidation and undisguised horror. She stared at the girl as Mulder babbled something about drones and bees and dozens of language-deprived children living on a farm that the bounty hunter burnt down. Scully's head throbbed as he begged her for help, to save ... save ... whatever this was.

AU-- Herrenvolk Mulder and Scully go on the run, trying to keep a little Samantha clone alive and safe. Reality, however, doesn't jive with their aspirations.

Karen Rasch's Things Which Are Not

"This clone was created with certain higher neurological functions left . . . undeveloped."

"Undeveloped, how?"

"He does not feel pain," Crawford had explained. "He does not think, as you do. Does not reason or experience emotion. In some ways you might consider him a shell. A copy of your outside with nothing that makes you what and who you are within."

AU-- Pre-Gethsemane Kurt Crawford approaches Mulder with a foolproof but agonizing ruse: pretend to be dead in order to find a cure for Scully's cancer.

@writingwell/RocketMan (xffics)

Way I, Way II, Way III, Way IV, Way V, Way VI, Way VII, Way VIII, Way IX

Bubbles. Huge plastic encasements that housed one child each.

AU-- Post Redux II Samantha doesn't want Mulder in her life, Scully keeps having debilitating nightmares, and the dynamic duo might have stumbled across a warehouse of imprisoned clones.

Emilys, The 12 - Surprise and Emilys, The 13 - Tomorrow

Libby nodded and wiped at her eyes, holding up her finger painting.

Scully saw the paint and felt the blood drain from her body.

"What is this?" she said softly, fingering the paper.

"I saw him today."

AU-- Post Emily Mulder and Scully find another little child (bearing both their DNA); and take to the road, trying to carve out a life as a family.

Long Term Plans

"Gibson Praise. . .his body was found yesterday. . .but it shriveled. . .it was like those clones. Green. . .bubbling."

AU-- Post The Beginning Scully and Mulder have a necessary conversation (and more.)

Craven

The dream faded and she was once again in the whiteness of the White, the very center of everything in the world. This White was all she knew, all she had known since that night when she was six and the window was finally allowed to be open. White and white and then the pale darkness of her fingernails as she dug into her veins. The blood dropped open like spilling treasure on the floor and she watched it run.

She wanted to run. She had not really moved in a long long time. Maybe since she had been six, but that didn't seem right. Maybe she had just not moved today.

The doctors came in at once, cold and silent in their efficiency. They never spoke, and now, she no longer remembered how to speak. There was the White and silence and she only could hold on to one scrap of memory--color.

Scully and Mulder stumble across a secret project carried on miles below the ground: superhuman, stymied clones created from her DNA.

Rising Again

Within that small membrane, about the size of her cupped hands was a baby. A growing moving human embryo.

"What?" she whispered.

Mulder turned to her with his brows knitted closely together, tightly together, his eyes darker than the warm red darkness surrounding them.

"Your clone, Ms. Scully," CSM said with nonchalance.

Post Signs and Wonders Mulder is captured-- which turns out to be a good thing when he stumbles across child clones of himself and Scully.

Marguerite's (Gossamer) Immolation

"I broke her heart. I broke her spirit. She knew the truth all along, and I didn't believe her, and now she's dead..." He pulled himself to his feet, trembling, and went to the table in a few long strides. "Scully, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...Hear me, Scully...I'm sorry..." He took the bag into his arms and began to pull down the zipper.

"Fox! No!" Margaret screamed, horrified.

His hand froze as a gap appeared in the bag. There was a drip on the floor, and another.

AU-- The Red and the Black Scully is dead... or is she? Mulder and Bill Scully believe so; and chaos ensues.

Sarah Ellen Parsons's 180 Words - Samantha's Fate - Version 01

I look at them suspended in greenish liquid - my children.

AU-- Samantha was working with the Project all along.

@aloysiavirgata/Aloysia_Virgata’s (WBM, Gossamer, LJ, Alt. LJ) Singing of Mount Abora

“Theo’s a clone of her father.”

“It’s not possible,” she says, firm. “Theo was born in 1981, they didn’t even have embryonic clones until ‘84 and you’re talking somatic clones.”

AU-- Post Amor Fati Mulder and Scully are scrambling towards a stable relationship (and possibly trying, again, to build a literal and figurative life together) while investigating a case assigned to them by A.D. Kersh and Senator Matheson.

Shoshana's Another Child

It wasn't concealment. She had no idea I had asked the boys to practice their best 'kung fu,' get any leads they could about possible siblings of Emily. What she didn't know couldn't hurt her and that extended to anything, anything I didn't want to tell her of them. The agony she'd gone through almost two years ago was enough. I'd promised her shortly afterward that I'd never hide any truths about her own body, her own physiology again. I didn't promise that I'd reveal the whereabouts of her other children.

AU-- Season 7 Scully must make her peace with knowing another little Emily is living in the world, happily, with her own family.

Zuffy's (tripod, Gossamer) The Coriolis Effect (Gossamer)

His theories still dazzled, she countered with facts, he nodded quietly. This is not their game.

His voice has changed. She hasn't once heard Samantha in his speech. She hasn't heard her own abduction or the cancer or his father's death or her sister's or his mother's suicide or any of the other subterranean layers that make him catch and rasp in the middle of a phrase. She'd searched his place for Valium and Prozac and Zoloft and come up dry.

AU-- This Is Not Happening Mulder is returned after three months. Scully, however, is never quite sure everything adds up.

ML/ML_is_me/ml_griffonnage's (Alt. Ao3, Invidiosa)

155 Words - Dermatology

He flinched at the needle.

It took only moments. The blemish was small. The scrapings went into a specimen case. I dabbed the small amount of blood welling at the site.

Post Three Words Mulder can't seem to reconnect to life, afraid everything's too easy.

Tesla's (Gossamer) After the Ship (WBM)

At one point, when Leatherface was chasing Sally, Mulder wondered: How would he know if he _wasn't_ a clone?

~~~~~

He said as much to Frank Black, over really good coffee in a doughnut shop in Quantico.

The other man's expression didn't change- it rarely did----but he blinked.

Post Three Words Mulder is disconnected, afraid he's a clone.

@agent-troi/AgentTroi's Revenant (Ao3)

She watched him use his hand in a karate chop-like move to slice the head off one of the doctors who had been overseeing his care before turning to face her… and then he stopped.

AU-- Post Deadalive Mulder is terrified when he turns into a SuperSolider.

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[lilydalexf]

Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted every Tuesday.

Interview with Sarah Ellen Parsons

Sarah Ellen Parsons has 18 X-Files stories at Gossamer and 19 at AO3. If you want high quality fic with interesting characters, go read her stories. Some of my favorites of her fics are The Crouching Thing and My Constant Touchstone Who Makes Me A Whole Person (which are two very different stories!). Big thanks to Sarah Ellen for doing this interview.

Does it surprise you that people are still interested in reading your X-Files fanfics and others that were posted during the original run of the show (1993-2002)?

With today's binge-watching culture, I'm not at all surprised. You can watch a bunch of eps and then seek out fic that is where you are in the series.

What do you think of when you think about your X-Files fandom experience? What did you take away from it?

I took away a writer's group Yes, Virginia, that is still together.  Mostly as friends, but whenever I write something, or someone else writes something, it's the first place we all run for machete beta. I have betad SO MANY novels.

We have a number of folks who are published writers since then and our time in X-Files fic brought us lifelong friendships IRL and made us all better at our craft. The majority of those folks were better writers than I am. And I make my living as a writer in my day-job.

Social media didn't really exist during the show's original run. How were you most involved with the X-Files online (atxc, message board, email mailing list, etc.)?

I belonged to a couple of the largest lists and posted there and bitched about the show on usenet with everyone else.  We had our own Yahoo group for beta.  We all had crappy GeoCities websites that we programmed the HTML for ourselves and hooked through various fandom link circles to get traffic to our stories.  But the main method of distribution was the lists.

Fun fact, I found a free page counter thing that I used at work one time through fandom. So fandom pays off in skillz.

Even without social media, we managed to get our stories in front of readers who would enjoy them. Where there's a will, there's always someone ready to step up and find a way.

What did you take away from your experience with X-Files fic or with the fandom in general?

Again, I have lifelong friends IRL that I got solely from fanfiction. That's the best takeaway.

Fandom disappointed me because it, like everything else, is ruined by people's egos, backstabbing, and petty people who get in positions of power and then use those positions to punch down or dictate. I was young when I was writing X-Files and I still had hope that people would rise to their better natures, so I got involved in various futile efforts to try to make people behave the way I wanted them to behave, I guess. I did a lot of public bitching that didn't serve me or my friends well. I now put that effort into politics, where it does actual good.

What was it that got you hooked on the X-Files as a show?

X-files was made for me. It combined science fiction, mystery, horror.  I love all of those genres. Plus there was Scully. No matter how sexist that writer's room was, Scully was awesome. But you kept seeing bad writing. Even in the heyday seasons, like Season 3, there were really terrible eps that made you want to fix things.

I'm a lifelong speculative fiction fan and a published feminist science fiction author. I actually was published before I fell down the fic hole. I got involved in fanfic due to getting my fantasy novel turned down from every major publisher for being "too dark". And I needed to get readers to see my stuff to prove to myself that I wasn't terrible at writing. I got a ton of feedback and it was like market research to see what people wanted to read.

My time in fanfiction made me 100% a better writer than I was.

What got you involved with X-Files fanfic?

I went to the X-Files Expo to see if I could make contact with someone from Harper Collins because the tie-in novels sucked so hard.  I got rejected with my pitch as I didn't have a literary agent.

Around that time, a pal who I watched X-Files with IRL was looking for a free X-files wallpaper for her work computer when she found the website where fans in Pennsylvania had fic archived. She read some and wrote to me - "you need to see this, and you can do better."  So I started reading and was.... I probably CAN do better. So I wrote The Batman Plot. And made two friends I'm still friends with with that one story.

What is your relationship like now to X-Files fandom?

Nonexistent.  I couldn't even watch the latest season and I saw only 2 of season one of whatever that was before I gave up. I have never watched the second movie.

X-files is my first fandom bad ex-husband. I loved it SO MUCH, but it betrayed me.

Were you involved with any fandoms after the X-Files? If so, what was it like compared to X-Files?

I was deep into Harry Potter for a while, but I didn't end up publishing anything in it. All my stories were novel-length and I was writing so much for work, I never completed anything. I called Snape/Lily when Prisoner of Azkaban was published and got Jossed by Rowling in one of my big ideas. (This is bad fandom ex-husband 2. JKR will never get a dime of money from me again because of her hateful stance on transfolk. I have RL friends who are trans and NO.)

I wrote fic in Supernatural. It was the obvious next thing after X-Files. However, the misogyny and bringing in all the Angel/Devil Christofascist stuff lost me. The ep where they declared all other religions other than Christianity as invalid and killed a Hindu god made me stop watching for good. I know enough Christofascists IRL that I can't tolerate it in my fiction. (Bad fandom ex-husband 3)

Who are some of your favorite fictional characters? Why?

This list is far too long to actually make.  But characters I spent time writing about include: Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Co. (I wrote three unpublished Star Trek novels before I found online fandom). King Arthur and Morgan Le Fay, Sherlock Holmes (I wrote a Sherlock Holmes play after seeing "Crucifer of Blood" and entered it in a national competition, where I got very nice comments back.), Mulder, Scully and Krycek, Rowling's Hermione and Snape (like him or not, its masterful characterization), Dean and Sam Winchester, John Winchester and Bobby Singer.  I wrote one comedy story starring Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  A couple of Roswell stories under a different name. Catwoman and Batman. I have some unpublished Avengers fanfic lying around as I'm an OG Marvel fan with a massive comic collection.

Do you ever still watch The X-Files or think about Mulder and Scully?

I was on a business trip a few years ago and FX had a marathon and I watched part of it when I was in my hotel room. Early seasons are comforting, but I don't go back there now.

Do you ever still read X-Files fic? Fic in another fandom?

I don't read X-Files fic anymore. I read a tiny bit of Star Wars after the second movie because Rian Johnson had it right. Now I don't care. I love Mandalorian, but am content to watch.

Do you have any favorite X-Files fanfic stories or authors?

Too many to count.  All of YV. Which reminds me, I need to go update our entry at Fanlore. I promised Punk I'd do it a while back.  I need to at least get everyone linked.  Right now it's only Punk and Sab.

But it was a ton of us.  Marasmus, Maria Nicole, Cofax, CazQ, M. Sebasky, Livia Balaban, Kelly Keil, Wen, Ropobop, Jess Mabe, JET, fialka, and a bunch of others that I can't remember their fic names any more, just their real names because I know them all IRL. I need to go back and look up their fic names and link them up there.

In addition to my little group of pals, I loved reading Mustang Sally and Rivka T, Rachel Anton - I keep trying to find her to encourage her to write romance if she's not doing it already, but no dice, Dasha K., Anjou, there were so many great ones, but their names have slipped my mind in the past 20 years.

What is your favorite of your own fics, X-Files and/or otherwise?

I'm most known for Prone, and I'm proud of that story for all kinds of reasons, but I think my very best is The Crouching Thing.

I mostly didn't publish anything I didn't think was good and hadn't been machete betaed within an inch of its life, but I'm not sure much of the angsty romance stuff holds up as well. I think it worked when the show was still ON and we were all in that emotional headspace, but probably not now.

Do you think you'll ever write another X-Files story? Or dust off and post an oldie that for whatever reason never made it online?

Funny you ask. I am currently reworking a plot idea I had for an X-Files fic into a contemporary M/M novel, which I will publish under a different pen-name. The plot is the idea I had for X-Files, the characters are very, very different other than one is uptight and the other more easy-going. But no more Mulder and Scully.

Do you still write fic now? Or other creative work?

I have been making my living as a writer for 25 years. I write the word count equivalent of 5 Tolkein novels a year, just for my day-job.  I am turning back to original fiction, which is where I was before X-Files.  I'm working on the M/M thing, a high fantasy thing, a low fantasy historical thing and a bunch of M/F Regency romances as I get time and energy.  I publish Fantasy and SF under my real name. Romance has pen names as you don't want that getting back to your workplace, either.

SEP is fic only and here she will stay.

Where do you get ideas for stories?

I have too many ideas to count.  I try to write them down when they come, so I won't forget. At least the outline of the idea. Often a scene. I've been like this my entire life. I started writing novels seriously at 15. I wrote a 500 plus page one about Morgan Le Fay during breaks in high school because "Mists of Avalon" pissed me off so bad as I'd read the original source material and that was a Wicca recruitment polemic.

What's the story behind your pen name?

Sarah Ellen was my great-grandma, Parsons was her grandma's last name.

Do your friends and family know about your fic and, if so, what have been their reactions?

Half my friends ARE fic friends. Most of my friends know as does my brother, who thinks writing for free is dumb. This is universally agreed on by non-fic friends who know. My mother still doesn't know about the fic. Just the "real" writing.  I write under a pen name to keep it away from my job and my published work.

Is there a place online (tumblr, twitter, AO3, etc.) where people can find you and/or your stories now?

My X-files stuff is up on Gossamer mostly. I'm trying to get the stories all moved to AO3 for all the genres. I'm working on this now.  SEP is really not a living thing anymore, but there was a time when she was more me than me.

If you want to find my "real" non-fic writing, write to me at se_parsons at yahoo dot com and I will point you at it.

And PLEASE someone, hunt down Rachel Anton and get her writing something we all can BUY.  Where are my old Krycek bitches at?  Do any of you know where she is? [Lilydale note: I’ve tried contacting Rachel Anton for this Old School X project but have not had luck. I would love to find her too!]

Is there anything else you'd like to share with fans of X-Files fic?

The community I loved has mostly moved on, but I think we left a legacy of solid work crafted out of our love for the show.  Find a living community you love for a show you love.  There are great people out there creating and get involved.  It will be worth it.

(Posted by Lilydale on December 15, 2020)

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Editor’s Pick Wednesday

Okay, after yesterday’s rec, we thought we needed to bring you something to make you chuckle.  Laugh out loud.  Maybe even guffaw.  Because let’s face it, guys, the prose some of the writers (*cough, Chris Carter, cough, cough*) came up with sometimes for these two to actually say to one another is so...cringeworthy.  

Really, we have David and Gillian to thank profusely for making the majority of that dialogue palatable.  Give them alllllll the awards, seriously.  Because on the page, that writing was seriously purple; massive side-eye emoji at Season 10 specifically.  

So when we stumbled across today’s fic, it made us giggle out loud as we were reading it because it highlights how ridiculous and melodramatic so much of what our beloved ship says to one another actually is.  

We hope you have your tongue planted firmly in your cheek for this one.  

Title: My Constant My Touchstone Who Makes Me A Whole Person

Author:  Sarah Ellen Parsons

Rating:  PG

Length:  3K / 1500+ Word Count

Synopsis:    Mulder muses about Scully.

Spoilers:  Biogenesis, The Sixth Extinction, All of pop and classical culture.

Possible Triggers:  None

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𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱 𝔂'𝓪𝓵𝓵 🏳️‍🌈

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“In theory, Victorians concerned with troublesome issues on the margins of respectable fiction for girls could deal with them within the family reading circle. Reading aloud was perhaps the most common domestic entertainment within the Victorian family, used as reward, improvement, or therapy for life’s challenges. The sisters taking turns reading to accompany their needlework, the matron at the sickbed, the daughter reading to her father at the end of a business day—there were myriad arenas in which families used reading to ease, amuse, and instruct.

At its most basic, reading aloud enabled the sharing of resources (a book, or a fresh installment of a periodical) among many. But beyond that, it was a profoundly social way of responding to the lessons of history, current fiction, or poetry. The critic Andrew Blake suggests that the novel, in particular, was ‘‘a most important point of contact between the public and the private’’ because ‘‘it gave people a chance to discuss domestic ideology in public without touching on domestic secrets.’’ The semipublic sphere that was the family circle provided an important venue for the discussion of reading. Within this context, instruction in morality could be accomplished informally, gently, impersonally, with reference to fictional characters rather than through direct criticism and rebuttal.

The convention of the family reading circle generally restricted polite novels from treating illicit sexuality or immoral characters, but if any lapses occurred, the family circle could deal with them most effectively. Thus Elizabeth Gaskell said of her own novel Ruth, which features an orphan who has been seduced by an aristocrat: ‘‘Of course it is a prohibited book in this, as in many other households.’’ The one circumstance that would change its unsuitability for young people, she opined, was if it was ‘‘read with someone older,’’ perhaps with an older female relative within a family reading group.

The kind of family conversation which could improve all who participated was explained by Sarah Browne in a private diary in 1859. ‘‘Albert brings [Harriet Beecher Stowe’s] the Minister’s Wooing. We sit quietly and hear how James is brought back to the living, we calmly rejoice with Mary, plan and maneuver with Miss Pressy, call Parson Hopkins in very truth a Christian and wind up the evening by wishing to see Mrs. Stowe, knowing how she would seem and if she would talk at all, like other women.’’

Albert Browne Sr. was generally the reader in the Browne family, sometimes of ‘‘superior articles in the Atlantic Monthly.’’ In these moments of quiet, Sarah Browne most idealized her shared family life, ‘‘sitting as we do in our little western chamber, Father, Alice and I storing in the rich thoughts of others as a life element of our own.’’Reading aloud enabled a submersion of family tensions in a focus outward on the problems of others.

The idealization of the shared reading experience suggested stylized familial communion to daughters as well as parents. During the final days of the Civil War, as she anticipated her own marriage, Helen Hart thought to memorialize the evenings reading aloud together. ‘‘I think I never enjoyed evenings more in my life. First Bertie reads, then Hady, and then Mother and I; from History, Shakespeare, the Atlantic, and other miscellany. Such peaceful, happy winter evenings at home! Something for us to look back upon in after years when we are scattered. I have treasured up each one as it passed, as a sweet and sacred memory.’’ The pleasure came from the contrast between ‘‘our quiet harbor’’ and ‘‘the world with its commotions, its struggles.’’

Never did home seem so secure and safe as when implicitly contrasted with the adventures and misfortunes of fictional characters, warring nations, or past princes. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s biographer noted that Charlotte and her destitute and emotionally distant mother were at their best when reading aloud to each other, their fraught intimacy dissolved in their shared focus on the lives and feelings of others. Those moments of community might even be resurrected by rereading books so experienced. (‘‘It seems as if we were gathered around the nursery fire again. I can almost hear Aunt Mary’s voice.’’) The pleasures of reading aloud were those of reading mediated—reading mediated by the fiction of shared purpose.

Reading aloud did not have a single simple meaning, however, nor did it model only one kind of power relationship. The Browne family’s shared reading was patriarchal, with father reading and other family members (according to the hardly impartial mother) celebrating familial harmony. Alice Stone Blackwell, in her irreverent and spritely diary, offered another example of paternal reading aloud, lightly satirizing her father, the noted reformer and women’s rights advocate Henry Blackwell:

‘‘Papa sat with his feet on the top of the stove, saturated with laziness, and rated me for enjoying stories [fiction], and formed plans to give me a taste for instructive literature, and ended by making me bring Plutarch’s Lives, and beginning to read them aloud.’’ This depiction of a well-respected father indulging in playful tyranny of his only child suggests a quite different emotional shading—if a similar actual structure—to the idealized portraits of patriarchal reading circles.

Daughters also read on their own, though, and given the risks of immoral reading and the gains from uplifting reading, good parents attempted to mon- itor what they read. The goal in choosing reading, as in all the lessons of character, was to instruct gently and surely so as to encourage daughters to make familial lessons their own. Advice to parents ranged from the relatively cut and dried—‘‘Parents should choose the books that their children read until the age of 15’’—to the more subtle: ‘‘Wise parents put so many good books in the way of their children that the taste for them is formed unconsciously, and there is never any feeling of restraint.’’ (The latter piece of advice, made in 1901, was clearly advice for the book-wealthy.)

Ellen Emerson’s correspondence with her mother while away at boarding school suggested the appropriate supervisory relationship of parents over girls’ reading. Explaining that she was reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, which she found ‘‘a very funny book,’’ she went on, ‘‘I never read any that I am not sure you would be willing to have me,’’ and recorded her assumption that Scott, Gaskell, and several others were ‘‘not forbidden.’’ She went on to query, ‘‘May I read [Margaret Oliphant’s] ‘Head of the Family’?’’ Middle-class or elite parents who participated in genteel Victorian culture assumed an important role in controlling the reading of their daughters—its quantity, its contents, and its circumstances.

In the elite midwestern Hamilton family, a family with a strong and eclectic reading tradition, novels were doled out prudently like candies during vacations from school, so as not to interfere with schoolwork. When her daughter was fifteen, Phoebe Hamilton gave her ‘‘Ivanhoe for my holiday reading, she always gives me one of Scott every vacation.’’ The next year her mother was more liberal, providing Scott’s Quentin Durward for a Christmas book and giving permission for the reading of Dickens’s Little Dorrit and Jemima Tautphoeus’s The Initials. As January arrived, Agnes lamented, ‘‘I have finished the latter but I am afraid as I go back to school next Monday I shall have to let Little Dorrit wait till summer.’’

There was a hierarchy within Hamilton family reading, and despite her voraciousness, Agnes felt that her tastes fell short of her family’s preferences. ‘‘Oh! why haven’t I the love of learning of the family?’’ She indicated what was expected in her next breath: ‘‘Knight’s England vol. III has been read all but two chapters since last fall and during two months I have read but four books of the Odyssey.’’ She forced herself to be realistic. ‘‘During this next week [probably a school vacation] I want [to] finish half a dozen or more books which I have begun but I dare say the novels are the only ones that will be looked much in.’’

Like the Hamilton reading regimen, other family routines, too, involved matters of both quality and quantity. There were appropriate ages for the reading of different books. At fifteen, Margaret Tileston wanted to read George Macdonald’s Alec Forbes of Howglen, an homage to the dignity of Scots country life. The author was certainly approved, but Margaret’s mother didn’t want her to read the book ‘‘yet.’’

At eighteen, Margaret was still reading under adult scrutiny. Sick at home she was ‘‘allowed’’ to read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, considered excessively charged for young girls, and polished off 340 pages on the first day. Reading was one way of being inducted into family ideology; when Margaret reread Pilgrim’s Progress in 1883, she was conscious that she was reading a book that had been important to her mother when she was young.”

- Jane H. Hunter, “Reading and the Development of Taste.” in How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

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In Honor of Pride Month here’s a list of out and proud LGBTQ+ Celebs

1) Nicole Maines

2) Demi Lovato

3) Colton Haynes

4) Miley Cyrus

5 & 6) David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris

7 & 8) Ellen Degeneres & Portia De Rossi

9) Hayley Kiyoko

10 & 11) Matt Dallas & Blue Hamilton (ft their son Crow)

12 & 13)  Cara Delevingne & Ashley Benson

14 & 15) Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor

16) Rosie O’Donnell

17) Sara Gilbert

18) Maisie Richardson-Sellers

19) Lady Gaga

20) Elton John

21) Elliot Fletcher

22) Bex Taylor-Klaus

23 & 24) Cheyenne Jackson & Jason Landau

25) Zachary Quinto

26) Matt Bomer

27) Chaz Bono

28) Billy Eicher

29) Ross Matthews

30 & 31) Stephanie Allynne & Tig Notaro

32) Laverne Cox

33) Rowan Blanchard

34) Halsey

35) Keiynan Lonsdale

36) B.D. Wong

37) George Takei

38 & 39) Teddy Geiger and Emily Hampshire

40) Lauren Jauregui

41) Caitlyn Jenner

42) Stephanie Beatriz

43) Freddie Mercury

44) Anderson Cooper

45 & 46) Tegan & Sara

47 & 48) Jaymes Vaughan & Jonathan Bennett

49 & 50) Ruby Rose & Jessica Origliasso

51) Shane Dawson

52 & 53) Rose Ellen Dix & Rosie Spaughton

54) Tessa Thompson

55) Drew Barrymore

56) Danny Pintauro

57) Alyson Stoner

58) Raven Symone

59) Sara Ramirez

60) Shannon Beveridge

61) Jodie Foster

62) Ellen Page

63) Jane Lynch

64) Wentworth Miller

65) Amber Heard

66) Jim Parsons

67) Victor Garber

68) Michelle Rodriguez

69) Cynthia Nixon

70) Alan Cumming

71) Ricky Martin

72) Wanda Sykes

73) Billie Joe Armstrong

74) Samira Wiley

75) Melissa Eheridge

76) David Hyde Pierce

77) Heather Matarazzo

78) Charlie Carver

79) Angelina Jolie

80) John Barrowman

81) Robin Roberts

82)  Michael J. Willett

83) Frank Ocean

84) Clay Aiken

85) Kristen Stewart

86) Robert Gant

87) Wilson Cruz

88) Rupaul

89) Lily Tomlin

90) Sandra Bernhard

91) Megan Fox

92) Vanessa Carlton

93) Chris Colfer

94) Lance Bass

95) Jesse Tyler Gerguson

96) Stephen Fry

97) John Glover

98) Sean Hayes

99) Ian McKellan

100) Brendon Urie

101) Denis O’Hare

102) Adam Lambert

103) Nathan Lane

104) Eric Millegan

105) Adamo Ruggiero

106) Amandla Stenberg

107) Garrett Clayton

108) Janelle Monae

109) Kevin McHale

110) Paris Jackson

111) Kate McKinnon

112) Ke$ha 

113) Aubrey Plaza

114) Fergie

115) Anna Paquin

116) Aaron Carter

117) Kristian Nairn

118) Jake Zyrus

119) Bella Thorne

120) Mara Wilson

121) Sam Smith

122) Ezra Miller

123) Ian Alexander

124) Lachlan Watson

125) Jeffree Starr

126) Sophie Turner

127) Evan Rachel Wood

128) Thomas Sanders

129) Lilly Singh

130) Emilie Autumn

131) Janeane Gerofalo

132) Gillian Anderson

133) Wallis Day

134) Andrew Rannells

135) Billy Porter

136) Laura Jane Grace

137) Michael D. Cohen

138) Rachel Maddow

139) Lea DeLaria

sorry for the long af post but i wanted to include as many as possible

Please feel free to add whoever I missed :)

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The Golden Globes nominations are out and...

When my faves aren’t nominated, or when the nominees deviate from what has been the norm throughout awards season it’s clownery of the highest Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey order. 

SHOCKS - No nomination for Delroy Lindo despite him dominating in Best Actor category in many circles.  Same with Paul Raci (SOUND OF MUSIC), Kingsley Ben-Adir (ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI), Zendaya (EUPHORIA, MALCOLM & MARIE), castmembers of FARGO and Ellen Burstyn (PIECES OF A WOMAN). No nomination for MINARI’s  Yuh-Jung Youn.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association did not nominate EUROVISON SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA in Comedy/Musical or Best Song. 

Pleasant shock? That these three guys are nominated at the same time. 

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy Emily in Paris The Flight Attendant The Great Schitt’s Creek Ted Lasso”

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV – Drama Jason Bateman Josh O’Connor Bob Odenkirk Al Pacino Matthew Rhys

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Cate Blanchett Daisy Edgar-Jones Nicole Kidman Anya Taylor-Joy

Shira Haas (she and costar Amit Rahav are nominated for a Spirit award and their other costar Jeff Wilbusch was nominated for an International Press Award)

  Best Director – Motion Picture Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) David Fincher, “Mank” Regina King, “One Night in Miami” Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) Kate Hudson (“Music”) Michelle Pfeiffer (“French Exit”) Rosamund Pike (“I Care a Lot”) Anya Taylor-Joy (“Emma”)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”) 

Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”) Gary Oldman (“Mank”) Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”) Chadwick Boseman (”Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”)

Best Television Series – Drama The Crown Lovecraft Country The Mandalorian Ozark Ratched

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Olivia Colman (“The Crown”) Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”) Emma Corrin (“The Crown”) Laura Linney (“Ozark”) Sarah Paulson (“Ratched”)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV

Bryan Cranston (“Your Honor”) Jeff Daniels (“The Comey Rule”) Hugh Grant (“The Undoing”) Mark Ruffalo (“I Know This Much Is True”)

Ethan Hawke (“The Good Lord Bird”)

  Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)

  James Corden (“The Prom”) Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton”) Andy Samberg (“Palm Springs”)

Dev Patel (“The Personal History of David Copperfield”)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”)

  Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”) Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”) Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”)

Best Motion Picture – Drama The Father Mank Promising Young Woman The Trial of the Chicago 7

Nomadland

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”) Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) Bill Murray (“On the Rocks”) Leslie Odom, Jr. (“One Night in Miami”)

Jared Leto (“The Little Things”)

  Best Original Score – Motion Picture The Midnight Sky – Alexandre Desplat Tenet – Ludwig Göransson News of the World – James Newton Howard Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Lily Collins (“Emily in Paris”) Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”) Jane Levy (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”)

Elle Fanning (”The Great”)

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Normal People The Queen’s Gambit Small Axe The Undoing Unorthodox

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV John Boyega (“Small Axe”) Brendan Gleeson (“The Comey Rule”) Dan Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”) Jim Parsons (“Hollywood”) Donald Sutherland (“The Undoing”)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Hamilton Palm Springs Music The Prom

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”) Olivia Colman (“The Father”) Jodie Foster (“The Mauritanian”) Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) Helena Zengel (“News of the World”)

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language La Llorona The Life Ahead Minari Two of Us

Another Round / Druk

  Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Promising Young Woman Mank The Trial of the Chicago 7 The Father Nomadland

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Don Cheadle Nicholas Hoult Eugene Levy Jason Sudeikis Ramy Youssef

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV  Gillian Anderson Helena Bonham Carter Julia Garner Annie Murphy Cynthia Nixon

Best Original Song – Motion Picture “Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah” – H.E.R., Dernst Emile II, Tiara Thomas

“Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7” – Daniel Pemberton, Celeste

“Io Si (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead”  Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi

“Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami” – Leslie Odom Jr, Sam Ashworth

“Tigress & Tweed” from “The United States vs. Billie Holliday”

Best Motion Picture – Animated The Croods: A New Age Onward Over the Moon Soul Wolfwalkers

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Sorry this is so long......How TV Creators Are Handling Subtext And Shipping

TV series creators have a hard time not tailoring content towards a strictly heteronormative audience, refusing to lean in to queer context, no matter howlarge an LGBTQ following a show may have.

Once a fictional character is put out for public consumption, it ceases to be the one thing it’s described as on paper. This is especially the case with TV and film, where said character goes through so many hands before hitting the screen and becoming public property.

There are three kinds of creators when it comes to queer content on TV. The first (and sadly, most typical) is the creator who will deny any intention of creating queer content, and who will also refuse to acknowledge a queer audience’s interpretation., This often results in an instant backlash, as the Supergirlcast and creators experienced after an embarrassing interview with MTV last summer. When prompted to recap the latest season, the cast broke into a cringeworthy song that mocked fans’ interest in the Supergirl/Lena Luthor pairing, with Jeremy Jordan repeatedly exclaiming that the two will never get together. It continued despite Katie McGrath’s attempt to save the interview saying, “The great thing about what we do is, like any art, anyone can read into it what they want.” Chris Wood then chimed in with “Sexuality is all about others’ perception of yours, right?”

Supergirl is a show with a large female following that from the beginning has gravitated toward the female relationships it portrays, with emphasis on those relationships with strong queer energy. At first, there was a group of internet fans that were drawn to the chemistry between Melissa Benoist and Calista Flockhart, which was maximized due to the characters’ intense mentor/mentee relationship, and that was fine, and for the most part went unacknowledged by the show.

However, upon Flockhart’s exit, Lena Luthor was introduced, played by Katie McGrath. Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor became fast friends, and fans’ fascination with Supergirl’s queer vibes grew strong enough for the the cast to take notice. One would think that by having Alex Danvers and Maggie Sawyer, two queer characters already in their orbit, fan speculation about others wouldn’t be such an inconvenience that it would have to be addressed by aggressively singing “They’re only friends!” over and over, as if the pairing were unfathomable.

But Supergirl hasn’t been the only show to outright reject queer interpretations. In fact, a few years back, the long-running series Supernatural was called out by its fans for purposefully inserting homoerotic subtext within storylines pertaining to male characters Dean and Castiel, and for rather indirectly addressing said subtext in interviews. In one of them, Misha Collins (Castiel) stated that in certain scenes with Jensen Ackles (Dean) he was directed to portray his character as a “jilted lover.”

During a Toronto Con panel in 2013, it was revealed that a line was changed by Ackles — who last year specifically requested no questions about the popular pairing be allowed during the Q portion of a panel for the show at New Jersey Con–from “I love you” to “We’re family. I need you” because the Actor didn’t think it suited his character. Despite fandom’s interest in the pairing, it hasn’t been enough for Supernaturalto follow through with an actual queer storyline, aside from the one recurring lesbian character, Charlie, who was ultimately killed off. It turns out our tolerance for queerbaiting does have its limits.

Another show that failed to address the sapphic energy between its leads, in effect rejecting a great opportunity to add a bonus layer to an already complex relationship between two women, was Damages. The thriller starred Glenn Close as powerhouse prosecutor Patty Hewes, and Rose Byrne as her protégée, Ellen Parsons. The series went on for five seasons and throughout, though it benefitted from incredible writing, its highlight was clearly the tension and undecipherable relationship between Patty and Ellen.

While there was never any doubt that their connection was what kept the the show’s palpable tension dial at a 10, anytime the subject was brought up to either cast or creators it was denied or waved off as “wishful thinking,” as Glenn Close put it. When pressed further, she added, “I think there’s something seductive about Patty and she just seduces people and she’ll lead people on. I think that can come across as pure seduction.”

With Person of Interest, Sameen Shaw (Sarah Shahi) and Root (Amy Acker) first connected under very unique, very dark circumstances in which one was holding the other against their will in a life threatening situation. But there was a sizzle there that the audience immediately responded to, and while both cast and writers admitted that was not their intention, something amazing happenedthey took that audience reaction and ran with it. In the end, Shaw and Root’s romance became one of the show’s more compelling storylines.

Jane the Virgin did the same. When a character, Petra, who wasn’t intentionally written as queer read queer to LGBTQ viewers, the writers saw no problem taking the interpretation and adopting it as canon. After years of keeping Petra as a sort of peripheral player within Jane/Rafael storylines, the character of Jane Ramos was introduced as Petra’s defense attorney and eventual love interest.

The third type of creator is everyone’s favorite. This is the one that takes whatever gay subtext or context there is, embraces it, and expands upon it, recognizing that it’s there from the beginning. In the Flesh and Killing Eve are true representatives of queer entertainment that isn’t trying to steer its characters toward a path they weren’t organically wanting to go.

In the Flesh, a BAFTA-award winning series from BBC 3, was easily one of the best shows that no one watched; a zombie show with depth, which isn’t easy to accomplish. The story takes place years after a virus epidemic that turned the infected into flesh-eating monsters is cured, and the rehabilitated are returning home. Its main character is Luke, one of the former infected, suffering from memories of the terrible things he did while sick, and tortured by his own suicide, which was prompted by the loss of love interest, Rick.

The series ran for only two seasons, with a total of nine episodes. It was inventive and creative and stands as one of the greats right next to shows like Hannibal and The Exorcist, which was unfortunately canceled by Fox this year after only two seasons of sacrilege, beautiful cinematography, Alfonso Herrera (Sense8) and a bisexual Father Marcus, played by Ben Daniels.

Killing Eve is a female-led thriller that proves that the secret to making great TV is treating characters like human beings with the capacity to change. Eve, who, when we meet her, is living a life that doesn’t seem particularly terrible, whose marriage appears to be solid, her job secure, is lured into potentially life threatening situations for the sake of following her inexplicable attraction to a female assassin. As if beneath the surface there is a dormant unrest that is awakened with the arrival of Villanelle in her life, and though she does not stop to examine exactly what she expects to get from it, she craves and wants more of these moments that have stirred her awake. She’s both excited and frightened by Villanelle’s audaciousness, by the intrusion into her life,

both figuratively and literally.

The season’s got a few episodes left, yet the most compelling, and most attentively queer moment is part of the fifth episode, in which the two women finally come face to face in Eve’s home. Eve is sopping wet in a gorgeous dress Villanelle’s purchased for her, she’s cold and visibly uncomfortable, therefore Villanelle suggests Eve should change, before proceeding to peel the dress off her herself. It is a scene that doesn’t downplay the very real danger Eve is in by having Villanelle in her home. However there is also an erotic aspect to it that is very purposeful, and as series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge points out, the attraction is definitely mutual, “I knew that the first moment they see each other. I labeled that moment as ‘love at first sight.’ But I didn’t want it to be constrained to romance, or to lust, or anything like that. There’s something waking in Eve every day that she spends imagining what this woman is doing.”

This type of storytelling allows characters to evolve the way that they want to evolve as opposed to forcing them into a first page description. There is loyalty to the authenticity of the story, which comes from meticulous attention paid to the writing, which Waller-Green explains is all about going against cliché: “The moment something feels predictable, there’s a roar in me to just go to the most surprising place. I don’t want to bore myself.”

Often times, when female queer characters are introduced, it is done in order to titillate, and their storylines are the product of a male gaze fantasy. Killing Eve manages to avoid all of that with Villanelle, a character who seems to have no specific preference when it comes to sexual partners, and yet doesn’t feel the need to use her sexuality to get what she wants. In addition to that and the meaty tension between the two leads (Villanelle and the titular Eve, played by Sandra Oh), the attention paid to the very queer theme of the show is evident in backstories of characters that would normally go without one, like that of Eve’s former boss and best friend Bill, an older man in a heterosexual relationship who casually reveals he’s loved “hundreds” of men, much to Eve’s surprise, and further reveals he is in an open relationship, and happily so.

The series proves not only that queer characters are marketablethe BBC series was renewed for a second season before the first even airedbut that straight creators are capable of writing queer content that isn’t offensive or over-sexualized. Phoebe Waller-Bridge credits the authenticity of the series to a collaborative effort, stating, “Because it’s all about the characters, the little details that link the two worlds, everyone’s really made it a psychological piece rather than just an artistic painting of two different people’s worlds,” but it really just goes to show that that negative aspects of queer representation that include the dreaded male gaze perspective can be avoided as long as the bar is set high enough by the showrunner.

It only takes a little bit of creativity and imagination, and a willingness to challenge the idea that heterosexual-based television makes for the best and most successful stories.

Alex Velazquez is a writer, photographer, and queer Mexican living in Los Angeles, CA.

[randomfoggytiger]

Collector's Edition: Samantha Mulder's (Many) Returns

In honor of anon's request: "I was wondering if you had any fic recommendations in which Mulder found Samantha? I'm having a hard time with closure ahah."

(Here are some previous Samantha fic lists:

Meet the Mulders    

Redux II Samantha Was Real

Little Samantha’s Life in Capture

A Tribute to Samantha's 50th Anniversary)

Loose chronological order below~

CANON-DIVERGENT

Pequod's Way Beyond Blue

He summoned up all the courage he'd ever had, or ever needed and walked into his future.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Mulder has a prophetic dream.

eponine119's

Odyssey

"I'm supposed to believe you did him a *favor* when you killed a little girl and - what, paid some workmen - to plant her scoured bones in that basement?" demanded Scully.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Scully is commanded by CSM not to tell Mulder that Samantha is dead.

Searching in Vain

Fingers moving through disturbed earth over bone. He couldn't look and yet he had to. The right size. The right injuries. Including that final, horrible one.

AU-- Mulder is suppressing the true nature of Samantha's twisted death.

Glimpse

The hours dissolved as he sat entranced, watching himself on videotape in situations where he knew he'd never been. A wedding. To Scully, a beautiful bride. Surprisingly, the tears didn't come when he saw Samantha on the tape, alive and grown and lovely. The tears came when he saw the children on video.

AU-- Mulder is shot into a horrific alternate universe where he gained (and lost) a happy ending.

@agent-troi's This Heart That I Misplaced

She looked just like the others… but something was missing. Something essential had been taken from her, and somehow that convinced him beyond any last shred of doubt that this was in fact his Samantha.

AU-- Pre-Closure nurse died saving Samantha's life; and her sacrifice kicks off the finale of Mulder's journey.

Justin Glasser's (xphilefic) Orrery

I don't remember a lot about where I was before I was here. I remember someplace else. There was water there, and I wasn't too warm all the time. And I remember that I miss it, but I don't know why. Here is okay, when there are no tests. Jeffrey lets me pet his dog.

AU-- Post Closure Mulder's happy ending is torn from him after Harold's son is found alive.

amorfati3215's The 5 Ads for If Samantha Was Found Alive

“My name is Claire,” she replies softly. “But I used to be called Samantha.”

AU-- Closure Scully tracks down the nurse who rescued and raised Samantha.

@all-these-ghosts's (Ao3) happily ever after

“She was married for a few years, but her husband passed away. Georgie and Lauren moved back in with me after. Lauren was just a baby when it happened.”

AU-- Closure Mulder and Samantha reunite.

DaynaFox's The Return of Samantha Mulder

“Are you another cop?” she asked him. “Did you find my Mom and Dad yet? They only went next store, to visit the Galbrands. Did you ask the Galbrands where they went?”

Samantha, the Galbrands have both been dead for over 15 years… Mulder thought as he gazed at her. 

AU-- Post Closure Mulder is given a call from the authorities: his sister is not dead; and has been returned, not a day older, with no memory of her disappearance.

AU

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls's

AU: The Mulders adopted Samantha instead of her being abducted.

Later on, he’s kind of glad he’s an only child.

What it says on the tin.

november 27, 1973

Her mother cries, pulls her into her lap and holds her tightly, says, “My baby, my baby,” over and over again. Samantha asks for cookies, and her mother takes her to the kitchen and pours her a glass of milk and stacks three cookies in front of her even though the rule is no more than 2 and not after bedtime. It’s past her bedtime, but she eats them anyway, has never remembered being this hungry.

Different endings to Samantha's abduction.

california winter

Fox gulped. He wanted to change his mind in that moment, but he heard Samantha and Jeffrey crying in the closet and he couldn't say a word. He had to be the brave big brother. He had to protect him.

Mulder and Samantha are both taken; and devise a plan of escape with little Jeffrey in tow.

X-Files Fictober: woman, socks, locker. setting: abandoned storage unit.

He turns and sees the girl, much younger than her with dark hair curling down her back, dressed in the same hospital gown as her. No shoes, just socks.

One Breath Scully escapes with Samantha.

Half-Light Universe

You have another chance to figure out what happened to Samantha. She may not be dead. All of it… you get another chance.

He wonders if it’s worth it.

Revival Mulder and Scully are shot back to those nine minutes they lost in the Pilot, with a chance to make everything-- or more things-- right.

@pilotinthestars's the holding-her-breath girl (Ao3)

It hit him then. She’d never been to this house, the one Teena had bought after the divorce in Connecticut.

Samantha is gone; Samantha is returned; and Samantha might not stay.

Erin M. Blair's

Turning Nine

"It's not your fault, Fox."

Samantha is returned from her abduction; and refuses to tell anyone except Mulder about her experiences.

Newfound Love

"I know," said Samantha as she took the photo from Scully. "I want to find him...."

Mulder, not Samantha, was abducted; and she and Scully (with the help of Deep Throat) help rescue him years later.

Discovery Of Samantha

"You look as though you had seen a ghost," Jennifer remarked, with a wry sense of humor.

Mulder and Scully are happily married (despite Diana's machinations); and find out one of their friends is Samantha.

@discordantwords's (Ao3) Lethe

She cannot remember the song, cannot remember her mother's name. But she remembers the sound of laughter, the red polka dots on her dress, bare toes in thick pile carpet.

Pre-One Breath Scully finds Samantha on the train car.

@i-gaze-at-scully's AU where the Samantha clone was actually the real Samatha

Mulder doesn’t attend the funeral. Can’t face his parents, can’t face the finality of two decades’ worth of his quest finally ending. Can’t face the 28 year old cold body of his 8 year old sister.

End Game Samantha wasn't a clone.

Mystic's

Misnomer

She watched them run test on her blood and her skin, they were exited by everything about her. She didn't understand.

X tells Mulder where to find Samantha... but, as always, nothing is ever clean-cut.

Secrets in the Forest

"Scully there's something you have to know about Kinnear. The night's are cold. I don't mean Washington D.C. cold, I mean cold." Samantha said accenting that last 'cold'.

Mulder and Scully inadvertently find Samantha while investigating a UFO case.

JLB's Lost and Found

"The test results determined that there is a match," she says quietly. "This is Samantha."

DNA confirms that one of Roche's victims was Samantha; and Scully tries to keep Mulder from falling completely apart.

@officialmulder/specialagentpao's broken hearts, paper hearts

It was going to be a snowy day. Mulder smiled to himself. Samantha liked snowy days. It was an excuse to stay in bed and drink hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows. They were allowed to do it once or twice a year.

Roche did kill Samantha; and Tena Mulder blames her son.

@slippinmickeys's

AU where Roche DID kill Samantha (Ao3)

In a photo in the lower right-hand corner, Samantha was posing with a brand new bike, dressed in a floral nightgown, the tree behind her covered in garish amounts of tinsel.

Post Memento Mori Mulder finds evidence that the last girl was Samantha, after all.

Livia Balaban's

180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version Four

And now a new lie. That she is my sister. I look into her unblinking Hazel gaze, and shake my head. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Redux II Samantha appears, again; but Mulder doesn't believe she's his sister.

Cunegund's Restoration I & II

Nine-year-old Samantha sits with us, another addition to our new family, and Krycek seems impossibly pleased with himself as he eats his own omelet with his right hand while he stirs his coffee with his left.

Post Requiem Mulder returns-- via the efforts of Krycek, TLG, and even Morris Fletcher-- with the abductees and his still young sister... right in time for his growing family to go into hiding.

Susanne Barringer's Thicker than Blood

Mulder stepped into the kitchen and immediately Samantha dropped Scully's hand. She shifted her position to put some distance between them, and her face turned hard.

Post Redux II Samantha appears again... and not for benevolent purposes.

Amy's Where Are You, China Blue?

"You're not listening."

"Yes, I am."

"Then stop it, Daddy. Just hear me out. I don't care anymore."

Post Redux II Samantha is sick and tired of CSM's games.

@writingwell/RocketMan's (xanadu) A Jerry Maguire Ending

"Why are you still here, Mulder? Your life long quest has ended. Samantha is back, and you know the reasons behind it, if not the purpose. What keeps you here?"

Post Redux II Samantha is incensed that her brother doesn't want to quit the files.

Susan Proto's

Familiar Faces

There was no doubt in his mind it was Samantha.

Or a clone.

Post Fight the Future Mulder and Scully see a Samantha lookalike; and Scully decides to do some investigating.

Miracles

"Fox, you're wrong. He can help your partner," Christeena attempted to convince. "He cured me, and he can cure Dana. Fox, I swear. I swear on your sister's life."

Scully is pregnant and in a coma, Maggie doesn't consider Mulder 'family', and Tena has known all along her daughter is still alive.

Jennifer Maurer's Perfect Gifts

"Yes. I have Agent Mulder's sister Samantha."

Scully makes a Christmas monkey paw deal for Samantha's return.

Lauren's (MC) The Return

The side profile of the child looked vaguely familiar. Mulder squinted his eyes to look closer. He suddenly felt the strength drain from his body as recognition registered for a brief minute.

Samantha is briefly returned; and CSM tries to use that to his advantage, luring Mulder into a death trap.

Sarah Ellen Parsons's 180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version One

I look at them suspended in greenish liquid - my children.

Samantha is a co-conspirator in the clone project.

Mish's Contact

His eyes swim with unshed tears but his words are steady. "I had the Gunmen search for her. Actually, she seems to be leading a pretty normal, happy life." His lips curve in a watery smile.

Post The Unnatural Mulder brings Scully to watch a little league baseball game; and has one more surprise in store for her.

@cecilysass's The Boy on the Beach (Ao3)

He recounted it like it was an exciting action tale, like it was a comic book, and Samantha just stared at him, gimlet-eyed. Maybe it was right to trust him to handle his own sister. Then again, he had a well-documented tendency to make reckless moves, even when he was in his thirties.

Post Amor Fati Scully is whisked back in time, resigning herself to being trapped in the past forever if she can save Samantha from being abducted.

@o6666666's (Ao3) What's your headcanon for if Samantha was found?

“I’m fine,” Scully calls to her, eyes still beating down on Pfaster. “I’m fine, Samantha!” But she is shaking from head to toe, teeth chattering as if her apartment’s cold. 

Scully, Mulder, and Samantha adjust to the latter's return, riding the ups and downs of Season 7 together.

 finisterre's The Tunnel at the End of the Light

It's her, the woman from the video, peering out of the door. I can only see the right half of her face in the murk of the room. I relax a little; this has to be the right place.

Samantha and her two sons escape, looking for Mulder's help-- not knowing he'd recently been abducted.

Gillian Leigh's (MC) Visitor in the Desert (MC)

"Samantha?" The woman stared at him without recognition for a moment, and then her own hazel eyes widened behind the simple frames of her glasses.

Season 9 Mulder is visited by his daughter from the future-- who helps him prevent William's adoption and reunites him with his sister (and Scully's brothers) in an underground colony.

Donna's After the Future

The atmosphere was nothing like when he had been a child. He could remember hiding in the loft with Samantha watching their parents fight or their father conspire against humankind.

Part II to a Colonization timeline, Scully barters for Samatha's life so Mulder (and their biological and adopted children) can be at peace.

@mldrgrl's Some Other Me

There’s a Fox Mulder whose sister wasn’t taken from him by aliens.  Instead, she died in a drowning accident at their summer home when she was four.

A series of AUs for Mulder, Scully, and Samantha.

@wexleresque/hellsteeth's the holidays linger like bad perfume (Ao3)

“I grew up here, my parents both still live here, but they’re separated. My sister…isn’t well. They share the responsibility of caring for her, and as they’ve gotten older, I’ve been trying to come back more often and help out.”

Mulder and Scully briefly meet on the Vineyard, and swap some intriguing family history.

Leni's Partnership

It had taken a year of partnership to learn about Mulder's little sister. 

Mulder is an author, penning out the stories he'd told his late sister growing up.

@swinging-stars-from-satellites's no but the concept of Samantha Mulder being returned to the world at 14

she wants to know her own history and what Changed Her and it worries her, gets her deep enough into her head — Mulders, conscious of it or not, have depressive, obsessive tendencies — that she finally tries regression hypnotherapy....

Samantha, amnesic and happily adopted, works tirelessly to learn about her old life.

Keri Gontarek's Reunited II

"Yes. And she's fine. A little weak--apparently, Krycek was pumping her full of morphine and other drugs, but she's recovering."

Scully is an FBI Director when Mulder rejoins her life. In part one, it's revealed they have a son. In part two, they find and rescue Samantha.

Taverl's Notes II

But he took it even worse than I had imagined, shutting himself off from anyone and everyone. Especially me. After seventeen years of friendship and almost eleven of marriage, I know Mulder too well not to realize that he never held me responsible for the fact that he didn't find Samantha until it was too late. It was his own innate and well-honed sense of guilt that made him hurl accusations at me; that made him blame me for not finding her it time to save her. That didn't make it hurt any less, though.

Mulder's marriage falls apart after finding his dead sister; and Scully (and Skinner) finds him, half dead, in the tub.

@dreamingofscully's Surely, to the sea (Ao3)

She sighed, then stepped forward and took one of his hands. “Years ago. Samantha.”

Mulder’s eyes dropped to the floor and his hand went limp in hers. Silence draped over them as he processed her words. She knew what he was thinking, because the same ideas flitted around her own mind. 

Samantha's mysterious illness is mentioned as part of a larger casefile (featuring married paranormal investigators Mulder and Scully.)

Medusa's Sandcastles

"Samantha?"

She smiled at him. The most beautiful smile he'd ever seen, bar one.

Mulder wakes from a coma, having dreamt the X-files as an entire, false life.

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[rockandspud]

Total Drama (USA Release Cast)

anonymous:

What if “Total Drama” series was in (USA release) in potential alternate universe cast? CAST: ----------------------------- Total Drama Series -----------------------------     •    Chris McLean: Ben Stiller     •    Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour     •    Alejandro: Antonio Banderas     •    Beth: Mila Kunis     •    Blaineley: Ellen DeGeneres     •    Bridgette: Moira Kelly     •    Cody: Nathan Lane     •    Courtney: Mae Whitman     •    DJ: Tracy Morgan     •    Duncan: Ben Schwartz     •    Eva: Jane Lynch     •    Ezekiel: Bill Farmer     •    Geoff: Cam Clarke     •    Gwen: Carla Gugino     •    Harold: Nicolas Cage     •    Heather: Reese Witherspoon     •    Izzy: Emma Stone     •    Justin: George Lopez     •    Katie: Mindy Kaling     •    LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith     •    Lindsay: Anna Kendrick     •    Noah: Jason Bateman     •    Owen: Zach Galifianakis     •    Sadie: Lisa Kudrow     •    Sierra: Amy Poehler     •    Trent: Elijah Wood     •    Tyler: Michael J. Fox Total Drama Revenge of the Island     •    Anne Maria: Loretta Devine     •    Brick: Simon Pegg     •    Cameron: Kevin Hart     •    Dakota: Jenny Slate     •    Dawn: Andrea Libman     •    Jo: Bonnie Hunt     •    Lightning: Chris Rock     •    Mike: John Leguizamo     •    Sam: Bill Fagerbakke     •    Scott: Alan Tudyk     •    Staci: Greta Gerwig     •    Zoey: Kristen Bell Total Drama Pahkitew Island     •    Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin     •    Beardo (speaking): David Oyelowo     •    Dave: Woody Allen     •    Ella: Rachel MacFarlane     •    Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o     •    Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard     •    Max: Steve Buscemi     •    Rodney: Brad Garrett     •    Scarlett: Drew Barrymore     •    Shawn: Channing Tatum     •    Sky: Leslie Mann     •    Sugar: Roseanne Barr     •    Topher: Nick Jonas ----------------------------- Total Drama Ridonculous Race ----------------------------- CAST:     •    Don: Louis C.K.          •    Brody: Gregg Berger     •    Carrie: Kristen Wiig     •    Chet: Josh Peck     •    Crimson: Scarlett Johansson     •    Devin: Matthew Broderick     •    Dwayne: Wallace Shawn     •    Ellody: Zendaya     •    Emma: Chloe Bennet     •    Ennui: Liam Neeson     •    Gerry: Jim Cummings     •    Jacques: Jim Parsons     •    Jay: Tom Holland     •    Jen: Anne Hathaway     •    Junior: Debi Derryberry     •    Josee: Allison Janney     •    Kelly: Jessie J     •    Kitty: Kimiko Glenn     •    Laurie: Alyssa Milano     •    Lorenzo: Drake Bell     •    MacArthur: Lake Bell     •    Mary: Maia Mitchell     •    Miles: Cheryl Hines     •    Mickey: Jesse Eisenberg     •    Pete: Tim Curry     •    Rock: Eric Idle     •    Ryan: Luis Guzmán     •    Sanders: Wanda Sykes     •    Stephanie: Zoë Kravitz     •    Spud: Barry Bostwick     •    Tammy: Katherine Heigl     •    Taylor: Sarah Silverman     •    Tom: Raymond Perri Any ask for comments and questions, just let me know about Voice Actors from “Total Drama Trilogy”. Feel free to do your own version.

[lilydalexf]

Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted on Tuesdays. Here is a recap of all the interviews posted so far. Read them all!

If you are an old school author, I’d love to interview you. Send me a message!

UPDATED Masterlist of Old School X interviews

aka “Jake” Audrey Roget Bonetree bugs Chimerical Circe Invidiosa Dawn Dawson E. Rambo Dreamshaper Elizabeth Rowandale Finn Jenna Tooms JET Jintian Lydia Bower Mara Marasmus Mary Ruth Keller MaybeAmanda Michelle Kiefer MustangSally nevdull Parrotfish Penumbra Piper Sargasso Rae Sarah Ellen Parsons Sheryl Martin Sophia Jirafe RivkaT Slippin’ Mickeys Syntax6 Tabula Rasa Vickie Moseley VivWiley

[anditjustmadeherkind]

INTJ 1: strong work ethic and high personal standards, which combine with a Ni-dom desire for a total perfect vision and inferior Se anxieties about not achieving that level of perfection in the real world when executed (which leads to procrastination and fear of beginning, because if they can’t have their perfect vision, they won’t take anything!). May tend to over-simplify complex morality into rigid black and white guidelines. (x) 

Example: Ellen Parsons from Damages (x), Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (x)

INTJ 2: quite unlikely, but Ni + 2 would read into situations, formulate ideas on what this person may need, and give it to them in an effort to bond; a more emotional INTJ than some, but resistant toward admitting personal needs; like the ISTJ, may rely on steady work ethics and/or turn the 2 toward problem-solving and warning others of the consequences of poor decisions, with the expectation others will repay them in kind, through similar gestures. (x)

INTJ 3: more prone to leadership and comfortable with attention than other INTJs; may develop a strong desire to ‘achieve’ on a competitive level, and show little interest in undertaking the work of others unless it promotes their personal success; may sacrifice personal values to ‘get ahead’ in the professional sphere, and be out of touch with what truly drives them; may fall into the trap of unrealistic Ni-dom thinking that if they cannot bring their perfect vision into reality, they are worthless, and/or focus on personal symbols of ‘success’ (something that represents their entire success, such as an expensive car or watch); will play out ‘symbols of success’ through inferior Se (lavish taste). (x)

Example: Dr. Donald Shirley from Green Book (x), Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow from The Dark Knight Trilogy (x), Doctor Albert W. Wily from Mega Man (x), Cardinal Armand Richelieu from The Musketeers (x), Lex Luthor from Smallville (x), Lady Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey (x), Drew Baylor from Elizabethtown (x)

INTJ 4: far more emotional and aware of their internal deep melancholy than other INTJs; prone to Ni/Fi loops in that they want to experience each exquisite drop of their pain, and extrapolate some higher meaning from it; may set unrealistic romantic expectations, and place much emphasis on their artistic pursuits, be more easily hurt than they care to admit, and feel isolated from peers while not wanting to fit in. (x)

Example: Edward de Vere from Anonymous (x), Sarah O’Brien from Downton Abbey (x), Margaret Beufort from The White Queen (x), Erik from Phantom of the Opera (x), Antonio Salieri from Amadeus (x)

INTJ 5: always looking into the future for potential issues and trying to correct them in the present through stockpiling factual knowledge and useful skills; somewhat fearful of too much engagement with the outside world due to inferior Se issues; sometimes deals with numb emotions and/or delayed emotional reactions; selective in their relationships, and not forthcoming in their personal experiences. (x)

Example: President Snow from The Hunger Games (x), Saruman the White from The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings (x), Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones (x), Thomas Cromwell from The Tudors (x)

INTJ 6: distrustful and secretive, prone to negative idealization and/or may face high Ni conflict with 6 in trying to identify and eliminate problem areas as they go; may have trouble identifying a safe zone, and involve themselves in a rigid ideology to feel safe; pushes away from inferior Se / risk taking, overestimates how much they can accomplish at once; due to indecisiveness, may mistype as a Ne or Si type. (x)

INTJ 7: a true stand out among INTJs, often eager to create idealistic ambitions for the future and carry them out, but who struggle with ‘waiting’ and are more impulsive in lower Se ways than other INTJs (and prone to stronger addictions, to avoid boredom). May avoid tert-Fi development because that’s where deep emotions reside, and come across as a wittier companion, out of tune with their friends but eager to cheer them up with humor and avoid emotional discussions.  (x)

INTJ 8: a more aggressive and confrontational INTJ than others, who builds up and relies on their inferior Se when tackling the 8’s need for “indulgence” – may be more proactive in chasing what they want, in involving oneself in the external environment, in tackling challenges to prove they can do it, and in their sexual appetites. May not seek authority positions, but also will refuse to follow incompetent leadership, and be reckless under pressure. (x)

Example: Michael Corleone from The Godfather (x), Roose Bolton from Game of Thrones (x)

INTJ 9: the desire to avoid conflict softens the sharp edge of NiTe, and influences their approach to others (softening it, and bringing with them a sense of internal peace); will avoid conflict and try to diffuse situations with the facts, may rely on Ni-insights to read between the lines and head off conflict before it arises. Prone to serious inertia, between 9’s lack of energy and the weakness of inferior Se, which would motivate them more easily into direct action higher in the stack. (x)

Example: Thomas Cromwell from Wolf Hall (x)

[d-criss-news]

Ryan Murphy’s debut Netflix series is beginning to take shape.

Hollywood, which Murphy co-created with his Glee, Scream Queens and The Politiciancollaborator Ian Brennan, will release in May as the prolific showrunner’s first original series under a mega-deal with the streaming giant. (Netflix's Politician, now streaming, was Murphy’s first streaming show but was produced by 20th Century Fox TV).

When revealing the limited series, the American Crime Story and American Horror Story showrunner said Hollywood will “look at Hollywood and the sex industry, and how absolutely everything has changed and nothing has changed.”

Below, The Hollywood Reporter rounds up all the news about Hollywood. Bookmark this page for updating developments. 

The Premise

The period drama received a straight-to-series order at Netflix. Few details about the series are known, aside from that Murphy has called it a “love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.” When announcing his casting, leading man Darren Criss described Murphy’s pitch about the series as “a period piece that was young and optimistic” and said it would cover multiple narratives from 1940s Hollywood. 

“It’s 1940s Hollywood, so there’s going to be great clothes and great accents. It’s going to be sexy and optimistic. It’s really about young people and the excitement of young people seeking opportunity,” star David Corenswet teased to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Cast

Criss (another Glee alum, as well as the star of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) will star in and executive produce Hollywood. “I’m heading back to the House of Murphy where I’ll be starring in but also executive producing HOLLYWOOD with Time’s King of Television,” Criss wrote on Instagram when announcing the news. “Late last year, @mrrpmurphy and I had dinner where he shared that he wanted to do a period piece that was young and optimistic. We landed on the idea of a series covering several narratives from 1940s Hollywood. We both left that evening feeling super excited about its potential. Two days later Netflix bought it. Not only is that a testament to the magic of Ryan Murphy, it’s a reminder of the kind of thing that can only happen in Hollywood…literally. Limited Series coming to @netflix May 2020.”

Also starring and executive producing is The Politician’s Corenswet, who rounds out the leading roles with Tony-nominated Broadway star Jeremy Pope. Of Murphy elevating him to an EP role, Corenswet told THR, “Ryan wants to include us in the creative process. He wants to give us learning experiences. I am really interested in making film and television. As an EP on Hollywood, I’m not making any big decisions but I’m getting to watch a lot of these big decisions be made by all these extremely competent and successful people. So just to be able to watch that is such a great learning experience. It means that, at some point, I’ll actually be helpful to somebody in some way.”

Other familiar Murphy players — Jim Parsons and Joe Mantello (The Normal Heart), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story, The Politician) and Patti LuPone (Pose, AHS) — as well as newcomers Samara Weaving (SMILF), Maude Apatow (Euphoria), Laura Harrier (BlacKkKlansman) Jake Picking (Blockers) and Holland Taylor (partner to frequent Murphy collaborator Sarah Paulson) make up the star-studded ensemble.

Only the character names have been revealed: Criss as Raymond, Corenswet as Jack, Pope as Archie, LuPone as Avis, McDermott as Ernie, Weaving as Claire, Parsons as Henry Wilson, Apatow as Henrietta, Mantello as Dick, Harrier as Camille, Taylor as Ellen Kincaid and Picking as actor Rock Hudson.

The Premiere Date

Hollywood will hit Netflix in May. Though it will be the second Murphy series on the streamer, it is the first original since Murphy moved his overall deal from longtime home 20th Century Fox TV to Netflix in early 2018. Hollywood joins Ben Platt-starrer The Politician and the forthcoming One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestprequel Ratched, starring Paulson, as Murphy’s first group of Netflix offerings (Ratched, which does not have a premiere date, was also produced under Murphy’s 20th Century Fox Television pact). Also in the works for the streamer are musical film versions of The Boys in the Band and The Prom, a 10-episode A Chorus Line miniseries, a limited drama about Halston starring Ewan McGregor and a 10-part docuseries about Andy Warhol. Murphy still produces Pose, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, 911 and 911: Lone Star for the now Disney-owned TV studio.

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Lesbian Authors

A.J. Adaire  Pat Adams-Wright  Dorothy Allison  S.W. Anderson  Elizabeth Andre  Mavis Applewater  Ann Aptaker  J.A. Armstrong  Michelle Arnold  Clare Ashton  K. Aten  Victoria Avilan  Darla Baker  Roslyn Bane  Ann Bannon  Solia Panche Bealti  Alison Bechdel  Georgia Beers  Sharon Marie Bence  Bridget Birdsall  Harper Bliss  Andrea Bramhall  Jaye Robin Brown  Anna Burke  Amalie Cantor  Brandee Carbo  Suzie Carr  Dawn Carter  C.L. Cattano  Becky Chambers  Kate Charlton  Sharon Cho  Barbara L. Clanton  Hannah Abigail Clarke  Shelby Cochran  Helen Corcoran  Jeanne Córdova  Audrey Coulthurst  Delores Cremm  Maggie Dane  Emily M. Danforth  Sandra de Helen  Barbara Dennis  Nicole Dennis-Benn Stefani Deoul  K.E. DePalmenary  T.L. Dickerson  Jennifer Diemer  Sarah Diemer * Jane DiLucchio  J.M. Dragon  Moondancer Drake  K.B. Draper  Cassandra Duffy  A.L. Duncan  Nann Dunne  Sarah Ettritch  Lillian Faderman  Sara Farizan  Leslie Feinberg  Anna Ferrara  Fannie Flagg  Jane Fletcher  Laura Foley  Katherine V. Forrest  Diane Fortier  Giselle Fox  Anna Furtado  Elisa M. Galbreath  Lynn Galli  S.L. Gape  Nancy Garden  Lyn Gardner  S. Anne Gardner  Pauline George  Ana B. Good  Parker Gordon  Erin Gough  Kimberly Cooper Griffin  Nicola Griffith  Agnes H. Hagadus  Anne Hagan  Radclyffe Hall  S.M. Harding  Ellen Hart  Nancy Ann Healy  Fran Heckrotte  Natasja Hellenthal  Dotti Henderson  Claire Highton-Stevenson  Gerri Hill  E.M. Hodge  Dayna Ingram  Isabella  Jae  Adiba Jaigirdar  Jo Jennings  Heather Rose Jones  E.A. Kafkalas  Karin Kallmaker  Riley LaShea  Stacey-Leanne  Lez Lee  Malinda Lo  Ann-Marie MacDonald  Renee MacKenzie  Prudence MacLeod  Lise MacTague  Lucy J. Madison  Rachel Maldonado  Siera Maley  Laurie J. Marks  Julie Maroh  Michelle Marra  Paula Martinac  Arkady Martine  Q.C. Masters  Andi Marquette  Pamela Mauldin  Robbi McCoy  M.K. McGowan  Gill McKnight  Ann McMan  Heather McVea  Mary Meriam  Ronni Meyrick  Martha Miller  Rogena Mitchell-Jones  K.A. Moll  Sallyanne Monti  Annette Mori  Bonnie J. Morris  Jaycie Morrison  Niamh Murphy  Charlene Neil  Natasha Ngan  Nik Nicholson  Baren Nix  Ocean  Paula Offutt Chinelo Okparanta  Chris Parsons  Angela Peach  Julie Anne Peters  B.J. Phillips  Ashley Quinn  Radclyffe  Cheryl Rainfield  Adan Ramie  Nina Revoyr  Rhavensfyre  Julia Diana Robertson  Nita Round  Morgan Routh  Joanna Russ  Laurie Salzler  Shamim Sarif  Lacey Schmidt  Sarah Schulman  Tina Sears  Cass Sellars  Merry Shannon  Fiona Shaw ** Kaden Shay  Djuna Shellam  Jen Silver  Jennis Slaughter  Adrian J. Smith  E.H. Smith  Vanessa Snyder  Alison R. Solomon  Raven J. Spencer  Ali Spooner  Rose Stone  Carren Strock  Rebecca Sullivan  Leandra Summers  Mariko Tamaki  Michelle L. Teichman  Keira Michelle Telford  Rae Theodore  M.E. Tudor  Vanda  Elle Vaughn  Missouri Vaun  Anastasia Vitsky  Tillie Walden  Sarah Waters  HollyAnne Weaver  Laney Webber  Louise Welsh  Caren J. Werlinger  K.D. Williamson  B.L. Wilson  Catherine M. Wilson  Barbara Winkes  Lee Winter  Jeanette Winterson  Chris Anne Wolfe  T.J. Wolfe  Jacqueline Woodson  Fiona Zedde  Kristen Zimmer 

* Also writes under the pen names Elora Bishop and Bridget Essex

** Not to be confused with the Irish actress of the same name

This list is subject to changes. Compiling a list of lesbian authors is a challenge because not all authors are out and my sources of information are limited. I had to rely on finding author bios, interviews, tweets, etc. in which an author mentions her sexual orientation. I also got many of these names from the Lesbian Authors Guild.