#season: 3

[fine-nephrit]

🥏 TXF Fic Rec #28: "This House is Burning" by Tesla

Today’s fic is one of the best profiler!Mulder casefiles. It strikes a nice balance, offering just the right amount of everything: the case is engaging with genre-savvy details yet is neither convoluted nor cumbersome; the romance is front and center but not overindulgent. The prose is straightforward and streamlined. It flows with such ease and pulls you into the narrative effortlessly — it’s a page-turner before you know it.

A number of cliched romance tropes are played straight (e.g., the 'one bed' scenario, misunderstandings due to an inability to communicate), but the excellent writing pulls them off with great subtlety. I buy it all. I love the dialogue in the final scene that resolves the emotional arc, marking one of my favorite UST to RST moments. I often find sex scenes dull and skippable, but every single one here is hot, short and well-written. This is a comfort fic that I return to time and again, enjoying it with unchanging pleasure.

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🥏 on X-Libris 🥏 on Gossamer (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

length: novella, 36,000+ words season: early seasons, probably season 3 pairing(s): M/S UST to RST tags: casefile, angst, smut, rift, one bed, undercover, Scully-POV, Mulder-POV rating: mature/R

[spuffyarchive]

Death Wish by Sigyn [NC-17]

“World is what it is. We fight and we die. Wishing doesn't change that. You can believe in a better world. I have to live in this one.”  Anyanka’s wish was broken, but the world it created continues. Now Buffy must join forces with rebel vampires to create a world they can all stand to live in. But can Spike, Drusilla and Angel actually work with a hardened slayer, who would just as soon see them all dust? 

[anime-ops]

Black Butler: Book of Circus OP 1 - ENAMEL by SID

[jollymalt]

what could have been

[ambystomas]

Those who shine brightest, often burn fastest

[ellenchain]

"there is beauty in imperfections"

[froopa-coopa]

"I never asked for this"

[drizzledrawings]

The season ended right here btw nothing happened after this

[lookmiik]

doomed yaoi

[kittykatninja321]

they match each other’s freak to a degree that is dangerous to the public

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[fine-nephrit]

🥏 TXF Fic Rec #22: "C’mon, Mulder" by Defnotmeyo

What an outstanding little post-ep for an outstanding episode, “Pusher”.

Today’s fic captures the emotional states of our duo right after their traumatic Russian roulette perfectly, without indulging in sentimentality. It reveals who Mulder and Scully are, and what they are, with unmatched precision. The overwhelming angst running heavy and thick below the surface is restraint in the episode (which makes it great), and so is it in this story (likewise makes it great). But here we sneak a peek below the surface and get walloped with feels.

Beautiful and brilliant, this 600-word fic is a treasure.

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🥏 on AO3

length: ficlet, 600+ words season: season 3, 3x17 Pusher pairing(s): M/S UST tags: episode-related, angst rating: G

[bestwitchsam]

Viktor and Jayce Fan Art

Cr : mew_mew_aihito

[s0rinsleeps]

Family scruffing pt2!

+this

[softestaries]

Violet Bridgerton is truly gods strongest soldier. Every season she tells one of her children they're in love and every season they scoff in her face before causing seven different scandals to reach the same conclusion.