In Redux II, when she's dying on that hospital bed and she says "Then you have to lay it on me" that look he gives her. *That look* , his face, his eyes reflect an *impossible* amount of love and admiration and devotion for this woman, the love of his life, that he might lose to a disease given to her exactly because of what she means to him. It's terrible, it's horrible, it's heartbreaking and not romantic at all but hell if those two eps don't show how far they're willing to go for one another, then I have nothing else.
Here's my two cents on the reboot. I think they are all very aware of the fact - as most of us are - that there is no possible success for an X Files Reboot without involving the OG cast in some way or another. Even if whatever small of a participation. They know. All of them. For years the whole OG crew has been saying the success of the series in the first place was (aside of the crew's amazing work) the chemistry between GA and DD. So 👏 M 👏 S 👏 R! And even more so, most of what later became the 'mythology' arc was improvised because of GA's pregnancy and yes, I know that up to some extent it would've been developed regardless because the show had already taken its course on this arc before this, but still!
And yes, sure, I understand this is new and they have every intention to make it work and bring some new MOTW great stuff and I understand the X Files universe is vast and CC has left many doors opened, and little windows and the air is still coming through the vent BUT, the impact Mulder and Scully and THEIR EXCLUSIVE RELATIONSHIP has had in us OG hardcore Philes -and even some of the newer ones as well- has no precedence. I'm talking about -a generation- QUITE A LOT of people's lives and decisions being inspired by the show. So I'm almost certain that GA and DD will be participating on this reboot, it's just the way it HAS to be, and we all know it.
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seven years of almost daily recs, with well-written blurbs and a lot of fun, run by @kateyes224 and @piecesofscully. Look out for their themed days: "Casefile Monday", "Tumblr Tuesday", "Editor's Pick Wednesday", "Post-Ep/Missing Scene Thursday", "Novel Length Friday", "Smut Sunday", and the very cool "Because You Watched"
@msrlibrary
a well-tagged library of MSR fics; each entry includes a short excerpt and a nicely chosen image from the show.
@201daysofxfiles
a rewatch blog by fandom veteran @wendelah. Each episode in season 1-7 is paired with its own fic rec post.
@enigmaticxbee
an aesthetically pleasing and neatly organized rewatch blog that is packed with great content, including excellent fic rec lists categorized by season, story type, trope, and more. Each episode guide sometimes features related fic recs.
@thatfragilecapricorn30 posts one fic rec every Friday, accompanied by a nice writeup.
@randomfoggytiger curates many fic rec lists sorted by often fun and creative categories.
@cecilysass has a google doc titled "fics I love", which is a fantastic fic list categorized by story type, complete with thoughtful blurbs. She's also shared two episode-related fic rec lists on Tumblr: here and here.
@pookie-mulder writes a monthly fic journal with good recs.
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👽 Rec Communities
XF Book Club: the best thing ever, an absolute gem that deserves to be preserved for posterity. During its run, 270 fics were recced and discussed in depth here. The community's intelligent and insightful comments on this blog are sometimes even more enjoyable to read than the fics themselves.
The Fic Filter (xf tag): well-curated selections with short blurbs.
Multifandom Het Recs (xf tag): a major rec site's xf section that offers nice "why this must be read" writeups. @het-reccers
Crack Van (xf tag): another major rec site with a big xf section, featuring endless recs and blurbs
Fancake (xf tag): another major rec community's xf section boasting an extensive thematic tagging system
Bad for the Fish aka Scarlet Baldy: fantastic fic list paired with highly enjoyable reviews and analyses of the fics she's read. @badforthefish
Ramblings of a Mind Untamed: reviews of a dozen or so classic fics
xxSKSxx XF Fanfic Recs: still active in 2024! @xxsksxxx
X-Libris: more of a fic library, this is the best place to download nicely-formatted ebooks of pre-AO3 oldies. What I love most is the incredibly detailed and extensive tagging system.
👽 Individual Rec Lists with good writeup
Character Manifesto - Dana Scully: a character analysis and 10 Scully-centric fic recs, categorized by "best of .." selections. Amazing format and choices!
Character Manifesto - Fox Mulder: same format as above for Spooky
ShipRecced blog's classic MSR fics and newer MSR fics recs
luminary's 16-fic rec post
RivkaT recs fics and writers @rivkat
Anna Otto's favorite stories
Syntax6's rec list on her site, great rec list on Tumblr and FTF rec list @syntax6
👽 90s Old School Rec Sites
The Basement Office - Musea: a treasure trove of extensive fic lists with lovely written blurbs, recced by a group of talented writers from back in the day
The Other Side - Fanfic Recs from Beyond the Grave: a large collection of 'scary' or 'spooky' story recs with nice blurbs. Beautiful web design.
the Rookery - Favorite Authors: nice commentary on a list of classic fic writers
X-Files Fanfiction 101: an intro guide to fic categories and what to read for each
The Primal Screamers: a fun site run by a mailing list that hosts fic recs with blurbs, and a 'Coffee Talk' section full of delightful discussions of canon
Idealists Haven - Elemental Fanfic Archive: an archive with rec blurbs
Chronicle X: a large, well-organized archive with blurbs, plus a 'Can We Talk' discussion section of novel-length fics, plus a total of 46 author interviews. Simply incredible!
👽 Special Mention
The X-Files Lost and Found: a fic finder message board that is miraculously still very active today—How wonderful! Its FAQ page hosts a huge collection of well-categorized themed fic lists (not recs), including "Classics (or, Your Fanfic Education is Not Complete Until You've Read ...)".
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Maybe I'm late to this party but, I'm watching Supernatural for the first time. I've only watched until 4x04 so far, and the amount of times The X Files have been mentioned/referenced to is OBSCENE compared to any other show of the genre. Also the cases they work? They have such plenty of similarities with the ones we've seen in TXF's MOTW. And I'm only in season 4!
And don't get me wrong, I'm proud. So proud really. Because it's like they are truly being so respectful of what it's definitely inspired the creation of the show, where the ideas came from, plus, a few producers/directors (Our dearest Kim Manners. Also John Shiban) have worked in TXF previously, so yeah, it's amazing how they rendered respect, and I really appreciated because it's not only to the people who made the show, but also to the fans who watched it, because we got here first right? And this show is acknowledging all that.
Just that, that's the post. I've just watched the "Monster Movie" episode and inevitably that lead me to "The Post-Modern Prometheus", so I had to vent.
Let's just picture the begining of their relationship (post consummation) when they were but were not a thing yet, so, yes implicitly they started spending -even- more of their 'free' personal time together. Slowly but surely they were getting into a very nice though not conventional relationship with each other and sometimes it just seemed pretty conventional if not for the fact that neither of them had proposed or even asked to each other what were they actually doing because it was a thing but not a thing at the time. I can't help but to think of Scully's reaction while realization downed on her as she did the dishes and Mulder just cleaned the table after a meal and made his way to sit comfortably on her couch, on a weekend, to watch the game at her place, bare feet over her coffee table, jeans hanging low on his hips while he held the remote -hers- in his very skillful hands, and he was doing that, at her place, which meant he wasn't ditching her for the weekend like he used to do, to chase the next great big mystery, to chase after whatever fake report of whatever cryptid, UFO, or whatever that might've caught his attention in whatever town lost in time and space, or the mountains and desolated lakes he fancied so much.
No. He wasn't out there anymore, he hadn't been in a while and this, she found.. disturbing, because this meant something she wasn't ready to accept to herself yet, not yet. Sure, secretly she might've even longed for it, very secretly, so secretly she might've convinced herself she didn't really want it. But she asked him if he ever thought of stopping the car, getting off, settle down. And since nothing Mulder did was conventional, maybe this was it. Him, coming to a slow stop, still very excited about the job but much more excited to explore life with her, not always necessarily under the covers but they had pretty much done the whole other thing there was to be done with their lives except for that one they were doing now, and boy were they really doing it and doing it well indeed.
Idk I just think of her face coming out of the kitchen and seeing him there, just so naturally comfortable on her couch watching basketball, his eyes meeting hers because she was staring and she licking her lips a little nervously as she put her hands on her hips before voicing her thoughts filled with doubt like "Mulder what are you doing here?", she meant why aren't you anywhere else like you used to not so long ago? And I can see him just shrugging with a small smug smile, all relaxed there, motioning for her to come over with a slight gesture of his hand, just a random weekend after having pizza, getting ready for the game to start, he wasn't going anywhere anymore, he was right where he needed to be. He had chosen her. He hadn't found the words to tell her yet, but he was there.
Alright, wondering why this hasn't been more discussed over here (if at all), because really, this wasn't as bad as some skeptic fans had thought it'd be (honestly, I do understand why, because we've been disappointed time and time again). First of all, the author is an OG Phile (and it might not mean anything if the job wasn't as well done as I consider it is). And I consider this like official Fanfiction, and in a good way! I don't mean to spoil anything to anyone though. But I really wanna know what you guys think about it. If you've read it, or not, if you're interested or don't even want to consider giving it a try. Because this isn't like the comics of seasons 10/11 that were released a few years ago, nor it's like Cold Cases (Audios) either. It's different. It's -in my opinion- much, much better.
"He wondered what it meant that, sometimes, he loved her the most when she was this furious" 🥺
As an active roleplayer I can say right now that the one plot point that's 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 been avoided -no matter canon divergent or canon adjacent/AU's- is the 𝙼𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎. That's a definite no-no for us. Even if we could play it the way we want it to, and make it all better in the end. We simply don't go there. Feels like it's too far though we've gone some other terrible places and it's all ended horribly, we .. just.. Don't go there.
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