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Fic Friday (129)

Title: untitled

Author: @leiascully

Word Count: ~2000

Summary: Written for the prompt: A fic I’ve wondered about…Mulder and Scully actually going to a movie together. Mostly because one of them lost a bet and has to go with the other to a movie of their choice. This happens early on in the partnership…Mulder makes Scully go to Jurassic Park. She nit picks the hell out of the science. So he, in a show of attempting to even the balance - he makes out he’s doing her a favour when really he just likes going out anywhere with Scully - he lets her pick the next one. She picks Sleepless in Seattle. The conversation after that one could lead….anywhere 🥰

My Thoughts: I don't think this fic is on AO3 so it feels extra special that I stumbled upon it recently and loved it! It's so fun seeing Mulder and Scully spend time together outside of work, especially in the early seasons. There are some great in-character moments, like Scully being a scientific menace during Jurassic Park and Mulder sneaking food into the theater. There's the undercurrent of UST just like in season 1 of the show. This is a great fic for the summer - when all you want to do is sit inside the cold theater.

Enjoy! Tagging @today-in-fic

lilydalexf

Hello, since we are going to have a “new” movie do you have any deleted scenes from iwtb from the directors cut?

Alas, the Director's Cut of I Want to Believe got canceled at the last minute this week. Or postponed. Disney has made the situation very confusing and unclear.

I don't have any scenes from that still-unreleased version but here are some deleted scenes from the Extended Cut (also called the Special Edition) that was released on DVD/BluRay. And of course there's always fic to fill in the holes: IWTB fic recs and IWTB island getaway fic recs.

skelethalprism

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/9 Fandom: The X-Files Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Holman Hardt, Sheila Fontaine Additional Tags: MSR, Post-Episode: s06e08 The Rain King Summary:

When an unusual streak of devastating weather events hits northeast Kansas, the potential for another chapter in the casefile they closed a year ago brings Mulder and Scully back to Kroner.

In the midst of a new investigation, old memories arise: of a shared motel room, and a night they never spoke of…

Tagging @today-in-fic - thank you!

cecilysass

Spooky Award Winners 2000 - full list!

This is my second Spooky Award post. It's apparently a series! My post about Spookys 1998 is here. The Spooky Awards were the annual awards given to X-Files fan fiction from 1995-2004 (except for 1997). They were voted on by fans and were always a bit contentious. You can read more about this at Fanlore or my previous post on the topic. The award categories changed pretty drastically changed them every year: look how different 2000's are from 1998's! But ... this was apparently a loaded topic. Check out this lively discussion about what the Spookys' categories should be in 1999. Also, there were apparently no 1997 awards because of ballot stuffing during the 1996 Spookys, which seems like it was a whole exciting fandom drama! But I digress.

david-duchovnybeliever

— from the 2016 photoshoot David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson with photographer Mark Mann. Promo The X-Files revival.

justexactlywhatareyouimplying

The X-Files: S07E22 (Requiem) | GIF Request by Anonymous: Mulder tenderly stroking Scully's hair after she faints

mytouchstonee

Mulder & Scully + hugging

thursdayinspace

One of these please?

First choice would be number 7!

Fic: Fragile Balance (1/19)

@calimanc, do you remember sending me this prompt? It was two years ago to the day. I can’t believe how long this took, but it’s finally done! It grew from a short fic of a few thousand word into a novel-length thing with plot, which was unexpected but fun to write. A lot of people have helped me along the way through beta-reading and cheerleading: urlovingfriend, @unremarkablehouse, @bakedbakermom, @baronessblixen, and @bookishscully. Thank you all so much; this fic wouldn’t exist without you! The original prompt came from a list by @cecilysass, so I’m tagging you too! Set in late season 5. This is a finished fic and I will be posting a chapter a day.

Summary:

Following a lead on a case they just can’t seem to solve, an accident leaves Mulder with supernatural powers; the same powers their main suspect seems to posses. In a race against time to stop a series of murders, what could be a key to the case instead puts new obstacles in their way.

Chapter 1 on AO3

tagging @today-in-fic

spontaniousmusicalnumbers

Are You Familiar With an Agent Named Fox Mulder?

Prologue: February 1990

“Did you see who our guest lecturer is?”

“It can’t actually be him, can it?”

“Come on, how many ‘Spooky’ Mulders do you think there could be?”

“I don’t know; it might be a different Agent Mulder.”

“Yeah, ‘cause there are multiple BSU wunderkinds who happen to be named Fox Mulder.”

Dana Scully pushed past the knot of her classmates and into the lecture hall. She knew that having a guest lecturer who was out there in the trenches was exciting, but she couldn’t care less about this guy’s supposed reputation. Well, that wasn’t entirely true, she cared about his record. When his lecture had been announced she had done her research. She looked up which cases he had been on and read through his monograph that helped catch a famous serial killer. The guy was seriously impressive. But all her classmates seemed to care about was gossiping about how “Spooky” Mulder was obsessed with “little green men from outer space.” Dana couldn’t understand how his interests had any bearing on his ability to be an amazing profiler and she was going to learn as much from him as she possibly could.

She found a seat at the front of the room and pulled out her notebook, ready to take notes. She was vaguely aware that the man lounging in the corner of the room was watching her, but she paid him no mind. As the room began to fill around her, she would catch herself glancing up at him, only to notice that his gaze was still firmly on her. She felt a slight blush begin to creep up her cheeks. Luckily, the doors shut and her professor came to the center of the room.

“Good afternoon, everyone,” he said. “Today our guest lecturer is on loan from the BSU over at the Hoover Building. Cadets, please give a warm welcome to Special Agent Fox Mulder."

Dana suppressed a small gasp of surprise as the man in the corner pushed off from the wall and ambled up to the podium. He kept his eyes trained on her as he shuffled some papers before turning to address the rest of the room. She bit her lip and clenched her thighs together while she tried to focus on the lecture, but every time his eyes met hers, she could feel a flutter of arousal deep in her belly.

When the lecture was over, a small crowd of curious cadets swarmed around him. Dana slowly packed up her belongings, still feeling his eyes watching her over the heads of her classmates. As she was finally leaving, she felt a presence right behind her.

“Did you enjoy the lecture?” came a low voice in her ear. She could feel the hairs on her neck rise as his breath tickled her.

“I…” she began, a blush staining her cheeks, “um, yes. It was very informative. I, uh, actually wanted to ask some clarifying questions though.”

“Really?” he asked. His lips quirked into a cocky smile. “Join me for dinner and you can ask me anything you want.”

“Is that allowed?” She felt her cheeks flush, and she internally cursed her voice for sounding so breathy.

“Why wouldn’t it be?” He chuckled before leaning in conspiratorially. “You have questions, I have answers, and we both need to eat.”

“I…” she gulped. “I have a pathology lab I need to get to.” This time her voice came out too high and she flushed again, heat radiating off her ears.

“Well,” he smiled again, “I did say dinner and it’s a little early for dinner now. I think you can probably manage to do both.”

“Oh, yeah,” she looked down at her feet. “I didn’t think about that.”

“What time is your lab finished?”

“Uh,” she began, biting her lip. “Five.” She wasn’t entirely sure why he was making her so nervous. She felt like she was back in high school and Marcus was asking her to the prom all over again.

“How about we meet up in the main parking lot at five-fifteen?” She wasn’t sure when, but he’d placed his hand on her wrist, and his thumb was drawing gentle circles on the soft skin below her watch.

“Yeah,” she agreed quietly. “I could do that.”

“It’s a date then,” he said with a wink. She felt herself blush again as she nodded and began backing away.

She walked down the hall away from him as calmly as she could. She somehow managed to make it to her lab and though she couldn’t remember any of it, she knew she had attended it. She kept glancing down at her watch, willing the minutes to go by. Finally, the class was over, and Dana began packing up her belongings. She fleetingly thought about blowing Agent Mulder off, but her feet seemed to carry her to parking lot where she’d agreed to meet him of their own volition.

“I wasn’t sure you’d actually make it,” he said with smirk as he saw her approach.

“To be honest,” she looked down at her feet, unable to meet his eyes, “I wasn’t sure if I’d actually make it. I’m still asking myself why I’m here.”

“Well, I’m glad you did,” he said. He placed his hand on the small of her back and guided her to the passenger side of his car, before opening the door for her. She studied his face for a moment before nodding once and sliding into the car.

Read the rest on AO3

Tagging @today-in-fic

lilydalexf

hi! i hope you're doing okay amidst the coronavirus frenzy. do you happen to have great recs for multi-chaptered xf fics? preferably AU... i need to lose myself in a little reading bubble lately because the news is super depressing and i feel like i've read a lot of the long fics out there already. thank you so much for your help!

Thank you for the ask! I hope you (and everyone else) is doing well. There are lots of multi-chapter fics in my posts of novel-length fic recs: part 1, part 2, part 3. Many of those stories are AU, but here is a list of AU stories. Not all of them are multi-chapter, but they are all great.

This list of AU stories is HUGE, so it’s behind the Keep Reading cut. First, please enjoy this AU-style gif of Mulder and Scully playing house in Arcadia.

Afficher davantage

lilydalexf

I had a third ask for fics about the X-Files episode "This Is Not Happening" but can't find it now (sorry, anon!). Some or all of these asks are pretty old, but hopefully people are still interested. Here are a lot of very good fics involving "This Is Not Happening." Some (most) of these fics are angsty or depressing, a genre of MSR fics I have liked very much over the years.

lilydalexf

hello!!! there’s a few fics in my mind but can you refresh me - ones where mulder and scully are at the gunmens for a party?!!?! bless

Here are some very good fics where Mulder and Scully go to a Lone Gunmen party. Enjoy!

die siedler von by kittenscully "Maybe you just like me," Mulder teases. "I dunno what you're talking about." Under his arm, she shifts closer, sweet little face flushed from the whiskey.

far away to the west and south by audries @audriesfic This is what she always thinks of when they are at the gunmen’s: Where the Wild Things Are, an off-brand frat house, a basement lab, Robinson Crusoe, electrical fires, a high school AV club. Outerspace. Jail time for marijuana possession.

Here’s A Hand In Thine by leiascully @leiascully After their Firewalker quarantine, Mulder invites Scully to the Lone Gunmen's New Year's Eve party.

I Put a Spell on You by Sarie_Fairy @sarie-fairy Mulder and Scully get roped into a little moonlighting for The Lone Gunmen at an invitation only Halloween Party. They’re undercover and soon discover that everyone at the party is behaving strangely. Uninhibited. What will they do not to blow their cover? And what happens when you add a little injection of truth serum? Set somewhere around the start of season 6.

Lord of the Flies by lots_of_oranges_outside @lotsoforangesoutside A birthday party.

New Year’s Promises by ScullyLovesQueequeg @suitablyaggrieved The Lone Gunmen are throwing a small party to commemorate the new year and of course, Mulder and Scully were invited. They indulge in a little too much alcohol and share some drunk confessions and hopes for the new year.

Parabiosis by Penumbra @mashnotesofthemythopoeic Science and Mysticism conjoin

radium by Spark_Writer The basement, pencils in the ceiling, guns and monsters and case notes. Scully’s neat little mouth, her pressed skirts and trousers, the clean lines of her collar, her graceful hands moving across her keyboard, her low alto mixing with Mulder’s baritone in practiced rebuttal. Mulder watched her. He thought of Scully, her cancer, her insolvent ova, his fear of losing the X-Files, his fear of losing Scully, his feelings for Scully that ticked ruinously beneath his FBI badge like a bomb. “You,” said Frohike, biting into a burger slathered in caramelized onions, “have to tell her.” “No,” said Mulder. “I can’t. I can’t ruin her life again. I won’t.” Mulder is in love with Scully.

Roll for Initiative by leiascully @leiascully Scully and Mulder attend her birthday party at the Lone Gunmen's headquarters, and then go back to her place for some more private celebrations.

Untitled by @foxmulders times they said hello

Untitled by @soft-thrills TLG catch MSR canoodling

Untitled by @sunflowerseedsandscience First line prompt: "Mulder, I've told you before - I'm not doing that without some *serious* persuasion first - or a stiff drink."

lilydalexf

Hi, I’ve had a good check of your fix recommendation list but can’t seem to find what I’m looking for. Do you know of any pre pilot ones?

Here are a bunch of very good pre-X-Files fics set sometime before the Pilot. Enjoy!

Came on Lion by amyhit closer than a girl can get / to trouble if she hasn’t yet / got in it

california winter by skuls @ghostbustermelanieking Fox and Samantha Mulder, brother and sister, disappeared from their homes on November 27, 1973. (A shift in the events of Samantha's abduction leads to a very different outcome.)

A Case of Compromise by Joann Humby It's 1991, Mulder has the X-Files and no partner. Scully is working at Quantico. A Senator's daughter goes missing and Mulder's life gets difficult.

A Change of Cast by Susanne Barringer The unauthorized, uncensored true story of Dana Scully and Jack Willis.

Contingency Plans by bardsmaid 1967. CSM does Teena Mulder a favor. but motives are rarely unselfish.

Dance Card and What Happened After That by Sab The road not taken. / Kept kissing me kept kissing me kept kissing me kept kissing me...

Eleventh Hour by Rachel Anton Some feeling defy the confines of time.

Floreat by LibbyT @libbytxf This is a stand-alone story about Mulder’s first year in Oxford.

For God and Country by ML Family connections are always worth cultivating.

God by Oracle "Why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history." -- Fox Mulder, 'All Souls'

Gravity Plays Favorites by anythingbutgrey The boyfriend goes quickly and the physics stays. That’s what she likes the most.

Here’s Where the Story Ends by Rebecca Rusnak A random peek at Mulder and Scully's childhoods reveals how it is often the little events that shape us.

Lammtarra by Joann Humby, LuvMulder, and Ruefrex Mulder spirals down into darkness when he begins to believe that an old ISU friend of his, who had apparently committed suicide, was really murdered by a dastardly elusive killer.

mahogany obsidian by eggschiptune For her birthday, Dana Scully meets with her sister for coffee, and they speak about the curious new assignment she's been given.

Moongate by Kel and Michelle Kiefer Bermuda, 1965. Two women, two men. Two sons, one father.

Oklahoma by Amperage and Livingoo (gooligan) It's 1987 and the Oklahoma cops have an unsolvable case. Fox Mulder, golden boy of the VCU, is called in to stop the murders of children across the state. What he finds takes him places he never wanted to go and forces him to make the pivotal choice of his life.

Out of the Shadows by Joann Humby It's 1991 and Mulder is working for Behavioral but is about to get caught up in a string of cases that make him think it's time to leave. Scully is working at Quantico.

Past Imperfect by Joann Humby The FBI wants Mulder to find out what went wrong with Bill Patterson, Bill is keen to talk, but why? Mulder and Scully consider the people who walk into the abyss and the people who they drag down with them.

renegade by skuls @ghostbustermelanieking Why Diana Fowley went over to the other side.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Plausible Deniability The beginning of an affair, before CSM became a black-lunged bastard and Mrs. Mulder repressed it all. [This fic begins a series that continues with Somebody’s Fool, You Don’t Know Me, It’s All in the Game, and When I Fall in Love.]

While You Were Sleeping by Skinfull Mulder falls for an intoxicating red head he spots in the park, then saves her life but not before she is injured and put into a coma, then he meets her sister! Den den dehhhhhh!

kinder-jozy

katebeckets

how to say "I love you" in x-files [69/?] ⤷ The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

fine-nephrit

🥏 Where to find good XF fanfics

👽 On Tumblr

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

@txf-fic-chicks-blog 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.

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

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