Dreaming of Scully

Jen // she/her // bi // INFP // virgo rising // probably writing fanfic // fuck canon //  whore for au // following xf content only

[dreamingofscully]

My Master Fic List

AO3 fic link

Alternate Universe

(These may or may not be available depending on whether I’ve decided to retire them or not.)

Parallax

Cyberpunk AU - rated E - 84k

Surely, to the Sea

Historical AU (Horror/Married Paranormal Investigators) - rated T - 17k

Grey Canyon

Historical AU (Western) - rated M - 60k

Stolen Time / Quarantine

Ascension alternate ending AU - rated E - 3k

Other Fic

xvii: the star & 5/C (Rx)

M/S UST - s6 - rated PG/T - Scully remembers the past as they attempt to come back to each other

no night but shadows 

M/S UST to RST - s2 post-ep (F. Emasculata), Smut & Angst - rated E - 5k - a worried mulder shows up at scully’s apartment late at night

On Fire

M/S RST - smut biscuit, prompt - rated E - 835 words - She’s flickering deliriously between awareness and the space between. Grasping his rumpled locks, stars just out of reach. His soft hair and sandpaper cheeks against her thighs, the spark and flame behind her eyelids. 

The Wrong Side of the Bed

M/S RST - pwp - s7, Smut Exchange 2020, prompt, rated E, 4424 words - After a frustrating day at the office, Scully gets bossy in the bedroom.

Intrusion

M/S UST - missing scene (The End)- rated PG (language), 1607 words - Three perspectives on Diana’s first appearance.

Gold and Silver

M/S UST - Angst, s3 - rated PG - 1355 words - Scully does something spontaneous to honor her sister’s memory

Momentum

M/S RST - Post-episode (En Ami) & spoilers through all things, Angst - rated E - 12654 words - Dealing with consequences of decisions made in En Ami.

Bated Breath

M/S UST - Post-episode (Milagro) - rated G - 2198 words - Mulder drives Scully home from the hospital.

Ficlets and Prompts

Post-Pilot, rated G, 566 words M/S UST, season 1 fic, prompt Mulder tells the Gunmen his first impressions of Scully

Profiling, rated PG, 763 words M/S RST, post-s8 AU, prompt, hurt/comfort How do you think Scully helps Mulder recover after profiling?

Post-Field Trip, rated G, 253 words M/S RST, post-ep (Field Trip), fluff, prompt Mulder and Scully admit they're a couple either to Maggie or Skinner.

Kiss Prompt #39 (AO3), rated G, 269 words M/S RST, prompt, hurt/comfort Kissing tears from the other’s face

Dessert and a Fake Proposal (AO3), rated G, 187 words M/S UST, prompt, fluff Mulder and Scully share a slice of banana cream pie & doing a fake proposal at a restaurant to get a free dessert

Kiss Prompt #12 (AO3), rated T, 529 words M/S RST, pwp, prompt Sneaking away to a hidden corner to share a secretive kiss.

Dolor (AO3), rated PG (violence, angst), 382 words M/S RST, angst, prompt Writing workshop prompt:  cabin/fear/hat/angst.

Light in the Dark (AO3), rated T (mild language), 633 words M/S UST, fluff The power goes out.

No Big Deal (AO3), rated M (mild sexuality), 856 words M/S UST, missing scene (Rain King), fluff Mulder and Scully share a bed.

Confirmation Bias (AO3), rated T (language), 394 words M/S RST, missing scene (Field Trip) Scully responds to Mulder’s snarky comment.

[prettyscully]

[kiyomeji]

Do you find me spooky, Scully?

+ Process stills

[tripleennui]

not you casually writing extremely thought-provoking comments in the tags (also they are such losers and that is so important to me)

Haha, I should probably stop doing that and make actual posts. I used to write X-Files reviews when I was a teenager, with the intention of reviewing every single episode. I didn't finish, but it was a fun exercise, although I'm sure if I read them now I'd die of embarrassment. Darin Morgan is my favorite X-Files writer so I love talking about his work. I also enjoy that his short time on X-Files is basically the highest-profile work he's ever done. He managed to make a huge impact with not a lot of episodes and has gone on to do basically nothing else. He's just the Guy Who Wrote Those Six Really Weird But Good X-Files Episodes and I honestly think that's an incredible legacy. Not everyone has to go on to be a Vince Gilligan! Sometimes you're just the guy who wrote "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and that's enough.

Re: Mulder and Scully being losers, I know we like to joke about it on here, but in some ways I mean it seriously. I always try to remind people that this is a show about outcasts and in a broader sense marginalization, and so its leads need to kind of be outcasts themselves. What I think makes it all the more compelling, and what "Humbug" tries to get at, is that on paper Mulder and Scully don't seem like outcasts at all. They're white, conventionally attractive, intelligent, work in freaking law enforcement, come from varying degrees of privilege (Mulder has a rich-ass New England family with like three houses, Scully's father was a Navy captain), are (at least at the beginning) physically non-disabled, educated, etc. But their work takes them to the margins, so they too adopt a life of social alienation. (To quote Eddie Van Blundht: "I was born a loser, but you're one by choice.") This is the primary reason when people ask me what genre The X-Files belongs to I'm tempted to say horror before anything else. Horror is largely a genre about alienation and otherness. There's a quote from Robin Wood's 1979 essay "An Introduction to the American Horror Film" which I think sums it up well:

(The X-Files draws a lot from 1970s horror in particular, so this essay is very apt to me; it's also just a fascinating read in general if you're into this sort of thing.)

Sci-fi looks forward, fantasy looks backward, but horror looks outward, and that's why so many of Mulder and Scully's cases involve marginalized characters or communities, why the X-Files themselves are cases that have essentially been discarded.

Anyway, I could go on, but yes! Mulder and Scully being losers is very important.

[finch-co-uk]

the way he turned around made me think of orpheus and trust and faith and love. would he? would she? ...

[mamuscript]

ooh, nice gif @mockingjaysongbird, I never noticed before how he slides his hand through her lil arm hole 🫶🏼

[foxmulderamuppettedman]

Love how Mulder is so codependent that when Scully takes her road trip with CSM, Mulder tracks down the gunmen and is just like “😢she hasn’t called me in 12 hours”. And then they’re like “and now we track”. 12 hours later Mulder goes and tells his fbi daddy (skinner) that his bestie/the love of his life is definitely in trouble and skinner just like “what evidence” then Scully calls him and doesn’t wanna talk to Mulder and Mulder is just like “I rest my case” and sashays outta there

[tripleennui]

Honestly the weirdest aspect of Mulder and Scully’s relationship is that they flirt harder the more disgusting or disturbing whatever they’re investigating is. Is there a corpse with a live frog inside? Let’s crack jokes and subtly imply how attracted to each other we are. What about a dead baby in a closet? Obviously that’s when we should have a barely coded conversation about Mulder’s dick, duh. Interrogating a sadistic murderer? Totally the appropriate time to eye-fuck each other over the interrogation table. Stuck in the woods being chased by mutated conquistadors? (God, this show is strange) Time to cuddle, joke about getting naked, and sing to each other. Could you be infected with a scary parasitic ice worm? Let’s feel each other’s necks up in the most erotic way possible under the guise of a medical exam. Truly no one is doing it like them and that’s probably a good thing

[foxmulderamuppettedman]

Mulder running through the streets after wishing the population out of existence and STILL yelling “scullaaaaayyyyy!!!” Is such an absolute MOOD

[cosmicstana]

Obsessed with scully's apartment♡

[siren-crown]

Walter Skinner is a single mother of two of the most difficult kids ever. He hates them. They run away whenever he turns around, they bite other kids, they crash his important meetings, and they abuse their authority as FBI agents. Naturally, he sends them to bed with no dinner, but that's mean and goes against the parenting books so I guess they can have the X-Files back. They break vases around the house and blame it on aliens, which doesn't look good in a report please find a more believable suspect please. They've pulled a gun on him (On multiple occasions). HOW DARE YOU PUT EITHER OF THEM IN DANGER! He will kill you for doing that! Threatening them is his job and- Hey!- DON'T GIVE HIM PARENTING ADVICE! Dana Scully is a very accomplished agent AND a medical doctor. and Mulder hasn't bitten anyone in 2 days.

[dreamingofscully]

a simp is the only kind of man I can tolerate

[relatablepicturesofscully]

[themfiles]

“Are they lovers?” Worse. They are lovers, but they hooked up off screen.

[fanfeifour]

🍃

[f-u-carter]

do you guys ever feel slightly traumatized by the x-files? I realize that I will talk about how great this show (1-7) is, quote it, tell people they gotta watch, remember moments like it was yesterday and yet…I haven’t sat down and actually watched more than a handful of episodes since the reboot ended because when I do I just sit there and think about how bad things got for them and how they sort of broke up and also maybe had a baby in their 50s after watching their other kid who they didn’t know probably drown and then I’m just not enjoying whatever I’m watching anymore

[bakedbakermom]

i have cultivated an approach to everything after je souhaite that allows me to, well, not make peace with how things went, but no longer allow the bad to drown out the good.

namely, i decide that chris carter was playing barbies wrong, and i have taken them away from him.

i sift through the post-s7 canon like a thieving squirrel, pillaging the good stuff out of the chaff and then sprinting back to my hidey hole. the thing is, it's all fiction. it's all made up anyway. so take what you like and make up better stuff around it.

[dreamingofscully]

I know it’s 2+ years away and might not be a sure thing but anyone planning on going to the Vancouver philefest in 2028? I will be there anyways so I am going :)