Deep Black Something in a Small Blue Box

Monster-Mashin'

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Butcherback Argosy

It's a barren feeling to write, and 'publish' and not have it go out to my kin for whom I write, or 'kith', as I suppose you are: you, you Phile, reading this.

I know you wouldn't abandon me, but I made an attempt to abandon you, and it's fine, I'm fine out here in the cold world, muddling along, alone as ever, getting shit done, I'm fine, I'm fine, and naturally still writing, and getting away from the X-Files in content, bleak and lame as that sounds.

But one thing I often like to do with writing is take the energy of disparate things and rub them together. In this way I still play along the edges of XF. And to this end, I wrote an XF-adjacent novella called 'Butcherback Argosy'. It's set in 1975. I wrote it, I realize now, for you, but also for the world. It bestrides two worlds. Many of you, whether parents or not, will recognize in it the various things we all endure as artists or as the cultish obsessionists we definitely all are. To that end it is certainly another of my mash notes to the fandom I will love all my days.

No M & S are contained herein, and identifying details are changed, but any nerd worth their salt will inevitably see what this is, and recognize a few borrowed characters.

This work was generously and patiently edited by that fabulous pair: @slippinmickeys and @scullymakesmefeelautopsyturvy

tagging the usual suspects:

@teethnbone @edierone @perplexistan @lepus-arcticus @myassbrokethefall @leiascully @lilydalexf @ellivia @frangipanidownunder @onpaperfirst @aloysiavirgata @wendelah @leucocrystal @scapegrace74-blog @reasonandfaithinharmony @fashionbooksboozefeminism @it-is-bugs @thegrotesckque @sunflowerseedsandscience

Lastly, here's a bad book cover I made:

My love to all.

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Not that it's any of your business this plane is also a medical doctor, pathologist and FBI agent with a hot helicopter boyfriend

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German trailer for The Thing (1982).

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Aus Einer Anderen Welt - 'From Another World', just like Teeth.

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in case you guys forgot, this is an x files blog and everything I post is an x files post even if it’s not. but only some will comprehend this

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Yes and also this is an X-Files life and everything I say is some obscure reference to the X-Files even if it doesn't appear to be and let's hope no one around me comprehends this

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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Ficlet: Highways and Backroads

Just a little ficlet thinking about Memento Mori.

Keep reading

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There's no arc like the cancerarc. I love this, thanks.

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Big sky

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Happy The Movie day! My goodness, those were some heady times.

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You know what, I am unbothered by disputes in TXF fandom because I have been here since almost time immemorial, longer than a goodly number of you have been alive, and I will be here at the end of time when the universe cools, listening to “Walking After You” as everything goes stiff and cold.  I have forgotten more thoughts about Mulder and Scully and the rest of the crew than most people have even had, and I have written and written and written until these blorbos are engraved in my bones.  Look for me in the deep places; find me at the wellspring writing with water on slates.  Listen for me on the wind, whispering “fuuuuuuuck chris carterrrrrrrrr.”

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This post is everything; it's like you sequenced my DNA and realized we're both clones floating in the urschleim mindmeld that was once a crackling TV show on an old rabbit ears television, and outside was maybe a cow pasture with an owl calling down by the creek.

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Philefest

What if — what if — we all just went to the Twin Cities and low-key got some suites and a conference room and did some big round-tables (as opposed to exclusive pay-to-get-in panels) and got some wine and pizza and just prattled about fic and what philedom has meant to us all, and how we are happy to celebrate 30 years of the X-Files by thinking about frog ecology or waiting patiently for Aloysia Virgata to finish a fic or maybe just rewatching 'Darkness Falls' and if any X-Files stars want to come over and hang with us and discuss their place in the cultural text hey that would also be cool.

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You have to make yourself write under the most difficult of circumstances. The time is never right, and the situation is never conducive, and the people around you don’t understand. But once you accept that, it gets easier.

‘Most of the people who’ve ever written are under enormous duress, myself being one them.’ - Toni Morrison

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Reblogging this from myself, because this never changes, and I know most of us are forced to write in dribs and drabs, but it's amazing what you can cobble together in the interstices. Someday I will get to write like Bach playing a pipe organ but for now it's in bed or at 5 in the morning by the wood stove, and who knows, maybe this helps keep one's edge.

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snakebitten by @onpaperfirst

“We would rather be ruined than changed.” – WH Auden

Scully sometimes paid lip service to the idea of wanting what she called “a real life,” but come on. Her mom’s friend’s daughter had invited her to join a book club. She said she’d go, then never did, because there was always something more pressing than some book about a Civil War widow finding love again. There was always a mangled body, an autopsy bay. There was always Mulder.

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Periodic Table of the X-Files

Click and zoom to see details

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What’s your favorite msr fanfic of ALL time? You know, the one that you wish you could erase from your head to enjoy it again. Tough question?

Never a tough question: although there are many among my favorites, Parabiosis is my forever fave.

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Now I want to know everybody else's! Reblog and put it in the tags (or the main post, share the love).

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'The Big Orange', 'Reach', 'Iolokus' - these will still be floating around in my head when I'm a head in a jar on a distant space ship.

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Forgot all about this, but this was the picture that started me writing 'Heuvelmans' —