One In Five Billion

[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.

Originally I was going to focus this post on the 1999 Spooky Awards because, you know, they came consecutively after 1998 (and because @amplifyme won a lifetime achievement award that year! did y'all know that? it seems deserved for sure, although she must have been awfully youthful to be getting a lifetime achievement award). But once I looked over the full list for 2000, I couldn't resist choosing 2000. Nearly every fic on the list is familiar to me. These are some masterpieces. This had to be one of the high point years for fic, at least in my book. So many of these are still on my rec lists! (And not just mine!) I mean, right? Some trends I notice for the winners of this year: lots of angst. XF fic always includes angst, but oof, 2000's winners had so much. More angst than smut, I would say, although there's smut, too. This is interesting because in 2000 canon, of course, we're in season 7 and things are generally lighter and flirtier. Well, I guess Sein und Zeit / Closure, Orison and the season finale are plenty angsty, and there are fics here about those episodes.

I also notice a 2000 trend for post-apocalyptic fic and fic with clever and grim twists. Of course, in canon, the mytharc is pointing to likely colonization at this point, there were lots of 90s alien invasion stories in general. And who knows, maybe we have some general turn-of-the-millenium apocalyptic vibes in the air, too? Pop culture of the late 90s / early 2000s also really liked clever plot concepts and twists (See: Se7en, Sixth Sense, Usual Suspects, The Others). So these make sense as fanfic elements.

At any rate, I present to you ... the XF fandom's Spooky Award Winners of 2000. (I will get back to 1999, I promise! And the others!) I do have to split this up in two posts because of link limits, but I will link the second part below. Let me know what you notice / think.

SPOOKY WINNERS 2000 Outstanding Short Story, Vignette or Poem

First Place - Black Hole Season - Penumbra

Second Place - Nobody's Son - Marguerite

Third Place - Cellphone - Marasmus

Outstanding Midlength Story

First Place (tie) Aquinnah - Anjou

First Place (tie) Strangers and the Strange Dead - Kipler

Second Place - Night Giving Off Flames - Jesemie's Evil Twin

Third Place - A Candle for Katherine - marasmus

Outstanding Long Story

First Place - The Dreaming Sea - Revely

Second Place - The Second to Last 7-Eleven - V. Salmone

Third Place - Malus Genius - Maybe Amanda and Plausible Deniability

Outstanding Novel

First Place - Arizona Highways - Fialka

Second Place - Blinded by White Light - Dasha K. (@dashakay)

Third Place - Blood Oranges - Syntax6 @syntax6

Outstanding Series

First Place - Life During Wartime - cofax, Maria Nicole and Marasmus - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Second Place - Intuitive Reasoning Series Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 - Mish

Serendipity Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 - Sue Schramm

Outstanding WIP

First Place - All the Way Home - syntax6 @syntax6

Second Place - Ersatz Promises - Suzanne Barringer and Suzanne Schramm

Third Place - Almost Home - Shoshana

Outstanding Angst Story

First Place - Arizona Highways - Fialka

Second Place - Night Giving Off Flames - Jesemie's Evil Twin

Third Place (tie) - Cellphone - Marasmus

Third Place (tie) - Strangers and the Strange Dead - Kipler

Outstanding Apocalypse / Post-Colonization Story

First Place - Blinded by White Light - Dasha K.

Second Place - Night Giving Off Flames - Jesemie's Evil Twin

Third Place - Life During Wartime - cofax, Maria Nicole and Marasmus - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Outstanding Crossover Story

First Place - Thanks of a Grateful Nation (The West Wing crossover) - Sabine

Second Place - Straight on 'Til Morning (Peter Pan crossover) - Brandon Ray

Third Place (tie) - Glass Hearts (The Sandman crossover)- David Hearne

Third Place (tie) - Mezzo Luna (Like Water for Chocolate crossover)- Michelle Kiefer

Outstanding Humor Story

First Place - Malus Genius - Maybe Amanda and Plausible Deniability

Second Place - Good Vibrations - Lysander

Third Place - Midnight Mark-up - Louise Marin

Outstanding Post-Episode Story

First Place - Black Hole Season - Penumbra

Second Place - Aquinnah - Anjou

Third Place - Nobody's Son - Marguerite

Outstanding X-File

First Place (tie) - Arizona Highways - Fialka

First Place (tie) - Blood Oranges - Syntax6

Second Place - Malus Genius - Maybe Amanda and Plausible Deniability

Third Place - Gutless - Magdeleine

Outstanding Scully Characterization

First Place - Arizona Highways - Fialka

Second Place - Blood Oranges - Syntax6

Third Place - Blinded by White Light - Dasha K.

Outstanding Mulder Characterization

First Place - Aquinnah - Anjou

Second Place - Arizona Highways - Fialka

Third Place - Night Giving Off Flames - Jesemie's Evil Twin

Outstanding Skinner Characterization

First Place (tie) - Abject - PD

First Place (tie) - Whom My Soul Loveth - Marguerite

Second Place - The Measure of My Days - Marguerite

Third Place - Six Months - Keleka

Outstanding Krycek Characterization

First Place - Crashing in the Same Car - Rachel Anton

Second Place - Useful Idiots - Brandon D. Ray

Third Place (tie) - My Little Demons - a frightened little girl

Third Place (tie) - Mapping the Veins - she who hides

Outstanding Other Series Character Characterization

First Place - Arizona Highways (Kresge) - Fialka

Second Place - Intuitive Reasoning Series (Karen Kosseff) Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 - Mish

Third Place - Getting Used to Gunfire (Maggie Scully) - cofax and Maria Nicole

Outstanding Original Character

First Place - Strangers and the Strange Dead - Kipler

Second Place - A Candle for Katherine - Marasmus

Third Place - My Favorite Word - Mish

Outstanding MSR UST

First Place - Strange Fruit - Punk Maneuverability

Second Place - Good Vibrations - Lysandra

Third Place - The Dreaming Sea - Revely

Outstanding Non NC-17 MSR

First Place - Atoll - Terma99

Second Place - Black Hole Season - Penumbra

Third Place - In the Night Season - Revely

Outstanding NC-17 MSR

First Place - Landfall - Ambress

Second Place - Worth Breaking - Narida Law

Third Place - Blinded by White Light - Dasha K.

second part of list here!

[sophsun1]

The X-Files – 6.15: Arcadia

[starbuck09256]

Her dont you dare..

[graciehart]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [502/?] ⤷ 2.22 — “F. Emasculata”

[starbuck09256]

He knows that she is a little worried for herself...

[medievalkitten69]

if i don’t get freak nasty msr sex in the iwtb directors cut i’m rioting

[starbuck09256]

Seriously thinking of just fast forwarding to get to that scene and if it doesnt exist im not watching the rest.

[youreadarkwizard]

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny at FAN EXPO Denver, 05/30/2026.

[mulderscullyinthetardis]

3 years on - these two still really need to figure out whether or not they Mulder & Scully actually got married

- - David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson, Paley 2013 & WizardWorld Chicago 2016

[starbuck09256]

I love that David is like Mulder 1000% married Scully. Like thats where Mulder is at with that.

[graciehart]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [463/?] ⤷ 11.04 — "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat"

[starbuck09256]

I love him losing it like "do you even know me?? Like on what planet would i ever forget?"

[tripleennui]

Fascinated by this fanon concept of Scully not being Mulder’s type. Type??? That man has no type. His type is ‘person who will hang out with me in basement.’ He is much too lonely to have a type lol

[starbuck09256]

His type is smart. He loves brilliant women.

[ecclesiasticallatin]

mulder scullygazing while he's on trial lmao

[starbuck09256]

You know he smirked hard core at that baby daddy comment.

[dunhamhairograpy]

[Deleted Dialogue] 'Emily': Scully thinks Mulder is 'sweet with Emily.

"You're sweet with her" 🥹

[starbuck09256]

Uncle Foxy!!

[foxmulderamuppettedman]

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

[starbuck09256]

That man would of been just fine if it was him and Scully and no one else.

[dartmoorpixie]

[starbuck09256]

He sure does

[graciehart]

idiots (affectionate)・[14/?] ⤷ 1.18 — “Miracle Man”

[scullayann]

[wintersnails]

Mulder: so… should we finally start sharing a hotel room now?

Scully: i suppose that will help us stay on budget

Mulder *taking off his pants*: exactly gotta keep Skinner happy

Scully *throwing her bra to the side*: expense reports will be so much quicker

[futvrism]

the x-files | 3.16

[starbuck09256]

Despite his best efforts.

[cypherdrgon]

Hot take aparently but I hate that so much of the txf fandom seem to see scully as like. Trapped in the x files by mulder? When, at least to me, that is very much not the case? Mulder kinda sees it that way sometimes, but its pretty clear to me that shes there willingly. She could have left at any time. If she wasn't also a little insane she probably would have. But shes there because she wants to be. Shes happy there.

[cypherdrgon]

Upon rewatching the show its literally the opposite. Mulder on several separate occasions is like "please leave the files you will get hurt and die" and everyone else is like "yes get put of the freak loser basement please girl" and scullys just like "no i will not leave i like the near death experiences and the freak loser"

[starbuck09256]

If anything she is almost more devoted than he is, she has her own reasons for being there. Not answers just for her sister but for herself, for Emily, and for Mulder.

Mulder may think the files are his life but they take over Scully identity. So I get why in IWTB she is like "no fucking way am I doing this again."