May 13, 2025
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i’m crashing out. WHAT HAPPENED TO HER
So Gossamer seems to be down, and I promptly freaked out at the realization. And while luckily someone gave Internet Achive a download so it's not fully lost, I would bet there are still people who want an easier way to read some of the fics that haven't been passed on to AO3. Never fear, I got you! These links have been verified as active by me today (08/09/2024), and I while some may be harder to navigate than others due to age, the fics are readable and that's the main criteria. So here we go!
-Gertie's X-Files Shippers is an angst/romance archive, with a good range of ratings and levels of smut. A fun time all around 😉
-The Annex is an archive for novel length fics, and contains about 450 works from 1998-2002
-Hyraeth Archives is a MSR themed archive sorted alphabetically, with pretty good tags
-Greasy Spoon is an adorable archive designed like a menu, so the fics can be "to your taste." 😋 Sorted by length, and spice meter!
-X Libris is one of my favorites. They have a ton of fics in a variety of formats and a great tagging system. The latest update made it a bit harder to use the tag filter, but overall, it's a great resource!
Featured Article: The Gossamer Project
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The Gossamer Project is our Featured Article of the week.
In 1995, within the Ohio State University engineering department, X-Files fan Vincent Juodvalkis began collecting all the fan fiction posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative or to the XFF (X-Files-Fanfic) mailing list. A year later, as he stepped away, the work was taken up by other fans around the world, including Vera Heinau, Adam Lee, and Harri Nyman, all who stepped up to save the archive on a series of separate sites.
While the archive and its collective works were often referred to as Gossamer (due to the presence of the word in its url) in August of 1996, the “Gossamer Project” was begun. Fan Natasha sought to categorize and summarize all the archived stories in a flat file database, and her scripts helped modernize the process moving forward.
Although closed to new submissions in 2017, "Goss" remains a treasure trove of classic X-Files fan fiction and its history is well-documented. Read more about the project and how various fans worked together to create, tend, and grow the Gossamer Project into what was the largest single-fandom fan fiction online archive until the early 2000s.
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We all love AO3, but it hasn’t always been here. Where did you get your fanifiction fix when you first discovered it?
Hyperventilating...
Does anyone know what happened to The Gossamer Project. So much Mulder and Scully... why GOD?!? Whyyyyy?
Or is it just down for maintenance?
Ykno, the entire series of X Files, we see Mulder writing in a journal and Scully writing a log. Why did we never get an approved novel of these notes?
Anyone know if ANY part of The Gossamer Project is still active? I sent in a question a few weeks back about getting some of my old work off the site and no one ever got back to me.
Any info would be appreciated.
Sherlock BBC equivalent of the Gossamer Project
http://www.delicious.com/sherlockbbcfic/