I've seen a couple of episodes - enough to wish I'd started watching it when Sky One first aired it, but luckily Channel 4 (terrestrial telly) have just started screening it, so I caught most of the pilot episode last week. I've also seen the Oh My God!!!! episode involving the Xanderish character, and the everything-suddenly-goes-X-Filesish-and-isn't-that-Maggie-Walsh episode.
But yeah, it's pretty much general principles taunting. *g*
Also? Thanks SO much for the link, you doll. I've found one Balconyfic immediately, which was just enough to have me yelling "no, not like that you fool!" - so I may just have to pen something fast and dirty for my own satisfaction. (Er. Which really sounded pornier than I meant, but I guess that's appropriate.)
Can I just add my astonishment at the fact that The Basement boasts an AU piece of Mulder/Skinner/Krycek entitled "Apprentice Wizard and the Unicorn 2: The Grand Wizard meets Prince Alex". Suddenly I'm starting to see where the writers-of-disparaging-articles get their whacky notions about this fanfic business. (Not to say this is a bad story. It may be the greatest piece of writing in the history of literature - I didn't read it. But that's quite a title.)
Which reminds me - today's lecture on teaching literature (which I'm SO looking forward to) included a splendid ten minute section in which the lecturer read us a book called "The True Story of The Three Little Pigs", or something along those lines. Fairy Tale fanfic from the Big Bad Wolf's POV - nothing more, nothing less. Fanfiction.
[stumbling back, blinking]
Well, I think I can say with some justification that the aforementioned AU reads very much like something that's entitled "Apprentice Wizard and the Unicorn 2: The Grand Wizard meets Prince Alex".
FayJay, if you want the quintessential X-Files fic, read the Iolokus series by Rivka and Mustang Sally. WARNING: this goes into some damned weird freaky places and graphic unhappy sex seems to be their rason d'etre. But the last two sections of the story are plot-ful, and nifty and frequently funny and the Gunmen are lovely, and if your psyche is up to it you won't regret reading it.
Iolokus rocks hard. And I don't read X-fic at all. But it was recommended so much that I finally did. Worth it.
Teppy, you keep claiming to be vanilla. You must be that incredibly rich and tasty premium-ice-cream-sold-in-little-packages French vanilla. Cause I don't claim to be vanilla and Iolokus squicks me in some large places.
Oh, it squicked me in some places, but it was still good writing. And I loves me some angst. I loved Cicatrix, too, and that was squicksome in places.
Good writing is good writing.
I gave up on Iolokus mid book 3 when things finally started to look up, out of sheer exhaustion. I've been meaning to pick it up again for the longest time. I did love what I've seen of the Mooselet.
Another excellent XF novel that explores a similar theme (reproductive manipulation of Scully) is Fialka's Arizona Highways, which damn near broke me when it first came out chapter by chapter. Wonderful writing, flawed and incredibly human Mulder and Scully circa mid season 6 (Two Fathers/One Son), and tons of angst, without quite hitting the squick-o-meter of "Iolokus". Even after 2 years, it still tops my multifandom fanfic top 10 hit parade.
When Scully turned up pregnant on the show, my nephew was incensed that it was a boy. "No! It's supposed to be a girl! The Mooselet!" And, of course, the Gopher King Sings Songs of Love. I've got the last two segments saved on my hard drive. Note to self: buy the freakin' cd burner already.
Could someone do me a favour? I'd like to read a post-Tara death Willowfic called Widow's Pique.
So if one of you guys could write it, that would be great.
Ta, ever so.
I just read [link] offa the BFA list. It's a really nice post-Grave Spike-in-Africa crossover piece that you don't really need to know much about the X-Files to get. Spike POV, not too long.
