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.

1) Fay, dearie, it's been done a few times, although it tends to have a strong BDSM, well-I'll-just-throw-you-off-the-balcony-hmmm? flavor to it. What with the handcuffs and all. The more common perspective, I think, is to treat that scene as background for a Love Forgives All epic. I have no specific recs for either scenario, because I tend to find both of them laughable, but I'm sure you can find what you seek at the Basement Dana linked to.

2) When they say AU in the X-Filesverse, they really mean it. I'm sorry to say I have run across medieval X-Files, and unicorn-y fantasy X-Files, and what-if-it-all-took-place-in-a-prison, whaddya-mean-prisons-are-gender-segregated X-Files, and Willliam Gibson-y X-Files, and so on. I think any time Skinner is re-written as a cruel but lonely duke in his high castle, it's time to hang up your internet connection.

3) I have always thought Tikkun Olam is a stronger story than the Iolokus series. Iolokus has other things going for it, namely a gigantic, detailed, and occasionally cruel parody of fanfic cliches and specific fandom people, but a lot of that is hard to discern if you weren't around when it was published. In ten years, Iolokus will be sort of a headscratcher, but Tikkun Olam will still be a good, if mindbendingly complex, story. And it's less annoyingly shmoopy.

When they say AU in the X-Filesverse, they really mean it.

I read one once where they were sucked into an alternate universe and one of them (one? both?) turned out to be a wizard. That was...interesting.

Hmm. I think I've caught plot-bunny cooties from ita. Not that this is a bad think or anything. I'll check back later if anything happens.

Dana, I'm suddenly having traumatic flashbacks to the "Life From The Ashes" series. It's sparking painful giggling and a lot of derisive snorts.

Thanks a lot.

Back when I first started reading fanfic, I read an epic in which Mulder and Scully got sucked into a fantasy world where Mulder became a powerful wizard and Scully became a legendary warrior. It wasn't exactly good, but I read the whole damn thing. I wish I could remember the name of that story. I bet it's still at Gossamer.

You know you want to, Anne.

(What else have you written, and where can I find it, by the way? Do you use the same name?)

Willliam Gibson-y X-Files

Yeah, but Gibsony's, y'know... canon.

Well, okay, Gibsony Maddoxy.

(Maddox taught at my school, and the AI GM episode was essentially beta'd for techincal detail by one of my profs. This caused us no end of amusement, as the thing ended up resembling some of his more disjointed rambles.)

Back when I first started reading fanfic, I read an epic in which Mulder and Scully got sucked into a fantasy world where Mulder became a powerful wizard and Scully became a legendary warrior. It wasn't exactly good, but I read the whole damn thing. I wish I could remember the name of that story. I bet it's still at Gossamer.

Yes! That's the one. Now we have to find it.

Amber, the X-files wizard story is Sue Bickerstaff and Jennifer Lyon's Magician. (scroll down on the alphabetical list). I read the first book because it was being recc'd all over the place at the time. I remember scratching my head at all the acclaim, because I didn't see anything really special about it other than the wild AU-ness and the interminable length.