One minor nitpick from someone who has seen Mighty Ducks 2 far too many times: it was the Junior Goodwill Games, not the Junior Olympics.

Thanks. I couldn't remember. And research seemed bad at three am.

There was a woman in XF who thought that Mulder was an Unappreciated Hero, and that the Scullyists Were In Power and Abused the Right-Thinking Writers of Mulder-As-Hero stories. She would post these appalling rants WITH CAPITALS, and very poorly characterized stories that had Mulder and Scully getting stoned with Mulder's gay friends from Oxford.

You know, every now and then I get this warm fuzzy feeling about the world I live in. Like during the Superbowl halftime show this year, which was so, so awful, and kitschy, and I just grinned all the way through it, because isn't it great to live in a world that can make such awful, kitschy things just for fun?

And I just had that feeling. Probably because I never had to deal with the woman in question myself, but. Hee! Bad fanfic about getting stoned with Mulder's gay Oxford friends! That just warms the cockles of my heart, somehow.

Oh! That kind of stoned! Here I was thinking Biblical stoning and going "That's damned odd."

Oh, see, that's funnier.

But Consuela left out some of the best parts! Like, when she was complaining that no one appreciated Mulder enough, she was doing it on a list specifically devoted to fiction about and analysis of Scully. And then she was shocked (shocked!) to find out slashers didn't appreciate Mulder either. And the stories with the 2000-word author's notes describing how she'd been oppressed by the Scullyist hierarchy and if you didn't like her stories, you were what was wrong with America today.

Ah, man. I get nostalgic just thinking about it.

And the stories with the 2000-word author's notes describing how she'd been oppressed by the Scullyist hierarchy and if you didn't like her stories, you were what was wrong with America today.

Still funny. From a distance. The Scullyist hierarchy! Hee.

Though you know, I was never part of X-Files fandom. For all I know, she was right and you and Consuela are part of the dastardly Scullyist hierarchy. Help, help, I'm being oppressed!

You know, I think I remember her from the TT X-Files forum.

you and Consuela are part of the dastardly Scullyist hierarchy

Absolutely. Because we were on the list, and people talked to us, and we participated without using capitals or ranting. And we thought that it was interesting to investigate the grey area of things instead of ranting about how postmodernism was EVIL and AMERICA NEEDS HEROES. There weren't any Mulder-haters on the list, that I was aware of, and in fact while it was identified as a Scully-focused list, there were many well-known "Mulderists" there, because the level of discussion was so good.

At any rate, this woman ranted once, and a couple of us responded, politely, to some of her points, and she never replied and shortly thereafter starting going off on the listmods about how they were oppressing her. The bit I really liked was how, in the middle of a discussion about -- hell, I forget -- she posted the entire text of a Kurt Vonnegut story to make a point. When it was noted that this was (a) a copyright violation and (b) kind of rude, she went ballistic.

Fun times, fun times.

You know, I think I remember her from the TT X-Files forum.

Oh, my god, I'd forgotten about that particular crazy.

She got around?

Not that we ever had a shortage of crazies, back there. She was just a persistent crazy, and one who didn't change names every time she stopped to draw breath.

The whole fanfic phenomenon of FBI-agents-taking-ecstasy, with a codicil of FBI-agents-dancing-like-maddened-teenagers-in-neon-raves, was just too silly not to mention. Ooh! Ooh! And can I go into not-specifically-psychotic, but clearly out of their heads, people who thought the FBI had an annual ball? And that Mulder and Scully had to attend, however reluctantly? And cue your romance cliches and violins right about here?

Those were the sane people, I reliterate. Okay, mostly sane.