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.

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.

Ripoff of Hambly's Darwath Trilogy much? (Although one could argue that Hambly rips herself off with the Antryg Windrose books, but I forgive her for it.)

The more common perspective, I think, is to treat that scene as background for a Love Forgives All epic

I was rewatching this X files ep again, and I just DON'T GET the people who want to write the fluffywuffy romance out of the angsty violent enemy slashy vibes. I don't get it. (Well, I don't get the wizard!Mulder/ unicorn!Krycek fic impulse either, admittedly, but it's more of a rarity. I assume. Whereas fluffywuffy romance out of angsty violent slashy vibes crops up in lots of fandoms, I think?) But it's okay that I don't get it - I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, whatever floats their boat & so forth. It's just not a boat I can get aboard myself.

...But the BDSM nearly-killing Krycek shaggage I could definitely read. Um. [/sheepish]

Yes! Thanks Vonnie. You're right, there's nothing special about it, but it was among the first things I read and I found it weirdly fascinating.

It almost certainly must have been rec'd on ChronicleX, because that's how I found all my XF reading, in those days.

Nope. Not gonna go back and reread.

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

I post on ff.net under the name Sophia Prester. The thing I like about ff.net is that I tend to hop from fandom to fandom in my writing. I think you've read my Angel fic ("Oedipus Paradox"). I'm an anime junkie, and have written one Trigun piece, a Sandman/Rurouni Kenshin crossover featuring Despair and Delerium, and...um...er... a Sailor Moon/Homicide:Life on the Streets crossover and oh, God I am so frelling embarrassed....

I was rewatching this X files ep again, and I just DON'T GET the people who want to write the fluffywuffy romance out of the angsty violent enemy slashy vibes.

You and me both, sweetie. I tend to call them "chintz curtains" stories, because inevitably someone will mention window dressings. This is where the egregious Mpreg lives, in this fandom.

Oedipus Paradox

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Oh yes, that was you!

You know, re. IKEAfic, I was reading A. S. Byatt, Angels & Insects and going, huh, 'cause that is WHAT she writes. There's an obscene amount of interior decorating.

Only... it's A. S. Byatt. So it's good.

There's a good Skinner/Scully oost story called "Skinner's Case" that's logical and painful and all that stuff. Skinner has to go off and deal wtih a high-profile kidnapping case and takes Scully along so he has someone he can trust with the forensic stuff. It's all from his POV and you get to see him deal with sleep depriviation, bad coffee, the grungy details of a tough case, and that gorgeous red-headed woman who's got his back and is the only one he can trust in a bad situation.

Anne, if you don't take the ita bunny, I might try my hand at it.