A bit more XF Stuff

[shipperx]

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XF fic.

God, my memory of it has grown dim. I hit Gossamer (look at the old school, small bandwith version of "graphics!" hee!), to see whether there were any fanfics I'd read back in the day that I still remembered.

I have a vague memory of this Post-Hollywood AD ficlet by David Hearne: They Can Mess You Up.

Likewise, I vaguely remembered his post Je Souhaite fic Every Chimpanzee Has His Day

And his ficlet take on Bad Blood, the episode that gave Mulder's POV then Scully's POV (neither of which matched) so Hearne added Sheriff Hartwell's POV.

Hearne must have written a bunch of post-episode ficlets because I seem to remember several. I also remember that he was a nice guy.

The fic that was always rec'd everywhere in the XF fandom (or at least in the corners where I hung out) was Rivka T's and Mustang Sally's Iolokus (though, I'll be perfectly honest and say that I preferred their Spuffy fic's The Heart's Filthy Lesson and Serious Moonlight . Not without quibble with them, but I enjoyed them and remember them with great fondness. Almost as much fondness as The BtVS virtual season Dancing Lessons... yeah, we'll ignore the kerfuffle that blew that one up. I've heard rumors that it's archived somewhere -- like maybe LiveJournal -- anyone know? I think I could bring myself to read Dancing Lessons again. )

I'll admit to having been one of the participants in the Yahoo-list (remember those?!) round-robin that produced the fic Cold Hands/Warm Heart (And, seriously, it was a round robin, so there was nothing remotely "plotted" about the thing. But, hey, I remember having fun with it. I shudder to think of reading it again. I don't think I could bring myself to do so. There's no telling how awful it was... but I have fun memories of the ficlist that created it.

Somehow (I don't remember how) that round robin became a late addition to the X-Files Virtual Season 8.

Later, I made my own contribution to Virtual Season 9 . (I won't dare read that either.) I was a newbie to fandom (and the world of sci-fi fandom fanfic) and no one told us then that these stories would still be hanging around the internet mocking us all these years later! Anyway I wrote the virtual "episode" Seeing is Believing .

And, searching Gossamer, I found my very, very first fanfic (God, how bad must that one be?! ::shudder::) Post-Requiem, Mobius

Comments

[msclawdia.livejournal.com]

When I finally decided to start writing Buffy fic, I went back to Gossamer to see if anything still came up under my old psuedonym. And then I wondered if I'd look back on my Spuffy stories with the same kind of horror ten years later.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

No one told us that the internet is forever. :)

Although, honestly, I get a kick of that stuff still being out there. Sometimes we need the nostalgia (cue the MadMen quote about nostalgia being an old wound and pang in the heart.)

[rahirah]

Yes, Dancing Lessons is archived at dl_archive.

DL was so seminal I'm almost afraid to go back and re-read it, lest it not be so awesome the second time around. I do wish that they'd finished it, since it was so very close to being done. On the other hand, I asked queenofthorns once if my guess as to how it would end was right, and she said pretty much, yeah, so I don't feel a massive lack of closure.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Curious now. How did it end? (I'm not even sure that I read all that was posted of the third one).

[rahirah]

When last we left Our Heroes, Buffy had been taken over by the spirit of the First Slayer and was randomly homicidal. The Council had her sedated and Willow was poking around in her head trying to fix things. Spike, meanwhile, had decided that he wasn't good enough for Buffy without a soul (Because he'd killed Ethan Rayne, I think, after Ethan's latest prank almost killed Dawn) and was headed off on a mysterious errand.

My guess, based on the foreshadowing in book three, and my knowledge of Cousin Jean's tastes, was that Willow would have to rip the Slayerness out of Buffy to save her life, leaving her human. And that Spike would go to Lurky and ask to be made 'what he was' but in this case would end up human. And both of them would then live happily ever after as an ordinary couple.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Okaaayyyy.

Not exactly the ending I wanted for Spuffy, but it's acceptable. I guess.

[rahirah]

Yeah, that was my reaction.

[nmissi.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord, are you bringing back memories. I still have a ton of that fic saved on a hard drive in the top of my closet.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

If I could make my old Pentium work, there is no telling how much XF stuff is on that old hard drive!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this ?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Awesome article. That sums up my feelings really well.