X-Files Fanfic Recommendations

the classics

2008-06-16T18:42:03Z

Hi everyone!

I need fanfic advice! It's been a long time since i read x files fic and the computer where I had all the fics died some months ago.

Anyway, I'd like you to rec me the x files fic classics (MSR), those fics, those authors, that i must read and that every fan of this show has surely read.

Thanks!!!

Fic Search? xfstoryfinders community

2007-07-15T01:52:30Z

I'm sad. Because there are X-Files fic finding queries that are going unanswered.

xfstoryfinders needs new members, the more x-files fan fiction fans the better. XF fans of all types and fans of all pairings are all encouraged to join.

xfstoryfinders is The X-Files fic search community. Looking for a MSR? Slash? Gen? Noromo? That Doggett fic with that thing that happened but you just can't remember the title or the author's name... ask at xfstoryfinders. Or you just love helping out your fellow XF fans, and you just might know that fic!

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Please come help out, I mean join!

baby-fics

2006-12-05T19:17:43Z

they're my favourite. just wanted to know if someone could rec baby fics......
well, now my rec: i'm reading sarah again(oh my memory, can't remember the author), anyway it's very good, mulder had a daughter and he never told anything to scully...... i think it's on gossamer...

xf_ficrecs @ 2006-04-24T12:53:00

2006-04-24T17:00:21Z

I highly recommend reading Buckingham's fanfics. Her fics can be found here: http://fluky.gossamer.org/author/15119-1.html

During the show, I was often confused about the going-on's during season eight and nine, especially in regards to Mulder and Scully's relationship and about William. Buckingham helps make a lot of these things much clearer. I definitely recommend her stories if you like seasons 7-9. Or even if you don't, these stories could quite possibly make you feel better about the seasons, heh. I know it helped clear up a lot for me.

xf_ficrecs @ 2006-02-16T17:15:00

2006-02-16T23:32:19Z

Whatever happened to...Prufrocks Love (the author)?

Whatever happened to...lisby finishing Lessons?

Who wrote Abah, anyway?

What are everyone's favorite/most hated unfinished WIP? What authors have moved on to nevvwer and greater things? What authors do we all remember? Stories that are favourites? Archives that are lost except for the Internet WayBack machine?

xf_ficrecs @ 2006-02-12T17:43:00

2006-02-13T01:43:58Z

S3 M/S-friendship fic, with Gunmen? Take me there, now!

Angular Momentum by Kel

Renovatio

2006-01-22T20:45:23Z

Most of you probably frequent Ephemeral, but if you don't, or if you haven't read it yet, you need to go read this one NOW.

Title: Renovatio
By: Lisby and Amanda Wilde (MaybeAmanda)
Rating: PG. If that.
Category: MSR, Post-Truth, AU, a little MT, 2005 X-OK Holiday Fic

It's all told in a series of emails! I love, love, love that format. (When it's well done, which this is.) LOVE. Just witness xf_journals. Yep. Love.

Go read.

It's like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me.

2005-12-31T10:27:39Z

There are rental cars, hallways, rafts of paper. There are hollow cement parkades and still-life motel rooms. There are gritty winds, plane tickets, piles of bulldozed snow. Their apartments are contrasting and separate. They don't even live in the same state. It gets dark by four. The terricolous office, where they discuss and ponder, is garbed in a bewildering pastiche of carcasses, space ships and basketball trophies.

Mmm, because gratuitous reccing of Parabiosis is so worth it. Do not challenge my modly right, citizens!

http://nicklea.ru

2005-12-25T13:52:47Z

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xf_ficrecs @ 2005-11-27T20:41:00

2005-11-28T01:44:23Z

I'm not actually recommending anything, I was wondering if anybody could rec some fics to me. I'm looking for some good cancer arc fics. Any kind. Romantic fics or fics that deal strictly with trying to cure Scully. The only kind I don't like is character death stories, so no Scully dying stories, please!

Also, I'm always up for a good Mulder/Scully/baby story, whether it's William or not. I am a sucker for babies and therefore, baby fics.

If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear about them! Thank you.

P.S. If this post isn't appropriate, go ahead and take it down (or ask me to,) I won't be offended. :)

xf_ficrecs @ 2005-11-14T21:42:00

2005-11-15T02:42:11Z

This was posted recently on xfiles and xfilesfanfic. I almost skipped right over it .. I'm glad I didn't. Go read!

The Veiled Lady
viola_dreamwalk
Summary: Halloween fic, set during the abduction arc in S2. The characterization is great, the case is well-realized, and there are awesome Gunmen. And Danny!
Rating: unrated by the author, but I'd say PG.

Leave her feedback so she writes more! ;D

xf_ficrecs @ 2005-08-31T19:53:00

2005-09-01T02:55:37Z

Vehicle and Tenor by Suture is REALLY SAD s9 Gibsonfic. And you should all read it, because Gibson needs some extra lovin'.

xf_ficrecs @ 2005-08-17T00:15:00

2005-08-17T07:21:51Z

I'm recommending everything by Julie Fortune-- very dark, very well written. They do lots of FBI agent stuff, if that's your thing. (It's mine!) Generally more gore than there is sex, but she writes them as partners so intensely; they have that palpable Mulder-Scully thing. Go read!

Where have all the people gone?

2005-08-12T21:47:00Z

WAY shorter than my usual fare, but it made me smile.

Title: Touch the Moon
Author: Pteropod
Category: Post-ep (all things), M/S UST
Rating: PG
Summary: Lunchtime the day after the beginning and end of
"all things". In my world, M&S did not do the naked
pretzel during the episode.

request for recommendations

2005-07-14T19:18:15Z

Hello!

I am in the process of compiling a list of post-colonization/post-apocalyptic X-Files and Lone Gunmen fan fiction stories that feature all or at least one of the Lone Gunmen characters (Melvin Frohike, John F. Byers, Richard "Ringo" Langly). I know my current list is quite incomplete, so any suggestions or recommendations of good stories would be most appreciated. Many thanks!

My list thus far, in alphabetical order

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

2005-02-12T08:22:02Z

This is one from the Novel Annex .. I wanted something long and good to read last week, and picked this one rather randomly. (Well, not so randomly. It's near the beginning of the "story" category. d-: ) I really liked it a lot; it has something of everything, and lots of Scully's family. And I need to see if there's a sequel because there's mytharcy stuff unresolved ..

TITLE: "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
AUTHOR: Jean Helms
WARNING: Explicit sexual violence/rape of a character. Character death, although if you're like me, you won't weep for this one.
ORIGINAL POST: 12/12/1999
CLASSIFICATION: SRA, MSR.
RATING: Mostly PG, but overall NC-17 for language, chapters dealing with explicit and implied sexual violence and for explicit consensual sex.
SUMMARY: Mulder and Scully, off the X Files for now, investigate a possible bioweapons facility. What they find there puts their partnership, their investigative skills, their love and even their sanity to a test neither could ever have imagined.
SPOILERS: U.S. sixth season; to be safe, let's say up to but not including Two Fathers/One Son.

Anyway, read. But yeah, it's long. 987 KB. ... Does anyone but me ever actually read these huge long monstrosities that I rec? hee.

xf_ficrecs @ 2005-02-07T14:52:00

2005-02-07T20:52:19Z

A long time ago I read a story called 'Where there's A Will'. Later, 22 chapters came out continuing the story line. Then abruptly, it stopped. I mean, Scully's pregnant, there's a crazy lady trying to off her, and I really wanted there to be a good ending, lol. Does anyone happen to know what I'm talking about, and if there are more chapters out there somewhere that I just didn't know about? Thanks in advance!

EVERYTHING by Spider

2005-01-18T08:31:57Z

I'm hereby rec'ing Spider's entire collected works. (That I know of, anyway. Is there more?)

Human Affairs
By Spider
Rating : mostly PG and G, but some chapters R for adult sexual
concepts and language
Category : S
Spoilers: Everything up to but not including Biogenesis
Keywords: MSR, slight S/other, M/angst
Synopsis: Mulder's Oxford flat mate arrives unexpectedly with a
compound mystery; modern dinosaur and human remains are found near
a Loch in northern England.
Size: 350 k

[so confusing .. I started reading Buffy fic and they measure size by word count, I had no clue .. but I digress.]

Lost Time
By Spider
Date: August 1999
Time Frame/Spoilers: Immediately Post One Son. references
to numerous eps. throughout. Conversations and certain
understandings that took place inn my other fic, Human Affairs,
although just to confuse you the events and conclusions of
that story are in a different universe!
Category/key words:X,S, MSR - be warned, some M/O & M/S
angst.
Classification: WARNING!!! NC17 in some chapters,
generally PG throughout.
Synopsis: Black magic and shippiness - one fanfic cliche, but I'm not gonna spoil it by saying which. d;
Size: 338 k

Mind Games
by Spider
Date Completed: September 1999.
Category: MSR, X, S, M/angst, S/angst. Skinner...not
telling
Spoilers: Everything up to Unnatural, concept rooted in
Grotesque but also using something revealed in Biogenesis.
Rating: WARNING: NC17 for sexual situations, language and
VERY disturbing, graphic pedophile violence (taken from
real cases, see references at the end). It is not gratuitous, it is
contextual, but nevertheless you will find it disturbing; as well
you should. I cannot stress this too much, abandon now if you
think you won't cope, don't bother to flame if you get halfway
through and start upchucking. Some characters take apparently
very dark twists, but hang in there....all will be revealed.
Synopsis: A horrific series of child molestations and
murders has escalated. The director himself, under
political pressure from the Justice Department has no
choice but to assign the FBI's best profiler to the case,
despite a promise he made ten years previously...But this
series of killings has no resemblance to anything anyone in
the FBI, including the X-files' Fox Mulder, has ever
encountered before.
Size: 683 k

Claim Forms
at gossamer
http://tooms.gossamer.org/gossamer/cgi-bin/story.cgi.txt?ac/ClaimForms.Spider
Category: V, H.
Spoilers: must have a good general knowledge. There is
a specific reference to Mind Games: Mirror Mirror, but
you do not have to have read that piece to understand
this one.
Synopsis: What FBI agents *really* spend most of their
time doing.
Author's notes: In the process of writing MIND GAMES
Things got pretty dark, so this was my comic relief after
writing Mirror Mirror.
Size: 15.7 k

My favorite of these was Mind Games .. but then, I have a weakness for really good, really long, shippy, profiler!Mulder fic. This one has a really unique take on his profiling ability - it also has a tie to the mytharc that will have you going "wtf .. I'm not going to ask if I just read what I think I just read because I know it's what I just read" - I mean, this theory is so far out there it's even beyond Mulder's usual. But just go with it.

Claim Forms is very short and HYSTERICALLY funny. The single reference to Mind Games isn't very big, you probably won't even notice it if you haven't read the other. So, go, read!

12 tales!

2005-01-14T04:12:01Z

Hello, boys and girls! Would you like some adorable for Christmas?

12 TALES OF CHRISTMAS
by Anne Haynes
Category: VRA
Rating: R for language, sexual situations
Spoilers - US Season 6 through Arcadia
Keyword: MSR

http://web.archive.org/web/20021202180905/http://members.aol.com/ahaynes33/12tales.htm

Note that the link's at the wayback machine; there are, I think 2, links on that page that don't work, so you'll have to surf around the machine a bit to find them. Everyone can handle that, right? They *are* there, it just takes a quick dig.

Ah, I do love a good shippy yummy realistic S6 MSR with a light sprinkling of angst. *grin*sigh*mmm.

recs!

2004-12-28T08:54:50Z

Heh, mushfromnewsies recced me this, and now I'm reccing it here, because it's sad, and pretty insightful. And, twin!fic! And sort of angsty mid-Gethsemane-arc sadness! :)

Waiting by Kipler
(no headers)
- G, I think
- Keywords: MSRish, friendshipish, cancer arc, TWINS!

Uhm, I also wanted to rec a pretty well-known series, if not a "classic" (that's ignorance, not judgement :-P)--

Life During Wartime by cofax, Marasmus, Maria and Fialka
- Rating varies from G to R, just for situational darkness and some implied slash. No sex, really.

It's an interesting postcol that starts toward the end of s6 and goes AU from there, written from different POVs (Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Maggie Scully, the Gunmen, etc), and it's just good. :-P Some nice UST, some nice dysfunction, some nice character death, angst, and all that is good about postcol in general. And I LOVE LANGLY in this fic! Hee. And Ma Scully, as always. ;) If you haven't read it, gooo! :) (It's not really finished, if that bothers you, but I have a sneaking, horrible feeling it may never be. Or at least, not for a long while.)

ack

2004-11-21T04:41:24Z

It's been awhile! Pretty quiet in here! *nudges everyone*

Anyway, each one of these has left me a puddle on the floor:

Title: Gold to Thinness
Author: Maria Nicole
Rating: PG
Classification: SRA
Keywords: Mulder/Scully romance
Spoilers: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it one for Triangle.
Summary: "Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat."

Title: The Devil's Instant
Author: Maria Nicole
Spoiler: Orison, Paper Hearts, Bad Blood, The Beginning
Rating: PG
Classification: SA
Summary: Post-ep for Orison

Title: The Opposite of Impulse
Author: Maria Nicole
Classification: SR
Keywords: Mulder/Scully romance
Spoilers: The Unnatural, FTF (before Biogenesis)
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not making any money.
Summary: A small town, a broken-down car, a decision.

More on her site.

The last two are relatively cliche set-ups, but she makes them her own. Guh. Puddle = Courtney, especially with the last. Whereas the first is completely original. And fun. :D

Go! Read! They're all pretty short, no worries.

Mind's Eye

2004-10-08T03:23:06Z

Ok, I have some Mind's Eye post-eps for you from one of my mailing lists. They're all pretty short. And good.

2 about Scully frustration:

Eyes Open (1/1) by Leyla Harrison
Spoilers: Mind's Eye, Redux II, Memento Mori, Emily
Classification: VA, slight MSR, but also NoRomo friendly in an interesting way.
Rating: R
Summary: Scully, feeling left out and a little bitter, wishes that she could take back what she's seen.

Stiletto by shannono
Vignette, Scully angst, Scully first person, Mulder/Scully UST
Rated PG
Spoilers through "Mind's Eye"
Summary: Scully thinks about Mulder's pointed look at the police station.

2 Marty POV:

TITLE: SEEING AND NOT-SEEING (1 of 1)
AUTHOR: DAVID HEARNE
RATING: PG-13
CLASSIFICATION: Post-ep for "Mind's Eye"
Suddenly, Marty's seeing through a *different* person's eyes ...
(Not the greatest characterization, but cute M/S stuff.)

Title: Who Did Sin
Author: cgb
Category: V. Other character.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: " There are those who say she's difficult." A short story about Marty Glenn from "Minds Eyes" (Season 5).
(IMO, this one has much better Marty characterization than the other. No M&S though - only references.)

Moongate

2004-09-10T06:46:19Z

If you've been paying attention to me for awhile, you might have heard me bemoan the lack of good Teena/CSM. Or, indeed, *any* Teena/CSM to speak of. Well .. I LOVED THIS ONE.

Read. Now.

Title: Moongate
Author: Kel and Michelle Kiefer
Category: Pre-XF
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Not ours. Sigh.
Summary: Bermuda, 1965. Two women, two men.
Two sons, one father.

We both had a lot of fun reliving 1965. No cable TV,
no VCRs, no mousse, no microwaves, no Velcro.

But that was okay. We had the Beatles.

Teena Mulder and Cassandra Spender were beautiful
young wives back then, and their husbands were men
on the move. What could be more glamorous than a
weekend in Bermuda?

Revelations

2004-09-09T04:27:14Z

Revelations by Sue Esty, aka Windsinger. If x-files.bytewright.com goes down again, it's on gossamer too.

Another classic one, and it is ... LONG. There's 8 interconnected stories and most of them are novel-length (or multiple-novel-length). I'm pretty sure nothing's rated higher than PG-13/light R.

The whole series takes place in season 1. The first story is set right after Jersey Devil, and it's a profiling case. She has the new-partners vibe down *perfectly*. This was one of the last to be written, so it's sort of a pre-quel, and it's my favorite part. It can stand alone, so while the whole story is definitely worthwhile, if you don't have a week of your life to devote to this fic you should at least read 'Dawn.' *grin*

The second through seventh parts jump forward to after Tooms (although she's really played with the schedule a lot, because Christmas happens during her story, but then, she knows that, heh). They've lost that new-partners feeling that Dawn had so clearly, but there's still a refreshing naïveté with such an intense, complicated, angsty, and adorable plot coming before the X-Files closing, before Krycek and abductions and deaths and cancer.

Part 8, the epilogue, takes place right before Erlenmeyer Flask and neatly addresses all the loose ends from the previous chapters. ( .. Actually, I take that back. There's one part from Abductee that doesn't get resolved and it's bugging me a little. It has to do with aliens, though, so maybe that was intentional, hee.)

marikology was worried that S1 is too early for an MSR. Think of it as a self-contained AU; within that context, it really does work. I didn't find it to be OOC at all. Of course, if it had really happened this way, seasons 2-9 would have been much different, lol. (slight spoiler) Also the ST stays nice and U until the end of part 7. IE, most of the story is the absolute EPITOME of the text on my icon. ^_^

And if MT is your thing, the poor man just does *not* catch a break for almost the entire story. *sigh* *pets Mulder*

More praise: Skinner and Maggie Scully are portrayed really well, and even Melissa and Teena (though her first name is different .. hmm .. I forget what it was) make in-character appearances. There are a lot of original characters, and they're all very well crafted and fun (or terrifying) to read. And perhaps what was most refreshing to me is that Ms. Esty *clearly* has been around the Beltway a time or two herself. Finally, an author who knows her way around the DC area! (Or else she just did really good research. Either way, yay!)

So, go read!

Rrrrec

2004-08-30T00:31:28Z

lol! Okay. I had fun with these... They're basically romps through fandom, and hard to describe exactly. :) Figure it out on the way.

Title: M Luder, King of SETI Troopers Fanfic
Classification: Metafic; C with a nonexistent television series
Content: H, A, MSR
Spoilers: A few, through late S8. No further.
Summary: Some excerpts from "Sunday Snaps" days on the 'SETI Troopers' fanfic list.

Title: M Luder, King of WebJournals.com
Classification: Metafic; C with a nonexistent television series and a gently renamed blog site
Content: H, A, MSR, Slash. Haven Challenge Fic.
Spoilers: Everything through S7 (and little implied ones from S8 and S9)
Summary: Excerpts from Troopie Award winning author M. Luder's blog.

lol. xf_journals people will find the second especially amusing! :-P