dashakay

you know you’re an og x-files fic fan:

dashakay

If any of the following applied to you in the 1990s:

  • You waited breathlessly for a new Gossamer update.
  • You remember the shippers vs. noromos flamewars on alt.tv.xfiles.creative.
  • The following inital salad means something to you: MSR VRA.
  • You wrote your Mulder/Krycek slash under another pen name because oh, the shame.
  • You lived for the satellite wild feed spoilers posted on Sunday mornings.
  • You remember when Amy was the owner of the Haven and that it used to host fic recs.
  • Your personal sign of “making it” was having Shari and Kris interview you for Chronicle X.
  • You belonged to at least four fic-related mailing lists, like Scullyfic, XAPEN, XF Romantics, RatTales or XFC.
  • You belonged to a “secret” mailing list of your friends to bitch about everyone else.
  • You took the Spooky Awards SUPER SERIOUSLY.
  • You remember when men, at least six of them, wrote fanfic.
  • You knew the big secret of the identity of Anubis.
  • You stayed up all night to read the latest book of Iolokus.
  • You measured the length of your fanfic in byte size, not word count.
  • You remember the giant, sprawling wank about the Wicked Witches and Yes Virginia.
  • You called in sick at work/skipped school to finish your WIP.
  • You emailed feedback to writers.
  • You thought that 70 character limit text files were the only way to read fanfic.
  • You hung out in the AOL fanfic junkies folder because all your favorite authors were there.
  • You read everything Erin Blair ever wrote because hilarious.
  • You had AOL, period. 
  • You wrote fanfic using your real name.
  • You used at least three beta readers per fic.
  • You were either are “Scullyist” or a “Mulderist.” Accordingly, you belonged to OBSSE or the Fox Mulder Estrogen Brigade.
  • You loved trying to figure out the blind gossip items in CiCi Lean’s newsletter.
  • You took everything, especially yourself, too seriously.

Have anything to add to the list?

flourish

I can’t believe this post was from 2015 and nearly a decade later here I am back reading X-Files fanfic and rewatching the damn show. Again.

knitmeapony
fagfrog

when someone is a christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust the transatlantic slave trade the extermination of native americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by christians so why do muslims get asked about terrorism and jewish people about israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while christians are not required to explain themselves??

fagfrog

goyim and non muslims can and should reblog

fagfrog

[christians and all sectors of christianity that means you]

i personally get asked this quite a bitbut most christians certainly don'tbeing raised nonreligious this was the biggest obstacle to my becoming christiani have some big feelings on the issuebut alsohypothetical questions are wildly annoyingwe all know why this is the situation in the US and many western countries: christian supremacy
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fansplaining: “Episode 172: Safe Spaces Episode 172, “Safe Spaces,” is split into two parts: first, Flourish and Elizabeth read and respond to a series of listener letters about their recent “Fandom-Tinted Glasses” conversation; then, they discuss... https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/172-safe-spaces
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Episode 172: Safe Spaces

Episode 172, “Safe Spaces,” is split into two parts: first, Flourish and Elizabeth read and respond to a series of listener letters about their recent “Fandom-Tinted Glasses” conversation; then, they discuss another listener letter on younger fans’ struggles to avoid or escape “anti” or “purity culture” dynamics. In increasingly fractured—and increasingly hostile—digital spaces, is it possible to create fandom environments that allow us to truly protect ourselves?

Click through to our site to listen or read a full transcript!