I'm making myself a new icon.

[pepper]

moonshayde and stargazercmc have put together an excellent new community: trustno1_redux, for rewatching the X-Files.

Ahh, it takes me back to those heady days of young fandom, being an X-Phile (oh, what a horrible name), writing fanfic between classes, flirting with strange Canadians over the interweb, and all my passwords being 'trustno1'. Heeheehee. I looked at the list of first season episodes, and simply had to join. Squeeze! The Jersey Devil! Fire! Beyond The Sea! Gender Bender! Darkness Falls! I'd forgotten how much love I had for that series. *happy sigh*

And did everyone already know that Hammond is Scully's dad? I only just realised it today. It made me very happy, in a very geeky way.

ETA: And was it just me, or did every second X-Files fanfic involve them getting all dressed up to go to an entirely unlikely FBI ball, and dancing to something corny and romantic?

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I have read approximately two X-Files fics, I cannot comment on the volume of cheesy dancing music.

But I suspect you're right.

And yay for rewatch! I really have to check and see if I have season one tonight, and if not, I will need to buy it.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I need to buy it, myself. I had videos, a long time ago, but they were mostly self-recorded, and I think I've taped over a lot of them, not labelled them properly... it'd be somewhat of a lottery.

Really, the cheesy dancing fics - I started to wonder if fans thought that all the FBI did was hold dances for their staff. Either that, or Mulder and Scully would get kidnapped, and she'd get impregnated. It was a little wearisome. Not that some of them weren't good, it's just that's my overwhelming memory of it all.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

LOL those fics existed? That is funny. But somehow I am not surprised...

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh my good grief, did they exist. In their thousands. Pick maybe five random fics on The Gossamer Project, and (if past experience is right), at least one will have dancing. Probably at an FBI ball, with Scully in a long red velvet dress.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

That is just too funny.

See, I was big into XF but I didn't write fic and I wasn't part of the fandom. I wasn't even online at the time.

So this all makes me giggle and smile.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hah! I just tested my theory. I picked two shipper fics at random. The very second one:

"The dark green cocktail dress she wore reached down to just past her knees, was low enough at the neck to be enticing, without common... Scully smiled at her image. She didn't often get to dress up go "out"..."