I'm making myself a new icon.

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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.

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

Oh man... X-Files... that brings me back to eighth grade and the days when I contemplated whether or not it would be totally weird if I named my first son 'Fox' (I was 14, cut me some slack). For the sake of the world, it's probably a very good thing I didn't know what fanfiction was back then.

As for the Hammond/Scully's dad connection, the first time I saw Stargate on TV was actually while waiting for a table at a restaurant and they had Stargate showing on some TV in the corner. I saw Don S. Davis on the opening credits and immediately grabbed my mom's arm and pointed saying, "THAT'S SCULLY'S DAD!!!!".

By the way, one of the best things about early X-Files is that they set a couple in Wisconsin... and apparently, there are lots of mysterious canyons in Wisconsin. Trust me, the landscape is nowhere near that rocky or craggy. Maybe if there'd been mysterious alien abductions from the tops of small rolling hills... but not canyons. Gotta love artistic licenses!

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

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.

Yep. Knew that! And didn't he used to call her Starbuck, which was this weird BSG connection, too?

[katcorvi.livejournal.com]

Run, do not walk to this site: http://www.underthewing.com/penumbra/home.html This is the home of Penumbra, one of the best fic writers you will ever read. Not a Yule ball among them.

Go. Read. Now. Trust me on this one, despite your former passwords. *g*

[stargazercmc.livejournal.com]

Oh, FBI Ball fics... LOL, I had blocked those from memory forgotten those.

I love fics by Dawson Rambo - long case-file-y things with MSR and Profiler!Mulder.

I do love this show.

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Not that I watched X Files - but if Hammond is Scully's dad, doesn't that make Sam a dead hooker?

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

Oh man...

This whole post brings back memories. I was a HUGE fan of the X-Files but never into the fandom at all - and it's a very good thing that my 13 year old mind had yet to discover this thing called fanfiction :D