A Community for X-Files Fans

Since I bought the comic last spring, I've been meaning to write fic for a tiny fandom I nominated for Yuletide, Deviations: The X-Files (comic). I have have written nothing. What can I say? Writing is hard and the past 18 months have been abysmal on so many levels. Anyway, with the intention of remedying the not writing problem, I signed up for ladiesbingo.



Link: Ladies' Bingo Round 2017-2018 (Round 5) Sign-ups

Description: ladiesbingo is a bingo challenge for creative works about the relationships between women. It runs for seven months (from September until March).

The motivation behind the community is to encourage people to make creative works focused on female characters and their relationships.

You could write about Scully and her mom, or Scully and her sister, or her sister-in-law, for that matter. I'm still waiting for someone to write me hatesex for Scully and Diana Fowley.

Dates:
Sign-ups Open: September 1st 2017
Posting: September 1st 2017 - March 31st 2018
Amnesty: April 1st 2018 - August 31st 2018

Podfic, fic, art, graphics, vids, and crafts are all welcomed. You can exclude four categories and seven individual prompts. Once I found four "I will write this when hell freezes over" categories, I stopped reading down the list; ditto for the individual prompts. I'm keeping my fingers crossed until I get a peek at my card.

The cover art is by Cat Stagg. The original was for sale the last time I checked. If I had a spare couple of grand, I would have already bought it.

Is anyone still here?

In honor of The X-Files Revival, over at haremxf, maidenjedi and I are hosting another Women of The X-Files Comment Ficathon.

This ficathon is open to to any woman from maidenjedi's updated character list, plus any unlisted female character from the new mini-series. Leave as many prompts as you like! Fill as many prompts as you can! There are no deadlines or word counts to meet.


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The Women of The X-Files Comment Ficathon!


Publicize this anywhere X-Philes can be found!

On LiveJournal:

<center><img src="http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg200/her_new_day/297a7ffe-11ec-49c5-96b0-4d43163a959c_zpssqa8y8lb.jpg"> <lj user=haremxf> The Women of <i>The X-Files</i> Comment Ficathon! </center>

On Dreamwidth:

<center><img src="http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg200/her_new_day/297a7ffe-11ec-49c5-96b0-4d43163a959c_zpssqa8y8lb.jpg"> <user name=haremxf site=livejournal.com> The Women of <i>The X-Files</i> Comment Ficathon! </center>

I should organize something for the Dreamwidth X-Philes but that's a separate issue and a post for another time.

Today I am here to let you know that signups are open for xf_is_love. The X-Files is Love is a month-long multimedia celebration of The X-Files where each participant claims a date and then posts some new X-Files related fanworks on their day. This can be fic, graphics, icons, vids, podfic, essays, a memoir of your days in the X-Files fandom, or pretty much anything as long as it's new and original. You can do as little or as much as you want - the day is yours!


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Here is the signup post.
Here is the banners post if you want to help get the word out.

There will be a mini-rewatch again. This year we're doing season two in honor of the 20th anniversary of--season two!

Back in the day, there was an X-Files community, meaning a mailing list, called Scullyfic. In 2001, the list administrator Jill Selby issued a challenge: write a 155 word story about Dana Scully. You can read the stories that resulted at Scully in 155. The fics are not all exactly 155 words: some are a little longer, some shorter.

In honor of her upcoming 50th birthday, we at Scully Fest thought it would be fun to issue the same challenge to the fandom. You can post the stories as a comment to this post, either in a comment or a link. You can post your story on your day if you signed up for one. You can even still sign up for a day since several have opened up. Or if you'd rather, you can wait for her birthday free-for-all day.



In conclusion,

SCULLYFEST!

This year, our favorite character, Dana Katherine Scully, is turning fifty. I know, I couldn't believe it either.

In her honor, tree and I made a LiveJournal community. And there is a tumblr now too, scullyfest, which you can follow for updates.


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A celebration for Dana Scully's 50th birthday!


It's for ten days only, so we're allowing multiple signups; right now, it's two people per day. To participate, all you need to do is claim a date and then post a new Scully-centric fanwork(s) on your day. You can post fanart, fanfic, graphics, icons, vids, podfic, essays, meta, or even a memoir telling how us how Scully influenced your life. As long as it's celebrating Scully, it will be welcomed. If you already know you won't be able contribute a fanwork or essay, join anyway so you can watch and cheer us on.

If you want to help publicize this, you can snag this handy code for use at DW and for cross-posting. If you prefer, the code for just this image and a smaller version can be found at the community on LJ. Thanks to monanotlisa for making these for us. ♥

<center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/7UsvwdI.png"> <user name="scully_fest" site=livejournal.com> A celebration for Dana Scully's 50th birthday! </center>

As some of you already know, Porn Battle XIV has begun. You have from now until the 30th of January to write and post your fic. For your convenience, under the cut are all of prompts for The X-Files and for RPF: The X-Files. There are some for nearly every pairing I could imagine, and plenty for pairings I hadn't, too, as well as some intriguing Stargate SG-1 cross-over ideas. I, for one, would love to read some Freya/Anise/Fox Mulder smut muffins.

In case anyone was uncertain about it, you don't have to write explicit sex scenes for these. Fade to black is fine. Fade to black is more than fine. You can also create art, vids and songs.

( The X-Files )

( The X-Files RPF )

( Stargate SG-1/The X-Files )