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X-Files Flash-Fanwork Challenge for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

Welcome to the X-Files creative challenge for 3W4DW! This is a place to write, draw, or otherwise produce SOMETHING AWESOME in celebration of the X-Files, and all of the awesome characters and scenarios we love so much.

What sort of works are eligible?

Any X-Files or crossover X-Files fanwork can be posted here.

How Should Prompts Be Formatted?

There should be only one prompt per comment.

An X-Files only prompt should include characters/pairings and prompt. Use a slash for a romantic/sexual pairing, and & or the word "and" for a friendship pairing, like this:

Monica Reyes, Ouija boards

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek, leather

Dana Scully and John Doggett, watching NASCAR

A crossover prompt should contain character names and fandom along with prompt, like this:

X-Files/Fringe, Dana Scully and Walter Bishop, Mad Scientists Union

X-Files/Doctor Who, Fox Mulder/Tenth Doctor, tall drink of water

Those are some crap prompts, Amal.

Bite me. So leave some of your own.

Do prompts need to be claimed? Can prompts only be used once? Can I write for my own prompt?

No, no, and yes, in order.

How do I fill a post?

Post your fill as a reply to the original prompt. If it won't fit in a comment, link to your journal.

How should fills be formatted?

Please put the title, prompt, and rating in the subject line. If you want to warn or provide content notes, please do so in the first line of the post. Images that are NSFW should be posted in full elsewhere and should have a SFW thumbnail on the challenge page.

Is there a deadline?

The challenge will open on April 26th, and run through May 15th for the

three_weeks_for_dw festival. You may start filling prompts as soon as they are posted, and may continue posting prompts until May 13th. Because this is a 3W4DW challenge, please keep all posted fanworks on DW-only for 21 days after posting, although it is perfectly fine to post links elsewhere.

I heard a rumor there would be prizes.

Participants in the challenge can earn points for Philedom Olympics 2011, for leaving prompts, making fanworks, and leaving comments.

I have another question!

Ask me in the question thread!

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Awesome!

LOVE THIS.

*STANDS UP AND APPLAUDS WILDLY*

I love the idea of Scully being totally horrified by Mulder "friending" her mother. OH GOD NO.

I had to google Reggie Purdue, and I still don't remember him, but it doesn't matter. This is great!

My favorite part:

"Really? I would have pegged you for the romance novel type."

She lifts her perfect eyebrow in response.

Excellent!!!

You just know Scully would be the kind of person who used Facebook SOLELY to keep track of her family, and would get REALLY PISSED OFF with Mulder's hey-friend-everybody approach.

TOO TRUE

AMAZING

She loves him but she is tired of being second to his quest for The Truth.

She would never forget the look on his face.

"I can't believe you took this job without even consulting me." He stared at her. "Berlin. You're transferring to Anti-terrorism." He set his fork down next to his untouched plate and left the table. She could hear the bedroom door slam closed. When he reappeared, he looked composed again. He had changed into an old Knicks teeshirt, running shorts and Nikes.

"This isn't easy for me either," she began.

"Stop it," he said. "You've already decided. You're leaving me."

Diana swallowed hard. "Yes."

"So there's nothing to discuss."

"Fox..."

"I'm going for a run." He closed the front door, more carefully this time. She put the rest of the food away, cleaned up the kitchen and went to lie down on their bed. Eventually she fell asleep waiting up for him, still in her blouse and skirt, the briefing materials for her new assignment stacked neatly by her side.

He came in late, after two in the morning, smelling like scotch. The mattress shifted as he moved closer, waking her with a start. She'd been dreaming. As he kissed her neck and massaged the tension from her shoulders, she moaned softly and turned over, opened to him. He made love to her carefully, tracing slow patterns with his hands and his tongue. His skin tasted like salt. His mouth tasted like ashes.

He was gone in the morning. Off to Texas, according to the note he left on top of her papers. Cow mutilations, lights in the sky. Little green men. What did it matter, now that she'd made her choice.

He didn't show up again until the day of her scheduled departure. Her bags had been packed for a week. She told him the truth and then she called a cab. He was too self-absorbed, too obsessed with his work, too consumed with his unofficial assignment—the X-Files. All of which was true, it just wasn't the only reason she was leaving him.

At the end, only she said the words. He shook his head. "This isn't the end. You'll be back, Diana." He stacked her matching luggage in a neat row by the curb, kissed her quickly, then walked back to the apartment.

No tears. You chose this. You knew what was at stake.

Was it self-deluding to have believed that given more time she could have recruited him to her cause? She stared at the eyes-only dossier on her lap. Perhaps so. Fox Mulder was a very--principled--man. Not that it mattered in the long run. His place in the Project was secured, thanks to his family connections.

Not so for her. Hers would have to be earned.

Very cute.

I know nothing about Facebook except that all of my husband's students have found him and friended him. Needless to say, he rarely posts on his profile.

This is sweet. I wonder, though, if Reggie's novel would be the only thing that he'd be brooding about.

This is excellent.

This is just heartbreaking. That she knows there's something out there, but can't make sense of it--and that she is absolutely sure the people around her are lying. I also really like Jeffery in this one--he's such a normal little brother under abnormal circumstances, and that's just so spot-on.

Grrr, thought this posted last night. Take two...

Marita, there is no truth. Word Count: 300

There is no truth, no greater cause, no happy ending; there is only staying alive, of trying to survive what is to come.

As a girl, when she imagined how her life would turn out, Marita never imagined this. Even in her worst nightmares, she could never have conceived of a world where men sold their integrity, their freedom, their very souls so cheaply.

No matter what Fox Mulder thinks, there will be no stopping the invasion, no saving humanity. And frankly, Marita doesn't think humanity really deserves to be saved.

Maybe wiping the slate clean is the best way.

Or maybe not, but she can't really find the will to care anymore. Maybe that’s the real truth: the willingness to push and try your hardest, only to discover that no matter what you've done, your best efforts aren't enough.

She wonders if it wouldn't have been better to never have been cured, to have stayed in a comatose state as the world fell apart around her.

If she has learned one thing over the years, it's that life is hard and has no absolutes. Mulder's ever-precious truth is a worthless lie to another man. Truth is not a finite thing so much as an outlook to be twisted to suit any current set of circumstances.

These days lies fall as easily from her lips and leaves from an autumn tree and sometimes they’re just as pretty. Marita wonders if she'd recognize the truth if she spoke the words, if the truth even matters any more. If survival does.

Still, she does what she's told, watches, remembers, hides what she knows. Some day the truths she hidden away like so much pirate treasure will save her. Or kill her.

On days like today, the second option is the happier one.

How lovely! Mulder's hesitation seems very true to his character even though I'm not sure if I would've initially pegged him as wanting to hold off on closure.

Hmmm. This makes me wonder if it's the first sign of Mulder's guilt complex about endangering others through their involvement in the X-Files. Is Young at Heart the first time Scully gets shot since she started working with him? And there's the additional factor of having endangered Scully's cellist friend.

!!! BEST!!!

Having posted this prompt on Day 2, I just read Livia's M. Luder, King of WebJournal.com early this morning! That same scenario needs to be updated to fbook ASAP. political bickering, Maggie's misplaced status updates and all!

I had somehow never read that! Somehow, we need to mock up Facebook itself. POOR SCULLY. She is totally doomed.

I was having a term paper panic ~~moment~~ ~~hour~~ ~~day~~ week and have been chugging my way through the xf_book_club archives. The prequel, "M. Luder, King of 'SETI Troopers' Fanfic," is pretty amazing as well.

Thanks for filling my prompt! I enjoyed this, and I'm left wanting to know more about what's going on here. I'd especially like to know what exactly Mulder's "place in the Project" is. I love speculating about what CSM and his guys had planned for Mulder, because you know they must have had something planned.

Mulder's behaviour rang true to me, the way he avoided a painful situation by immersing himself into his work, yet still remained hopeful -- or, perhaps, in denial? -- that things would eventually work out ("This isn't the end. You'll be back, Diana.").

These days lies fall as easily from her lips and leaves from an autumn tree and sometimes they’re just as pretty.

That's a fabulous line. And I love the voice you've given Marita here--the sort of desolate conclusion she's reached at the end of all her suffering. It's interesting to watch all the conclusions that people reach after being yanked around by the Consortium--it's really only Mulder and Scully who think it's still worth fighting in the end.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN THE FILE. More to the point, I want to know what sorts of promises were the right ones for Diana--what drew her into the work, what made her worth recruiting. Anyway, you pull off the tease nicely, which is really what something this short is often about.

Oh, early period, asshole Mulder. You make me want to throttle you and pet your head in equal measure.

Also: look at you, writing flashfic! *cheers*

Thank you. I would need to figure out all of this out to take this any further. At one time, I had planned to write "Diana Fowley, The Lost Years," with this scene being just a tiny part. Once I discovered what a limited audience there is for Diana stories, I put it on the back burner.

It was fun to write. I felt like the prompt was meant for me.<3

I probably only remember because I just saw this episode! Aw, I'm glad you like that bit--it seemed like a really "them" exchange.

First time she gets shot, yes...but the first time she is seriously threatened is Squeeze. (TOOMS IN THE BATHROOM, NEVER SHOWERING AGAIN) I definitely think this is an instance of the Epic Mulder Guilt Complex, though. I've never thought about Cellist Friend, though...man, I bet Scully's off her Christmas card list.

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Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

Re: "The Other Family" - Samantha Mulder, got no reason/got no shame/got no family/got no name - PG

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Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

Re: "The Other Family" - Samantha Mulder, got no reason/got no shame/got no family/got no name - PG

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"Consorting With the Enemy," Fox Mulder/Diana Fowley, PG-13

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Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

Re: "The Other Family" - Samantha Mulder, got no reason/got no shame/got no family/got no name - PG

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Truth

Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

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Re: "Consorting With the Enemy," Fox Mulder/Diana Fowley, PG-13

Re: Truth

Re: "Consorting With the Enemy," Fox Mulder/Diana Fowley, PG-13

Re: "Consorting With the Enemy," Fox Mulder/Diana Fowley, PG-13

Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.

Re: "A Haunting" - Reggie Purdue and Fox Mulder, that unpublished mystery novel.