philedom | 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.

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Ask me in the question thread!

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There was a boy at that other place, that other house. He had a broad, laughing grin and brown hair that never stayed tidy. In her mind, he picks up a baseball bat and runs away to join the other boys down the street. She follows after him as a faceless woman calls behind her, “Samantha! Your brother doesn’t like you bothering him when he’s with his friends!”

Her brother, the boy in her mind, is not named Jeffrey. She can’t remember his name. She can’t --

“Samantha?” the man who calls himself her father says. She does not look up from her dinner. “Why aren’t you eating?”

“I’m not hungry,” she mumbles. She stirs her mashed potatoes around in a circle.

“If she’s not gonna eat, I won’t, either. I hate mashed potatoes,” Jeffrey says, in that flat voice of his. Her other brother had a flat voice, too. She can almost hear it.

“You’ll eat your supper, Jeffrey.”

“But Dad --”

She looks up, hesitantly. The man who calls himself her father is staring at her, frowning. She stares back, half daring, half frightened.

“Are you thinking about them, Samantha?”

She looks down. “No.”

“You know they’re not real. You’re just confused.”

She says nothing.

“This is your family, Samantha.”

She feels like crying. She pushes her food around and bites her lip, tears welling up in her eyes. Everything looks blurry, watery, unreal. She tries to disappear into the world in her mind, to that other house, that other family.

The man who calls himself her father asks her more questions that she doesn’t want to answer. She shoves the cold, flavourless food into her mouth, refusing to speak.

When they come for her again, they take her memories, trying to sweep her mind clean. But there are still little fragments left over, hidden away here and there. She pulls them out of the cracks in her mind and tries to fit them together, creating an out-of-focus family portrait. She thinks about that boy with the goofy smile and wonders if he’s out there somewhere, if he’s thinking of her now.

LOVE THIS.

Yay, I'm glad! :)

Excellent!!!

Glad you liked it! :)

This is excellent.

Thanks. :)

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.

When I think about what happened to Samantha, it is pretty heartbreaking. I sometimes wish she'd been a much fuller character on the show, rather than just a few memories in Mulder's head, or a ghost in starlight.

Gah, this gave me goosebumps! I really like this. It's sparsely written and that works really well for the content.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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