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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Fox Mulder/Diana Fowley, She loves him, but she's tired of being second to his quest for The Truth.

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.

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.").

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

You need to write "Diana Fowley, The Lost Years" if only so I can have something to look forward to while writing my thesis! Seriously, I would love to read that - and I know you'd be able to do it justice as well.

Needless to say I loved this fic, and would absolutely love to see it being developed.

Thanks. It felt good to write again, at least. If I come up with a plot bunny, you'll be among the first to know.

Count me as part of that limited audience- I would love to read more! I really, really like this, especially Mulder's reaction. It feels spot on to me.

LOL. I think every FoF in Philedom is on my flist now. Thank you. I'm glad you liked this. His reaction felt right to me, too. This is season one Mulder. He's a weird combination of vulnerable and arrogant, both totally adorable and totally maddening.

I don't know how much more Mulder there would end up being in a longer version of this. I'd have to have him show up in Berlin, which I guess I had hinted he had done in HWR. I remember I had planned to include emails they had written to one another. Maybe even an awkward phone call. The main problem is I don't have a B plot. There needs to be a mystery (or two or three) for Diana to uncover, preferably one that explains some messed up part of the myth-arc to the reader's satisfaction. I think she disappears from his life completely just as Scully becomes increasingly important. I think that's the ending. Well, now you don't have to read it. LOL.

Plot schmot. Write drabbles or something. (listen to me being bossy!) I mean, a plotty longer version would be great, but I can see this also being a series of scenes.

It's funny- when I first started reading fic a long, long time ago, I really only wanted to read stuff from about S5 and forward. Now I'm really digging the early stuff.

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. Damn. I want to know what's in the file, now, too.

Mulder in the early nineties was sort of a mess, wasn't he? Poor soul. I notice I like him better since I began trying to write from his point-of-view. Plus the, uh, hotness factor.

It took me eight hours to write 400 words, and I already had the genesis of the idea sitting in a drawer. It feels good to post something, even something this short.

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

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

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