S3 Rewatch - Fic Recs

S3 Rewatch - Fic Recs

Need something to distract you between calls from your partner who’s off hunting killer cockroaches with someone else - someone named Bambi?? I often assume, unless it’s clearly indicated otherwise, that fics are set in season 3, so I’m actually surprised I don’t have more fic from this era bookmarked. It’s the quintessential partnership era for me, and it’s fun both to live in that, and to see what might be the catalyst for their relationship to change:

This House Is Burning by Tesla - three part casefile about the fallout of an undercover assignment tracking a serial killer

We’re Married Now by Skinfull- undercover married casefile goodness, NSFW

Baseball Metaphors by @leiascully - fake dating, an all time fave, NSFW

12 Rites of Passage / 12 Degrees of Separation by Anne Haynes - not set during season 3, but a really interesting mytharc story written during the very early seasons

The Magician Series by Suzanne Bickerstaffe and Jennifer Lyon - fantasy AU, Mulder and Scully travel to another universe. One of the first fics I remember reading as a young X-phile.

Option 3 by Khyber - Halloween stakeout, NSFW. "Ish Hallowee' nigh', you're 'itting there 'ressed like 'Hadonna," Mulder chomped down on the candy muffling his speech, "we're going out to talk to a woman who claims she can control ghosts, and you're talking to me about professionalism?"

The Longest Way Around Is The Shortest Way Home by Apostrophic - a lovely little fic about Scully moving apartments within her building

Gold and Silver by @dreamingofscully - Scully does something spontaneous to honor her sister’s memory.

Fortune Cookie by Minuete - Mulder and Scully discuss a potential X-file case over Chinese takeout. Queequeg just wants Mulder’s food.

Like Mother, Like Son and Birthday Dinner with Boy Mulder by @lotzzoforangezoutside - a birthday dinner for Mrs Scully

Love and Bearclaws by @edierone - a verbal slip reveals a deeper truth, so sweet

Episode-related fics:

Things That Can Never Be by @scullysexual - mid-Paper Clip missing scene

Extension Line by @wtfmulder - post Paper Clip hurt/comfort, NSFW

Resolute by @agirlcallednarelle - post Paper Clip, Scully and her mother grieve together

Lovers by @kittenscully - post Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, they discuss tarot

No Place for an Entomologist by @agirlcallednarelle - post War of the Coprophages, Scully wonders why she involved herself in the case and they banter about Bambi

Kinda’ I Want To by ScarletteStarlett - post War of the Coprophages, NSFW

When Stars Align by Katherinexx1 - mid-Syzygy sex and the aftermath, NSFW

Horned Beasts by @danascully77 - mid-Syzygy sex, NSFW

The Chocolate Sound by @somekindofseizure - post-Syzygy kiss

The Game by Megan Reilly - post Syzygy Mulder and Scully play a little game

Cosmic Interferences by @baronessblixen - post-Syzygy banter

Listening to Mountains Grow by cucumber spy - Pusher aftermath (On Gossamer so if link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

Holding Back by @mangokiwitropicalswirl - post Pusher angst

reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

we need to stop being so desperate about finding aliens. we need to play hard to get, pretend like we couldn’t care less. watch them come rushing into our atmosphere

Happy Fall people, I’m so ready!!! 🍂🍁🎃

i encourage you to go to your favourite writer's ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn't disappear into the void to be never seen again after a day of people interacting with it. Just, if you have the time, go comment on an older work

(pls reblog this to try and get as much writers a bit of appreciation)

Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell on Charmed (1998 - 2006)