This Is One Of My OldBack In The Day Passions. I Highly Recommend Prufrocke And Dawson E. Rambo In This

This is one of my old “Back in the Day” passions. I highly recommend Prufrocke and Dawson E. Rambo in this grouping, but do check out the other fics, as well. 

I will do this with other fics and writers I can recommend, too. This is a great start, though.

👽 X-Files Fic Rec Roundup 2021, Part 1

Here is a master list of all my new X-Files fic recs from the last month. These and all my earlier recs can be found under my fic rec tag, where you can also read why I recced each story. This month I also newly posted the themed lists below. Enjoy!

College AU fics

Fics involving “The Field Where I Died” past lives

Fics with Scully on her period

“Providence” and “Provenance” fics

Also related to fic, last month I continued the Old School X project where I’m interviewing XF fanfic writers from during the show’s original run. New interviews were with:

Circe Invidiosa

Dawson E. Rambo

nevdull

Piper Sargasso

The Art of Reading by prufrocke (MSR - 4,793 words - Not rated) But Ourselves by Marguerite (Tithonus - ~15,100 words - PG-13) The Ghosts of Thurmere Hall by Stephen Greenwood (Season 7 - 35,549 words - Teen and up) Heaven in Hell’s Despair and Lower Heaven by Meredith (MSR - ~4,850 words - PG-13/NC-17) Listening to Mountains Grow by cucumberspy (Pusher - ~4,850 words - R) wander’d mony a weary foot by @we-mad-guys (New Year’s - ~850 words - Not rated)

Yes, MA’AM!

Ma'am.... please... 😭

a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

A Gender Politics Jamboree: Firefly and “Our Mrs. Reynolds”

So, OK, I see this “Joss Whedon–Feminist Or Misogynist?” conversation go round occasionally on my tumblr. No doubt this is an old debate to which I, as someone who has only ever seen one season of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, have little new to contribute. Nevertheless, every time I see it pop up, I think to myself, “Self, are you ever going to write up that thing you were going to write up about how fascinating and yet ultimately fucked-up Firefly’s gender politics are?”

And tonight, I replied, “Self, I have some serious procrastinating to do, so let’s find a screencap of “Our Mrs. Reynolds” and let’s do this thing.”

If you are tired of this thing, then you don’t have to go below the cut-tag.

(every time a tumblr user says “cut tag,” a dying livejournal fairy gets a new lease on life)

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I feel like I need to say this, as I’ve seen some concerning fandom purity bullshit crossing my dash.

This blog is unapologetically pro AO3.

I support them and all they do, may they continue to do it for decades to come.

DARTH VADER’S LAVA CASTLE OF BULLSHIT AND SADNESS IS THE FUNNIEST THING, A SUMMARY:

- He built Dramatic Bullshit Castle so that his meditation spot could LOOK OUT OVER THE SPOT WHERE OBI-WAN BROKE UP WITH HIM, the spot of where their duel ended:

IMAGINE BEING SUCH A LEVEL OF EXTRA THAT YOU BUILT AN ENTIRE FUCKING HOUSE ON THE SPOT WHERE OBI-WAN KENOBI BROKE UP WITH YOU.  SO THAT YOUR MEDITATION SPOT LOOKS OUT OVER THAT EXACT POINT AND YOU CAN BE MAD ABOUT IT FOREVER. IMAGINE BEING ANAKIN FUCKING SKYWALKER WHO IS THAT FUCKING DRAMATIC BECAUSE HE IS. - Dramatic Bullshit Castle had to be built NINE SEPARATE TIMES because it kept getting destroyed when they tried to activate it, each time with Anakin losing more and more of his patience and murdering people in his rage, JUST IMAGINE TELLING DARTH VADER, “No, no, I think we’ve definitely got the right ENTIRE CASTLE DESIGN right this time!” AND YOU’RE ON ATTEMPT NINE.  OF BUILDING UP AN ENTIRE CASTLE.

AND EVERY TIME YOU GET IT WRONG, HE MURDERS YOUR CURRENT HOST BODY IN RAGE. ALSO LOOK AT THOSE DESIGNS.  THEY ARE HIDEOUS.  I LOVE THEM. - There are not one but TWO ENTIRE CASTLES IN THE BASEMENT OF HIS DRAMATIC BULLSHIT CASTLE. BULLSHIT CASTLE IN VADER’S BASEMENT #1:

So the brief summary of this is:  Long ago, Mustafar was a beautiful green world and this Lady and Lord lived there, but he died and she couldn’t stand it, so she stole the heart of the planet, built a shrine to her ambitions to bring him back to life, but stealing the heart made the planet into a lifeless husk, and this has been lurking for untold number of years in Anakin’s basement, just chilling down there, waiting for him to find it to try to bring back his own dead wife.  It goes as well as you’d expect. LITERALLY ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TAKING PLACE IN ANAKIN’S BASEMENT. BULLSHIT CASTLE IN VADER’S BASEMENT #2:

Brief summary:  Anakin is trying to rip open the Force itself to go back in time and save Padme, so he builds his entire Dramatic Bullshit Castle like a giant tuning fork for the Force, including an entire shrine in the basement. One of the funniest things is, when part of the ground gets ripped open because of all of this, you can see BULLSHIT CASTLE #1 IN VADER’S BASEMENT getting wrecked along with everything else. All of this also goes about exactly as well as you’d expect it to go. ANAKIN SKYWALKER:  NOT CONTENT TO HAVE A BASEMENT SHRINE WHERE THE ENTIRE HEART OF THE PLANET WAS SUCKED AWAY, NO, HE ALSO HAS TO HAVE A SHRINE THAT IS GOING TO RIP OPEN THE FORCE ITSELF. HE NEVER DOES THINGS BY HALVES, I’LL GIVE HIM THAT. - There’s a magical seeing stone just chilling in a room by itself, which allows Vader to hear voices from the past and you can spy on him listening to Padme tell him she’s pregnant, while Hayden Christensen’s voice screams in agony because he does this WITHOUT HIS HELMET ON, JUST FOR THE DRAMA.

AND YES THAT IS ANAKIN SCREAMING IN RAGE AND DESTROYING THE ROOM BY HAVING A GIANT FUCKING TANTRUM AGAIN. - He has this room where there’s pretty much nothing in it except a lightsaber on a pedestal that’s meant to be bait to lure in Force-sensitives of a specific bloodline.  Because, sure, why not.

And, I mean, it doesn’t not look like SOMEONE FAMILIAR’S LIGHTSABER:

(Obi-Wan Kenobi’s second and third lightsabers.) - THERE IS A ROOM THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT A WEIRD SEX DUNGEON HOW DARE YOU THINK SO.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT THIS THAT WOULD LEAD TO STRANGE THOUGHTS, IT’S TOTALLY NORMAL TO HAVE A SPECIAL ROOM IN YOUR BULLSHIT LAVA CASTLE WHERE YOU STRAP PEOPLE DOWN OR HOLD THEM IN CAGES. THE POOR LADY WHO HAD TO DESIGN THIS THOUGH:

SHE HAD TO ASK DARTH VADER IF HE WANTED A WEIRD SEX DUNGEON. SHE HAD TO LOOK AT THE LIST OF DEMANDS FOR THAT ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT DARTH VADER GOT UP TO IN HIS FREE TIME. THAT POOR LADY DESERVED A MEDAL. ANYWAY, LAVA CASTLE OF BULLSHIT AND SADNESS IS MORE AND MORE HILARIOUS WITH EVERYTHING WE LEARN ABOUT IT.