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Quick question before school eats me again: my computer died and I'm trying to get good XF casefile recs ... anyone have a good list?
Free pilots on Amazon—all kids’ shows and (apparently vulgar) comedies now, but one of the comedies involves the zombie apocalypse and another is divas against the supernatural, if this is of interest.
Valedictatorian:
Free pilots on Amazon—all kids’ shows and (apparently vulgar) comedies now, but one of the comedies involves the zombie apocalypse and another is divas against the supernatural, if this is of interest.
Valedictatorian:
Testing is the accounting of the reform movement, and the executives are cooking the books. They’re manipulating the statements so it looks like the venture is turning a profit. Well, actually, it’s got negative cash flow. The gains are phantoms. The enterprise is insolvent. Even by its own standards, reform fails.
The central proposition of so-called education reform is that it endeavors to make schooling more entrepreneurial. Now this is bogus on its face. The most salient fact about entrepreneurialism is that most ventures fail. Is that the proper model for the delivery of a universal service? …
Like most pro-market types, these people are ignorant of the actual workings of capitalism. They see Apple’s glittering headquarters, Google’s quarterly revenue numbers, and they think, Damn! I wish schools could be more like that! Strewn across the historic landscape behind all this success are hundreds of thousands of failed attempts, many of which don’t make it out of their first year. And you want school to look like this? Well, uh, no; we only want school to imitate successful ventures! Well, I want better arms and a bigger dick, but editing every other eighth of an inch out of the measuring tape will not make it so.
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I also loved Yvonne Harrison, but I'm fairly certain she's scrubbed herself from the web. If I find out otherwise, I'll come back and let you know.
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I missed TXF heyday--started watching reruns in 2005--so I'm pretty stoked to find someone previously unknown to me to read. Thank you, and thank goodness for the Wayback Machine.
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Oyster by Jordan. This is so good we discussed it twice. Like all great western religious stories, "Oyster" takes place in the desert, in the modern day stand-in for Sodom and Gomorrah, Los Vegas, a land of waking dreams, endless heat and unquenchable thirsts. In her author's notes, Jordan states emphatically that "THIS FIC IS REQUIEM FREE." This is rather misleading; in actuality, "Oyster" is a re-envisioning of the end of season seven, and to a limited extent, season eight. The parallels are multiple and striking. In both stories, there are deaths and multiple abductions. There is an investigation in which Skinner, Scully and, of course, Mulder are all major players. To say any more would spoil the story for new readers. While "Requiem" inspired a lot of fanfic, "Oyster" is one the best stories ever written for The X-Files fandom. I recommend it without reservation.
"This House is Burning" by Tesla is flat-out the best Profiler!Mulder series I've ever read. Tesla's writing style flows effortlessly, and is, by turns, unobtrusive and lyrical. Her Mulder is both much more competent at his job and much less crazy than he's often written. Frankly, that's a pleasant change. But the trilogy is more than a series of meticulously constructed police procedurals, it's also a believable, emotionally involving, Mulder/Scully romance. So let's see: great writing? Check. Exciting plot? Check. Scorching hot sex scenes? Check, check, check.
Part One: Blood on the Snow.
Part Two: A Thief's Diet
Part Three: The Quiet Glades of Eden.
The print is tiny, so I had to magnify it by 150%. Her stories are also at Gossamer.
Malus Genius by Maybe Amanda and Plausible Deniability is a very funny, very cleverly plotted casefile, which is also an X-File, written by two of this fandom's best. The link is to reocities but this is at Gossamer, too.
Bone of Contention by Kel and Michelle Kieffer is a story I reread any time I am feeling low. I think everyone who loves to read has stories or books or fan fiction that they turn to in times of crisis, for escape or to just to make them smile. This one does all of that, and more. Any story that can make me laugh and cry and creates genuine suspense about the case file and the romance is a classic, in my view. I remember how disappointed I was when
I have many more but my sciatica is acting up, so that's all for now.
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I find fancake's recs generally pretty acceptable, if not always good enough to entice me away from my fandom-of-the-moment.
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I'm poking through Pinboard on "x-files casefile", finding stuff. Oh, Jane Mortimer's "The Sin-Eater"! Awesome!
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LoneGunGuy is archived at Gossamer!
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It's weird how small the files are (in plaintext). I remember them being Huge! Epics! They are easily emailed should you require them.
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Thanks! Those are indeed the stories I was looking for. (Though the plaintext links are throwing 500 internal server errors; I was able to get the HTML pages.)