Happy Birthday to Us!

[wendelah1]

Since today is the fourth anniversary of the creation of xf_book_club by our illustrious founder, emily_shore, I thought a brief post in its honor was in order. Yes, we will be returning you to our regularly scheduled programming shortly.



How about if we post our top five lists? Any top five lists you like...top five first times, top five smut muffins, top five angst fics, top five casefiles. Anything and everything goes.

Here is my list of top five stories to take to a desert island, the stories I can't live without. This is not necessarily a list of the best stories in this fandom, although I must say I think they are all very fine fics; instead, these are five stories I read and reread, because for various reasons they hit my pleasure center dead on.

( On to the list )

If you don't want to post fic lists, you can just post messages of celebration! Thank you to all of our members for four years of great discussions and recs and love for The X-Files fanfiction. Thank you to amyhit for her insightful comments and her co-moderating/co-maintainering awesomeness. Thank you to everyone who has helped out with posting when I couldn't.

I love this place. We are truly one of a kind in fandom.

Banner re-blogged from my favorite tumblr, shit.between.us. Probably. I get all of those tumblrs confused, don't you?

Story 188: "Tangible" by Blueswirl

[wendelah1]

As promised, we now return to our originally scheduled programming.

So. "Tangible" by Blueswirl. This was nominated by badforthefish. It's post-col, MSR. NC-17, probably. It has some sequels co-written with Meredith but we are reading this as a stand-alone since the Fish says they aren't of the same caliber as the original. Also, I'm pretty sure that series was never finished.

I have no idea if Blueswirl is still around, maybe under another name and posting in a different fandom or just hanging with her homies. If she is, let her know we're discussing her fic.

The nomination post is always ready for your suggestions. The link to it is on the Link List and the Tags List and in the profile so I never have to type it again.

Read "Tangible".