Story 140: "Our Mulders" and "Our Scullys" by Punk Maneuverability

[wendelah1]

Fourteen stories in 28 days. Are you ready?

Our first selection is the perfect way to start our mini-fic marathon. "Our Mulders" was nominated by littlegreen42. Written way back in 1997, it is the first in a group of short-short stories Punk came to name the "Ours" series. "And in changing them, we made them ours." I see it as a love-letter to Fox Mulder and to fan-fiction writers for The X-Files.

"Our Mulders"

Posted two years later, "Our Scullys" is a little darker, a little more painful to read, at least for me, and surprisingly prescient, given the ending of the series.

"Our Scullys"

The links are to Archive of Our Own, where you can read the rest of the series, and everything else Punk has written, too.

Comments

[estella-c.livejournal.com]

amyhit, you've learned the value of paying mind to history. History moves fast now, and is hard to catch hold of. But the twenty-year history of The X-Files and its fandom is our psychic property to understand and treasure.

Maybe it's important. Who knows? Television viewers and their shows have already been influenced in ways we can't unpack for a while. (Unpack: academese. Not my favorite language, but occasionally on point.)

It was an "incredible phenomenon." I remember passing a billboard with an ENORMOUS Mulder and Scully and thinking "I thought this was my secret."