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bisexualfbiagents · 5 months

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THE X FILES | Fight the Future (1998)

#the x files #txf #txfedit #xfilesnet #dailytxf #dana scully #fox mulder #mine #fight the future #ftf #can't believe i've never giffed ftf my beloved #someone invent a time machine so i can go back to 1998 and watch fight the future on the big screen as god intended #i was only 3 when it came out 😭😭😭

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celestialmega · 6 months

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The X-Files: Fight the Future by Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz.

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moiraiinesedai · 2 years

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THE X-FILES | Fight the Future (1998)

— You saved me! (PART 1 • PART 3 • PART 4)

#The X-Files #The X Files #TXF #Fight the Future #TXF: Fight the Future #TXF: Fight the Future (1998)#1998 #MSR #Mulder x Scully #Scully x Mulder #Dana Scully #Fox Mulder #Gillian Anderson #David Duchovny #gillovny #gifset part 2 #TXF movie #X Files movie

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film365 · 2 years

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The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) — 7/365

#the x files #txf #fight the future #txfedit #filmedit #cinematv #dailyflicks #filmgifs #timestamp roulette #1990s #1998 #week 1 #scifi #thriller

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ouroboroscully · 3 years

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fight the future: MSR + danger/rescue

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spookytheory · 3 years

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The phenomenon of being cockblocked by a bee is prevalent in several pieces of cinema, namely The X-Files: Fight the Future and The Bee Movie. In this essay I will

#the x files movie #txf #fight the future #ftf #the x-files #1998 #the bee movie #bee movie #cockblocked by a bee #there should be a 1-800 number for this

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wholesome90stv · 5 years

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David & Gillian talking about the 300,000 live bees that they had to work with in Fight The Future.

I don’t think any movie made today would use live bees rather than CGI. Major props to the actors.

#x files #fight the future #david duchovny #gillian anderson #dana scully #fox mulder #xfiles #movie #bees #special effects #scully #mulder #sfx #stunts #dangerous #txf #1998 #actors #MSR

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medicaldoctordana · 7 years

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Nice hat Gillian!

#why am I like this #fight the future #the x files #txf #the x files fight the future #1998 #dir. rob bowman #gillian anderson

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gillovny1013 · 7 years

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one month with mulder and scully: [9/31]

#the x files #ftf #one month with mulder and scully #mulder #scully #got behind a day #been so busy #msr #fight the future #gillian anderson #david duchovny #txf gifs #mine #my gifs #txfedit #october 2017 #1998

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lilydalexf · 3 years

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Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted on Tuesdays.

Interview with Gwinne

Gwinne has 16 stories at Gossamer, most of which you can also find at AO3 along with some later, revival-era fics. If you haven’t read her fics, you are in for a treat. Her Scully is particularly endearing in many fics dealing with her pregnancy or William in some way. Big thanks to Gwinne for doing this interview.

Does it surprise you that people are still interested in reading your X-Files fanfics and others that were posted during the original run of the show (1993-2002)?

I will say I was surprised by the phenomenon of all the reboot TV shows in general, and the revival of TXF specifically. But, no, it doesn’t surprise me that late 90s/00s fanfic is still being read with the resurrection of those shows. I am curious—though I know little about—the relationship between the fics posted during the original run and more recently. To what extent are the authors from back then involved in fandom now? This interview project is exciting to me for that reason as a way to bridge generations of writers. I think reposting older stories on AO3 is another way to do that work. Social media didn't really exist during the show's original run. How were you most involved with the X-Files online (atxc, message board, email mailing list, etc.)? I remember finding an early fanfic right after Fight the Future, in the summer of 1998. It was a piece about Diana Fowley that was otherwise unremarkable. I honestly don’t know how/where I stumbled across it, as I hadn’t heard of the term ‘fan fiction’ until then (I also realized I’d written fan fiction even as a kid, based on Little House on the Prairie!) But shortly thereafter, I found an X-files yahoo group and then Scullyfic (later “E-muse”), as well as the Ephemeral and Gossamer sites. Those were the primary ways in which I interacted with other fans and fanfiction. At some point I started reading academic writing about fan culture, like Henry Jenkins’ work.

What did you take away from your experience with X-Files fic or with the fandom in general? Scullyfic provided a community of like-minded women for me during a tumultuous time in my life, as I was finishing up graduate school, applying for jobs, and contemplating my own path toward motherhood; Scullyfic was friendly but also highly analytical, with weekly prompts and posts about episodes (around season 7 and 8). After years of needing to go to campus to check email, I had just gotten dial up internet in my apartment and I remember reading the Scullyfic listserv almost daily. Some friendships migrated from that space to email, IM, and even “real life,” though I’ve subsequently lost touch with almost everyone from that time.

In that era (say, 2000-2002) I read voluminous amounts of fanfic. It was my major source of reading for pleasure. I’m a writer by training but didn’t have much experience in fiction; writing fic helped develop that skill set in a relatively ‘safe’ (because anonymous) space. What was it that got you hooked on the X-Files as a show?

The one word answer: Scully!

The longer answer: I came to The X-Files midway through the original run. I was a senior in college when the series began, and my roommate had turned on the pilot; I remember watching the opening sequence and the show feeling like some bad “based on real life” thing I had no interest in. But I started watching regularly during the cancer arc in Season 4, with some friends from my graduate program who got together for dinner and an episode on Sunday nights. One of the first episodes I watched was “Leonard Betts,” which exemplified the best of the episodes in which a MOTW and character-driven episode come together. Local TV stations also aired reruns at various times, and some of the VHS compilations were available at Blockbuster (wow, haven’t thought about that in a while!), so my early viewings were out of order and mixed up. (The myth arc is even more confusing that way.) Eventually (late 2000?) I got a DVD player and the DVDs (which, yes, I still have) and watched in order. I think I’m an atypical fan in many ways, but I much prefer seasons 4-7 to the earlier ones, probably because that was my point of entry. What is your relationship like now to X-Files fandom? Do you ever still watch The X-Files or think about Mulder and Scully? I’ve circled back to The X-Files at a couple moments since the original run. When I Want to Believe came out, I read (and started working on) some fanfic again. Same with the reboot. I found some new writers via AO3 and Tumblr (though I don’t have my own Tumblr account). I wrote something I intended to be part of a series and gave up on it. I just don’t have the luxury of time that I once did to immerse myself in the experience; the writing I do is largely professional now. I’ve rewatched episodes periodically, mostly old favorites (“Bad Blood,” “Postmodern Prometheus,” much of Season 7) but haven’t gotten back into the show in any serious way since then. I tried a rewatch at the beginning of the pandemic and gave up on it; I still love Scully but the show feels very dated to me now. Were you involved with any fandoms after the X-Files? If so, what was it like compared to X-Files? No. Do you ever still read X-Files fic? Do you have any favorite X-Files fanfic stories or authors? As I mentioned above, I do dip in and out of fanfic, although it’s been a few years since I read anything longer; I have notifications set up on AO3 so if an author I like posts something it goes to my email. Otherwise, I’m not looking for fic; my non-pseudonymous self doesn’t read a lot of fiction in general, though when I do it’s a big third person novel. (I just read The Plot and highly recommend.) Yes, I have favorites! The work I was drawn to as an early reader was what I’d call “well written” on a sentence level but also created a particular world I liked. I rarely got into any fic written in the first person. I rarely liked what would be considered real AUs (like, Mulder and Scully meeting in high school, or in 1860 or something). Did not read smut for smut’s sake. I’m sure there’s some other quality that unifies “work I like” but I’d have to think more about it.

Most of the writers I liked and connected with I met via Scullyfic, including Bonetree and Alanna. Fialka’s “Swings and Roundabouts” (I think that’s the name?) and her “Arizona Highways” [part 1, part 2] is one of my absolute favorite longer fics. Prufrock’s Love’s work always hits the right tone for me; their more recent “Dr. Scully’s School for Exceptional Boys” is really great. And Dasha K….I don’t remember the title but she has a post-FTF piece that includes eating mushroom pasta that I would really like to find again. [Lilydale note: I think this fic is The Trick is to Keep Breathing.] In my revival-era reading, I found DarlaBlack (@sigritandtheelves), whose work I really like for the way that it engages motherhood and reproductive trauma. There are many others I’m forgetting. What is your favorite of your own fics, X-Files and/or otherwise?

Hmmm. Most of my work was set in the post-Requiem timeline and grappled with seasons 8 and 9. I was dealing with my own infertility, so writing was a way for me both to grapple with my own experiences and try to make sense of canon, which made no sense. (Like, when exactly was Scully doing IVF?) I haven’t thought about my own work since I posted it to AO3 in 2018 or so but “Hypothetical” is one of the most meaningful for me. Do you think you'll ever write another X-Files story? Or dust off and post an oldie that for whatever reason never made it online?

I have a file on my computer called “Dana Scully Does IVF” that’s a more complete engagement of the above but I don’t imagine I’ll finish it. I wouldn’t rule it out, though, particularly if there’s ever another movie. The end of the reboot really made me mad….so I’d be dealing with that. I did write a couple post-season 11 fics I intended to be part of a series but I gave up. What's the story behind your pen name? I honestly don’t remember, though I still use the yahoo email I created in that era and if anyone finds me from this interview please do reach out! Is there a place online (tumblr, twitter, AO3, etc.) where people can find you and/or your stories now? A long lost friend from that time had hosted a website with my work for a time; I couldn’t tell you where to find it. [Lilydale note: It’s here via Wayback.] But most of my work is still available at Gossamer (as far as I know) and I reposted at AO3 as a way to archive it. There are a couple very short newer works there that I posted in the aftermath of season 11.

(Posted by Lilydale on August 31, 2021)

#new post #old school x #xfiles fanfic #xf fanfic #gwinne

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nostalgicphile · 3 years

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Hi Cate, what is the moment you fell in love with msr?

Hmmm, this is a tough question! I hate to bore you with stuff about me (the XF is far more interesting) but I have to explain my XF exposure to answer this question properly.

The X-Files got popular while I was living in Asia. From 1993-1998, I really wasn’t that familiar with the show, except vaguely knowing it was a Big Thing; I was working as a newspaper reporter and I recall pulling a story off the wire that Gillian was mobbed in Australia...but I honestly hadn’t seen a single episode except The Pilot (right before I left Canada). By the time I returned, Fight the Future had already come and gone and TXF, in many ways, had just crossed its peak. I casually started watching Season 6 on Sunday nights with my husband (who liked it more than I did at the time, hee), then tried to catch the reruns on the Space channel (Canucks, remember that??) - keeping in mind that there were no streaming services where I could just watch the whole series chronologically. I began researching online, began finding message boards, read episode reviews. Even tried to understand the mythology - because, yes, I was new here. ;)

All of this to say: the series came at me in a jumble. I remember being blown away by certain moments, but I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I became so invested. I remember feeling Pusher was the most perfect episode in every way (and still hold to that), loved the concern emanating from Scully and the reassuring tenderness from Mulder as he prepared to face off against Modell. I remember being extremely moved by Scully’s breakdown in Irresistible and Mulder’s heartbreaking gentleness towards her.

But Season 6 will always be The One for me because I actually watched it live and dissected many of the episodes online afterwards with other philes for the first time. In many ways, it’s where it all started for me: Scully hovering over Mulder’s bloody chest in Monday; Mulder mumbling how Ritter was a “lucky man” because Scully survived in Tithonus; not-so-subtle mutual checks from the showers in One Son; Mulder’s relentless teasing in Arcadia; Mulder’s discomfort and jealousy and Scully’s raw breakdown in Milagro; heart-stopping romance while hitting balls in The Unnatural; the recognition of their individual value and balance as a team in Field Trip. Love, love, love. Loved it all.

#this is probably way more exposition than you wanted anon #random rambling #on a Sunday afternoon #The X-Files #msr #I still love season 6 so much

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celestialmega · 6 months

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The X-Files: Fight the Future by Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz.

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moiraiinesedai · 2 years

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THE X-FILES | Fight the Future (1998)

— cockblocked and clam jammed 🥲 (PART 1 • PART 2 • PART 3)

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artemisiatridentata · 3 years

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scrolling through my dash full of txf posts on here and then opening twitter and seeing this tweet and how many of my mutuals liked it is giving me whiplash . like. you fools. you fucking idiots. have you never watched the x-files (1993-2002) or the x-files: fight the future (1998) or the x-files: i want to believe (2008) or the x-files revival (2016-2018)

#sometimes going on twitter is really like oh these people live in a completely different reality huh #i just..... the fact that so many ppl only know her from sex education..... what are yall doing!!!!!!!!#the x files #txf #gillian anderson

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ouroboroscully · 3 years

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i was one years old when txf fight the future came out and god i cannot imagine what it must have been like to be an MSR shipper and see it in theatres like???? the Hallway Scene?????? how would one even recover from the euphoria and also raw incendiary frustration of that? i feel like i would have gone home and stared at my hands for the rest of the day in a daze

#y’all truly walked so that i could run holy shit #txf #msr #fight the future (1998)#scully #dana scully #mulder #the x files #x files #xfiles #fox mulder #my stuff

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leonmorinpriest · 3 years

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the biggest let down of cinematic history was 1998 david duchovny NOT kissing 1998 Gillian Anderson in txf: fight the future and those are the facts ladies

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