Genres

Until I find a more appropriate way to catalogue stories, there are a few selections available under  Genre.

Fic Length: The actual length of each story is on the story page itself, but it’s not sortable there.  Stories have been classified by length as follows:

Fic Era (Timeline/Setting)

You can make a selection using the dropdown box  in the sidebar (which is below the main content on mobile devices) or these selections will take you to the fics available .

  • Pre XF (Things that happened before we met them in 1993)
  • Seasons 1-3 (Early) (Our baby agents. There’s still a bit of an innocence about them as they discover new things and learn about each other.)
  • Seasons 4-5 (Mid) (They’re getting more comfortable with each other, and maybe getting on each other’s nerves a little. CC gets more sadistic, Scully gets cancer, and Mulder doesn’t know what to believe any more.)
  • Fight the Future (XF Movie) (All the action and adventure of the 1998 movie, with all those plot holes needing to be plugged up. )
  • Seasons 6-7 (FTF Fallout/SOSS) (That difficult Season 6 when Mulder & Scully were off the X-Files and they had Diana Fowley to contend with, through to Season 7, often referred to as the “Season of Secret Sex” in which it’s suspected that M&S were doing the horizontal hula whenever they weren’t on screen.)
  • AU Season 8+ (no Requiem) (Fics that continue with the status quo/storylines set in Season 7 prior to Requiem – ie No pregnancy, no baby, no abduction. Oops, spoiler alert. 🙂 )
  • Seasons 8-9 (Next Generation) (The introduction of John Doggett & Monica Reyes, and a whole heap of other characters thrown into the giant void left by the absence of the warmth & humour of M&S. Also Scully got baby brain bad and stopped questioning anything. I tend to refer to this and subsequent eras as “CC’s headcanon” 😉  )
  • Post Seas 9 – On the Run/Settling Down (Post “The Truth” while M & S are on the run from the FBI until they establish themselves at the unremarkable house.)
  • I Want to Believe (including pre/post) (Events leading up to the second movie as well as during and after the movie.)
  • Revival (Seasons 10-11) incl pre/post (This covers that murky, vaguely referenced time (where CC likes to think M&S split up) before they return for the reboot, through Seasons 10 and 11 and onwards from there… )
  • Sometime in the future (when written) (Usually some future time from when the story is originally set, or just some vaguely future-dated setting for a story. It’s kind of AU by default and canon-divergent… although there are occasionally some eerily foreshadowing-of-canon storylines.)
  • No Era Given (Often there’s not enough plot to matter, but sometimes there just aren’t any spoilers to worry about. You can often get clues from the other genres and tags or when the story was written)
  • Various Seasons (usually a compilation of stories from various episodes/seasons)
  • … goes AU (diverges from canon at previously tagged era)

Other selections available under Genre

Story type

  • Vignette A short mood fic, typically under around 5000 words, but some authors get in the the mood and revel in it…
  • Standalone A one-off story, free of prequels and sequels.
  • Shipper’s Digest – Trope Anthology A Reader’s Digest type anthology for lovers of smut and tropes. A few stories by different authors centred around a theme in a single volume.
  • Shipper’s Digest – Episode Companion Just like the trope anthology, only centred around an episode.
  • Part of a Series One part of a series where the stories in the series are posted here separately but linked together.
  • Companion Fics Usually a couple of stories intended to be read together.
  • Combined Series Multiple stories from a series combined in the one volume.
  • Author Anthology Lots of stories by a single author all compiled into one ‘book’.

General relationship status

  • Mulder/Scully Romance  Mulder-Scully romance. Could be either UST or RST, but the LUST is there.
  • Mulder/Scully Partnership (or less).  They’re generally partners at some stage in the fic. Sometimes there’s fondness and sometimes there’s friction. On rare occasions they outright despise each other. ie The general status quo, and usually. NoRoMo safe.
  • Mulder/Scully Friendship I added this one for that in-between status where it’s more than partners but less than romance. Then I confused myself so it doesn’t get used much.
  • Doggett-Reyes-Scully partnership Fics after Season 7 where Scully is working with Doggett and Reyes. Or maybe Scully has left & Doggett and Reyes are still there because I don’t have a tag for that.

More detail is given as the the status of the relationship under the M-S relationship tag, here.

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