a guide to XF fic on LJ
- ETA: Be sure to read the comments for more links! I'm too lazy to add them to the main post, but they are there if you scroll down all the way. :D But it's not at all up to date even with that - if you want to make sure you read the new authors after you read these people, check out phile_files.
Two things led to my idea for this post.
1) There has been more and more XF fic written on LJ in the past few months, what with the movie coming out, and that's exciting!
2) It's not easy to find. There isn't an active, comprehensive XF fic community on LJ, and the only way you can really know that it's there is if you know people, or know people who know people. That makes it harder to get momentum, and authors get less feedback, and readers don't know what's out there, resulting in LESS FIC. Less fic is no good. We want MORE.
So, I thought I'd do a modest survey of the XF fic currently1 being written on LJ. I've tried to include everything I've come across; it's sort of a recs list and sort of just a survey. It's not exhaustive (and doesn't contain any slash or newschool characters), so go ahead and send me stuff for me to include, if you like. I probably won't update it in the future, though - it's just a jumping off place.
1. And by "currently" I mean, sometime in the past three years, if I've remembered where it is.
Hopefully it'll be useful as a roadmap, and generate more interest, so the fic trend can keep GOING AND GOING!
LJ Authors & recommended stories (in alphabetical order)
(NOTE: The specific links I give are only examples, usually the examples I liked the best. Check out the author's LJ to read their whole collection.)
chalkboxkid (frey_at_last)
& Nightbirds [UST/friendship, cancer arc]
& Choice Toward Being [MSR, post-The Truth]
crookedhalt (veils) - tagged
& this is what happens after the pain [MSR, post-Redux II]
& overall sums are only going to depress them [gen, on the road]
& not really a sense of abandonment [friendship, UST]
emily_shore
& Much Madness is Divinest Sense 1 and 2 [post-Wetwired AU, WIP]
& Such Devoted Sisters and Dirty Water [Samantha AU]
leiascully - fic index
& Endeavors Too Short of Desires [UST, s6]
& A Three Fish Man [gen, s1]
leucocrystal
& Working Title: Close At Hand - snippets [gen, UST, vignettes]
loneraven
& Lullaby for a Stormy Night [R, UST, Samantha AU]
& What the Ocean Can Know of a Body [gen, character death AU, post-Gethsemane]
& Big Sky Country [PG, Willfic]
maidenjedi - tagged
& The Giver of What's Due [gen, En Ami missing scene, CSM]
necreavit (melannen)
& The Rainbow Connection [gen, colorblind!Mulder]
& it is a time of dark, dark despair [MSR, post-The Truth, mutant superheroes]
onpaperfirst
& One & Only, First & Last [post-The Truth, Willfic]
& untitled [MSR, post-all things]
& Letters Lost in the Fire [UST, season 6 off-the-Files]
sarken
& In the usual way (inches a year) [MSR, post-The Truth]
& Five Quirks Dana Scully Noticed About Fox Mulder During Their First Year as Partners [gen, S1]
stellar_dust
& Threnody [MSR, post-Requiem alternate S8]
threeguesses
& Silver Bells and Cockle Shells [gen, Willfic]
& Shopping List [MSR, PG-13, cancer arc]
wendelah1
& The Unbearable Unfitness of Being [S6, humor]
- lots more!
Misc
& one thing i'm missing is in your eyes [UST/friendship, on the road] by lesaut
& Aufwiedersehen, Mein Schatz by phishy
& Resurfacing by gibson_fic [post-The Truth, undercover]
Classic writer fic archives
∞ = still posts new stuff now and then!
∞ jetfic (Jesemie's Evil Twin)
∞ anjoufic (Anjou)
∞ runpunkrun - tagged (Punk Maneuverability)
fromthesabrary - tagged (Sabine)
cofax7 - tagged (Cofax)
sophia_helix - tagged (Sophia Jirafe)
∞ bardsmaid (Bardsmaid)
vaznetti - tagged (Vaznetti)
- there must be more! ...