Mission Statement… of sorts… (original) (raw)

First off, HI! I’ve been feeling nostalgic or something… so...

You know what I miss the most about The Lone Gunmen/X-Files? That sense of community. Maybe because that was my first fandom, the first place I ever wrote fanfiction for…even before I knew fanfiction existed. Maybe because we were all so like minded. We had a common thread, a common loss, something that linked us. Sure, we were geeky, but that’s what was beautiful. The X-Files was one of the most intelligent shows around – I know I owe a lot of my vocabulary to its nine year run. So it breeds intelligent fans. Sure, there were ship wars (When are there not?) but even then, we got along. We’d curse out Chris Carter, but praise the writers. We’d have unbelievably long threads on the Fox Message Boards (…long before I knew LJ existed too…)

The Lone Gunmen was the first place where I knew the other fans (only place really). They weren’t just usernames, they were people. AmazonX, Maidenjedi, Amy Jonas. They didn’t just know me; they knew my original character (Poor Anderea Jupitor). They helped me, the newbie that I was, with so much. The first, and only, fan site I ever built was an X-Files site. I miss these people, I miss that time – Six years has been such a long time. Sites have since closed, usernames have gone cold. But the fic, as they say, is out there.

I can’t help but hope, maybe, with the new movie coming out in the summer, that life will breath again in the old fandom. Sure, some of our favourite characters are "dead" (Repeat the mantra: If we didn’t see the autopsy, they aren’t dead.), but the passion could still be there.

And – as I fiddle around in this LJ community – I want to pose a fic challenge for anyone that’s still out there (haha punage was not intended): It’s been six years since "The Truth" where are they now? Anyone – Mulder, Scully, Doggett, Reyes, Skinner…hell, even Kersh, Spender, William, Gibson. Or if you’re so inclined, Susanne Modeski. Don’t forget Jimmy Bond and Yves. And ‘death’ be damned; Byers, Frohike, Langly, Krycek, the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

I’d love to see thoughts, musings, anything.

(X – Posted)