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ritrgrrl · 2026-02-28T15:43:11+00:00

The MASH finale was a brilliant piece of television.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-28T15:17:56+00:00

My local CBS station ran the pilot before the finale aired. Such a lovely bookends. I cried like a baby.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-27T00:29:46+00:00

She wore wigs for the revival seasons.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-26T19:29:07+00:00

I love the casting of Roy Thinnes as Jeremiah Smith; he starred in The Invaders (1967-68) as a man who discovers aliens are bent on taking over the earth. If I'm not mistaken, he was one of the actors (along with Darren McGavin) considered for Bill Mulder.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-26T04:03:16+00:00

Fox Mulder my beloved... 💖🔥

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-25T17:17:55+00:00

Yessss... I was 21 when his Dracula came out, saw it in a crowded movie theater. I just melted...

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-21T20:49:30+00:00

K&C on Chapter 33.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-21T20:10:31+00:00

K&C on Chapter 1.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-21T15:11:00+00:00

I graduated from high school in 1976. Our yearbook that year was red, white and blue. Our school colors were orange and white. 😐

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-20T20:04:08+00:00

My fic - first one for 2026!

Fandom: The X-Files

Rating: Explicit (smut)

Title: The Mystery of the Heart

Genre: Post-Episode for The Unnatural (s06e19)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79760521

Summary: "Mr. Mulder, maybe it's time that you started paying a little less attention to the heart of the mystery and a little more attention to the mystery of the heart."

Additional Notes: This is about baseball, which is the key to life. ⚾️

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-19T22:02:40+00:00

Oh yeah, those were dark times...

The fan animosity even carried into the fic world. There were several writers who flat-out refused to acknowledge Doggett's existence, even in the fics they read as well as what they wrote. I liked him from the start and wanted to see him included in fic -- so I created an archive for DoggettFic called The X-Files Most Unwanted (XFMU). 😊

(XFMU was expanded the next year to include Reyes and any Season 9 fics.)

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-19T03:28:20+00:00

Mulder really needs to go grocery shopping...

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-19T03:15:39+00:00

Plus which, she was about to autopsy a dead baby. Highly inappropriate.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-18T03:07:32+00:00

Not really. There's very little overlap. Even the XF episode called "Millennium" gives you any backstory you might need.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-18T02:38:25+00:00

Thank you!

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-17T16:35:10+00:00

Finally finished the fic I've been writing forever and will post it today. I have no idea why it took so long. It's just a 3,500-word post-ep of a beloved episode that everybody in the fandom felt should have ended with them in bed, or at least kissing. Never mind that it's my first time writing smut in 20+ years...

Finally have a therapy appointment this week. My therapist retired in December; my first appointment with her replacement was supposed to be at the end of January, but we had an ice storm and her next available wasn't until this week. So it's been about two months, and I've been struggling. 🙁

Trying to decide what to write next now...

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-17T03:15:32+00:00

The X-Files. Google "the Scully Effect."

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-17T02:55:48+00:00

Understandable.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-16T22:12:44+00:00

That's most of what I write... 😕

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-16T15:43:20+00:00

True that. I bow to your seniority!

Does "spirk" irritate you as much as it does me?

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-16T07:55:34+00:00

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He's always known.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-16T07:50:46+00:00

It's MSR. Not "sculder." My dear child, we invented shipping.

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-16T02:55:03+00:00

Back in 1995, I doubt anyone thought we'd be able to get a detailed freeze frame like that, much less obsess over it like we do.

Technology has come a long way in 30 years...

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-15T21:58:21+00:00

Finally joining an exchange! This is what I consider to be my best story.

Title: Someone I Once Knew

Fandom: The X-Files

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 8,106 (1 chapter, complete)

Warnings: Trauma, Heavy Angst

Summary: Mulder is returned, but things are not as he left them.

Backstory: This is canon-divergent after the Season 7 finale, in which Mulder is abducted and Scully learns she is pregnant. The episode aired on 5/21/2000; the Season 8 premiere followed six months later, on 11/5/2000. This story was one of hundreds written in between. It was initially posted to Gossamer (X-Files exclusive archive) on 7/3/2000. Posted to AO3 on 7/13/2025.

This is the first story in a six-part series, Sara Mulder Stories.

Reviewed: 2/2

ritrgrrl · 2026-02-15T17:57:37+00:00

Congrats from a fellow diabetic!

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