lilydalexf:Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic duri

lilydalexf: 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 every Tuesday. Interview with Cecily Sasserbaum Cecily Sasserbaum has 7 fics at Gossamer, plus some at AO3. Her dialogue between Mulder and Scully is packed with wit and heart in a special way that stands out among X-Files fics. I’ve recced some of my favorites of her stories here before, including Above Minnesota, Chess, and The Gentle Art of Dream Interpretation. Big thanks to Cecily 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)? It doesn’t at all surprise me that people read old X-Files fanfics in general. It SHOCKS me that people read mine. I thought of myself as a loner author and didn’t feel especially aware of a readership even when I was posting stories. I was able to maintain the impression in the late 1990s / early 2000s that I posted a little fic for my own fun, got a little nice feedback, and that was that. Until recently I sincerely didn’t know anyone still read me. When I came back to the fandom this year and was looking to you for fic recs, I saw you recommended me in the past few weeks … and I was floored. What do you think of when you think about your X-Files fandom experience? What did you take away from it? My involvement with the X-Files fandom was entirely online, and I didn’t know a lot of other fans. I primarily lurked. I felt like I knew who prominent folks in the fandom were, but they didn’t know who I was at all. Sometimes I wondered how everyone else seemed to know each other so well. Okay, I do see that this makes me sound a little pathetic. I promise I am a well-adjusted person, if a little introverted. Generally I was happy with the arrangement. I did often take some weird giddy pleasure following the big controversies and debates. Weiterlesen I had to bring this back in light of the last part of “The Boy on the Beach” being posted. In case you haven’t read the interview with @cecilysass or haven’t read this story or any of their other fics you’ve been depriving yourself of a lot of joy. https://cecilysass.tumblr.com/post/685220094942576640/the-boy-on-the-beach-1616The Boy on the Beach (16/16) -- source link

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