It's 9 pm, what the hell am I doing in bed?

[itsallovernow]

Laying under the covers shivering, that's what.

Cough is getting worse, making my whole body ache. No gas means no hot water, no heat, and no stove. If someone finds Mike in a stove, they'll consider my justified. Plus, I feel like a loser calling my friends and saying, "Hey, can I come use your shower?" Which is the next course of action as my frigging Y membership apparently expired without my knowledge.

Oh cat, why won't you eat the expensive stinky wet food I bought you. Why won't you FEEL better and eat your supper. Poor squishie, indeed. Plus, mama had to pay the taxman so you can't go back to the vet until payday!

I am deeply tempted to do a full rewatch of the X-Files from the beginning. I believe I have videos of the first season still. I wonder if I have all 7 seasons. (I'm not tempted to watch 8 or 9, largely because I think that the S7 finale made a perfect ending, not for any deep seeded resentment).

So, favorite eps? Favorite seasons? Favorite fics that still make you feel all dark and squishy inside? I read EVERYTHING, back in my lurking, not understanding fandom or fangirls but desperate for more M/S angst and tension days. It's crazy to me that some of the people I most adore are people that I met because I caught sight of them in Farscape fandom when I got brave enough to dip my toes into that and fell, fawning, into their orbits. I knew who iamsab and cofax7, not to mention haphazardmethod or fialka or denyeverything1, were before I ever met them, and they're just as amazing in person as they were back in their heady XF days when I just read from afar!

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[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you read my (and everyone else's) XF fic. Huh. *g* Also, mwah!

To oblige you, I dug up an old scullyfic post about favorite eps. It's based only on seasons 1-8 -- if I had taken season 9 into account, "Audrey Pauley" and "Release" would have to be considered for bests, along with "Provenance/Providence."

I started slotting episodes into "Good," "Bad," and "Indifferent," but the "Good" list was much to long (which yes, made me happy). Then I separated "Good" and "Great." Interestingly, I ended up with 26 "Great" and 25 "Bad." I love a bell curve.

25 is too long to list, so the winnowing continued. (These are in chronological order.)

Best (cutting this down actually hurt, and yes, I cheated with what I think are non-standalone arcs):

*Pilot* (Because you must start somewhere, and 9 years later I still love it.)

*Little Green Men* (Nothing about it I don't adore. Solidified my love for Mulder in a way even TFWID couldn't dissolve ;-)

*Duane Barry/Ascension/3/One Breath* (Very important that "3" is part of this arc! Where I learned to love angst.)

*Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paper Clip* (More "Holy shit" moments than anything before or since.)

*Jose Chung's From Outer Space* (The way, the how, the wow, of a Darin Morgan script. Brilliant.)

*ReduxII* (Where I believe the story was meant to stop, and where I would choose that the story *had* stopped, if I ran the world. And FOX. Though interestingly, I would have missed 4 more "Great" episodes…)

*Bad Blood* (Brilliant script, brilliant acting. Makes a casual viewer laugh, a long-time fan howl with delight.)

*Milagro* (Because it's all about writing, the act of creation, and the power of imagination, and it conveys those ideas in a unique way.)

*Field Trip* (For an X-File, just about perfect, even on the surface. What makes it great is the M&S interaction that powers their actions and experiences. Yowza.)

*Je Souhaite* (For the delighted look on Scully's face when confronted by her invisible corpse -- for that alone I would love it. But there's more! Great original characters, easy M&S interaction, Scully getting to act like a scientist. That's the icing on the cake.)

(Just missed the cut: Deep Throat, Miracle Man, Beyond the Sea, Darkness Falls, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Grotesque, Pusher, Monday, Dod Kalm, Paper Hearts, Never Again, Small Potatoes, Memento Mori, Folie a Deux, The Pine Bluff Variant, Badlaa (no, I'm not kidding)

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

Wow -- I'm reading this list and I still remember all these episodes by their title. I don't think I have ever fallen into a fandom deeper than I did this one. For me, Clyde Bruckman is up higher on the list because I loved how very kind Scully was holding his hand. And Excited!Scientist!Scully and her invisible body in Je Souhaite is another of my favorite mental images of her.

{{{Thea}}} I hope you're feeling better!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Clyde Bruckman is far above Jose Chung for me, but it may just be that I loved Peter Boyle so much:)

And thanks honey, I'm slowly feeling better. At least I'm sleeping!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I mostly agree with those, although I also think the story was meant to end at Season 5.

And hee - I totally read your fic (and, at the very beginning of our acquaintance, used to mercilessly prod Hap to prod you so that you two would finish "Fire Sale", which I was still desperate for:)