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I kept seeing those 'if mulder/scully had instagram' posts and I immediately thought of Hank having to promote the new series on social media/go live on ig for a q&a but he always ends up talking about his wife/posting pictures of her and his pr team is so done but it actually works really well and everybody loves it!! As you can see I think about your Stella&Hank stories all the time, thank you so much for creating their wonderful world and sharing it with all of us! <3

Oh, that's very interesting. I view Hank as kind of an anti-social media guy and Stella definitely anti-SM. He could probably be forced to do something by the studio, but he still probably wouldn't go for it. I'm sure in interviews it'll come out though, but he's quite protective of this particular property, so I think he'd at least try to stay on topic! Stella would look great in some fancy gowns as his red carpet date though :)

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I’m on my millionth reread of Adventures of The Lady Detective and The Writer. I love it so much! It’s a comfort fic to me. Your characterization of Stella, in particular, is so spot on. And the slow burn of Stella learning to let go and let Hank in is so beautiful.

In the hot tub scene in Welcome to LA, Hank thinks about smoking a joint with Stella but decides against lighting up since she’s a cop.

If you ever feel like it, might I suggest the following prompt:

One of them decides it would be fun to get high together and brings home some weed. They end up laughing a lot (we had that one gem of Stella laughing hysterically over the video but her full-throated laughter is so rare), eating some junky snacks and having hot sex (of course).

Thanks for considering!

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you very much! Listen, if I had ANY kind of muses right now I’d be all over the prompt - I had thought about something kind of similar years ago (actually I think it was something that was going to be part of the Covid lockdown story in Connecticut but ultimately scrapped because there was so much already jammed in there). I just don’t feel the writing urge right now, but maybe one day they’ll be back whispering in my ear.

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I really like your latest fic True Lies and other fics too, so I wonder if you are working on new ones

First of all, thank you! I would like to tell you I have a lot of irons in the fire but the truth is that my muses have all seemed to take a permanent vacation. No ideas. No real desire. Just creatively depleted. It’s happened to me before, I went like 20 years from writing XF fanfic the first time around. Maybe they’ll be back, maybe not 😕

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Sorry/not-sorry but if someone doesn’t understand your long, carefully plotted, drawn-out, nonsensical, mind-numbingly boring point (not one person!) then the fault is completely on your bad writing. Especially when you end it the way you end it.

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Hi!!! I am looking for fic and for some reason my memory tells me it may be yours? But I have no idea and either way I’m wondering if you might know what I’m talking about. its a short fic where basically mulder contacts monica and sets up a scenario for scully and monica to have sex as a surprise for scully. I want to say maybe it was scullys birthday or something?? If you have any idea what I’m talking about let me know!!! Btw whether this is or isn’t your fic - I love absolutely everything you write :)

Thank you, Anon. Wish I could help you find this, but I haven’t written anything like that and I haven’t read anything like it either. Throwing it out to the universe for you and maybe @lilydalexf or @randomfoggytiger will know!

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Hello!!! I am looking for a fic where Scully was getting some sort of surgery or was in the hospital for some reason and Mulder had to pick her up and bring her home. I know that’s super vague but I am struggling to recall further details. Does that ring any bells?

That rings a lot of bells! If there is one place Mulder and Scully have spent a lot of time outside their basement office, it is in hospitals. I'm afraid without more detail I can't make a good guess. Cancer arc fics and post-episode fics have many situations where Mulder takes Scully home from the hospital, plus there are more in casefiles, AUs, and other kinds of fics. Sorry I don't have a more helpful answer!

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Hey there mldrgrl —

I just wanted to let you know that you are very much appreciated. I just realised that I haven’t really told you in a while how much I love your stories. So here I am.

I hope you never doubt how your stories impact your readers.

Have a wonderful day!

Thank you so much!!!! I wouldn’t say any stories are impactful, but I love that people love to read them!! 🥰🥰🥰

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ichor - PilotInTheStars

rating: mature | word count: 1k | @today-in-fic

ichor ( noun)

1.

Greek Mythology

the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods.

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Mulder wondered why they hadn't done any of this sooner. Now it all felt far, far too late. 

He woke in Scully’s bed, in her fresh, soft sheets with a quilt over them to keep them warm, with her cuddled close to his chest. His arm was draped carefully over her, and the scent of her was intoxicating. If not for the physical evidence in front of him, he might have thought that the previous night had all been a dream.

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Read the rest on AO3.

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Raise your paw if it’s your 10th birthday!

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Hi lovely! Hope you’re well. Thank you so much for the recent addition to the Hanella universe, I was sooo excited when I saw you’d posted! I’ve been re-reading some of your work recently and I had this new vision of Hanella becoming grandparents - I think it’d be adorable - so I was wondering if you’d ever considered this as an option for a future fic? No pressure at all! Thank you so so much for this series, it’s one of my all time favorites❤️

Hello Anon! The new addition came as a surprise for me I didn’t know they were planning to pop in for a visit. I think the issue with a grandchild would be Daughter actually wanting to have kids. Becca would be the deciding factor there and I’m thinking that’s a No from her. Besides they are already grandpawrents to Ziggy! 😆🐾🐾🐾

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Hey Mldrgrl how’s going?!

Just wanted to check if Hanella had been whispering sweet nothings to you abt Hank’s new Netflix gig? How they handle it or how Stella is reacting abt all this.

If they’re not, no worries I can always revisit your amazing works and dive into the great stories you created!

Hey Anon. 👋🏻 Wish I could tell you they’re keeping me updated on all their adventures, but they’ve been pretty quiet. No one is talking to me right now, even when I check in!

No news is good news, right??

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You know what makes me feel the happiest about this David and Gillian SAG reunion? Historically, both of them have expressed their reticence about attending awards shows, like it’s really outside both of their comfort zones for the most part, and I think for completely different reasons. And to be fair I think Gillian has gotten more comfortable with them, where David has gotten even less. So what was the reason they were there? Neither of them are nominated for anything. Neither of them have won anything recently. Neither have significant others there. Certainly not for funsies and probably not JUST because they were asked. So what was the reason?

Maybe Netflix is trying to woo them with something. Maybe Netflix is fucking with us for some reason…. Maybe it was because they were asked to present together and it was one or none and they wanted to support each other. Maybe they even did it for us! But I’m just so happy that whatever the reason, they did it. Because this new, relaxed and settled into themselves version with each other is pretty great. And yes the presentation was chaotic, but it was also shtick, and people are free to find it cringe or weird or chaotic, but it was them having FUN. And so was I.

NOW DO A MOVIE TOGETHER BECAUSE I WILL WATCH THE SHIT OUT OF IT.

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny presenting awards together over the past 30 years

1995 Emmy Awards | 1997 Emmy Awards | 1998 Golden Globe Awards | 2025 SAG Awards

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Adorable

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Awwww

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POANG Pals Secret Valentines 2025 Fic Recs

Happy Valentine's Day to the wonderful @sagan-starstuff! Here are 14 Valentine's fics from throughout the ages. Some smutty, some fluffy, some to sink your teeth into. I hope you've had an amazing day and that you enjoy these fics!

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Smutty smutty smut. They’re on a case with Skinner and Kersh, keeping their relationship a secret and Mulder can’t stop talking dirty. 

Title: Be my valentine, Scully? 

Author: Katy_KT_Katie, @katy-kt-katie

Summary: Just a short un-beta'ed fic for your Valentine's Day!

Length: 3,671

Classification: MSR, smut

Rating: E

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: “Don’t moan, Scully. No fraternizing . You know the rules,” he said playfully.

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While Mulder is still in hiding, Scully goes to do some training out of state. She’s away over Valentine’s Day.

Title: Heaven Scent

Author: admiralty, @admiralty-xfd

Summary: Scully is away, and missing Mulder. (Also, he smells like heaven, but we all knew that.)

Length: 4,888

Classification: MSR, pining

Rating: PG

Spoilers: pre-IWTB

Favorite line: She lifted the shirt to her face, breathing him in, remembering another night when she did the same and felt only hopelessness and loss. This time, she knew exactly where he was. He was only a thousand miles away, here on earth, thinking about her, too.

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We hate Diana, but we love seeing her thwarted.

Title: Cancelled Plans

Author: ScullyLovesQueequeg, @suitablyaggrieved

Summary: Diana Fowley asks Mulder out on a date.

Length: 4,597

Classification: MSR, Jealous Scully

Rating: PG

Spoilers: Post FTF, Diana is there

Favorite line: Mulder turned partway to face her and gave Scully one of his wry smiles. Since Antarctica, the smiles came so easy.

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Short and sweet fluff, Mulder embracing celebrating the holiday more than Scully.

Title: Love is in the Air

Author: mldrgrl, @mldrgrl

Summary: Just a bit of Valentine's Day fluff set in season 7

Length: 771

Classification: MSR, fluff

Rating: G

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: “But, it’s got Snoopy on it and everything.  I think he’s holding up a little sign that says ‘Be Mine’ or something like that.”

“Shut up and kiss me, you idiot.”

“No, that’s not what it says.”

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A pair of fics that are very hot and very satisfying, each in their own way.

Title: Impatient and Intent

Author: Beduini

Summary: Impatient: Sometimes you just can't wait. Season 6 Valentine’s day smut. Intent: A companion piece to Intent. What constitutes a fantasy?

Length: 1,621 and 1,515

Classification: MSR

Rating: E

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: Impatient: Her blue eyes flashed and a smile of pleasure broke out across her face as she ducked her head, trying to hide behind the wave of hair that was now too short to cover her face.

Intent: "Scully..." spoken as if all of the secrets of the universe could be housed in one name.

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This is one to sit with and enjoy, like a glass of good wine. Lying together in bed, Mulder thinks about his life and his relationship with Scully. It’s not fluff but that good MSR is present and correct.  

Title: Sedimentation

Author: Maria Nicole

Summary: Musings on the edge of sleep

Length: 2,302

Classification: MSR

Rating: PG

Spoilers: Orison, Fire

Favorite line: He and Scully will have to muddle through this on their own; maybe every so often she can deliver a State of the Partnership address, Scully in her glasses standing behind a podium telling him that their teamwork skills are good but their communication skills need work and Jesus, Mulder, she'd come to his room with wine and cheese and what had he thought she'd meant? 

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We are truly indebted to @lilydalexf for her rec of this otherwise impossible (?) to find fic. It is short and sweet and it is also tremendous. I love everything about it and somehow the thing I love the most is him calling her disgusting at the very end (to be fair, she is being disgusting).  

Title: it could be sweet

Author: wen

Summary: MSR valentines day no redeeming value fluff fluff fluff.

Length: 1,541

Classification: MSR, fluff

Rating: Not rated

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: She adored this gentleness about him and let him kiss her, very long and very soft, his mouth and tongue tasting of very rich dark chocolate and marshmallows.

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Sweet little fic from the olden days with a guest star.

Title: My Funny Valentine

Author: Britt Mulder

Summary: Scully has a secret admirer.

Length: 1,646

Classification: MSR

Rating: PG

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: She began to pepper kisses below his ear. Mulder didn't know why he was getting all this attention, but liked it.

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A more recent entry, there’s misunderstanding, there’s jealousy, there’s dopey adoration.

Title: Stupid Cupid

Author: mulderwearingglasses, @mulderwearingglasses

Summary: When a work emergency prompts the FBI to call in their best and brightest on Valentine's Day evening, Mulder shows up in a tuxedo, prompting Scully to wonder what kind of hot date he had just abandoned.

Scully must quiet the jealous storm brewing within as the two work together to search for a little boy.

Scully soon finds all is not as it seems, and maybe this won't be the worst Valentine's Day, after all.

Length: 5,325

Classification: MSR, UST, URT, hurt/comfort

Rating: G

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: Well, they were quite literally always together, but they weren’t together together. They simply called each other in the middle of the night when one or the other had a nightmare and knew each other’s coffee order depending on coffee chain and had spare clothes at each other’s places and nursed each other back from the brink of death on countless occasions and had broken down in each other’s arms and spent too many a tension-filled evening falling in love in clandestine seclusion on a shitty motel bed over styrofoam boxes of lukewarm takeout.

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This is a fun Mulder spiralling fic with a nice, fluffy ending.

Title: Suck it, Superman

Author: RationalCashew, @rationalcashew

Summary: Very early relationship. Season 7.

Their relationship is new. Things are going great. And, then, Mulder realizes that it's Valentine's Day and he's planned absolutely nothing.

Length: 2,433

Classification: MSR

Rating: PG

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: He’d gone through a million buzzing thoughts from the coffee table to the door. Including, but not limited to: the night was already ruined and she was going to dump him before they really had a chance to see what happened with this thing; his shirt was terrible and he should’ve changed it; if she dumped him, would she still work with him?

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A misunderstanding leads to some forward movement for our lovable idiots.

Title: Mixed Signals

Author: OnlyTheInevitable, @gaycrouton

Summary: Scully gets flowers from a secret admirer and that, combined with the way Mulder's been acting, prompts her to be honest with herself.

Length: 3,170

Classification: MSR, fluff

Rating: PG

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: “Her secret admirer. He’s been pining after her for years and she’s finally decided to take pity on him,” he told him seriously.

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Short and sweet old school Valentine’s fic from Donna. Scully’s down and Mulder figures out why. 

Title: February 14

Author: Donna

Summary: Valentine’s Day Ditty

Length: 717

Classification: MSR

Rating: G

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: "Well, you may not realize it but it is Valentine’s Day. You give pretty girls things on Valentine’s Day." Her eyebrow rose, but she didn’t comment, just picking up the box and heading toward the kitchen.

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Annika’s story of their first (belated) Valentine’s Day as a couple. Absolutely adorable.

Title: Valentine’s Day is a State of Mind

Author: Baroness_Blixen, @baronessblixen

Summary: Scully thinks Mulder has a case for them but as it turns out, Mulder has planned something else entirely.

Length: 1,251

Classification: MSR, Fluff

Rating: PG

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: “Okay fine, it was three weeks ago. Anyway, you were talking about going to a restaurant and how you haven’t been to a fancy place in ages and I thought, hey, as your bo- your partner?” He sighs before he goes on, “as your Mulder, I should do this. Remember when I asked you about having dinner the other day?”

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There’s the language of flowers, there’s an FBI ball, there’s Diana, there’s declarations of love and there’s smut. What more could you ask for on Valentine’s Day?

Title: ‘Til Stars Align

Author: MonikaFileFan, @monikafilefan

Summary: Mulder and Scully are currently stuck under Kersh’s thumb and banned to the bullpen. It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and Scully also finds herself under romantic admiration from another.

Length: 21,806

Classification: MSR, fluff and smut

Rating: E

Spoilers: 

Favorite line: “You can do this. You’re Fox freaking Mulder and you’re in love with your partner.

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Happy Heart (-Shaped Hail) Day! Fic Recs for Rain King for Valentine's Day (or Any Time)

It's funny how in the fandom circles I tend to spend time in now, Rain King seems to be a pretty beloved episode: super shippy, romantic comedy, multiple fanfic tropes made canon.

When it aired, the online fandom's opinion of this episode was pretty mixed. There was a large contingent of fans who really hated it. (I remember this because I am 4,000 years old.) Season 6 had already been perceived as being too light in tone, and we'd already come off of a run of Triangle, Dreamland I and II, and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas. There was a lot of anxiety about the move to LA killing the show's dark and angsty feel.

Me, I always liked Rain King (and Triangle, and Dreamland I and II, and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas). And while I can identify the tone change in season 6, I don't hate it, nor do I think that the show really loses its darkness and angstiness (a lot comes back in the second half of the season). I'm also not someone who believes comedy is a de facto more stupid or less substantial genre than drama or suspense, so I think that's part of it.

Rain King has generated so, so much fanfic, and most specifically fanfic that zeroes in on this little fun fact: THEY CANONICALLY SHARE A MOTEL ROOM BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY ONE ROOM. Obviously many of the fics I'm recommending below are based on that premise. So here are my Valentine's Day recs based on Rain King. (Even though I think it's not actually set at Valentine's? Because the cold open happens months earlier? There's some kind of timeline hijinks, idk.) But anyway, it's the clearest Valentine's episode we have, so happy Valentine's Day.

Free Merlot at the Cool View Motor Court by Sarie_Fairy @sarie-fairy Scully tries a little experiment with Mulder after the reunion that gets rapidly out of hand. This is smutty fun—the kind of high end sexy times this author is really known for. Dating Kings and Queens - Baroness_Blixen @baronessblixen A pure romantic comedy style plot variation on the ending of Rain King. The agents discuss the last time they've been on a date. Turns out it HASN’T been so long for Scully. This is just so charming. 

Kroner by DM When Mulder finds out about the “flicked switch speech,” he deals with it in a flirty, somewhat less sentimental way that feels very in character to me. I like a fic with dialogue that feels like it goes a little unexpected.

No Big Deal by dreamingofscully @dreamingofscully Scully offers to help Mulder sleep in the hotel. This is UST, but deliiiiiiightfully so, and heavy on the complex feelings.

Can’t Fight This Feeling by mldrgrl  @mldrgrl A sweet and more subtle little feelings reveal after Rain King by an author who does this exact thing well. Also there is slow dancing to 80s music.

Time Enough At Last - baylorrific Absolute textbook classic one room trope, but it stands out for me because I like how it focuses on their mutual discomfort. They’re both so awkward here, even though it’s Mulder POV. I also like how the classic Twilight Zone episode Time Enough At Last is in conversation with what’s happening with the MSR.

There’s No Place Like Kroner - MonikaFileFan @monikafilefan You know what would make a “there’s only one room” Rain King fic extra fun? DIANA. Okay, okay, I admit I wrote this prompt for the exchange, lol, so of course I think it sounds fun. But Monika wrote the actual fic, and you don’t want to miss it.

Pillow Talk - Alelou This is a short piece about a chatty Mulder very carefully putting out feelers in the motel room after the reunion. Sweet and in character.

Land That I Heard Of Once in A Lullabye - leiascully @leiascully In Kroner’s tiny airport, Scully takes stock of where they’ve come from and where they’re going. I love this. It feels especially spot on character-wise for season 6.

All that Lights Upon Us - wonderland @amplifyme This is a very different kind of Rain King fic, part of a series, although it can be read alone. During the events of Rain King they share a first kiss, but this fic is about their conversations afterwards (Mulder and Scully, as well as Mulder and Maggie). Gentle affection, and the process of taking little steps towards one another.

On the Flicking of Switches - SisterSpooky1013 @sisterspooky1013 Mulder initiates an awkward conversation in the motel room after the reunion. SisterSpooky1013 always has her characterization shit together, but I think this is an especially compelling character sketch of season 6 Scully.

Break in the Weather - ATTHS_TWICE @atths--twice Mulder and Scully can’t fly out another night in Kroner, so they kill time by going to a drive-in movie. Honestly, this is just adorable.

Still Raining - Donna When Sheila sends them both a letter a few months later, she alludes to what Scully told her in the bathroom. This raises questions for Mulder.

Stop Me - Gina Rain A little seduction by Mulder in the Kroner motel room. It starts with her feet, if that’s your thing. But it’s not exclusively about feet, if that isn’t lol.

They're SOOOOO MANY great Rain King fics, so drop any I missed in the comments! And if you want to read my Valentine's Day recs last year based on Milagro, they're here.