#FITP bts

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the thing about writing is sometimes you’ll sit down to untangle a plot problem and you black out and write 700 words and when you come to, mulder’s in a tree

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OH MY GODDDDDDD I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!

Fanart for @skelavender’s lovely fanfic series Fall into Place :3 (you can read it here on tumblr btw)

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layout of the house in shelter!

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inspired by a comment left by @wannaliveattheholidayinn on chapter 3 of shelter, that one bit in how i met your mother, and @pookie-mulder’s tags on this post

comment and bonus below the cut !

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Small potatoes?

“I must have forgotten,” not-Mulder shakes his head, “Silly me. You know what else is silly, Dana?” Mulder doesn’t call her Dana unless someone is dead or dying. She resists the urge to roll her eyes. Instead, she hums in reply. “That we’ve never done this before,” and the dipshit starts leaning in to kiss her. Scully stands stock still until she can’t hold it back anymore, and laughs.  Haven’t done this before. Like Mulder hadn’t fucked her on this very couch three days ago. Ridiculous.

Im sticking closer to canon for fitp v, and this is the first episode i really started because i love it so much its so ridiculous

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wip tag game!! i was tagged by @agent-troi and @calimanc 💕

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i don’t have one folder for wips but the only thing i’m actively working on is fitp v, so i’m posting from that folder

EAT ME ALIVE.

EATING OUT ON THE COUCH

small potatoes

FIRST TIME

the absurdly long outline doc i’ve used for all of fitp that catches all the random little blurbs that pop into my head

im late to the game and it seems like most folks have already been tagged, so i'll just do @7crowsinadress and @ithacarus (no pressure!!)

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WIP wednesday for FITP?

im gonna be honest, the document has Not been opened for a couple weeks but this did make me open it and write a bit, so thank you! here’s the opening so far:

The white, clear, unmarred ceiling is mocking Scully.  You have something I need. The words bounce around her mind, ricocheting between parietal bones before then echoing through the rest of her body like a war drum through a valley, the sound amplifying a warning of what’s to come.  The white, clear, unmarred ceiling is mocking Scully. She is not sure her body is quite so pristine.

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one thing about me is if im writing from scully's pov im gonna use medical and anatomical metaphors

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i’m soooo tempted to post ch4 right now bc i want y’all to yell at me about it

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writer vs the urge to get a tattoo for their first Big Fic

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happy sunday. the lord's day. i am posting x files porn on tumblr dot com

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ok y’all i have 200-400 words left in this chapter and it’s mostly transition stuff. it might not be great but unless something horrible happens it should be posted this evening

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A favorite part of yours from the outline doc?

here's something longer that i wrote months ago for shelter/yail, but couldn't find a place for it to fit right, so i moved it to fitp v with the intent of reworking it. i really like the guts of it, but i need to tweak it for where they currently are in their relationship:

These days, they wake up with limbs twisted into each other, they drink out of the same mug of coffee while gathering their things for the day, they bicker over who will drive them to work that day. These days are routine and comfortable. These days are the ones that Scully loves him so much it hurts. These days are the ones she thinks she has everything she wants. These days are the ones when she just barely stops herself from kissing him properly, forgetting that it isn’t something they do. These days are the ones where she floats high and falls hard. Scully, historically, had always pictured herself being loved loudly. She imagined a giant ring, a big house, and a jovial laugh beside her at dinner parties. A bright spot to shine on her every day, to make her small corner of the world seem a little bigger. Since joining the X-files, this desire has changed. The world has gotten so large, so overwhelming, and much, much scarier. Now, she wants a love she can see all sides of. One she can cradle in her hands. It doesn't need to be loud and boisterous. It just needs to be familiar, it just needs to be safe, it just needs to be hers.  Which is why Mulder’s breed of affection is so perfect that she tries to swallow it whole. He rests a subtle hand on her lower back in a crowd, not to brand her as his own, but to make sure they don’t get separated as she leads them, serpentine, to their destination. He encourages her to take the space and the breaks that she doesn't usually permit herself. He replaces her lotion before she can squeeze the last of it out. He loves her deeply, so deeply, but quietly. It’s exactly what she needs when facing an ever-expanding world cloaked in conspiracy, mystery, and the unknown.

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u want to read this chapter trust me

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me, trying to dig a splinter out: omg just like lavender_tea_writes. "you are in love." fall into place, installment 4, chapter 3, 2024, pp. 57-63.

(i did not get all of it out i wish i had a scully to get it for me :((( )

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Ok so I’m actually working on the fitp fanart and i know theyre not in the smooching phase yet but shhhhhhhhhh (also this is repurposed Valentine’s Day fanart that i never finished so)

A sneak peak :3

AHHHH I LOVE IT!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!!!!