X-Files Collector’s Edition: Off-The-Wall Crazy Crack Fic {Edited}
Skinner’s gremlin birthday, Mulder and Scully adopting a Cheerio loving alien, nightmarish insurance claim calls, failed pipe repair with bubble gum-- this has all the crazy adventures that Chris Carter likes to pretend don’t exist (and do because I say so.)
(Note: I separated this out from my original crack-fic post for better ~thematic~ order... and also because I had others that necessitated a re-ordering.)
Loose chronological order below!
Diadem’s Happy Birthday
““Crossing in to his office he hung his jacket in the small closet space hidden in the rear wall. It was only upon turning back to his desk that he noticed the small parcel, set carefully atop a stack of mail. It was hexagonal, about eight inches tall, and was wrapped in shiny green paper. It was taunting him.
Silly as it may be, his first instinct was to run. Unfortunately he had a meeting in twelve minutes, so that was not an option.””
Skinner spends his birthday alternately bonding with and vainly hiding a Furby in his desk (at least he has someone to celebrate his special day with.)
Yasinta Widjojo’s Monster Mash
““What's up?' Mulder asked.
'Have you had your computer crashed lately?' Langly asked.
'Of course, everyone had.' Scully shrugged.
'It might not be as easy as you think it is. We discovered that some crashes were actually caused by an unknown biological entity in the system itself.' Byers said as he turned away from his computer.””
CSM’s latest nefarious scheme-- unleashing little monsters on the computers-- is stopped by TLG; but it explodes before they can pick it apart for information.
Satchie’s Claimed
““Now fully recovered and back at work, Mulder waged war against his health plan like a modern day Don Quixote tilting at imaginary windmills. His medical claim had been denied five times without explanation, and he was incredibly frazzled. Numerous phone calls to the hospital and claims office were less than productive. He was inundated with past due notices and harassing phone calls from the hospital threatening to turn his account over to a collection agency, as well as letters from the health plan stating his claim could not be paid under the terms of the contract.””
Mulder has recovered from one of his many hospitalization stays only to encounter the real nightmare: insurance calls.
FootlessData507′s
Do You Want to Believe?
““You whistle on your way to the Hoover Building. Why shouldn’t you whistle? You are a straight, well-educated, white American male in your thirties. You feel relevant and vital.
“Stand aside!” your stride seems to say. “For I am a straight, well-educated, white American male in my thirties!” Nodding at a perfect stranger on the street, your body language adds, “And I grew up on Martha’s Vineyard!”
However, your relevance and vitality diminish somewhat when you enter the Hoover Building, and diminish even more when you reach the audiovisual equipment room and are informed by Marge that you can’t have the good projector today because the Financial Crimes section needs it.”"
An alternating POV ‘Pick Your Own Adventure’ with Mulder whistling through his haphazard day and Scully trying to bail him out of his choices.
CLONK!
““Does Mulder know you’re here?” demanded Langly, who was sitting beside Frohike. The woman across from him flinched.
“Excuse me,” she snapped, “what’s going on? Do you all know each other?” She tucked her hair, which was every bit as long and blonde as Langly’s, behind her ear.
“Mulder doesn’t know I’m here,” Scully answered, “and I’d appreciate it—”
“Why should she have to tell Mulder she’s here?” Frohike demanded, turning on Langly. “Unless she’s here for an X-File—”
At this possibility, Frohike and Langly both started swiveling around, searching the basement for anything inconsistent with a Unitarian speed dating event.””
Scully’s cousin drags her out of her comfort zone in the pursuit of men-- at a different faith’s church with strangers and two Ken-doll identical twins... and TLG. It turns into a group shout and gossip session before all of them meet up with Mulder at the movie theater.
This is SO good. SOOOOOOO good. Everything weaves back and in on itself.
@scullysexual/@bigfootwrites/PostApocolypticAlien’s
Mulder and Scully Adopt an Alien
““The grey creature’s back is to him but Mulder can see in its hands is a bag of his Lucky Charms.
In a surprise, he drops his gun. It crashes to the floor startling the creature who turns in surprise. Its big black eyes stare up at Mulder with wonder and fright, the Lucky Charms bag clutched tightly in one hand, a marshmallow held frozen in the air in the other.
Then it starts screaming.
And Mulder starts screaming in response.
And everyone is screaming.””
Mulder is enamored with his cereal alien... until it bonds with Scully, who beams like a proud kindergarten teacher. Then Mulder gets petty and jealous.
Mulder and Scully Adopt an Alien Part 2
““I can’t believe I let you talk me into this,” says Scully, shaking her head.
“It’ll be fine,” says Mulder with no hint of worry in his voice at all. “He looks fine.
”The ‘he’ referenced is the alien- dressed in one of Scully’s dresses from when she was younger, Mulder’s baseball hat covering his head.””
Mulder and Scully have to sneak their alien friend into FBI headquarters to (hopefully) find resources to return him home. They’re almost immediately in trouble, of course.
Char Hall’s Switch
““Agent Mulder," Skinner began.
"Yes?" Mulder answered and Skinners face clouded with confusion. Scully poked Mulder in the ribs and stepped forward.
"She's funny, isn't she? What can I do for you, sir?" she said calmly. She felt like a fool.
"Uh, you two have another case to do. Mulder, I need you in my office in a half an hour. Scully," he said, turning towards Mulder. "I need you to perform an autopsy in bay four. Pronto." he said and stalked away from the office.””
Scully is woken in the office by the unpleasant realization that she and Mulder have body swapped. Mulder’s not happy, either; but his day gets worse every time he runs into cronies from her old life. (Also, they both get shot, so....)
eponine119′s X-Mas
““"They'd been having hard times - in school, financially - it's conceivable they would be looking for an easy solution to their problems."
"Asking Santa?" cried Scully. "These were seventeen and eighteen year old girls, Mulder, they've got to have more sense than that."
"I know," Mulder informed her, "My source tells me they intended to document Jolly Old Saint Nick and sell the pictures to the highest bidder.”"
Santa is kidnapping little girls to use as slave labor. He’s kinda evil, and makes them forget.
Mystic’s Plumbing
““...Their eyes raised to the roof where the drops originated from, a small hole with a circumference of about an inch.
"Rain?" Mulder asked.
"We're in the basement." Scully reminded.
Both never taking their eyes off the hole.””
Skinner finally cracks after seeing his agents drenched in water, failing to plug up a ceiling leak with bubble gum.
Kel’s The Shortest Mulder MedicalTorture Ever Written
““He vomited again and again, and he did not want to eat anything, not even sunflower seeds.
Mulder said he felt fine but Scully said he had acute appendicitis. She took him to the hospital herself, to make sure that he didn't accidentally go to Antarctica.
The emergency room doctor did horrible things to Mulder, like push on his sore tummy and put a needle in his arm.””
This puts all medical torture hurtfic into simplified sentences while condescendingly patting the reader on the head. This SPOKE to my soul, which was ravaged with the wounds of bad X-Files fics. No joke I have a read a story based on all the mentioned tropes (and more.) Perfect.
Amy Schatz’s
Everything But the Kitchen Sink
““Scully," he whined, looking up at her. "I don't like Hazlenut/Irish Cream/Ginger/Mocha/French Vanilla/Chocolate Mint coffee! And I really don't like Peach/Pear/Apple Turnovers!"
Scully shrugged. "So? You didn't want to come to my mother's house for Christmas, New Year's, Easter, President's Day, Columbus Day, St. Patrick's Day, my birthday, my cousin's shower, or Spring Cleaning Day, but you were glad you did afterwards, right? So give the coffee and pastry a try." She hoped that he would buy that and just leave well enough alone. Scully was not up to a fight with *Her* today.
Mulder shook his head, suddenly feeling rebellious, and thinking that this insanity had gone on too long and too far. "But, Scully-"
"Mulder!" she hissed, "stick to the script!"
Meta-- Mulder and Scully are salty with the thousand-and-one unrealistic scenarios they have to act out each day, courtesy of the Writing Overlords.If they step out of line just a little, the punishment is swift, severe, and hysterical: for example, Pendrell in alluringly compromising positions for Scully. (READ THIS AND WEEP WITH LAUGHTER.)
Enjoy!
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Kitchen counter
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Law almost jumps out of his skin when he spots you drowsy on the kitchen counter, alone in silence underneath the white lights of the submarine, almost like a lucid dream
He approaches you from behind, keeping silent
He towers over you even when sitting down, his eyes wonder on your peaceful face, eyes closed, hand under your chin while the other stays clinging to your cup of tea
You hate tea, you must’ve been desperate, looking for a cure to your sleepless night
He admires you for a while, not noticing he may appear a little bit creepy just staring, but you look just so effortlessly dreamy
“I can feel you staring, Captain” you mutter, your voice soft like a summer breeze, but it shakes Law to his core
He takes a step back and panics, but as your giggles meets his ears, he relaxes, a smirk forming in his lips as he decides to sit beside you
“Sleeping on the kitchen won’t help you rest better” you let out a tired sigh, your head turning to your Captain
When your eyes meet, Law can’t help but wonder if you always look at him the way you’re looking at him now, full of adoration, like he’s the answer to all of your problems
The calmness of the late night allows him to unravel, savoring the moment of your shared presence, bodies tired and souls alight
“I just had a long day”
He knew this. At very early hours of the day, he had heard your loud screaming trough the hallways of the sub, bashing over Satchi and Penguin who had thrown away an important paper you had been working on when they were tasked with cleaning your office
So you had to redo the whole paperwork
Because of this, you were late for dinner and the worst thing imaginable had happened, you didn’t get any dessert
Your favorite part of the day
Suddenly, Law feels a weight on his shoulder, he turns to see your head nuzzled on his side, eyes lost looking at the emptiness of the kitchen. A new feeling forms in his heart, he can feel it reeling going a mile per minute, warmth irradiates from his flushed face, and even though this feeling is new and alien, he likes it
Another silence falls over both, but this one’s different, this one is sweet, homely and welcome, a silence that speaks louder than any words could
Scared, Law allows his head to fall over yours, the way his body fits with yours in prefect harmony makes his heart swell. He closes his eyes and prays for this moment to remain forever, he wants you all to himself like this everyday
After a while, your weight falls slack, he peeks to see you completely asleep. He smiles to himself, a hand traveling to push away the lost strands of hair, showing him a full picture of your beautiful face
Big mistake
Another wave of that same emotion he felt moments ago washes over him, what were you doing to this poor man?
What was he to do now?
Ever so gently, he removes his arm to support your back while the other goes down to your feet so he can pick you up bridal style, keeping you close to his chest. As he walks you to your room, he feels you clenching at his shirt, looking for his warmth
He lets you down light as a feather, but a part of him doesn’t want to let go, a part of him wants to take you away
He peeks at Ikkaku’s bed praying to every god above that she hasn’t woken up, to his delight she is fast asleep without a care in the world. He tucks you in with the outmost care, before he stares at you yet again, burning this moment into his memory
“Good night” he whispers, making his way out to his bed
As he drifts to sleep he wonders if having you by his side every night would help you sleep better
It’ll help him sleep better that’s for sure
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Keeping a surprise a secret
They completely forget about it themselves so it's a surprise for BOTH of you.
Marco, Sabo, Zoro, Brook
Is so painfully smug about it you just know something is going to happen even if they don't -say- a damn thing.
Marco, Law, Doffy, Sir Crocodile, Robin, Rayleigh
Chill about it, so chill you don't think they even care.
Izou, Law, Mihawk, Nami
Great at secrets and surprises.
Izou, Killer, Corazon, Mihawk, Nami, Robin, Jinbei
Loves taunting you 'Oooh I have such a surprise for you!'
Ace, Thatch, Satchi, Koala, Sanji, Franky, Luffy, Perona
Tries to be chill but is stood there sweating buckets.
Deuce, Penguin, Buggy
Blurts it out -10 chill points.
Penguin, Satchi, Brook [when he remembers] Luffy, Roger, Buggy
Tries to throw you off 'Nah, not got anything planned' and fools you.
Kidd, Killer, Sir Crocodile, Nami,
Tries to throw you off 'Pffft me? have something planned? nooo' and you see through that BS in a second.
Ace, Thatch, Sanji, Perona
Lies and avoids the subject.
Deuce, Sabo, Buggy
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関東蒲公英[Kantōtanpopo]
Taraxacum platycarpum var. platycarpum
関東[Kantō] : Kantō region
蒲公英[Tanpopo] : Dandelion
The reading of 蒲公英 as tanpopo is the adaptation of the letters of the Chinese name with the reading of the Japanese name, or an ateji.
The flower of Kantōtanpopo has involucral bracts that do not warp and their tips are hooked. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to identify it due to hybridization with 西洋蒲公英[Seiyōtanpopo](Western dandelion, Taraxacum officinale).
扨、時計や晴雨計を持たぬ所では、草木を觀察して時や天氣を察知した例多し。朝顏・晝顏・夕顏等、其名の如く其時に開き、西洋でもオシロイ花を、開く時に因んで、四時(フオワ・オークロック)と呼ぶ。蒲公英(タンポポ)は、本邦で朝開き午以後萎むといふが、歐洲では、毎朝五時に開き午後八時に閉るから牧童の時計とし、又、晴雨計たり。晴天に其種子の毛が展開し、雨天には閉ぢ合ふからだ。
[Sate, tokei ya seiukei wo motanu tokoro dewa, kusaki wo kansatsu shite toki ya tenki wo satchi sita rei ooshi. Asagao, hirugao, yuugao nado, sono na no gotoku sono toki ni hiraki, seiyō demo oshiroibana wo, hiraku toki ni chinande, yoji (fowa-ōkurokku) to yobu. Tanpopo (tanpopo) wa, honpō de asa hiraki hiru igo shibomu to iu ga, ōshū dewa, maiasa goji ni hiraki gogo hachiji ni tojiru kara bokudō no tokei toshi, mata, seiukei tari. Seiten ni sono shushi no ke ga tenkai shi, uten niwa tojiau kara da.]
Well, there are many examples in places where people did not have clocks or rain gauges, they often observed plants and trees to determine the time and weather. Morning glory (lit. morning face), Japanese bindweed (lit. daytime face), Calabash (lit. evening face), etc., as their names suggest, open at the right time, and even in the West, Mirabilis jalapa is called "Four O'clock," after the time it opens. In our country, Dandelion is said to open in the morning and shrivel after noon, meanwhile, in Europe, it opens at 5:00 every morning and closes at 8:00 (every) evening, making it a herdboy's clock and a rain gauge. This is because the hairs of the seed unfold in sunny weather and close together in rainy weather.
From 蓮の花開く音を聽く事[Hasu no hana hiraku oto wo kiku koto](To hear the sound of lotus flowers opening) by 南方熊楠[Minakata Kumagusu]
Source: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000093/files/52937_63370.html (ja)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minakata_Kumagusu
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