Alt.tv.x-files.creative
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| Name: | alt.tv.x-files.creative, ATXC |
| Date(s): | 1994 - present |
| Moderator: | n/a |
| Type: | fanfiction |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| URL: | ATXC on Google Groups |
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Partner to alt.tv.x-files, alt.tv.x-files.creative (ATXC) is a usenet group dedicated to X-Files fanfiction. Authors can post directly to the newsgroup or have their fic automatically forwarded there by certain mailing lists. Depending on the author's wishes, the fic posted to this group may be picked up and archived by Ephemeral and/or Gossamer.
ATXC is unmoderated and a fairly relaxed community. Along with fanfic, users discuss fic, post feedback, story recommendations, fic challenges, requests for forgotten stories, and website announcements.
Like any community, ATXC has had its problems, such as sockpuppets and unwanted lampooning of other people's fanfic. The posting of RPF, or "actorfic" as it was known then, also caused a brief stir in the late nineties; anyone posting it to the newsgroup found their stories attacked, and as a result it was generally understood that RPF was not welcome there. Even with RPF becoming more accepted with the rise of popslash, ATXC's anti-RPF attitude hasn't changed.[1]
Some individuals also voiced concern about the amount of R and NC-17 fanfic being posted to the group, leading to the creation of alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature in 1999. Though this accommodation wasn't to stop explicit fiction from being posted to ATXC, but rather to allow people to go straight to the "smut," as it was affectionately called.
Around 2000, the majority of the fiction-related discussion in the community moved off of ATXC, and over to the Idealists Haven message boards.
Wank
- Wicked X Witches
- Debbilmice
- Ordover Wars: Named for John Ordover, who came onto the newsgroup in late 1998 and criticized fanfic, despite being a professional editor of science fiction tie-in novels, which some may argue are nothing but professional fanfiction. Thus a flamewar broke out.[2]
