How I Joined OBSSE, Learned to love Scully, and not to worry about Alien Conspiracies
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| Title: | How I Joined OBSSE, Learned to love Scully, and not to worry about Alien Conspiracies |
| Creator: | Janelle |
| Date(s): | March/April 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
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| External Links: | OBSSE Newsletter: March/April 2000 News for the OBSSEsed, Archived version |
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How I Joined OBSSE, Learned to love Scully, and not to worry about Alien Conspiracies is a 2000 essay by Janelle.
It was published in the X-files newsletter, News for the OBSSEsed #33.
A companion essay is How My Mother Joined the Order, the Inside Story. As In the One That Isn't Hers by Meredith.
Excerpts
I have a daughter who would come in on Friday nights as I was writing papers for school, and insist on turning off the lights to watch some idiot program.. We compromised by my turning on a little light and working away on the computer. It had eerie music and silly dialogue that interfered with my scholarly pursuits. I would say, "What is happening?" and she would say, "Mulder ditched Scully for a giant alligator." "Oh, right," I would say. Then, "Mom, you have to watch this. He can squeeze into people's houses through the commode." I would say. "Oh good." This went on for a while, the only change being that the irritation came on Sunday night instead of Friday night. It made scant difference to the scholarly paper writer except that it was a little closer to deadline. I worked at the State for aggravation and pennies.
It was against this background that my baby informed me that she was joining an Internet Cult. Not only that, the cult was devoted to that TV program, The X-Files. She let me read what was being written on line and in the newsletters and I was a little mollified. But I did not tell my friends what was going on at my house because I did not them on my case for letting Meredith on the Internet much less joining cults.
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The cult was named the Order of the Blessed Saint Scully the Enigmatic.
During spring break of 1998, Meredith asked if one of her OBSSE friends could come and stay at our house. I gave her one of those what I now know as Scully looks and she came forth with lots of references that I could contact on line for her. One was at the University (of Texas, for those who are not enlightened) and working with Mayan history. He vouched for her and told me that I would be doing the University a great service if I allowed her to stay. What could I do? Sik!chickie came to stay. She was witty, intelligent, irreverent, and loved Tex-Mex. I was sad to see her leave. Summer came along and Meredith began speaking of Fest and lots of people coming from the Philippines and Germany and Minnesota and other strange and foreign places to see the premier of the X-Files movie. I was no longer so negative and no one wanted to stay with us so I was content. Besides Meredith was going to get a job as soon as this thing was over. She brought over some of the people and liberated my potato peeler and some other articles and was babbling about freeing Scully and Mulder from someone's purse. It was all very perplexing. She was also ecstatic about a test tube with a remission chip [1]. They had all waved them at the premiere. Meredith went to work and we shared complaints about work and bosses and all of that. She still watched the X-Files and I ignored them. Somewhere in between working too hard, putting Meredith on the plane to a foreign country, and the hottest summer in existence, I joined the OBSSE and became a serious fan of Scully and the RevMa, and Autumn and Sikchickie and some of the others.