Mulder/Skinner

Pairing
Pairing:	Fox Mulder/Walter Skinner
Alternative name(s):	Mulder/Skinner, M/Sk
Gender category:	slash
Fandom:	The X-Files
Canonical?:	no
Prevalence:	popular
Archives:
Other:	example of artwork depicting the Mulder/Skinner pairing, Suzan Lovett, 1996. The positioning of Mulder (kneeling) hints at one of the more popular themes in the pairing: d/s and BDSM. Additional artwork for the pairing is below. The title is "Who Protects the Protector". This picture appeared at MediaWest 1997 art show and was reviewed by one attendee: "Skinner's face in this one is obviously from a picture out of a magazine and while it's the closest picture I've seen that looks like him the expression isn't a passionate one and therefore the picture didn't look right to me...hopefully as [the artist] works more with them she'll get better."
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Fox Mulder/Walter Skinner is a popular slash pairing in the X-Files fandom. TheAD'sOffice or "The Office" is a website dedicated to the IRC Chatroom for X-Files slash fans who have a particular fondness of the Mulder/Skinner pairing. D/s and BDSM are common tropes and themes in the pariing. FanHistory reports that the first Mulder/Skinner story was written in October 1995. It was "Authority" by Laura Cooksey and "it would set the tone for future Mulder/Skinner fan fiction." Some fans report that their initial reaction to the paring was hesitant, but they were quickly won over:

"I too found Xanthe through 24/7 and at first i found [the pairing] a little hard to accept. I was new to slash and certainly had never viewed Skinner as anybody but the AD. Hungry for slash, having just discovered it, i ploughed on and soon found myself looking at Skinner in an entirely new light. And a much more appealing Skinner it was!! Now i find that Skinner/Mulder is more natural than anything else, and they fit together so perfectly. When i watch the show now, mostly i am looking for all the subtext that i had never seen before, and i must admit to having a total crush on Mitch Pileggi, and follow him wherever he goes, which is Supernatural right now and a wee bit of SOA too."

Archives

• A Beacon in the Night (archive)
• X-Files from the Imagination of your Twisted Sister - Mostly Mulder/Skinner slash from the Imagination of your Twisted Sister but also includes threesome stories that add Scully to the mix. Offers drabbles as well. (offline)
• Mulder/Skinner works at Down in the Basement.
• Mulder/Skinner Slash Society
• Walter Skinner's Journal - Mulder and Skinner - An alternate universe series written as a diary Skinner's Journal Mulder and Skinner
• Three Way Stop (link) - X-Files Fan Fic by frogdoggie, Blue Mohairbear and Mik.
• List of Mulder/Skinner Works on AO3

Mailing Lists

• mskslash - "Love Mulder/Skinner slash but hate having to wade through a multi-pairing mailing list? Then come here, to the all Mulder/Skinner list. This is a slash list, so only people that like slash need join." (founded April 1999)

Gallery

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  this photomanip of Mulder/Skinner by Bluespirit won a Huggy Award

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  Framed artprint of Mulder and Skinner, artist unknown