everyone's dirty little secret
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| Title: | everyone's dirty little secret |
| Creator: | T h r e a d s |
| Date(s): | July 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
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| External Links: | everyone's dirty little secret |
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everyone's dirty little secret is a 2001 essay by "T h r e a d s" posted to Semper Fi, "a John Doggett & Scully/Doggett Fansite."
"... but being a Dipper is not a lie. It is based on subtly and expression. Just as Shippers once were."
This essay was first posted to Yahoo!Group SHODDS, a Yahoo Group."
Other Related Essays
Other essays posted to Semper Fi:
- everyone's dirty little secret by T h r e a d s (July 2001)
- Keep the Flame Alive by Tony Scullystud (2001)
- The 'Dip by Gina (June 2002)
- Long Live The Doggship by Moose (June 2002)
- Second Chances by Linzee (November 2004)
- Potential, Possibilities, and Respect by Dana Doggett (April 2006)
- "Comparing & Contrasting" by Geekery (June 2011)
- Doggett/Reyes "Relationship" = Implausible by Dana Doggett (June 2016)
Excerpts
I must confess, with all honesty and hope of growth, but I may in fact be a "Dipper" (well, a sympathizer at least). Maybe I'm not- I am person who's open to different ideas. Still, It's not necessarily something I'm proud of, but it's something I've learnt to adapt to. How I became one, well, I'm not too sure. The grisly conclusion hit me one day, and now I've learnt to cope. In all reality, I shouldn't be ashamed of this fact- but there is one nagging fact that keeps me from embracing this, that lets me be ashamed of it. You see, I've broken a universal law of fan-fiction… or have I?
What is fan-fiction, really? In all literal senses, it's fiction written by the fans, for the fans. I bet you just never knew that there were "laws" to it. Well, there really aren't, but only an unconscious honor system I assume most live by. It's so ingrained into our thought process when writing fan-fiction that most of us don't really think about it. It's called writing out of character (or context.) That is the fear that I have in coming out of the closet with my being semi-Dipper. Have I broken that golden rule?
The issue with being a Dipper is in the fact that there is scant romantic evidence between Doggett and Scully in The X-Files. Aside from mild flirting, a hug and a handful of worried glances that could mean anything, there is nothing. It is an utterly prefabricated situation brought on by viewer desire.
But before the Shippers reading this article start singing and calling out "testify" to me as if I were citing the Gospel, I must remind you that we are in fact in the same boat here.
Yes, Shippers have broken that golden rule too.
True, now there is context that validates the stand that Shippers take, but I'm referring to the beginning of this obsession. It all started when Scully ran into Mulder's hotel room, wearing a robe she soon stripped, and revealed in her undergarments, mysterious "bumps" on her skin. She was overreacting mosquito bites brought on by the mass-hysteria of the first case they were working one. For some reason though, everyone read that as a "come on".
And so Shippers were born. (Well, they originally dubbed themselves Relationshippers, but I'm not the only one who found that way too long to type out.)
The point I'm trying to make is that both Shippers and Dippers started off on the same foot. They both saw something out of nothing. They saw two attractive characters of opposite sex in extreme circumstance, who of which, also have excellent on-screen chemistry.
As I look at the facts now. Being both a Dipper and a Shipper is at best, on the line. They are not with context, nor without. It is sometimes the idea that moves an author- the very potential that drives them. Being a Shipper is more accepted because it has seven years on the rival. If these two aspects were introduced at the same time, I can assure you they would be on equal ground. Shippers I'm sure do now rejoice in their newfound freedom of "I told you so", but being a Dipper is not a lie. It is based on subtly and expression. Just as Shippers once were.