The AD's Office Interview: Penises and Pens: Riticulan, SpookyBear, and UnChuck

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Title:	The AD's Office Interview: Penises and Pens: Riticulan, SpookyBear, and UnChuck
Interviewer:	uncredited
Interviewee:	Riticulan Amanuensis, SpookyBear (aka Mik), UnChuck
Date(s):	October 24, 1998
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Files
External Links:	interview intro, Archived version part one of interview, Archived version part two, Archived version
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The AD's Office Interview: Penises and Pens: Riticulan, SpookyBear, and UnChuck was a chat conducted in 1998.

It is part of a series. See The AD's Office Interviews.

Riticulan and SpookyBear do almost all of the talking, UnChuck is mostly silent.

Some Excerpts

Riticulan: "I have been watching the X Files from the beginning; the minute I saw Mulder, I said to myself that that fellow is a gay character. And when, some years later, I discovered slash, well...the rest, as they say, is history. I have been writing for years, but nothing every published - electronically or otherwise. I write mainly Krycek, but I have a Skinner in the works as well as a continuing X Files/Pretender crossover series. I also enjoy reading and watching X Files, Due South, Sentinel, and Once a Thief - What slash potential!"

UnChuck: I write mainly M/K stories, but one of my biggest ongoing works, the PROJECT series, features a significant role for Skinner. I've been writing slash for about a year and a half now, after discovering it some two years ago. And yes, Star Trek smut was the thing I tripped over in cyberspace.

Riticulan: All M/K so far, though I have a M/Sk in the works. I am a Canadian and have been watching X Files since the beginning. I enjoy other fandoms, but it seems the X Files is the only one that I have been moved to write in so far. All have been P?W?P?s but am thinking of doing one with an atual plot. But it seems that the more I write, the more of a tease I am becomming. The actual sex is taking a back seat <sigh>... I guess I would have to classify my self as a Nic-Fix person, always trying to redeem him in my stories.

SpookyBear: I like both short and log stories but like to sink my teeth into a really long story though I have seen some short ones that made me think for days... .I'm a MiSker but will read just about anything as long as it doesn't have CSM screwing anybody... up until recently i hadn't written any Krycek stuff but have started on a story that should be done soon

SpookyBear: Other question for the room - can you tell if the author is male or female?... personally, I can only tell if its a woman writing when they describe something sexaully that I know is physically impossible.

Riticulan: It's a funny genesis about this slash thing. I was looking at the internet one night and saw a scholarly disertation of slash. I said this looks cool, but was slightly off put by the written by and for females, but that is another story.

Riticulan:I'm sorry to say this...I might get pounced on...but all the other characters on the "Files" are quite predictable in what they will do or say. But not Alex, he's such a loose cannon. You never know what he will do next. I think that is why he fascinates me.

Riticulan: [as a guy do I feel like an outsider in the slash world?] it a was brought home to me on the slashkink list one time...a lady wrote in and said that she was quite offended my men stealing their forum. She was really annoyed by the whole thing. She wasn't generally supported on the list. But still I think she was putting a voice to a lot of unspoken opinion. But it didn't deter me any.

Riticulan: It is a joy for me to read stories where two men can relate to each other in a loving, caring way; as oppoesed to the other gay literature on the net which is just sex, sex, sex, The authors of slash can invent a whole universe for these men to inhabit. Sure we must raise our hats to CC in thank you for inventing them in the first place. But it is the slashketeers that are donig all the hard word.