Ursula4x
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| Name: | Ursula4x |
| Alias(es): | Ursula |
| Type: | fan writer, moderator |
| Fandoms: | X-Files, Once A Thief, White Collar, others |
| Communities: | AlexK-H-C-orD, SkinnerKrycek, nixxers |
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| URL: | XFiles FanFic at Terma, Memorial Livejournal, Memorial Dreamwidth Journal, Fan Fiction at FanFiction.net, AO3 Fan Fic, WWOMB Fan Fic, Fan Fic at Fandom Haven Story Archive
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Ursula was an X-Files and Once A Thief fan writer. She co-moderated the X-Files Lisa e Krysa Awards along with the Alex Krycek Hurt/Comfort or Die mailing list. She passed on January 30, 2012.
One fan remembers Ursula:
At the height of X-Files fandom, she ran several mailing lists, was active on just about every forum imaginable, and was a huge fan of Nick Lea and the character he portrayed, Alex Krycek. She continued to run the Nick Lea Holiday Zine - an online magazine of sorts in which stories about Nick and his characters were collected around Christmastime each year - every holiday season. She was also an accomplished fan fiction author. You can read many of her stories (including White Collar slash) at the WWOMB here....Most of all, Ursula was incredibly generous and friendly, a longtime fixture in fandom who made even the newest fan feel welcome. Ursula was always quick to offer words of support in comments and more often than not emailed her words of feedback. She had many, many friends, all of whom will miss her terribly.[1]
Example works
- Those Who Share One Shield, Starsky & Hutch/The Commish/Kalifornia crossover.
Awards
- Outstanding Mulder/Krycek/Skinner Romance (First Place) for "The Crying of the Stones"
- Outstanding Other Series Character Romance (Third Place) and Outstanding Skinner/Krycek Romance (Honorable Mention) for "Climb the Highest Mountain"
- Outstanding Humor Story (Second Place), Outstanding Mulder/Krycek Romance (Second Place), and Outstanding Mulder Slash (Honorable Mention) for "Pulped"
- Outstanding Jeffrey Spender Post-Series Story (First Place) for "Gone to the Dogs: Healing Touch"
- Outstanding Crossover Story (Second Place) for "Earth and Sky" (crossover with: Starsky and Hutch)
- Outstanding Crossover Story (Third Place) and Outstanding Mulder/Other, Skinner/Other or Krycek/Other Slash Story (Third Place) for "Denou" (crossover with: Marabunta)
- Outstanding Slash Story Rated G to R (Honorable Mention) for "Rat in Boots"
- Outstanding Skinner/Krycek Story (Second Place) for "Tunisian Myrrh"
- Outstanding Same Gender Threesome Story (Honorable Mention) for "Gone to the Dogs"
- Outstanding Mulder/Skinner Story (First Place) and Outstanding Threesome (Any Gender) Story (Second Place) for "Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks" (Mulder/Skinner/Krycek)
- Outstanding Mulder/Other, Doggett/Other, Skinner/Other or Krycek/Other Slash Story (First Place) and Outstanding Crossover Story (Third Place) for "So Many Masks" (crossover with: The Commish and Bad Company, Mulder/Ricky Caruso)
- Outstanding Mulder/Other, Doggett/Other, Skinner/Other or Krycek/Other Slash Story (Second Place) for "False Faces" (for Mulder/Ricky Caruso)
- Outstanding Skinner/Krycek Story (Second Place), Outstanding Angst Story (Third Place), and Outstanding Mulder/Other, Doggett/Other, Skinner/Other or Krycek/Other Slash Story (Third Place) for "Wayfaring Stranger" with AmazonX (crossover with: Queer as Folk, Krycek/Brian Kinney)
- Outstanding Threesome (Any Gender) Story (Second Place) and Outstanding Pre-X-Files Story (Third Place) for "Dogs of War"
- Outstanding Characterization of Other X-Files Characters (Second Place) for "Wheel of Fortune" (for Samantha Mulder)
- Outstanding Humor Story (Second Place) for "If CC Wrote Mother Goose"
- Outstanding Alternate Universe Story (Third Place) for "Pooka"
Memories
Although I didn't know her well back in the day we were involved in the same fandoms XFiles and OaT. I was a complete newbie yet she was very supportive in my first endeavors to write. She even beta'd a OaT piece and wrote/headed a round robin based on one of my bunnies. She'll be missed, sending my love and thoughts out to her family and friends."[2]
She was an amazing person, full of originality and kindness, and really encouraging to other writers, including me.[3]
Wonderful writer, listmom of several XF slash lists, the brain and force behind all those amazing X-mas zines. She was already there when I joined M/K slash in 2000 and there was hardly anyone so committed to Alex Krycek than she was.[4]
She was a wonderful person. I met her early in the fandom and she invited me to post to the archives that she was running. Even though I already had a website, it was Ursula that really got me into posting to the various sites and archives and it was her that introduced me to the various aspects of the fandom.
Ursula was the heart and soul of the fandom. She was warm, supportive and she really cared.
She is truly going to be missed.[5]
References
- ^ rhymephile, In Memoriam: ursula4x, 05 June 2012.
- ^ denyce, Sad news, RIP Ursula, 04 June 2012.
- ^ daria234, Reply to Sad news, RIP Ursula, 05 June 2012.
- ^ biani at LiveJournal, http://biani.livejournal.com/699569.html[dead link], 2012
- ^ ladymidath, Reply to Sad news, RIP Ursula, 07 June 2012.