When Skinner Met Frohike
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | When Skinner Met Frohike |
| Author(s): | Deirdre Warshall |
| Date(s): | February 1997 ("archived") Summer 1997 (print zine) |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| External Links: | online here |
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When Skinner Met Frohike is a gen X-Files story by Deirdre Warshall.
It was published in Property of the FBI #7 and is online.
This story was discussed in X-Files Wank: 1996-2000.
Summary
"When Mulder and Scully vanish on an off-the-record investigation, Skinner and Frohike join forces to try to find them."—from the author's online copy
Comments by the Author
The term slash, although not necessarily the concept of slash, was something I was introduced to online (so, around 1995ish). I just can't recall a time when I didn't see "slash" as an accepted part of ATXC. In fact, I can recall that during my first six months on ATXC, the tide turned and the group became friendlier to MULDER/SCULLY ROMANCE (previously, it was not considered friendly to MSR; MSR was the ugly stepchild written by silly fangirls previous to that), but I don't recall any sea change like that being needed for slash. It was rare, but it was accepted that there was a segment of the community that wrote it, and that it was welcome. Goin' back to the time when I actually wrote fan fiction, my story When Skinner Meet Frohike was actually intended to poke fun at both the slash and the MSR communities. It used cliches generally available from both sides. I recall it took me close to a year to write the fic (that's why I'm an admin, not a writer--a 50K fic took me a frickin' year to write) and it was archived in Feb 1997. That means I probably started work on it in early 1996. The slash had to be there for the cliches to be there, for me to want to write a story that poked fun at both the slash and het sides. What you had back then was Gossamer, ATXC, EMXC, M&S, and XFF. That was all--and I was reading at Gossamer, and on ATXC and XFF.[1]