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X-File (genre)
You may be looking for the television show, The X-Files.
Tropes and genres | |
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Synonym(s) | case file, an X-File case |
Related tropes/genres | myth-arc, monster of the week |
See also | Profiler!Mulder, Scully in Jeopardy, Mulder In Jeopardy |
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An X-File is the Philedom equivalent of a fan fiction case file and an fan fiction genre of its own.
X-Files case stories do not typically feature any of the tropes mentioned in case file article, they are usually crime stories and/or thrillers that focus on a realistic depiction of police work and psychological depth rather than on MSR, although there are stories that include MSR. Rating vary from PG-13 to NC-17.
Both the Silver Sutures Awards and the Spooky Awards (since the 1996 iteration) had special categories for this genre.
Archives
- The I in FBI - houses many x-files case files.
- Liminal (as search engine for the gossamer and xphilefic archives) currently lists 876 works for the tag "x-file"
- works tagged as an X-File case on Archive of Our Own
- works tagged with "casefile" on x-libris which feature over 300 X-Files case fics, including Profiler!Mulder ones
Notable Fanworks
- Finding Rokovoko by prufrock's love
- Blood Oranges by syntax6
- Arizona Highways by Fialka
- Pillar of Salt by Nascent
- Lure of the Fox by Caroline O'Callaghan
- Malus Genius, vel Hoc Lemma Nequiquam Latine Scribitur by MaybeAmanda and Plausible Deniability
- Psi Time for Psychics by Vickie Moseley (2004 Awards Silver Suture Awards Winner)