Day 3: Texts from The Lush Basement Office

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

After midnight in my timezone, so here goes. We've had two lovely serious fics, and now here I am to liven the joint up. My contribution to 12daysofxfiles is a series of macros in the Texts from Last Night genre. If you haven't encountered these before, they are a collision of screencaps from your preferred source text and words from the Texts from Last Night website, which documents the bizarre, inebriated, sex-soaked texting lives of Young People Today. (There are a lot of these on Tumblr: the most commonly updated XF one is Texts from the X-Files; mine, which has been on hiatus for a bit, is Texts from the Basement.)

These are Mulder and Scully-centric, but other characters pop up too. Can you name the episode for each screencap? If so, I will make you a custom macro from your favorite screencap!

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…And this one was so good, I had to make variations upon it:

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I will, eventually, be posting these to Tumblr; hopefully this will inspire me to make more. It is a fun genre to work in...

Comments

[wendelah1]

This is a great idea. I don't have time to make any right now so I went to my drafts folder at Tumblr. Last summer I was using these things as RPF prompts. I am shocked, shocked at how many of them I've saved and at how they all seem sexual in content.

I assume it's okay to comment with more of them. Here's a favorite:


"He's going to dominate me whether he wants to or not." I love that.

Also:


An eternal truth, that.

Sometimes shit gets a little too real:


I'll be back with more tomorrow. My tomorrow. Your today.

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

I could have made SO MANY MORE with the "can you drink in jail?" one. Because, you know, for cops, those two end up in jail a lot...

Well, OK, Mulder ends up in jail.

Oh, god, the pregnant one. *laughs bitterly*

[wendelah1]

And the first macro is from FTF, I think. Someone else will have to guess the others.

[szgrey.livejournal.com]

challenge accepted.

2: Three of a Kind
3: I thought this was Space because of the red jacket, but Mulder's wearing a different tie, so... Shadows maybe? Scully's colorful in that one. Ghost in the Machine?
4: 713 (or the very end of Nisei, maybe)
5: Tunguska?
6: Red Museum
7: The Jersey Devil
8: Dreamland
9: Home
10: ?
11: ?
12: Existence

ok, most of the others, anyway. :)

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

Not 8, but you got the rest of them. *g* 3 is Ghost in the Machine; I went through a bunch of early season episodes until I found one with maximum height differential. Plus, there's something about her combative lean forward that is PERFECT.

[wendelah1]

Here's my only attempt at this. Obviously, I should stick to writing fic and stay away from macros, but I thought this might inspire a story someday.

That should be better.

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

That's...remarkably good at summing up a lot of the plot arc, actually.

I am not getting my comments, LJ

[wendelah1]

Also this one:



Poor Mulder.

[azurelunatic]

*giggles madly*

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

*takes a bow*

[maybe-amanda.livejournal.com]

These are great fun! I love them!

"High hopes for your dick" --- says so much about our Scully, does it not?

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

Scully is a woman of ~~standards~~. :) Thanks!

[szgrey.livejournal.com]

Fantastic.

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had fun.

[kshandra]

As the co-mod of a TFLN blog (Texts from the Anchor Desk, for all your FakeNews/RealNews needs), I absolutely ADORE these; I've used one of the texts you've got above, and have Plans for at least one more. Well done!

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

They are SO MUCH FUN to do. And it's really an ~~art~~ to getting them right--like, finding the perfect canon (or fanon!) reference to set them up. Um. I may think too much?

[newo-fic.livejournal.com]

Oh, teh crack. I hearts it. You're totes awesome, bb.

Hmm, I'll take a shot at naming the episodes. *cracks knuckles*

1)FTF
2) Three of a kind
3) Ghost in the machine
4)731
5)Terma
6)Red Museum
7)The Jersey Devil
8)Talitha cumi
9)Home
10)Deadalive
11)Three Words
12)Existence

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

DAMN GRRL, you got 'em! If you want me to make you one as reward, give me either a screencap or an entry from the TFLN site, and I'll find a match for it...

[newo-fic.livejournal.com]

Sweet reward, thanks! Though I must say trying to pick the perfect screen cap proved harder then... well, *ahem*... anyway...

Here is what I offer up to your mad TXTFLN skillz:

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha, I love it. I'll go on the hunt....

[newo-fic.livejournal.com]

Ok, so the crazy LJ peeps won't let me put a URL link to my screencap in the comment box without marking it as spam. Tried twice, so now i'll go cry tearz of blood, father joe style.

[wendelah1]

If you email it to me, I think I can post it since I posted actual graphics. My user name plus gmail dot com. Or try posting the graphic itself, using the html code instead of the direct link. That should work.

[newo-fic.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yes, using html would've made sense. I tend to suffer from major fail-age when it comes to writing lj code.

[memories-child.livejournal.com]

I managed to unspam it for you :)

[newo-fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! And I didn't mean to imply that our lovely mods are crazy, just the LJ goat ;)

[heartequals.livejournal.com]

lolling for ever, especially at those last three!

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

Meta-plot of the X-Files: everybody wants in Scully's pants.

[wendelah1]

Or at least the metaplot of the last couple of seasons.

[bugsfic.livejournal.com]

*clapping with joy* Funny pictures are funny!

[amalnahurriyeh.livejournal.com]

*takes a bow* Serious pictures + captions implying the people in them are high = win!

[memories-child.livejournal.com]

Love them!!