Alt.tv.x-files.creative

Partner to alt.tv.x-files, alt.tv.x-files.creative (ATXC) is a usenet group dedicated to X-Files fanfiction. Along with fanfic, users discussed fic, posted feedback, made story recommendations, proposed fic challenges, and made requests for forgotten stories and website announcements.
Authors posted their fic directly to the newsgroup, and it was automatically forwarded there by certain mailing lists. Depending on the author's wishes, the fic posted to this group was picked up and archived by Ephemeral and/or Gossamer.
ATXC was unmoderated, and alternated between being a fairly relaxed community interspersed with periods of extreme wank. At times, fans made the comment that they were glad they weren't as bad as the sister list, alt.tv.x-files!
 
Like any community, ATXC had its problems with fans using sockpuppets, unwanted MSTing of other people's fanfic, harassment regarding shipping choices, arguments involving BNFs, and heated discussions regarding concrit and reviews. 
The posting of X-Files RPF, or "actorfic" as it was known then, also caused periodic stirs in the late nineties; anyone posting it to the newsgroup found their stories attacked, and as a result it was generally understood that RPF was not welcome there. Even with RPF becoming more accepted with the rise of popslash, ATXC's anti-RPF attitude hasn't changed.
Some individuals also voiced concern about the amount of R and NC-17 fanfic being posted to the group. This led to the creation of alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature in 1999. Though this accommodation wasn't to stop explicit fiction from being posted to ATXC, but rather to allow people to go straight to the "smut," as it was affectionately called.
Around 2000, the majority of the fiction-related discussion in the community moved off of ATXC, and over to the Idealists Haven message boards.
==From the FAQ in 1994==
In November 1994, this FAQ was posted. The FAQ also contained a long list of fics and their summaries from members.
==Sister Lists==
It is a sister list to alt.tv.x-files.analysis, alt.tv.x-files, alt.tv.x-files.x-ville, and alt.binaries.x-files.
==Conflicts, Wank, and Discussion==
The list had its share of heated discussions. Some examples:
* X-Files RPF
* speculations and accusations of a BNF's various sockpuppets and harassment 
* many conversations regarding concrit and comments about fans' fanfic
* Noromos vs MSR vs slash, and other shipping wars
* Ordover Wars
* X-Ville
* The Wicked X Witches of Badfic Punishment
* Debbilmice
* fanfiction discussion: general and about specific stories
* episode reviews and discussion
* the triumphs and failures of Chris Carter and other TPTBs and showrunners
* reporting other fans' websites to their host providers in order to get those fans's sites TOSed as a part of fan feuds
* the characters of John Doggett, Monica Reyes, and Marita Covarrubias
In 2001 when a fan commented that there had been a lot more slash recently posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative, another fan responded: "There's really no more than there ever was. It's just that since Down In The Basement (the main slash archive) implemented the option to submit to atxc (as well as DITB) that slashers are choosing to post here more often. For a long time, slashers were actively discouraged from posting here, mostly by fellow slashers who had been burned here or knew someone who had been burned here, and that's why we didn't see so much of it. This cycle had become so entrenched that many newer slashers didn't even know what atxc was, they had become that removed from "mainstream" XF fandom." -- comment by Deslea: alt.tv.x-files.creative, November 2, 2001</ref>.
==Meta==
*Why I Write X-Files Stories
*A Caution About Public Criticism
*We're Being Bashed on atxf
===Interviews with users===
*Alt.tv.x-files.creative Interview with Denise
*Alt.tv.x-files.creative Interview with Mare
*Alt.tv.x-files.creative Interview with Marleen
*Alt.tv.x-files.creative Interview with Tinka
*Alt.tv.x-files.creative Interview with cofax
==External links==
* Ephemeral
* The Gossamer Project
* (1998-ish)
*Email X-Creative Archive
==References==
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