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Creating a pocket universe: “Shippers,” fan fiction, and the X‐Files online

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Pages 238-257 | Published online: 22 May 2009

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  • 1999 . “[S]he exists merely to create obstacles between Mulder and Scully, both of whom come off as not too intelligent” . 26 Vitaris .

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