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It has to end sometime....and that time is now for XFN. 3 years ago today we were celebrating #TheXFiles Revival premiere with all of you, but nothing lasts forever. We’re saying goodbye as a website today. Read what that means and take a trip down memory lane with us.

On July 19th, we had the honor to be able to hold a panel at SDCC 2018.

“Larger Than the Show: The X-Files Postmortem,” was moderated by Avi Quijada (X-Files News editor-in-chief), with panelists Colleen Evanson (The X-Files Abridged writer-producer), Roi Ollson (XFN managing editor), Keva Andersen (XFN content editor), Rebecca Welch (fandom collaborator), and Ky Johnson. (XFN features editor) We held an open conversation on the effects of the plot of the show in the 21st century, “The Scully Effect,” and the fandom’s self-sufficiency to create a preferable narrative.

In the end, Dana Scully never got her own desk in the X-Files office, so we shared the biggest one we could find with her. XFN’s Keva Andersen reflects on how Scully changed her life, and how Scully inspired women and girls for 25 years.

“At 17, I was very unsure of myself, self-conscious, afraid to speak out except in very safe circumstances. But watching this intelligent, confident woman take charge of situations, be assertive, stand her ground and be respected for it was exactly the kind of role model I needed as I made my way from child to adult. In an era where most of my friends were watching 90210 and Days of Our Lives, I was finding a new hero in a forensic pathologist FBI agent, a medical doctor who did her undergraduate degree in physics. Someone who rewrote Einstein as a college senior. At the time, it felt like many women on TV were there to be a punchline. But Dana Scully? She was the one doing the punching.“