That set of stories feels so tragic to me...I want that happy ending for them so badly, and all there is is more loss
oh, yes. just thinking about hurts. i love khyber's way of writing tragedy though. he's so ruthless with the what and how (what happens, how it feels), but he's so tender and sensitive towards the characters. that strange balance, i think, makes the story even more painful than it otherwise could have been. i could not believe how much WIEaYB got to me. After i read it i just sat there for a while. i had literal chills. and while i would never have wanted to change the ending of that story to make it happier, i, like you, would have liked to be soothed by some future comfort.
it isn't even that he writes a story that is 'hopeless' exactly. when i think about other bleak, hopeless stories they have a different dynamic than khyber's. But i think he writes involutory stories - that is, stories that don't end and problems that cannot be solved. ever. that's a lot of what makes the ending of WIEaYB so chilling to me: it's a 'could-have-been' for mulder and scully, but it is so removed from them - just infinitely far out of reach for the people they have become. even if the world could be kinder, in khyber's universe it would be too late. mulder and scully aren't those 'kind' people anymore. they are good people, but they're too spare, too fierce now.
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Date: 2009-01-20 02:46 am (UTC)oh, yes. just thinking about hurts. i love khyber's way of writing tragedy though. he's so ruthless with the what and how (what happens, how it feels), but he's so tender and sensitive towards the characters. that strange balance, i think, makes the story even more painful than it otherwise could have been. i could not believe how much WIEaYB got to me. After i read it i just sat there for a while. i had literal chills. and while i would never have wanted to change the ending of that story to make it happier, i, like you, would have liked to be soothed by some future comfort.
it isn't even that he writes a story that is 'hopeless' exactly. when i think about other bleak, hopeless stories they have a different dynamic than khyber's. But i think he writes involutory stories - that is, stories that don't end and problems that cannot be solved. ever. that's a lot of what makes the ending of WIEaYB so chilling to me: it's a 'could-have-been' for mulder and scully, but it is so removed from them - just infinitely far out of reach for the people they have become. even if the world could be kinder, in khyber's universe it would be too late. mulder and scully aren't those 'kind' people anymore. they are good people, but they're too spare, too fierce now.
sorry i didn't see your comment sooner.