I'm on board with the Mulder Awareness Days and I like that the tension built, but I would have liked it more if it had been toned down.
you know, this fic was one of the first XF fics i ever read, and at that time i remember feeling exactly this. my tolerance for UST, which was always high, has become significantly more so. but i definitely remember feeling (and thinking) that there was a point fairly early on in this fic where the UST just blitzed out upon first read.
I was surprised when Mulder identified flu rather than menses, but I think I'm grateful.
me too. i mean, i guess it's kind of unrealistic, considering that her 'symptoms' fit menses much more than they fit flu, but still, i was relieved. it always feels kind of cheap to me when a writer brings a character's biorhythms into it. and a little bit chauvenistic of the character, too.
I'm glad that Mulder had his own UST problem, and I liked the ending.
yes, yes, yes - i heartily agree. in fact, had mulder not had his own UST problems i doubt i would've been able to enjoy this fic in the long run. because while the UST makes it easy to forget, ultimately scully is being victimized here, and she spends the entire fic literally suffering. it's hot suffering (for the reader), but it's no less suffering. if magdeleine hadn't done something to acknowledge the 'horror' aspect of the plot, and to put scully and mulder back on more even footing with each other i think i would have felt like her fic was too brazen and lacked regard for scully.
additionally, I'VE BEEN WONDERING: what are people's thoughts about the climactic scene (the fight/fuck scene)? did it squick them out? was it hot? or both? i have my own opinions and impressions, naturally, but ever since i read this fic i've really wanted to hear what other people think.
I HAVE A QUESTION
you know, this fic was one of the first XF fics i ever read, and at that time i remember feeling exactly this. my tolerance for UST, which was always high, has become significantly more so. but i definitely remember feeling (and thinking) that there was a point fairly early on in this fic where the UST just blitzed out upon first read.
I was surprised when Mulder identified flu rather than menses, but I think I'm grateful.
me too. i mean, i guess it's kind of unrealistic, considering that her 'symptoms' fit menses much more than they fit flu, but still, i was relieved. it always feels kind of cheap to me when a writer brings a character's biorhythms into it. and a little bit chauvenistic of the character, too.
I'm glad that Mulder had his own UST problem, and I liked the ending.
yes, yes, yes - i heartily agree. in fact, had mulder not had his own UST problems i doubt i would've been able to enjoy this fic in the long run. because while the UST makes it easy to forget, ultimately scully is being victimized here, and she spends the entire fic literally suffering. it's hot suffering (for the reader), but it's no less suffering. if magdeleine hadn't done something to acknowledge the 'horror' aspect of the plot, and to put scully and mulder back on more even footing with each other i think i would have felt like her fic was too brazen and lacked regard for scully.
additionally, I'VE BEEN WONDERING: what are people's thoughts about the climactic scene (the fight/fuck scene)? did it squick them out? was it hot? or both? i have my own opinions and impressions, naturally, but ever since i read this fic i've really wanted to hear what other people think.