Story 111: "Melancholia" by Jeylan

[wendelah1]

"Melancholia" is one of the most unabashedly Romantic stories ever written in this fandom. It seems like it shouldn't work: an old, abandoned house, a graveyard in the rain, Mulder reading Marvell and Shelly and weaving a wreath of flowers for Scully's hair. Her Mulder is mercurial and Byronic, her Scully more earthbound. It's a love story for the ages.

Or is it?

Suggested by estella_c, seconded by me.

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"Melancholia"

Comments

[wendelah1]

Okay. That's the problem in a nutshell. I don't know why someone who hates Scully would even want to write MSR.

So come on. What on earth did you say to her about this? Did she tone it down at all?

[maybe-amanda.livejournal.com]

As I recall (this was a long time ago) she went off on me about how I didn't *see* the real true Mulder, (not the one on the TV but the real one who lived in real reality, or the ether, or something) and how I'd been blinded by all those Scully apologists who could not see that Mulder settled for Scully-the-frigid-shrew because he had no choice in the matter - Chris and Co. wouldn't give him any nice girls to play with!!!!!!!

After that, it got weird. :D