I am aware that this discussion is no longer taking place but as a long-time lurker I am also aware that some lurkers read all the comments after reading the fic and I sincerely hope that at least the mods will get notifications. Also, please excuse any grammar or idiomatic mistakes - English is not my maternal tongue. I am an original baby-phile in the sense that I was 9 when I started watching the series in season 1 during its original run. I read fanfiction back in the day but never ventured away too far from casual recs and I never had a scholarly approach to this, what with life interfering and a lot of growing up I had to do and all. With the revival coming up I find myself emotionally compromised by my conspiracy and MSR obsessions and I am very thirsty for fic, so I wound up here. Thank you for this resource -it's very engaging, fun and classy, all at the same time! I love your different approaches to the discussions! Anyway, I was seduced out of lurking because I found myself continuously questioning Tesla's background - she has done a lot of research into the investigative aspects of the work but her psychological portrayal of Mulder especially is effortless, exquisite and very professional. I agree that Scully's somewhat professionally passive attitude is bordering on OOC but Mulder is very believable from a psychological POV, which is something that does not come around often in fic and personally mesmerized me. My appraisal of the situation is that he is in his typical stress-induced tunnel thinking patterns. Mulder is someone, who has taken a path in life that is not typical for his personality. If it wasn't for trauma and personal motivation, he would have been a brilliant psychologist or literary critic or anthropologist but through a combination of life determinism and free will he has chosen a field in which he is constantly operating in stress-induced extremes. Thankfully, he is actually a lot less neurotic than most people perceive him as - he is resilient - a highly functioning member of society despite the constant challenges and traumatic events he encounters. The X Files have provided him with a way to channel his high curiosity, open nature and integrity and further develop his analytic skills. But profiling is even more intense in the way that it puts him under the strain of more time-dependent responsibility - he is the best at what he does, no one to rely on and very little time to produce a solution before another one bites the dust.
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I am an original baby-phile in the sense that I was 9 when I started watching the series in season 1 during its original run. I read fanfiction back in the day but never ventured away too far from casual recs and I never had a scholarly approach to this, what with life interfering and a lot of growing up I had to do and all. With the revival coming up I find myself emotionally compromised by my conspiracy and MSR obsessions and I am very thirsty for fic, so I wound up here. Thank you for this resource -it's very engaging, fun and classy, all at the same time! I love your different approaches to the discussions!
Anyway, I was seduced out of lurking because I found myself continuously questioning Tesla's background - she has done a lot of research into the investigative aspects of the work but her psychological portrayal of Mulder especially is effortless, exquisite and very professional. I agree that Scully's somewhat professionally passive attitude is bordering on OOC but Mulder is very believable from a psychological POV, which is something that does not come around often in fic and personally mesmerized me. My appraisal of the situation is that he is in his typical stress-induced tunnel thinking patterns. Mulder is someone, who has taken a path in life that is not typical for his personality. If it wasn't for trauma and personal motivation, he would have been a brilliant psychologist or literary critic or anthropologist but through a combination of life determinism and free will he has chosen a field in which he is constantly operating in stress-induced extremes. Thankfully, he is actually a lot less neurotic than most people perceive him as - he is resilient - a highly functioning member of society despite the constant challenges and traumatic events he encounters. The X Files have provided him with a way to channel his high curiosity, open nature and integrity and further develop his analytic skills. But profiling is even more intense in the way that it puts him under the strain of more time-dependent responsibility - he is the best at what he does, no one to rely on and very little time to produce a solution before another one bites the dust.