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xf_book_club2011-05-20 04:05 pm
wendelah1) wrote in xf_book_club2011-05-20 04:05 pm
Story 162: "Inventing the Mulders" by prufrock's love
Last year, something remarkable happened. Prufrock's love, a beloved but famously reclusive author, started re-posting her fanfic to archive them at Gossamer. Understandably, this caused quite a stir. In the wake of losing so many XF fanfic sites over the past several years, a process accelerated by Yahoo's closure of Geocities, it showed a lot of love for a fandom she had presumably left behind long ago. Well, that's how I choose to interpret it, anyway. She hasn't re-posted everything by any means, but hey, it's a start.
"Inventing the Mulders" is one of the stories she hasn't archived yet, or at least it hasn't shown up on her page at Gossamer. This is a shame since I think it's one of her best. It's an unsentimental look at how season nine might have played out, had it been better written and still had David Duchovny making an occasional appearance. Do I betray my biases? So be it.
Besides archiving her fic, she's posted an email address. You can send feedback now to prufrockslove [at] yahoo [dot] com. Please do so, then come back and let us know what you think.
The story is PG-13, no warnings. Read Inventing the Mulders.
"Inventing the Mulders" is one of the stories she hasn't archived yet, or at least it hasn't shown up on her page at Gossamer. This is a shame since I think it's one of her best. It's an unsentimental look at how season nine might have played out, had it been better written and still had David Duchovny making an occasional appearance. Do I betray my biases? So be it.
Besides archiving her fic, she's posted an email address. You can send feedback now to prufrockslove [at] yahoo [dot] com. Please do so, then come back and let us know what you think.
The story is PG-13, no warnings. Read Inventing the Mulders.
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She can't ask him for what she wants because she knows what the answer will be. She's always known. Surely that was one of the things that kept them apart for seven years--Scully's barely acknowledged desire for a life apart from the X-Files. It comes up again and again in the series. To me, Mulder just isn't a stay-at-home kind of guy, certainly not as long as the truth is out there. Maybe not ever.
The sense I get from this story is that they tried to be together -- the hopeful ending of "Existence" fits that. What happened between that time and when this story is set comes out in dribs and drabs.
Yeah, the story is very well-constructed to feed the reader just enough information. And it's all shown. No lengthy exposition required, or endless internal monologues. She makes it look easy but it's not.
I don't see Mulder's outburst changing things between them, however. In the end, though Scully decides to let him stay that night, the larger issue is still there, and likely always will be.
Which is why this story doesn't need a sequel, imho. Let the reader construct a happier ending--if they can.