Story 162: "Inventing the Mulders" by prufrock's love

[wendelah1]

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.

Comments

[coldthermistor.livejournal.com]

RST in canon?

At this point, I should probably warn that I've watched only up to Season Five (damn you, university!) So I'm vaguely clueless about RST...I think. The alternative is to admit I just can't pick up RST at all.

[wendelah1]

Oh shit. I didn't realize... Forget everything I've said here. Do I need to start putting "spoilers in the comment threads" again? Maybe I do. Just don't read any more comments on this post. Okay?

I love your icon, by the way.

Edit: You can assume any story past season five has spoilers for you.

[coldthermistor.livejournal.com]

No, don't worry about it! I love spoilers, that's why I'm here and all. The idea RST might crop up later is absolutely exciting. (Well, more so than the possibility that I was just to thick to pick up on it!)

And thanks :)

[wendelah1]

Oh, that's such a relief to me. Well, you've come to the right place for spoilers!

See, I hate spoilers. LOL. Seriously, I help mod a community for people who were trying to avoid spoilers before the movie came out. I don't read movie reviews or book reviews until afterward. I like forming my own opinions and I like being surprised.

[coldthermistor.livejournal.com]

Heh. To each their own, I guess (:

The more I look at this though, the more I love the...friction in the fic, for some reason (*Valiant attempt to get on-topic*) I don't know, I just liked the idea that they both have different priorities very much - and that Scully's a lot bigger on family than Mulder is, particularly when he's still got his quest bugbear.

[wendelah1]

I love the friction in this story, too. And I think it's supported in canon. I think Scully always has been more interested in having a life than Mulder. I keep thinking about the conversation in "All Things."

SCULLY: Look, we're always running. We're always chasing the next big thing. Why don't you ever just stay still?

MULDER: I wouldn't know what I'd be missing.

Mulder is a restless guy.

[coldthermistor.livejournal.com]

Good point. I don't know why, but I guess that works with me, sort of. The feel of this story *is* of two people with different priorities, trying to make things work. And the uncertainty just gels with the feel of the X-Files, IMO.