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xf_book_clubLast 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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Date: 2011-05-24 11:45 pm (UTC)The delicate push and pull that goes on between them, the resentment on Scully's part, her attempts - but not serious attempts - to move on from Mulder are so conceivable from the concept of how I think of them. Mulder does want to be a Dad, he probably would like the choice to stay at home more, but he is destined to save the world and he knows it. Imagine if there was no William: where would Scully be? Having a "moderately priced knock-off" type of life having dates with people she is not interested in? I don't think so....ultimately they are both where they have to be even if it is not really where either of them want to. No wonder they are so unsure and at such odds.
I really like the tendency to light irony in the writing. Self-deprecating humour is one healthy way to stave off self-pity and exceeding melodrama. Scully is OTT about William's health, but then she really wants an excuse to finish the date and get home. She bitches at Mulder because she is hurt and can't bear him leaving but not because she hates him. That is clear at the end.
So I don't think this story is morose. This story still has hope to me: they clearly love each other and adore William, it is the practical problem of having all that and being heroes too. If ONLY this was the worst that would happen, if ONLY Prufrock had written Season 9 - then maybe we could avoid the absolutely nonsensical tragedy of Scully giving up her baby. Pffah....what rubbish was that?!