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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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Re: Realism MSR
Date: 2011-05-27 12:57 am (UTC)That is actually a very brave and honest thing to say and deserves a response in the like: I don't think many parents could actually, when push came to shove, agree with it. In the abstract maybe, but not in reality. More imaginable perhaps if you had pushed a kid out that you hadn't particularly wanted or planned for, but Scully had.And Scully just wasn't the sort of person (think Emily) that would not take that responsibility enormously seriously. Typically she would end up being a better parent than most of us mere mortals would ever hope to be (although a little bit OTT on the "William's got a fever front").
For Scully to be a parent prepared to sacrifice her own child for the sake of the fight? That to me would make a Scully that I couldn't understand and hard to condone. To the extent that the very fact that she gives him up in S9, without apparently any attempt to find an alternative solution, is at once so unrealistic and so damning of her...
except we know Scully, and know this is outrageously OOC: that it is not her, that the fault lies squarely with those in command of the show, which makes us realize that by S9 they had really completely lost the plot.
And of course it wasn't the only completely ridiculous thing to happen in S9. I don't expect realism in my shows but I do expect some sort of fidelity to character and ambience and it failed on nearly every count. Some of the photography was good though....