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Entry tags:
- au,
- msr,
- post episode,
- r,
- season 7
Story 181: "The Waterskiers" by Khyber
Well everyone (I'm not sure how numerous you are at the moment, but I'm going to be bold and say 'everyone'), we've reached the end of the road - the point where the narrative pavement turns to gravel turns to a beaten dirt path trailing off narrowly into the uncharted wilds of the great and sometimes terrible WIP territory.
By waybacking Khyber's website we get what seem to be conflicting accounts of what the future of KvsS7 was to be. In early 2008 there were five fics meant to follow "The Waterskiers," three of which were to be "full episodes" and two were to be vignettes (as seen here). This outline complies with Khyber's notes for "Amnesia" which he judged to be the "late beginning/early middle" of the story. Yet by late 2009 the titles of four of these five fics had vanished, and only the one titled "Parabola" remained. It was initially indicated to be planned as a vignette, but later seemed intended to have been a full episode.
In summary, the fate of the KvsS7 universe remains largely a mystery, and anyone participating in the comments thread should feel free to speculate on the future of the story, as well as share their thoughts about the fic itself.
TITLE: The Waterskiers (Mod note: You may have to c/p the URL, or find the fic on Gossamer.)
AUTHOR: Khyber
E-MAIL: khyber@khyberfic.net
DISTRIBUTION: Ephemeral, Gossamer, please ask for anywhere else.
RATING: R for mature content.
CATEGORIES: XR KEYWORDS: Withheld.
SPOILERS: Pbbblffft.
SUMMARY: Missing scenes... okay, a LOT of missing scenes... from "Hollywood AD."
Author's Notes: This story is part of "Khyber Versus Season Seven" and takes place during "Hollywood AD," specifically, following the end of the famous bathtub scene. The rest of the episode takes place a week or more after the end of this story.
Remember that the premiere of "The Lazarus Bowl," according to the episode, is "eighteen months later," sometime in late 2001.
Sadly the summer is over. That does, however, mean a return to something resembling a normal posting schedule at some point in the near future. Remember the old days (July) when a new week meant changing up the plot, style, and characterizations with an all new fic? Well those days are returning along with coats and scarves, so if you have any suggestions for fics you'd like to read this fall the recommendations page is always open.
By waybacking Khyber's website we get what seem to be conflicting accounts of what the future of KvsS7 was to be. In early 2008 there were five fics meant to follow "The Waterskiers," three of which were to be "full episodes" and two were to be vignettes (as seen here). This outline complies with Khyber's notes for "Amnesia" which he judged to be the "late beginning/early middle" of the story. Yet by late 2009 the titles of four of these five fics had vanished, and only the one titled "Parabola" remained. It was initially indicated to be planned as a vignette, but later seemed intended to have been a full episode.
In summary, the fate of the KvsS7 universe remains largely a mystery, and anyone participating in the comments thread should feel free to speculate on the future of the story, as well as share their thoughts about the fic itself.
TITLE: The Waterskiers (Mod note: You may have to c/p the URL, or find the fic on Gossamer.)
AUTHOR: Khyber
E-MAIL: khyber@khyberfic.net
DISTRIBUTION: Ephemeral, Gossamer, please ask for anywhere else.
RATING: R for mature content.
CATEGORIES: XR KEYWORDS: Withheld.
SPOILERS: Pbbblffft.
SUMMARY: Missing scenes... okay, a LOT of missing scenes... from "Hollywood AD."
Author's Notes: This story is part of "Khyber Versus Season Seven" and takes place during "Hollywood AD," specifically, following the end of the famous bathtub scene. The rest of the episode takes place a week or more after the end of this story.
Remember that the premiere of "The Lazarus Bowl," according to the episode, is "eighteen months later," sometime in late 2001.
Sadly the summer is over. That does, however, mean a return to something resembling a normal posting schedule at some point in the near future. Remember the old days (July) when a new week meant changing up the plot, style, and characterizations with an all new fic? Well those days are returning along with coats and scarves, so if you have any suggestions for fics you'd like to read this fall the recommendations page is always open.
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In this metaphor, do you think that's no one, or the aliens? I suppose you could say it's the conspiracy itself. There's no one at the helm, and yet things continue. The conspiracy has become self-perpatuating, to an extent.
Yeah, I'm just going to agree with just about your entire comment. The thing about Scully being there for Mulder has always really bothered me. In fact, I think one of the only lines in the much beloved Parabiosis that I don't quite like is near the end when she says something along the lines of, "and I've stayed in this job because I'm in love with you." On one hand, I think it's true that if they didn't have each other, and love each other, they wouldn't have stayed. But I don't think for a seond that Mulder is why she does the work. At the risk of being overly simplistic, she does it because it's right.
It's not about the sex for her (and it really pisses me off that Mulder thinks it is for even a second)
Hmm. I think she can feel guilty about having sex with him, and that can encompass a lot. I don't think she's guilty about sex for itself, but then who ever is? Her sense of duty and professionalism, her sense of self-containment and control, these things are all bound up in her sexuality - especially when it comes to Mulder.
The fact that she's had sex with him leaves her open for reproach. I think that's how she views it. It makes her vulnerable, because it wasn't professional, and it wasn't about the cause, and she wasn't self-contained. Mulder thinks:
She avoided his eyes, mouth set in a straight line. It
pissed him off. Right, Scully, straight to the sex. That's
your greatest failure, the one you're most ashamed to admit,
opening your legs.
I do think it's pretty insensitive of him not to understand, after all this time, what "opening her legs" means to her. Everything else, all the terrible things that happened that she couldn't prevent, were things that were done to her. And she fought back, and was not defeated. But this was something she did by choice, out of desire and need, a kind of temporary but chronic surrender. I think it's a knee-jerk reaction for her to be ashamed for exposing herself the way she did. She has a lot of anxiety about a lot of things, and that anxiety gravitates to the areas of herself that she feels are weak or flawed. that's how I see it.
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That kind of makes sense to me for Scully, although it also makes me sad. Because I don't think loving someone makes you weak or flawed. Getting to love and be loved in return is a wonderful thing under almost any circumstances. Getting to express that love in a physical way is something I can't ever get enough of or take for granted. I have a hard time understanding why after all of this time it wouldn't be a joy for her as it is clearly is for him. And why she feels like the power differential is still unequal. I feel like in these stories, Mulder keeps making himself vulnerable to her but she is still keeping a part of herself back. Or she keeps wishing she could? I thought "All Things" was supposed to represent a turning point for them, but it doesn't seem like it was in this series. It's almost like "All Things" never happened or it didn't mean the same thing if they'd been sleeping together on and off all along as in this series. They seem much happier in the real season seven than they do in Khyber's version. Do you think that was his intention?
Edit: Rereading the comments on "Poem" I ran into this one by Khyber: "My central concern for this s7 stuff is, "what would this really be like? What if everybody involved was a real person?" because I think they got very close to that in S7, and I just want to take it a little further."
I think that answers my question.