Story 183: "All the Children Are Insane" by MustangSally

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

In The X-Files fandom there are debatably no two authors more closely associated in the minds of fanfic readers than RivkaT, the author of our last fic, and MustangSally, who are indelibly linked by their co-authorship of "Iolokus". Which is why this week we're going to be reading "All the Children Are Insane," perhaps MustangSally's most widely read solo fic.

It's a vignette set in the summer after S5, with sex, angst, and the burnt-office base notes of existential crisis. The posting date stamp on "All The Children Are Insane" is June 18th 1998, just one day before Fight the Future hit theaters. To me the writing has always hummed with the captured tension of that summer, the fever pitch of fannish excitement and anxiety.

All the Children Are Insane

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Comments

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Hold on just a minute, folks. It's not just a burnt-up office she's dealing with here.

Yes, you're right and you make some very good points here, Wen, but as amyhitsay it doesn't sell me on that the way Iolokus did. Maybe a few lines on how Scully had changed following all the crap that happened to her would have made her attitude more 'buyable', I don't know.

Hmmm...I'm not sure how far deep in her inner voice Scully's control extends, she *is* a serious control freak.

And I would buy a "fuck me Mulder" (and you know I would NEVER want a "Make love to me,Mulder" line!!!) but the "don't screw around" bit just seemed unecessarily crude and I'm just not buying Scully saying it, not even drunk.

Yeah, like amyhit said there's a macho swagger to her tone that is indeed unScully.