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Story 187: "Relic of Tough Weather" by Jesemie's Evil Twin
For Thanksgiving three years ago ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wendelah1 posted JET's widely loved holiday fic, "Small Lives Awake." It happens to be the first fic I ever commented on, here at the book club, which makes me feel rather delighted to have the privilege of posting my own choice of Thanksgiving fics this year, this one also by JET.
"Relic of Tough Weather" was written and is set in November, 1999, shortly after the events of TSE:AF. Though it doesn't have the length or popularity of "Small Lives Awake," it is a distinctive blend of JET's signature style: evocative prose and compassionate characterizations.
Relic of Tough Weather
JET's still around, to some extent; I'm sure she would appreciate the feedback. And, as ever, our nomination post is open for recommendations.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating the occasion.
wendelah1 posted JET's widely loved holiday fic, "Small Lives Awake." It happens to be the first fic I ever commented on, here at the book club, which makes me feel rather delighted to have the privilege of posting my own choice of Thanksgiving fics this year, this one also by JET."Relic of Tough Weather" was written and is set in November, 1999, shortly after the events of TSE:AF. Though it doesn't have the length or popularity of "Small Lives Awake," it is a distinctive blend of JET's signature style: evocative prose and compassionate characterizations.
Relic of Tough Weather
JET's still around, to some extent; I'm sure she would appreciate the feedback. And, as ever, our nomination post is open for recommendations.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating the occasion.
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You know what I love about this fic (besides everything)? I love that it's S7 fic that is also S4 fic, and covertly it's Dod Kalm fic, as an extra little tricky suprise snuck in.
Also, wow, this is one of my favorite of all the Mulders. In fact, as much as I love the Mulder of "Small Lives Awake," I love this Mulder just as much. He's basically the most compassionate - and yet not mushy - Mulder ever. This is one of the few fics (...wait...could it be the only XF fic?) that makes me cry for characters I don't know at all and have no prior (or future) investment in. Mulder's neighbors, I mean. And I feel for them because JET's Mulder feels for them. Not in that annoying, "my pain, let me show you it" way. But it comes through in the writing so viscerally (for me). Because he knows what it's like to swallowed up by that kind of yawning hopelessness. He remembers, from the dark days of S4.
Which then makes the tentative new character growth of early S7 all the more wonderful.
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