Story 198: "five things that never happened to dana scully" by threeguesses

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

The next fic was nominated by lightlack and enthusiastically seconded by myself. It’s written by threeguesses, who is one of my favorite writers to come out of the pre/post IWTB era. Her writing in this fandom was not prolific, but her stories have always stood out (at least for me) for their powerful concepts, enthralling emotional currents, and the deceptive simplicity of threeguesses’ writing. Undoubtedly you know how "five things" fics work, in which case you also know the title of this week’s fic tells you just about everything that can be revealed about it without spoiling the sense of discovery that comes with each new segment.


five things that never happened to dana scully

The author is still around and writing up a storm (though sadly not in this fandom), and I’m sure she would appreciate feedback. There’s lots to say about this fic, so please do let us know what you think. And, as always, the nomination post is open for new suggestions.

Comments

[wendelah1]

You got it in one. A very well-written, not at all believable story, at least for Scully.

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

You know, Dance Card was one of the very first XF fics I ever read, before I'd even started watching the show, and I connected with Sab's Scully quite strongly. It may have even influenced one or two of my first XF fics, actually. But at the time I didn't really have much of a concept of who Scully really was, canonically. Thinking back on it, what I remember of her in Dance Card is really very unlike my Scully at this point in time, and certainly - I agree - quite unlike canon Scully.

At some point perhaps we could even read the Dance Card trilogy here (all three at once, I'd imagine). As OOC as they are, Sab's a good writer, and a charismatic writer, and they could be fun to discuss.

[wendelah1]

Of course we can, if we say we can. (Better that than the one of hers where everyone dies.) We are the mods! Yeah, I can imagine a good discussion of the WTF? variety could come out of it. I can put it up next if you like.

Or we could read more "Five Things" stories? I have a small collection of them.

I suppose I should check the queue first.

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Trilogy? I just found two. 'Dance Card' and 'Moonshine'. What's the third?

Never read these but IIRC I was pretty impressed by 'Woods and Nails' by the same author.

[wendelah1]

The Third is called "What Happened After That" and it's the second of the three. "Moonshine" is the third story. They're all at Gossamer.

I tried to turn the title into a link. I'm not sure it will work.