Story 200: "a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" by zauberer_sirin

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Gosh, look at that startlingly large number in the heading! It appears that our little (but oh-so-tenacious) community has reached its two-hundredth fic.



Cheers everyone!

I must say, I’ve been adoring you guys’ recommendations even more than usual lately. There have been a few fics I am particularly fond of come up, including a very recent rec by littlegreen42, which I am going to pounce on immediately like a cat on a jubilant grasshopper. It was written in the pre/post IWTB era, making it relatively new by this fandom’s standards. It’s short – but with an endearingly long title – and the prose has an idiosyncratic sort of poetry about it. Ultimately, I think the author herself sums it up best when she says, These are not all the ways and whys and hows Mulder loves Scully, just some. In reverse.

Read a weatherman to know which way the wind blows by zauberer_sirin

Comments

[wendelah1]

Admitting to not being a fan of Scully in your author's notes is never a good way to get me on side, though, and I think the author's difficulty with the character comes through clearly in the story.

I almost didn't read this story back when it was first posted because of that admission. I didn't know the author, and had arrived off a rec in someone's journal whose taste I respected (Zellie, maybe?). I remember posting a private rant about it and then grudgingly coming back. In the end, I'm glad I did read it and that I urged her to post it to the fic com, too, as it got a wider readership there than it would have otherwise. It's a good story.

Even through Mulder's rose-tinted glasses, she comes across as kind of a jerk, as not really worthy of his devotion. I cannot imagine Scully saying really, Mulder, for such an egotist you are so insecure, because it seems like such an attack on his character, which she never does.

Canon!Scully is pretty absent from this story. There is so little about her that the author even likes that I think Mulder's devotion comes off as a little unsupported. The reader has to fill in the details of who she is all on their own. The only thing I can offer in that line's defense is that it's written post-series, when they are in the middle of negotiating their way into a long-term romantic relationship. Also that she's tired and crabby and there is nowhere for her to go and she just wants the light off (this is still an on-going issue in my marriage after 30+ years, so I can relate to her irritation with him over it. We rent apartments now when we are on vacation so the maniac person who likes to stay up all night with the television blaring can do so, and leave the person who sleeps at night in peace. OK, Self-insertion over.)