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

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

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

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

The author does admit to a bit of Scully-dislike, and I'm afraid this comes through not in a harsh perception of Scully herself, heaven forbid, but in a very mother's-favorite take on Mulder.

Yeah, “Weatherman” coddles its Mulder characterization. The first time I read this fic I didn’t notice, but now I wonder how I could’ve missed it.

The problem, I think, might have been solved if zauberer_sirin had elected to make Mulder fall in love a bit later than episode two or three.

I can see what you’re saying and I do agree that the fic over-sells Mulder's FEELINGS a fair bit. But honestly, my favorite sections of this fic are all near the chronological beginning, and I just…don’t have the heart to mind a bit of over-emphasis of the MSR. Not when Mulder’s brain is being so endearing and poetic. I may not believe in love at first sight, but I sure am a sucker for a little bit of rapid-onset obsession (between fictional characters, anyway).

[wendelah1]

But honestly, my favorite sections of this fic are all near the chronological beginning, and I just…don’t have the heart to mind a bit of over-emphasis of the MSR. Not when Mulder’s brain is being so endearing and poetic. I may not believe in love at first sight, but I sure am a sucker for a little bit of rapid-onset obsession (between fictional characters, anyway).

Ha ha! My favorite sections are from the beginning as well. I figure I succumbed to the rapid-onset Scully obsession because of my own.