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amyhit.livejournal.com) wrote in xf_book_club2012-03-12 05:57 am
Story 200: "a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" by zauberer_sirin
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 byzauberer_sirin
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
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Yes.
So basically to me this fic reads like it’s done an absolutely gorgeous job of capturing half of his character, and has kindly swept the part where he’s a bit of a bossy, selfish jerk a lot of the time under the rug, replacing it with heaps of private insecurities and Scullylove (two things I happen to adore in a Mulder characterization).
Yeah, well. It feels a little lop-sided is what I hear you saying. I think it would have been a stronger story if it had been better balanced.
But part of it is that she’s simply been written kinda insensitive.
Yes. The author's negative feelings toward Scully end up bleeding through despite her best efforts.
The idiosyncratic poetry of the writing.
Overall, I like her style but sometimes I'm not sure if it's intentionally idiosyncratic or if she's just, you know, wrong. It can be distracting. It's not a story that holds up well to close scrutiny for me, I guess is what I'm saying, unlike JET's writing or Penumbra's. This story was written on the fly, wasn't closely edited (if it was edited at all), and for me, it's better read quickly, too, otherwise I get bogged down in the details.