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ext_20969 ([identity profile] amyhit.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] xf_book_club2012-03-12 05:57 am
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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.

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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] 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 [livejournal.com profile] zauberer_sirin

[identity profile] infinitlight.livejournal.com 2012-03-16 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
re: the last line. It sticks with me, I think, because I don't like it. It's very jarringly incorrect to me, and I took that feeling with me away from the story.

It could have been "it's less alone than he's felt in years" and I wouldn't notice a difference in the emotive quality of the language.
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[personal profile] wendelah1 2012-03-16 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Each time I've read the line, it's made me want to grit my teeth. That, and her eccentric use of punctuation made my second read-through of this story a much less pleasant experience than the first. I finally gave in and just started correcting the errors on my copy so I wouldn't have to look at them anymore.


It's very jarringly incorrect to me, and I took that feeling with me away from the story.

That's it exactly.
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[personal profile] wendelah1 2012-03-16 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Section Six is my favorite of the sections. It's grittier and his emotions are less woobified, which is why I think it is the closest she comes to writing a Mulder I recognize.

because doesn’t everybody have a smutty version of the show they can lay right over top of the other version, like translucent, pornographic drafting paper? *coughs* No?

Ha ha ha ha! No. Although I freely admit this would come in handy at times.

because this is one of those times (and Mulder has watched how those moments have grown so often and near that they are practically his whole life now) when he cannot afford to touch Scully for the fear he might never stop.

Now, I took this to mean that he felt genuinely worried about loss of control in regards to his sexual feelings toward her, and that was brought to the forefront because of the events of "Pusher." Maybe I'll go back and reread that section.