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

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2/3 - moar

And it appears that this is the sort of fic I just need to comment on excessively, without rhyme or reason, so:

it has always been this way with him, it has always been Scully first, and then the rest.

I admit I…I badly want this to be true. I always have. Which I guess is basically a sentiment you could apply to this whole fic: Mulder, y u no behave like soulmate? Not that I want him to focus on Scully at the expense of the work, but it would be nice to think that she held this-- exalted position in his mind. Sadly, I just don’t think CC and Co. were nearly that romantically minded. (just don’t tell my headcanon that)

That wasn’t a date, Mulder.

It was a date. We just didn’t know it at the time.

Aww. I can see even regular canon Mulder saying this.

but sometimes he feels tempted to ask, sometimes he wonders who knew first, although he feels like he knew from the start, which can’t be quite right

Love this. Also, it feels kind of meta to me. I’ve spent way too long thinking this stuff about them, wondering when they knew they loved each other and telling myself, “You don’t believe in love at first sight, so just stop this nonsense at once.” *g*

He feels ordinary, everyday words can never ever apply to them because this is Scully, he had meant to invent a whole new language for her.

A great example of prose oddity. By all rights this ought to be two sentences, or at least there should be a semicolon, yet it would have been a bit cliché if it were properly punctuated. It’s not as though this sentiment has never been expressed in a fic before. It’s the way the last bit runs right on to the end of the chapter that makes it feel like a quick, honest truth.

When the thought strikes him Mulder catches himself thinking about Bob Dylan singing “get born”, catches himself thinking Scully like it’s the first or the last time and he just gets it.

Does this section (16) mean Mulder has realized Scully is pregnant? Or that he thinks their story has ultimately been about Scully? Or just that it’s about Scully for him? Confusing. I do really like this line, though.

Well? She arches an eyebrow.

He just shrugs, Maybe they are really, really persistent.

This is another exchange I can vividly picture them having (though I can’t really picture them holding hands, even if it is S7). Also, is this supposed to be a metaphor for their relationship? That’s what I take it as. Well, that and just them being cute whilst contemplating zombies.

So his dreams are a bit like The Last Temptation of Christ.

Never mind, because his waking up is a fairytale moment when he opens his eyes and Scully is there -of course- and crying and saving him and he is horribly convinced that he is alive just because she called him back to her side.

Nice meta/non-meta commentary there. I mean in the sense that it takes what I think most viewers already think/feel about that scene (and are probably meant to think and feel) and acknowledges it by having Mulder think/feel the same thing. Except it’s not really meta at all, because it’s perfectly reasonable that Mulder would be thinking exactly that.

Actually, he is prone to recurring epiphanies and no, he doesn’t think that’s a contradiction of terms at all. He just gets caught up in his own insights, even if it’s not the first time he has them.

Yes, this sounds like Mulder, and is actually quite a lovely insight. It can be endearing about him at times, and immature at others. But in this fic it’s definitely the former.

[wendelah1]

"it has always been this way with him, it has always been Scully first, and then the rest."

I admit I…I badly want this to be true. I always have.

Yeah, that's my biggest problem with this story. Always Scully first and then the rest? That's not who Mulder is at all. And really, what would the series have been like if he had been that guy? I think for most of the series, it's Mulder's search for the truth, beginning with what happened to his sister that defined his life, not his relationship with Scully.


"That wasn’t a date, Mulder."

"It was a date. We just didn’t know it at the time."

Aww. I can see even regular canon Mulder saying this.

It was an adorable line.

This is another exchange I can vividly picture them having (though I can’t really picture them holding hands, even if it is S7). Also, is this supposed to be a metaphor for their relationship? That’s what I take it as. Well, that and just them being cute whilst contemplating zombies.

It's a cute scene, and a good continuation of the episode.