She handles sex scenes with unusual sensitivity, realism and brevity.
Yeah, I can’t think of any other fic writer who reliably writes sex scenes that are this gripping and hot. And you have a good point in mentioning their brevity. I don’t tend to notice that they’re short while I’m reading, because they’re extremely effective, and I guess that’s kind of the point: writing long sex scenes is, quite often, what a writer does when they’re not sure the sex scene is strongly written enough to be short and still be effective.
Syntax has written two of my favorite XF sex scenes, and I mean ever. The scene in Universal Invariants is one. I can’t say I like the sex scenes in LOM nearly as much as the one in UI, but they definitely work in the context of the story. The Mulder and Scully are older, wounded, more mistrustful, less willing (or able) to be swept up in frantic passion with even temporary disregard for the consequences.
Actually, the first sex scene in LOM sticks in my mind for how horrible it is. I find it more painful than any of the sex scenes in Iolokus, for example, despite Iolokus being a much more overtly dark and troubling story.
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Yeah, I can’t think of any other fic writer who reliably writes sex scenes that are this gripping and hot. And you have a good point in mentioning their brevity. I don’t tend to notice that they’re short while I’m reading, because they’re extremely effective, and I guess that’s kind of the point: writing long sex scenes is, quite often, what a writer does when they’re not sure the sex scene is strongly written enough to be short and still be effective.
Syntax has written two of my favorite XF sex scenes, and I mean ever. The scene in Universal Invariants is one. I can’t say I like the sex scenes in LOM nearly as much as the one in UI, but they definitely work in the context of the story. The Mulder and Scully are older, wounded, more mistrustful, less willing (or able) to be swept up in frantic passion with even temporary disregard for the consequences.
Actually, the first sex scene in LOM sticks in my mind for how horrible it is. I find it more painful than any of the sex scenes in Iolokus, for example, despite Iolokus being a much more overtly dark and troubling story.