I'm late because I was in another (nondream) state, and everyone has already been wonderfully intelligent. I love this story because I love everything Punk Maneurverability has ever written. She has written absolutely hilarious stuff, which confirms my theory that the brilliantly funny writer can go both ways brilliantly. DWTDB especially impresses me as it is an interior story, an emotional adjustment story, all about what one character is thinking/feeling with very little action or dialogue in support. There are thousands of these and most are bad. Punk did it right.
I should chime in on some of the contested issues. I don't find Scully's lack of anger at Mulder terribly hard to understand. I realize he performed incorrectly here, but he was trying to protect her, and I am old enough to see male protection as a comfortable thing. She has to come to terms with her loss, and nobody else can do it for her. As for the "fearing" of infertility, I think I get that. Now that she is sure of her condition (I believe there are fannish arguments that absolute sureness wouldn't be possible: another subject) she fears *living* with it. She fears her identity as a woman who cannot bear, a state of being that many consider pitiable and that she does not welcome. Further adjustment is necessary. But "it will be okay."
I loved the care with which the story slipped in and out of dreams. I personally can say that I have distant memories that I *cannot* identify as being real or dreamed. I don't think this is unusual, and it has gotten us in something of a societal quandary on the issue of child abuse.
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Date: 2012-04-27 02:20 pm (UTC)I should chime in on some of the contested issues. I don't find Scully's lack of anger at Mulder terribly hard to understand. I realize he performed incorrectly here, but he was trying to protect her, and I am old enough to see male protection as a comfortable thing. She has to come to terms with her loss, and nobody else can do it for her. As for the "fearing" of infertility, I think I get that. Now that she is sure of her condition (I believe there are fannish arguments that absolute sureness wouldn't be possible: another subject) she fears *living* with it. She fears her identity as a woman who cannot bear, a state of being that many consider pitiable and that she does not welcome. Further adjustment is necessary. But "it will be okay."
I loved the care with which the story slipped in and out of dreams. I personally can say that I have distant memories that I *cannot* identify as being real or dreamed. I don't think this is unusual, and it has gotten us in something of a societal quandary on the issue of child abuse.
I love the sex scenes, because they weren't.