Story 204: "El Quinto Sol" by Onemillionandnine

[wendelah1]

I'm feeling a wee bit obsessed with season seven at the moment. I already know what most people's favorite season seven story is (and don't get me wrong, I like "Parabiosis," too), but this one is mine.

Summary: An explanation of Mulder's sudden belief in "miracles." Arthur C. Clarke's second law in action. A bit of Mytharc in the guise of a case file. But in the end it's all about sex. Then again, what isn't?

I can't think of anything to add at the moment. The link is to her old site, now at reocities, but if you want to read an old-skool text file, the entire fic can be read or downloaded at onemillionnine's Author Page at Gossamer.

If anyone has suggestions, especially for season seven stories, feel free to leave them in the comments or the suggestion post. And good, bad, or indifferent, please let us know what you think.

Read "El Quinto Sol".

Comments

[estella-c.livejournal.com]

I think your second-paragraph description of the sex and your later summary of the "vibes" of the story are excellent, and both of them expand what I said, or thought I said, or intended to say.:-) I am also somewhat in sympathy with those who find edgy, unpleasant aspects of the M/S relationship confusing and off-putting. For me it's the strange mixture of desire and contempt that simmers inside Scully, the sense of hopelessness that she will ever make fruitful contact with a man of so many tics and vulnerabilities. She doesn't want to be saddled with an immature and needy manchild, and she seems to fear that. I'm not sure how much of this attitude is obvious in EQS, but it does come through in OMAN's work as a whole. And I don't like it, which is not to say it's not an arresting and defensible character concept.

Yet it seems as though Scully actually did need a good, hard fuck to resolve all. Of course, there were chakras involved. Tantric coitus triumphs. (BTW, there's a fic called Tantric; I advise against it.)

I'm beginning to sound sarcastic. Forgive me. I really, really like El Quinto Sol.

There's a short piece by OMAN--some sort of mythological title and I should look it up--on the subject of Scully requesting Mulder's seman. The vibe there is very bitter.

[dryadinthegrove]

BTW, does anyone remember that Kel and a co-writer did something involving Norse myth personae years ago? Backtracking was the title.

Is that Bone of Contention, written with Michelle Kiefer?

there was a problem *caring* about it.

Oo, nail on the head.

It's horror novel stuff reduced to graphic novel images.

This is a great way of putting it. And I like graphic novels, and yet I still wanted more connect-y bits.

I do like the raw quality and the some of the antagonism between our Heroes. For me it becomes too much antagonism at times, to the point where I was grimacing as much as I was smiling (getting off on Scully's leg? Mm, no.),

[estella-c.livejournal.com]

No, as I said (without ital) the title was Backtracking and I think she wrote it with Scetti, who subsequently disappeared. (Kel, what did you do with the body? Ha, ha. Autopsy humor.) It was long, a bit of a beginner's piece (as I recall), with a whole lot of charm. It's at Gossamer.

OMAN also seems to have a thing about Mulder's penis (not in itself unusual, I guess). She thinks it is so huge as to make sex almost impossible and it induces premature childbirth in one story. Only our Mulder could have a big one that functions as a curse.

[estella-c.livejournal.com]

Since I brought up another OMAN title a few minutes ago, the name is Prestidigatation. I confused it with Persephone. Well, who wouldn't?