Story 211: “In the Bleak” by Teanna

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

Our next fic is a relatively short colonization apocafic. To my knowledge, Teanna is a largely unknown author in the XF fandom. She only ever wrote three short XF fics, but her writing is spare, intelligent, sharply observant, and poetic without being wordy. She unflinchingly explores the characters and how they cope with fear, grief, and failure. I should definitely warn everyone that this story is, as the title suggests, bleak. Teanna warns readers that it’s "not a happy story," but at the risk of spoiling everyone, I should probably warn you that major character death is strongly implied and death in general is pretty ubiquitous in this story. This is the apocalypse portrayed with more grim realism than usual.

I hope some of you will read it anyway. There’s plenty in this fic to discuss, and I think summertime is probably the best time to read it, so that those of us who are particularly susceptible to gut-wrenching fanfic can shake off the darkness with a healthy dose of sunlight afterwards.

Read In the Bleak.

Comments

[obviousanswer.livejournal.com]

Ahhh that makes sense. Sorry if I ask some silly questions/ make naive comments, but I hope having some naive perspectives in the book club isn't a bad thing..!

I'm studying also, but in the southern hemisphere, I might ask you for some more long recs come summer.

[wendelah1]

No, no. Questions are always welcome, as are new people to fandom and The X-Files. New energy is what keeps fandoms alive. I have a Tumblr now and I've been getting so many ideas for stories. Not that anyone there will read them. or even know about them. The fandom is split up now. I wish I knew how to fix that. Anyway, the enthusiasm is contagious.

Southern hemisphere--so this is still winter for you and you're in school now. A good friend lives in Australia, which is many time zones ahead on the other side of the planet. I think it's already one in the afternoon on Sunday there and we haven't eaten Saturday dinner yet. Are you still on Saturday or are you also a person of the(my) future? LOL

[obviousanswer.livejournal.com]

Ah that's a shame to hear, about the fandom being so spilt up. I don't really understand tumblr, it seems like a much much prettier lj but shallower too...? As in, how do people actually properly communicate with each other on it beyond re-blogging, or am I missing the point? And a lot of lj has migrated across? I used to have a journal here a few years ago and it seemed a lot more active, lj was never very pretty, but some of the long posts or long conversation threads were amazing...

I'm a person of winter and the future too! 2pm Sunday here on the east coast of Aus.