I love this story too. It's heartbreaking and you're right, daringly original as well.
I love annakovsky. She writes for a lot of fandoms and it honestly seems like she can do no wrong. I can accept that Mulder would not tell his sister she's his sister mostly because the fic is so well written. And finally sleeping with Samantha? That I can see perfectly. He just... let's it happen. His behavior seems almost resigned.
What I'm interested in: this is the only fic in the entire X-files fandom (that I've seen) that has gone down the windy incest road. If you look at other fandoms, there's a lot of incest fic floating around. Fic breaks down many taboos, including that one. So... why not more in this fandom? Was the X-files just too early for that breed of radicalism?
This leads me to another (completely unrelated) point: has anyone else noticed that X-files fic written now differs greatly from that written during the original run of the show? I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly, but something important and elemental has shifted.
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I love annakovsky. She writes for a lot of fandoms and it honestly seems like she can do no wrong. I can accept that Mulder would not tell his sister she's his sister mostly because the fic is so well written. And finally sleeping with Samantha? That I can see perfectly. He just... let's it happen. His behavior seems almost resigned.
What I'm interested in: this is the only fic in the entire X-files fandom (that I've seen) that has gone down the windy incest road. If you look at other fandoms, there's a lot of incest fic floating around. Fic breaks down many taboos, including that one. So... why not more in this fandom? Was the X-files just too early for that breed of radicalism?
This leads me to another (completely unrelated) point: has anyone else noticed that X-files fic written now differs greatly from that written during the original run of the show? I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly, but something important and elemental has shifted.