History, Geography, Mythology, Character.

[amalnahurriyeh]

I don't often make recs, mainly because I feel like my taste is so subjective--what I like about a story isn't often something that I'm sure will communicate, and I'm willing to tolerate poor writing that hits my narrative kinks, or that does something interesting.  (See, for example, my affection for Rachel Anton.)  But I keep mulling over a story

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[scrubschick]

Agreed. I love her writing even though she apparently was very aloof with the fandom and so is seen as a flake. She writes a good story, bar none. The details, the characterizations, the narrative, the actual putting together of sentences: she does it as well as any and far better than most. My favorite of hers is Promises to Keep, because it's f*cked up Mulder and Scully at their best.

Should I start saving fic to my hard drive? I only know peripherally about the Geocities thing.

[sangria_lila]

Really? When was Pru active? And is there a way to contact her to let her know about the geocities thing?

[scrubschick]

Before my time and no, I don't believe we commoners have any way to contact her. Apparently feedback was beneath her.

[sangria_lila]

Oh well, in any case I've saved all her fics.

[amalnahurriyeh]

I haven't read Promises to Keep, though I love Negative Utopia. Sk/Sc scares me off (I can handle it better in NU).

I love how personal fandoms evaluations can be. Well, not always, but I like how being a good community member is so *necessary.*

The deal, as I understand it, is that all geocities sites will be summarily deleted at some point in the not-to-distant future, so anything that's only available on geocities will disappear into the ether unless it's moved. Pru isn't on Gossamer, which means it'll go away. (Not all of OneMillionAndNine's stuff is either, for example. And Adrienne's site after she deleted her journal is geocities, though it may all be on Gossamer.) So, I'm saving things I like that are by geocities-only authors, like Pru and OneMillion. It's weird, because I've never saved a thing before, and it seems like having it on MY HARDDRIVE takes away from the communal nature of fic--I can't link to it if I have it on my hard drive!--but I'd hate not to be able to have it around to read.

[scrubschick]

Sk/Sc scares me off. Go read it anyway. You won't be disappointed. I promise. It's way more MSR than SSR. And angst! OH, the angst! *g*

Thanks for the geocities info. I have a couple of fics saved just for ease of access if I'm not near the interwebs, such as Aphrodesia and Iolokus, but I'll have to check my bookmarks with an eye to saving to my hard drive. Crap.

it seems like having it on MY HARDDRIVE takes away from the communal nature of fic--I can't link to it if I have it on my hard drive!--but I'd hate not to be able to have it around to read. Agreed. This is gonna suck.