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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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Let me say that A Moment in the Sun was the clincher fic to me, the fic that got me from reading xf-fic for fun to getting into fandom in earnest. It actually, got me to love the show so much more. It has all the elements of what would constitute a fic I go back to over and over again (and I have, countless times until I can basically tell you what line is coming next). It has all the elements that fulfills my ultimate fic guilty pleasure - my favorite characters married, with children, in a family. And second of all, she really makes Mulder and Scully her own in this fic, unlike her other AUs, which I still enjoy. William and Emily are wonderfully believable as a spoiled teenager and a little girl who's vivacious despite her rehabilitating illness, and the Gunmen are given a much bigger role. I just love Frohike as Mulder's press agent, and want to pet Byers on the head. Moment in the Sun is really Pru at her best.
Have you read 13th Sign? That one has me crying on really bad days. It just breaks your heart and then glues it back together, XF style.
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Everything you said about Moment in the Sun: YES, THAT. Except that I'm not normally a get-them-married type; it works here because of the 50s-vibe, which requires it. I like 'em shacked up in actual reality. *g* Also, Mulder proposing every ten minutes: THIS EXACTLY. That happens in my universe, too--Scully's just snarkier about turning him down.
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Well, I'm not necessarily a get them married type, but when I say married, I do mean shacked up and committed because in my mind, being married doesn't necessarily mean having the paper to prove it. Although the law of course differs and I as the dutiful student of it recognize that.
The thing that does annoy me, just a little, is that Scully's fate as a doctor-in-training is left hanging. Now, I know she has obligations to her family, but Scully in my book, whatever day and age would do her damnedest to establish herself as Mulder's equal. But that's just my naive feminist heart, and it is a minor quibble.
I just love how Pru is able to create a snarky, gawky, dorky Mulder voice all the way through. My favorite proposal is the 'suave, 'if you get pregnant'' proposal because BWAH I CAN TOTALLY SEE THAT HAPPENING. Pru gets Mulder's stubborn puppy dog nature like no other writer I know. In fact, I venture to say that Moment in the Sun actually helped me see Mulder differently when I watched the show, because previously I just dismissed him as a hopeless dreamer, who is yanno, such a man when it comes to him just leaving people behind for his own personal quest.
Either way, I'm so totally happy someone loves Moment as much as I do, for exactly the same reasons.
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