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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[amalnahurriyeh]

As I've been thinking more about Pru, it's been occuring to me that she really isn't writing fanfic in most cases. Moment in the Sun stands out in being so intricately canon-tied, despite the fact that it's a historical AU. But her Mulder and Scully are incredibly inconsistent from fic to fic. It's much closer to original fic than real fanfic that develops and develops and develops a relationship to original canon. I'm not sure if the Mulder is so consistent as you say; the Mulder of Cycles and the Mulder of, let's say, Negative Utopia, are pretty far apart, and not just because of what happens in the stories.

since Pru was so secretive, people thought she might be a man, or she might be a publishing author.

See, I'm not sure why "publishing author" would mean you have to hide--just get a fake email address! Not hard, even in the (later, at least) 90s! But, you know, I could see the man thing, somehow. Interesting to know what the talk was.

I think playing with the sexual/reproductive narrative in XF is one of the best things one can do--because it is there, but canon keeps forgetting it's there, so there's a lot to be done with it. Anyway, it's territory I keep coming back to myself, so I'm sympathetic to Pru's obsession.