Last month, when I was going through the past recs for The X-Files at
crack_van in preparation for my turn "driving the van," I was startled to realize that "The Sin Eater" was not on the list. As good as it is, and often as it has been recced elsewhere, I would have thought that everyone would have read it by now, but then a friend, who has been in the
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I am considering doing "Life During Wartime" here, which she co-authored, with Marasmus, fialka and Maria Nicole. idella nominated it. It is so long, I'll have to break it up into manageable pieces.
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I think you describe why the story works, and why it feels the way it does, very well. (Also, you are free to describe Mulder as often as you'd like, because that was lovely.) I also feel that the story, though already dark in its focus, definitely hints at still other dark avenues that we - and Scully - can barely hope to see from here. Of course, I feel the show did the same, so that's probably why the mood feels right, not to mention familiar.
I too like to see characters pushed to extremes at times, though I do have my limits (which are demonstrated by many things I just don't want to read). This is done very subtly in "The Sin Eater," which is probably why I both can read it, and enjoy it as much as I do.
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Edited for typos, etc.
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"The Other Man" is a great example of just what this fic has achieved. It reminds me a little bit of (and may have influenced) Julie Fortune's (much later) "The Ghost of You" in the way time gets folded back to save Scully. In that fic, Romance is more overtly the point, though, not sacrifice. This story does fall into a pretty narrow category, doesn't it? I will have to think more about this. You know, I think we get a hint of this Mulder in Kel's "The Beginner's Guide to Tightrope ( ... )
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This reminds me of a really bad fic in which Scully referred to her own "titian hair." Like maybe she messed around with beautician school before choosing a medical specialty. And then wasted it by going into the FBI. (No wonder she was so convincing in--what?--that undercover thing where Mulder is working construction.)
But really, considering the high finish of this story, the lapses are extremely minor. Just an example of why geniuses still need editors. So bitches like yours truly will keep their mouths shut.
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