Story 93: "Moment of Inertia" by Pteropod
It's been a long time since my last entry here, for which I apologize. I've been very preoccupied with the impending closure of Geocities fan sites. In any case, this week's story was nominated by amyhit. For those readers who are utterly uninterested in season 8 fic and wish we would just get on with it already, that's okay. Just nominate something else
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I feel a little embarrassed about that description now, as Yellow Balloon upstaged this fic quite a bit, in my books, and they both occupy the same niche in my mental filing cabinet. It's a shame no one came to talk about that one. Maybe this will work out better. I promise (no, I actually promise) that I'll come back and talk about this one, no matter what.
*sigh* the only thing more neglected than S8 fic is S9 fic. not that i'm not a major neglecter myself.
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I think there is a lot more of season 8 fic to cover but it might just be you and me doing the reading. People like the AUs better, which is understandable, but I don't feel they quite get to the heart of the problem, although they do make me feel better. I was thinking about posting one of Prufrocks' season 8 AUs, maybe "The Thirteenth Sign," or "Inventing the Mulders," both of which I already have posted somewhere in case she lets her site go down. (shhh...don't tell)
I just finished a season 8 story by Marguerite, "How Glory Goes" that I ended up disliking intensely by the end. It was positively painful to read because it felt so voyeuristic and intrusive in its handling of Scully's grief after Mulder's death. I felt like the author was just wallowing in it. Ugh. Plus the whole Skinner is in love with Scully theme is nearly always an annoyance ( ... )
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Well, for my money you can keep on ranting, because IMO there's not nearly enough recognition of this point. The fact that fic nearly always veers to sex/romance is the reason I read so little of it. Human lives--including those of well--rounded fictitious characters--contain many beautiful facets, not all of which are centered around the aforesaid focuses. What a pity to put on blinders and neglect all those other gems.
As for Pteropod, she writes beautifully. And like Zuffy and Littljoe, she was another denizen of the Cave. Seeing this rec has made me all nostalgic.
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It is a pity. There just is never enough gen fic in fandom. But people write what they like to read. I'm just burned out on it myself. I'm like the movie reviewer who's seen too many movies. Sometimes I worry that I can't give romance, whether it's het or slash, a fair reading anymore.
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yes, rant away. i do like the presence of attraction and/or sexual love in a story, but it's a shame that any fic which doesn't cater directly to this aspect often seems to be fighting an uphill battle to find an audience at all.
Plus the whole Skinner is in love with Scully theme is nearly always an annoyance to me.for me i think it all comes down to the complexity of the way it's being portrayed. it's not so much the over abundance of sex and romanticism that is annoying, but the tendency for people to act as though a feeling is only the one thing: Love, Desire, like saying 'apple' or 'banana'. i can certainly believe that skinner may be attracted to scully as a physically attractive female with admirable qualities, and even that he may be jealous of mulder and scully for have such an intimate and enduring relationship with each other (who wouldn't be jealous of that?) - but to slap a stamp on an entire situation and call it nothing but a one word emotion is kind of silly and cheep, and ( ... )
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Badlands - J.S. Michel
http://www.geocities.com/js_michel/Badlands.html
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