Our next fic is a relatively short colonization apocafic. To my knowledge, Teanna is a largely unknown author in the XF fandom. She only ever wrote three short XF fics, but her writing is spare, intelligent, sharply observant, and poetic without being wordy. She unflinchingly explores the characters and how they cope with fear, grief, and failure.
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I don't think it's that uncommon for readers to follow writers they like into new fandoms. I read Maybe Amanda and OneMillionandNine's Sherlock fic before I had seen Sherlock. Frankly, I like it way, way better than its canon, which I think is highly over-rated by its fanbase. Anyway, I think what's different about what I did is that I went backwards to her earlier work, and then got totally hooked on a closed canon fandom. Well, presumably closed canon. I know there are a lot of fans out there who feel cheated by the lack of closure and want a third movie. I don't think they're going to get one.
The X-Files has a lot of long fic but I'm going to try to rec as much shorter fic as I can to keep people engaged here come fall. A lot of the membership is in school. Although, working full-time isn't exactly a walk in the park either...
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Still interested? Let me know and I'll track down the link for you. It's at AO3 under Maybe Amanda.
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Since I disliked the second series and don't ship any pairings and don't enjoy the kind of fic written for it (and yes, I have read enough to tell), I do not consider myself in the Sherlock fandom but I am in theirs forever more. I'll read anything they write anyway, but together, they're an amazing writing team.
I tend to skip the sex, too, but OneMil writes really great sex so I read hers. Anyway. Enjoy!
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I'm studying also, but in the southern hemisphere, I might ask you for some more long recs come summer.
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Southern hemisphere--so this is still winter for you and you're in school now. A good friend lives in Australia, which is many time zones ahead on the other side of the planet. I think it's already one in the afternoon on Sunday there and we haven't eaten Saturday dinner yet. Are you still on Saturday or are you also a person of the(my) future? LOL
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I'm a person of winter and the future too! 2pm Sunday here on the east coast of Aus.
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