This is classified as angst but in the rumination sense: “In Ed’s Bed” by Nancy V. S4, “Never Again” fill-in. → from my notes: “Thoughts that occur late at night in lieu of sleep. Nice.”
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Two others I neglected to include in my previous comment:
I’m another person who doesn’t like Iolokus, although I haven’t read it in a long time. I remember thinking the violence was indulgently graphic. I read Megan Reilly’s Anamorphosis more recently, and my feelings about it are similar but even stronger.
I've toyed with the idea of posting Anamorphosis for discussion. It has an out-there Scully backstory + characterization but I don't remember the violence being extreme. Yikes. Am I that jaded? I guess I'd have to look at it again.
After all of these years, Iolokus is still the most polarizing fic in the fandom. I reread it a couple of years ago with a pretty critical eye and I still think it's excellent. I wouldn't describe the violence in it as indulgently graphic. But everyone has hot-buttons. I find the violence in Hannibal so disturbing that I can't watch it at all. Even the commercials are too creepy. Ditto for Silence of the Lambs. I thought the bestselling novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was pornographically violent. I can't imagine what the movie was like.
I wouldn't characterize "Kevin" as angst exactly, not from what I recall about it. Excellent, though, like all of Justin Glasser's work.
“Crowning Glory” by CiCi Lean. → via Malinda Lo’s Dana Scully Uncovered: X-Files Fan Fiction and the Posthuman Body: “Disease / Dis-Ease.” → warnings: cancerarc and potentially triggering in eating disorders.
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Subtler (i.e., less-than-extreme) angst
“triptych: but for the urge of this unrest” by baroquechemistry (Raye). S4, “Never Again” fill-in.
This is classified as angst but in the rumination sense: “In Ed’s Bed” by Nancy V. S4, “Never Again” fill-in. → from my notes: “Thoughts that occur late at night in lieu of sleep. Nice.”
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Two others I neglected to include in my previous comment:
“Keeping Melissa” by Oracle.
“Careful” by Oracle. S4, sometime after “Never Again.”
“Ante Bellum” by Athene. S4, “Never Again” fill-in.
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I don’t remember if Justin Glasser’s “Kevin” (xf_book_club discussion) is angst?
I’m another person who doesn’t like Iolokus, although I haven’t read it in a long time. I remember thinking the violence was indulgently graphic. I read Megan Reilly’s Anamorphosis more recently, and my feelings about it are similar but even stronger.
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After all of these years, Iolokus is still the most polarizing fic in the fandom. I reread it a couple of years ago with a pretty critical eye and I still think it's excellent. I wouldn't describe the violence in it as indulgently graphic. But everyone has hot-buttons. I find the violence in Hannibal so disturbing that I can't watch it at all. Even the commercials are too creepy. Ditto for Silence of the Lambs. I thought the bestselling novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was pornographically violent. I can't imagine what the movie was like.
I wouldn't characterize "Kevin" as angst exactly, not from what I recall about it. Excellent, though, like all of Justin Glasser's work.
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I utterly worship The Silence of The Lambsthough, book *and* movie. If I had to do a crossover one day...
Hated The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie, therefore didn't bother to read the books.
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triptych: but for the urge of this unrest.
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