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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[scooly42]

a rly interesting post.
as for the fic, i certainly don't have the TIME to read it right now, and i don't know if i'll FEEL like reading it - as you said, the odd premise. although for me all of the odd is basically m&s both having kids already. i mean, it's ok and plausible in the au, but just... uhn. i don't know if i like it. I AM SIMPLE THAT WAY. but hell, i just read the first scene, and i like the writing a lot, so maybe
if i do i'll let ya know

[amalnahurriyeh]

I hear you on time, X1000. And, yeah, it's not an appealing premise necessarily, but it just sucks you in like woah. She wrote a bunch of shorter things, so there's always that (including Cycles, which is totally on the famous-shipper-fic list.)

ETA: And if it makes you feel better *spoilers* those are not the only children in the story.

[scrubschick]

Agreed. I love her writing even though she apparently was very aloof with the fandom and so is seen as a flake. She writes a good story, bar none. The details, the characterizations, the narrative, the actual putting together of sentences: she does it as well as any and far better than most. My favorite of hers is Promises to Keep, because it's f*cked up Mulder and Scully at their best.

Should I start saving fic to my hard drive? I only know peripherally about the Geocities thing.

[sangria_lila]

Really? When was Pru active? And is there a way to contact her to let her know about the geocities thing?

[scrubschick]

Before my time and no, I don't believe we commoners have any way to contact her. Apparently feedback was beneath her.

[sangria_lila]

Oh well, in any case I've saved all her fics.

[sixpences]

I read 'Paracelsus' over Christmas and while I enjoyed it, it was in the way I enjoy an historical novel; the characters felt like badly reworked caricatures of the originals and I particularly could not associate the Scully of that story with the real one at all.

I'm on to part two of 'A Moment in the Sun' now and this one is much better- I recognise these guys! The way she's reworking the mytharc is really cool too, and even though I've never been to New York I can really feel the sense of place. This really does just feel like the series set a few decades earlier, rather than the bizarro-world of a lot of historical AUs.

[amalnahurriyeh]

This really does just feel like the series set a few decades earlier, rather than the bizarro-world of a lot of historical AUs.

EXACTLY. And it's an interesting change in time, because it allows a whole bunch of interesting new shifts in the canon. I haven't read Paracelsus, because its premise strikes me as beyond the pale...and knowing that it didn't seem right to you makes me want to avoid it, I think.

[sixpences]

I think the main issue for me is that TXF is so incredibly context dependent. I mean, everyone and everything is so reliant on historical background anyway, but Mulder and Scully without that weird '90s diffused paranoia just isn't right. I think 'Moment' is working for me because I get a similar vibe about the 50s; the post-nuclear world and the Cold War and such (I honestly used to have creepy '50s nightmares after reading about nuclear warfare as a child). Whereas post-American Civil War? Uh, no.

I also have masses of love for anything that really runs with Mulder's Jewishness (he is, dammit! *points to icon*). Which reminds me of some research I need to do...

[newo_fic]

Thank you so much for reccing this. I have never heard of it (I'm a bad xf fanfic fan I guess), and if I had heard of it I prob. would have never read it on my own if you hadn't recced it. I'm really enjoying it so far and can't seem to pull myself away from it to go to the gym. Thanks!

[amalnahurriyeh]

That's exactly the problem I had--I started reading it, Geocities cut me off after 2 chapters, I went back the next day, and, by the time I got around to it, I just opened all the chapters and stayed up until 2 am reading it, because OMFG.

I think Pru is really worth reading--I like a bunch of her stuff. Agunah is good (both parts), Cycles is a classic, I like Negative Utopia, Darkest Hour is good if you can handle rapefic...she's totally worth poking at, especially if it's about to disappear off the internet...

[newo_fic]

I know that this was forever ago, but I finished the fic last week and LOVED IT! I think one of the things that hooked me was that it was so different.

I've been perusing my way through her other fic and there are a few that I really like. But there were also a few that ended sooner than I anticipated. To me, Negative Utopia just sort of...stopped, and I thought that it was going to continue. It works that it ended where it did I guess, maybe I just wanted more lol.

[sangria_lila]

Ah! I'm so glad you've found it

[amalnahurriyeh]

13th sign...I've read it a bunch of times, but these days I just read the last section, after Scully comes back from her abduction. And cry. And cry. The shower scene...*weeps*

Everything you said about Moment in the Sun: YES, THAT. Except that I'm not normally a get-them-married type; it works here because of the 50s-vibe, which requires it. I like 'em shacked up in actual reality. *g* Also, Mulder proposing every ten minutes: THIS EXACTLY. That happens in my universe, too--Scully's just snarkier about turning him down.

[sangria_lila]

The shower scene when she realizes that William is her baby? God, I don't even know where to start crying with that story. Sometimes, I really hate Pru for breaking my heart like that