Came on Lion - 1/1

[amyhit]

Title: Came on Lion
Author: amyhit
Rating: G
Spoilers: Not a one
Summary: closer than a girl can get / to trouble if she hasn't yet / got in it
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Author's Notes: Because the synopsis doesn't make it clear, this is one day of Dana Scully's childhood. References and beta notes at the end.

Comments

[idella]

This seems really...inevitable, like it had to have really happened. It's impressive, and I like it a lot.

(I thought I recognized the title! I will have to listen with this story in mind.)

[amyhit]

really...inevitable, like it had to have really happened

that was exactly what i was going for. so, excellent, thank you!

you like Sarah Harmer? *is pleased*

[idella]

I never get tired of Sarah Harmer. "Came on Lion" is one of her songs that I hadn't heard very often,* and I definitely used your story as an excuse to listen to it. A lot. So thank you for that, too.

*I am still hung up on You Were Here and Songs for Clem and some of her Weeping Tile stuff. I feel optimistic that she's done good work since then, it's just that I haven't gotten around to paying much attention to it yet.

[amyhit]

i think i have to pay more attention to her in general, actually. for a long time she was one of those artists i knew i liked, but i hadn't listened to many of her songs. for years i loved basement apartment, don't get your back up, uniform gray, dogs and thunder, and the hideout. loved them. but that was all i'd heard. those are all still my favorites, actually, but i've heard at least half of her songs now, finally. and she's canadian, which makes me happy *g*.

there are so few female musician/lyricists that i really like. she might be my favorite, actually.

[tree]

well, you know what i think already. but the dedication is a lovely surprise. thank you. :)

[amyhit]

v., if no one comments on this damn thing, i'm just going to reread your notes over and over again (total ego talking here) and NOT CARE about other people who may or may not have read it. "DEAR SELF-DOUBT, I AM NOT CRAZY. I AM NOT IMAGINING THAT I WROTE THINGS I DID NOT. SOMEONE ELSE SAW IT TOO."

eta: no one but us and idella, that is.

[tree]

there does seem to be less of an interest in gen stories altogether, and certainly gen stories that focus solely on scully. all i can say is that anyone who doesn't read this is missing out on an astonishing piece of insight, and it's their loss.

and if you are imagining things, then i'm imagining them with you, and frankly i have no interest in whatever lives outside that imagining. so there. ;P

[amyhit]

so there

yeah! so there! *g* (i feel a lot better, thank you.)

also, The Perfect Icon to accompany this fic. you haz it. Baby!Scully, none-the-less looking stern and distrustful. and damn it, why is it that whever i say Baby!Scully i want to say it in that annoying little squeek that people use for talking to animals - almost like the A in baby is an I? SHAME! i don't even talk to animals that way!

[bardsmaid]

Really nicely done. You've caught Bill in a way that makes him grow into exactly who we see in the show, and there's also the clear germ of the Scully we know so well as an adult.

This is the kind of thing I like to do, too--peek back into scenarios we weren't shown on-screen to find out what happened, and how it helped shaped the characters we care about. It's sad--from my POV, at least--that character explorations like this don't get the readership they really deserve. In the end, there's a lot more substance in them than in the fluffy stuff that so often becomes wildly popular. And while it can be frustrating to feel like you're working in a vacuum, later you'll be able to look back and be proud (rather than embarrassed) at the writing you did here.

Thanks for sharing this.

[amyhit]

It's sad--from my POV, at least--that character explorations like this don't get the readership

yes, i think so as well. and as embarrassing as it is to admit, one sometimes convinces one's self that "this fic will be different. this fic will get people to read it even though other excellent fic didn't!" *smirk* still, a few really thoughtful comments can often counteract the neurosis stirred up by lack of broad attention. so, um, thank you. i really appreciate yours.

[memories_child]

So I'm a bit late catching up on this (moving house takes time!) but I absolutely love it. You capture Scully's childhood so well and make it totally believable. I love the characterisations; it's easy to see Bill in canon being like this when he was younger, and sows the seeds for Scully's need to prove herself, to tell Mulder she's fine when she's so clearly not.

I'll also admit to getting a bit teary-eyed when Scully (Dana) keeps mopping the floor because of the unfairness of the whole thing. There need to be more pre-series, childhood fics like these.

[amyhit]

thank you! i'm glad my Bill characterization is going over so well. it's almost a surprise. and i'm very pleased that you got teary-eyed. not because i delight in the pain of others, of course, but because i really wanted to draw people who really care about scully to a point where their empathy just becomes too much. i agree that there needs to be more pre-series fic.

i hope your house-moving is progressing smoothly.

[amyhit]

thank you!