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wendelah1 compiled all the entries for the xf_santa gift exchange. I've posted my contributions here, but there's a lot more amazing works to sample. If you haven't given it a look yet, do ( Read more... )
wendelah1 compiled all the entries for the xf_santa gift exchange. I've posted my contributions here, but there's a lot more amazing works to sample. If you haven't given it a look yet, do ( Read more... )
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(This is the same as the deleted comment, I just replied to the wrong comment thread)
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Someone at Haven commented on MA's post about the birthday that to her Scully would always be in her mid-thirties.
I guess that's how old Scully was when this fan stopped watching the show? I guess that's fair.
Even in IWTB, she would have been 43 or 44.
Thanks for the Scully Fest promotion. For this one year at least, she'll be celebrated, rather than mourned.
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Someone at Haven commented on MA's post about the birthday that to her Scully would always be in her mid-thirties.
I did laugh at that myself. I had a rather uncharitable thought that since Scully often behaved as though she was a 21 year old college student in many fics, that age would be about right now!
I like the idea of her (and Mulder) aging. It brings on many new avenues for stories. I found it very helpful to be her age for writing when we were both in our thirties. Just the feel of where you're at in life, etc. I could never write Twilight, for example. (And many reasons) At least for writing a teenager in Major Crimes, I can vaguely remember the ANGST that seemed to permeate everything, and the utter self-absorbed state, even as I blush at the memory of the way I treated my mother.
For this one year at least, she'll be celebrated, rather than mourned.
She's mourned?
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I'm lurking over here, rereading your recent XF fic. I say recent. I mean everything you posted in the last year.
I'm sorry I never answered your question. Yes, she's mourned. In 2011, on and around her birthday, there was a meme circulating, a response to the article Rebecca Traister wrote in 2008 at Salon, Scully have I loved. This is the quote that was posted.
In an entertainment world where women are disappearing from multiplexes, where men bulk up as superheroes while women don't eat but sip pink drinks, we need to remember that there was once a very short heroine who hunted monsters and talked about Einstein, who kicked ass and questioned her faith, who went to work with a man she loved but didn't rip his shirt off over lunch, who didn't want to believe, but opened herself nonetheless to possibility. We need Scully back, even for a moment.The response to the meme, and to her birthday, too, was one of sadness and loss. "I miss her." "I miss her too." "Word." "Word." "Word ( ... )
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