This week I am posting a wonderful The X-Files/Dr.Who cross-over story by
finisterre,"The Flexible Concept of Tomorrow."
finisterre is the fic journal of the artist formerly known as Marasmus. She left our fandom, and came to LJ, I suppose, with the big fandom migration from the usenet groups. From what I can tell, she had virtually stopped posting her fic writing.
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His chest starts to ache, as though something is swelling in there, threatening to crawl up into his throat and seal off the air supply. He’s almost at the door of the hidden timeship before he recognizes that feeling for what it is: immense happiness at seeing her one last time, and suffocating grief for exactly the same reason.
This bit really, really got me. For its perfect description of that feeling we have all experienced, and which I know I read fanfic in order to recreate.
And to balance that, the bit that made me smile the most:
"You’re saying that if I sleep, I alter the course of history?" he says, tentatively.
"Yes!" she says, brightening and pointing at him with both hands in triumph. "You’ve got it."
"That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard."
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That scene made me weep. Man, just thinking about it brings the tears. Because we do all know what it is like to love someone that much, and we all know what it feels like to lose them forever.
And it gave me an honest-to-god thrill of happiness to realize the end was not "the end" foreshadowed throughout.
Yes. I felt joyful. It was brilliantly done.
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However, somehow this story still really worked for me. I think it was partly because Mulder's interactions were almost entirely with Donna (there are way too many [insert character here] meets the Doctor!!!1! fics in the world), and there was a real human connection there. They're both, on a very basic level, two people looking for something more in the universe (in a way which Rose and Martha weren't, much as I love them).
Also I have so much love for finisterre for giving Donna a much better fate than she was allowed by the series. I don't pay my TV license for ( ... )
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That seems a very apt description, which makes the ending even more poignant, I think.
It was pretty devastating reading about what happened to Donna, so I can only imagine what it was like to watch it.
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And it's usually done soooooooo badly. I seek out Mulder-in-Oxford fic whenever I feel like a masochistic thrill.
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It’s not until five years later, when he decides that Scully doesn’t dance enough and waltzes her round the kitchen to songs from the radio, that he recognizes the music from the phone again - "Hey Ya" - and has the thrill of knowing for sure that he met honest to god *time travellers*.
where i can read it and go, okay! beautiful! donna is simply a reoccurring MoTW! she's well written, complex, yet unobtrusive to the integral structure of TXF as i see it. finesterre's writing is heavy with undertones and half-spoken details, and it's just very sensitive to everything ( ... )
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I think I've read nearly every cross-over I can get my hands on in nearly every fandom I read fic for. A few are great, a few more are okay, many others not so good. This one is amazingly well-done.
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again with the circle imagery for me, jeez. i have to go get a new stick. *grin*
I think I've read nearly every cross-over I can get my hands on in nearly every fandom I read fic for.yeah, whereas i tend to avoid them, as i guess my above post makes abundantly obvious. it's not the fic's fualt or the author's, of course - i do know that. but i pretty much always finish the fic feeling as though "my" story has been in some way violated. in this particular fic, the more effort finisterre puts into writing donna well, the more i want to shove her aside. and she does write her well, as far as i can see. i love donna's attitude. she just seems so ( ... )
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I think I managed to enjoy it still simply because the basic character connection was powerful enough to enable me to suspend my disbelief (which to be honest is often what happens to me watching both DW and XF). It was definitely uncomfortable at times, when my brain started to go 'but... but...!', and it continues to niggle me slightly, but I think what made me enjoy it overall was that it did manage to make me forget my objections, for the most part.
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