Comments | amyhit: Be Mad or Chill

amyhit

Be Mad or Chill

Jan 27, 2009 17:41

Title: Be Mad or Chill, Obsessed with Angels
Summary: 'cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold'
Spoliers: DeadAlive
Disclaimer: I disclaim it.

Beta thanks go to tree , who lent me her eyes when mine were too close to the words to focus. What fine vision she has.

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( Good things come in twos, Scully. )

my fanfic, x-files

Comments 25

tree January 28 2009, 06:31:59 UTC

i doubt there's anything i can say that i haven't already said. (oh, who am i kidding?)

even though i've had my hands all up in the guts of this, it's still a beautiful whole when i look at it.

thanks for letting me be part.

amyhit January 28 2009, 06:43:38 UTC

thanks for being a part.

and i like this icon you've been using lately. oddly, when i first saw it i stared at it for a few minutes and still couldn't read it, and the next time i glanced at it, it very obviously said Believe. it was like an apparition or clarity. and very essentially them.

rollsofrice January 28 2009, 08:48:08 UTC

I love the way you've written them-- awkward, disoriented, trying too hard to regain that effortless banter of the past. Your Tropic-of-Cancer/Capricorn description is definitely something that will stay with me for a long time-- like Parabiosis's "all scapegrace and mettle, built like a poem".

(And prestidigitation is such an underused word.)

amyhit January 28 2009, 09:10:17 UTC

i love you for this comment. particularly since all scapegrace and mettle and built like a poem might be my favorite single sentence of fanfic ever (and, it would seem, one of the most famous). 'prestidigitation' is such an underused word, though there is at least one fanfic with that title and the show does use it.

thank you for this. i'm glad you have something to take away with you too.

sixpences January 28 2009, 10:56:58 UTC

God, he is breathing, he is really breathing.

Oh. Oh.

This is just so beautiful and delicate and raw. It really feels like their late S8 dynamic- all that confusion and pain and expectant, awkward stillness. I love all the little details in this; the 'missing time', Scully as his 'house ghost', only able to talk to him when he's not there, and the aching little glimpses into 'two weeks ago'. She's never believed in anything very easily. Oh.

amyhit January 28 2009, 11:16:18 UTC

beautiful, delicate, raw.

these are adjectives i like.

thank you.

amalnahurriyeh January 28 2009, 14:08:44 UTC

This is lovely; I am a sucker for s8 fic, and I really respect when it tries to work through canon, and these incredibly complicated relationships we're handed then. This is beautifully written (I can tell Penumbra is among your influences!) and very emotionally honest.

amyhit January 29 2009, 01:37:42 UTC

complicated relationships

yes, it's quite a challenge. as though doing justice to mulder and scully weren't already enough of a challenge - it does just keeping getting harder as the series goes along. it's good that fans keep trying.

i'm glad you enjoyed this attempt, and felt it worked out. thank you!

the_lucky_ducky January 28 2009, 16:01:26 UTC

I actually don't read X Files fic anymore - although there was a time when I was feeding on it - but I got intrigued by the title and summary *lol*
Just wanted to say I love Ginsberg, and especially this poem. It's great.

amyhit January 29 2009, 01:34:15 UTC

thank you. i'm glad it caught your interest, for whatever reason. Song is lovely. I'm not the hugest of Ginsberg fans. Sunflower Sutra did nothing for me and Howl, while remarkable in it's time, was not terribly to my liking but for a few lines. still, he has such a style of his own, and i loved the rare tenderness of Song.