Okay, narahttbbs asked if about X-files fics I still had on the back burner (Offer still open for other fandoms.) It didn't fit in one comment. So, uh
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I want to drool, squee and flail simultaneously. Which is very difficult! And I want to read all of them! At once! *sigh*
I may be soppy but I really want to read some lovely fluffy story where CSM and Teena have a happy ending. Or at least get to go out for, I don't know, dinner and an evening at the opera. I was trying to figure out whether I could manage it in my universe, but concluded it was too self-indulgent. Needless to say I would die with joy if someone else wrote it, so that I could enjoy without guilt. Marriage! Late-middle-aged love! Fox freaking out! What's not to love?
The telepathic bond idea is cool too... like Picard and Crusher in "Attached." What would Teena do if she knew all of CSM's nefarious plans? Would he have to change his tack if she knew everything that he knew? Would she tell Fox anything, or continue being her unforthcoming self?
And as for that far-future plot... oooh. 1013/1121 for the win!
Yes, #1 is basically just completely unexcused AU fluff, in which old people have adventures and fall in love and embarass the heck out of their grown children. I make no apologies for this. :D
The last one ... if I actually wrote it, I would write it as being completely in continuity - which is to say, CSM deals by making increasingly desperate attempts to break the bond, from isolating himself in the Arctic to finally experimental brain surgery that leaves him dying. Teena deals by repressing even harder than ever before, pretending nothing is happening, taking lots of psych medication, and eventually killing herself as the only remaining way to get away from it.
That would be *way* too depressing though, which is why I kind of want somebody else to write it as happy crackfic instead.
Old people should definitely get to have adventures once in a while. Cool adventures, rather than just standing around smoking a cigarette and looking threatening, which is not really a suitable occupation for one's declining years.
On reflection I see your point about the last one. Yeah. That would be the way to play it, depressing as hell. I can just see CSM sitting in the arctic alone, listening to Teena's thoughts in his head. Listening to her suicide, even. It would fit with Teena's general role in the series, wouldn't it? I bet she wouldn't even tell Fox what was going on. He would just think that she'd finally gone off the deep end. You've sold me on it. Now you have to write it. :)
No, no, no! Darkfic, fine, that's one thing, but chapter after chapter of grinding unrelenting hopelessness and despair as my OTP slowly self-destructs? If I wrote that, *I'd* be the one needing psych medication! (Besides, if I want that I can just watch canon again.)
Not that I wouldn't read it if someone else wrote it...
But the story's premise is that they have to change the past so that canon happens after all! Either way the kids are toast. Killing them at the beginning will make it a lot easier for them to make the choice to go fix things. (But it also means having to write weeks of angst and grief because dude, the kids (and the sisters) are dead.)
Hmm. Maybe I *could* write it so they last to the very end ... I will have to think about this some more.
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I may be soppy but I really want to read some lovely fluffy story where CSM and Teena have a happy ending. Or at least get to go out for, I don't know, dinner and an evening at the opera. I was trying to figure out whether I could manage it in my universe, but concluded it was too self-indulgent. Needless to say I would die with joy if someone else wrote it, so that I could enjoy without guilt. Marriage! Late-middle-aged love! Fox freaking out! What's not to love?
The telepathic bond idea is cool too... like Picard and Crusher in "Attached." What would Teena do if she knew all of CSM's nefarious plans? Would he have to change his tack if she knew everything that he knew? Would she tell Fox anything, or continue being her unforthcoming self?
And as for that far-future plot... oooh. 1013/1121 for the win!
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The last one ... if I actually wrote it, I would write it as being completely in continuity - which is to say, CSM deals by making increasingly desperate attempts to break the bond, from isolating himself in the Arctic to finally experimental brain surgery that leaves him dying. Teena deals by repressing even harder than ever before, pretending nothing is happening, taking lots of psych medication, and eventually killing herself as the only remaining way to get away from it.
That would be *way* too depressing though, which is why I kind of want somebody else to write it as happy crackfic instead.
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On reflection I see your point about the last one. Yeah. That would be the way to play it, depressing as hell. I can just see CSM sitting in the arctic alone, listening to Teena's thoughts in his head. Listening to her suicide, even. It would fit with Teena's general role in the series, wouldn't it? I bet she wouldn't even tell Fox what was going on. He would just think that she'd finally gone off the deep end. You've sold me on it. Now you have to write it. :)
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Not that I wouldn't read it if someone else wrote it...
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I will be waiting on pins and needles for #2! ;) You don't have to kill the kids if you can make them wizards, or something!
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Hmm. Maybe I *could* write it so they last to the very end ... I will have to think about this some more.
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