Free Beer Night at the Astrodome

Nov 25, 2011 00:14

Something in the air made me feel like posting this. Happy Thanksgiving to any N. Americanos who can still keep their eyes open...

Lost Summer )

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I think it hit my left ventricle... badforthefish November 25 2011, 09:05:38 UTC
Oh wow...you know how people say: "there are so many things I love in this story I can't quote them all"? (Which is IMO one of the most frustrating feedback you can give a writer)

Hell! I'm so quoting.

Mulder and Scully with their Martian invaders and their slow career suicide

This is such an accurate, punch packing way to describe their colleagues POV.

it was like two points on the huge Are They or Aren't They? scoreboard hanging above their heads.

Eheheheh, yes, it would.

Sweet Home Alabama, as Mulder called it,

I knew Muldler was a fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd. *nods*

in the deep attentive way they talked while in transit, the ground moving beneath them like a reminder that everything, life, was going past but that they remained motionless, caught in each other's sphere.

I really love the way you sum up their relationship with such lean and elegant turn of phrases.

and growl to herself that she was not going crazy with the horrible summer and the depressing job and the old girlfriends and the way she wanted Mulder ( ... )

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Re: I think it hit my left ventricle... sladik79 November 25 2011, 09:47:26 UTC
Thank you very much for posting this story!
I have read all of your stories, you are my favourite x-files fanfic author ever. Your works have so many russians fans.=)

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Re: I think it hit my left ventricle... penumbra23 November 26 2011, 04:41:48 UTC
Spasiba. What's really cool about this is that a show chronicling the end of the Cold War has literally brought us into connection. It's very nice to hear from you.

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coast December 29 2014, 01:42:18 UTC
How did I know that when I found Mulder & Scully again, I'd find something from you I hadn't seen (Christ, have I really been gone for over 3 years?). Beautiful, beautiful.

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juniperphoenix November 25 2011, 13:18:14 UTC
This is a lovely and unexpected Thanksgiving treat. I especially like Scut Patrol and the way the book at the end becomes a stand-in for Mulder himself.

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penumbra23 November 26 2011, 04:43:07 UTC
Hey, thanks. I would so watch Scut Patrol, although it sounds terrible!

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leiascully November 25 2011, 16:28:56 UTC
Lovely, as always ♥

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frey_at_last November 25 2011, 18:24:20 UTC
This... and you... is/are a delight.

I love alternate-FtF scenarios, where she moves away. People should write more of it. Poor Mulder.

I remember reading your stuff the first time around, and being in awe of how well you captured the feel and look and even rhythm of the show... Now I'm at the point where I watch the show and am amazed at how it really does somehow contain these things you wrote about it. It was kind of a show made by accident yet there are innumerable scenes where this literally does happen:

the ground moving beneath them like a reminder that everything, life, was going past but that they remained motionless, caught in each other's sphere

Also: CHARLES FORT! Once upon a time he was going to have a role in my Astoria-story. I can't believe he was never an intellectual touchpoint on the show. Those guys needed to do more research.

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penumbra23 November 26 2011, 05:13:42 UTC
Hey, right back atcha... I spent a long time working on an alternate FTF fic which got really long with no end in sight, and yes, poor Mulder suffered more than any human being should really have to suffer.

It was kind of a show made by accident

I know, right? It was like they put NO thought into it at all. But such a happy accident.

You should write about ol' Charles Fort. He really was the original Fox Mulder. I did have that book, but I left it in the store when I sold it. It exhaustively chronicled falls of frog spawn, falls of bread, falls of little fishes... Maybe 'Die Hand Die Verletz' drew on this. And Mulder does mumble something about a Fortean event in 'El Mundo Gira', not to be pedantic. But yes, not much credit where it was hugely due.

I meant to let you know that through some very curious coincidence I re-watched 'The Pianist' literally the same day you were going through that Warsaw ghetto-uprising museum, (one I'd love to visit.) Also that scooly42
sounds like a wonderful being, but we knew that.

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frey_at_last November 29 2011, 22:57:46 UTC
Interesting, veerrry interesting, and will that ever be released into the wild? or at least a reserve? Because you know, Syntax also started an alternate FTF fic which is still hanging there unfinished, dashing all my hopes.

Not pedantic at all, but I already knew it, ahem cough. :) I wanted to write that one, but ended up having to return my library books, and never got around to checking them back out. Maybe at some point. Or more likely, I'll revisit the research stage but never get past it. :)

Cool! I never saw The Pianist, but scooly42 was telling me it was worth watching. And scooly42 is a very wonderful human being, I recommend her to the world!

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jeviltwin November 25 2011, 23:53:50 UTC
Ohhhh, there is no super sale hi-def flat touch screen toy, discount sneaker, 2-for-1 sweater or Special Secret Gift Bag o' Black Friday that holds an electron's candle to the gift of this snippet. Thank you so much.

They're still and always my favorite fictional people. Just no question about it.

Hoping yesterday was every bit as delicious as your prose.

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penumbra23 November 26 2011, 05:35:51 UTC
Thank you, my dear, and one who understands that there is nothing better than literature. I wish, more than anything, that you would continue to write.

Yes, I hit two lovely, noisy Thanksgivings in one day. It was a good one, wasn't it?

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