The official global rewatch of The X-Files is long over, as is the six episode miniseries that followed (and inspired it), yet here I am, still slogging through season seven. I must have blocked out how bad the seventh season is. Since "Parabiosis" is the quintessential season seven fanfic, I thought it would be fun to revisit it. It's not my
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But crazy in a good way... The time I enjoyed "Parabiosis" most was when I rewatched relevant episodes of season seven while I was reading it. "Requiem" in particular worked better for me.
I think Penumbra has a lot of tenderness for the characters, and it shows. It's such a slow simmer----long stretches where not a lot happens. This feels like a story that was written with a lot of love. (Like "Fathoms Five," also a gorgeous and tender story.)She does love the characters, and that more than anything else is what readers respond to in "Parabiosis." It's almost as though the language and emotion are cradling them ( ... )
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As I mentioned up above, "Contact High" is my favorite Peunumbra story. It's also about 1/3 the length, which I think helps make that story a bit easier to read. That all said, I still enjoyed this one.
Fox Mulder had quixotic theories, dark eyes, and he
was six feet of long warm bones in the bed. She had been making a fool of herself over him for years, staying in a ridiculous job because Mulder was tall and mumbly and had once tried to make her drink sardine juice.I love that. I see others commenting on her lyrical prose and falling on either side of that fence. I like it more in "Contact High" (maybe because it's a shorter, less complicated story?), but it felt very familiar here ( ... )
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