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Solo by Laura Jacquez Valentine (NC-17)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Multiple (imagined)
Length: 5k
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laurajv for fic; also at Dreamwidth.
Author Website: Devilmonkey, her personal archive, or her Gossamer author page
Why this must be read: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (3x04) is widely regarded as one of the series' classic episodes - on everyone's top-ten list, included on the "eight essential episodes" DVD, and so forth. It also this little exchange between the title character (brilliantly played by Peter Boyle), a man cursed with death-related foresight, and one of Our Heroes:
Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Mulder: Why are you telling me that?
Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business.
In the context of the episode, it's pretty clearly a throwaway line, a piece of morbid humor of the kind for which the show was famous. But that didn't stop fan writers from taking it as grist for angsty MSR, frequently using as impetus for Scully to "save" Mulder from his fate. This hardly abated after the writers confirmed in subsequent interviews that, yes, Bruckman was just messing with Mulder's head. What sets "Solo" apart is that, while treating as serious the implications of that exchange, it takes them as one aspect of Mulder's sexuality, which is in turn presented as one aspect of his character and psyche as a whole. The fic packs a huge punch into relatively few words, giving an efficiently telescopic view of Mulder's canon-based history, and the Mulder voice is spot on.
Diana and Eddie Van Blundht know the same things about me. I'm no damn good at relationships. Diana couldn't accept it, and she left me. Eddie thought I didn't know, and he told me. Scully--
Scully, thank God, seems to know and to accept. Scully, who has kept our professional relationship professional when I would have mucked it up; Scully, whose occasional flirtations and flickerings of interest are always tempered by an awareness of the boundaries; Scully, who seems to know damn well where my tastes lie, and keeps it to herself.
My tastes, my many and varied tastes.
Read the whole fic, also available at the Gossamer page linked above.
Pairing: Multiple (imagined)
Length: 5k
Author on LJ:
laurajv for fic; also at Dreamwidth. Author Website: Devilmonkey, her personal archive, or her Gossamer author page
Why this must be read: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (3x04) is widely regarded as one of the series' classic episodes - on everyone's top-ten list, included on the "eight essential episodes" DVD, and so forth. It also this little exchange between the title character (brilliantly played by Peter Boyle), a man cursed with death-related foresight, and one of Our Heroes:
Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Mulder: Why are you telling me that?
Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business.
In the context of the episode, it's pretty clearly a throwaway line, a piece of morbid humor of the kind for which the show was famous. But that didn't stop fan writers from taking it as grist for angsty MSR, frequently using as impetus for Scully to "save" Mulder from his fate. This hardly abated after the writers confirmed in subsequent interviews that, yes, Bruckman was just messing with Mulder's head. What sets "Solo" apart is that, while treating as serious the implications of that exchange, it takes them as one aspect of Mulder's sexuality, which is in turn presented as one aspect of his character and psyche as a whole. The fic packs a huge punch into relatively few words, giving an efficiently telescopic view of Mulder's canon-based history, and the Mulder voice is spot on.
Diana and Eddie Van Blundht know the same things about me. I'm no damn good at relationships. Diana couldn't accept it, and she left me. Eddie thought I didn't know, and he told me. Scully--
Scully, thank God, seems to know and to accept. Scully, who has kept our professional relationship professional when I would have mucked it up; Scully, whose occasional flirtations and flickerings of interest are always tempered by an awareness of the boundaries; Scully, who seems to know damn well where my tastes lie, and keeps it to herself.
My tastes, my many and varied tastes.
Read the whole fic, also available at the Gossamer page linked above.
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