Chronicle X Interview with Jesemie's Evil Twin
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Jesemie's Evil Twin |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Jesemie's Evil Twin |
| Date(s): | 1998 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | interview is here; copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Jesemie's Evil Twin was conducted in 1998 by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
I'm a pen kleptomaniac. The phrase "natural tan" has never applied to me. Occasionally, in certain light, my hair is purple. I never leave home without a book or a magazine or some kind of stationary, on the off-chance I would otherwise be forced to converse perkily with strangers in elevators, lunch rooms, or vehicles of mass transit. I prefer a shoe with mary-jane- or t-straps and/or clunky soles. I'm a club sandwich junkie. I watch this silly little show called The X-Files and am basically obsessed by it during certain hours of the day. During the other hours, I spend my time picking up the repulsive wads of fur my cats deposit all over my house. Sometimes I go to work (flunky-researcher for a stock brokerage) or college (best ten years of my life!), but not so often anyone much notices.
I've kept journals all my life, and for years they were filled with the fairy tale romances I'd conjure up involving an alter-ego of mine and whichever rock star I was most in love with at the time. Then David Lee Roth left Van Halen (or was kicked out, depending on who you ask), and I was never the same again. Seriously.In high school, I started writing things I'd let other people see. That trend continued into a series of college courses and workshops and writing groups, all of which were and are highly entertaining in a masochistic sort of way.
TXF inspired me to write things I wouldn't write in my real life (so to speak) stories. Cursed baby fingers? Sure! End of the world, one-armed-thug style? Bring it on. I've found out I really like science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all those blendings of genres I rarely read years ago but that TXF has turned into sort of a literary genre all its own. And because of that, I'm every bit as interested in writing stories that might contain creepy teenagers, paranoid hallucinations, and little red frogs as I was in writing Seriously Deep Dramatic Plots and Truly Deranged Humor.
Plus, my non-XF stories don't feature Scully, who makes practically any story that much better.
My biggest peeve is probably Mulder's hair, but from a character development - and thus a plot development - point of view, I guess that really isn't very important.I think I'd change the way science and scientists are portrayed, and of course I'd start with Scully. I do not want her to become Mulder (heaven forbid), but as the Blessed One herself once said, what science is or isn't in and of itself is a place to start. I know there are scientists who are very dogmatic and unyielding, but I don't see science itself as being prone to an intrinsically narrow set of perspectives.
I know that the Official Writers have (in their minds) an obligation to keep Mulder and Scully on opposite sides of the philosophical fence, but by always having Scully revert to strict skepticism, they've made her stubborn. Stubborn like my would-argue-with-a-lamp-post grandfather was stubborn. Every character, I suppose, needs some irritating trait to make them real, but c'mon - she already wears push-up bras to bed. I think she could remain a disciple of science without being shrewish or contrary merely because Mulder needs someone to quibble with.
On the other hand, I kind of like the notion that she's _scared_ to believe; certainly, the Truth with a capital T hasn't done much for her well-being. But that's another topic.
I have absolutely no idea [what the first piece of XF fanfic I read was]. I'm not sure why I even started reading fanfic, unless it was just overwhelming curiosity.I do know that Punk Maneuverability's "Mixed Signals" was the first piece I actually paid attention to. I hadn't been, and then I got to the last line and it floored me. That's when I thought, Hey, this fanfic stuff might actually involve talented writers writing amazing things, instead of just being a bunch of silly fans telling silly stories.
I never looked back. And I've never regretted reading.
Okay, I actually answered this in the initial draft. I really did, and I didn't feel too bad about it, thinking I'd probably only left out one or two really obvious writers. Then I kept thinking of more and more names and this terrible looming-death sort of feeling came over me.I hate that.
So I'm not listing every writer whose stories have has inspired, startled, stunned, awed, astounded, and delighted me - we'd be here all day and I'd probably still leave someone important out.
However - and this will probably cause no end of personal guilt either, but what the hell - there are ten stories I come back to again and again and with which I am unabashedly, endlessly enthralled.
- Kipler's "Chains" (for sheer poignancy)
- Jill's "Ever After" (for adventure and UST)
- RivkaT's "Shibboleth" (for horror)
- Punk M's "Venture Forth" (for the best /Other)
- CazQ's "Last Dance at the Black Lake Diner" (for the heat)
-Maria Nicole's "Subcutaneous/Splinter" (for reinventing myth)
- Jordan's "Through the Fire" (for Halloween, my second favorite thing)
- Vehemently's "Navel Gazing" (for Christmas, my very favorite thing)
- Nascent's "Barnyard Series" (all stories combined) (for pure evil, a topic about which I obviously know something)
- nevdull's "Gazzaniga" ('cause I want a split brain too)
[Bonus stories: Scullysfan's "Mileage" (since I've practically lived in it; Pig's cool, man) and Justin Glasser's "Kevin" (since it features the one little boy I'd want to save too).]
Honestly, my very favorite character was Well-Manicured Man. Don't ask me why. But I do relate to Scully, and since they blew up WMM in the movie (although there are rumors that he'll be back in 7th season - yay), she's my current favorite. There are lots of wonderful characteristics with which I could align myself when comparing my personality to Scully, but the truth is I relate to her mostly for what she doesn't say. That repression (or maybe it's denial) - and it's in Mulder too of course, but less so - rings completely true to me. There's such feeling behind that quietness and strength, and the fact is a huge amount is being said - it just isn't being spoken.