Chronicle X Interview with PD

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Title:	Chronicle X Interview with PD
Interviewer:	uncredited
Interviewee:	PD
Date(s):	November 1999
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Files
External Links:	interview is here; copy
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Chronicle X Interview with PD was conducted in 1999 by the Chronicle X archive.

Some Excerpts

I think if Mulder and Scully's relationship continues as glacially slow throughout this last season, that's something I'd like to change. I think we need a serious thaw. But as devoted as I am to the shipper camp, and as disappointed as I am sometimes with Chris Carter, I adore the relationship for what it is. I'd like to think that I can trust Mr. C - that he has the wisdom to simply let it finish evolving instead of throwing obstacles in front of them to perpetuate the tease. I don't know that I'd want to change what he's done so far. I like the ups and downs. I think that the rifts - such as they have been - only add interesting textures to their dynamic. Beyond changing the relationship, well, perhaps if they could keep a closer eye peeled on that continuity thing. I get a little jolt of pleasure when ideas from past episodes appear in new ones, and I get acid reflux when they either ignore the past or get it completely wrong. I'd just like to feel assured that these people are paying attention to their own show. Insert wry grin here.

I think it's probably the single most interesting relationship on television. The fact that they've gender flipped their roles makes them that much more so. Obviously, the attraction between the two of them plays a huge part. I truly wonder if it was ever Chris Carter's intention to play with that sexual attraction or whether it developed due to the actor's interpretations and the incredible chemistry between them.

Well, I don't think that this was actually first, but I know it was the one I remember as the first. It was "Vengeance" by Juliettt. Being so new to fanfic, I remember that I was overjoyed that the relationship was being portrayed like this. And oh, my! The Scully angst! I was hooked. I do honestly remember coming across it late at night, getting hooked and realizing I had to go to work in the morning. So, I had decided to print it... The brilliance behind that decision was blinding. What would it have come out to had I printed the whole thing? Like 9,000 pages? I finally decided to wait for the weekend and read it all in one sitting at my computer. My eyes hurt, but I had saved a tree.

I wish I could whip up a tidy little answer for this question, but quite frankly, it scares me and you already scared me plenty with that "what's your favorite line" question. In any case, I'll try not to be too terribly long-winded. I know I'll leave out some names and titles, but if I don't, we'll be here all day. These people, at random and in no particular order, are the cream at the top of the bottle for me. They are Khyber, Karen Rasch, DashaK, Plausible Deniability, Lydia Bower, Blueswirl, Punk Maneuverability, Nicole Perry, Missy Pennington, MustangSally, RivkaT, Anne Haynes, Michaela, Jill Selby and Terma99.

Some of my favorite works vary in mood and length. I sent my first feedback ever for Punk's piece, "Escape Speed". All her stories hit me between the eyes. The entire "Iolokus" series including the "Syadiloh" trilogy by MustangSally and RivkaT ranks as some of the best fiction I've ever read. Dasha's "Jitterbug Perfume" series was my first look at Scully slash and a brilliant look at Scully. I'd take Dasha's work through the vein if I could. And I keep coming back to read her work with Plausible Deniability called "Momentary Lapses".

Karen Rasch hooked me with "Words", Lydia Bower reeled me in with "Dance Without Sleeping", and Anne Haynes scooped me into the net with the "12 Degrees" series. While I flopped around in this new world, I became drawn into the WIP. "Antidote" by Karen Rasch and Rachel Howard was the first. (You'll be pleased to note that I will now 86 the fish metaphor.) Blueswirl and Nic Perry are torturing me now with "Razor's Edge" and "The Road" Volume IV, respectively. Rachel Anton's "World Without End" II is an amazing piece of work, and it and its predecessor are the first Scully/Krycek stories I learned to love. Khyber, in addition to keeping me dangling with his WIP, "Sokol", initially got to me by way of "Reach". Missy Pennington wrote two of my very favorite stories - "Tempest" and "Hardball". Michaela's "Grace Realized" is the first fic that ever made me weep. I mean tears rolling down my face, breath hitching in my chest, weeping. Another that did that to me was a story called "The Gift" by Windsinger. Jill Selby's "Mystery Date" is one I come back to now and again and always say the same thing: "Why didn't I think of that?" Terma99 makes me miss San Francisco in a lot of ways. "Time". 'Nuff said.