Flea Market Economy
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Flea Market Economy |
| Author(s): | Punk Maneuverability |
| Date(s): | July 6, 2006 |
| Length: | 11,000 words |
| Genre(s): | Humor, Case File, Bodyswap, Genderswap |
| Fandom(s): | The X-Files |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | Flea Market Economy (AO3) Flea Market Economy (The Underground) |
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Flea Market Economy is an X-Files story by Punk Maneuverability. Mulder and Scully swap bodies as a result of a magical artifact Mulder picks up at a flea market. Scully wants to believe it isn't happening. Mulder, on the other hand, is having a great time being Scully, except for the high heels, and the bra, and the shaving.
Author's summary: She gets the feeling this is Mulder's fault, because these things usually are.
Reactions and Reviews
Flea Market Economy was recommended on [Crack Van] in April 2007:
This is body swap fic at its best, and it's hilarious to boot. Punk capitalizes on the humor and ridiculousness inherent in the situation to great effect.[1]
You have just picked my absolute favourite X-Files bodyswap story (and I've read all the ones that I can find).[2]
The fic was also discussed by the xf_book_club on LiveJournal in January 2009:
Punk mixes the comedy with a dash of profundity, which goes a long way in keeping the fic from blowing apart with how INSANE the general premise is. Yet at no point do i feel like the narrative gets weighed down or looses track of the manic tone it's out to maintain or the story it's out to tell. One of the things that makes me absurdly happy when i'm reading a fic is when the author has an unwavering grasp on Mulder, Scully, and the story. Sometimes it's more important that they know and can define who their Mulder and Scully are than that their Mulder and Scully are close to mine. Punk clearly knows who her characters are. keeping that sturdiness in the story seems to be particularly difficult when writing humor fics.[3]
amyhit goes on to question when the fic was set in canon, and the extent of Mulder and Scully's sexual relationship, which some readers found to be ambiguous or confusing.
Given that we never got to see Mulder and Scully swap bodies (we did get to see Mulder swap bodies with a fully domesticated, father-of-two-teenagers MIB, which was pretty wonderful) we have to admit that we’re kinda bummed we never got to see David and Gillian as Scully and Mulder in Mulder’s and Scully’s bodies. We also never thought we’d ever find a fic that treated that possibility with the comedic tact it actually deserved while avoiding all of the potential pitfalls (including the inevitable dubcon masturbation/sex that could ensue and quickly devolve into something horrid or cringeworthy with a less capable writer). Enter today’s fic. It’s absolutely hysterically funny, a great read, and while it touches on the potential dubcon masturbation-while-inhabiting-your-partner’s-body, it does so with an adroitly humorous bent, to the extent that we reallllllly wish we could have seen this played out on the screen. David as Scully-in-Mulder’s-body and Gillian as Mulder-in-Scully’s-body would have been something for the record books.[4]
References
- ^ recced at Crack Van, April 2007
- ^ recced at Crack Van, April 2007
- ^ LJ user amyhit in xf_book_club (Last accessed 13 August 2015)
- ^ "Casefile Monday". Archived from the original on 2024-09-05.