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the epidemic of grown adults playing tiktoks at full volume in public is rampant why are you acting like a 7 year old with their first ipad you have a mortgage

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sometimes a cat is in the mood to be an animal and other times? they want nothing more than to be a creature, foul beast, or varmint

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[On poems:]

"I realized there was almost like a.. a lot of poems building up over the years. It was interesting to think of it as a poetic autobiography in code. But not, not code like, I'm tryin to ask people what I'm talking about in my life. But just for myself.

"And then the trick of poems is not really what they mean to me. I mean, they mean something different to me than they do to you; and that's the glory. It's really-- my ambition is to write a poem where you go, 'How did David know what was in my head?'"

[On The Larry Sanders Show:]

"Hard for me to distinguish the fun I had doing the show and the life-long friend that I made doing that show, which was Gary Shandling. So, for me... well, obviously, the most important thing for me to get on that set was, to me, Gary. And for me to have the friendship that we did until he died. But the reason that I always wanted to be on that set so badly was because I recognized in Gary a kind of comedic genius that I wanted to aspire to, or to play with. And all those things kind of coming together for me, the, the work we did-- it didn't seem like work, it was so much fun-- it lasts. That kind of humor that Gary was able to capture, it lasts. And people still remember it, and appreciate it. And it was really unique. And I miss him. I miss him. I miss him a lot.

"And also I met Judd Apatow, y'know, doing that; and that's somebody I still work with, and still appreciate Judd's comedic genius as well. So those were the two relationships coming out of that show.

"I actually-- I did write a song. It's the only song I dedicated to anybody. Um, it's on my third album. It's called 'Playing At the Same Dream.' Which was when Judd Apatow did the Gary Shandling documentary called 'The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling'-- he went into a drawer, the drawers that Gary Shandling had left behind after he died suddenly; and on one slip of paper-- like on a yellow pad, which is where Gary kept his ideas close-- it said, 'Playing at the same dream.' We're all playing at the same dream; and I just thought, 'Oh, that's a great concept phrase to write a song about.' So, that's what I did.'"

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THE X-FILES 3.12 | War of the Coprophages

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X-FILES Je Souhaite || 07.21

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Summary: When a young teenage girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.

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how to say "I love you" in x-files [266/?] ⤷ 5.10 — “Chinga”

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I found this gem in the screenshots @randomfoggytiger posted. To me, the quotation hints at the possibility that David knows about the Gaylor conspiracy, far less likely than the existence of extraterrestrial life in my opinion. But the chance that he possesses this knowledge prompts a very important question.

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I mean not for nothing but if you haven’t y’all need to check out the txf book club on live journal while its still available. Gosh that should be like, required homework. You want intelligent, nuanced discourse on fanfiction? The show itself? It’s one of the remaining OGs.

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Y'all I am THERE

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Currently pacing in my apartment after watching “Never Again” (s4e13). Something I’ve been thinking about a lot through seasons 3 & 4 is how frustrating it must be for Scully to always be in the passenger seat. I don’t think Mulder has really recognized how much more freedom he has than her. The freedom not only to pursue his interests, but the freedom to make mistakes. Scully’s job is to be calm and calculated so that Mulder can be reckless. If Mulder is a dog that the FBI is desperately trying to keep on a leash, Scully is the leash, being pulled taut on both sides. She is given no room for error. For as much as Mulder is an outsider, so is Scully — maybe even moreso. Scully is a woman in a man’s world. She is constantly talked over and lectured and overlooked. She doesn’t even get her own fucking desk. So it was good to see her exert her own will, follow her own impulses, in “Never Again.” It’s the first episode where I really felt like we were seeing Dana — just Dana — and not Scully.

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Butcherback Argosy

It's a barren feeling to write, and 'publish' and not have it go out to my kin for whom I write, or 'kith', as I suppose you are: you, you Phile, reading this.

I know you wouldn't abandon me, but I made an attempt to abandon you, and it's fine, I'm fine out here in the cold world, muddling along, alone as ever, getting shit done, I'm fine, I'm fine, and naturally still writing, and getting away from the X-Files in content, bleak and lame as that sounds.

But one thing I often like to do with writing is take the energy of disparate things and rub them together. In this way I still play along the edges of XF. And to this end, I wrote an XF-adjacent novella called 'Butcherback Argosy'. It's set in 1975. I wrote it, I realize now, for you, but also for the world. It bestrides two worlds. Many of you, whether parents or not, will recognize in it the various things we all endure as artists or as the cultish obsessionists we definitely all are. To that end it is certainly another of my mash notes to the fandom I will love all my days.

No M & S are contained herein, and identifying details are changed, but any nerd worth their salt will inevitably see what this is, and recognize a few borrowed characters.

This work was generously and patiently edited by that fabulous pair: @slippinmickeys and @scullymakesmefeelautopsyturvy

tagging the usual suspects:

@teethnbone @edierone @perplexistan @lepus-arcticus @myassbrokethefall @leiascully @lilydalexf @ellivia @frangipanidownunder @onpaperfirst @aloysiavirgata @wendelah @leucocrystal @scapegrace74-blog @reasonandfaithinharmony @fashionbooksboozefeminism @it-is-bugs @thegrotesckque @sunflowerseedsandscience

Lastly, here's a bad book cover I made:

My love to all.

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Why are coloured pencils so difficult :,)

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when he says it’s aliens: 

when she says it’s not aliens:

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I can find no reason for concern, but yet I am filled with foreboding.

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"Play is the language of the soul when it feels safe enough to come outside."

– John Emery, Sacred Silly