#or fancy alien

[franmadaraki]

Dewey's politely telling you that it's his seat now and you can sit on the floor if you want

[slushyseals]

👽 Alien seal with antennae?

[myrabbitistryingtokillme]

Sometimes I forget I customized a Barbie doll a while ago to be jon and that he’s just sitting in my closet staring at me until I turn on my light towards my closet and see just like. A tiny jon sitting in a tiny desk with a conspiracy board behind him and tons of eyes staring back at me and I’m like “this is how tma is supposed to be represented”

[radioactivespacebug]

"W-what's going on? Where am I?" "Well, my dear, you're in my lab of course, you've been out cold for months! You're welcome by the way, for saving your life. My dear, I must know, have you always been moon-touched or is this a recent development?" "...Moon-touched?" "Your hands, my dear, they're glowing, or hadn't you noticed? My my, you must have had quite a tumble, let's have some tea and you can tell me all about the events leading up to our fortuitous meeting, and, please, don't leave out a single detail!"

[rat-creates]

....okay so I know I've been drawing the qwt creatures but have Dnap as aliens. Dream ftm moment, that's why he's much bigger and not rainbow like sapnap

[lovertm]

which rat are you? by span.gela

[pizzazz-party]

Day twenty seven. Why yes, I do think I’m hilarious.

[shakingparadigm]

Guardian Urak after ROUND 6 (his fuckass pet that he barely invested in beat another guy's overly-invested in pet)

[glowingmagic]

👽💜🎀

[daftmooncretin]

so was no one going to tell me that jim kirk wanted to fuck abraham linkedIn or was i just supposed to find out for myself when they got trapped in a low budget lord of the flies scenario

[morphestic]

Luka and Hyuna really went "in another life, I would've really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" huh.

[caxsia]

NBA Jam but with indie games (3/?)

[pigeonentity]

do we know how long o and barton worked together for? and who left mi6 first? imagine youre a rich asshole owner of a huge tech company and someone approaches you in your office (who, for the record, you didnt let in) and its the weird conspiracy theorist from your old job who got fired ages back. and he proves not only that all his conspiracies are true but he also says that he’s an alien. and he and his weird glowy friends want to help you kill a ton of people

[linterteatime]

I quickly put together some "reference sheets" of characters of the game ULTROS with the sprites in-game, for drawing purposes

(because I wouldn't find anything online besides screenshots and some gifs and I'm very picky with this stuff so here we are :P)

Figured i would share them here since it might be useful for some people, also this stuff has SPOILERS for the game so I put them under a read more, if you haven't played it or you want to play it eventually (which I really recommend it's a really good game) I would suggest to not take a look.

Also again, I made these very quickly (and mostly for myself) so it's not very nicely made, but I hope they can help in some way to the 5 (or less) in total fans of this game ❤️

Here are references with stuff I found for: Ouji, Qualia, Vasa, Brunzon, Wallet and Gärdner.

[emeraldmew]

Taking a moment to appreciate that Elfangor took 20 minutes to figure out how to turn on the Mustang while Chapman landed the Jahar completely unscathed.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s7 episode 1 "the sixth extinction" thoughts

it’s been 800 years… 

not really, but it has been, like, a week since i last watched an episode!!! and what a last episode it was!! while i’m not super invested in the aliens are god sort of thing going on, i do want to know how my friend scully can save mulder from this sticky situation, avenge skinner, AND defeat the evil combination of CSM and diana. with the power of science.

i anticipate a lot of hefty musing on the role of man in the universe superimposed over 90’s graphics of the earth. while i could spend time making other predictions, i want to jump in!!

(post-episode thoughts: save me, scully in a vest and glasses. save me, doctor indiana jones, translating ancient languages in your tent by lantern light. use that machete to fight for justice and honor.

ah, this was a good one. very centered on scully and skinner, which is a great treat for me, because we don't often get enough time to focus in on them and their internal torment.

but i want some answers. as much as i would like to dwell here and make guesses, i also want this arc to be over so i can know wtf is going on, and how they will all get through this!!! excellent skinner angst to dive into, though. blaming himself... and all of this happening after he said he wasn't doing enough... yeah)

but back to yesterday! when i had not watched this episode before! take it away, past me!

(previously on the x files….) 

i love a little recap. look at mulder back when he was well! how things have changed. 

AH. we revisit scully checking him for a fever. “what is it, mulder?” <-oh, yeah. this is catnip to a freak like me.

“he said i was the only one who’d believe him” “you’re a liar” YAAAAAAS!! we need to give scully another thorough round of yas-ing for that. for standing up to diana's bullshit dig that she is the only one who could ever understand him. and the heel turn and storm away. OOOH! good stuff. 

we begin with today's episode now. poor scully is in a business suit, finding a giant alien cathedral thingy on a beach in west africa… she couldn’t even show up in a sundress… it was simply too serious.

that, or she doesn’t own any, which is a terrible thought. oh! i must picture her in a nice sundress now at once to remedy such an idea

YEAH, MONOLOGUE MY QUEEN!!! “i’ve stayed on now, in spite of myself. in spite of everything i’ve ever held to be true” she hasn’t gone home yet!! that is wild!!! because she loves to be at home!! but even more than she loves home, she must find the answers!!!

OH…. her ponytail and glasses combo…… forgive me, for i am blushing. look at her!!! investigating!!!! in a nice tent!!!

SHE’S TALKING TO MULDER??? “i will confine here as long as i can, as long as you are beset by the haunting illness i saw destroy your beautiful mind” <- OH MY GOD….. “beautiful”. i’m gonna… i need to lay down. beautiful mind…… she thinks his is a beautiful mind… 

FUCK ME.

she says she feels it was not meant for her to find, but for him to make the connections. “connections, which, for me, deny all logic and reason”

so the rubbing comes from the craft (and it is a spacecraft, btw, not an alien cathedral like i thought, that is on the beach)…. and it somehow took him over. and also, it draws a moth to it. scully does not want to deal with moths hurting themselves at this time, so she turns off the lamp. 

ah! but she sees a guy! behind her! and he’s not actually there when she turns around. 

moths freak me out so bad. i would not want to film this.

SHE GRABS A MACHETE OMFG… she is NOT MESSING AROUND………. 

GAG!!! the moths are COVERING THE RUBBING LIKE AN INCH DEEP BLEUGHHHHHGGGGGGG NASTY NASTY. wait- they’re not moths!!! are they locusts?! of biblical nature???

what does mulder have in common with these bugs that makes them both go crazy from looking at the rubbing??

scully has a fucking machete and she’s ready to use it. trust that fact. but she doesn’t see anyone out by the sea. 

BLEUGH! when she returns to the tent, it is being SWARMED BY MORE BUGS!!! all over the place!!! burn the whole thing down. 

NO, LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOO, NOT ANOTHER BUG ATTACK!!!! not after darkness falls!!!!!!! and not without mulder here for her to scream at!!!!!

i guess we were due for another bug infestation at some point. it has been 6 seasons since that one. but eugh. so.... visceral.

intro time…….. paranormal activity. government denies knowledge. baby agents with guns. the truth is out there. you know the drill!

OH! back to poor mulder. who has been quiet for 36 hours… despite this, his brain won’t let him sleep, because his temporal lobe is going sicko mode. skinner watches him on the camera- can he be trusted at this time. the doctors can only test him for short periods of time. but…. the doctor says his brain is just going to die. 

skinner looks at the doctor with great concern.

poor sopping wet cat of a man in his sad little hospital gown… skinner is coming to see him. mulder doesn't respond to his name. OH! he’s trying to explain that he is skinner! :( oh........ skinner. he may be working for krycek, but it's not on purpose, and he wants mulder to get better. i feel guilty for briefly doubting him.

i’m taken aback a moment here at the fact that this very serious scene is being played out because his brain was rotted by alien letters. which makes the whole thing seem silly if you analyze it too hard. so we won’t. just know the camp is never lost on me. 

oh, fuck!!!! skinner turns to ask if he can get mulder some fresh air- another pang passes over my heart- and he lunges at him!!! he’s pinning skinner up against the wall and then choking him against the ground!!!! skinner says he doesn’t want to hurt him…. two guys have to pry him off…….. and mulder starts screaming!!! while skinner walks out, wiping the blood from his nose!!!!

he must somehow know about krycek… even if he can’t use his words to explain why or how…

skinner wipes the blood from his glasses, and finds a note slipped into his pocket, written in blood: “HELP ME”

oh!!! so he can communicate somehow!!!!! and the attacking was a strategic cover for note passing rather than an unleashing of rage for the krycek thing!!! what is going on!?!!!

back to west africa. some guys in trucks roll up, one of whom points out scully’s seemingly empty tent. a woman steps out. and she runs into scully! poor scully with wet hair looks incredibly cranky!!! but i am happy she survived the locust swarm somehow.

who is this new character?? her name is amina ngebe, and she is here to see her discovery. scully is like, that was supposed to be secret! but it is a well-known secret, says amina. merkmallen called it the “african internet” <- lmao

she is a bio professor! but she says she isn’t qualified to figure out wtf went down here. fair enough. not sure if anyone is.

scully explains that she was working by lamplight, “and, uh, i saw a man who vanished, and then they just swarmed”

which sounds surprising coming from her. but she says it so matter of factly. yeah. sometimes you see guys that vanish, i guess.

amina says okay... just... don’t tell anyone that happened. the others will think this is a bad omen of what you’ve found. from god. 

yeah. i can't say i blame them.

oh shoot, the men are digging outside, but someone is screaming for help!! saying the water is boiling him! scully and amina run out to help.

i hope nothing bad happens to amina. i want to see these two science out.

oh…. he really is covered in very horrible burns. but it seems no one else who was in the water with him is??? why are only some people being bothered by this whole ship thingy…..

back in the states, skinner is lurking about, sneaking into mulder’s room!!!! he is asleep in bed, held in all sorts of restraints. skinner approaches…. cautiously…. and tries to talk to him

“i want to help you”, skinner says. mulder’s mouthing something, tapping something… skinner asks if he can write and he nods… i find myself at the edge of my seat!!!

OH SHIT!!! he writes right into skinner’s hand. “k r” <- OH. he knows.

back to west africa. scully says she feels mulder slipping away as she fails him!!!! no!!!! omg!!! she feels that she doesn’t understand…. she feels that the inability to cure him is her failure... omg... it hurts...

she lays awake as amina sleeps on the cot nearby. but a vehicle approaches. scully gets up to investigate, machete in hand!!! do not fuck with her!!!! god, she’s so pretty. is it krycek in the jeep? no. it is not. 

she doesn’t know what this guy is saying. FUCK!!!! BARNES IS HERE!!!!! girl. kill him.

amina wakes up, thankfully, asking who barnes killed, and scully says it was merkmallen. but barnes denies it. uh... yeah. i'm not buying it. we all saw that head in the trash.

barnes says he knows the craft is alien- “you don’t even believe in that” “nor do you. but here we are” <- oh, he gagged her a little bit. scully says she is ONLY here to help her partner, and he claims he can help, since can read the writing. i suppose it is time for a dubious alliance.

scully, if you held a machete at me like that, i would never complain again. 

yeah yeah yeah, this thing is the key to life itself, he says... idgaf. barnes, i don’t trust you. 

oh. the sea is turning to blood. that isn’t good either. and scully sees that man again!! off in the distance!!!

why the fuck does she look so good… i’m gonna gnaw my arm off. 

:( she’s worried. she might be seeing things. she blames herself for not finding a cure for mulder yet. she doesn’t know what to believe. she has to trust a killer. she even got attacked by bugs in a tent. my poor sweet scully.

back in DC, it is 5 am. we are at a place called “g street”. oh! mulder did not write “krycek” into skinner's hand like i thought! he wrote “kritschgau” <- our old friend!!! i never thought we would see him again!!! what an ambitious crossover event!!!

skinner knocks at his door and he opens up. he says he has to talk to kritschgau. he tries to shut the door in his face, but skinner does NOT allow it.

so kritschgau lost his government job because he was a whistleblower about the whole alien thing at mulder’s request. it sounds like he might not be the best person to help out if this is the case. skinner is saying mulder asked for YOU!!!!!!! and brings him to his hospital bed. 

oh shit… mulder is somehow anticipating what kritschgau is asking skinner. can he hear what people are thinking??? like gibson??? kritschgau says he MIGHT know why he asked for him

yeah, steal him!!! wheel him out!!! free the man!!

kritschgau and skinner are FIGHTINGGG!!!!!! kritschgau says skinner better be prepared to accept the responsibility of taking him out of the ward… gag… 

and then he hands skinner a needle and says he must inject mulder. skinner says he will NOT do this, but kritschgau explains he is on the wrong treatment. and while kritschgau isn’t a doctor, he’s seen his condition. was it in his son who died?

no, he says it was “in a study”. from the CIA!! he says that they had to slow their impulses to a normal rate after they had become “all brain”

yeah, sure, why not? i’ll roll with that. doesn't sound like it makes any real sense, but it's an alien show, so i can suspend my disbelief.

and he hands skinner the needle. skinner looks like he’s going to stab kritschgau….. but puts the needle in mulder instead… and no, i cannot look, thank you for asking- but he seems more normal!!! his face relaxes and he says “they’re coming”

ah, fuck. it’s diana looking for him. she says he isn’t in his bed… but when the nurse opens the door, he is right there with skinner. LMAO. trick the trickster. he claims he found him down the hall. 

“who are you?” “i’m his boss. and hers” <- BAHAHA yeah. remind her where she stands. and then he orders her to leave. BAHAHAHA!!!!!! get the fuck out.

he says “she knows”. she knows what?? that he can read minds somehow?? “no doctors. get me scully” <- OHHHH…. he wants his scully :(

but skinner doesn’t know where scully even is!!! because she had to fuck off to god only knows where when he and diana were lying to her!!

and mulder says he KNOWS that skinner has been compromised and that krycek will kill him. OH!!!!! so has he come up with a solution to that problem in his time laying in bed?

he says he needs kritschgau. he needs him to prove that it’s alien. kritschgau doesn't believe. which is why he needs him.

scully is piecing together rubbings of the craft!!! and barnes can translate a few letters. look at her translating. i want to put her in a blanket and wrap her up.

so, the rubbings from the top of the craft translate to words about genetics. but the workers who were working on the bottom of the craft were scared away by the evil signs. what little writing they have found on the bottom of the craft has been from all sorts of religions!! science and mysticism! with power in them!!! this is what scully says in her monologue!

scully won’t stop- she says she is only afraid she is too late.

amina comes in with more translated pieces. it is a passage from the Quran! teachings of the prophet on a spacecraft!!

and scully has more to show as well. a panel for each chromosome. perhaps a map of all genetic makeup. this sounds like it would be a huge deal for science as a whole and scully in particular.

they’re talking about how beautiful it is, how it is the word of god- and i do want them to be friends forever- but barnes barges in, saying they’re wrong. he looks wild. he declares there is no god- only that what is out there is what started the spark that cooked the primordial soup. girl, no one asked you. why would the primordial spark bother to write down what would become major world religions and the human genetic makeup? doesn't make sense, tbh.

amina says he is mad from the sun. and he replies that he is very sane and understands everything. it has all been written. 

scully tries to tell him he’s sick- and her vest and glasses combo is going so hard- but he pulls out the machete, asking if they think they’ll take the credit!!! noooooo. omfgggg, barnes, academia can WAIT. we need to save mulder’s ass first before you start thinking about your publications. scully once again says that she is only here to help her friend. and barnes declares that he got too close to its power- the ultimate power.

he then announces that no one can leave before he does. and sits by the door. 

OMFGGGGG.... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOWWWWWW... barnes is off the deep end fr fr

back in DC, kritschgau is explaining his machine that shows random pictures to skinner- if mulder knows which pictures are UFOs without seeing them, he could be a psychic. and mulder makes a little joke joke before flopping the UFO spotting test. it is hard for ESP to perform under pressure!

mulder just wants him to prove that it’s aliens doing this, saying kritschgau doesn’t want to believe. he isn’t looking hard enough. so skinner says to speed the test up. 

and when it is sped up he can ACE the UFO test!!! he anticipates them!! yeahhhh!!

i hope he won’t stay psychic forever, though. he has enough going on in his life.

back to the ivory coast. barnes still sits by the door while scully and amina watch. he’s nodding off… scully has blood lust in her eyes. but the tent starts shaking….. barnes thinks the ship brought some fish back to life. when he grabs the fish, scully SLAMS HIM WITH A CHAIR!!!! HELLLLL YEAHHHH!!!

they make a break for it!!!! they steal the jeep!!! where can they go?! does amina know the way?? yes, she does. and scully sees the guy again!!! right in the road!!! she yells at amina to stop, but he’s not there.

AH FUCK. jump scare. now she sees him in the CAR with them. “some truths are not for you”, he says. WHAT!

she thinks it was the scary appearing and disappearing man who touched her head, but it was amina checking to make sure she was still alive!! poor girl is having a full on panic attack.

scully wants to go home now. i cannot blame her at all.

skinner is trying to get mulder out of the hospital. ohhhh, but skinner doesn't let kritschgau give him the medicine that works!!! he says he knows he’s out for revenge!! “how far should it go? how far would mulder go?” (skinner reluctantly hands him the vial)

ahhhh, they need to get out of here before diana…. ah fuck. she is here. 

FUCK. he starts going into seizure….. they’re trying to hold him. what is going ON. is kritschgau a traitor??? did he make him seize on purpose? did he give him the wrong dose? or a dose that is too heavy?

back at the tent in the ivory coast…. the driver comes to look for dr. barnes. and then he HACKS HIM TO DEATH??? saying he’s sorry….. HUH. are we doing sacrifice now?

diana, do not fucking touch him. she's monologuing to him as he lays in the hospital bed, unresponsive- but she knows he can hear her. “i know you know about me… that my loyalties aren’t just to you. but to a man you’ve grown to despise” GIRL??? get out of here.

“you have your reasons, but as you look inside me now, you know that i have mine” oh…. now what is THAT supposed to mean? what reason could she possibly have for working with the devil? what does he know now that he can read her mind?

“fox, i love you” <- HELLLLL NO. nah, i don’t even wanna write that shit down. she says she won’t let him prove it. now they can be together. HUH? don’t fucking kiss him????

what do you mean, she knows what’s inside of him? what do you mean the music is swelling like that? did she test him somehow when she went to his apartment, and that is why his brain is going wild??

scully rolls up to the FBI building!!!! and barges into skinner’s office!!!! she asks him where tf mulder is!!! and when he doesn’t cooperate, she goes to leave… but he says there’s been some trouble. scully walks in and whispers: “what kind of trouble?” 

he says he got kritschgau involved, and he takes full responsibility. scully does not believe he is dying. he is more alive than his body can stand. “and what’s causing it may be extraterrestrial in origin” <- AH! boom!!!! she said the alien words!!! “i know” he says. “but there’s nothing to be done about it”

“they’re going to deny you access” “maybe as his partner, but not as his doctor” <- OH SHIT!!! what does she have planned?!??

back on the ivory coast, barnes is…… picking stuff up off of the floor while the dead guy sits there. something approaches. he thinks the man who he slashed came back to life!!!

he grabs the lantern and calls out…. there are footsteps into the sea. AHHHH! the guy who was previously dead gets HIM with the machete!!! so can this ship bring people back from the dead? i thought the gag with the fish was just a genius scully and amina plot to distract him before getting smacked with a chair!!!

mulder is laying in his hospital bed. he can hear muffled voices, including scully’s! she’s here to see him!!! she says she knows he can hear him. she needs him to hold on. she says she found a key to every question that’s ever been asked.  and she knows it can save him if he just holds on.

she grabs his hand. and asks him please. hold on. 

barnes is found dead in the water!!!! amina stands with her hands on her hips, looking into the sea. is the craft no longer there?

and thus concludes the episode.

bro….. so much just happened.

not sure i even want to unpack the diana stuff right now. because i feel that more is yet to come. and if i try to untangle it now, more stuff will happen and then i'll have wasted time crafting a theory. however, i hope that the next episode is the last time we see her, because i've had enough. what did she mean about him looking inside her?? what could possibly justify her working with CSM?? how tf does she think that relationship would ever work out? "hi honey. i came back to our house after a hard day of helping your mortal enemy kill more innocent people. did you have a nice day in the office trying to stop him from doing exactly that? shall i make spaghetti for dinner?"

i lowkey think CSM is her father. but that is all i've got.

so scully might now be an alien believer. i mean, this was built up slowly over time, but it’s also not like she just gave in for no reason. she found incredible evidence. and said evidence might have disappeared back into the sea, but it’s hard to say. hell, if i found a spaceship covered in a very niche language that translated into tons of religious texts, i might also start believing things. or think that someone was REALLY committed to the fakery. 

wait. again. what the fuck are diana’s “reasons” that she spoke of??

scully was indiana jones today. and it suit her very nicely. i was deeply pleased. she was badass, genius, and she looked beautiful doing it. and she was feeling very angsty as she blamed herself for not being able to figure out what was wrong.

and she made a friend!!! i hope they can stay in contact with amina, but i have a feeling something terrible will happen to her. they never let the side characters stick around for too long.

poor mulder. so what’s kritschgau’s deal? he gave him way too much of the drug that he knew would help him in low doses because he wanted revenge??? if mulder knew he wanted revenge, or that it was even a possibility, why did he write his name on his hand?? he could read kritschgau's mind, so he had to have known what he was planning. what is he thinking?? it must be so infuriating to sit there, hearing everyone’s thoughts, unable to do anything about it.

skinner blaming himself for what happened……. for being tricked by kritschgau. taking full responsibility, just like kritschgau said he had to. poor skinner. he just can’t win. but GOD, does he love his agents. at the same time, though, he tried to tell scully there was nothing that could be done to help mulder. was that out of his own guilt? did he think he was sparing her getting her hopes up? was he surrendering to the idea that he may have killed one of his best agents, and is preparing to suffer the cosmic consequences? and his response to scully saying the problem might be alien- he says he knows. what does that imply about where he stands on the scully to mulder scale of belief?

gggaaaaaah, there’s so much to chew on here. scully…. scully save me. with your machete and your vest and your translation of science words. thinking it’s beautiful. thinking it’s an answer to all the questions ever asked. 

but what if it is a fake?? what if she opens herself up to the idea of something being real... and then it isn’t? how would she ever open herself up again?

i mean, seeing something that seems to have come from an alien and explains every answer to every question is not the same thing as believing that every single UFO sighting is legit, so i don’t think we should conflate the two. she’s using the scientific method!!! 

but i feel like since it answers so many questions, it can’t actually be real. it seems too convenient- maybe the ship is a syndicate fake? but then, if that were the case, why would krycek be getting involved to deal with something that isn't even real? the syndicate isn't supposed to be sloppy; they aren't supposed to kill unless they absolutely have to so they can avoid detection, which was why CSM got in so much trouble for the hit for scully that ended up killing melissa. so they wouldn't just kill merkmallen for no reason- unless it really was barnes that did that independent of them, and perhaps krycek was just egging him along.

i feel like if the ship were from a true alien civilization, it would be incomprehensible to us rather than the source of all human religion. like, bible and quran passage, the human genome- that seems like the sort of stuff that someone would translate in an effort to make a convincing fake. a really, really convincing fake. if they're aliens, then they probably have more pressing matters to deal with than humans on a different planet- unless it is somehow part of their long haul plan for colonization? get the people to believe this this and this, and document how they work, to better exploit them as slaves? why the focus on just humans if the galaxy has other things in it?

but then, if it WAS a fake, how did the rubbing have the power to make mulder go into his whole thing? and why does it seem to only be bothering him?? and some of the people who are trying to dig it up, but not all of them. and maybe also barnes, but it’s hard to say. and then barnes got killed!! because the guy he murdered came back to life!! so can the ship thingy do that? raise the dead?

lots of biblical references. plague of locusts, sea of blood, raising of the dead, etc etc. what does that mean for scully? does that lend credibility to the idea that life comes from elsewhere because there are elements that are familiar to the way she already believed the universe was run? or does the mention of other faiths in the writings shake her to the core?

there is so much to think about, and i will continue thinking in the morning, but at this moment, i am very tired and must sleep. and hopefully i shall dream of a world where they are all better. we get a restraining order against diana (who, if you recall, took her shirt off while going into mulder's bedroom while he was super sick last time, which i still am freaked tf out about), and then amina can laugh with scully over the phone, and they can talk about science while mulder sleeps over. because she won’t let him be away. yes. i shall think of this and sleep like a baby.