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because they love each other next question

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i wish fox mulder was real so i could email him

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Finally... mostly done. I need to block the Scully mitt, weave in some ends and add the thumb but for the most part, they are finished.

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mulder n scully didn't need a biological child they should've adopted a feral little weirdo whose parents were abducted by a cryptid or something

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Oh Mulder's forearms and Scully's jawline I have missed you ❤️💖💘💞

came to redacted city where I'm about to move & at this random hotel I turned on the tv and the x files season 5 was on. Getting only good signs about this move

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came to redacted city where I'm about to move & at this random hotel I turned on the tv and the x files season 5 was on. Getting only good signs about this move

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I’m really curious what are y'all’s comfort x-files episodes? right now mine are war of the coprophages, hollywood a.d. and je souhaite :)

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been thinking about the x-files place in media and how the show, and mulder and scully’s relationship influences how tv is created. i think any show that is a police procedural with the skeptic/believer dynamic is genuinely inspired mulder and scully. i’m talking about bones, castle, and lucifer among many others.

i enjoy this dynamic but have been wondering why, aside from lacking david and gillian’s chemistry, these shows and ships cannot capture what the x-files and msr did so effortlessly.

i’ve come to a few conclusions.

first: the msr dynamic is misunderstood. people think that this dynamic is man is an annoying manchild and woman puts up with him. the msr dynamic is not that. not really.

mulder is, at his core, a deeply traumatized person on a mission to find his sister who was abducted by aliens. he becomes blinded by his mission, but he is highly intelligent and accomplished on his own. scully is also highly intelligent and accomplished, and they see that about each other in very first scene that meet. there is immediate respect between the, which is VITAL.

i think a lot of modern media thinks that the man has to be kind of an actual idiot (or overly sexual in his advances) at first and the woman has to help him “grow up” when that is not the case with mulder and scully at all. mulder and scully challenge each other’s world views and beliefs and help each other become the fullest versions of themselves, which is not always easy. but it is always with fundamental respect and true friendship. if mulder becomes a more mature and serious person because of scully it’s because of her influence on him, just how he influenced her to have the courage to open herself up to belief in the unknown.

and mulder and scully’s “slow burn” is so iconic because their moments of flirtation and intimacy early on is subtle. but it is there. mulder doesn’t have to ask to see scully’s tits for us to know he wants to. (but it’s a hell of a long time til he does.)

and, unlike instances with caskett and deckerstar - they are not “forced” or tricked to work together, they choose to. they actually refuse to be pulled apart because together, they will find what they’re looking for

which brings me to my next point! i think something a lot of shows don’t do if give a real reason for the copaganda other than it just being copaganda, especially a fantasy show like lucifer. on the x-files, mulder and scully are fbi agents- but them working for the fbi serves for the plot as a way for them to gain access to government secrets and lies by working from within. in a lot of ways, it is a criticism of the fbi and the government at large. mulder and scully are fbi agents because of their mission, their mission is NOT to be fbi agents.

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okay now im genuinely curious, can everyone reblog this with their favorite x files episode?

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I found this old drawing in a sketchbook that I bought years ago, and I used it like twice because the paper’s pink and cute and I don’t wanna ruin it

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“Sorry—nobody down here but the FBI’s most unwanted.”

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why did mulder say you're my one in five billion when there were 6 billion people on earth at the time

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‘beyond the sea,’ great title because the moral of the txf’s take on grief and the past is that you can never get beyond the sea or that there is no beyond, if the sea has you surrounded, if you are at the centre of an ouroboros, there is no relief but to stop thrashing and let the tide sweep, surrender as liberation, which is mulder saying ‘i’m free’ but also the show’s central tragedy.

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the title of her book????????? im losing my mind