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Back with some more text posts! Fresh off yet another rewatch of FTF for it's anniversary. Soon I'll be rivaling Amanda Nelligan and the number of times she's seen Star Wars.

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How is it 27 years old already?!

happy birthday to the movie of all time

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Wow what gross misinformation. You know who’s getting that $3200? The insurance company. 😒

Let’s play doctor. I'll go first. You owe me $3200.

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Yes, the whole damn show is about hope despite everything, literally everything, being horrible. But there’s still Mulder and there’s still Scully.

It’s a timeless message, but also one that feels sorely needed these days.

“People thought the storyline and characters for The X-Files made it a ‘dark’ show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.” -Chris Carter

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One thing I have always wondered about is why Mulder has so little money in his checking account, necessitating his visit to the bank in “Monday”. Awhile back I examined his paystub (you can see that post here), and determined he made a decent salary for a G-man in the late 90s. He also doesn’t seem like a big spender. He mostly works and expenses things. He’s notoriously a bad tipper. So my head canon is that he blew his savings on the Antarctica rescue. SnoCat rental has got to be expensive!

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And two seasons later Mulder gets his own stupid ass haircut 😂 (which is seriously a tragedy after the top tier haircut in s4 and s5). At least it is not as bad as the early s2 haircut, which is a war crime.

THE X-FILES 4.08 | TUNGUSKA

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Mulder and Coop and pie!

PIE

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Amen!

new doctor who tommorow. And I it’s honour- Here’s this Very Important Post

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100% in agreement. I’ve seen many great shows, but none inhabit my soul the way The X-Files does. It is brilliant and infuriating. I want to share it with everyone and also gatekeep it so that its magic is known only to those who will truly believe. It’s a show that sparks questions, analysis, and flights of fancy. And dare I say, that in uncertain times like these, it is the kind of show we really need. The reminds us that the work is tough, that all the chips can be down, but at the end of the day there is hope. And we have each other.

Finished my rewatch of the original series of The X Files last night (first time in too long) what a magical ride it was!

The X Files is a flawed show, no doubt about that. But it's MY flawed show, one that I am deeply appreciative of. I've watched many TV shows in my life time but none have come even remotely close to touching my heart the way The X Files does. I've never seen anything like it, and I doubt I ever will again.

I was going to just quote the legendary Kim Manners on his audio commentary of "Existence" and "The Truth" but it wouldn't do the man any justice. I think you need to hear him say these things and not just read them. There's no way I could have put things any better than Kim did here!

Credit to @andreicastrillon7830 for the YouTube video. A true legend of making this compilation!

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Just. Amazing!

"What are we doing out here Mulder?"

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So well said. 👏🏻 👏🏻

i have so many thoughts after watching per manum, this is not happening & deadalive - but you know what I keep going back to? Scully being sooooo damn certain that Mulder is the only choice to be the father of her child. 

Literally both times we see a direct question posed to Scully about becoming a mum, she turns to Mulder as the potential father. 

In home, when Mulder, addressing solely Scully’s journey into motherhood, asks her to find someone with good genetics, she looks at him and asks “what about yours?” ITS SO !!!!!!!!!! Because the implication is sooooo clear - would you have good genetics to help me have a baby. 

And then in per manum, when Dr Perrenti asks her if she has someone in mind and that he can walk her through donor catalogues etc., Scully’s immediate concern was not WHO to ask but HOW to ask him. Watching her say that made me weird levels of feral, because what do you mean you have no hesitation, no second thoughts about who deserves to be the father of your child!!!!! 

Scully is always so careful about her choices (i.e. med school, joining the fbi etc.) and has a need to have her choices validated by others, which is common arc we see her struggle through in many episodes. Then, to have her be SO certain that if anyone were to father a child with her, of course it would be Mulder. There’s no other choice, there was never any other choice (despite what later plot lines might imply). 

And honestly, even Mulder leans into this a bit. Thinking of Emily and how Mulder just slipped into taking care of Emily so easily, because this was Scully’s child. Sure, he had reservations, but once Scully decided she wanted to raise this little girl, Mulder was fully alongside her. (I still think of him lifting Emily when she was sick and my heart just feels pain). 

Genuinely makes me want to cry because I think it really shows how much they love each other (whether they know it/have admitted it to themselves or not). And my personal take, is that Mulder and Scully, by s4 (probably end of s2 tbh), already considered the other family. In the sense that, hell or highwater, they were bonded in some transcendent way, and nothing will erase/change the very permanent mark they’ve already made in each other. That whatever happens, they will always have a path (back) to each other. 

In, deadalive at the funeral Scully says, all of Mulder’s family is gone and Mulder is the last. And I just knowwwww that Scully always felt that Mulder deserved to have a family, deserved to have his name/legacy preserved, and wanted to give that to him. You see this in the ways she will always consider/defend who he is as a person (thinking of early S2 when the files were gone and also Demons and closure/sein und zeit). 

Skinner says ‘I don’t truly believe Mulder’s the last’ - I can’t fully tell what exactly skinner was implying but I want to believe (hehe) that he’s referencing Scully’s pregnancy. Scully’s face shows a whole range of emotion after that but I also want to believe she’s considering what it now truly means to be carrying his baby. 

Mulder usually has all the pretty words of declarations and long, yearning gazes (which I love love love) but omg to me, scully without hesitation, without question, choosing to have a baby that’s half mulder (esp when the usual method of getting there, i.e. being married/being in a relationship is not there) is one of the most beautiful acts of love from scully to mulder. And I don’t think mulder truly even knows it!!!!!!! 

Mulder wants a family because it was robbed from him. He also wants Scully to have her child because she was robbed of her choice to motherhood. But Scully, Scully’s choice is to have a family, a child with Mulder, because she wants to bring back that kind of love to both of them. 

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Silly mash up and text posts this Friday. Chris Hallbeck makes great comics, and I borrowed one for Mulder's scenery. Mea Culpa if that wasn't cool, but go check our the artist's work. This is all just for fun.

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Watched FTF for the umpteenth time. The writers totally dropped the ball on the scene at the beginning where Mulder goes to the vending machine and asks Scully “Coke? Pepsi? Saline IV?” How on earth did they not have her answer with iced tea??? And to that obviously Mulder should have said “Must be love”

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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That about sums him up perfectly

mulder is one of the only characters where the “jerk with a heart of gold” thing was executed perfectly. he is a genuinely nice and deeply caring person who is very full of love and he is ALSO sometimes a bit of an annoying asshole. and he is so great

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Oh, this is great! Love Coldplay and especially this song. And obviously adore M&S!

science and progress do not                       speak as loud as my heart. 

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Ok, if you want to ugly cry, you watch this montage from trustno1. Onion cutting ninjas guaranteed.

i think about this frequently

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Things are grim, ngl. But DD and GA being chaotic presenting at the SAG awards gave me joy. Messing up and wanting to get out of there ASAP - that’s where their chemistry lives, not in the corny script that clearly neither of them gave any f*cks about.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson present at the 2025 SAG Awards