#answers; scully

[ladiesandwitches]

Answered ask @maggicktouched

"Oh my god!" Dana gasped, blue eyes widening as she immediately leapt up from her seat. When Beck had asked her to look at what she'd found, she'd presumed she was going to be shown an interesting rock, or a colourful leaf...maybe a raccoon. Children, especially the more wildly inclined, were prone to trying to befriend creatures such as raccoons and opossums due to their proximity to humans and their frequently urbanised docility. And Beck had a certain undeniable advantage.

But an alligator was none of those things, no matter how juvenile it might be.

"I think that needs to go back exactly where you found it," she told her, keeping her tone calm even if every bone on her body felt tense. Despite everything Beck was capable of, the things she had seen her do, all Scully could see now was her little girl dangerously close to a wild animal that had the teeth to rip off a small limb if it decided it needed to. "An alligator isn't a pet," she explained gently. "It belongs in the wild. In the water." She paused, looking at Beck in deadpan disbelief. "Not in a Washington apartment."

[egophiliac]

This is not really an ask, and I might be a big incoherent.

I just want to say I find it really funny that Ernesto/Fellow, in one of your Playful Land comics, acknowledged the fact that your Yuu just…has no face. I don’t remember anny other characters mentioning it.

I mean, this random guy(?)(gender-neutral) is just walking around with no face, and no one really seems to notice it. Like, they’re magicless, it is implied that they come from a world with no magic, but they can see with a face that has no eyes. Does anybody ask about it? No. They’re all like “Oh look, It’s Yuu, the prefect or Ramshackle” and carry on with their day. Hilarious.

now, let's be fair, this is NRC (and also a world in which Rook exists, as a real human being who's allowed to just walk around and be Like That, legally, somehow). their first meeting was Yuu busting out of a coffin screaming "WHERE AM I. ALSO WHO AM I" and then immediately getting set on fire by their cat. is it really any wonder that Fellow was the first person in a position to actually notice/be tactless about the, y'know, whole faceless thing. everyone was probably just like "wow, okay, rude" (or would have been if they weren't being actively transmogrified at the time, but it's the thought that counts).

(tangentially, one of Fellow's home screen lines is basically "I was pretty freaked out when I saw Ortho for the first time, but now I realize that this school is just absolutely buckwild all the time" and it's my favorite. this man is a lifelong criminal who's indirectly murdered dozens(?) of people and even he's like "something is deeply wrong with these people".)

[starlightseraph]

i really want someone who’s never seen the x files to look at these promotional photos and then try to guess what the show is about

[pizzaboat]

Mulder choking a guy because he thought he hurt Scully is so. And he was in no way concerned when he got accused of killing the guy

[astralzeraphias]

“he was mentally ill. this monster was a- was a sick fantasy. a product of his dementia.”

“…i saw it too. does that make me disturbed? demented? does… that make me sick too?”

[mindibindi]

[thursdayinspace]

episodes where Mulder and Scully are the prettiest?

impossible to answer! here are a few that immediately come to mind:

pilot

pusher

tunguska/terma

fight the future

millennium

and soooo many more!

add your own, haha!

[blushedfemmes]

i was on vacation in the PNW over the weekend and on my first night there i had a dream about sucking on a girl’s tits and got so horny that i woke up with a boner. so logically, i can only conclude that your toxic seductive miasma permeates throughout the whole region. terrific stuff

oh yeah that’s totally my bad… it’s really causing problems actually just ask the butches who live here

[actual-changeling]

Hi! I'm doing a rewatch of the x files and this is the first time I got so invested in MSR and I was wondering if you had some fic recs? there are so so many online I have no idea how to find the best ones lol I'm okay with explicit content btw thanks in advance!

Give me a few days and I'll make a more comprehensive masterpost but I can give you some good starting points!

Self-promo first, you can find me on ao3 and any tumblr-only ficlets under the tag #alex writes x files. My bookmarks are public and I save every single fic I read on there, so you can have a look through those if you want.

@today-in-fic this is the account to follow to get fresh fics on your dash. they simply reblog any TXF fanfics they get tagged in, so they're somewhat of an archive in by itself.

Writers plus general amazing TXF accounts

@msrafterdark if you don't mind smut then this one is a must!

@bakedbakermom // @sisterspooky1013 // @thursdayinspace

@randomfoggytiger (an absolute goldmine concerning everything MSR and TXF, especially when it comes to meta posts)

@television-overload // @baronessblixen // @thescullyphile

@deathsbestgirl // @scullysexual // @numinousmysteries

@fine-nephrit // @scullysflannel // @fossilizedhearts

@not-aliens // @julmunne

More Additions by @unremarkablehouse

@phillippadgettwrites (smut warning!)

@tatooedlaura-blog // @agent-troi // @katy-kt-katie

@thatfragilecapricorn30 // @slippinmickeys // @skelavender

@freckleslikestars // @gaycrouton // @cassiopeia462

@lotsoforangesoutside // @spookydarlablack

(Live) Episode Reaction & Rewatches

@enigmaticxbee @mulders-too-large-shirt

Other Specializations

Dana Scully Lookbook Project The X-Files Script Archive

AO3 author & fic recs

Sareki (author)

Thirty Five Hundred Miles And A Lifetime To Go

Long hours on the road and in the skies, how will Dana Scully and Fox Mulder fill the silence? What silence?  A collection of road trip oneshots through their years together and the games they play..

The Modern Gateway Motel

After a traumatic experience, Mulder fabricated an X-file as a way to help Scully escape reality. Over the years, they returned to “investigate” that special place and take advantage of all it had to offer, exploring aspects of their relationship that they attempted to ignore in the real world. As time passed, it grew harder to confine the relationship they shared to that specific time and place.

Gradients

He didn’t want Scully in his bed so much as he wanted that last barrier gone. Sex seemed to be the demarcation for her, as she’d apparently decided that once that hurdle had been cleared, it would signal her complete surrender to him. As if she hadn’t already done that. As if he hadn’t with her a long time ago.

PLEASE feel free to leave your own additions (self promo explicitly welcomed) and I'll add them.

[randomfoggytiger]

It just occurred to me that in One Son, Scully is pissed because she is finally realizing that Diana is a B*.

She has Mulder tell her "stop" as she is confronting Diana after they have just been humiliated with that shower and they are in their patient garb while Diana is dressed to the nines, Scully and the boys try to explain to Mulder that Diana is untrustworthy but Mulder defends Diana and pushes Scully away to the point that she says she can't help him anymore, AND THEN when Scully calls him to tell him that she is going to pick him up to get Cassandra, HE IS WITH DIANA! Well, how did Scully not just lose it right there and then? Why didn't we get to see the conversation of "uh, Mulder what were you doing with Diana? After everything TLG and I told you, you rush over to her?" Sure, he could explain that he went to find some truths, but I want to see the explanation of how he convinces rational Scully to believe him. Did she roll her eyes so hard that she pulled an eye muscle and gave herself a headache? Was she so angry that she had to hold back tears? Did she give him the silent treatment? C'mon freakin' writers! This could have been storyline gold not just in terms of MSR but in terms of working partnership! Tie it back to Wetwired and Scully's internal worry of Mulder's betrayal. Ugh! I Hate that so many of these stories seemed to have been written in a vacuum. Even sitcoms tried to have some thread of continuity with their big episodes.

A missed opportunity, for sure.

It's hard to know how Scully and Mulder would have cleared the air (or did clear the air); but... I don't think it was, canonically, dramatic.

Having dug around the scripts in Season 6, there doesn't appear to be any intent after One Son to explore that (or a possible) rift-- except, possibly, Field Trip (and even then it was to examine Mulder and Scully's mutual conflicts and faults.) Anecdotally, both Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have described Season 6 and 7 as "comedic" or "funny"; and both have stated, continuously, that the show is episodic-- i.e. The X-Files is most accurately explained by realizing nothing follows through. So: if the writers dropped that thread, and the actors' drew directly from the source-- i.e. working from the insulated scripts rather than carrying over lingering or bitter feelings-- then the characters themselves deemed that moment inconsequential to their progressive pace forward. (And by the time Diana shows up again, Scully doesn't jealously or enviously react to the other woman's presence: the matter, then, was already resolved, in typical, baffling MSR fashion.)

We can glean a few things from Agua Mala-- namely, that it is humorous and unifying. I wrote a fic about it here, but, in short: Mulder's aside to Scully in One Son was an acknowledgement of where he went wrong; and Scully, though still angry, sided with, not against-- or separate from-- Mulder to Kersh. They were a united front; and she, Agent Dana Scully, "wouldn't bet against him." From there, Scully follows him down to Florida (holding his arm and other tells, here) where they bickered (without malice) and quipped and continued, per their words and mannerisms, to display a united front despite a few human, wonky edges-- edges which tested but did not tear apart further. (Even Arcadia, which was originally slotted in as One Son's successor, is lighthearted: Mulder teases Scully, Scully teases back; he crosses a few lines, she does so in return; Scully passes up a private master bedroom to bunk in a smaller room adjoining Mulder's bathroom, post here; Mulder and Scully exhibit reciprocity in spite of personally confining circumstances; etc.)

Is it narratively satisfying? Perhaps not. But it is canonically consistent. I think it would also prove-- and did-- how little effect Diana Fowley had on Mulder's (then) considerations and happiness, despite her best efforts. And I think it fits with Mulder and Scully's unspoken pattern-- they express an extraordinary amount with exceptionally little communication, yes; but they are also conflict avoidant and prone to suppress rather than express their own vulnerabilities (while also pressing the other person to openly disclose his or her struggles....) Their silence and move forward, in that light, falls in line with past incidences (e.g. Never Again's "Yeah, but it's..." and Small Potatoes's "You're not a loser, Mulder" and Fight the Future's "But you saved me!" and Triangle's "I love you" and Dreamland's "Get out of the car, have something approaching a normal life" and HTGSC's "I wanted to be out there, too")-- there would be too much to admit to (i.e. feelings and emotions both were still dodging on some level) to have a thorough, freeing discussion.

But at the end of the day? Everyone's answer is going to change depending on their read of the characters and the show. Because so much is never built upon, it leaves moments like this open for interpretation and speculation-- which, while genius for many different reasons, is highly unfavorable to final, resolved definitives.

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

ok but did mulder and scully have little pictures of each other in their wallets ???

[ladiesandwitches]

💬 Scully and kid John?

It was inevitable that one day John wouldn't be a child anymore, that his desire for independence would only grow as he got older. It was more than just natural, it was pure undeniable science; the parts of the brain that longed for familiarity, that found the greatest comfort at the sound of a parental voice, needed new voices, and sought out new stimulation as it entered adolescence. The familiar becoming an irritant in the face of the desire for new and unexplored; it was all needed to grow.

And while John might not be there yet entirely, he was inching closer to that age, and would, naturally, want to do some things on his own, to feel that urge to explore. And she wasn't going to make him feel bad for that, to guilt trip him over wanting to spend time without her, doing things that weren't her own interest.

"Of course you can go," she assured him. "There's going to be lots of things you want to do on your own as you get older, with people other than your family. It's how you grow, how you get better, and find what it is that makes you who you are, what interests you. Look at me," she gently took his hand in hers. "The farther you go, the prouder I'll be."

@imjustanauthor

[thirdwheelravi]

It kills me inside that If buck and eddie were a straight ship the endgame would be secured maybe even married by now instead we are being tortured

listen i agree with you......but at the same time i was in the trenches with joshdonna and mulder/scully for 7 seasons...... hashtag not all straight ships

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

i'm new here, and i see this repeating theme in a lot of posts, so i need to conduct a poll to see how widespread the sentiment is:

note from OP: as of making this post, i have only seen up to s3. normally on my blog i ask people to avoid spoilers in the notes, but as i am expecting this might cause some scholarly debate, i will be muting the notifications on this post, so you can (and should) discuss to your heart's content, including citing any source scenes to suit your needs!

[benoitblanc]

Top 5 moments where Scully yells at people and/or top 5 rescue scenes?

top 5 moments when scully yells at people:

TRIANGLE. god i love how fucking nuts she is in triangle. she verbatim tells spender that she doesn't care who he does to get her the information she needs. queen shit

her screaming at modell during the russian roulette scene... yeah <3

IF HE DIES BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOUR DAYS FROM NOW NO ONE WILL BE STOP ME FROM BEING ONE THAT WILL THROW THAT SWITCH AND GAS YOU OUT OF THIS LIFE FOR GOOD YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!

her confronting skinner in blessing way is SO fucking funny to me. she pulls her fucking gun on him. he had done absolutely nothing wrong

obviously the scene in deep throat when she takes a man hostage to get mulder back. ride or fucking die!!!

top 5 rescue scenes:

irresistible always and forever. my god

i'm counting the russian roulette scene from pusher as a rescue scene. it's the best scene in the whole show but as a rescue scene it does pale in comparison to irresistible

like the entire third act of fight the future. you know it's true love when [redacted for spoiler reasons because i think you're only on s5 lol]

scully commandeering an entire emergency room just to save mulder in end game will always be famous

four way tie between the ends of unruhe, milagro, kill switch, and demons... god they care about each other SO much

ask my top 5/10 weirdly specific anything!!!

[rexlottie]

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