#scully doesn't know

[rosenkranz-does-things]

how to talk to short people

I'm chasing the vibe I attempted to portray here and here, so I guess all these paintings could be viewed as a series now

[benoitblanc]

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

[frogsmulder]

Like it's fairly obvious Scully has a praise kink, but mulder has a bigger one... He absolutely eats it up whenever Scully calls him a good boy, like he lives off of that shit. And this is a hill I'll die on

[i-dont-even-know-anymore976]

my hottest fandom take than no-one has asked for??? sometimes ships that could have been great reach a point that they shouldn't become (or have been made) canon anymore. sometimes stories/shows just reach a point that there's no satisfying way for them to be together.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

my favorite scully moments from s2

after the x-files are shut down, she gets moved to teach at the academy, and in episode 1 she does a little monologue on how a person’s body is a physical manifestation of a lifetime, which one of the students describes as “spooky”

when mulder sneaks off to puerto rico in the same episode, she goes into his place to try and figure where tf he went, and prevents his sneaking about being caught by the investigators who broke into his home with the power of feeding his fish

lecturing about the dangers of eating raw steak in episode 2, then getting lost down a rabbit hole of worm science

when no one was answering the door in episode 3, she just walks in. this made me laugh hysterically, i cannot explain. both of these guys WILL enter your home.

every single time she is a bit of a medical nerd, like when she learns about the surgery that allowed people to survive without sleep in episode 4, which she describes as “incredible”

(and the freckles + flower earrings combo were also a fave)

when she scans the piece of metal that came from duane barry in a grocery store in episode 6, and the cash register goes crazy. and she denies involvement and just walks away LMAOOO <- honestly i'd do the same!!

she wakes up from her coma in episode 8 and wants to write a thank you note to the nurse that took such good care of her, only to learn no such nurse ever existed. scully got to witness the paranormal for once!!!!

in episode 9, someone brings up a volcano scientist in conversation, and she says she had heard he was brilliant, which means that somehow she is keeping up with volcano news. she is a woman of many layers.

being deeply worried about this scared looking grad student she just met, and once again not waiting for an answer to enter her room and figure out if she is okay

(and when said grad student is being consumed by a fungus, scully thinks quickly enough to get herself locked behind a door, keeping herself safe, despite being handcuffed and otherwise looking death by fungus in the face)

in episode 11, mulder walks into his office, only to learn she has been there and has been going through his stuff since 6 in the morning. queen of getting results!

in the same episode, an old man overdoses on mushroom pills, and she shifts into Doctor Mode, yelling about “ventricular fibrillation” and “milligrams of lidocaine” and it was, like every other time she goes Doctor Mode, so deeply satisfying to watch

when she meets the two cops in episode 12, and can immediately tell they are having an affair and that the detective is pregnant, and despite the detective pleading with her not to tell a soul, the absolute MILLISECOND she is reunited with mulder, she spills the tea. and he is SHOCKED! <- arguably my favorite moment in the entire series so far

(and, to make the woman feel more comfortable, she confesses to also having had feelings for coworkers before which. elaborate on that, please)

but she really does care; when the detective ends up in the hospital, scully brings her a change of clothing <3

when she is so shaken by what she sees in episode 13 that she goes to the FBI’s onsite therapist; she’s too scared to tell mulder how she feels because “i don’t want him to feel like he has to protect me”

(as if there was ever going to be a choice; he is the protector and he Will protect, it's just his nature)

((and then later sobbing into his arms, realizing she doesn’t have to always put on a front))

toads start falling from the sky in episode 14, so she rationalizes that they likely came from a nearby tornado. this is a scully-approved theory.

they’re investigating a murder in the same episode, and a teenager starts pouring her absolutely horrific trauma out to both of them, scully holds her while she sobs into her jacket

honestly any time either of them know weird information, i love it. she says that it would take hours for a snake to eat a man and then weeks for it to digest in episode 14, and mulder makes some funny remark but it’s sooo endearing to me. she knows her snake facts.

then in episode 15, she notes poison in someone’s blood, but specifically that the poison comes from pufferfish eaten in Japan… girl i’m crying, she just knows stuff!

during that same case, they get rooms near each other like always, and she knocks on a door thinking it’s mulder’s. he doesn’t answer. she walks in and hears water running, so she just talks to him through the door to the bathroom. and i love this so much. i love that they are close enough to just walk into each other’s rooms and talk from behind the door while the other showers. it’s such married behavior.

working on the case in episode 16, we see her at home wearing a flannel, checking her computer, still serving looks but now giving casual

(and seeing the art she keeps on her walls- little postcards of beach scenes <3)

in the same episode, she knows mulder left to go get himself in trouble, so she bursts into skinner’s office to ask for help. but she feels bad for barging in on skinner, so she apologizes to him. which was very sweet.

when mulder is gone, she goes to his apartment to look for clues, and falls asleep on his couch

(and when X knocks on the door, she knows he is hiding something, and screams at him to tell her where he is)

this whole monologue from episode 17, which i loved more than life itself:

“several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. but i am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. many of the things i have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe, but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, and to apply reason, to those things which seem to defy it”

(and that is just Her, isn't it? the need to understand, to rationalize. the worldview shaped on science- if she doesn't understand something, it's because a key piece is missing, and she'll find it. because the world Has to work that way, has to be bound by a greater logic, even if it is yet to be understood. to imagine otherwise would be impossible, to imagine otherwise would be to abandon hope in everything, and she cannot abandon hope)

((and maybe the idea that the world being something she cannot perfectly comprehend is a failing of her own understanding makes me a little emotional. but still))

she says that the whole loaves and fishes deal was a parable in episode 21; she is not a biblical literalist

(she then makes some sassy remark about things generating spontaneously, and mulder laughs in the corner. good to know he thinks she is funny)

every single time she answers the phone, she says “mulder, it’s me”, and idk i just think it’s so endearing

she thinks she might have been infected with a killer disease in episode 22, but mulder calls, so she tells him she’s okay and to take care of himself out there.... those are the last words she chooses, just in case they never talk again </3

and every time she says unsettling things, like “could be the residue of burnt human flesh” or “darkness covers a multitude of sins”, both in episode 23, i eat that up

reassuring her student who has just become a detective that she is doing just fine!!!

and then going to said student's funeral when things do not turn out fine... she loves her students that she taught for like 3 months so much :(

getting pulled aside by skinner and her bosses after mulder just acted wild in episode 25, and denying that she had seen any top secret files even though they say they will fire her if she lies lmaooo <- she is a ride or die!!!

but also going to his place, demanding assurance that she is doing the right thing by assisting him, and i love that. i love a character who will break all of the rules as long as they believe they are doing the thing that is morally Right, and that definition is so deeply her own, but she is committed to it, and she'll do anything to stick by it. and he just says something about getting the code that he wants broken, and despite how awful he's being, she goes through with it anyway because it's the Right thing to do.

later, her being the one to realize that mulder should not leave the house after his father was killed because he will be the prime suspect (he does not listen to this sound advice)

he stumbles into her place with a million degree fever, and she carefully lays him down in her own bed, despite the fact that he is soaked in his dead father's blood. and she takes care of him.

this one honestly deserves its own post because it is so incredible, but: shooting mulder with enough precision to get him to knock off his wild behavior that was going to make him look like he killed his dad, but not actually HURT him, then finding out krychek was putting LSD in his water, knocking him out, and driving 2 days to New Mexico to get him where he needed to be. AFTER he had been acting wild because he was inadvertently drugged, and had accused her of spying on him and being a traitor. that level of love is deep. very very deep. she is a Lover.

[shannonsketches]

you know what I take back my vegeta schitts creek headcanon, I think he's david around goku and alexis around everyone else

in my most comedic soul though he is just masc gina linetti

[valenfield-inspo]

Jill Valentine & Chris Redfield - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles/Umbrella's End Moodboard

[carefulfears]

perhaps the most objectively hilarious txf dynamic is scully and krycek hating each other so fucking much while narratively fulfilling the exact same role. scully baby are you mad because he's you with longer eyelashes

[imasquint]

My thought from today while queen Alanis was on the radio was: Scully listening to all of Jagged Little Pill during the Diana times really loudly in her car to blow off steam. Diana was pissing her off. Mulder was pissing her off.

[the-spooky-alien]

Thinking of Mulder, touch-starved because nobody ever tried to give him a hug (because somehow, I can't imagine Phoebe or Diana being affectionate, and we all know his parents became distant after Samantha's abduction). Thinking of Mulder having to learn how to be touched, how to be held. Learning how to allow himself to be loved. Thinking of Scully being so, so patient with him, slowly easing him into tender touch until he stops stiffening in surprise when she hugs him from behind. Thinking about Mulder learning he's worth being loved through witnessing Scully's care and love for him. Thinking about them healing together, making each other better, smoothing over their sharp edges.

Thinking about them loving each other so much that they can never quite believe it but never stops wanting to believe in it nevertheless.

[dragonanne]

Tagged by @secretwriterstudentjaune

1) Three non-romantic duos: Hmmm...brotps I adore would be Jack and Daniel (SG-1), Sam and Daniel (SG-1), and Lune and Matsen (Jade Torch -- is it cheating to use my own book??? xD) If that's cheating, then Sam and Frodo (LotR).

2) A ship that might surprise others: I kinda ship Link x Mipha from BOTW. I like Zelda x Link too, but something about Link x Mipha is just so sweet and tragic. I like that they knew each other for a lot longer than Zelda and Link knew each other.

Let's be real. I don't have a lot of crazy ships. Although, in SG-1, I do ship Vala x Tomin (but I also like Vala x Daniel).

3) Last Song: Shackleton by Adam Young

4) Last Film: My parents and I watched Hitched for the Holidays last night. Very funny romcom with Joey Lawrence. It's a Hallmark movie from 2012, so just before they all got so unbelievably cookie cutter/copy+paste with their plots.

5) Currently reading: Operation Grendel by Daniel Schwabauer

6) Currently watching: The X-Files. I'm nearing the end of season 1. I've never seen it before, and I'm loving it!

7) Currently consuming: Coffee

8) currently craving: idk. I don't have a strong craving for anything right now.

Tagging @aceofstars16 @quiescentdragon @ryeillustrates @accidental-spice @jenniferbrincho (if any of y'all have already done it or already been tagged, my bad--my memory stinks 😅)

[moreloke]

Dana x (Mulder), some kinda au. or maybe not

They direct you to a room in the basement.

"Does this pass sanitary requirements?" You want to ask, but you worked too hard to get there, and their side looks are loud enough. You go down.

The room looks like a pillow fort of a teen boy pretending to be an office worker, with posters and figurines and heaps of cassette tapes. It smells of dust and male odecolon. You sigh. Your new partner is nowhere to be found. The number they gave you doesn't connect.

You wait. You wait. You wait.

"Sir, is this some joke?"

Assistant Director Skinner looks at you tiredly. You've seen your share of men like him - second in command, always the assistant, never the director, too busy running everything to care about-. He clearly doesn't want to deal with your questions, yet puts on a mildly interested face "Yes, Agent Scully?"

"My partner, Sir," you start carefully. Just in case it's a test. "He's nowhere to be found, and the phone I've been provided with is always busy."

He blinks at you. You don't exactly remember your return to the basement.

:)

At the motel, for your first ever case, you take two rooms and ask to ring you up (if) when your partner arrives.

They never do, yet somehow you receive a report to base yours on. The expenses are all accounted for. By all accounts, there were two of you there.

There's an "I already talked to Mulder" when you get back, and "I'm worried about him" and "You were supposed to report objectively" and voice messages on your answering machine and post its and video tapes at your (his) table-

:)

You're not sure if it's the world that went crazy, or you.

:)

You point you gun at Crycek and kick him in the ribs. He huffs pathetically as you cuff him.

"Mulder-" he wheezes out.

"Not here."

:)

The man frowns at you, "Where's Mulder?"

"He couldn't make it," you shrug with an all too familiar excuse.

Mulder's off to see something, Mulder just left actually, Mulder is never around yet everyone somehow expects him to...

"Mulder sent me the adress of this meet & greet actually. So tell me what it is."

You break into another government facility and there's no one else's footsteps but yours.

[beesarthur]

The X-Files, end of season 3: my findings so far

So far, canon has gotten nowhere near an FBI Ball, but we have traveled to many other places, both geographically and metaphorically.

Here are some accolades and superlatives from seasons 2 and 3:

Most Iconic Situations:

Scully's cross necklace's journey from subtext to text! Mulder wearing Scully's cross necklace when she's missing! Mulder having sex with a pseudo vampire while wearing Scully's cross necklace!! (2:6, Ascension and 2:7, 3).

Mulder has been poisoned and it's making him act erratically. Scully shoots Mulder in the shoulder for his own good ("the round went through nice and clean"), patches him up, sedates him, and drives with him sedated for two days from D.C. to New Mexico. (2:25, Anasazi)

Most Memorable Guest Character who is the case: Clyde Bruckman (3:4, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose)

Most Memorable Guest Character because I know the actor from elsewhere: Amanda Tapping as Carina Sayles in 3:21, Avatar

Most Fun Episode: 3:20, Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"

Most Bonkers Episode: 3:12, War of the Coprophages

My Favorite "Mulder and Scully" Episodes:

3:14, Grotesque

3:17, Pusher

3:23, Wetwired

Most Catholic Episode: 3:11, Revelations

Episode that's Very Interesting but that I simply couldn't watch again due to the horrors: 3:6, 2Shy

Most Improbable Place Mulder Has Cell Service: in a half-buried train car in rural New Mexico (in 1995!) (2:25, Anasazi)

Most Iconic Scully Fashion Moments:

wearing a cream colored skirt suit to eat barbecue; Mulder wiping barbecue sauce off of her cheek (2:10, Red Museum)

dirty combat boots with a black pantsuit (3:2, Paper Clip)

Most Iconic Mulder Fashion Moments:

posing for GQ at the end of 2:20, Humbug

waking up in soft light in his underwear in 2:25, Anasazi

Most Charming FBI Coworker with a crush on one of the main characters: Agent Pendrell (he's not going to survive, is he)

My Least Favorite Recurring Event: Scully getting captured!!!!! or otherwise being in acute danger!!!!

Am I ready for season 4? Probably not!

[deathsbestgirl]

fic where mulder & scully take a real vacation together and every time they're not together, scully witnesses something absolutely crazy. at first it's just normal people crazy things, but then !!! something paranormal and eventually she finds herself in the middle of an x file but mulder still keeps missing everything.

chinga but they're together

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s3 has obviously been fantastic, but... i was hoping by now we would get a glimpse into what kind of music these two are putting on during roadtrips. it has not happened yet!

[benoitblanc]

just finished never again. genuinely what the fuck did i just watch