#the end

[randomfoggytiger]

Diana Fowley, the Four-Poster Bed Instigator (Perhaps)

I noticed something.

Mulder had a four-poster bed with space at the top for a mirror attachment in Dreamland II (screenshot courtesy of @amplifyme)--

--the season after Diana Fowley's introduction and during her "get between Mulder and Scully on CSM's orders" arc.

Diana was supposed to be alluring, captivating, and more sexually forward, yes (script here, thank you @x-files-scripts); but she was also undeniably more dominant: grabbing his hand in The End, insisting he listen to and follow her in The Beginning, and kissing him during his most vulnerable moment in One Son.

Not only that, but after she'd exited (briefly) from his life post One Son, she reappeared in time to feature in Amor Fati's sexual-turned-domestic fantasies.

And an interesting little thing happened: Mulder was not taken aback by her striking lingerie or sudden propositions (and it's very telling that Mulder was still wearing his handcuffs during the Diana Fowley seduction scene... very telling)--

--but was shocked, jarred even, when Diana told him it was time to settle down and have a family. Mulder's reaction leads us to conclude that Diana wanting kids came right out of leftfield for him.

Amor Fati explored her from Mulder's perspective: that she called the shots in their relationship, yes (Mulder did have children with her, for example), but also that he viewed her as the sexual instigator-- seducing instead of releasing him. It further solidifies the theory that she was the one who thought up that four-poster bed (more so, perhaps, than her "loser by choice" ex.)

This might also explain why Mulder continued using the four-poster waterbed (less hassle to use than replace)

only until it sprung a leak; then bought a normal bed that did not, indeed, have four posters.

It's very, very interesting that Mulder's bedroom was shown to have a four-poster bed during the Diana Fowley arc; that it stuck around only a few episodes after that; but was ultimately written out and replaced soon after her One Son exit-- all within one season.

Very interesting indeed.

(And if that be the case, the only time Diana Fowley was in his bedroom in Season 6 was after the bed had been replaced... which is also very, very interesting and very, very satisfying: a nice, subtle way of sticking it to her, even though that was likely just a writing coincidence.)

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[pocket-dragon]

MeetingAstarion.png

[deadscell]

[pisscentral]

haven’t posted any art in a bit sooo

FEAR WHEEL

(btw yes the dice is purposefully all snake eyes, just clarifying)

[shockpinkrosary]

The beginning and the end

Happy new year !

[paullobennett]

Tu foi a minha última tentativa de amor. Ninguém nunca mais vai saber o que é ser amado por mim.

- SR.BENNETT

[aengelren]

“Eren took off first, Mikasa stayed behind him, and I was dead last.” Eren died first, Mikasa buried beside him, Armin kept visiting their graves as an old man until he joined them

Race towards the tree/chronological order they died in

[20th-century-man]

Photo by Bunny Yeager.

[jordankennedy]

i saw someone assigning characters from the saw movies to the entities on twitter and they were so incorrect it made me mad enough to do my own

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[creekfiend]

Something I've learned recently is that there's multiple ways you can respond when you identify hypocrisy in yourself.... like, supposing you notice that you have treated someone in a way that is not in line with your values. You COULD beat yourself up about it and be like "ugh you hypocrite, you SAY you have x values but then you treated these people in this other way"

Or, and I think this qualifies much better as "taking responsibility for your actions": you can go "huh. I definitely do have x values and believe people should be treated in these ways... and much of the time I am able to behave in ways that are in line with those values... and yet under these specific circumstances I was for some reason not able to do that. Let's look at those situations and people and try to find some patterns there so I can identify what types of scenarios make it hard for me to behave according to my values"

And then when you identify situations like that in the future, you can try and give yourself the time and space to really process stuff and try to remind yourself "this is a situation where behaving according to my values has been difficult in the past" which will help you be more intentional and careful in how you proceed.

Anyway. That's hard but it's a big relief to do because it really feels like being armed with magical knowledge lolol

[lower-the-volume]

castiel. the end

[uptheantares]

Banners for each of the 14 Entities in The Magnus Archives

[deadscell]

[murderandcoffee]

thinking about avatars in pre-modern times…

a royal food tester (eats food to see if it poisoned or safe) who, after years of fearing that every meal will be their last, becomes an avatar of the end

a “witch” whose entire life was shattered and who was burned at the stake, who returns in a gout of flame as an avatar of the desolation

roving bands of trackers who slowly grew more bestial and separated from their villages, chasing ever bigger prey as avatars of the hunt

children branded as changelings who become avatars of the stranger

shunned bastard children who beguile their ways into the good graces of their rich parent’s family and gracefully claw their way to the top as avatars of the web

just… avatars in eras long passed. shaped by the world around them

[newttxt]

i was talking extensively with a friend about reiju’s delicate balance of caring/emotionless and her relationship with sanji