#[ love dana's relationships ]

[stargatelov3r]

I love characters that think they can't allow themselves to love or be loved

just to have someone stride into their life to turn that concept upside down

[kiernanshayemckay]

Fox Mulder being head over heels in love with Dana Scully

[fortycumber]

the sounds of muffled screaming is me fangirling into my pillow with a big sheepish grin on my face.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Been thinking about the X-Files recently. A show I have a hazy, but fond memory of.

[unfinishedrambles]

hands. that's it that's the post.

[the-spooky-alien]

Nobody does it like Mulder and Scully. They’re partners, they’re best friends, they’re lovers. She’s his one in five billion, she wouldn’t put herself on the line for anybody but him. They’re always on each other’s side (and they know it). She shot him once, and he almost shot her too (and he would’ve if he hadn’t been desperately fighting back the voice in his mind). They’ve seen each other naked well before they first kissed. In fact, they undressed themselves (metaphorically and literally) on one of their first night working together because they wanted to trust each other. She was abducted and he stopped sleeping because he was trying to find her (and he was wearing her faith, holding her cross for her because he couldn’t not hope for her return). She makes him honest, a whole new person, and he needs her to go on (and she needs him too, they’re each other’s touchstone). She listens to him, gives credit to his theories when no one does, and in turn, he doesn’t belittle her for being a woman. They listen to each other so much that they begin to pick up some knowledge about the other’s interests. They save each other countless of time, they laugh and they love, and they grieve and they hurt, always with each other. She does an autopsy to his mother’s body because he asked her to and because he’s unravelling and she’s trying so hard to be there for him. He holds her up when her father dies, cups her cheek and asks her if she’s okay. He helps her through the loss of her sister and she helps him through the loss of his. They kiss on New Year for the first time (and it’s a bit of a lie. He kisses her on that ship, and they almost kiss in that hallway, and he kisses her in the hospital, on her cheeks and her hands). He almost kills himself when she’s ill because he can’t bear the thought of living without her. They dance together, happy and carefree, and then she loses her daughter and he’s there for her. She tugs him in his lap when he’s wounded and sing to him, and the day after, he jumps in a hole to follow her. They’re each other’s truth, the answer they’ve been looking for all these years without knowing it. They are at each other’s bedside all the time. HE WENT TO ANTARTICA TO SAVE HER. SHE TOOK AN HOSTAGE TO SAVE HIM ON THEIR SECOND CASE TOGETHER. HE WIPED SAUCE FROM HER CHEEK

[fringephile]

So much revival hate on here and then there's me over here like oooo which revival episode do I want to watch today?!

Home Again! I'll just be crying tears over poor Maggie Scully today.

I might follow it up with another IWTB watch. 😂

[girbirty]

sculder and moldy

[eat-a-dicker]

how the hell do you write shake and frylock like a married couple for years and then break out the "oh by the way. they might be related"

[actual-changeling]

save me season 8 final scene, SAVE ME

[bellamysgriffin]

might regret saying this but i have always found the “joe locked her away and tried to dull her sparkle” take annoying bc this girl released 6 albums, 4 movies and went on a world tour while with him? what else could she possibly have done in that time? but even more annoying is the bizarre take that he was “threatened by and/or jealous of her fame.” 🥴 like… im sorry but if that man wanted to be more famous he could have easily used being tswifts boyfriend to get himself there! like he used a pseudonym when writing with her. and i May regret saying this but… between him and her current boyfriend who seems to be the one profiting more off of her fame? who’s the one shouting out swifties on his podcast and actively engaging with the fanbase and giving conveniently worded quotes that work to subtly put down her ex and show that he’s better i mean….

[cyberdragoninfinity]

🔥🔥🔥 would love to hear your takes on Zane Truesdale and or just the Truesdale brothers in general

YESS

🔥for just Zane specifically: it is. deeply frustrating when both fans and official supplementary ygo media want him to just be The Mean Big Bad Sadomasocist Goth (i love Zane so much but DL Zane leaves a little bit to be desired imo!!!) Like... first of all this is literally not even a particularly villainous character. Yugioh has evil gnarly big bad guy characters and Zane really is straight up not one of them im sorry. And that I think that along with this very common fan read on Zane that he doesn't care about anything just speaks a lot to how his character gets particularly misinterpreted even to this day. Like oh my god I think even at his lowest lows in the Hell Kaiser days this is not a character who "doesn't care." If anything he cares TOO much. Like most if not all of what Zane Truesdale does is out of how much he cares about something, be it respect and fair play, the desperate rush of victory, his own sense of pride and mangled self-worth, or for his brother. He does things very deliberately on the whole. This is not a character of violence and apathy this is a mentally ill autistic teen staggering into young adulthood with heaps of potential piled upon him until the weight pushes him to an extreme that he can't really come back from, not without literally killing himself. i love him very much.

(i also cant say im a very big fan of the take i see where people wish he stayed dead after s3--among other reasons i just think the optics are not especially fantastic on being really gungho against a canon disabled character getting to Survive and have some semblance of a hopeful resolution. sorry)

🔥 for the Truesdale bros in general: really tangentially related to all of this i absolutely 1000000% disagree with this unfortunately rampant fan take that Zane is either A.) completely uncaring towards Syrus or B.) abusive or C.) both. No He Is Not. Try Again. These are two brothers with very different ways they engage with the world who have a complicated and for a long while pretty terse relationship, but to believe this is no love there is a disservice to both of them. The GX dub was so fucking real and right to have Zane tell syrus on two different occasions how much he cares about him and is proud of him. Miss me with the helpless Syrus takes and the Mean and Evil Zane takes it's about to be 2024 do BETTER.

[fellhellion]

90s run PAD has this rlly annoying trend where he very often write a female character being in love w miguel and suddenly her entire character shrinks down to the scope of what drama this provokes and it's near continually in service to the narratives of men (Gabriel and Miguel interpersonal drama for example). even when there are actually interesting things to be mined from this angle like w lyla its like. this is a pattern w you dude.

[spider-man-2o99]

Been reading spiderman-2099 comics and dana is honestly so real for taking her chance with miguel

some of her personal choices were just frankly straight-up deranged (like the Tyler Thing™). but. no one can ever deny that dana d'angelo Knew what she wanted from this world and by god did she fuckin go after it when she did 🙏

[blaisenova]

hmmm... feeling i should write something fluffy after that angst bomb i just dropped... something with miguel and xina, me thinks. they don't get enough attention and i love their silly little relationship even after they break up.

i can't remember what fic it was that i read but the author had written a running joke between xina and miguel from when they were dating that was "besito para miguelito" and i don't think i'm being overdramatic in saying that changed my life

[ittybittybumblebee]

Long story short: 90s Trigun Ending is good. Just rushed 😭

Yeah it IS good and also rushed. The conclusion/sort-of-conclusion-but-doesn't-quite-feel-like-one-entirely (?) Is good , It just could've been clearer! Thats my only gripe. Im alright with vague endings as in you don't know what happens after, BUT i'd like to know whats happening during??? The ending? As its going on??? That is all.

Ok if youll excuse me rant rambling but i just wanna say i have 2 say.

In MY opinion it wouldve been a more satisfactory vague ending if he LEFT his brother where he was. That leaves just enough mystery wihtout the confusing element of BRINGIN HIM BACK if he was planning on helping his brother get better from his i hate all humans disease id ont think hes gonna be cured by a few gunshots and going unconscious vash sweetie have you thought this through why are you BRINGING him BACK TO THE TOWN. RIGHT NOW. Not even a hesitation on that part? . In the credits it even shows him walking up 2 meryll and millie with his brother on his shoulder BABYGIRLLLLLLLLL TAKE HIM AWAYYYYYYYYYYY 2 HELP HIMMMMMMM SOMEWHERE ELSE DONT BRING HIM THERE WHAT ARE YOU DOING.......

Leaving him there wouldve been more satisfactory as it wouldve symbolized either LEAVING him to die OR live , stepping away. which Vash saying hes gonna start going by his own words and not Rems anymore would make more sense by.

And ...It could symbolize, with leave for speculation on what happens to Knives after leaving him. if his brother does survive, Knives, is probably yet again, going to try to get at Vash. To repeat it all. Vash will have to keep playing against his brother at this cyclical game to survive himself and protect the people he loves (which is all of em bc this guys got the biggest fucking heart on the planet) but neither are going to quit.

OR Knives has a change of heart, after being spared again. It wouldnt happen immediatly though this cunt needs a lot of work lmao. I can imagine years later he could come back to Vash and say something a long the lines of I Learned Some Things That Day That Told Me I Was Actually Wrong, and then go dissapear off to soemwhere else to start again (?) Not likely to happen though. It would be Nice. And Satisfactory. But not likely.

But EITHER WAY . NOW Vash is going to try and do what his heart says anyway and try his best which is all he has done and can do. And he IS going to get hurt again and he might hurt someone else again but he will do his Best and thats okay. And hes Learned that. Now. Sort of adjacent to being able to finally forgive himself. Learning to forgive himself for the mistakes. Forgive himself for who he couldnt save and what he couldnt or didnt do.

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