#California and North Carolina I think
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mullomohiam · 2 years ago
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imagine for a moment. A world where sunny came out like 15 years earlier. exactly the same show but macdennis was born in the world of fanzines and newletters so all the fanart of them boning each other is done in the weird photorealistic pencil drawn style you get in old fashioned zines and such. where the faces are always nearly there. but not quite right bc they didnt have google images
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think about it man!!!!!!!!!! we used to be a real country
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batboyblog · 10 months ago
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But I don't live in a swing state?!
every 4 years I see people talking about how they live in a red state (or more rarely a blue state) so their vote doesn't matter and I just want to briefly point out that I think nearly every state is either a swing state for the Presidential election, having a key Senate Race that will decide control of the Senate, has one or more key House races that'll decide control of the House, or is having an important Governor's race that'll could flip control of the state
Presidential Swing states:
Arizona
Georgia
Michigan
Nevada
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Key Senate Races:
Arizona
Florida
Maryland
Michigan
Montana
Nevada
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Wisconsin
States With Key House Races:
Alabama
Alaska
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Swingable Governor Races:
New Hampshire
North Carolina
there are lots of local and state level races that are very important to, but my point was basically odds are very very good, you live somewhere where your vote will help decide what America looks like in 2025. Don't get tricked into thinking just because your state isn't one of the ones always mentioned in the news as a swing state that it doesn't matter what you do
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maple-leaf-in-autumn · 2 years ago
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if anyone wants cafe recommendations for anywhere in the US, i can probably give you one i’ve been lots of places and i always try cafes where i go
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technofeudalism · 3 months ago
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sorry, but i'm going to get a little grim here.
i have seen more dead children and dismembered bodies on social media in the last year and a half than any other period in my lifetime. Gaza has been destroyed. homelessness in the US is at an all-time high. COVID tore through virtually every community like wildfire because Joe decided we had to get back to work ASAP. there have been 107 $1 billion-dollar natural disaster events since 2020 including the most destructive wildfires in the history of Texas, California, Hawaii and New Mexico. several entire cities burned to the ground. several more were completely wiped off the map in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and more by floods and hurricanes and tornadoes. there have been 339 shootings on K-12, college and university property since 2020. there have been 3,100+ mass shooting incidents total since 2020. outside of 2021, every year had a massive number of layoffs, especially in technology. i was one of those layoffs.
this is why people get so angry when people who ride or die for the Democratic party engage in fantasy thinking about how perfect the world is whenever someone with a blue (D) next to their name is running things. the world has been more chaotic, violent and hard to look at in the last 4 years than most of my lifetime. i know this to be true for most people. so when ideologically purist liberals start talking like this, i completely tune out and so does 99% of the public. that's why no one takes the party seriously. we're not living in the same reality.
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royalarchivist · 2 months ago
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Technoblade: Before I get any comments from people saying, "Uh Technoblade– ☝️🤓 Actually I live in the San Francisco Bay area, and the weather here isn't as perfect as you say! I think you might be blinded by nostalgia–"
Technoblade: I'd just like to say that I am a perfectly objective source of information, how DARE you question me, get banned.
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Technoblade: You know, when I first got to college, I had a conversation with a local student where I mentioned I was from California, and they heard that and said, "Oh, you're from California? Have you ever been here during the winter?" and I said "Oh, no no, I haven't" and they just kinda like, stared at me in silence for a few seconds, and then just said: "Good luck!" And then moved on with the conversation like that wasn't the most ominous thing I'd ever heard in my life. What? What do you mean "good luck"?!
Technoblade: One time I went to Texas, sometimes I visited North Carolina during the summer, and I was like, "Why is it so hot here?" but I just figured, "You know what, it can't be this hot everywhere during summer, that'd be ridiculous! Why would anyone subject themselves to these conditions?"
Technoblade: I didn't realize that California was unusual. So you know, I'd listen to like– Sir Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones rant about, "Oh, you don't know cold!" tellin' us about how, he had like, been in some blizzard– blizzard, and during like, sub-zero temperatures, and I'm sitting here like, "No, no, I- I'm pretty sure I understand what cold is, one time it dropped to 60 degrees Fahrenheit and I had to turn on my car's seat warmers. I'm pretty sure I understand man's epic struggle against nature."
Technoblade: Before I get any comments from people saying, "Uh Technoblade– actually I live in the San Francisco Bay area, and the weather here isn't as perfect as you say! I think you might be blinded by nostalgia–" I'd just like to say that I am a perfectly objective source of information, how DARE you question me, get banned.
[ Video: why is the midwest so cold help ]
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saywhat-politics · 4 months ago
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President Donald Trump said he plans to take executive action to overhaul or possibly end the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA.
“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” Trump said at a briefing in Asheville, North Carolina, which was devastated in September by Hurricane Helene.
The president later Friday is set to travel to the Los Angeles area, which continues to battle wildfires that have ravaged swaths of the city.
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iris-polaris · 8 months ago
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➡️ historical moment: i'm gonna Doxx The Zoo for the first time.
but only because my little cold bear heart is currently tremoring.
the Zoo, where i live, is about two hours away from Western North Carolina, which has been obliterated by the latest hurricane. i don't mean "a lot of damage." i mean all highways are destroyed so no one can get in or out except by air. i mean whole towns are gone. Actually Gone. period. kaput
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i mean no cellphone service & no power & very little wi-fi. i mean people trapped on Mountains with food running out & stranded on hospital rooftops. i mean San Diego is sending a convoy of rescue vehicles. yes, California. this is why you haven't seen a Ton of footage yet.
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Western North Carolina, for those who are not in the know, is very far inland. they do not get hit by hurricanes or if they do, it's very light. this is where people go to EVACUATE from our coast. they were not prepared, understandably.
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dams failed catastrophically. with the exception of satellite connections like Starlink and spotty wi-fi here and there, people cannot get in contact with their relatives and friends due to a total grid collapse. it's, uh, Not Great.
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we're fine, here at the Zoo. we were to the far east of the hurricane. we just lost power for a hot minute. but knowing that so much devastation happened nearby is...harrowing. there but for the grace of god go i etc. esp since not much can be done directly right this second.
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the point of this Post for now is just overall awareness since i haven't seen too much info on how you, reader, can directly take action at the moment. and i'm nervous that this horrific thing will go unnoticed. search "Asheville" or "Western North Carolina" anywhere for more details.
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i don't think i can really do an Event to help, but we'll see in the coming months. (it will take months to rebuild. years, even. like i said: highways into the area gone, towns gone. GONE. good-bye.) so...just be aware? i suppose.
i'm still collecting my thoughts.
god damn.
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balladofthe101st · 1 year ago
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Buck Compton came back to see the Company to let us know that he was alright. He became a prosecutor in Los Angeles. He convicted Sirhan Sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy, and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeals. 
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David Webster became a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Wall Street Journal, and later wrote and book about sharks. In 1961, he went out on the ocean alone, and was never seen again.
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Johnny Martin would return to his job at the railroad and then start his own construction company. He splits his time between Arizona and a place in Montana.
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George Luz became a handyman in Providence, Rhode Island. As a testament to his character, sixteen hundred people attended his funeral in 1998.
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Doc Roe died in Louisiana in 1998. He’d been a construction contractor.
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Frank Perconte returned to Chicago and worked a postal route as a mailman.
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Joe Liebgott returned to San Francisco and drove his cab.
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Bull Randleman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. He went into the earth moving business in Arkansas. He’s still there.
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Alton More returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: Hitler’s personal photo albums. He was killed in a car accident in 1958.
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Floyd Talbert we all lost touch with in civilian life, until he showed up at a reunion just before his death in 1981.
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Carwood Lipton became a glass making executive in charge of factories all over the world. He has a nice life in North Carolina.
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Harry Welsh – he married Kitty Grogan. Became an administrator for the Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania school system.
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Ronald Speirs stayed in the Army, served in Korea. In 1958, returned to Germany as Governor of Spandau Prison. He retired a Lieutenant Colonel.
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Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. He was divorced a couple of times. Then in 1956, he married a woman named Grace and everything came together for him. He spent the rest of his life with her, travelling the world. My friend Lew died in 1995.
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I took up his job offer and was a personnel manager at the Nixon Nitration Works, until I was called back into service in 1950 to train officers and rangers. I chose not to go to Korea. I’d had enough of war. I stayed around Hershey, Pennsylvania, finally finding a little farm. A little peaceful corner of the world, where I still live today. And there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with who never got to enjoy the world without war.
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botanyshitposts · 1 year ago
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ok INCREDIBLY old content originally meant for this blog but in 2018 when i was just a wee lad with a little spinner propeller hat and big rainbow lollipop i went to a carnivorous plant convention in california and met a bunch of people who breed/collect/study these guys. one person was this collector who was slowly working on leaving the hobby or at least no longer growing plants, and he had a bunch of carnivorous plant related files he was charging like 50 cents for or something, and so i came into possession of these, which are examples of the kind of paperwork you have to have done to legally ship/trade endangered species of both plants and animals. functionally very boring paperwork, but something i found like, incredibly fascinating. i blacked out the personal id of the person and then immediately forgot to ever upload them, lmao.
these plants were bred and raised in a greenhouse and sold abroad, not taken from the wild, but because the species are endangered and often protected in their native countries (most of these are nepenthes, asian pitcher plants, a huge family spread throughout oceania and southeast asia), there's a lot more documentation that needs to be done regardless of their origin, both on the end of the seller and on the end of the buyer.
the rabbit hole on carnivorous plant trade is deep and kind of wild. there's plenty of common, non-threatened, greenhouse-grown pitcher plants on the market that people buy all the time, even non-collectors, but there's a whole debate to be had on if it's morally okay to be collecting the more endangered/rare of these plants in the first place. the big argument for breeding is that breeding them in captivity means there's more supply that's not poached from the wild, meaning poachers have less of an incentive to take the risk of taking adult plants from their habitats; from what i've heard, sometimes countries will issue permits for breeders to collect some wild seeds just to create a non-wild breeding pool to drive down the price. predictably, however, you also get people who are very much willing to pay a lot of money to get as rare of a plant as possible.
anyone familiar with the allure valuable plants have had over people throughout history can imagine the rest, but here's an article about a guy who started buying poached plants to enrich his private nepenthes collection, who then got busted by a fish and wildlife service agent embedded in his carvirorous plant circle. the plants this guy was buying were being sold to him without any CITES paperwork or declarations like the ones above; it was literally just a guy in indonesia taking rare plants from the woods around where he lived, selling them over facebook marketplace and ebay, and mailing them overseas as an undeclared 'gift' to get around customs. frighteningly small steps to take on all sides, to be honest.
(also, fun fact: another example of carnivorous plants that get poached are wild venus fly traps, which are only native to north and south carolina in the US. from what i understand it's a mix of people who genuinely did not know it's a native species and people who really are just going out into the woods and digging up plants to sell online. sometimes poaching is closer to home than you'd think!)
anyway. wild and interesting times in the land of plants recovered from a hard drive lmao
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zanmor · 10 months ago
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Using Your Vote Strategically
Your vote doesn’t matter (probably). Luckily you can make it do a bit more.
Your vote is one of a few hundred million game pieces. Knowing how best to use it requires you to understand your place on the game board. Let’s take a look at that board.
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Current polling has the following ten states (yellow on the above map) as highly competitive in this year’s presidential election: Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia. Realistically those first three have only gone to Democrats since at least 2000 so speculation is more focused on the last seven (and even New Hampshire has been solidly Democrat since it voted for Bush in 2000).
If you’re one of the roughly 37.5 million voters who lives in one of those states, congratulations! Your vote will actually help decide who wins the presidency in November. As such you should probably vote for one of the major parties. To the other 82% of the electorate, it’s time to think a little harder about how you’ll utilize your vote in the fall.
Meanwhile there are 35 states that solidly belong to one of the two parties and that ain’t changing. They’re blue and red on the map above.
These states have only given electoral votes to their respective party since at least 2000 and current polling (according to 270towin.com) shows that they will do that again this year, well beyond any margin of error in the polls. California for instance is currently polling heavily in favor of the Democratic candidate and has voted for a Democratic candidate since 2000. Obviously that’s not about to change. That’s the case with these other 34 states as well. Which means if there’s any way to “throw your vote away” then it’s by blindly tossing it in with the millions of others that will not impact the electoral college or party platforms in any way.
The states where your vote matters least are:
California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Alaska, Missouri, Hawaii, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Idaho, Tennessee, Utah, Arkansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Connecticut, Vermont, Delaware, Washington DC, Rhode Island, and New Mexico.
If you live in one of these states I have no qualms about advising you to vote third party in the general election. It will not change the electoral college outcome. But it can have important benefits you wouldn’t see by simply tossing another ballot on the mountain. I’ll talk below about those benefits. First, the last part of the game board.
The following six states (green on the above map) are technically polling within the margin of error where they could potentially go either way. I personally think it’s unlikely they’ll flip but you can make your own call on that and vote accordingly. If you live in North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, or Colorado, I think you’re likely to get more use from your vote giving it to a third party candidate based on current polling.
As I said above, I don’t expect that third party voting will impact the electoral college outside of those few truly competitive states.
So what does voting third party do?
If enough people vote third party it can do two helpful things: 1. if a party’s candidate receives over 5% of the popular vote then they can get federal matching funds in the next election, helping spread messages currently relegated to the sidelines, and 2. the major parties are more likely to take note of these votes and try to adjust their platforms to grab these voters in later elections. Voting for one of the two major parties doesn’t send any sort of message. What little utility your vote has in that regard is lost.
Voting for a candidate like Jill Stein of the Green Party can accomplish both of the above goals. Her platform is incredibly progressive. Across the board it’s a lot of things that leftists have been clamoring for. It will show establishment Democrats that there is voting support for those policies.
By supporting a third party candidate (not an independent solo candidate) we could see her get 5% of the popular vote and gain federal matching funds in 2028. It’s not about if she would be a good president or if you like her personally—she is not and never will get elected. It’s about hitting that 5% and showing the establishment that if they cater to the folks who like this platform that they can win votes.
Five percent of the 2020 election would have been just under 8 million votes. Four million Californian voters could have voted Green Party and Biden still would have won the state by over a million votes. We can definitely find 4 million votes in the other 40 states that otherwise are unlikely to impact the election. And we should.
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kayleeheartkins · 4 months ago
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Hey you, 👀 you doin ok?
Hi hi! I’ve been doing okay 👍🏻 kinda lol
I don’t know how I even feel, it feels so heavy watching so much pain and chaos in our country. We got the biggest snow storm of the century, and more coming lol 😵‍💫 which makes me feel like the dude from the movie the shining 😆 HERES JOHNNY!
Thinking of everyone that is experiencing any sort of trauma as of late. I truly hate seeing anyone suffer. 🫂 thinking of those in California, victims of New Orleans, and North Carolina, and so much more in the last 8 days.
That’s why I’ve been so quiet, it starts to build which makes me so anti social. I want to hide from the world because it feels like such a scary place. 💔 Especially a life without my mom in it. She would stick her head in the sand and she would teach me the same to calm my senses ❤️‍🩹😪 I can’t turn off my gut and it’s screaming like something really bad is about to happen and when something bad happens it still doesn’t shut up so what’s NEXT? 🤮 I hope it’s just me.. being me. I can be a worry wart and it’s my motherly quality lol 😂 okay I think this is long enough!
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randomfoggytiger · 10 hours ago
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do you have any gossamer specific fanfic recs?
Collector's Edition: A Gust of Gossamers
I do, indeed! :DDD
Decided to pick authors who have crossover with each other, be it collaborations or dedicated mentions.
**Note**: There will be typos-- will edit them out later.
Loose chronological order below~
msk's
Home by Another Way
Neither of his parents had offered to come, so she'd stayed in North Carolina though it meant a run in with Blevens.
"You should have been with your family. Not hanging around my hospital room."
Truth be told, part of her hadn't wanted to come home and face the sadness.
Post Beyond the Sea Mulder and Scully bond over their fathers.
Final Arrangements
He'd insisted on bringing her home from the hospital, even though her mother had offered. Scully had sensed that it was important to him and had suggested her mother spend some time with Bill before he had to return to California.
Post Redux II Mulder finds Scully's pre-Gethsemane funeral plans.
The Brixton Witch by Kel & msk 
She paused for a moment, one hand on the car door and waited for the lightheadedness to fade. Her hesitation wasn't lost on Mulder, who shot a concerned glance in her direction....
It wasn't as if she could order her body to hustle that cellular repair because she was tired of feeling cold all the time. If it wasn't for her silk-blend long underwear, she'd be shivering in the late October breeze.
She firmly shut the car door, and strode toward the shop. Mulder overtook her, reaching around to push the door open.
Post Redux II Scully and Mulder investigate a haunted bakery.
And So It Goes
I sat up, heart pounding, gasping for breath as Mulder stumbled into the room. His hair was sticking up in the back like a rooster's comb, and if I wasn't having a breakdown, I would have laughed. "A bad one?" he asked.
"I give it a nine." I ran a shaky hand through my hair as Mulder brought me a glass of water from the bathroom.
"Yeah, but I bet you can't dance to it," he quipped as he handed me the glass and sat next to me on the bed. I took a long drink and wondered why people bring you water when you're upset. He rubbed my back as I took deep breaths and felt my heart try to escape my chest. "Which one was it? The one on the examining table?"
I bitterly regretted telling him about that particular horror show.
Post One Son Scully and Mulder investigate another abductee case.
Jabberwocky by bcfan & MaybeAmanda & Amy & Tesla & msk & Marchmont, Lucy & Kmom 
Mulder's eyes moved from Sybil to Scully. "Fro--Melvin said you had information. What's up?" he asked, the lack of expression in his voice expressing the utmost suspicion.
Sybil leaned forward, and the lazy drawl was nearly gone from her voice. "I think the company I work for is running insurance scams with the undead."
Post Bad Blood Scully and Mulder find themselves-- courtesy of the Lone Gunmen-- investigating another suspicious Texan town.
Mezzo Luna
"I think Carmela's emotions were carried through the food she cooked to the people who ate it. She was angry when she made the ravioli, and the people who ate it became enraged." He sat back and folded his arms, as if daring her to take her best shot.
Scully took a sip of her club soda and fought a smile.
Mulder and Scully investigate a town embroiled with heightened emotions (and confront a few of their own.)
"The Freedom Squad Birthday by Kel & msk 
"He wants a Freedom Squad Battle Fortress."
"I'm sure he'll like that mitt just fine."
Mulder was grinding the ball into the glove, forming the pocket. Which really wasn't necessary, but still, that's what a guy does with a new glove.
"I went to World O' Toys and Big Box Toys in Alexandria. I called a couple of stores in Arlington. I didn't get very far."
"He didn't give you much notice," Doggett said. As in, maybe if you talked to him more than once a month, you would have known earlier.
AU-- Post Existence Mulder is unstable, flaky, and constantly in and out of Scully and William's life.
mimic117's
Supermarket Sweep
Why don't they include this in the training? Especially for guys. It's gonna come up at some point. It's inevitable. You get comfortable with each other. You trust each other. You'd even die for each other. So why shouldn't you do this one little thing, too? Easy, right?
Wrong.
There's too many choices.
S1 Mulder is sent on a period shopping expedition.
One Another's Best
"I miss her, Mulder."
He places his hand on her sleeve.
"I know."
Post Paper Clip Mulder understands why Scully is snappy at work.
War Stories
How do you burn a ring inside a shirt cuff? He just smirked when I asked about that one.
He does that a lot. Never really explains anything, just shrugs or smirks.
Post Bad Blood Mulder's dry cleaner is used to regular damage.
Imperfect Penance
It's a dangerous assignment, I won't kid you about that. I knew what I was getting into from the start, although I wasn't happy about going in without backup. Still, Skinner was right. I couldn't risk the operation just because I feel naked without her next to me. But she found out anyway. Wish I could have seen her worming the details out of Skinner.
Pine Bluff Variant Mulder is glad to have Scully on the "in."
Getting By
It took a moment to achieve upright and stable, but once she did, Scully found she could shuffle with the best of the octogenarians. She'd made it around the bed, on a steady course to reach the door in under twenty minutes, when she remembered two things. One, there was someone in her apartment. Chances were really good that it was just her mother, who'd called the previous night and used her maternal radar to deduce her child's state of health. But two, she couldn't be sure of that and her gun was safely locked away in her end table. She turned and looked. Way back there. On the other side of the bed.
She swiveled slowly toward the door again and caught sight of the baseball bat standing in the corner.
S6 (or S7) Scully is very sick... and very loopy.
Jersey-deviled
"So *anyway*.... I'd just gotten close to the door when it opened again. The woman standing there yelled, 'Hey! Come on in!' and hauled me into the room."
"Did you get her description?"
"I already told you I didn't. It happened too fast, and once I was inside the room, I was mobbed."
"Right. I forgot."
Mulder and Scully, on the road with concussion stories.
Jaded
"Well, you're not upsetting me, Miss, uh..."
Ms. Cool Cucumber doesn't like it when Hotshot has to remind her of my *real* last name. Wish I could see the look she gave him. She's the one in control here and she seems to think I'm hiding something.
First Person Shooter's Jade Afterglow has thoughts after Scully and Mulder's interrogation.
Coming up Roses
"Look on the bright side, Mulder."
"Is there a bright side?"
"Of course there is. This time you weren't hurt enough to need drugs, so I won't have to listen to your snoring at night."
"Sez you. And I do not snore."
"Yes you do."
"No I don't."
Mulder is scratched up by rose bushes.
Chip Off the Old Block, Chip Off The Old Block 02 - Serendipity, Chip Off The Old Block 03 - Veracity, and Chip Off The Old Block 04 - Duplicity
Trading glances with Mulder, Charlie took on the task of deflecting his sister's annoyance. "We were almost mugged coming out of the gym, Sis. No big deal. We just didn't want to worry you."
"Yeah." Mulder dove through the loophole he'd been handed. "It was just some hop-head trying to score a little cash. We got the bad guy, the cops took him away, and we're both fine. End of story."
Glaring from one man to the other, Scully crossed her arms and lowered her brows. "Why do I get the feeling there's something else you're not telling me?"
AU-- Post Existence Mulder, Scully, and William are awash in Charlie Scully misadventures. (Turns out, William's little powers are genetic.)
Emily Sim's
Aeviternal
He closed the door and scooped up his jacket and a sweater he'd left on the couch. They joined other discarded parts of his wardrobe on his bed. Good to know the bed was good for something.
Post Fire Mulder ruminates on the word 'love'.
Softly
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. It thrums through his body with every beat of his heart, with every step that he takes towards her hospital room. How many times over the years has he done this? He’s only been gone a few minutes to grab some food for himself, but he can’t shake eight years’ worth of hospital visit paranoia from his shoulders.
Existence Mulder keeps watch over Scully and their son in the hospital.
Satchie's
Dancing with Mephistopheles
"You've sustained an injury to your left anterior cerebral artery, which has caused some hemorrhaging into your brain. That's why you're having speech difficulties and the weakness on your right side. We're going to repair the damaged artery and evacuate the clot."
Brain surgery? You've really outdone yourself this time, Mulder.
Post Demons Mulder realizes that it was Scully's blood, not her tears, on his shirt.
Renaissance de Mal 
Scully glanced back at the abandoned vehicle. "Don't move. I'll bring the car over here and get you situated. Then we'll go to the emergency room."
Mulder gingerly flexed his limb. "Nah. I think it's okay. I just need to work out the kinks. Probably twisted it funny or something."
"Uh huh. It's the 'or something' that worries me.
S5 Mulder adds another injury to his list while chasing after a demon dog.
Claimed
Scully frequently volunteered to handle this unpleasant task, but his misplaced guilt prevented him from accepting her gracious offer this time. For crying out loud, he nearly died simply because he went to an out-of-town basketball game. It was so senseless and humiliating. No, he would fight this battle alone.
Mulder's insurance company has no mercy.
In Extremis
The worst part of my decline is having to face my trials alone. So many times I've debated whether or not to tell Scully about my illness, but I can't seem to arrive at a decision. For crying out loud, she's a doctor. Sooner or later she's bound to notice the subtle clues of my deterioration. Do I honestly believe I can keep this from her until the bitter end? No matter how I check out, she's going to be heartbroken.
AU-- Pre-Requiem Mulder is too afraid to tell Scully about his brain disease.
Jenna's
IOU
We spend the next few hours reliving the past 22 years through my eyes. I tell her everything, but mostly about my time spent with Scully and all that has happened to us over the last two years. She finally has gained the nerve to ask "the" question.
"This Scully, is she is a "partner?" Or is she is a "partner, partner?"
AU-- Mulder and Samantha root around in their parent's attic.
Amy's
Where are You, China Blue?
"Listen to me."
He looked off, annoyed.
"You're not listening."
"Yes, I am."
"Then stop it, Daddy. Just hear me out. I don't care anymore. I don't care. It used to be fun. It used to be this great game. 'Don't get caught, Sammy', you'd say. It was great. My whole life was great. Until last week, I thought it was going to be that way forever."
AU-- Post Redux II Samantha is sick and tired of the games.
Through the Mist
You approach my body. I expect to find shock, horror and sadness etched within every line of the face I know better than my own. Instead you are smiling, you approach me as you have every other day of our friendship, your eyes take in my body with reverence, a small smile is dancing on your lips. Your arms are held behind your back and as you approach the bed I can see the little game you have intended to play. A date. The remembrance of the word is almost unbearable. Your smile grows as you present my corporeal self with the bouquet from behind your back. I can hear you lightly mocking me, laughing at the fact that I had said that fortunes would come between us and normality. You are out to prove me wrong, not out of vengeance or spite, but because that is how you and I grow and move forward.
AU-- Scully's spirit watches a broken Mulder take her body home.
Tesla's (Site)
Get Up, Mulder
He rolled onto his side. He still had his gun. What was the problem? He felt blood trickling from his scalp. Someone must have sapped him. He was such an idiot. He wiggled his fingers, tried to send a message to his feet. They moved. Good. Houston, we have movement.
"Scully?" he said, tentatively. He was in a parking deck. Something about a suspicious sale of fertilizer. Great. Wonderful. He knew Kersh wanted to kill him, but he had thought it would be death by boredom.
FTF and S6 Mulder's many "passing out" adventures.
After the Ship
"When a man has to start all over again----when a profiler, who sees evil everywhere, has to start over again- ---how do you rejoin the world?"
Black's eyebrows twitched once. "Ah," he said. "But I have a connection to the world. I have my daughter."
Mulder grimaced.
Black reached in his pocket for a couple of dollars. "Yes, Agent Mulder, I'm luckier than you. You have to find your way back without a lifeline."
Post Three Words Mulder remains disconnected, dully wondering if he's a clone.
Kel's No Longer at Ease Here
He looked over at me, nodded, and turned back to look out the window.
"If that's true, you have my deepest sympathy," he said.
If that's true. Like I'm a liar.
"Squamash, Pennsylvania. Sound familiar?" I asked him.
That got his attention.
Vienen Doggett tells Mulder about his own experience with death.
Kmom's How I Want The X-Files To End
"Scully? You awake?"
"Sure, Mulder, I'm awake." The voice is deadpan. "I'm always awake at... uh... 3:35 am."
"Well, I was wondering... "
"What else is new? Make it quick."
"Do you think it's possible for dinosaurs to still be walking the earth somewhere?"
Post Existence Mulder and Scully have an early morning conversation about reinstatement.
bcfan's
Party Line
At Mulder's hurt look, Scully swallowed and closed her eyes. Get a grip, she scolded herself. You usually love his brilliance and energy. Thinking back to yesterday's discussion - childhood report card comments - Scully remembered she'd shared "plays well with others." Mulder had countered with "has a low tolerance for repetition."
That's the key, Scully decided. I have to find a way to pull us both out of this miasma of snarkiness. I have to give Mulder something new and different to think about.
Post Firewalker quarantine slumber party.
Wired
"I'm enlisting your help on a field assignment, but it's going to be undercover. Can you get away unofficially for a few days?"
"Well, I have some back vacation time coming. Agent Scully, might I ask-"
"No. I'm on an unsecured line. Drop off whatever paperwork you need to fill out and meet me in your own car - not a Bureau car, Agent Pendrell - at the food court of the Key Mall in Frederick. It's about 40 miles from D.C. Do you know where it is?"
"I'm sure I can find it. I'll be there as soon as I can."
Scully nodded. She still had one friend in the FBI.
Wetwired Scully is on the run, calling up Pendrell for help and fleeing to her mother's.
Bon Voyage with an Open Book
"No, I'm thinking about early humans. It must have been confusing for the first people to dream - to go somewhere without going."
"I never thought of that before."
Mulder throws his arm over his eyes and murmurs. "I don't want to go somewhere anymore, Scully. It's too hard."
"Mulder, I'm coming over."
Post Paper Hearts Scully drops by with a present.
Hanukkah
Scully spotted it on a dusty shelf at a gas station QuikiMart, propped next to boxes of tinsel and faded red and green ornaments. A quick decision later, the miniature menorah was tucked into her plastic bag with sunflower seeds and a lottery ticket promising 38 million dollars.
Mulder looked surprised as he examined her offering.
"For good luck," she murmured.
Post Kaddish Scully buys Mulder a menorah.
Twin Paradox, A New Interpretation
"Perfect timing, Mulder. No haircut, but I just got rid of three days worth of beard. How are you feeling?" Scully again held the water to Mulder's lips as she spoke.
"Better," he quietly replied, then gestured weakly with his hand. "Roses?"
"From my mother. Don't worry, she signed my middle name on the card. I knew they were for you, though."
Mulder smiled, and Scully's heart turned over.
"I've been dreaming. Good dreams. You're in them, Scully."
Amor Fati Mulder recovers in an old folks' home.
The Breakfast Club
"I'm cooking this morning, Mulder. Do you have a toaster?"
"Of course. This place has all the accoutrements of civilized dining."
Scully stepped into the kitchen. "Where is it?"
Mulder squeezed around her and crouched low, fishing with long arms in the back of a bottom cabinet. "Ta da." He held up an avocado clunker from the 1970s, covered in grime.
Post Amor Fati Scully keeps Mulder well-fed during his recovery; and he begins to return the favor.
Pine-scented
The funny little Charlie Brown Christmas tree looked almost lovely if he squinted and turned his head sideways. Lights sparkled in the windows and soft music caressed the room. It was beginning to look a lot like happiness realized.
Will climbed on Mulder's lap as he sat cross-legged on the floor, taping wires to the branches so the baby couldn't pull on them. Will drooled on his shirt and grabbed his nose. "Gah."
Post Existence Christmas, with poop and romance.
Obfusc8er's
Mandates from Heaven by Obfusc8er & Xtreme Unction 
Mulder leaned against one of the columns, casually crossing one ankle over the other, and squinted. He was trying to make out the textual message in the shimmering, as he is wont to do every time he visits the Lincoln Memorial. As usual, the epistle hidden in the water eluded him. He and Samantha used to play this game as children, making up imaginary Pentateuchal directives during every visit to the national mall. He smiled at the memory of some of the more ridiculous mandates from heaven they pretended to see.
AU-- Pre-S1 Mulder sees a "happily ever after" doppelganger.
Spending Time
I close my eyes briefly, trying to blink away the encroaching fog. I bite my lip until it bleeds. Even as I fade, I want her badly. She winds her hands together and shoves rhymically on my chest in a futile attempt at resuscitation. How lucky I am that my doctor is the pathologist who never says die.
Post Dod Kalm Mulder and Scully swap music requests after a night of nightmares.
True Reflections
Over here! Don't forget me! Mulder shouts silently.
"Okay. If I'm leaving anything behind, I'll just come by tomorrow to pick it up. I'll leave you alone now." She turns to leave.
He cannot take seeing her walk away right now, and he swallows hard.
"I don't want to be alone."
Post Grotesque Scully stands by her shaken partner.
Russian Roulette by Obfusc8er & bcfan 
The next time he awakens, Mulder bites his lip hard to keep silent, but he can't prevent the shakes.
Terma Mulder's stint in the Russian gulog.
Kiss and Makeup
"I got here as soon as I could. You sounded...lonely."
He lowered his eyes before saying the last word, unable to meet her gaze. She nodded at him, noting that he was no longer making an effort to pretend that his visit was anything but personal. She backed away a couple of steps, leaving the door wide open. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him. He stood fidgeting with the cuff of his trench coat, waiting for a cue, for a hint of what she needed from him. He was willing to do anything for her.
She wanted to let him hold her, but a lump was growing in her throat. She was busy trying desperately not to cry in front of him.
Pre-Gethsemane Scully and Mulder have a frank conversation about her health.
Reverto Ad Noctum
I can smell your fear.
Detour-- the Mothman's perspectives.
Convergence
Everything is running smoothly, and it all results in a living being, itself interacting with other beings in much the same way the wandering atoms within it do. The organism moves, communicates with, and manipulates members of its own and other kinds to become a part of an always-jostling, writhing whole conglomeration clinging precariously to a tilted, rolling rock. The system is humming along nicely, taking care of itself quite well.
And then something goes terribly wrong. The steady fluid pressure inside the organism's network of blood vessels rises slightly, the heart pumping frantically. The adrenal glands release endocrine and adrenaline into the bloodstream, causing the blood to become a much more efficient oxygen carrier. The protein hasn't made it back to the lungs yet. The combination of speeding heartbeat and frantically pumping lungs makes the entire system shake and vibrate with anticipation.
Monday, and one of the many days Scully lived through.
Deus ex Machina
Her partner was staring at the low tree stump upon which Legere had been splitting wood. She walked toward him, stopping when she saw the subject of his inspection. The face of the stump was sawed off with a smooth surface. The gray weathered grains were stained black and brown in a starburst pattern. Scully leaned closer and squinted. The stain was more recent and thinned around the edges, revealing its true pigment. It was red.
"It's blood," she stated, mostly to herself.
S6 Scully (and Mulder) come face-to-face with a demon on one of Kersh's patrols.
Papercut
"Don't move, Mulder. I'm not yelling. You have a concussion...among other things."
He winced as he felt fat raindrops falling on him with stinging force. Everything before him was a blur. He waited, and Scully's form slowly took shape.
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
He looked at her, but his thoughts were clouded by pain in his head.
"Yeah. Fingers."
Scully finds her partner after he narrowly escapes a tornado.
One Man's Journey
I sense a wave of trembling pass through her frame as I marvel at the implausibility of our circumstances. Her head rests against my chest, against the very place where someone, or something, split me open and tried to remove my faith in her. When they realized they could not have that, they took everything else?
Post Three Words Mulder is desperate to keep Scully around while (temporarily) helpless to re-situate back to "normal."
Waddles52 and Little Bullit 89's Spectacular Lights and Chili Nights
"The injection should make you sleepy. I'm going to talk to the manager and find out where the closest medical facilities are. You need to be seen by a doctor."
"You're a doctor," he said sleepily. The phenergan was beginning to take effect.
"That's true, but in case you haven't noticed, the vast majority of my patients are dead.
AU-- Mulder and Scully, emergency appendicitis, and an important "I need you."
bellefleur's
Kiss of an Angel's Wings
Every time he closes his eyes, he sees her face. It's been like this for months now, maybe years, but never like tonight. Never like this. The memory of those baby blues riveted to him is seared into his soul.
Post Tempus Fugit Pendrell's last, besotted thoughts.
Iced
After the fact, it was hard for Scully to describe just what had occurred since it all happened so quickly. Ernie had just finished a rousing rendition of "Rubber Ducky," and as the music changed, the other characters emerged from the curtain, one by one, for the final number. Her focus, of course, had been on Big Bird, hoping for his sake that the show could end without incident. But as she watched him glide gracefully along behind Elmo in the long line of figures circling the ice, suddenly he broke formation and made a beeline for Oscar. With a dive at the garbage can, he and the Grouch slid toward the center of the rink, in a mangled pile of feathers and fur.
Post Detour Mulder and Scully are sent on an FBI undercover mission... as Sesame Street characters on ice.
When Cows Fly
Scully froze. She stopped breathing altogether, hoping that complete lack of motion would prevent him from waking further so that she could surreptitiously pull herself away. Slowly resuming her breathing, she began to plot another run at the alarm clock when a nearby rumbling startled her.
"If you wanted to cuddle you could've just asked."
Rain King Scully is flustered by Mulder's oblivious consumption of her space.
42 Flavors
Scully turned at Mulder's voice to see him pull up alongside her, and then she followed him out the door. One of the tables they had passed on the way in was now vacant, so they took their places in the wrought iron chairs flanking the matching round table.
"So, was it a good birthday, Scully?"
"Best one I've had in six months."
Post The Unnatural Mulder whisks Scully away to get gelato.
Combustion
She and her partner had faced this situation too many times, with one possibly losing the other permanently. Had this become almost mundane for them? To someone who had never faced this trauma before, the occasion magnified lost moments and things left unsaid. But for Scully, such thoughts had not even occurred to her, until now. Was it possible that she may never see Mulder again and never have the chance to express how she truly felt about him?
Mulder survives a bomb blast cave-in; and reunites with a relieved Scully, ready to take the next step.
In Heels
You'd think by now I'd be used to getting ditched, but with Mulder, it was never about gender. Sure, he was trying to protect me from taking the same stupid risks he was, but not because he thought I was a liability. That doesn't mean it didn't piss me off, but this--this one was a personal insult. And I don't like being insulted.
Mulder's swollen ankle prevents him from joining Scully and a misogynistic detective on the field.
Mother Love
Scully had invited him to join her and her mom for brunch that Sunday, but he politely declined and explained simply, "There's something I have to do." She accepted his excuse without question, perhaps understanding, or simply respecting his need to open up to her in his own time.
Post Sein und Zeit Mulder visits Tena Mulder's grave for Valentine's Day.
Triple Returns
"The Son."
Scully and Hughes both turned to look at Mulder who had now moved into the living room and was standing over the tape outlining where the body had fallen.
"Pardon me?" Hughes inquired.
"The Son. Daniels was the only son in his family, just like the second victim of each trio before. The original killers saw themselves as an unholy trinity, and they killed along the same pattern."
AU-- S7 Mulder and Kristen Kilar meet again.
Visceral
Your focus turns back to the steel pan containing the most poetic of my earthly remains. You place it inside the frame of the scale then write down the weight. You set my heart on the cutting board and pick up a long knife, your actions practiced and controlled, almost mechanical. The blade presses against the mottled epicardium, expressing thick, clotted blood from the vessels. But you pause, held back by something invisible and unspoken, your masterful hands trembling. Turning, you look at my opened body, my innermost self exposed. A few clear drops run from beneath your mask, dripping onto the front of your gown, mingling there with a smear of red.
Post All Things Daniel Waterston selfishly watches Scully autopsy his dead body.
Then Comes Marriage
"C'mon, Scully, it'll be fun. The lights, the magic. There's no other place like it on earth."
AU-- Mulder and Scully accidentally get married in Vegas.
Arms Wide Open
It hits me again: We did it. We made a life. I can't believe it.
And once more I laugh to myself in disbelief and start crying. This seems to be an automatic response for me.
AU-- Requiem Mulder wasn't abducted; and bolts from room after being told the surprise news.
Easter Vigil
All she knows for sure is that he was dead. She held his lifeless body. She touched his decaying flesh. She stood watch as they sealed him in the casket and then lowered him into the ground.
He was dead. And then he wasn't.
He is risen.
Deadalive Scully thinks of her waxing and waning faith in miracles.
Simple Man
The moment was interrupted as Will emerged from his room and rejoined them. It was Mulder who first noticed him, and Scully followed his gaze. Their son was now wearing jeans, a Yankees shirt, a ballcap, and his baseball mitt--the way he usually dressed when his father took him to the park to play catch.
AU-- Post Existence Mulder and Scully discuss his childhood while William changes his Halloween costume.
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Mulder was standing on his desk, holding something above his head, apparently installing...
"Ceiling tiles? Mulder, what are you doing?"
He almost fell off the desk, startled by her presence, but she quickly reached out to steady him. He smiled sheepishly and climbed off the desk.
AU-- IWTB Mulder keeps putting off his doctorate.
truthwebothknow1's
Natiruvaaq
He tried to cut through the fog that left his mind in a painful vice.
Mulder, caught in the fog.
Echoes
Her aunt had been bugging her for months about coming over to spend a few days and finally meet her.
S6 (or S7) Scully vacations in Ireland, where she not only finds her own X-File but runs into her partner.
Enchanted Shores
The soft crunch of feet through wet sand broke her out of her reverie as her partner approached her, grinning like a little boy bringing her a natural sea treasure.
The man with the child in his eyes.
S6 (or S7) Mulder and Scully take a lovely dovey trip to Maine.  
Home Alone
He stood at the lip of the stairs swaying and was feeling quite disorientated when the downstairs phone ringing tore a path through the cotton in his head. His good foot shifted inadvertently onto the first step but his toes could not dig into the carpet enough to stop his forward momentum. A final sway and his crutches slipped from his grasp with a clatter and he pitched forward, too shocked and slacked jawed to cry out. The hall flooring came up to collide with his nose at an alarming speed just as the answering machine kicked in.
Mulder gets into progressively worse scrapes on Valentine's Day, resulting in Maggie's arrival, Scully and Skinner's panic, and a reporter's opportunistic attempt to snap a photo.
My December
And then they found him.
Mainly because the puddle of red stood out in stark contrast to the endless white. Fortunately, they'd spotted his limp body wedged upside-down against a snow-covered rock before the last gimlet slither of light vanished over the next mountain. Only Mulder could render himself trussed up like some macabre raspberry ripple snowball....
AU-- S7 Mulder is wrapped up in barbed wire after a disastrous car accident. With no other recourse, Skinner and Scully prepare to pull it out themselves.
If I Close My Eyes Forever and Vortex
He was so excited at the thought of revisiting his old haunts and he hadn't really come down since. He called it his Oxford beat. Scully had nearly fallen out of the boat, laughing as he said it. They nearly both ended up in the river. Good memories, he was going to need them, they both were.
A sudden slither of melancholy caught her in the ribs. His hand tugging gently at hers brought her out of her reverie.
AU-- Mulder wakes from a dreamworld, nearly debilitated with serious injuries. Scully takes him to England to help him move on from the FBI; and the two-- of course-- stumble across an x-file.
Si la vie est un cadeau
I'm not the Close Encounter hero, but I'm close to something...terrible. I'm Fox William Mulder... the most colossal looser of all time. I am both found and at the same time irrevocably lost to you...to this. And I want...no need to think that I didn't have a choice, ...like Sam, that all this was inevitable for some universal goodness concept, which somehow got lost or derailed along the way. I made the choice Scully, but was it mine to begin with? Was this not ordained long ago by happenstance of my birthright? When I think of what I've cost you...
Maybe I deserve all this; perhaps everything was leading to this, in some divine plan that was kept secret from us. Though I'm sure you would be the first to tell me that, God doesn't use power tools against helpless living flesh.
S8 Mulder recounts the temporary bouts of reprieve he'd feel amidst the trauma of his torture.
BONUS
I can't bounce from this list in good conscience without mentioning Vickie Moseley and Donna and Sheryl Martin and RocketMan and Cecily Sasserbaum and prufrock's love, authors I've put a lot of hours into. However, since Tumblr has limits on links per post, I'll merely suggest you search their names (e.g. #Vickie Moseley) on this blog; and limit this rec to a fic I became reacquainted with today.
prufrock’s love/plenilune’s (Ao3, Gossamer, WBM, colonizationhq)  
Malebolge 
"I'm not eating a bat, Mulder. We don't have any food, no drinkable water, and you've got to be freezing. Better start climbing, partner."
"I wanted to wait until you were awake - to make sure you were okay before I left you." He's on his knees, facing me, very close. I can feel the heat radiating off him in the darkness like an aura and a warm hand touches my good shoulder. "You know I care about you, don't you, Scully?"
Something was very wrong if Mulder was saying this while kneeling on my wet trench coat, half-dressed, in a cave. Maybe he hit his head - that usually precedes declarations of his love.
"I know you do, Mulder. Just go."
"Do you love me?" He'd found my hand, holding it tightly in his.
Bad wrong.
"You know I do. What's wrong, Mulder?"
AU-- Mulder and Scully (and a tour guide) become trapped in an underground cave-in, and slowly realize they're not getting out.
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nivalingreenhow · 10 months ago
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I don't know why I keep bothering to make my own posts about the US election bc maybe like three people will reblog, but I really need to like talk about how people keep saying their vote doesn't count because they live in a safely red/blue state
Like you guys do understand that the reason your state stays red is because people aren't voting, right? Georgia was a safely red state until last election when there was a massive grassroots movement to get people to vote. And it flipped. North Carolina was about 2% away from flipping, too. California and New York, "safe" blue states are becoming increasingly closer to swing states because people think it doesn't matter if they vote or not. Republicans don't want you to vote because they know higher voter turn out means they lose. And not only the presidency, but congress and local positions, too. If every person who thought their vote didn't count actually did vote, the landscape would look very different than it does right now
Local activists are working so hard in red and swing states to get people registered and to convince them to vote. A swing state is not always a swing state. Florida used to be a swing state and now it's a red state. The entire south used to vote Democrat. In fact, it was the biggest stronghold against Reagan if you look at individual counties.
Voter suppression is rampant in the US South, and part of voter suppression is convincing you that your vote doesn't matter. So please, don't take anything for granted. There are so many states that could flip one way or the other if enough people just vote
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David Badash at NCRM:
President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a visit to Hurricane Helene-damaged parts of North Carolina on Friday, announcing he is planning on reforming or “getting rid of FEMA,” and proposed an unprecedented move to condition disaster relief on the passage of a voter ID law by California’s lawmakers, “as a start.” Trump’s trip, which will include travel to California later Friday, appears designed to target the emergency management agency, which he has been criticizing for months. In what appeared to be scripted remarks, Trump later elaborated that he would “sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think frankly, FEMA’s not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and, uh, whether it’s a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time.”
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In his wide-ranging remarks, President Trump also claimed that “rather than going through FEMA,” disaster relief aid to California and North Carolina “will go through us,” meaning, through his administration. FEMA is a federal government agency under the wide umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The president nominates the HHS Secretary, a cabinet level official, and the FEMA administrator.
[...] “So, I want two things,” Trump repeated, “I want voter ID for the people of California. They all want it. Right now you have no, you don’t have voter ID. People want to have to voter identification. You wanna have proof of citizenship. Ideally, you have one-day voting, but I just want voter ID to start, and I want the water to be released, and they’re gonna get a lot of help from the U.S.”
Petty Tyrant Trump is seeking to extort California into accepting voter ID policies in order to get disaster relief aid. This is the type of stuff that could cause blue state secession.
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I had everything framed and was all set to go. And then this cat pops up....
—American photographer Edward Weston's birthday is in four days. He was born on March 24, 1886. In March 1937, Weston became the first photographer ever to be awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He received notification of this award on March 22, 1937, just two days before his 51st birthday! It's one of my very favorite photo-historical coincidences. Thinking about that today, and the fact that Weston kept up to 30 cats at a time in his cabin in Carmel, California, got me thinking about this photograph, the last one I made (with a little help from my friend) before I moved south to North Carolina.
This particular cat showing up when it, where it did, was a very lovely sendoff.
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rhode-island-empire · 35 years ago
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Welcome to Little Rhody!
Hey hey! I'm Rhode Island, the 13th state and also the smallest. But you can call me Rhody for short! Feel free to stick around and ask me anything you want. Jeet? No? Wanna cabinet?
...Well, in that case, thanks for visiting Rhode Island! Wait, was I supposed to add anything else?
Oh yeah right I'm going to annex Connecticut and reclaim Bristol County from the Massholes!!
SUCCESSFULLY ANNEXED: Seekonk, Fall River, Bridgeport, Long Island, Michigan for whatever reason, @the-earl-of-lemongrab-official
SECESSION DATE: March 9, 2025
Formerly official-rhode-island
Anyways sadly my blog here is only a sideblog. But my main is none of your business! (Even though I think half of youse guys know it already.)
PLEASE tag war images, self-harm (both images and discussions), eating disorder content, true crime community (tcc), incest, graphic sexual content, proship content, reblog bait, "dog girls sniffing our master", "[character] is a whore slut babygirl" with #go away rhody
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she/her
Yan types: CSWP, LSMT, 278, ODDAR, DCEA
twinsies: @rhode-island-real
BFF and ally: @literally-the-first-state
important allies: @maryland-officially, @the-state-of-georgia-official (sister!), @newhampshireofficial, @the-fr-north-carolina-totally, @the-official-news, @the-real-illinois (except Chicago because I screwed up), @definitely-indiana (#1 fan), @therealnewyork, @real-minnesota-state, @the-fmby-north-carolina-totally, @the-republic-of-california-fr-fr (secession allies), @satan-offical, @official-vermont-fr, @ohio-thestate, @arizona-official, @mid-maryland, @city-of-montmure
SWORN ENEMIES FOR LIFE SO TAKE THAT: @massachusetts-official, @real-chicago, @hartford-whalers-official, @oregon-truly-official
we got @officially-lowes and @mcdonlads-official locations!!
One of THOSE Yankees fans (because fawk Bwaston and because hey Yankees family)
favorite foods: clam cakes and real chowdah (the clear one not the white one that looks like rotten oatmeal)
favorite drinks: Awful Awfuls and Del's Lemonade
I will call you hon (platonically obviously)
Literally Minori Hanasato IRL
Fuck you I'm not cute
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