#Dana!! How are you?

[corvidayyy]

had to get this out of my head

[windwenn]

Big jackets (everybody cheers)

[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

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[nicknelosn]

the x files + text posts -> 1/?

[typewriter-worries]

There must be a line where I begin and you end

Doris Dana, from a letter to Gabriela Mistral (@liriostigre) | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins (@timotaychalamet) | Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | Shadow, Raleigh Ritchie

[its-kinda-snowy]

Plotting to deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate if I'm being honest :/

[ovenproofowl]

bad blood is one hell of an episode. it literally opens with mulder straight-up murdering a regular teenager via stake-through-the-heart and he and scully are like pretty sure the FBI is going to be sued and they're going to be doing some serious jail time. except both of them remember the story differently. scully's story is predictably logical and straight-forward. the killer was drugging his victims before bleeding them out, mimicking a vampire attack by wearing fake fangs (which are proven to be fake. this is crucial. this kid was wearing plastic fangs when mulder stabbed him. in the chest. with a wooden stake.) what is also crucial is that mulder was a victim of this murderer's attack and so he was tripping hard when scully intercepts the killer. mulder - whilst tripping balls - is convinced that the killer has glowing eyes and flew across the room before running out the door. and so - whilst tripping balls - he gives chase and ends up stabbing the kid through the heart with a wooden stake.

and of course this is the x files and so while scully and mulder are arguing over who gave who the hardest time in their percieved series of events, it turns out that mulder was right. the kid was a vampire and the stake didn't actually kill him. the fangs were fake because he was copying the sorts of vampires that you see in books and on tv. he was a real vampire.

and it's not just the kid. there are bunches of vampires, including the sheriff. the whole town are just. vampires. the lot of 'em. and the second they're found out, they just up and leave without a trace.

sometimes the extent to which mulder turns out to be right in this show is borderline ludicrous, it's amazing, I love it. but what was even better was that the biggest point of contention between scully and mulder's stories wasn't even the vampire thing, it was whether or not the sheriff was actually hot.

[leavingautumn13]

ham-to-ham combat

[i have commissions open now]

[lyss-butterscotch]

We interrupt this RW program to bring you a message:

*Deep inhale* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

<- watched the owl house finale

[t1koy-roll]

The Denizens of Nueva York

[flockdog]

in the furry timeline, watching the x-files pilot

[ID: 2 screenshots of the X files, drawn on top of to make mulder and scully anthros. scully is a red and white spaniel dog with a speckled muzzle, and mulder is a red fox. in the first image, scully is wearing a grey blazer with blue tartan, her cross necklace, and a dark blue shirt underneath. she has her head slightly inclined, with a flat expression, and mulder sits in a chair in front of a lot of photos on a light screen on top of a machine the describer can't identify. he is wearing a collared shirt with faint thick stripes. they are both in mulder's office. in the bottom left "the X-files (bullet) pilot" is written in yellow. end ID]

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

just finished 5x01 and it was SUCH a good episode, i cannot wait to tell you my thoughts in excruciating detail, BUT: i cannot stop laughing at the poster in scully’s apartment of a bunch of different tomatoes

[calebsrottingcorpse]

Happy last day to be legally gay (ft. brain dead Wittebane doodle under the cut)

[bisexualfbiagents]

Well, I wish I could help you out. You know, I’m just… on vacation.

🫧 Dana Scully in Chinga (5.10)

[sentientsky]

Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose the Time War

welcome back to x-files brainrot (inspired by late-night conversations with alex lol)