#Dod Kalm

[cecilysass]

Happy 30th Anniversary Of Me Watching My 1st Episode of TXF (I’m pretty sure)

I didn’t watch TXF regularly until season 5 or so, and for my own reasons, I’ve always tried to remember what the literal actual first ep I ever saw was.

Although I was in high school when it started, for four seasons of the show I was in college (yes, yes, yes, very old, yes), and I know I watched it for the first time at home with my parents, not in the dorms. My parents have never met a police procedural show they didn’t want to watch (then and now), so they’d been watching it while I was away at college. And I vaguely remember being at home on a break and my mom describing the concept and saying they liked the characters, but that it was a little supernatural for them—that she thought it was more my kind of thing.

I watched an episode with my parents and remember immediately being taken with the MSR—like, immediately. (I remember asking my mom: sooooo are the two leads going to get together? Yes, right? What’s their deal?)

But I’ve had trouble remembering what episode that first one was. I thought it might have been Dod Kalm for some reason, but I’m not sure why.

Just now I was looking at season 2 air dates and noticed Dod Kalm aired in March 1995, which was spring my freshman year. So I researched when my college was on spring break that semester— and lo and behold, it was the week Dod Kalm aired.

So it seems pretty likely that WAS the episode. I know that is really nerdy, but it makes me happy to know. Happy 30th anniversary of me watching the show for the first time.

(actual footage of those of us who were in college during the show’s original run)

[renegadesstuff]

PERSONAL SPACE? WHAT'S THAT?! ❤️

[x-files-polls]

Martin Wells: Considering he was a one off character who had the entire episode centered on him, he did a great job carrying it and making you care. Really compelling.

Olafsson: Idk I just love his vibes

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

Redrum: After his wife is murdered, a lawyer friend of Doggett's tries to clear his name of the crime but the days regress backwards.

Død Kalm: Mulder and Scully are called in when a boatload of survivors from a U.S. Navy destroyer escort are found. What particularly catches Agent Mulder's attention is that all of these Sailors appear to have aged many decades in the course of a few days. Mulder and Scully travel to Norway where they find a civilian fisherman who is willing to take them to the ship's last known position.

[agent-troi]

i’m watching dod kalm and i want to run my fingers through mulder’s hair it looks so soft

[shutupineedtothink]

X files mini review/analysis 2x19 "Dod Kalm"

Bruh. What. What??? I was just either screaming at my television or sitting with my jaw on the floor for the last 10 minutes of that ep.

Im trying to form thoughts about this episode but I'm mostly blown out of the water atm. Pun intended.

The age makeup was terrifying and looked kinda cheesy to me at first but the longer the ep went on my brain accepted it and it just became scary. One of the more scary things the show has done so far tbh, because aging comes for us all.

Talk about capitalizing on our fear of aging, and doing body horror in an unexpected yet somehow obvious way.

Also love them throwing us a vaguely scientific explanation for what happened, can't be aliens every episode i guess

But also, why kill the pirate guy? I didn't really get that, and i thought there would be a reveal there that never came.

But of course it's our duo who carry this at the end of the day. And tbh? With the age makeup neither of them have their looks or even much expression to draw us in, and they still manage to do it. That last conversation they had? Devastating. If I didn't know they were gonna make it i might have believed that as a death scene.

The rescue crew coming in and just showing their heads angled toward each other passed out, but not their faces? Diabolical. Also kinda really beautiful.

Her talking about her NDE and having nothing to fear? Him saying I'm so tired and her closing his eyes and telling him to sleep? Jesus my heart.

The norse mythology?? The wolf at the door?? Oh my god.

And then it's her notes that saved his life?? My dudes I simply cannot.

Send me your best fics of them waking up and seeing each other young again stat.

[randomfoggytiger]

Collector's Edition: Curated SlippinMickeys

A collection of short fics to celebrate @slippinmickeys's birthday!

Loose chronological order below~

@slippinmickeys/SlippinMickeys/Slippin’ Mickeys’s

L'appel du Vide 

Gross misconduct, a career in tatters, but the urge is so compelling she has to squeeze her fingernails into her palm until the pain distracts her. 

Mulder, Scully, and a motel room in Bellefleur.

Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 13 (Tumblr)

“Fox!” from somewhere east of the organic section, her voice a little too cheerful. He hadn’t called her after the last time he’d been with her — Scully had sailed back into his life a few months later and he’d left Donna astern, only to be thought of in passing.

S1 Mulder is no longer available.

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“But what’s he like ?” Missy asks, hand curled around a chunky mug, her fingers playing with the string of a tea bag. She asks as though it’s a question with an easy answer, like Mulder’s some sandy-haired podiatrist who enjoys cooking and tennis. 

“I don’t know,” Scully answers truthfully. “He’s… brooding. Quick-witted. Intelligent.”

Melissa’s eyebrows go up. She probably shouldn’t have led with brooding . 

S1 Scully defends herself to Melissa.

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“He was here about thirty minutes ago,” comes Missy’s soft voice a few moments later, and Scully drags her eyes to her sister’s face. “He didn’t want to wake you.”

She can feel a gentle smile tug at the corners of her cheeks.

“How is he?” she asks politely, not really knowing what else to say. 

“…better,” Missy says after a pause that Scully can’t help but clock. 

Post One Breath Scully and Melissa have another Mulder chat.

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His apartment was nearly as dark as it had been the only other time she’d been there, this time without the oppressive feel of the anger and resentment that had rolled off its resident in waves. Dull light crept in from yellow streetlights outside the lone window above the desk, supplemented by a dim, buzzing glow from the aquarium. It smelled like leather and dust. 

She tipped in probably more fish food than was necessary, but she wasn’t sure how long Mulder had been gone, and wasn’t entirely sure when he’d be back. Both he and Dana were the worse for wear. The fish went at the food with ichthylogistic zeal, darting to the surface like scaled torpedos. She’d once read that people who kept fish tended to be the happiest and most optimistic of all pet owners, but something about that didn’t ring true--at least not here in Mulder’s space.

Once she’d found a lamp and switched it on, she took her time looking about, her knowledge about her sister’s partner leaving vast swathes of empty story she hoped to fill. 

Post Dod Kalm Melissa cares for her sister and her sister's partner.

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They sat on the bed together, shoulders rubbing companionably....

Post Syzygy Mulder and Scully toast.

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Other cars had already pulled over, their brake lights a bright smear on the car's glass. She slowed as she approached an overpass, pulled under it and as far onto the shoulder as she could and flipped on her hazards. The rain poured down in front and behind them and it had the cold, insulated feel of a cave behind a waterfall. 

Mulder rolled his head towards her in the passenger seat. He had been dozing. 

"Everything all right?" he said, sniffing awake and blinking the sleep from his eyes. 

"Storm cell," Scully said, eyes still straight ahead.

On the job in the midst of a storm.

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The guy guarding him had a tendency to keep his weight on his heels, and Mulder had been going to the left a lot. He bounced the ball over and shot a glance at Scully to make sure she was watching — she was, leaning against the chain link fence, her hair cutting an autumn angle across her face.

Mulder shows off his skills.

Charm/Strange

Proximity to Fox Mulder is an education unto itself. She sometimes thinks knowledge might be his religion.

Scully and Mulder and the mutual benefits of their partnership.

Hi💜 6 and/or 62

She exhaled a breath. She thought of Mulder riding her couch for a few days, banging around her kitchen, leaving the toilet seat up. Ties left over the back of the sofa, socks balled up in the middle of the floor.

It was a Friday night, which meant instead of carpooling to the office and a couple days more or less as average as any other, she’d spend the weekend with extra dishes in her sink, and him hogging the Sunday crossword.

“Of course,” she said, trying to keep her tone even, “it’s no imposition. Come on over.”

She looked longingly at the bath she’d just filled up. She could probably get a 30 minute soak in before he got there.

“The thing is,” he said sheepishly, “I hesitated calling you. I’m… I’m already here.”

Mulder bunks with Scully while his apartment is fumigated.

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The man loved her daughter fiercely, as was obvious to anyone who cared to look. But to the untrained eye, Dana was merely protective....

Maggie knows.

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“He killed her,” he said, deflating.

He’d been expecting a ‘ we don’t know that yet’ or a ‘ without a body, there’s still hope, Mulder .’ Instead, she said: “And you killed him .” Something in the way she held her shoulders made him think she wasn’t sorry for it. 

He would have crumpled then and there if her nose hadn’t started to bleed.

AU-- Post Paper Hearts Mulder finds his sister.

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“This must be the place,” Mulder said, unwilling or unable to connect eyes with her, and he pulled up their rented Lariat behind the K-9 unit, cutting the engine and closing his door before Scully even had a chance to undo her seatbelt.

She pawed at her own door handle, carefully keeping her sightline above the stack of Dairy Queen napkins that were shoved into the well of the passenger door, each one stained a dark, cherry red. She ran a finger under her nose, unconsciously checking her knuckle for any traces of dried blood.

Cancer arc Mulder, Scully, and the eerie woods.

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“No improvement,” she says, and he can tell she’s holding back tears. 

“Well it’s not—“

“Mulder,” she says, a warning. A plea. 

Something tight forms behind his ribs. 

“I’ve asked Father McCue to come administer last rites.”

All his muscles suddenly tense, and he feels as though if he weren’t doing his absolute best to remain as unaffected as possible, he might hyperextend into the spastic U of a tetanus patient. 

“It’s too early,” he says, and he knows it’s the wrong thing when she closes her eyes and rests them, her face looking ever so slightly pained. 

AU-- Redux II Mulder leaves, angry with his partner's God.

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“It’s okay,” Gibson said as he skidded to his knees beside where she fell, “he loves you, too.”

AU-- The End Scully was shot instead.

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It’s odd, he thinks, how he’s never really noticed the sway of her hips.

Okay, he’s noticed , but he hasn’t looked . Not like the guy at their 10 o’clock is looking. Watching as Scully sashays back to their table, her clompy heels scuffing along the floor with a gritty, salacious rasp.

Post FTF Mulder, Scully, and a guy in a bar.

Unnamed

“I don’t think I want to know what this is to,” she said, flitting her eyes quickly to his.

“If I said ‘my heart’ would it engender affection or rage?”

“Vexation, probably.” She rolled the tip of her tongue over the inside of her cheek.

“Okay, then. I’ll just stick with my original plan.” He pocketed the other key, and then slid the one she’d chosen into the pocket at the front of her shirt. It didn’t fit in all the way, and pulled at the loose material, the metal heavy and thick.

“Which is?”

“Get in the car and find out.”

Post HTGSC Mulder has Scully pick between two gifts.

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The extra foam from his cappacino sat above his lip like teenage peach fuzz, like the milk mustache Matthew wore when he slurped the dregs from a bowl of Coco Puffs. 

Scully returns the Red Museum favor.

Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 1, Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 3, Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 12, and Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 18

“She was-“

“It’s none of my business, Mulder,” she cut him off.

It wasn’t her business, really — it was her heart.

S6 Scully finds Diana's bra in Mulder's apartment.

Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 7, Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 8, Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 14, and Three Sentence Prompts - Chapter 18

She turned to him, her face one of surprise, but she didn’t resist when he took her by the elbow and led her out of the pub, her erstwhile beau still at the bar, his mouth agape.

Once they were on the sidewalk, she finally spoke: “But I thought-“ she started.

“Don’t think,” he interrupted....

S6 Mulder clears up a few misconceptions.

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...Because I’ve never been good at goodbyes.”

He looked up at the three men before him in disbelief.

AU-- One Son Scully left a goodbye letter with TLG.

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“The X-Files isn’t ruled by hegemony,” Scully said, “it’s a partnership.”

“Then why don’t you have a desk?”

It was a purposeful cut, the gloves coming off, and Scully both relished it and was annoyed at its callow nature. If that was how it was going to be, fine . 

She stood up straighter and walked casually around the side of Mulder’s desk and sat down in the chair. While maintaining eye contact with Fowley, she opened the top drawer and pulled out a hot pink nail file and set it to the edge of her finger.

Post One Son Scully marks her turf in the basement.

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She had no real concern that he wouldn’t be home – his social calendar wasn’t exactly filled with obligations, but when he didn’t answer right away, she began to wonder if she should have sent a toady ahead to tail him home from work. Then again, he likely was inside, and had just fallen asleep on his couch. She knocked again, with a little more vigor. A moment later she heard approaching footsteps from the other side of the door and tried to curtail the cat-like grin that she could feel rising up the skin of her cheeks. Calm, open face, Diana, she reminded herself. You have a part to play.

The door swung open a moment later and she once again had to police her own features. She’d expected him to answer the door in the same clothes he’d worn to the office, perhaps minus the tie and in a pair of holey socks, but he was barefoot and bare-chested, wearing a pair of quickly thrown-on athletic shorts that still had one pocket hanging limply down, inside-out. His hair was tousled and his eyes were bright.

“Diana,” he said, with more surprise and less pleasure than she was expecting. “What are you doing here?”

Diana Fowley's night doesn't go as planned.

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She’d only wanted to know what it felt like — she hadn’t been kissed in years — but Padgett’s facial hair scraped her and his lips were too thin.

Milagro Scully works through her complicated emotions.

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It wasn’t until the words were out of Padgett’s mouth that she realized they were true. 

Milagro Scully realizes she loves Mulder.

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And if their pencraft didn’t speak to whom their newfound lustiness was aimed, the words of their reports certainly did. Mulder’s particularly. The man was in love. It was as obvious in the words that he wrote in the report as it was in his handwriting.

Post Field Trip Agent Henderson analyzes Fox Mulder's and Dana Scully's handwriting.

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He calls out to Scully. With his voice or with his mind, it’s impossible to tell, but he can feel her when she comes. Amongst the pain and the fear and the sensory overload, hers is the mind that shines like a beacon in the night.

It is a revelation.

Biogenesis Mulder is comforted by Scully's mind.

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“What time is the next team coming?” Scully asked. 

“Not until 3:00,” Mulder answered. 

“Not even the suspects are out here,” she sighed, leaning her head back against the seat. She’d already kicked off her shoes and had her feet up on the dash like a teenaged girlfriend.

Mulder and Scully and a stakeout.

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“I did a pregnancy test on our victim,” Scully said. “Just in case. It came back positive.” 

Just in case, he thought. Just in case, what?

Mulder looked at the naked torso of their victim – it was flat, fit, young as a sapling.

IVF hopes and dreams loom quietly over ordinary autopsies.

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“I was… at a bar.”

“Oh.” Her cheeks turned scarlet in the warm yellow light of the lamp and a look came over her face like a dawning realization. “Were you… there for someone?”

His life flashed before his eyes. Scully could tell when he lied to her, and he had gone to the bar with the intention of picking up a woman. 

When he didn’t answer, Scully’s eyes widened and she stood suddenly. “I have made,” she said, looking around as if for a purse or a set of keys, “an appalling miscalculation.”

Mulder wasn’t sure if she was talking to him or herself, but suddenly she was on the move, darting through his bedroom door in a rapid exodus.

“Scully wait!” he called out, following her, just hoping to catch her before she got to the door. He felt like if she went through it, there was a real chance he might never see her again. Dana Scully didn’t do embarrassment well. 

TLG drive an inebriated Mulder back to his apartment after Scully's date.

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“So,” he goes on. “On Ryan Island, there’s a pond. And in that pond, there’s a boulder.” 

She pinches the skin at the bridge of her nose. 

“So. That boulder becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.” 

He’s pleased with himself, and strafes a thumb over the stubble on his jaw. He tilts his head back so he’s looking at her through fawny lashes, tilts it so she can see his overbite.

Of course their first intimacy was fueled by intellectual debate.

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The Target, several paces away, turned to see who had followed him and his eyes narrowed in suspicion at Scully. Mulder had to act fast. 

"There you are," Mulder said, smiling at Scully and glancing at the Target who was still watching them, looking jumpy. "I thought I missed you."

"I'm sorry, honey," Scully said, glomming onto Mulder's act, "I had my ringer off." She lifted up onto her toes and pressed a soft kiss into his cheek. 

Mulder, Scully, and an undercover operation at the opera.

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The truth was, he’d nearly sat on her. 

Gone for a week on a profiling consult, he’d managed to snag a last minute red-eye home and was not expecting to find her in his apartment, definitely not in his bed, and most especially not curled up on his side of it, wrapped around his pillow like a mollusk shell. 

The dynamic duo are relearning parameters in their new relationship.

prompt: coffee well after midnight

Beside her, Skinner clenches his jaw, rubs a hand over tired eyes.

“There’s nothing more he could have done,” he says, eyes pinned to the back of the younger agent’s head.

“He knows, sir,” Scully says, her hands deep in the pockets of her own coat, the silk lining too thin to offer up much warmth. “But it won’t help.”

Scully acts as Mulder's go-between after a hard case.

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The wharf was humming with activity, smelling of the briny tang of big water that sunk into Scully’s skin and shored up her bones. Out towards the horizon, the Atlantic churned. She felt closer to her father already. 

Bill Scully, Jr. reluctantly lets the agents board his ship.

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They made small talk in the kitchen with Tara and her mother, while Matthew scooted around on the floor, running a Brio train over everyone’s shoes. Mulder offered to make his legs a tunnel for the boy, and she saw both other Scully women’s eyes crinkle at the corners, charmed.

The man could charm anything but bees, she thought.

Mulder is finally included in the Scully family festivities.

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This wasn’t how it was supposed to go — the plan was a hospital bed, an epidural, a two day stay all covered by insurance — instead there was a shoelace tying off the umbilical cord, an infant swaddled in Aztec, a mess on his living room floor.

AU-- Mulder and Scully's son is born on his father's couch.

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Her voice was weak when she said it, but she opened her eyes and her smile blossomed all the way up to them.

“Hi,” he said lamely, shortly, still not quite able to breathe. “Is it…?”

His eyes traveled to the bundle resting in Scully’s arms and she followed his gaze and then looked back to him.

“It’s a boy,” she said, “he’s okay.”

Existence Mulder arrives in Georgia.

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Once William was in the pack-n-play under her mother’s watchful eye, Scully ducked into the small half bath and allowed herself to feel for exactly five minutes. Half-hyperventilating sobs, a keen so high only dogs could hear it. Snot running down her face, hands shaking, half-moon dents in her thighs where her nails dug and dug and dug until finally one broke.

The second-hand of her watch hit the 3 and she took one bracing breath and tore off six squares of cheap, one-ply toilet paper. Two swipes under her nose, a delicate brush under her eyelids, and into the trash it went.

S9 Mulder is nearly caught while in hiding.

NOT INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS

The look on his face is very Oops, but he says, with conviction: “Nope, he’s rawdogging it. Good for the immune system.”

She could kill him. “It very much is not. They’re going to send him home.”

Mulder may have forgotten about the cough medicine.

AUs

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“I got you some peaches.”

“Ah. Thank you.”

“Do you feel up to eating?” she asked hopefully.

He shook his head. “Wouldn’t mind seeing the file, though.” He gave her as much of a puppy dog smile he could muster, and she mussed his hair affectionately and stood to get her briefcase from the outer room.

When she came back in, she settled into the chair beside the bed and handed the file over.

“You do know they have digital copies of these Mulder,” she said as he swiped it out of her hands. Getting the file seemed to animate him a bit, and he scooched back in the bed energetically, settling in to read.

AU-- Post Tithonus immortal Scully watches the end of a life.

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Scully had convinced her father to take her aboard his ship - just for this one voyage - just to the West Indies — and as soon as Captain Mulder’s ship had been spotted on the horizon, Captain Scully was close to apoplectic at the thought of his crew — and more importantly, his daughter — being taken prisoner. When it was clear they’d be boarded by the privateer Mulder, it was either surrender or sink. And Captain Scully had chosen to sink.

AU-- Mulder the privateer, and Scully the pretend cabin boy.

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[foxwmulder]

I just found my list of when I categorized every xf episode (mostly through s7) during quarantine lmao

MONSTER OF THE WEEK CATEGORIES

Cultural

Shapes

Fresh Bones

The Calusari

Teso Dos Bichos

Hell Money

Teliko

El Munda Gira

Theef

Prison or Military

Deep Throat

Space

Sleepless

The List

The Walk

Unrequited

Trevor

Religious

Miracle Man

Revelations

Grotesque

Kaddish

All Souls

Signs and Wonders

Millennium

Cult or Satanists

Gender Bender

Red Museum

Our Town

3

Syzygy

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Sanguinarium

Terms of Endearment

Nothing Lasts Forever

Lone Gunmen- or CSM-Centric

Musings of a CSM

Unusual Suspects

Three of a Kind

First Person Shooter

This

Skinner-Centric

Avatar

Zero Sum

SR 819

Brand X

Hollywood AD

Kitten

Arthur Dales’s Tales

Travelers

The Unnatural

Agua Mala

Scully Side Quest

Irresistible / Orison

Chinga

Never Again

Milagro

En Ami

all things

Home Again

Ghouli

Mulder, They Already Destroyed the Evidence!

Ice

Firewalker

Dod Kalm

F. Emasculata

Wetwired

The Pine Bluff Variant

Drive

Wait, It’s Actually Aliens?

Pilot

Jose Chung

Control the Elements

Fire

DPO

Soft Light

Schizogeny

Rush

The Rain King

Medical Anomalies

Young at Heart

Eve

Home

Small Potatoes

Postmodern Prometheus

Founder’s Mutation

Guys Who Need to Eat Weird Stuff

Squeeze / Tooms

2Shy

Pusher / Kitsunegari

Leonard Betts

Hungry

Switch Lives or Linked Brains

Lazarus

Roland

Oubliette

Paper Hearts

Mind’s Eye

Dreamland I and II

Fight Club

Plus One

Time Travel or Warp

Synchrony

Monday

Lost Art of the Forehead Sweat

Ghosts or Past Lives

Shadows

Born Again

Excelsis Dei

Elegy

Aubrey

The Field Where I Died

Triangle

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

AI Is Out To Get Us

Blood

Ghost in the Machine

Kill Switch

Rm9sbG93ZXJs

Half Man, Half Monster

The Host

Jersey Devil

Humbug

Detour

Bad Blood

Folie a Duex

Chimera

Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster

All Monster, No Man

Darkness Falls

Fearful Symmetry

Quagmire

War of the Coprophages

Alpha

Arcadia

Field Trip

X-Cops

Magic, Psychic, or Lucky

Beyond the Sea

Clyde Bruckman

Unruhe

Tithonus

The Amazing Maleeni

Je Souaite

The Goldberg Variation

MYTHOLOGY CATEGORIES

They’re Closing The X-Files!

The Erlenmeyer Flask / Little Green Men

The End / The Beginning

Fight the Future

Uh…Samantha?

Colony / End Game

Talitha Cumi / Herrenvolk

Sein Und Zeit / Closure

I’m Literally On Board Already, Scully

Fallen Angel

EBE

Nisei / 731

Piper Maru / Apocrypha

Tempus Fugit / Max

Tunguska / Terma

Agent Mulder Is Dead! Or Is He?

Anasazi / The Blessing Way / Paper Clip

Redux I and II

This Is Not Happening / Dead Alive

Mulder…You Good?

Demons / Gethsemane

Biogenesis / The Sixth Extinction

The Syndicate Hates Scully

Duane Barry / Ascension / One Breath

Memento Mori

Christmas Carol / Emily

Patient X / The Red and the Black

Why Was This Made

I Want to Believe

Discarded Categories

Creepy White Guy Predator

This Is a Small Town, We Don’t Lock Our Doors

A Nice Trip to the Forest

[baronessblixen]

Fictober 2023

All the stories in one place. A huge thank you to everyone for their support this month.

Day 1: Secret Spots - This is cotton candy-flavored fluff set after "Millennium": Mulder and Scully go to Mrs. Scully's house and find themselves all alone for a moment...

Day 2: Just in Case - This is angst/hurt/comfort with a dash of hopeful cheesiness. Starts off in Dod Kalm (yes, you read that right). Mulder decides to be brave in what he believes to be his last moments on earth.

Day 3: The Deepest Cut - Diana/IVF angst (with a soft ending): Scully is already upset about a colleague's pregnancy and then Diana shows up and makes things worse.

Day 4: Always Expect The Unexpected - Some soft, fluffy silliness today: Scully and Mulder see her mother out on a date with... A.D. Skinner?

Day 5: If I Were The King of The World - Fluffy-fluff set in Detour: We get to see a bit more of Scully singing to Mulder...

Day 6: In The Blink Of An Eye - Angst/Mulder in peril: Mulder happens to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time...

Day 7: Glimpses of October - Post-IWTB/Pre-Revival vignette: Mulder watches his son play in the fallen leaves. Or is he?

Day 8: A Very Queequeg Morning - Hurt/comfort AND humor after "Pusher": Mulder doesn't mind Scully showing up at his apartment after the case at all. Only problem: she's not alone.

Day 9: Talk Vanilla to Me - Rated M/banter/humor(?): Mulder can't sleep, but luckily, Scully is there to listen… and maybe more.

Day 10: Wishes - Fluff(?) post "Je Souhaite": Mulder wants to know what Scully's wishes would have been.

Day 11: Always Partners - Set in season 6, hurt/comfort, some angst: Kersh puts Scully on another case without Mulder and once again she gets hurt.

Day 12: The Easiest Choice - Fluff, rewrite of the last scene in "Existence": Mulder asks Scully what she's going to name the baby.

Day 13: Don't Forget The Cake - Fluff-ish, season 6: Diana throws Mulder a surprise birthday party. Chaos ensues.

Day 14: Preparation is Everything - Fluff, set after "Alone": With Mulder being unemployed, and Scully on maternity leave, they spend their time thinking about furniture, baby names, and all the ways their lives will change.

Day 15: Temporary Insanity - Angsty first kiss fill-in for "Paper Clip": What happened on that elevator ride?

Day 16: Mothers Always Know - Post-ep (sort of) for "Chimera", fluff: It's the Sunday morning after Mulder stayed over at Scully's and he has a somewhat awkward run-in with her mother.

Day 17: In Sickness And in Health - Hurt/comfort post-"Arcadia": They're on their way back home from The Falls at Arcadia when Scully gets sick.

Day 18: Beautiful In My Eyes - UST-filled post-ep fic: Mulder thinks Scully is the most beautiful person wherever she goes. She doesn't believe him so he tries to make her see it his way.

Day 19: It's Us Against The World - Angst, canon divergence for "Nothing Important Happened Today": No matter what Kersh said, Scully doesn't want Mulder to leave her and the baby. But what choice do they have?

Day 20: Shooting Stars - Mulder and Scully sharing a bed during two nights in The Rain King. After a first awkard night, what happens during the second one after the party ?

Day 21: No Longer Stuck In The Past - A different kind of post-episode fic for "The Unnatural": After his and Scully's baseball date, Mulder runs into Diana.

Day 22: Cookie Theft and Other Crimes - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas post-ep, hurt/comfort, angst, fluff - all the fixings: Bill Jr. runs into Mulder in the middle of the night and it goes as well as you might expect.

Day 23: You're Not Welcome Here - AU in which Diana didn't die and Mulder didn't leave after "Existence": Scully and William are waiting for Mulder when no other than Diana Fowley walks into the basement office.

Day 24: Rules Are Rules - Set in season 7, fluff: They're not supposed to share a room while on assignment. But aren't rules meant to be broken anyway?

Day 25: Another Banner Year - Set after "Our Town", before "Anasazi": Melissa shows up at her sister's apartment, demanding a few answers.

Day 26: I Saw Your Face In A Dream - AU where Mulder and Scully meet on karaoke night at a bar.

Day 27: Christmas With You By My Side - Sequel to day 22 "Cookie Theft And Other Crimes" but can be read as a stand-alone: What happens when Mulder wakes up with Scully in his arms?

Day 28: The Truth Is (Not) Found In A Glass of Whiskey - All Mulder wanted to do was drop off a report. Now he has to deal with a drunk Skinner.

Day 29: Glass Half Full - Sequel to "The Truth Is (Not) Found In A Glass of Whiskey": It's the morning after and Skinner wakes up with a hangover - and remembers way too much from the previous night.

Day 30: Feelings You Can't Hide - A post-ep for "Bad Blood" obviously. A jealous Mulder, an attempt at humor and the hint of angst may be found here.

Day 31: Trick or Treat - IVF arc, angsty fluff: They're supposed to go to the Gunmen's Halloween party, but there's something they need to make sure of first.

[b0oker18]

The X Files season 2 episode rankings: From Great to Fight Club (very bad)

Great: Little Green Men, The Host, Duane Barry, Ascension, One Breath, Irresistible, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Colony, End Game, Humbug, The Calusari, Anasazi

Good: Red Museum, Fresh Bones, Dod Kalm, Soft Light

Ok: Blood, Sleepless, Aubrey, Fearful Symmetry

Bad: 3, Firewalker, Excelsis Dei, F. Emasculata, Our Town

Fight club: There are no Fight Club level bad episodes in season 2.

Quick thoughts: I think season 2 is A LOT better than season 1, I’m not sure if that’s a popular take or not. The Mythology really hits its stride, many of MOTW are either great or really good, GA and DD are much more comfortable in their characters skins (especially DD). It’s not my personal favorite season but it’s up there!

[scullysexual]

Guess The Ep #12

Correct answer under the cut. Check to see if you got it right after you've voted and let me know in the tags.

Answer: Dod Kalm.

[renegadesstuff]

SAME MULDER SAME 😍

[aloysiavirgata]

Continuing my rewatch. Some notes.

1) Peggy O’Dell is the wife in Fresh Bones

2) Penny Northern is the mom in Red Museum

3) Karen Kosseff is a social worker in The Calusari

4) Dod Kalm is so much better than I remembered! Scully talks about her abduction which like…lmao darling process those traumas while you can.

5) Soft Light - bisexual Scully remains canon because are you kidding me? She and Kelly are like smoldering at each other.

6) My brain overlays all the bloopers on relevant scenes

[batmanego]

mulder dod kalm image i need you now more than ever

[all-eyes-lead-to-the-truth]

All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Død Kalm (2x19)

It began with a light.

A dozen men abandoning ship at the 65th parallel, abandoning their posts… all because of a light. Captain Peter Barclay doesn’t know what else to call that besides mutiny. He was born to follow orders, he’s been raised to follow orders. Like his father before him. 

Their intuition had been better than his, as it turns out.

He wonders if they made it, if they’d found rescue. If their bones are brittle and their muscles are as weak as his.

“We’re FBI,” the man, Agent Mulder, says. The flashlight he’s aiming directly into Barclay’s eyes is brighter than the one they all saw on the surface of the sea, before everything went to hell. Barclay isn’t afraid of him; he’s afraid of only one thing now. And that one thing is something he won’t be able to escape. He doesn’t know how or why but he knows what’s happening, like a road map for his mortality is written on his insides. He can see the end, and it’s close.

Cold. Everything is cold. They don’t tell you that part, he thinks. Barclay shivers, clutching the bottle of Jack Daniels close to his chest like a talisman, as if he could somehow ward off the beyond. At least the whiskey has been keeping him warmer than he’d be without it. 

“Time got lost,” he tries to explain to the agents. The woman, Agent Scully, looks at him like he’s crazy, which he expects. Exchanges a skeptical glance with her partner. None of it matters anyway; he feels like his insides are wasting away, corroding just like the hull of the Ardent. His cough sounds like a death rattle.

They want to help. But there’s nothing they can do.

Read the rest on Ao3 | @admiralty-xfd

[ragnarockz]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack! XDDD

Season 2 or Season 3?

And the controversial: Season 4 or Season 5? :DDD

welcome baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack 😂

Season 2 or Season 3

Season 2 has a HOLD ON MY HEART - The Host, Irresistible, Dod Kalm, Soft Light!

Season 4 or Season 5

Season 4 for Paper Hearts ALONE! But there's so many goodies in that season, too! Home, Unruhe, Field Where I Died (I know that's a 50/50 ep with everyone), LEONARD BETTS FOLLOWED BY NEVER AGAIN! And of course, shoutout to Max 💔

[shutupineedtothink]

X files mini review/analysis 2x20 "Humbug"

Ok I really don't mean to keep doing a review for every episode in this back half of s2 but wtF did i just watch with this one.

This felt like the x files we've seen so far but just barely. Sooo much more comedy in this ep than we're used to, I really felt like I was in a fever dream most of the time. That said, funny as all hell. Also, gross as all hell.

As soon as they did the funeral shot of them watching everyone leave while they just sit there, hold a beat, then mulder says I can't wait for the wake - I was like what. Is the tone. The tone is WACKY my friends.

Gillian definitely ate that bug tho i watched very closely.

But then we get both a silent conversation and flirting over magic tricks? A+

The potato investigation was just excellent.

Wait wait WAIT. Do you know what it is, this felt like X files does a PSYCH episode. THATS THE VIBE.

The bit where they're in the fun house and she's coming around the corner and he comes out of the slide in the wall and she almost shoots him and they just look at each other for a second? Idk man it's the kind of comedy you can't manufacture they just got it. I was also very amused that she just stepped over him lol.

I hate the weird twin thing I haaaate it.

Also Scully being the one to figure it out and throw out the batshit yet correct theory instead of Mulder really drove home we were in the twilight zone on this one.

Did notice the bookended "can you imagine looking like that your whole life" line, very nice.

He ate... the guy... he ATE THE EVIL LITTLE GUY.

Overall i laughed my ass off through this ep but I also basically felt high after it was over. Which begs the question, who actually got high and wrote this episode??