#I miss mulder

[peachlybeloved]

putting the ✨BI✨ in FBI since 1993 👽

[victoria-pedrettis]

DAVID DUCHOVNY as FOX MULDER The X Files: Fight the Future (1998)

[benoitblanc]

mr. mulder, why are those, like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?

[jtt-033-1613]

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

thinking about how mulder loves to get scully a gift, usually terribly heartfelt, even if disguised as something flippant:

the superbowl vhs tape he brings her when she wakes up from her coma in one breath (and her deadpan "i knew there was a reason to live")

tickets for a football game to watch together in irresistible

bringing her flowers to the hospital in memento mori (he lies, saying he stole them from a guy with broken legs to make her laugh)

the birthday keychain in tempus fugit (and when she finds a meaning to it, he claims "i just thought it was a pretty cool keychain")

that is a man who is always thinking about her.

[unremarkablehouse]

It never once occurred to me that Walter Skinner and Maggie Scully could have any romantic potential while watching the original series but in retrospect I wish they’d have gotten together purely because Mulder would embrace calling him ‘Dad’, while Scully would waiver between acceptance and horror.

[all-or-nothing-baby]

let's pour one out for the fallen blorbos.

those blorbos you still think of often, who can still make you smile fondly but have taken a background position in your fandom life; those blorbos you might have dusty ol'sideblogs for that you keep even tho you know may never post there again; those blorbos who have broken both legs when falling tragically into near-obscurity in the void dimension of your brain where temporary hyperfixation goes to die; those blorbos you onced loved and will always love, just in a softer, quieter kind of way...

this one's for you, old friend.

[california-112]

X-Files Parallels | S04E04 'Unruhe' vs S05E11 'Kill Switch'

For @azure-firecracker: "It’s the calling out for each other while on the brink of death in a trailer for me"

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

how can i communicate to you that this relationship in this silly little show is honestly sincerely one of thee most compelling and affective (and i do mean affective and not effective) relationships i have ever seen depicted on screen. can't even talk about it without sounding insane. i swear to god this is not a case of bad media that just scratches a brain itch, this is a genuinely incredibly well written relationship between two complex and compelling characters who just. happen to be stuck in a ridiculous detective show set in the 1920s. HELP

[carefulfears]

“i held you when you were a baby” is such a heartbreaking line because it’s such a connective and loving thing to choose to say but it’s also kind of the only thing. it’s their entire relationship to each other. he didn’t get to do anything but hold him for a couple of days. and the things that he did do like talk about him and write about him and dream about him and miss him and keep baby photos, don’t mean shit to jackson. it’s absolutely worthless to this scared teenager who has lost everyone. it’s absolutely worthless to this kid who grew up being tortured like a lab rat and who is in so much pain all the time. but mulder held him when he was born and that means something to mulder. it’s his memory. he delivers that line so softly like it’s almost hopeful, but there’s so much sadness in it.

[scullysflannel]

okay i can't be silent anymore. the reason no other network procedurals have stuck as closely to their two leads as the x-files did is because it would be a labor violation

[youhavethesun]

okay I just finished ascension and I’m genuinely crying. I am so upset. like I know scully will come back obviously there are 9 more seasons but the pain on mulder’s face is killing me. all I can think about is “I’ve still got you” and now this?? him holding onto her necklace? him going back to the mountain? the absolute terror at the prospect that he’s really lost scully.. I’m genuinely so distraught what an episode msr you are making me lose my mind

[opens-up-4-nobody]

This one goes out to those who accused me of stealing her big naturals here

[scullys-xfiles]

Currently watching season 8 I MISS YOU BAE💔

[jtt-033-1613]

every time another character refers to Scully as ‘miss’ and not ‘doctor’ i scream at the tv

[randomfoggytiger]

If you had to put a number on it how many times do you think Mulder and Scully slept together in season 7? And, if you are so inclined what episodes would they have slept together in? Asking for a friend (me) 😊

The answer is probably "frequently." XDDD My reading of canon points to post-Millennium shenanigans.

But I believe we can pick up purposefully placed clues from Scully: she is late (or last to arrive) in Rush and The Goldberg Variation and The Great Maleeni-- which is a marked change from their routine; meaning, imo, she had to drive back to her apartment, get properly dressed, then catch a flight later-- and she's often shown crashing wherever Mulder lands-- all things's opening sequence, Hollywood A.D.'s ending, Requiem's motel room scene, etc.

Furthermore, I believe that Mulder and Scully spent more nights at his apartment than hers due to to his isolatory and her level of comfortability there. (And it's just brimming with MSR memories and moments, which makes it thematically more important.) As mentioned above, we see her gravitate to his apartment more than her own, particularly in all things (which was the first on-screen confirmation); and Scully is the type to go to him rather than call up and ask him to come to her. Gravitating of her own accord to his place would be a measure of half-admittance-- effectively appeasing her own sense of independence (and shame at fessing up to weakness.)

But post all things, all bets are off; and we see that increased level of "who honestly cares about hiding anymore" when they arrive at the office, late, together, and when they shack up shamelessly in the same motel room because Scully feels sick and knows Mulder's a bed warmer. (The latter's script even notes that they arrived with extra hurry to the next morning's crime scene; meaning, they had to rush to get there on time. Which could point to them either having sex that morning or choosing to sleep in-- or Mulder sneakily letting her sleep in-- because Scully was still a little unwell.)

I will note: I'm further bolstered in my assertion by their behavior in Season 8 (gasp, horror.) Wrote a post about it here, but the first time we see Mulder using a key to Scully's place is at the end of Existence (now that they have a family) while Scully is shown openly crashing at his apartment, heartsick, from day one (Within.) Season 8, out of necessity (the baby's arrival and DD's looming second absence), began the transition away from Mulder's place to Scully's (Three Words is the last time we see his apartment, if I recall correctly.) We watched him always dropping by her apartment (Empedocles, Alone) and eagle-eyed his toothbrushes and shirts (Essence)-- which subtly pointed to that transition-- yet, the important part of their history at Hegel's Place was never truly resolved. It's a shame that canon dismissed it out of hand without a proper goodbye. ...But, again, that might be selling the writers and actors short: Mulder himself was detached from apartment 42 in Three Words (only noting "It's clean" and standing or sitting everywhere as compactly and insecurely as possible); and trekked from Alexandria to Georgetown constantly of his own free will. There just... wasn't enough on-screen to justify that write-off. (Add it to the list of micro-changes that weren't allowed to be explored. >:////)

I hope this satisfies~. But if not, I open the floor: does anyone want to take a crack at anon's question?