#It's very important to me

[blue-b-bro]

Them

[rivers-for-me]

can we lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling together please

[cxlandine]

i'd just like everyone to know that when fabian gifted adaine a worm in a box it did not occur to me once that it was a literal worm until it started talking. i had no doubt in my mind that it was a fuzzy blue worm on a string in a gold box that she was going to wear like an earpiece/hearing aid.

[simplepotatofarmer]

Dear simplepotatofarmer, do not fear the c!dnb, embrace it, we will not be mad, we will rejoice, you are an amazing writer, you writing dnb will be the best thing to happen to me this year, I will give you my first born.

-me

good news!

if you haven't read it yet, i have a c!dnb fic that i consider my like, short manifesto on why i think it's a good ship and how i think it'd work following canon as closely as possible!

[achieving-normality]

love this guy 10/10

[theeroins]

could someone take one for the team and draw davron like this

[spitsonyou1]

rachel 😋

[deathsbestgirl]

after reading this post by @randomfoggytiger and a whole mess of @carefulfears words forever rattling around my brain — i just need to talk about unruhe.

i tweeted a simple thought, that isn't really so simple at all. unruhe, to me, is about scully learning a lesson mulder intrinsically knows.

i think scully lays it out in her final voiceover as she writes her report after being kidnapped and nearly lobotomized. she spent her time with gerry trying to keep him talking. she has to take the time to understand this man to have a chance of escaping with all her faculties. scully asks him about his sister and his father, who mulder had questioned him about earlier. as mulder was putting together a profile, he said the man was either really tall or wanted to be — and this little piece of information let scully connect the dots that she was speaking to their suspect. gerry, on stilts. (in the interrogation, scully is angry & forceful — as a doctor and as a woman. mulder is more curious.)

so in her report, she's recording her musings about her experience. and it's something she dismissed earlier:

(unrelated to this post, but this scene always reminds me of their final scene in leonard betts. the disconnect between them, mulder's confusion but acquiescence.)

scully's voiceover:

in the end, scully knows that understanding gerry saved her life. it gave her the time so mulder could get there and intervene. and not just understand, but empathize. something mulder is able to do with just about everyone. even the worst criminals. in beyond the sea, it makes him stubbornly disbelieve boggs. here, mulder ends up shooting & killing gerry. he understood gerry believed he was helping these women, because he couldn't accept what happened to his sister. mulder doesn't over-identify this time. but i think scully's intimate insight into mulder allowed her to look into gerry. (edit: and i don't really mean samantha, though it's part of it. mainly mean the way his mind works. she hates gerry but she tucked away everything mulder said about him & his analysis.)

one of my favorite things about scully is the way she values mulder's mind & empathy. something i think she believes she isn't capable of. she tends to talk about relying on his strength, but she also depends on his empathy so much. when she was in this situation, that's what she drew on. scully rarely has empathy for men committing violent crimes against women. she knows the world is full of predators, as she once told karen kosseff in irresistible. it's a comfort to her to have a hand in bringing these men to justice.

after mulder kills gerry & releases her, scully takes one moment to look back at him before leaving. after this near death incident, scully takes the time to read gerry's diary. like she wants to understand him more. "for truly to pursue monsters, we must understand them. we must venture into their minds." lesson learned, and new fear unlocked: "only in doing so, do we risk letting them venture into ours?"

i actually think this was a silent fear lurking in irresistible. scully's horror at the case was layered. yes, it was the violence against women & the haunting of her own abduction, but also that donnie pfaster would kill women to "scavenge from the dead." she's a pathologist, she understands the curiosity. but she does it to bring victims' justice, to put away predators, to try to make the world a safer place.

over time, i think scully adopts mulder's desire to believe in people. a lot of the series is about scully being radicalized, more and more. to the point of paranoia and immediate distrust of anyone who isn't mulder. but she still goes off with csm in en ami, needing to take the chance he's telling the truth despite knowing he is a liar and responsible for the most reprehensible crimes. she still leans on skinner, doggett, reyes, the lone gunmen. she tries desperately to save cassandra spender. she goes to diana fowley when there's no other option, hoping there's a shred of decency in her, believing the woman really does love mulder. so many moments. the ways mulder changes her, helps her, gives her strength & courage to face her fears. (something about scully killing donnie pfaster feels like a culmination of this — and in the reverse, mulder doesn't kill donnie pfaster. the flip side of scully's lessons?)

kae pointed out to me the reverse here is true too. mulder learns a lesson scully already knew intrinsically. but a post for another night maybe.

all of this, in my mind, deeply intertwined with this post (aka required reading <3)

[lemondemonpickuplines]

Mouth album title pickup lines compilation:

i'll have you making Mouth Sounds

i'll Silence you with my Mouth

when you're around you make my Mouth Mood

you'll be Dreaming of my Mouth

[janesurlife]

I need Ferrari and Carlos to do something

[meownotgood]

took a lunch break at work which I have literally never done in my years of working here specifically so I could hide in silence and look at the viktor rework and listen to his voicelines

[rabbiteclair]

still worth it to get a dubbed version of the anime-only flashback where the two are absolutely fucking wasted and going 'HEEEEY YO CAN WE BUY THIS TOBACCO FARMING VEHICLE'

[manglednatalia]

I need more platonic sskk people in my life, either qpr or siblings. I SIMPLY NEED ANY OF IT

[roomwithanopenfire]

i just need everyone to know that if I ever use 'Simon' instead of 'Snow' in Baz's internal dialogue when we're solidly still in the enemies part of enemies to lovers, it was intentional and i did overthink it

[quailavenuesystem]

Something I do like about being a system that co-fronts a lot of the time is these interactions:

Artemis, a literal introject of the goddess: "Rat, I am begging you, go to sleep."

My ass: "Not now Artie, I have to research Rabies."

-Rat

[denialslavenderhaze]

the eras tour tolerate it piano intro. that's it. that's the post.