#Scully Science

[tidesofsilence]

Happy National Science Day!

Today, we honour the pioneers of space—both real and fictional—who have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.

Captain Kathryn Janeway – The fearless leader who took Voyager through the unknown, defied the Borg, and proved that coffee (BLACK) is essential to space travel.

Valentina Tereshkova – The first woman in space! In 1963, she piloted Vostok 6, orbiting Earth 48 times and proving that women belonged in the cosmos. A true trailblazer!

Dana Scully – Because even when the truth is out there, it takes a scientist to question everything including Mulder.

Space isn’t just about stars and galaxies, it’s about pushing boundaries, seeking answers, and embracing the unknown. So whether you're celebrating with sci-fi marathons, stargazing, or just appreciating how ridiculously cool black holes are, take a moment to dream big.

Let’s be real... Tereshkova, Janeway, and Scully absolutely ran the universe on and off screen!

[jodians]

the fbi was going through the craziest shit in the 90s like what the hell do you mean they needed to use an insanely dangerous cannibal for information to catch a serial killer who is murdering innocent families for his becoming of a god that is possessed by a dragon, then having to use him AGAIN to catch another serial killer who is murdering girls (including a senator’s daughter) to wear their skin as a suit while some other girl died under mysterious circumstances while other people are getting abducted by aliens and being terrorized by the paranormal while ALSO across the country, there’s a satanist who is possessing dolls and using a former nurse to kill more families???

[enoughslices]

the appropriate and professional distance from which to discuss a toxicology report with your colleague

definitely work stuff definitely not the prelude to a kiss

[astralzeraphias]

“he was mentally ill. this monster was a- was a sick fantasy. a product of his dementia.”

“…i saw it too. does that make me disturbed? demented? does… that make me sick too?”

[bioluminesced]

the cat’s cradle

[constancescully23]

Here is some Scully being science-y in honour of ✨The Scully Effect✨

[pennyserenade]

thinking about mulder and scully and how gentle he was with her when she was lying there in the hospital dying. he walked into the room with a wide grin and held her hand and kissed her cheek, and spoke to her in hushed, conspiratorial tones, and everything was life or death but it was so quiet, so unimportant, as he sat by her side and looked at her. mulder looked as happy as he’d ever been, sitting there with her, and it wasn’t because he was; he wasn’t. he knew that she was dying, that they were coming upon the moment when she was no longer going to be with him sooner rather than later, and he was crushed by the weight of it, by the impossibility of it. when he came to see her again and she was sleeping, looking pallid and defeated, he slumped against her bed and cried on his knees in the dark—quiet, body wracking sobs she never knew about, because he never wanted her to know how weak her being weak made him. with the weight of impending death, mulder gave scully the most of life, all that he wished she could’ve received but hadn’t: that coddling, that affection, the beautiful mundaneness of domestic bliss. he listened to her—really listened to her. and he really loved her, loved her like a husband, or a boyfriend, loved her the way a better man would’ve.

and then when scully got better, when the cloud of death evaporated and she appeared before him with color in her cheeks and flirtation on her tongue, he took it back. gone were the days of all that soft love and affection and back was the mulder and scully of old. he sidetracked their team bonding workshop, pointedly ignored the glaring fact that scully agreed he needed to work on his communication, and got them stranded in the depths of the floridian forest. even better, he let her coddle him, let her hold him close to her chest and made her sing him a song as they shivered through the night and watched out for monsters that could kill them, because he couldn’t handle it. the idea of being anything to scully other than what he had been before — a nuisance, a challenge, a partner — terrified him so badly he went into overdrive trying to reinforce those uncomplicated roles again. it wasn’t that he didn’t love her. he did — he loved her to the point of insanity, to the point of self destruction (something she so worried about). he just didn’t know how to love scully when it wasn’t dire. he loved her so much that he could not stand the idea of failing her with anything inadequate and half baked. he was glad to give it to her when it was dire, but when it came to life long devotion, he needed a few more years.

[bonafidehero]

Okay does Mulder not have a bed/bedroom or is he just a perpetual fall-asleep-on-the-couch guy??

[krumpkin]

X Files - Mulder and Scully by ( David O'Keefe )

He's a sculptor and cartoonist 😁

[thirddagger]

I'm like so normal about the X Files. I'm so normal about it, I just watched Colony/End Game (s2 e16/e17) and like I am soooo normal about it. A bogey Samantha going straight for Mulder, aka the Saddest Boy Alive ("we knew you could be manipulated" he was Crying last scene and his dad seems like he sucks) and Scully and Mulder barely talking in Colony and then Mulder ditching Scully in End Game only for her to save him (in part thanks to Skinner flagrantly breaking FBI rules to back up Scully, I grow to love this man), and like I am sooooo normal about it and I do not keep rambling about it in the tags because I'm so normal about it

[inactiveayla]

poll for mulder

[jodians]

will graham could not meet fox mulder in the same way that clarice starling could meet dana scully, because everything would be fine and dandy if clarice and dana met, but if will met mulder, mulder would be asking him if he ever considered the possibility of being abducted by aliens and will would start tweaking

[stillboredbuttrying]

I'm up S6 of the x-files as a first time watcher and it's so silly??? We went from every extra dying a gruesome death each episode to whole episodes without any murder? Mulder had that all hallucination of WWII ship that can't be real because Cigarette smoking man was alive and already in the US army as a young man at that point? The body switching episodes where he goes through a divorce but wins by getting a new fancy bed? The Christmas episode with the best take ever on Romantic hauntings while Scully is having the worst time of her life? I'm at the weather control man episode and wtf was that? Don't get me wrong I'm loving this season. But it's so silly. They were tired of the horrors and decided to just have fun. Everyone is trying to get Mulder and Scully to fuck and they keep failing. Fox "hasn't gotten laid in 10 years" mulder get asked for dating advice by a man that is in love with his high school best friend and has been cursing her love life for 20 years. She thinks is romantic??

In general in this show there are episodes where women just love with The horrors™. I understand why tumblr loves this show.

And poor Scully thinks she's normal but she keeps getting involved with the men most in love with the horrors.

[platinum-iridium]

i don't like when people try to posit science as an analogue for religion. science is a process, a methodology, a body of work. to "believe" in it is to trust that we are heading towards more knowledge by rigorous study. it's not driven by faith, it's driven by proof

[lesbianscxlly]

hc that the only supernatural thing scully actually believes in is time travel because she’s a physics geek and definitely read a brief history of time