#WRT: Part 2
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the new nightmare is cool but i think not putting them in hanfu was an missed opportunity
(+ long hair version that i wasn't as sure about)
#i was going to give barbatos the Long Flowing Locks but he strikes me as the type who WOULD adhere to the tie-it-all-up rule#but then he looked bald so i gave him a bit of leeway. i mean even a lot of cdramas don't follow the rule#then satan's hair is more wuxia novel protagonist (which i feel suits him) and solomon's is unfortunately all inside his hat#well the long hair is for authenticity (lol) not Hot Boy Look anyway#art#obey me#obey me barbatos#obey me solomon#obey me satan#jtta ik#anyway wrt the new nightmare: barbatos's outer robe (dachang) DOES look like hanfu#but then he takes it off in the deflowered look and it's. idk. a sexy gongfu vest??? satan too#not that i have anything AGAINST that but if you're gonna do chinese fashion i feel like hanfu is a shoe-in#based off the previews for celestial blessing i'm assuming diavolo+lucifer+asmo will be in the second nightmare for this event#and both parts of a nightmare usually follow a theme so most likely it'll be kung fu clothes 2 electric boogaloo BUT i will hold hop#if anyone should be in hanfu it's those three. lucifer for that cold elegance dia for that regal charm and asmo for that Beautiful Princess#regardless i will probably be drawing them in hanfu anyway. in fact i already have the idea for it#it'll be ddvd because i NEED to put zhao in beautiful clothes for once. and also i really want to draw something in earnest for this au
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generalizing statements like 'all men are evil' are for sure wrong but also i think its important not to cut discussions of gender out of the picture esp bc they are extremely relevant in this case as misogyny is a big part of wilbur's abusive actions and the wider discussion of the. social environment of cc spaces that enables things like this. so.
#also i think its important 2 watch how we talk abt this wrt rhetoric abt gender thats veering in2 radfem territory and ableism#but wrt to the gender stuff it feels like some of the stuff on my dash is also touching on being an overcorrection? like. yeah cis men are#not singularly capable of doing abuse but also this is a conversation abt a space wherein cis men are particularly#empowered and protected 2 abuse their power#so.#and also its worth having grace for ppl who may feel particularly sensitive abt this topic and not aggressively police every part of#how theyre responding to this. .um#yens
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you know, that one story about a relationship between a guy with an unprecedented one of a kind power and his kind of dead love interest who wears a lot of fancy floral print outfits
(aka Simon Snow Pushing Daisies AU)
#i don't have a plot for this it's just kinda Vibes/the general premise of pushing daisies#pushing daisies is playing in a different but not unrelated space wrt how it explores intimacy#not even our biggest problem etc etc#plus yknow both stories have the main couple both have various dead parent feelings/issues so that's neat#baz's shirt is the same print as one of chuck's dresses from i believe season 2 if any one is curious#also look at penny! i'm so happy with how she turned out#she looks very good dressed as emerson cod i think#shepard's still a part of this AU in theory just as i can think of how he'd turn up#the real question is if simon has a dog#simon snow#baz pitch#tyrannus basilton grimm pitch#penelope bunce#agatha wellbelove#snowbaz#rainbow rowell#simon snow trilogy#co/ws/awtwb#pushing daisies#is pushing daisies a spell? pushing daisies must be a spell#watford pies#(my tag for if I draw more of this au)
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Making memes out of my headcanons, part 3, swinging bats at hornets nests edition!
#masayoshi shido#futaba sakura#baofu#kaoru saga#wakaba isshiki#“but i promise i don't use it for akechi's character development I use it for hers!” i'm sorry i don't buy it#the only way i see the 'futaba and goro are half siblings' headcanon used#is for finding a reason why futaba should get along better with her mother's murderer#that's practically the only thing you CAN do with it; i suppose you can use it to get akechi's head out of his ass wrt not being unique#but that still leads back to using FUTABA'S parentage as a vector for Akechi's development#meanwhile baofu as her bio dad offers Futaba a vector to find herself embroiled in Sumaru's whole mess#something that would actually involve character development for HER!#persona#persona 5#persona 2#discourse#i guess#my posts#memes#making memes out of my headcanons part 3#headcanon
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Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol
Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.
I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).
The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).
A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).
All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.
The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.
An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.
At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.
(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).
They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:
(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)
The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.
The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).
(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).
The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.
This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.
Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).
This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).
#I'm kind of fascinated by the quasi-religious beliefs that have developed around recreational hallucinogen use (ESPECIALLY DMT)#In contrast to like. Uses of DMT-containing substances like ayahuasca for long-established religious purposes#So this concept is basically 'what if a religion was FORMED from pretty much the ground up out of DMT usage'#Like the common 'entities' people encounter in recreational use being identified as the Real Gods and producing a religious worldview#that is mostly rooted in this experience (while still influenced by other cultural factors)#Also the like. Meta going on here is that the fungus is a 'living god' and the oldest one on the planet#It is a VERY rare type of living god that is 'created' by non-sophont (non-sentient even) beings and exists as a mycelial network#that perfectly supports and protects an entire forest. Basically a god for plants. It is so deeply interconnected with its forest that the#usual power sophont belief would have over it has basically zero influence. This is absolutely the closest thing to A God in canon.#(While still not being a Creator/sapient/or even supernatural within the framework of this reality. Just VERY unique.)#The Ur-Tree has always been above water and grows very very slowly over the course of millenia by kind of 'pulling up' plant life from#the ground (so you see ancient long extinct plants in its higher branches and contemporary plants close to/on the ground)#The mycelium helps shield and feed extinct plant life that could not otherwise survive in the contemporary environment#And the forest is big enough to produce its own weather (it is a rainforest and has been ever since the capacity for rainforests Existed)#It's not really a tree at all in any normal sense but an amalgam of thousands of types of plants-#Some growing on top of others and some interwoven beyond any distinction. It does form a superficially treelike structure#(mostly in order to physically support its own mass) with a very wide 'trunk' and massive 'roots' (which end in actual roots).#It feeds on its own perpetually shedding and decaying 'body' and any animal life that dies in the forest is VERY rapidly#decayed and absorbed by the mycelial network (to the point that many large scavengers cannot survive in this forest)#(If you kill a cow and leave it on the ground for just 1/2 hour you'll see little strands of mycelium already growing up around it)#The fungus fruits and spores on a very infrequent basis (scale of ten-thousands of years) which causes the forest to very slowly spread#Fortunately this isn't really an existential threat because the spread is VERY slow (even on a geological scale) and the fungus#itself is rather mundane in nature and cannot usually compete against established fungal networks in other places.#Though there are little Ur-Tree mycelium groves and woodlands in other parts of the world that may (over untold millennia)#generate their own Ur-Trees (there's already a few but they are all MUCH smaller and not readily recognized as the same thing)#WRT THE TRIP:#Most of what I'm describing is a DMT trip but consumption of high doses of Ur-Tree mycelium has both mundane psychoactive effects#and IS kind of the person experiencing the fungus' entire lifetime and seeing flashes of the world's actual evolutionary history.#The amount of material knowledge that can be accurately gleaned from this this is VERY limited though.
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why do i love the conflict more than anything else . the misery . the incompatibility that spreads like oil slick . wanting so desperately for resolution that never comes . hmmm
#its the allure of like . mismatch btwn right person / wrong time . maybe in personal development and such#or wrong person / right time and trying 2 make it work but the circumstances are set 2 separate you#i think the guilt ford harbors over his relationship w fidds is good and i think hes had a lot of reflection . 30 yrs at least#but i dont rly care for like a . HELPP SRY IM LIKE talking to myself#i dont rly care ‘if’ they got back tgether in the end#fanon wise or whagever obviouslyy . no avrually emma-may kicking fidds out over the xmas thing its over HELPPPP#i feel like i always hve to clarify bc then theres that one guy whos like ‘smth smth you cant read . ooc loser .’idgaf . not gaffing today#i think mcguckets decision to forgive him is rly sweet And i do like the recognition of .. the whole incident being a misstep on both their#parts ykwim ? like ford was an ass for sureee but also mcgucket + memory gun was his own autonomous detriment#but#no i cant read the other tags i was writing i forgot where i was at#anyways im so obsessed w like . this being such an imperfect event with imperfect equals#ford theory and fidds the mechanics . which brw im also obsessed w how That is revered in canon .#but yeah like imperfect event imperfect people who shared an incredible connecfion in my freaking mind#that was ultimately squandered to fords pride and fidds reticence#ugh like i love the rise and fall i love the strenght of their connection generally corroding over time#its just such a cool motivator for both themselves and like its a history they share together and post weirdmageddon get to finally think a#knowing now what they didnt have the tools to recognize then#idk.^__^ they r so crazy to me . playing w them like dolls in my head#fiddleford mcgucket#stanford pines#gravity falls#every time i think ab this wrt every challeneged dynamic i think ab mars in the discord#talking ab x and y charas epic divorce arc#and im not even saying this to discredit Good relationships in media#bc those have a wealth of fun and interesting concepts or dynamics to dive into#its just something ab like . poetry of anger bro . and how love and hate can feel so similar and be borne from the same place#how one can transform into the other and back again due to . idk whatevee the hell theyve got going on^#prev post got me wishing we had more meat to the fallout#or that it was extended in content or scope . i want 2 see how they dealt with losing the other and then
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on one hand, nobody is entitled to ai generated art because their disability prevents them from making it, because As It Stands Now, ai models are built off stolen artwork. there is not a SINGLE (publicly available at least) ai model trained off art that was willingly given to the model by the artist, and using the current models only helps exasperate this problem
on the other hand going "well i/this famous artist was disabled and THEY figured out how to make art, so its condescending to say that some disabled people CANT make art, and if ur disabled just figure it out :)" is the kind of rhetoric that time and time again hurts disabled people wrt the "well if THEY can do it, so can YOU" false dichotomy and really should not be used to make your point
& i say this as a disabled artist who absolutely does not like ai art, ESPECIALLY used in a commercial sphere. on paper it would be a fun Fucking Around Machine (esp if there was a bot trained on consentually aquired art) but capitalism requires every last scrap of revenue be squeezed out of anything like blood from a stone so we cant just have a fun thing to have a fun thing and we have shit things like it being a threat to peoples' liveliehoods and training it to mimic dead artists. and we cant really have the fun part without feeding into the bad part. what im saying is its a shame also maybe bootstrap theory is not good
#i will say i know of TWO really cool applications of ai generated stuff#1) before fhe whole ai thing took off an indie artist got an ai thing to generate some song lyrics#they then took the lyrics and played around w em#and made music around it and used a vocaloid to sing it#2) dude trained an ai model on his own art (makeup for ball jointed dolls) and got it to generate some faces#then painted his interpertation of its interpertation of his work#commentating on how the machine interperted parts of his dtyle#they both work imo bcos theres a very human aspect to it still#wrt the making of the whole resr of the song and the making of all the faces given to the model#and the painting of the genersted one#anyway this is what i thinj on the matter#ai art sucks dont use it. ive been tempted but i havent#but also that argument you hate suddenly doesnt become valid when yr the one weilding it
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I am genuinely sorry for people who aren't enjoying this game but I am having a ball in this bitch.
#does it do everything i wanted? no.#does it do things I actively dislike? yes.#but the good parts of it are so overwhelming good and an improvement over the last game to me that Im really really#happy with it regardless!#and just like every past game all the things I dont like or that werent touched on will become my own personal playground for HCs and AUs#i love the characters to pieces and the exploration is by far my favorite in the series#i also love how theyve brought back little aspects from origins and 2 that were unfortunately lost in DAI#the game is gorgeous and the character creator is amazing and the lighting is improved and dialogue tones are back and the hairs!!#idk#there are many aspects where I feel like I certainly was not the target demographic for this game (wrt story and lore) but#i am enjoying it nonetheless and will definitely be replaying multiple times!💗#jun rambles
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Chronological fight club playlist goes brr
#fight club#you will become obsessed with at least One (1) song if you listen to it#probably more#these songs 1. slap 2. go so hard wrt fight club lol#by chronological i mean like. most of them are distinctly associated with specific parts of the novel#it's obvious when u listen dw#music
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#part of me wants to go fishing around for y0 fic but number 1 i dont want to get spoiled for later games#and more importnatly number 2 i know just scrolling the archive is gonna piss me off because ive got a very specific vision#wrt how i want the characters and their relationships to be portrayed#and as a rule my vision of the world does NOT align with popular fanon vision of the world and ill have to spend several hours#digging through metric loads of complete shlock. To not find what i want to read. and mostly see a bunch of really bland#and actively ''I dont think u played the source material with ur eyes and ears open'' general nonsense#but whatever. TCH!#on the bright side u know that chatfics are almost definitely few and far in between#actually do you think theres high school aus. theyd probably be boring ones though that take themselves too seriously in the lame way#and also emotionally i dont think i could take the character assassination that a really phenomenal high school au requires#at least at the moment#but this is neither here nor there. KICKS ROCKS
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#can i be vulnerable here for a minute babes? is this a safe space??#like#i don't even really know how to phrase this#because playing the numbers game when it comes to creative endeavors#especially wrt fandom#is one of the fastest and most surefire ways to kill any joy you have for it#but part of me would really love to be at least somewhat recognizable. be one of the people whose name comes up#when X-ship is mentioned#and have that one well-known and beloved fic#i just think it would be neat y'know#and before people pop up with their 'write for yourself'#'popularity isn't everything'#'write for the 2-3 people who will see and appreciate it' stuff#yeah yeah yeah i KNOW that. i'm not discounting any of that#i'm JUST SAYING y'know? and i don't think i'm alone in this#-/----------
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#wrt lrb; i think it’s really well meant! esp as part of the whole ‘stop making romance the centre of everything’ thing but i do get it ig#that said fhdjdndkd ppl w no friends DO also get told ‘well yknow.. u got an SO u got family dw about it’ so 🤷♀️🤷♀️#fhdjdnd 2 segue into ‘let’s talk abt me time’ ; think my feelings of despair last ur wrt not being a real person are bc like.. i don’t do#anything.. i interact w everything 2nd hand or smth..#& i’m trying v v v slowly to fix that but idk how#ppp#lol got asked by my manager ��you’re not a talker are you’ & had to be like. i’m sorry man i’m not#weirdest part was that he then asked if that’d always been the case i#i just truly don’t know how or what to have a conversation abt#anyway i’ve got like no friends and i can only imagine it’s going to get worse.#i’m spending my time poorly
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Me: I am a totally reasonable person capable of accepting that some people won’t enjoy my favorite media and not freak out over that.
Someone: (expresses even a mildly negative opinion about Psychonauts)
Me: I am no longer reasonable, I am ready to murder.
#i have to admit I have an extremely parasocial relationship with psychonauts#because my dad is/was personal friends with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer#(wrt tim less so but still)#so I feel like I have a moral obligation to stan all their works#and objectively yes criticism isn’t the end of the world#but any time someone makes like a subjective value judgement like#”oh this sucks so bad they were so stupid for doing this”#I want to smash someone’s kneecaps#excuse me those are my dad’s friends and you are being mean to them!#objectively it’s not like they read mean comments about them on social media#but frankly on principle I think calling developers stupid for not agreeing with your subjective tastes#is extremely shitty of someone to do#psychonauts#psychonauts 2#One part of why I think I feel this way also has to do with the fact I was following the development of the game since it was announced#and if you aren’t aware#microsoft fairly late into the game’s development gave Doublefine a huge amount of money towards development#and the creators have made statements that prior to that they legit weren’t even going to have boss battles#because they had to cut them out as a result of the budget issues#so I feel like basically any criticism of the second game for being rushed or underdeveloped or even like anything#NEEDS to keep that in mind and factor it into their critique#treating flaws of a game as deliberate failures on the part of developers is my berserkbutton#my Posts
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the lyrics to detect my love sound oddly ominous, not gonna lie...
#rex rambles#mysta rias#nijisanji#luxiem#I had a whole like 1.2k+ post going on abt how ominous they felt wrt his feelings on the whole corporate vtuber thing#but it sounded really stupid so it's trapped in my drafts to never see the light of day lmao#you're a gatekeeper to my heart#and like... other lines abt how he felt cooped up and driven insane#corporate vtuber culture feels like idol culture but with a fresh coat of paint and more direct liver to viewer interaction#without any of the pr management team that idols have to micromanage their every word#plus side: you stay tf in character#negative side: if you're ooc for a second it becomes a scandal#as the plus/negative is for idols not vtubers#had a rough night and am finally going to bed so don't worry abt any half finished thoughts here#also I've only been here for like 2 weeks so though I don't know the extent of the culture and all that#what I have seen and have dug into... capital y yikes guys#this is why I stayed away from idol spheres incl kpop and that shit for the most part#Stan culture scary. I'm only here for the funny words from the magic men#anyways I need to attempt to sleep
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okay I yelled a bit about the stuff I liked the most in s2 pt 1 now here's my obligatory cons post that'll be deleted in like three hours (I do this with any commentary here it's not that serious)
#tbd#I do think my biggest complaint with the series as a whole is that it's been somewhat unsophisticated politically -#and I continued to feel that up until honestly like. 90 percent of the way through part 1. to the point where it had me nervous#it was /very much/ a flashback to tl0u pt 2 and up to that one line from ekk0 I was really going -#''please don't try to 'both sides' this when one of the sides literally keeps the other underground''#(insert nuance here about the socioeconomic factors that encourage this rather than me trying to make any big lore statements about like)#(/how/ this happened or to what physical extent it's enforced)#ANYWAY. yeah for this reason ca1t's arc was encouraging to me and I think. hopefully. this will begin to illustrate -#where the power lies in this universe/who bears the brunt of punishment/that certain attitudes are justified#I do have a lot of other nitpicky media rep things /esp/ wrt disability and maybe a few ticks less wrt race but that might be another post.#we've talked enough for this one I'm getting tired lmao
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The X-Files, 6:4: Dreamland, part 1
What is the plot? Well, a lot of things become text, or become more textual here, starting with Scully voicing her concern that other people have "normal lives" with children and dogs and maybe she wants something like that. Mulder alleges that they do have a normal life, and, not ten minutes later, his life takes another turn for the very not-normal. It's a body swap! Mulder further messes up the marriage of the Area 51 employee everyone thinks he is, while Scully finds herself not only dealing with the case Mulder wanted to pursue near Area 51 in the first place, but with her own personal x-file of why the guy she thinks is still Mulder is acting so strangely!
What does this episode suggest about Mulder and Scully’s relationship with each other? Not-Mulder's behavior as his version of Mulder really highlights some things about Actual-Mulder's behavior. Actual-Mulder might have ever watched porn at work and has his clumsy flirting with Scully that sometimes seems inappropriate for their dynamic, but he doesn't slap Scully on the ass, as Not-Mulder does!! (Edited to add: ALSO, Mulder-as-Fletcher in part makes Fletcher's marriage situation worse due to sleeping in a recliner downstairs instead of in bed with Fletcher's wife. Of course, she thinks its her husband doing this and takes offense, but I would argue that Mulder doing that is respectful and responsible. And very unlike the way Fletcher-as-Mulder behaves towards Scully.) Actual-Mulder also, of course, doesn't kowtow (or even show average levels of deference, really) to his bosses, smoke Morleys, or hook up with FBI secretaries on his "lunch hour" (I don't think Mulder acknowledges conventions like lunch hours, anyway, which is a different problem). Scully immediately and repeatedly clocks the strange behavior, and confronts him about it, but is not ready to believe the body-swap premise (she has other theories), though maybe she starts to at the end.
Where are the aliens? well, what's going on at Area 51? All we see is workplace dysfunction, bright lights, and some more guys who love to destroy evidence
#also: v interesting choices wrt how the body swap was portrayed#because david duchovny is still playing the guy who has mulder's consciousness#and so other people see that guy as morris fletcher#but the viewer still sees him as mulder#and vice versa#beesarthur hasn't watched the x-files#also i am almost definitely going to watch part 2 today
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