#are important background in a fic i'm writing where they spiral into a tabloid phenomenon post deadalive

[figureofdismay]

Not to be contrary, but I don't think Jose Chung's From Outer Space had a "Muldrake-Lesky" sex scene, terrible or otherwise (as much as I enjoy the image of real M & S reading it together in amused horror and agreeing hastily that if it happened, it wouldn't be like that), I believe from the tone of the episode that the book was aggressively NoRomo.

But that Scully, who had been stewing on her expectation that she'd be outraged about the 'romantic allegations' that she was certain would be in there, especially when she realized she'd told the author they'd woken up in the same room, was surprised to instead be outraged and strangely disappointed that they'd been written as totally sexless and generically absurd.

She didn't want to be objectified and fantasized about by the nice author her father's age but she did want "Chung" to at least Hint about how obsessed with her "Muldrake" is and how sparkling and unique his rapport with "Lesky" is the way so many people in their lives do. It's actually pretty insulting that he just saw them as a couple of eccentric government nerds! 😭😆