#dana katherine scully

[renegadesstuff]

Literally stunning 🤍

[loubetcha]

[thexfileswithoutcontext]

one of my greatest purchases was this contact sheet from the x-files preservation museum

[grlbutnotwood]

am I a bad person for absolutely loving it when mulder loses his shit when scully's hurt or am I a woman of fine tastes

[jtt-033-1613]

"I heard a phrase once, somebody was talking about their wife. This was a person who was very inept socially - not the wife, but the man. There were many things said about him that weren't kind, and he said,

‘My wife - who is lovely and social and everything like that - is my human credential.’

It, like, makes him a human being, because people think, ‘If, well, if she can stand him, he must have some humanity within him.’ And sometimes I think about Scully as Mulder's human credential."

- David Duchovny, Inside The X-Files

[l00katst4rs]

silly thing I made 😭

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"Skeptic," investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!

[mulderrrrrrr]

🛸 scene i finished of the totally platonic fbi partners who totally wouldn’t cross the universe for one another i mean there’s nothing in the bureau policy against that right????

[denyeverything69]

I made this!!! <333

Edit: new blog @denyeverything-69 !!!

[take-it-on-the-run]

You know where to find me | And I know where to look

↳ TV Girl + MSR

-> Pfp post

[peefdogz]

oh my god i love dana scully sooooo much i want her so bad…

[renegadesstuff]

SHE SAID MULDER WAS CUTE 🥹

[loubetcha]

scully textposts are finally here!

mulder

[thexfileswithoutcontext]

happy anniversary to this weird show

[crowwithacomputer]

there's a very clear distinction of behaviour between Mulder and Scully from before and after her abduction.

like, before that they cared about each other, or course, but when Scully was abducted? God's afraid of what Mulder would do for that woman. He almost got into a fight in the hospital and choked a guy god damnit. He was gonna resign from the job and REFUSED to work with anyone else other than Scully. He only worked with Krycek because he "believed" him and didn't question much imo.

but right after he visited her she woke up, and when he visited her and gave her back her cross that he'd been wearing all the time? that, my dear friends, is love at first abduction.

all the episodes after that, that I've seen so far (S2) have just been Mulder madly in love with whatever Scully says. He's deeply concerned for her safety all the time and he started making many more jokes. They also get told that they're a couple all the time (ofc this is just clearly what the series wants you to think) but he doesn't clarify, nor Scully does. They just look at each other and smile.

They're always looking at each other and smiling. Even the stupidest thing makes them look at the other to see their reaction. All the small things (and not so small, how dare you clean sauce off of her mouth without even asking like you do that every day Mulder) they do, the little jokes. And all these after the abduction. Before that it's REALLY noticeable how that is not as common by far.

I really love this tension, this is a good sexual tension imo. It's not uncomfortable, it's not weird, they're having the best time of their lives. I think they know they love each other a lot as friends, but there's that point there, that thin line where your love for your friend becomes something more intense, but it's such a small step they don't even notice and that's the good stuff. They don't deny their love, but their romance.

[limnsaber]

Watching real tv is you scrape and claw for character backstory that they made cohesive on accident. Dana Scully!!!

She has this amazing internal drive and is an amazingly strong person, but also thinks that she has a desperate need to prove herself. She keeps her walls up, even when she doesn’t want to. She’s the third child in a family of six with a homemaker mother and a doting, perpetually absent father. She thinks she has daddy issues, and she does, but she never gives herself enough credit. “I want to be praised” girl it’s human to want to be recognized. She struggles with the feeling of cycles, of staying in place, of never really changing. She has this complex that I like to call the “Starbuck complex” (named for her childhood nickname, given to her by her navy captain dad, referring to the first mate in Moby Dick (she called him Ahab the captain from Moby Dick)) where she LOVES to play second fiddle and step up to the batting plate. Mulder forges ahead and she follows him, and she charts their course as they go. He drives, and she has the map in the passenger seat. She LOVES that— when it doesn’t grate at her to not be seen. If Mulder saw her, it would be okay. And he does see her, for who she is, but not always what she needs in their interpersonal relationship. They’ve got issues!!

One of Scully’s earliest memories is that of her hiding a rabbit kit in a metal lunch box after her older overbearing brother Bill says that he’d kill it. Of course, she leaves it in the lunch box, and comes back to find it dead. There’s this innate part of Scully here — the kindness, the protector. I think this is the instance that incited her desire to become a doctor. And there’s this other part of Scully, even while small, who keeps her walls up to protect herself and what she holds dear. She didn’t tell her family about the FBI until she was sure she was doing it. And they disapproved, and she had to go on knowing they did. She never explained her and Mulder’s relationship to her family, who always seem astounded when they display their characteristic normal levels of Mulder-Scully devotion. She keeps her cancer to herself, and learns that it’s okay to reach out to people, but she keeps her walls up because she’s afraid. She’s afraid to believe.

Like the previous example, Scully’s first encounter with morality and the question of who she wanted to be was when she caught and killed a snake in the backyard with her bb gun when she was six. She was playing with her brothers, and was caught up in it, but regretted it immediately after. It spurs her to realize the effects of her actions and consider who she wants to be (and also there’s Catholic guilt in here and Scully’s desire to protect and heal, which is very good). It’s a foundational experience for her.

Thirty years on, she’ll have a snake in the ouroboros tattooed on her lower back. “Everyone gets the tattoo they deserve.”

Dana Scully, physicist, doctor, agent, spends her life searching for the answers of the universe. She comes full circle to find the truth. She wants a normal life, but she doesn’t want your normal life. When considering the paths not taken, had she had a normal life, she says “what I would have missed.” She heads for adventure because she wants to. Reason and faith in harmony. And no matter her self doubt, she knows what she’s about. Reason, faith, justice, truth, love, the greater good, and the pursuit of knowledge in the face of the unknown.