#even tho I pull a Mulder

[normal-girl89]

So true

no one gets her (fictional character perceived by millions) like me

[sadbigemini]

A crack-y fic prompt but I want to read it so bad! I'd write it myself if I thought I could do it justice. Who knows maybe I'll try?? Anywho, let's get to it!

The Addams Family in a Modern Family AU

What I mean is the Addams family in modern times, being followed and documented by a camera crew

Y'know, like the Modern Family...

Obviously cousin It, Margaret, Fester can all be the extended family but maybe you can even make Addams OCs or crossovers if you can pull it off

Like making a character from another fandom an Addams. Such as, Dazai or the Akutagawas (BSD), pffft– Alastor or Lucifer and Charlie (Hazbin Hotel), Phil (Modern Family), Raven (Teen Titans), Mulder (X-Files), Aizawa (MHA), omg Kevin and Linda (SPN), or all of the above lmao

If you can do it go for it!

Also with the extended crossover family their own immediate family, partners, or even friends can be included. I.e. Chuuya for Dazai, Phil's family, the Teen Titans, Scully for Mulder, or Mic and/or Shinsou for Aizawa

Anywho, imagine interviews of Wednesday Addams. I feel like at the beginning she'd just stare at the camera man in silence. I could also see her strapping Pugsley into the electric chair in another lol

The camera is always cutting off bc Gomez and Morticia keep going at it

There's like a cooking segment with Grandma. The camera crew exclusively eat fast food after that tho Wednesday and Fester would probably find ways to poison it

I think Margaret would be the most normal in interviews and Pugsley might be a close second Idk

Gomez would sword fight his interviewer

Gardening segment with Morticia

In interviews Lurch would just stare at the camera before abruptly getting up to do his job

In interviews Thing would do sign language and rapidly if he was upset

Oh, have something about 'Eat The Rich' they would be so excited to be on the chopping block and devastated if they were excluded

Just like Modern Family they film at multiple locations and/or residences

The camera crew are fearing for their lives but at the end of it they are like honorary Addams. They also become used to and almost immune to their antics by the end of it all

[sunfortune]

ok maybe i’m jumping the gun bcos i’m only halfway-ish through hellbent, but! as much as i love the dynamic between darlingstern and as much as they are both developed as characters, i feel like there was no development between the two of them? there’s no scene or chapter that makes me go, “oh that’s why they’re so insane abt the other,” and i keep expecting a flashback to happen to explain it. the crystal smashing scene was cute but i don’t see how it makes alex become obsessed w saving darlington or how it makes darlington consistently reach out to her when he’s in hell. am i going crazy i feel like i’m missing something. the mutual obsession is 10/10 but it’s like. Why are they mutually obsessed with each other

i thought that too which is why i thought they were like no way near being in a romantic relationship after ninth house. and after i went in the tag and people were writing ninth house fic where they just get together. i was like nooooo! they are not ready for that

and when leigh bardugo was like i wanna write like ten books for this series i was like yeah!! bc they NEED to be like scully and mulder and be in an insane codependent workplace relationship for like ten million years before they get anywhere romantically

until she changed her mind and made it a trilogy so then the trajectory of it changed in book 2.

but i do get why alex was trying to get him back in the beginning. it wasn’t necessarily romantic. he was her friend but also she feels guilt for her hesitation when he got sucked in after figuring out the ground zero stuff. and then the intrigue of no one being able to figure out what the hell happened to him added to the obsession.

and then the whole reveal of how if HE was disposable to lethe how much do they really care about her. it’s codependent coworkers

i didn’t get why he was also insane. until they gave his backstory and he was just as lonely and neglected as her despite the polished veneer of him. so like i GET why they latched onto each other (they litchrally have no one else who’s in the same boat) but i also think it’s true they need sooooo much more until a romance between them would actually hit.

but i do think at the end of book 2 they are in a new place entirely bc their standing changes a lot. this dream was lowkey foreshadowing of where they are at the end of book 2 too: it’s not the same

i think part of it is just classic codependent coworkers situation which then warps considerably after alex literally went to hell to get him out. like they’re still very much coworkers despite all that. so now it’s weird lmao. and it’s really hard to be casual about it. even tho alex is very much trying.

but yeah i also think they are not there romantically yet but they are also insane so it kind of doesn’t matter bc the devotion isn’t romantic. i need them to keep being insane. and with how much book 2 changed the trajectory i think book 3 can pull through if done well. but who knows. here’s hoping <3

[post-modern-prometheus]

top ten x files moments that i believe are percabeth coded msr moments:

-this happens a lot but mulder having scully separation anxiety and doing really stupid things whenever she’s not there like jumping in the hole she just fell into instead of like. helping her get out.

-mulder chasing after cars on foot despite never being able to catch up to them?? but specifically the time after that guy kidnapped scully.

-“don’t get on that train mulder.” “sorry, what did u say? i couldn’t hear u while i was jumping from a bridge to the roof of the train.”

-are most of these gonna be how insane mulder is over scully? bc during the dwayne barry arc when he starts parkouring thru ski cars to get up the mountain

-after mulder comes back to life after his abduction arc and scully’s at the side of his hospital bed and he goes “who are you?” and FREAKS HER OUT then laughs. LIKE WHAT AN ASSHOLE. this is smth percy would do, esp after the whole memory + hera thing.

-the growing mutual respect they have for each other that turns into like “you’re my one in 5 billion” and smth smth you’re all i have left my cornerstone etc

-the bad blood episode and the conflicting way they view themselves and each other. like this is canon to the pjo series bc percy sees himself as just this little guy and mulder’s like im just a little guy and scully is yelling at me. and scully is like WHY IS HE SO ENERGETIC IM TIRED. BIBLICALLY ACCURATE PERCABETH.

-mulder’s seven evil exes and the way scully tries SO HARD not to be jealous every time they come around. VS how he doesnt even pretend to be fighting for his life whenever a guy LOOKS her way.

-the new years kiss. “wow the world didn’t end! let’s never talk about this again!” (maybe not this bc of the mt st helens kiss but like. adult percabeth would pretend it didnt happen. percy’s the one who keeps bringing it up in the books bc he is 14/15)

-holding hands every time (why is this such a frequent occurrence) the other is in the hospital bed

-scully threatening to kill multiple people over mulder’s safety like every time she goes nuts feral yelling… soooo annabeth

-realizing that the system they work for is corrupted and actually hating the govt meanwhile being fbi agents in order to like take it down

-mulder: *has a broken leg*

scully: good luck

mulder: i’ll break a leg :D

-the kiss in the movie interrupted by the bee

-speaking of the movie: in the third act when scully is unconscious, gains consciousness, and mulder has to drag her around then mudler passes out and she has to drag him around

-the “mulder/scully it’s me” like they don’t even have to say who it is bc who else would it be it’s them !!!

-i forget the details but the weird cave nature dream creature that tried to eat them by decomposing and when theyre ambulance and they reach out to grab hands even tho they are NOT CONSCIOUS

-scully, noticing mulder’s broken finger: what did they do to you? you’re in pain

mulder, yanking his hand away: yeah, if you keep pulling it around like that.

WOAH this got too long but there are more (i really wanna know what msr’s tartarus equivalent is)

[hearteyedbunny]

2 5 19 44 and 60 for any ship u want? ☺️

yay! i think im just gonna alternate on whatever ship feels right for the question :)

What would they do if the other woke in a manic state after a nightmare?

danse/art - ouughhh this happens quite often actually. both of them have frequent nightmares. if art has a nightmare, danse grounds him by talking to him. just about anything and everything, art isnt really listening but the sound of danse's voice keeps him steady and lets him focus on something. art also needs to touch something to ground himself, so he will probably stroke danse's arm until he can breathe again. sometimes tho art just needs to be alone and have some space to himself, so danse allows him that as well when he needs it.

for when danse has nightmares...hm. he probably doesnt show fear very often, so its hard for him to open up and show that part of himself to art. but art is there for him, just holding him and petting his back or his hair soothingly. i can also see danse needing to just, get up and do something to distract himself bc he cant go back to sleep. so maybe art joins him in doing whatever so that he isnt alone

Describe their cozy night in

shane/me - u KNOW me and shane will take any excuse to stay in and cuddle haha. we'd cuddle up with some snacks on the couch, sharing a blanket while shane plays a video game and i just watch while i lean on him <3 even better if its raining outside!!! thats the good shit

How do they feel about PDA?

danse/me - danse does not like pda at all, actually. its not that hes embarrassed or anything, he just likes to keep things...private? i suppose? im okay with some pda, like holding hands or a quick peck on the cheek, but im not super big on it either so its okay

Who would dance in the kitchen making dinner? Would the other join in or watch from the doorway?

mulder/me - ohhh this screams mulder. he'd have some music playing softly while he makes dinner and id catch him dancing around the kitchen a lil hehehe. i dont dance, but id waltz around the kitchen with him for a minute or two before i got embarrassed ,,, he'd wrap his arm around my waist and pull me close and look down at me with that stupid smile. AUGH....

Who pulls the other closer when they’re sleeping?

danse/me - i feel like even in his sleep danse would want me close to him..........subconsciously pulling me closer bc he wants to protect me and always have me by his side........i am gay

[gaycrouton]

Grief Sex

msr | 800ish words | ao3

In all the years he'd known her, she'd never looked so defeated. Despite this, she walked into his apartment like a woman on a mission, and all he could do was close the door behind her and wait to see what she'd do.

"Melissa once said there is no right or wrong. Life is just a path. You follow your heart and it'll take you where you're supposed to go," she told him. The weight of the last few days looked like they were taking their toll, and he was worried she was going to collapse under the pressure.

He walked to her slowly, as if he was approaching a wounded animal that was bound to lash out. "But I feel so lost," she sobbed as her face crumpled and she wavered on her feet.

Closing the distance between them, he pulled her into his arms and held her while she cried. Her nails dug into his arms and he knew there would be bruises tomorrow, but he wouldn't complain. It was rare for Dana Scully to show her vulnerability, and even rarer for her to seek comfort from someone else. He just wanted to help her. Take away the pain however he could.

And that's exactly what he told himself when her eyes searched for his through her tears and when she pressed her lips desperately to his. She needs this, is what he told himself when he felt her trembling hands reach for the waistband of his pajamas. She just wants to feel something, is what he thought when she pushed him onto the couch and dropped to her knees in between his legs.

Grief sex.

It was a term he'd heard a few times in his life. Hell, something he'd sought out himself in his worst moments. But he'd never imagined Scully —rational, level-headed Scully— would take solace in such a thing.

Maybe that just showed how lost she felt. Coming to him in the middle of the night was her last-ditch effort to try and find a semblance of herself. She had to know he loved her. He hadn't expressed it with those words, but he hoped he'd proved it to her with his actions. Maybe that's why she felt safe coming here rather than finding comfort in a stranger. Maybe she figured reveling in his affection for her could remind her about who she was.

She was being rough. Though, not with him. God, between her hot mouth exploring him and the way her hands were mapping his skin, his pleasure was her main focus. But she wouldn't let him touch her. He wasn't sure if his touch would make it too real or if she thought she didn't deserve to feel good.

She wasn't wet yet, and he felt her hips jerk as she sheathed his length into her tight heat, her body shying away from the pain of accommodating him. "Hey, slow down," he whispered. He tried to stroke her arm gently, but it only resulted in her grabbing his hands and pinning them on either side of his head against the couch.

This wasn't how he wanted this, but this was for her. If she needed to feel in control, he'd give it to her.

Scully was gyrating on top of him, frenzied and desperate. He'd dreamt of this moment for so long. Thought of what it would be like for Dana Scully to be in his arms, to smell her worn perfume in the crook of her neck as that raspy voice of hers crooned in his ear.

His orgasm started to build in him in tandem with his guilt. He felt like he was taking advantage of her in a vulnerable moment. Even as she rubbed her clit in between their bodies, as little whimpers of pleasure escaped her lips, there were tears rolling down her cheeks — falling in warm rivulets onto his chest.

"I'm going to-" he whispered, only to have her mouth descend on his to silence him.

After a few more minutes of grinding against each other on his worn sofa, he felt her walls clamp down around him as he spurted inside her.

"Mulder," she cried into his neck, rolling her hips softly as he grew limp inside her.

Then she just cried.

He grabbed a blanket from off the back of the couch and drew it around her, easing her off his lap as he carefully pulled his pajamas bottoms back up. All prior moans and whimpers of pleasure were replaced with those of mourning.

He held her next to him for hours, whispering words of comfort into her hair.

But he knew the wound on her heart was one that would never heal.

There was only one person who could truly comfort her, and they'd just buried him today.

Skinner looked through the curtains of his apartment at the stars twinkling in the night sky and hoped Mulder would forgive him.

Wherever he was.

[voooorhees]

Could I request headcanons of Stu Macher and Billy Loomis (separately) , having a huge crush on a reader that has two younger siblings who are twins(they are like three or four). The reader is always taking care of them , people sometimes think that he/she is their parent .

Even the reader's siblings can't be away from their older sibling ,cause they get sad if they're separated for too long.

The reader formed a club of babysitters(who are also students) at the school ,cause there are students with younger siblings and they can't take care of them all the time.

how would they react to watching the reader being such an amazing older sibling?

Hey! I love your asks and i’ve been thinking about how i’m gonna write the other one you sent! I love how in depth your asks are and i try to match them! I haven’t forgotten about the other one tho 💜

Billy Loomis and Stu Macher x Reader with twin siblings!

• Billy had no clue what he was in for when you told him over the phone that you were babysitting your siblings

• He came over to hang out with you and flirt try to help you with your siblings, he just thought you had different aged siblings, he was not expecting this

• One of them was with you in the kitchen, the other was asleep on the couch

“Hey what kind of movie do you want to watch?” he said as he slung his backpack off his shoulder to pick out a film

• The double take he did was almost outrageous it was so exaggerated

“W- i thought your sibling was with you, why are they here?” he spoke while pointing at the kid who was knocked out

• You walked out of the kitchen with the other twin holding onto your neck

“oh didn’t i tell you? These are the twins”

• yeah he was confused at first and was asking you questions

“How do you tell them apart? They look the same!”

“You just can after a while”

• he’s not gonna do that, he’s just gonna call them “kid” instead of their names

“Hey kid can you pass me that?” he said pointing at the remote to turn on the tv

“Billy they’re not dogs, they’re just 3 so i doubt they know what you want”

• Billy gets up and grabs the remote

“C’mere and let’s watch something”

• You and billy would be somewhat touching (his arm around your shoulders) and one of your siblings decided that billy’s lap was a comfy place to nap

“Uh y/n, can you get them? I don’t want any nasty little kid germs on me”

“Billy that just means they like you! Get comfy cause once they’re out then they’re out and there’s no waking them up” you said as one of your siblings started to snore

“Oh well too late huh?” Billy said, grabbing your hand and kissing it, blushing hard “I see they like me more than you do! They’re laying on me!”

A dumb scoff left you

“Whatever, hurry up and pick something to watch”

•Billy ended up picking Hannibal (even though you asked to pick something mild since the twins were there)

“Hey y/n, if i was Hannibal and you were Will, would you date me? Let’s ignore the fact that i’m a killer, would you? Cause if i’m Hannibal then i would totally date you”

“Are you saying you want to date me?”

“Well-“

“Yes billy before you retract that statement i would date you” you cut him off

• He has the dumbest grin on his face

“But the catch is you gotta help me with these two”

“Hey if that means i date you then i’d do anything! Even if it means putting up with these two!”

Stu

• Stu would be amused with your siblings. you had met up with him at the park and wanted him to help you watch the kids as they played

“So how come you never told me you have twins?”

“They’re not my twins Stu, they’re my parents and they just leave them with me to watch while they go do whatever, it’s kinda tiring cause i’m parenting them more than they are!”

“Well why don’t i help you more often? They seem fun to take care of!” He said while getting up to stand, completely ignoring your eye roll

“How about we go back to your place and i make lunch? Maybe we can cuddle and watch something!”

• You almost missed how his eyes lit up at him wanting to cuddle with you

• Stu would carry one of the twins on his shoulders and you carried the other on yours, the twin on your shoulders laughing at the one taller than them

• You could tell the twins were tired, but you knew pretty damn well they wouldn’t nap without a snack

“So Stu, what do you have in mind to make for lunch? You know where everything is so go ahead” you said while carrying the twins to get changed into comfortable nap clothes

•Stu made some simple sandwiches for the kids and he threw together some pasta for you and him while the kids ate their sandwiches.

• After eating your lunches, you and stu both carried a sleepy twin to your bedroom to watch something

“Why can’t you put them in their room? can we have some privacy?” he whined, giving you that classic ‘stu wants something’ look

“you can try but good luck, they always end up in here since my parents aren’t here”

• he was not pleased but that didn’t stop him from pulling you into his lap with a twin on each side

“What do you want to watch? Do you want to watch a movie or a series?” He questioned, leaning his chin onto your head, “i’m guessing nothing to gruesome since they’re here huh?”

• You and Stu decided on the X-files and started on an episode somewhere in season 4

“Hey you should totally be the Scully to my Mulder y/n! We’re like partners in crime and i think it’s fitting”

“You do know that they have a kid together and end up with eachother right?”

“Well yeah, that’s like the whole point!”

• You laughed and took his hand into yours, kissing it

“i love you big dummy, but once this episode is over we should try and do some work while they’re asleep”

• You and Him end up doing work while the show continued in the background and the twins slept, one had their head on stu’s arm (which you totally didn’t gawk about)

i hope this works! 💜 i’m still trying to finish some requests

[bigfootwrites]

i really have no energy today. a sequel to this fic (honestly tho it’s a bad sequel i just...lost it halfway through) and it’s not on ao3 (idk if it will be) it’s also a college au. @today-in-fic

- - -

Her lips slide against his, wet and eager, her tongue quickly invading his mouth. His back collides painfully with the wall she pushes him into. He should find the light switch but his hands are glued to her body, skimming her back, grabbing her ass in handfuls. It’s unlike the kiss in the bar, that kiss was for show, this kiss is real and, ultimately, not something they should be doing.

Mulder pulls away but Scully doesn’t quite get to hint. She chases after him and even when Mulder moves his head out of reach, her lips attach to his neck, sucking and biting at his skin.

His eyes close as the pleasure courses through his body, electricity swirling around his bones. Sometimes he was convinced she was a real siren, destined to lure him into the sea and kill him. So badly does he wants to fall under her spell right now, to give in and leave the talking to another time, to another day.

But no. They both know sex doesn’t fix things. It repairs the issue for a time until even the pleasure and fun isn’t enough to hold it together anymore and their relationship breaks down once again.

A cycle that keeps going. They both said they would break it.

“Scully.” He pushes at her shoulders trying to create space between them to think clearly before another mistake it made. “Scully, stop.”

She lifts onto her tiptoes, trailing wet open kisses that have him melting up his neck. Her tongue twirls around the shell of his ear in the way she knows he likes, in the way that has him buckling.

“Don’t you want to play with me?” she asks in the sexiest, sultriest voice he’s ever heard from her.

He hardens in his jeans, hips thrusting towards her by their own volition. He groans and nuzzles the side of her face. She was going to kill him.

He’s about to give in, about to drag her to the bed, pin her down, and take her in ways he hasn’t been able to in months. His hand grips her wrist in preparation to do so.

Yet, there is still that Scully-proofed part of his brain, a rational, logical side that exists in there somewhere, that tells him he shouldn’t, that he should stop this before it escalates and they both regret it. It’s a part he listens to.

“Scully,” he says as her hands begin undoing his belt.

“Hmm?” she hums, happy and uncaring. In this moment, he’s envious of her, envious of her blasé.

“George Hale,” he says softly.

Her hands fall away and she looks up at him. Her eyes are wide and mouth fallen open slightly, like she too has just been lifted from a spell. He, too, releases his grip on her.

“You said we should talk,” he says with a quirk of a smile. He reaches behind him and flicks on the light.

.:.:.:.:.:.

Talking was never a strong point of theirs. It was always much easier to fuck and forget.

They sit on Mulder’s bed. Scully plays with the blanket, Mulder plays with a Rubix Cube. He’s almost completed it when Scully begins talking.

“You spent weeks ignoring me.”

The last column left and Mulder loses the energy to complete it. It puts it back on the shelf and sighs.

“You only bothered with me when it suited you.” She reels off, the hurt in her voice becoming more transparent with each syllable. “I felt used, most of the time. Just something warm and real in your bed.” She stands up, moving to the window and crossing her arms, not looking at him. “I don’t like feeling used, Mulder.” She bows her head and sniffles.

He hadn’t meant for her to feel that way. He just…

“Scully—”

Scully spins around, dropping her arms to her side. “So, your turn, Mulder.” She sits down again. “What do you want to say?”

Mulder swallows, his eyes searching the floor for answers. He had stuff he wanted to say but he was caught up in the how to say it.

He looks at Scully who waits expectantly and he turns away.

“It’s like you’re not around anymore,” he begins slowly. He hears her suck in a breath and exhale. “Like, you’re always busy with tests or studying or something and it’s not like…” His foot knocks into the bedframe with frustration. He’s shit at talking and his head was beginning to hurt. Can they forget this and just go back to the fucking?

He feels her thumb against his hand. The shock of her touch momentarily pausing his frustration as he twists to look at her. She smiles.

“It’s not like what?” she prods gently.

He focuses on her hand, on the hypnotising motion of her thumb soothing up and down his hand.

“It’s not like last year, or the year before. That was fun.” And new, and exciting. He saw her more times than he didn’t, they were attached to each other. But then senior year happened and he began not seeing her as much. His obsession with her dwindled as he fixated on other things.

Mulder frowns, thinking back to what she had said.

“Did you really feel used by me?”

She bites her lip and nods.

He looks away, feeling shitty he ended up treating her that way.

The bed creaks as Scully moves closer, grasping his hand properly in her own.

“Hey,” she calls gently. “Don’t feel guilty for it.”

Mulder smiles, feeling somewhat better. Scully rests her head against his arm and after a second of hesitation, Mulder leans his own head against the top of hers.

“I’m glad we talked,” she says.

Mulder nods. “Me, too,” he agrees. “But where do we go from now?”

She lifts her head and Mulder moves his own out the way. “I think we’re in a good place,” she says.

Mulder is unsure what that means exactly.

“But are we still on a break or?”

Scully dips her head, smiling. A blush creeps up to her face, something he hasn’t seen since that long conversation discussing their kinks. It reminds him of how shy they used to be with each other.

“The way you kissed me in that bar earlier told me I didn’t want to be on a break anymore.” She looks up at him through her eyelashes.

The biggest smile opens across Mulder’s face. “I can kiss you like that again if you want me to.”

Scully smiles, unable to help herself, and nods.

He grabs her in a similar manner as he did in the bar, their lips attaching, tongue invading, he fists her hair, keeping her glued to him. Scully catches up, her hands wrapping around the base of his neck. She leans back, allowing herself to fall onto the bed, Mulder falling on top of her.

He holds himself up so as not to crush her. He pulls his mouth away and begins an assault on her neck, heading downwards without any nagging thoughts nor feelings that they shouldn’t be doing this.

[just-a-donut-who-reads]

Johnlock or Mulder x Scully?

(Yes, you are allowed to break my heart. Yes, I knew this ask would break my heart, but, anything for you, dear Donut).

OH YOU WOULDN’T

holy crap why is everyone being so mean to me 😭 (/j) first star trek vs txf, now johnlock vs M/S???? ily tho Jeany :)

ughhh this is so hard because there was a time not too long ago where I was physically enraged that johnlock wasn’t made canon and I read so. many. fics. 

But M/S... is amazing... and @jean-louise-finch just look at them: 

come ON. bet you ship them without even watching the show

As for your question, I’m going to say M/S for now but if moffat pulls his head out of his ass and gives us sherlock s5, that might change👀 :)

[sins-of-the-sea]

I had the most AMAZING dream last night, it was one of those dreams that was so IMPOSSIBLY cool and awesome!

Basically: I dreamt that the Seven are villain protagonists featured in a live-action HBO/Hulu/Netflix/wtfever series, and they are pursued by an FBI agent who studies the paranormal, but man oh man, Agent Fox Mulder, he ain't!

The show presumes the Modern AU (of course) and closely resembles the Lupin III AU, wherein the Seven never found La Brujula in Kingston, and the Seven Keys of St. Emilio kept being changed around the world either to be studied or because the curators are aware of the Seven's existence. Interpol believes the Seven to just be a really highly organized criminal gang specialized in raiding museum pieces, and that they use the same techniques in stage magic to recreate the legend of the Seven Deadly Sin Pirates.  Except these folks ARE the actual Seven Deadly Sin Pirates, and they DO have their immortality and powers.

The only one who believes the Seven are immortal with Hell powers is this dude named Agent Brian Cox, who resembles Phil Coulson but lacks his endearing air to him. He has the conspiracy theorist inclination that Fox Mulder has (probably would be his hero tbh) but has NONE of the charisma or laid-back sense of humor, so nobody takes him seriously and gets pissed off whenever he wastes federal funding on pursuing the Seven. So I guess he's more like Inspector Zenigata who thinks he's a Javert.

So my dream opens up with the debut episode (pilot?), that takes place in Detroit or some other American city (I doubt it's NYC or LA tho). Interpol has alerted the FBI of the Seven's presence there and request for some assistance in catching them, and they comply by sending Agent Cox... for some mundane task like paperwork or wiretapping. Cox yells at his assistant, who is some unassuming Filipina-looking chick, that he can do more than just wiretapping because he knows who the Seven are. The chick acts as an audience surrogate on the legend of the Seven Deadly Sins, and naturally, she doesn't believe any of this, but she trusts in her boss to be able to catch the Seven themselves.

The episode swaps out to the Sevens' perspective, and this is where it gets really wild. Abena plots out that this particular museum heist will have a gang turf war take place surrounding the museum proper, which should distract local authorities from the deed inside. The Himbos are divided up to join the rival gangs, as they are young-looking enough to pass as teenagers or young adults looking for a place to belong. Meanwhile, the Elders plot out the heist proper, with Rashid tasked to override the computer security, Abena to watch out for guards, and Frascona to steal the museum piece himself.

Trouble brews up unintentionally, however--the Himbos are so caught up with the gang rivalries that they participate in them for real, to the point that the gangs pick up on their powers and take advantage of them to wreck havoc across the city via larceny, vandalism, etc. There was even a Guy vs Rui fight in the middle of the street where Guy lit up a street on fire and Ruixiong bent some streetlamps. Frascona chews out the Himbos for such irresponsibility, but they still have to maintain the masquerade to pull off the heist. The Himbos struggle to keep it together as they continue to engage the gangs.

The heist begins around the middle half of the episode. For some reason or other--I can't remember clearly, I just remember seeing Abena and Rashid frantically running around the upper levels of the museum, which, for some reason, resemble the LA Convention Center.  Frascona gets trapped in some ironclad room (???) and Abena and Rashid prioritize breaking him out over actually getting the museum piece. The gang turf war taking place to distract the authorities works a little TOO well--militarized units of the police are sent out to just shoot the gangs willy nilly, which send the Himbos in a panic because they grew fond of the gang members, thus forcing them to fight the cops. Agent Cox tries to take advantage of the chaos to catch Frascona, but he is able to escape, and the cops back off when Guy's fire chases them off, giving the gangs a chance to also escape. The gangs make up at the alleys, vowing to work together to face a bigger problem: the cops. Meanwhile, Frascona calls off the heist for this specific museum piece, as he spotted it's a fake, and thus, not worth their time. Cox's assistant tells her boss she now believes the Seven are real, and Cox asks for her name. I forget if she ever gave her first name, but I only remember her last: Montego. As in the same last name of St. Emilio Montego.

Now before you go "are you sure this is just a sleepy daydream and not an actual dream?", no, this is a dream, because there were a LOT of OOCness with the Seven, as well as impressions the writers of this show don't have a good grasp of their actual personalities, histories, and powers. Among them:

Phoebus is just about almost a literal nonentity, and only shows up for running gags of him being caught sleeping or just slacking off in general. This is not how Phoebus really is at all as Sloth, who is more emotionally slothful than physically. In any given heist or raid in planning, he is often tasked to point out problems and potential subversions to the plot with the information they have on hand, and even if he doesn't, he'd just complain about how the plan may not work, period. But in the dream, he just... sleeps. I think the show even forgot he existed in the gang subplot. That would drive me up the wall, as Phoebus is always given the narrative importance of being the only one of the Seven with a glint of hope that redemption and breaking away from the Master's bond is possible.

Ruixiong was written to be some general arrogant fuckboy who may as well be American raised. He has NONE of the nuance of his character of his more heroic side, or his pride in his Chinese heritage. The writers at least avoided making him a Chinese kung fu stereotype, which.... I guess..... is okay. Except Rui is VERY much the kind of guy who'd show off his martial arts because it's goddamn cool (the subversion to the stereotype lies in that he's not as good as he thinks he is and has to rely on his powers to be effective at all). He just comes off as bland.

I think the writers swapped Guy and Abena as Lust and Envy because Guy never hit on any cute boy and just acted... straight the whole time, while Abena was like this sexy big booba lady in every scene she appeared in. Which... FUCK. That's enraging to no end.

Frascona and Rashid were just generic leader guy and computer guy respectively, and hardly had any prominent scenes beyond their roles in the heist, which is ??????????????????????.

They REALLY did not do the powers justice, or even correct. Guy was depicted creating pillars of fire in his palms; Ruixiong was capable of bending streetlamps; Abena, Phoebus, Rashid, and Giovanni's powers aren't even shown at all; and Frascona can turn into fog but can't phase through solid objects, so he can't escape the iron room???. My Frascona would be at least smart enough to seep through the fucking hinges, HE'S NOT STUPID.

And the most maddening of them all: Giovanni was the tallest and most confident of the Himbos, was very superficially greedy (always talking about making money), and is PROUD to be a Vespucci, to the point of always talking about how more of his family should be presented in museums in America for the contributions to the world Amerigo Vespucci made. It's... almost as if Rui and Giovanni's personalities swapped, or something. And Gio was made to be the biggest flirt, and seems to be written to be the character whom they want the women demographic to fawn over as this suave bad boy. And just... HOLY SHIT, AAAAAAUUUUGGGGGGH, WHY. They even got his two-faced nature wrong--at one point in the heist, Giovanni just abandoned the group because he is too good to have to deal with the police. Giovanni would NEVER actually do this, holy fucking SHIT, the writers did not understand how Giovanni would actually be two-faced at ALL.

And true to the nature of the show, while everyone of the Seven is said to be of their nationalities, they are clearly played by American actors with American accents, which.... also annoys me, because if Devil's Eye is ever to be made a live-action show, I'd want actors from their respective regions to play the characters. You know, an actual Saudi actor to play Rashid, or a Catalonian actor to play Frascona. No, they're just Americans. Why.

But it was still a fuck awesome dream, because I got to see the Seven in this high-budget action show that nonetheless played on Rule of Cool. And then the show provides a stinger preview of the next episode, which.... has the Seven go to Seaworld in San Diego, swallow pills that turn them into Finding Nemo-kind of fishes, Agent Cox swallows the same pill and pursues them in the aquarium, all while Interpol wants the FBI to fire Cox for being in the way.

...........................................................

I still stand by the dream being awesome, tho.

[contrivedcoincidences6]

MSR + "'Exactly why can't I go into my own apartment?'" (if you're still taking these prompts!)

Thank you for still sending me prompts even tho I am the WORST™ at filling them. This is a lot longer than 5 sentences.

***

All that Scully wants to do is rest from her extra-long flight from California, and I can tell that my flittering about is annoying her but I can’t help it. After four days away from her, I want to be near her, even if she is extra grumpy.

I’m also nervous about what she will find when she enters her apartment. When she’d left for the planned trip to see her brother we’d slept together a three times. That third time landed the night before she left. It was heavenly. Then Scully asked about the future, our future.

I’ve dreamt of a future with her for some time. I imagine pets and picket fences and in my most far fetched dreams, a couple toe headed kids running around. So you would think I’d jump to answer but my mouth grew dry and I could tell I’d been silent for too long when she mumbled something about needing to pack and made a quick exit. 

It was bad. 

We’d talked once while she was away and it was awkward. 

So I decided to take the grand gesture course. I made dinner for her and set candles around the apartment. The Lone Gunmen timed to the minute when to take out the ziti and light the candles and left in a rush when they saw us pull up. 

There were rose petals on the floor and most significantly a card on the table detailing what I wanted for our future. 

Now though, my mind was filled with doubts. Her mouth was pursed as I danced in front of her blocking the door.

“How about we go out first? Find a good diner and get some comfort food?” I ask in an obviously guilty tone. 

The crease between her eyebrows deepens, "No, I’m exhausted and want to relax at home, preferably with wine and a bath.”

Nodding in sympathy, I take her arm and begin to lead her away.

“Mulder,” She holds up her hands, “Exactly why can’t I go into my own apartment?”

I sag and move out of her way and she begins to unlock the door. 

“Scully- Just-”

When the door opened she just stared for a moment, mouth open.

“Sorry I know it’s a lot I- just wanted to do something nice-”

I close my eyes until I feel her palm against my cheek. 

“Mulder,” I open them to see her watery blue eyes, “It’s very nice. Why were you scared to let me see it?” 

I cover her hand with my own, “I know I acted like a jackass last time we were together. Scully, all I want is a future with you, I just didn’t know how to say it and got panicked and I guess I just wanted to do something to make it up to you and prove... how much I love you.”

Her eyes widen at my omission and fear sits in my gut like a stone until she pulls me close kissing my cheek and whispering into my ear, “I love you too.”

“Want to see if I can actually bake ziti?” I ask after a silence. 

She laughs before taking my hand and leading me into the candlelit apartment.

[starbuckskeptic-a]

Pick the worst misconception you’ve noticed and ramble about it. (Or three?)

let me set the record straight // @tiarawcman

OH BOY OKAY WELL THAT OPENS THE FLOOR UP TO AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF SHIT AND I LOVE IT. 

honestly the biggest one that jumps to my mind is the whole ‘scully was so ooc at the end of ms4 i can’t believe she’d seriously disavow william like that’. like people who think that scene was written for scully to be sincere.

i know i’ve talked a little about this before, but it was when the episode first aired and i’ve had a lot of conversations about this ( including with @skepticreal and @vividtulips who are both more eloquent than me and helped me get my thoughts in order XD ) so i want to type things up again. so here’s a quick(ish) summary of why i think that misconception does scully A HUGE DISSERVICE. under the cut tho. cause it got long.

first off, let me just say that i get it. we all have our issues with cc. he’s done some things i don’t think fit in with scully’s character. but this isn’t one of them. here’s why:

SCULLY HAS EMOTIONALLY SHUT DOWN FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY LOSS SHES BEEN THROUGH over the course of the series. see how she reacted to losing both of her parents here and her utter determination to catch melissa’s killer. when someone she loves dies, she immediately throws herself into work as a distraction. she even did it with her own illness in memento mori. it’s how she operates. she did the same thing here.

SHE’S IN SHOCK. she’s literally just found out the boy she’s been missing for so long has died. this takes the emotional distance she usually puts herself through and compounds it.

SHE SEES MULDER STARTING TO FREAK OUT and she needs to intervene. she needs to tell him what skinner told her, needs to break that news to him as gently as possible ( whether or not the news is real is a different story and, ultimately, irrelevant to me because, at least at the time, scully believes it to be ). she can’t do that if she’s crying hysterically. she also can’t pull her punches. she knows that mulder, god bless him, is a bit dense sometimes ( see: literally two seconds later when she tells him she’s pregnant and he’s just like “…..huh?” ). she has to rip that bandaid off for him and for herself, so she has to say it directly. her bluntness doesn’t mean she means it. if anything, i would say it indicates the opposite given what we know about how reluctantly scully speaks about her emotions.

as a side note to this one, GILLIAN INDICATES A LOT IN HER ACTING. specifically, she has to suck in a breath before she starts into that bit. she has to brace herself to say it. truths are often blurted. this “confession” hurts her before she even says it

SHE HAS THE NEW BABY TO THINK ABOUT. putting aside the impossibility of it, this pregnancy is VERY high risk. william, she believes, is beyond her protection. this new child is not. she knows if she lets the full force of her grief for william hit her, she could adversely affect the health of the baby. again, that breath she takes to steady herself says a lot. she’s trying to keep it at bay.

finally, YOU SAY A LOT OF THINGS YOU DON’T MEAN WHEN YOU’RE GRIEVING. it’s human nature. scully’s humanity and her flaws are part of what i love most about her, and implying she should somehow be above such things, especially where her son is concerned, is just not realistic. there is no “right way” to grieve. she’s getting through it the only way she knows how: extreme rationalization. is it healthy ? no. is it gonna help ? probably not. but it’s human. and despite her alien dna dana scully is nothing if not beautifully, horribly human.

i could rant about this for days but that’s the gist of it. i don’t know why exactly this criticism of scully drives me insane, maybe because i had so many people tell me i was grieving wrong when i lost someone close to me. but either way, this is important to me and it drives me nuts XD

tl;dr: scully loved william. she still loves william. and her words at the end of MS4 are totally understandable.

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

*rolls a d100 for the TV & Movie ask list* 3, 13, 27, 84

aaa thank u!

3. Favourite television show from the 2010′s +?

sdfghfd i really haven’t watched that many, literally everything i watch is from the 60s-90s with the exception of Merlin and Hustle and occasionally Doctor Who. Endeavour is good tho

13. Saddest death scene?

i’m honestly pulling a blank :’‘D there are endings that make me really sad; the ending of Twin Peaks fills me with existential unease; the ending of The War Games in Doctor Who fills me with rage; the ending of Sapphire & Steel Assignment 6 fills me with even More existential unease... but I can’t think of any deaths

27. Name a show that had the worst series finale, in your opinion? 

The X-Files without a doubt. they had not one but several terrible finales. i love seasons 8 and 9 because doggett and reyes are both criminally underrated characters, and if the writers had had more of a focus on characters rather than mytharc, the dynamic of the x-files department as a four-person group rather than a duo could have been absolutely incredible. but no. as it stands, I think the show should have ended with Requiem, leaving any closure open for the audience to interpret, coming full circle to Bellefleur and Billy Miles and his classmates, but this time with Mulder’s abduction. I think it would have had a poignant and almost poetic symmetry to it. Instead we got MS I, II, III and IV which literally nobody asked for lmao

84. Action-packed movies or lots of dialogue? 

oh dialogue for definite. like. if it’s just characters in a room talking i’ll zone out but i’ll also zone out for action scenes as well. i just want Good Character Interactions (TM)

ask me stuff!!

[landofquartzandmelody]

ok i finished hiveswap act 1 lmao. i actually liked most of it a lot i think? and there’s a lot to talk about and there’s also a few things which were like.. Incredibly annoying. my overall impression was good tho! i’m going to dump my thoughts under a readmore though so no one accidentally gets spoiled

obvious warning for that !!

the setting is actually incredibly detailed and i occupied myself for a long time clicking on everything in the background? the art was really pretty and the actual gameplay itself was really smooth and not glitchy at all.

the video cutscenes didn’t play for me at all lmao. I had a few tabs of text-only websites open, and join.me, and that was it. i couldn’t easily lower the settings to make it run smoother either? which was really annoying, and i don’t see why the cutscenes were sooo much harder for my computer to get through than the actual gameplay.

the only other glitch i had was a framing glitch in jude’s treehouse i think

i liked most of the puzzles a lot and it all seemed very organic and fun. using items on other items was pretty cool, and i only got stuck like once or twice.

i really did not like the snake game mainly because i had to swap to using my keyboard for that and that alone lmao.

the monster fights were REALLY fun, i thought. they had a really classic homestuck feel.

it was kind of hard to walk up and down the stairs, actually. there wasn’t enough room to click where you needed to go and that was a bit irritating

i really really really loved the harleyclaire mansion!! everything about the first part of the game was REALLY good!!!

there’s so much to get into with jake and joey and jude and anna claire that it’s nuts tbh. but i really liked everything about that. imo it dealt with parental issues in a lot more depth than hs ever did, and surprisingly nuanced parental issues is definitely an hs thing. but joey’s problems with jake are a lot more fleshed out and realistic.

definitely one of the themes is that the adults in joey’s life have never been there for her. her mom isn’t there because she’s dead, roxy isn’t ‘there’ because she’s irresponsible and is already developing drinking problems, and jake isn’t there because he’s always been somewhere else. so there’s something interesting when xefros talks about parents there

i think i was expecting jake to be a decent father so i was definitely really sad when it became obvious that he was kind of.. not? and it’s evident that he’s really screwed joey up, but i think that it’s also very in line with how canon portrays jake. like his biggest flaw was being unwilling to put in the emotional work and commitment that his friends needed.

sometimes he was definitely scared of those, so i can easily conceive of jake taking the easy way out and heading out to trawl the pacific for a meteor baby.

the line about how ‘having a second thing which is sort of like the first thing but somewhere else is exactly the same as having the first thing’

it’s interesting that jade and joey both do the same thing by projecting on their dead guardians. jade’s thinking is a lot more magical than joey’s, but it really shines a light on how everything we assumed about grandpa harley was through the eyes of a girl who never really got to know him.

and like he died well before he could disappoint her, so.

it was REALLY really sad but i don’t think i actually have a problem with it.

part of the reason i don’t have a problem with it is bc it made joey claire’s characterization SO much more compelling

because she’s very angry at her father for doing the things he did, and is openly disparaging about him, and even chooses to use her mother’s last name instead of his? but she’s not angry or hard or bitter

i love my hard trauma girls but it’s really nice that joey just gets kinder and better in the face of a childhood full of neglect- without being pushed to forgive or minimize the damage that was done to her

the detail about joey absolutely refusing to use guns because she doesn’t want to be like her dad, and choosing to love animals and heal them was so good. and how that’s framed as an act of rebellion?

like the idea that kindness can be radical but that =/= forgiveness.

we didn’t see a lot of jude but i loved everything about him so much

like it was pretty subtle so i don’t know if y’all would consider it ‘canon’ but the bit where joey says that ‘when things got bad with my brother, our babysitter took him to see a doctor, and he was better for a while’ seems like it’s saying joey is being treated for a mental illness of some sort?

which seems completely in line with his character! he almost falls into the trap where it’s like ‘we all called this person crazy for seeing all these conspiracies but he was right all along’ but he doesn’t and that’s nice. it’s very subtle and pretty respectful imo. (also, fox mulder)

he and joey are the cutest siblings in the entire universe, and he was so sweet to her. he seems very earnest about wanting to protect her and caring about her.

the part where his birds left him made me SOOOO SAD. it was so sad. i felt so bad for him. I named dammek’s catdeer Frohike to pay my respects even though frohike was the worst gunman.

i’m really worried about him tho. i hope he’ll be okay without joey around

joey claire is such an obvious lesbian

honestly i know a lot of people were nervous because it seemed like it was setting her up to have a relationship with xefros but i absolutely don’t think that’s the case, just because she’s definitely gay.

every time she looked at a picture of a girl in the harleyclaire mansion she had one gay thought or another, and her entire room was plastered completely in images of pretty girls. not ONE guy.

there was also a lot of dialogue which implied she felt guilty or ashamed of how she felt when looking at girls, or like she wasn’t sure if she was allowed to, or if people would judge her for having pretty pictures of girls on her walls.

also her password being the name of a boy she has certainly never met or talked to, and who we never saw an image of (despite said guy being an actor? i think) or heard mentioned before

the scene where xefros mentions he is a boy who likes boys and joey is like ‘oh. huh’ seems to me like it’s very obviously from the pov of a lesbian who had absolutely no idea what a lesbian is, or that she is allowed to be one. 

i think joey is definitely going to realize she is gay at some point in the future acts

i didn’t expect to like or care about xefros as much as i did?

he was obnoxious at first but basically as soon as we figured out what was up with dammek and that xefros thought he’d been speaking to dammek he became 100% less annoying and i started liking him a lot lmao.

he and joey had a really sweet friendship, actually.

homestuck breezed over a lot of the more horrible things about troll civilization, but hiveswap did a very good job of making it patently obvious how horrible troll civilization is for xefros and other lowbloods, and i think it has a redeeming effect on the Other Stuff.

i like that they made it obvious what’s happening is horrible and needs to like, stop or whatever, and don’t like... condemn the revolutionaries.

his situation isn’t really played for laughs or mocked.

that being said a lot of the writing for dammek was really really annoying and dumb.

people like dammek definitely exist and i think hiveswap does a faaairly decent of not conflating dammek being a shithead with the rest of the movement? the joke about personal property was very very annoying lmao but the movement itself is portrayed as legitimate and necessary. it’s a dumb reactionary type of joke but it doesn’t ruin the game for me

i do think he’s going to Learn To Be A Better Person while he’s hanging out with jude. i don’t think he’s going to get a vriska type arc at all but i do think he’ll learn the error of his ways.

i wish that we’d gotten to see a bit more of his personal motivation for being so intense about revolution.

i ALSO wish they hadn’t used like actual symbols of movements in the bg that was really annoying and crass imo. and if they had to, i wish xefros had had an anarchist flag or whatever.

abuse / neglect are big themes in hs so i’m not really surprised at all that they came back? they definitely shouldn’t have advertised dammek and xefros as being cute moirails though because it’s kind of scummy to do a bait and switch like that.

i don’t think the game’s going to be hetero though. xefros and joey would be incredibly ugly and i doubt it’ll happen

i also think homestuck the original thing is actually pretty on the nose about class stuff, even if it does feel the need to like couch that in Fake Alien Racism? at the very least i’d be surprised if hiveswap tried to pull the You’re The Same As Your Oppressors thing

i’m still annoyed that there was so much promo art of xefros and dammek being cute together when the actual game condemned every interaction they had. i think that it would have been possible to say the same things as they wanted to while also not making dammek a crazy leftist stereotype and grounding him in reality like a real person.

to be fair, we are going to get a sequel game with him, so he’ll probably be fleshed out a LOT better then.

trizza is somehow so much more evil than expected? how evil she is feels a lot more real than like, the condesce, tbh. she feels like a real person

i’m SUPER curious about cridea now and i can’t wait to see what she’ll be like

[sylvieons]

Fandom meme tagged by @nyx4 and @cleoselene xoxo which took me 90 years to finish but it’s HARD OKAY thinking is hard

A: Your current OTP. Jace/Alec from Shadowhunters. Apparently this makes me problematic but I don't care

B: A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind. This is hard because if I started watching a show because of someone they typically told me their ship ahead of time and then I was looking for it.  So I guess the closest I can come up with is that I lowkey ship Sephiroth/Genesis from Final Fantasy because of @nyx4 but I've never played the game

C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can't. Arthur/Merlin from Merlin.  Everyone always went so over the top with Merthur, and I shipped it for a few seconds but I never really liked Arthur so it was hard to care.

D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom? An X-Files fanfic uploaded to Gossamer titled, embarrassingly enough, "My Immortal" to which I attached my real name.  I was 14 or 15 and therefore very stupid. (I have since had this and another removed from the site, thankfully).  I also handed this fic into my English teacher to read.  Even more embarrassing.  The plot? Mulder loved Scully but he wanted to make sure that she loved him so he tried to make her jealous and when she did act jealous he was like "lol jk" and then I went into a lot of detail on a kiss they shared (THAT MY ENGLISH TEACHER READ) and then they got engaged and then they both got shot outside of Mulder's apartment for WHATEVER REASON and died.  Hence "My Immortal", because they'll be together in death.

E: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what? Yes, and I shall find the post I made on Livejournal so I can bring you direct to the source.  It was for Legend of the Seeker, and I got the idea to Photoshop a fake Facebook post based on an episode (I forgot where I got the idea, if I saw it in another fandom or what).  Anyway the result was this:

https://imgur.com/Zo5Bi6x

It spun of control and spawned an actual Facebook RP which is where I met the two people who tagged me in this and AIN'T LIFE REALLY CRAZY SOMETIMES???

F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? The X-Files. I got into it when I was around 11 or 12 and was a pretty active member until I was 17 or 18. Which doesn't seem very long, but to be heavily into it, I feel it was. And then I came back around to it when the revival was announced, so it's been an on and off relationship.

G: What was your first fandom? The X-Files, probably, in terms of content-creating.  Maybe if I'm counting things like "I pretended I was Xena a lot and I would call my friend on the phone and we’d talk about Xena" then maybe Xena: Warrior Princess

H: Do you prefer real-life TV shows or animated TV shows? Real-life, hands down. I hate animation.

I: Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why? Lol what -hasn't- Tumblr caused me to hate?  Tho...you know what...I've never said it on this hellsite for fear of reprisal, but I'm going to do it. Tumblr turned me off Sansa Stark back in season 2 or so.  There was so many posts where people were so aggressive about unfollowing and hating people who didn't like Sansa and it got so irritating I started to dislike Sansa by association. So congrats, Tumblr, you played yourself. Also, this site turned me off The Musketeers around season 3. So much Aramis hate, kind of soured me since I watched the show for Santiago Cabrera. And then that association soured me on Santiago, so. Thanks.

J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr. I'm going to say Teen Wolf. It was all over the place when it was first airing and people either loved it or thought it was ridiculous so I started watching it finally and it was ridiculously great. But then they killed off Allison and ruined my life :)))))

K: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s). I don't really know what my current fandoms are - I'm kind of really into Shadowhuters rn but not in a "making things" sort of way. Anyway, I have heard some very terrible things about this fandom so I am wary.

L: Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for? I don't read fanfic and I'm not into fanart so.

M: A person who got you into a fandom and what fandom they pulled you in to. @nyx4 again. Got me into watching Sons of Anarchy. I had tried previously and got about 10 minutes in and couldn't stand it but she said it got better so I powered through and then I was into it.

As for non-TV and movie stuff, @tsukinosusagis got me into a shitton of music and like he said a few days ago “Remember when Lights created our friendship??? ICONIC”

N: Your favorite fandom (for the people; not the thing you fangirl over). Legend of the Seeker on its Livejournal days, back in 2009 and 2010 were my favorite. Nothing on tumblr.hell is a good fandom. All of it should burn.

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of? Lmao I'm really bad at this.  I suffer trying to pick songs for ships so idk

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas). SHADOWHUNTERS PIRATE AU. Also, it's not an AU, but I have a very elaborate setup in my head for an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the gang is convinced the bar is haunted and the name of the ep is "Paddy's Pub: The Most Haunted Bar in Philadelphia"

Q: A ship you’ve abandoned and why. Cersei/Jaime because Jaime is a rapist. Also made me stop watching GOT because I was really mostly watching for Cersei and Jaime but I didn’t wanna see Jaime anymore so

R: A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships. Morgana/Lancelot from Merlin. I'm sure there's a lot in the actual Arthuriana stuff that people ship, but I'm just talking about the show. I was only able to find maybe 1 gifset and 2 fics about these two.  Granted, I only shipped them because SANTIAGO CABRERA AND KATIE MCGRATH so maybe nobody else cared.

S: What's a headcanon you have? I don't really have any of these.

T: What are your favorite male/male ships or female/female ships? Jace/Alec (Shadowhuters), Aramis/Porthos (The Musketeers), Red/Snow (Once Upon a Time), Rizzoli/Isles (Rizzoli & Isles), Eliot/Quentin (The Magicians), Penny/Quentin (The Magicians), Xena/Gabrielle (Xena), Mac/Dennis (It's Alway Sunny), Willow/Tara (BTVS)

U: What are your favorite male/female ships? Mulder/Scully (The X-Files), Cesare/Lucrezia (The Borgias), Richard/Nicci (Legend of the Seeker), Richard/Cara (Legend of the Seeker), Gemma/Tig (Sons of Anarchy), Mitchell/Annie (Being Human), Spike/Dru (BTVS), Jim/Pam (The Office), Jane/Michael (Jane the Virgin)

V: Do you have any 3-way ships? If so, what? Yeah, Darken Rahl/Cara/Dahlia from Legend of the Seeker. And it has to be a threeway, because any two of these characters together I don't ship but the 3 together? YES YES YES

W: 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms. Bo Dennis (Lost Girl) Ilithyia (Spartacus) Dana Scully (The X-Files) Quentin Coldwater (The Magicians) Gemma Teller (Sons of Anarchy)

X: 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms. Why would ya ask me this question when you asked for my favorite ships above, bro?

But I guess

Mulder/Scully (The X-Files) Richard/Nicci (Legend of the Seeker) Jim/Pam (The Office)

Y: A fandom you’re in but have no ships from. Most of them - like even if I do have a ship, it's pretty lowkey?  A lot of the above are lowkey.  But I'll say Black Sails. 

Z: What's a ship that you want to ship publicly, but everyone on tumblr hates it so you keep your mouth shut about it? Lol Jalec I guess? Like I'm saying it right now, but I'm not gonna go out there and go big with it because lots of annoying people out there.

[leiascully]

Why do u always have to mention mulder when asked about Scully tho

It entertains me and they’re pretty deeply entwined in my mind, but I can see how it might feel reductive, so here you go, anon, just for you .

Scully plants a garden at the unremarkable house.  She’s never really lived anywhere she could have a garden before, and she likes the thought of herself putting down roots at the same time that the plants do. There’s although the thought in the back of her mind that if the world ends, being able to grow her own food will be important.  She learns to identify the tender little seedlings as they put forth their cotyledons.  She pulls up the weeds.  (Later, in her lonely apartment, she buys a ficus and a few other plants.  She’s pleased that she’s learned how to keep them alive.  They remind her of better days, and they tether her.  She cares for them.  None of them yield any fruit and that’s on purpose.  She wants to put some things behind her, and the first of them is the idea that disaster lurks around every corner.)

She cleans the house.  The nurses have introduced her to Spotify.  It’s always making her playlists full of Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.  She hums to herself as she makes the space her own, everything shipshape, gleaming and tidy.  

She reads.  She reads everything, medical journals and the Washington Post and the newest bestseller jumbled in the basket where she keeps her current reads.  She keeps intending to subscribe to Bitch Magazine - she picked up an issue at the bookstore one day when she was feeling particularly in need of taking a stand on something and the articles fascinated her.  There are worlds she’s never imagined (and oh, she’s imagined so many).  

She runs.  It clears her head.  She likes the burn in her legs and her chest.  Some days it’s a physical manifestation of the hurts that she feels in less tangible places.  Some days it’s proof that she’s alive and thriving, years after staring at the death’s-head barely concealed by the tight dry skin of her own faces.  Some days she’s outrunning doomsday.  Some days it’s just the glory of it, sweat and mud and the electric pressure of her feet hitting the ground and springing up again.  She takes up yoga too, when she moves back into town: it’s comforting to feel her body strengthening itself in new ways, becoming more flexible.  She’s felt rigid for so long, always on guard, treading the same path.  Yoga offers new perspectives, new possibilities.  She has space to breathe.  

She has one of those adult coloring books, another bookstore purchase on an odd day.  She sits on the porch, or later, the balcony of her apartment, and lets herself do something that seems so frivolous.  Thirty minutes to herself, even when she lives alone, seems like such an indulgence.  

She learns how to steep tea properly.  She learns how to make her own scones.  She chops salads and sautés chicken and folds dumplings and seals summer rolls.  She makes a pot of fragrant pho.  She doesn’t worry about leftovers spoiling in the fridge before she can eat them, because she doesn’t leave town often.

She takes baths and develops strong preferences about Lush bath bombs.  She likes the blue one with the seaweed.  She rarely likes the orange ones.  She likes the bubble bars too, and the subtle glitter of the water.  

She takes care of herself and her space.  She lets herself belong.