#file://Maniac

[opens-up-4-nobody]

The x-files jersey devil picture is so precious to me

[nirobe-sam]

Sorry, I don't have any silly doodles to share this time..

(painted over a drawing on my sketchbook.)

[rosieofcorona]

i have come to the creeping realization that my ideal man is like a chosen-of-god type who simultaneously wants to kill god and maybe also be god despite knowing intimately the inherent and utter misery of godhood

[cin3maa]

HEY GUYS LOOK AT WHAT DON DREW ME AS A REWARD FOR BEING PRODUCTIVE TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁🥺🥺

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

Fox Mulder doesn't have the "I Want To Believe" poster there because he's crazy. He doesn't have it there to broadcast his beliefs or as a mantra or to remind him to always look for aliens.

Fox Mulder keeps that "I Want To Believe" sign above his desk to remind him of his own internal biases.

That sign hangs above Mulder's desk to remind him of his own shortcomings and flaws. He's aware that he's a hack with dangerous beliefs and prone to flights of fancy and maybe even delusions. He's aware that he's desperately searching for aliens and monsters where there are only men doing bad things. And he has to remind himself of that, constantly.

That's why he's thrilled when he meets Scully and she challenges his beliefs, says that logically aliens don't exist. He's thrilled when she tells him to cut the crap in the pilot episode. He needs someone to challenge him. He needs someone who won't take his shit and put up with his flights of fancy. And he knows it. He's been dealing with himself for years and he feels relief and joy when Scully comes in and says enough of your bullshit. We're doing this my way. With science and logic. He isn't smiling and teasing her because he thinks he's smarter and better than her. He's smiling because she's exactly the person he needs in his life.

That's why he tells her right away that he's a UFO freak with trauma about his sister and a true believer. Not because he's trying to convince her to believe, but because he needs her to understand where he's coming from and what's wrong with him. So she can understand that either he's a dangerous lunatic himself, or he's delving into a dangerous conspiracy and either way she could be collateral damage if she stays with him. He spends the pilot episode reckoning with the idea that either he's a maniac or he's pulling this young fresh detective into danger. When she starts agreeing with him he gets upset, talks her out of it.

Mulder keeps that sign above his desk to remind himself to look into the "reasonable logical" explanations. He keeps that sign on his desk because he knows he's flawed and biased and frankly, dangerous.

He tells Scully exactly what he thinks is happening and about all the crazy stuff he believes not because he's trying to convince her to believe too, but so she can be his sounding board. So she can throw his illogical bullshit back in his face and remind him to look past his own biases and paranoia and quasi-religious zealotry. Because he knows he needs that. He knows he's in a conspiracy brained echo chamber of his own making and having a slow-burn mental breakdown. And he sees Scully as salvation from himself. As another figure in his quasi-religious belief system. The savior.

As the series develops he relies on her more and more to reality check him. Literally reality check him and manage what he worries might all be a delusion.

Mulder pretends he's confident and all the constant criticism and sidelong glances don't get to him and that might be true because he doesn't respect those people but he respects Scully. And he needs someone he respects to tell him when he's wrong, when he's being biased or actively delusional. Scully is his salvation. She's compassionate about his trauma and the reasoning behind his beliefs, but confident and logical enough to tell him when it's all bullshit. She's his savior, his rock, and often his only real connection to material reality.

[inactiveayla]

been thinking about how Mulder canonically lied in his report to the federal government to cover up Scully shooting an unarmed man/potential demon in their custody

[ahsokasrightlightsaber]

I am of the firm belief that Shawn Spencer and Fox Mulder would be the FBI's worst nightmare if they met - Scully and Gus would not be able to stop their shenanigans.

[is-on-its-way]

Dana Katherine Scully is a horse girl

A thesis...

The xf fandom has a general consensus Fox Mulder is a bit crazy. A maniac is how its been described. A lesser discussed idea is that although Fox Mulder is completely unhinged in such a pure BDE, knows the norms of society and doesn't give any shits kind of way, Dana Scully is also not quite completely "typical". She just looks very sane comparatively when next to her partner.

Placed in any other situation or with regular FBI partners, she's kind of a weirdo too. For me, she effervesces horse girl energy. Good, funny, weird, horse girl energy.

What is horse girl energy? You might ask. I found an excellent summation in a lovely article on Mashable.

Big dick energy and horse girl energy are innately opposite vibes -- if big dick energy is chaotic good, horse girl energy is lawful neutral. If you have big dick energy, you're probably kind of weird because you don't give a shit about what people think of you -- you set the social norms. If you have horse girl energy, you're probably kind of weird because you're blissfully unaware of social norms.

I could probably write an essay about Mulder's BDE didn't fully evolve until he met Scully and she believed in him. All others opinions of him fell away and he wasn't so bothered by everyone calling him spooky anymore. But for right now, this is about Scully.

I am obviously not talking about cliche horse girl attributes. That they talk about nothing but horses, they wear their riding pants or boots outside of the barn or anything overtly obvious.

Im talking about pure personality and vibes.

Im talking about the cool girl essence. The eccentricity and the slight obliviousness to social etiquette. The way they can be confident and serious without worrying if they're offending anyone. The way they can be completely standoffish until someone makes their way past that barrier and then they are the kindest warmest people you know. The headstrong way about them. Of the fact they, having dealt with 2000 pound animals since they were basically toddlers, take no shit from anyone, especially men. And yes, perhaps are a little bit crazy too.

So maybe her parents let her muck out stalls in exchange for riding privileges at the local barn in Annapolis or something as a kid but yeah, thats my canon and Im sticking to it.

Anyway Mulder and Scully were made for each other. La di da.

Bonus picture of GA being a literal horse girl with very good form. lol

[jules-9-7-1]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask if there's a way to download audio only from YouTube videos.

An awesome otome reader YouTuber, Spacey Sims, got hit with multiple copyright strikes on a video game she completed some time ago. VOLTAGE, I think? But the copyright strikes were on all of the videos all in one night.

I'm bad at summarizing so here is a screenshot of her community tab notification.

My point is, besides hoping against all hope that YouTube doesn't take away her channel, I want to download the videos, or at least the audio, so I can still finish the videos.

At least within the 30 days before an internet connection is required again.

Can I convert the videos or audio to mp4, etc onto a USB stick or flash drive?

Should I try contacting the Wayback machine to try to preserve them?

Is there a way to voice to YouTube not to take down her channel?

She has been on YouTube for 8 plus years and started with playing Sims. Eventually reading otome games in her own voices. There are so many awesome games but the ones I want to save/download are:

Code Realize Guardian of Rebirth

Code Realize: Future Blessings

Code Realize: Winter

Virche Evermore

Cafe Enchante

Birushana Genpei

Olympia Soiree

Amnesia Memories and the fandiscs

Piofiore and the fandisk

Hakuoki (the Vita versions)

Radiant Tale (she was playing the fandisk but it is not complete)

She also provides so much commentary that it feels like you are discussing the video game with a friend.

If there's nothing else to do but hope and watch my favorites, I wanted to post this so anyone else who loves her videos have time to watch.

[cedarbookhs]

One of my favourite micro-genres, especially growing up, was books about kids or teens running away from home and living in unusual places. Some of these are more serious and involve leaving abusive homes. Others, the home life and excuse for leaving is entirely perfunctory and the adventure is the point. The common theme is that the kid leaves voluntarily (isn’t stranded somewhere, but goes there specifically) and then ends up living independently in some unique setting that gives the story a large part of its identity.

My Side of the Mountain — inside a tree in the Catskills

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maniac Magee — inside a buffalo house in the zoo, in a baseball stadium, and more

The Invention of Hugo Cabret — a grand Parisian train station

notabookbut The Kings of Summer — a homemade shanty in the Ohio woods

Last Sam’s Cage — the Calgary Zoo

The Boxcar Children — a freight car

Suggest more if you can think of any, I know there are lots of other examples.

[stainlesssteellocust]

Shitpost incoming:

Nightmare Stacks is funny bc it baits you repeatedly

first it presents you with this bitter nerd (also vampire) who runs into a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, see, and you think you’re along for the standard ride

but then turns out that little miss cheerful green-haired goth theatre kid had her own stuff going on, wouldn’t have found the lead particularly interesting, and didn’t seem to have much desire to be anyone’s Ramona Flowers tbqh…

…except she was actually kidnapped and replaced by this spooky fae doppelgänger before we met her, and she’s dead, and the doppelgänger absorbed her soul and took her appearance and assimilated her personality and sorta thinks she is the girl,

and she’s got some deeply malicious reasons to be hanging out with our bitter lead, who increasingly proves to be a genuinely decent human being except he has a horrifying reason to be bitter which is thoroughly damaging his mental health in bleakly sympathetic ways, and he really doesn’t deserve to be catfished by a brutal invading empire just because he feels lonely and alienated-

-but it’s cool because it turns out that the soul-stealing fae doppelgänger working for the malevolent empire is also a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

and she’s into angsty vampiric nerd boys so we’re good

[screamsofanoutlawbrain]

The freakshow au belongs to @hootbon

I think over the years, she'd become a little unsettling. <3

She's totally not crazy guys, I promise 🤭/j

[catgirlxox]

are you FUCKING kidding me MY PHONE (the device I record on) EXPLODED

[just-an-enby-lemon]

One of the major reasons I love Unburied Riddler soo much is because he came out on a phase where people were trying to take away all that makes him Riddler and turn him into an edgy and unfunny serial killer and instead they showed he can be competent, part of mature naratives, abord serius topics and still be the same ridiculous pathetic weirdo who annoys people to death. The only changes Eddie had from his classical portray was being not white and saying fuck wich were both improviments. (Also they are absolutly right that if Riddler was able to curse he would use it to be even more whiny, put curses into riddles and pair it with ridiculous things like "ahoy hoy").

[masked-and-doomed]

How to cope that my favourite guilty gear game genuinely might be the fuck ass pachinko with my beloved Baldias in it

[just-a-leech-boy]

listening to Fox Mulder Is A Maniac and half of it is just. haha this guy is so fucked up and weird he literally [insert autism symptom]