#i can't tell if i'm being serious or not

[mintyimperiatrix]

i know the leading theory for Two regenerating with a fuck ass Beatles hairdo is One's exposure to the 1960s but can i just take a moment to posit another theory...

[brenayla]

Scully wakes suddenly, disoriented in time. Rain patters against the window and the ensuite bathroom door is cracked open.

It's 2001 again. The walls of the unremarkable house fall away and she is in Mulder’s Hegal Place bedroom, complete with Mulder himself sprawled at her side.

He shifts and curls in towards her, eyes closed. “Y’okay, Scully?”

“Yeah,” she says, waking from her seventeen year sleep. “Yeah. I just– I had a really strange dream.”

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full fic under the cut. inspired by this post by @baronessblixen (and anon)

Scully wakes suddenly, disoriented in time. Rain patters against the window and the ensuite bathroom door is cracked open.

It's 2001 again. The walls of the unremarkable house fall away and she is in Mulder’s Hegal Place bedroom, complete with Mulder himself sprawled at her side.

He shifts and curls in towards her, eyes closed. “Y’okay, Scully?”

“Yeah,” she says, waking from her seventeen year sleep. “Yeah. I just– I had a really strange dream.”

“Hm? What about?”

Mulder’s warm hand settles on the slope of her abdomen. She’s still pregnant. The little trio of circular scars on his cheek are imperceptible in the dark, though she might still feel the raised skin if she reached out and touched him.

“Well, I had the baby, but bizarre things kept happening.”

Mulder opens his eyes, his attention seized. “What kinda bizarre things?”

“I don’t know,” Scully fibs. “I could have sworn that he was…things kept moving around him.”

“Like what?”

“Like his mobile. Maybe other things, I can’t remember. It was a dream.”

Mulder considers his response, poorly concealing his amusement. "Scully, I don't mean to step on your toes here but don't mobiles just do that?"

“Some do. It was just a dream, Mulder, it's not supposed to make any sense. And other things were off, too. You were gone for a while. When you came back, you were on trial for some reason.” Another series of flashes spring back to her and she picks at the neckline hem of Mulder's cotton sleep shirt. “And I…I think I gave the baby up for adoption.”

“It was just a dream,” he echoes sleepily.

“But it was so vivid, Mulder. I became a doctor and we lived in this house with a porch.”

Mulder brushes hair from her face, trailing his fingertip down her jawline. “That part sounds nice.”

“It was,” she agrees. “But there was something missing.”

“Our son.”

Scully scoots closer and Mulder recognizes the request; he takes her hand and kisses it, then holds it against his heartbeat, soothing her.

Eventually, he asks, “Why was I gone for a while?”

“It wasn’t very clear.” She remembers reading an email from him but his words are too blurry to recall. “There was something about you needing to keep the baby safe.”

“But that doesn’t make any sense.”

“No,” she admits. “No, it doesn’t.”

“What was I doing while you were being a doctor?”

“I don’t think you were working. You were on the run.”

“So, I was on the run but also investing in real estate with you? Not my best idea.”

“Well, you must have been exonerated or...forgiven because at some point we started working on X-Files again.”

“That’s nice of the powers that be,” he mutters, lulled by her fantastical bedtime story.

“It was silly, is what it was.”

“Did we ever track down our telekinetic kid?”

Scully tries to call the dream back but it’s already melting away. “I don’t know. We did go on vacation to this island though.”

Mulder chuckles. “You gotta lay off the junk food before bed, Scully. Crazy dreams are supposed to be my thing.”

She remembers heart-shaped floral patterned pajamas and dirt underneath Mulder’s fingernails. He hadn’t found Samantha, but he’d found somebody.

“All yours, Mulder.”

He moves to kiss her forehead, then settles in and closes his eyes again. “I knew it was a boy,” Mulder mumbles, his thumb skimming across the back of her hand.

“The ultrasound tech knew it was a boy,” she corrects.

“No, I had a sense. I told you, remember?”

“I remember you telling me after I gave you the results.”

Mulder insists, “I told someone before that.”

He didn’t, she’s almost positive; but it’s late and if she pushes, he’ll just claim that it was one of the Gunman, and the thought of them comes with another image that she doesn’t want to pull on. A deadlocked steel door with a small window, the scene reeking of contamination. Scully is going to make sure that Mulder accepts their next invite to hang out.

Mulder squeezes her hand. “I can feel you thinking,” he murmurs, a light accusation.

“Sorry,” she whispers, reaching to touch his clean-shaven face. “Hey, Mulder?”

“Yeah?”

“What do you think of the name William?”

[airenyah]

i need to talk about this line here for a second, because it's an attack on me personally. but not the english translation of it, no, it's the og thai line that really gets to me. because he says:

มันโอเค​นะเว้ย ที่จะมีความรักอ่ะ [man - oh-keh - ná wóiie • thêe - jà - mee kwaam rák - àh] it - okay - [particle] • that - will - be in love - [particle]

he specifically uses the term มีความรัก which is more like "to be in love". which means rather than "it's okay to love", this line is more accurately translated as:

It's okay to be in love.

and as someone who really really really struggles with self-acceptance for my own romantic feelings for others, this distinction is really important to me. i can deal with loving others. i love my family. i love my best friend (you really don't go here but hiiii @magsimags i love youuuu 😘 (i know you're rolling your eyes reading this as usual)(i don't care)(i love you)). i love my other close friend. i love my summer camp gang. i love my friend that style reminds me of. i love each and every single one of the friends i've made in this fandom over the past few years (you know who you are 💖). i KNOW it's okay to love. i do it all the time. loudly. as evidenced by the fact that i just HAD to tag my best friend in this post to publically tell her i love her even though she really doesn't care about my thai blorbos, just because i really couldn't NOT tag her to tell her i love her. anyway. i can love. loving is fine.

but to be in love??? that's a whole different story. having (in my case romantic) feelings for someone feels like a heavy burden. it feels humiliating. i hate it. i don't want it. it stresses me out. and the person i have feelings for especially can't ever know about it. see, i will talk about my crushes/romantic feelings, but mostly to family and friends (the better they know the person i have feelings for, the harder it gets for me to admit to it), and even then the word "be in love" won't ever come out of my mouth in my native language. in english it's easier, but in my native language i just can't say it. it feels heavy. it makes me cringe. being in love is horrible.

so when style said "it's okay to be in love" specifically? that was a punch to my gut. because this is a truth i have not yet managed to accept for myself. and if the person i had feelings for specifically told me "it's okay to be in love" so firmly and so earnestly? yeah, i would crumble too

[egophiliac]

so have you heard about the ride kamens app game? seems like it's gonna be a twisted wonderland like game with all the riders being hot anime guys now, and it's also gonna be written by yuya takahashi and produced by naomi takebe (apparently it was in development before geats), with designs by the person who did sk8 the infinity, so take that for what you will

have you ever gotten the feeling that a piece of media came into existence just to appeal to you specifically, or

(brb preregistering immediately)

(as far as I can tell you play as an agent who maintains a secret superhero base for riders in the basement of the rider-themed cafe that you run with your butler, and there's some other plot stuff going on but honestly I'm way past sold at this point, this sounds amazing)

[shannonsketches]

I personally enjoy that Vegeta's vanity lives on in the fact that you won't catch him dead in SSJ3

[themoonking]

honestly, as a lesbian, the "this all-female religious group has taken a solemn vow of chastity, pledging to remain virgins all their lives... so they get around it by having sex with each other 😜" trope is a red flag when written by literally anyone other than a lesbian

[iwillfightgodandwin]

Neil Gaiman and Taika Waititi are out here doing all the work™ for queers right now and that's beautiful

[camellcat]

you ever realize you never properly learned how to say a character's name, so by the time you finally HEAR it, you have no idea who they're talking about? cause I feel like I keep doing this and it's very confusing to keep being corrected like that

[despair-tea]

girl who broke down a long time ago, saying it again and again, no matter how broken she becomes: I'll work hard. I just have to work harder.

[nonsensechemicals]

being annoying as hell because it amuses me to no end but also Seriously Not being able to tell when people are actually Done With It. but i just keep telling myself "oh NO they would totally say so. they would tell me. they would tell me and not keep it a secret until they suddenly banish me into the void, definitely." and i actually believe it so i continue being annoying until explicitly told to stop (i never get explicitly told to stop. much to everyone's misfortune)

[amischiefofmuses]

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[blujayonthewing]

opening the group chat for the first time today and there's like 200 new messages because everyone's Going Through It today it seems but one of my friends dropped 'I'm separating from [terrible boyfriend she's been living with for like eight years] for real this time, I just moved a bunch of stuff to my parents' and I'm losing my mind because y'all the subject changed almost immediately HEY HI EVERYBODY ELSE SHUT THE FUCK UP I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THAT???

[zipquips]

do you ever come home from the eighth day of school crying because you've asked a single question on behalf of the group and now that group is joking about the prof hating you for asking the question?

[hugsqueeze]

EVERYONE. EMERGENCY ALERT: IT'S GIRTHDAY AGAINNNNN YAYYYYYYYY 🌎🌈🌈💓💓💗💕💕💕💕💕💗💗🌈🌈🌈🩷🩷🩷👹👹👹🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️ *STARTS TEARING THE ROOFS OFF OF HOUSES AND THROWING THEM INTO ORBIT AT SPEEDS SO FAST AND DANGEROUS THAT THEY COLLIDE INTO PLANETS AND INSTANTLY OBLITERATE THEM* HIIIII HAPPY GIRTHDAY TO THE ALWAYS UNENDINGLY EPIC AND BEST OF ALL TIME: @chalkpaste !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👈‼️‼️‼️ HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRTHWORMMMM ^_^ OMG AUGH I SUPER hope you had the most AMAZING and PROSPEROUS of days today ☝️ I hope that your birthday has been as swagful and delightful and lovely and life changing as you are YAYYYY *SPINS WITH YOU* 💕💕🌎🌈🌈🌈

[Bonus slightly alternate coloring under da cut + a (comically bad) first draft for fun]

Here's the slightly different version that I promised (base colors/no filter *smiles*)!

& OKAY I REALLY ALSO WANTED TO INCLUDE THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS (sort of 😭) FUNNY, but I was at work last week thinking about what I wanted to draw -> For Girthworm Birthday and I sketched out . This. On a sticky note LOLLL. Wow. Almost incomprehensible 👍

[smile-files]

really liking a past teacher makes me feel so stupid. like ohhh ahhh what if he stopped working at my high school and i'll never see him again??? shut upppppp

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Are you ok? What happened?

Yeah I'm chilling lmao we just had a patient presenting with a condition I'd never seen in person and it didn't end well for them unfortunately