#im stunned into silence

[runningupthatvecna]

pip the magician

[bahoreal]

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[settle-down-frohike]

My God. Girl. I am 1000% not worthy of this. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Thank you.

I….

Curated settle-down-frohike Fics

I adore these fics, written with a mixture of mature sweetness and youthful buoyancy. @settle-down-frohike often evokes the tiny, careful fumbles of new, awkward steps forward or the righteously incensed fury of condemnation or determination. Both are integral to Mulder and Scully as individuals and as a unit; and both are crafted into these pieces with startling clarity and simplicity.

These fics made an early and meaningful impact on my fandom experience; and I still cling tightly to them.

@settle-down-frohike: Masterlist and Ao3

MSR+the desert

He gives the space in front of him a blank once over, obviously preparing for a scathing trademark Mulder monologue, and she’s thinking: here it comes. Her chin raises in defiance, but she can feel her heart begin to pound. 

Post Never Again Mulder has reached his limit.

120 for the drabble prompt

The last of these luxuries is currently failing at wiping burnt butter grease from her formerly spotless countertop when Scully, fresh from the hospital, comes wobbling in arm-in-arm with her mother, who’s exasperated expression at the unfamiliar acrid smell of the place is written clearly across her face. They are both damp and stumbling from the downpour outside and the shared clumsiness of her daughter on percocet. Maggie shoots him a flustered glance. The medical journals are new but soggy, waiting on her coffee table. The ice cream is now melted and leaking, forgotten to prevent the sounding of a smoke alarm. 

Post Tithonus Scully is both groggy and happy with Mulder's ministering mishaps. Maggie, not so much.

Luctus

Scully clasps her hands together, wanting to look as much like she is listening as possible, but more so to hide the fact that her hands are trembling. His eyes are glassy, wild and distant. She doesn’t know where this is going.

“I was her favorite you know.” She looks up and he’s staring straight into her. The uneasiness won’t let up. This brazenness is so unlike him. He’s nodding again. “I was,” his gaze focuses back to the wall now, “That’s why she chose her. It had to be,” and just as suddenly his head drops between his knees and his shoulders begin to shake in silent sobs. “It had to be, Scully. Why would she do that?” he croaks.

Post Sein und Zeit Scully has to get Mulder throw that one long, incredibly grueling night.

Sensory Integration (Tumblr)

Only people don’t talk directly to ghosts about their scars and miraculous healing and their perfect health. They’ve been circling each other cautiously since she came to retrieve him this morning. He senses her restlessness and gets the distinct impression that she’s holding back from latching into him and falling apart. He’s grateful for her restraint, because he can’t handle sudden movements right now. If she were to approach too fast in his direction, he’d end up curled in the fetal position somewhere in a corner, protecting his vital organs. He doesn’t know how he knows this, he just does. He’s like one giant Pavlovian experiment.

Stimulus.

Response.

Repeat.

Three Words, Mulder's PTSD, and Scully's heartbreaking understanding.

for the WIP prompt: hospital

“Mulder.” He glanced up, but past her. “I’m fine, Scully,” indignantly going back to the task at hand. And she’d have believed him too, if he wasn’t looking through her, if his pitch hadn’t been a little too high, if he hadn’t forgotten the fact that her shoes were the very last thing to put on and she wasn’t even out of her hospital gown yet. She allowed it out of pity, mostly. Or humor. But his hands shook, fumbling with the laces like a feening alcoholic.

Empedocles Mulder is trying to hide his emotions behind preparations for Scully to come home. (At least, I think this fic is Empedocles.)

Magneticus

“Mulder, aren’t we supposed to have a wedding ring for this?” And the unintended double meaning isn’t lost on him. He can tell Scully is regretting the phrase immediately by the fact that she’s now holding her breath.

“You can use a needle too, Scully. Hold still.” Her eyes follow his hand warily as it stretches towards her cheek. “OW!!” He comes away with a single amber stand and carefully threads the eye, double loops it and dangles above her swollen middle. They wait. She sighs heavily.

“Mulder…”

“You know this practice isn’t without scientific theory Scully.” His voice has taken on that nasal quality it tends to when he’s talking mostly to himself.

S8 Mulder tries to determine the baby's gender with the ol' needle twirl. (The ending lines are seared into my brain, forever.)

Paternitas (Tumblr)

 I need to make sure the baby’s nurse comes back for a diaper check. This guy isn’t ready.  I note the various monitors and change her bag. 

 "Would you like to hold him?“ That gets him to look right at me, with an unidentifiable expression.  He looks over at the bassinet, back to me and his mouth opens, but nothing comes out. He’s blinking furiously.  Bless. Indecision and panic are clear as day in his eyes. But something else, too. He looks…guilty. It’s the strangest thing. I can sense that he wants to hold the baby but can’t bring himself to.

While Existence Scully is unconscious and recovering in Georgia, a local nurse looks after her barely functioning partner.

Headcanon

Only once had he feared the words had lost their meaning. He’d come out of his office, in a sparse moment of clarity and had called her name. She appeared from the kitchen, coffee in hand and hair mussed from slumber. It must have been morning. His name had ended with a question mark, clearly surprised by his emergence and the rest of the phrase had gone flat. Her eyes were wide but vacant, “I’m here.”

And then one day he emerged and found that she wasn’t.

My Struggle II Mulder and Scully: first names, nightmares, and comforting each other through the years.

5 Pt. AU Prompts - Chapter 2

Prognosis. Stunted and ignorant. Crushing her under its clumsy, suffocating weight of formality. What does it know. He is a miracle. And miracles defy logic.

AU-- Mulder gets cancer; and Scully is ready for war.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

[variksel]

anthony burch 🤝 brennan lee mulligan

being totally caught off-guard by one of their players' reactions to a reveal about their character lore being jokey and happy instead of shock and sadness

[opikiquu]

aventurine pl. Plea s e . PLLEEEEEEASE

[good-beanswrites]

Imagine the awkwardness if in that Mikoto Prank Show ask however, if no one but Es and Jackalope were in on it… And they somehow got everyone’s crimes perfectly right.

LMAO 💀💀💀

Jackalope and Es are in on it, and they don’t even need to guess them -- the machine can be legit! As any good businessmen, they put this newfound life-changing technology to good use: reality TV. They get a hold of 10 random people, planning on editing and splicing the videos to make up some crazy stories about crime and guilt and see how people react. They chose an range of people that might feel guilt over something -- they assume doctors feel bad for losing patients even though they did their best, or policemen regret the people they can't save, or chronically online people feel responsible for things they're connected to -- but that's all.

They get to Haruka’s interrogation and Es comes back to the team going, “hey, did you guys watch the video? Crazy that this guy killed animals, huh.” Then Yuno’s rolls around and they go “shit I never would have thought she was the type for that, now she’s overthinking her abortion…” Then Fuuta. “What are the chances that so many people feel incredibly guilty over someone else’s death? Does everyone feel a secret responsibility for something that happened indirectly?” Then Muu. “Okay that was pretty direct. How did we find these people? Should we contact anyone about this? No? Okay.” Shidou. “?????” By the time they get to Mahiru’s interrogation and she readily admits to murder they’re like “yeah okay, I had a feeling.”

The funniest part is, Mikoto is the team's only hopeful case! From the very beginning, they hear him talking around the prison and everyone breathes a long sigh of relief. “Finally! A normal, not-murdery guy! Our show is saved! We have someone real to prank!” … And then.

(Slightly off-topic but I’ve always wanted to write a comedy normal au in which Es befriends the cast in different areas of their life; Amane is transferred to their school after her incident, Mahiru works in a nearby store, Shidou works at their local clinic, etc.) One by one they get close enough to Es to really trust them, and each confess to being involved with a death that was either indirect or very well covered up. The first few times it’s a beautiful moment of trust and vulnerability, but after like five confessions Es is sitting there like “seriously?? How does this keep happening????”)

[averlym]

"careful, or i'll quote that"

[eldritch-nightmare]

he is everything to me

[riacte]

Etho in mcc. I think I’m hallucinating girl wh

[thedrotter]

sweet sweet re:kinder community... I would like to ask y'all how you came upon the game and your experiences with it because i wanna know. im genuinely so curious to hear about other people's experiences and little opinions about this game because of how wild the game is (/pos) I'd love to hear it. do ramble to me about it

[roughentumble]

oh my GOD, watching a movie called Grizzly 2: the Revenge and the tagline is "37 years in the making" bc some of it was originally filmed in 1983 but was never released until 2020, so it's got like an opening scene filmed obviously in the late 2010s then cuts to scenes filmed in '83 lol

and it 'stars' fucking George Clooney, Laura Dern, and Charlie Sheen

CLOONEY DERN AND SHEEN???? OH MY GOD

[pawbeanies]

Have my babies have my babies have my babies let's have babies let me put my babies in you have my babies let's have babies together you'd look so cute carrying my babies I wanna put my babies in you you should be carrying my babies I want to put babies in you have my babies

anonnnn ..... holy shit

[notpetals]

damn this usb dongle i sent through the wash and dryer still works

[slutforwings]

xkcs's lucky 10000 comic yes yes sure people are constantly learning and discovering things. its fine! but during lunch my coworker went 'huh sorry whats going on in palestine? is there a war or something?' and i just feel like thats not in the same category as 'wow never heard of diet coke and mentos'

[katagawajr]

found the world’s most [REDACTED] outfit for gale to wear 🙈

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Kirk and spock are really the ideal will they won't they couple because they both have reasons for why they wouldn't confess (spock is embarrassed by his own feelings and kirk WOULD be the guy who goes 'it's not anyone's business but my own how I feel for mr spock' and also because he's captain he's not allowed) but they also have reasons for why they would be the first to confess (spock is very logical and would come forward with his feelings if he thought even for a second they were interfering with how he does his job and kirk is. Kirk.)