#ness is odd

[luc3ks]

whatever

[paintbrushofthetoontown]

umm

[figureofdismay]

keeping up the conceits of season 6 quite simply undermines Dana Scully's established characterization and integrity, which makes it very hard to watch. Her willingess to believe in her own eyes and investigate paranormal things that happened directly to her vanished For Plot Reasons, in a way that reads like personal vindictiveness over Diana, and Mulder's perceived gullibility, and/or confusion in their (Scully and Mulder's) relationship.

The writers also seemingly forgot that "science" isn't simply "knowing facts and declaring them as the total substance of the world," it's believing in the evidence of our understanding that the world works a certain way but being willing and eager to investigate evidence that runs counter to that understanding. Science isn't a static list. That's why we keep doing studies, even 'water is wet' type studies because they do or don't support our understanding that the world works the way we think it does, why we think we it does.

"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's the place to start," was one of her iconic lines in Herrenvolk, an essentially the thesis statement of Dana Scully. In earlier seasons Scully needed evidence to make conclusive statements -- not often possible but it did sometimes happen and she didn't balk -- but she was willing to trust her eyes and experiences to lead them forward in understanding what was happening, even if her conclusion was often "we obviously experienced something but I have no way of verifying what that was."

The season 6 plot contrivance and the newer crop of writers seemingly introduced a version of Scully who isn't willing to trust her eyes and experiences and has entered a phase of refusal. She's not working towards substantiating what they've seen, she's working, exactly as the initial brief she refused, to disprove what they've seen. In the patient X and the red and the black, she's all but begging him to trust their experiences and in season 6 she claims to believe in Mulder but she thinks he's been duped and that their experiences are a lie. While this was apparently necessary to slow down both the alien conspiracy plot and the romantic plot that was on the cards after the movie, but it feels like it undercuts so much about Scully's character and the established relationship.

[clowndotgay]

can i request a picture of flint and graham hugging each other tightly? ^_^ <3

ya :o) extra silly graham under the cut

[jangmi-latte]

WHAT IF I FALL FOR FLOYD WHAT THEN HUH

[spherekuriboh]

'you dont have any hobbies outside of media consumption lol' has this really specific like-- i don't know. it feels like a very ungenerous way to frame an audience, even though to be an audience member is to consume the media. i dunno. i think that that's an unhealthy way to frame your relationship to anything anyone else made? which is most things. like i dont think you've tainted the generative quality of knitting if youre listening to a podcast in the meantime...? i'm trying to pin down why exactly the idea makes me feel slimy. first of all its from tiktok which is already (wrings my hand) but like. "what do you do if you aren't reading watching playing or listening" has a very odd tilt i can't quite wrap my hands around.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

A Song of Salvation

YA space fantasy adventure

a reborn god in the body of a girl on an isolated planet, a grumpy space pirate, and a famous space-radio podcaster end up together on the run in the middle of an intergalactic war - and they might have the key to end it

m/m and pre f/m, demi MCs

[artifeast]

relistening and the scrungled youtube-embedded captions immediately made me think of the crackship potential of telesford (telesphore kingmakerhistories x ford gravityfalls). ford is sorta telsie's type and i just think it would be funny

[mayonaisalspray]

It’s so annoying being in the “casually good” zone for video games. Like I can beat most people at a party but as soon as I go anywhere near slightly competent competitive people my ass gets beat

[bloodycoolfrye]

Meta is systematically censoring pro-Palestinian content on its social media platforms.

What happened to the WESTERN VALUES ? 🤡

To the Freedom Of Speech!? 🤡

[nulltune]

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❛   ... huh.  that's cringe.   ❜       and here she thought mousy was  bad  peculiar ... !

[yourstrullyme]

oh god

ooooooh god. i just had a very dangerous thought

she's the man tanthamore au

kit is raging bc shes not allowed to play on the soccer team and airk has escaped to london to play music so she cuts her hair and turns into him (lets ignore dempsy and ruby dont look much alike and pretend as if people who have only seen pics of airk will believe kit to be him) so she can play

enter jade, maybe a nonbinary lesbian who, through technicalities and amazing talent, is allowed on the team and ends up rooming with kit (which actually fits w her character being such a good swordsman that she's allowed to train with the shinning legion)

along with elora, the dutzy blonde who falls for kit, thinking she's airk, boorman who is their coach, and graydon, kit's weird hairstylist friend who is helping her pull this through

and willow, the weird principal who is always almost catching kit

only question would be should i leave it as it is and have elora and airk end up together, or should i change it and make it graylora? or maybe even go as far as making it a throuple ending with elora/airk/graydon?

[fullbattleregalia]

Sometimes I stop and think about how weird some of the stuff I say would sound out of context. For example, today included:

“Yes, I know you’re haunted - stop it.”

“These bones aren’t going to clean themselves!”

“It’s not often you can say you gave your skeleton a good scrub.”

In fairness, a lot of it sounds pretty weird in context, too. (In my defense, I needed to brush my teeth, and the bathroom light has been flickering all week.)

[burnedself]

the painful realization of Farouk and Oliver in Legion both being 14 moods

[bcneheaded]

Yall I've had this idea in my head for an AI entity character thing since forever and?? It's driving me absolutely bonkers, this consciousness wants OUT but I have no idea how to write it, it is simply too intricate and confusing

[theroseempress]

4, 15, and 39 for the asks :D

4. which cryptyd being do you believe in? I'll be honest, I'm not very clear on what a cryptid is exactly. That's like. ghosts? mermaids? unicorns? the loch ness monster?

Assuming that's what it is, then most of them really. I don't believe in ghosts as in the spirits of dead people, but I do believe in ghosts as in invisible spiritual beings (ie demons). I also believe the majority of mythological creatures (ie dragons, unicorns, selkies, etc) did or do exist in some form or another.

...yeah idk hopefully i interpreted that question correctly *shrugs*

15. are you a parent? (all answers qualify) yes. my children are all fictional. i also had cat sons at one point but alas no longer (i miss them)

39. do you use lip balm? Not usually. I probably should use it more than I do, but I usually only use it if my lips are sore.