#objectifying david duchovny

[spookysexy]

I keep seeing a commercial with the guy with a red speedo and all I keep thinking about is David Duchovny every time I see it! Don’t even know what the commercials for .

[spookysexy]

Yep!

— FOX MULDER in every episode of The X-Files | 1x05 ‘The Jersey Devil’

[gingerteaonthetardis]

Fox Mulder + that little blue tank top | The X-Files S02E25 Anasazi

[fernsehn]

Just a little thought but if Duchovny suggests to "spontaneously" take his shirt off during some bacchanal-like tiktok dance for a movie that's relying on "moments" and doesn't even have a coherent structure then you ...just let him have it. His sort of super trim yet also super soft dad bod is fucking hilarious. Just let him* have it.

* ok: me.

[davidduchovnydefensesquad]

Daily Dose of David Duchovny

David shirtless 🔥

[spookysexy]

Oh my!

[spookysexy]

I really want to see DD’s movie Julia has two lovers ! Really bad!

Which sucks because I don’t have a vcr player anymore and it’s not streaming anywhere, so that really sucks!

I just really wish that someone who had it recorded and put it on somewhere so that I can watch it for real.

Is that bad probably but it’s not I mean it’s cause I want to see it really bad!

 Anyone else having a this issue?

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

[gingerteaonthetardis]

not to sound like i'm making shit up on tumblr dot com but a straight man very much came to my house and got visibly upset that i (casually and in the course of normal conversation) called david duchovny hot the other day. i'm not joking. it was like he couldn't imagine a world where that was possible. he then conceded that maybe he was good looking in the nineties so i made sure to look him dead in his scared, watery eyes as i said 'no. he's hot now' and then that man knew true terror. my taste in men is apparently mystifying and inscrutable and nobody can stop me from objectifying old guys

[spookysexy]

Oh…uh… um… it’s not what it looks like!

It’s exactly what it looks like!

Oh heavenly man! Or should I say devilish!



[frangipanidownunder]

I was tagged by @agirlcallednarelle. Thanks, lovely.

Name: Vicky.

Gender: Woman

Phone wallpaper: David Duchovny in concert, blue lighting and a particular emphasis on his right forearm. And yes, I am objectifying him.

House: Absolutely zero idea. Is this a Harry Potter thing? Or a zodiac thing? Either way, no clue.

Ever had a crush on a teacher: Yes. The sixth form geography teacher whose name escapes me but had brown floppy hair and green eyes and was probably in his early twenties and seemed cool and friendly. And the third year biology teacher whose name also is lost to the mists of time but she was tall, blonde and had legs to die for and I thought she was wasted on a bunch of fourteen year olds. 

Coolest Halloween costume growing up: There was no tradition of Halloween parties in the UK so we didn’t do costumes.

Favourite 90s show: The X-Files, Prime Suspect, Men Behaving Badly, Shooting Stars, Have I got News for You.

Last kiss: Last night with Mr F.

Ever been stood up: Yes! By the young man in the post/sorting room at my first job who was supposed to meet me at the local station for a dinner and drinks and he didn’t show. I think his name was Gary and he was lanky and cute but lost his appeal after that. What a memory! Haha.

Favourite pair of shoes: I love my deep red stilettos (so dark they look black in some lights) but they are impossible for me to wear. I love my black ankle boots with laces and a cute heel. I also kept a pair of boots from the 90s that are  Italian leather, brown with a snakeskin inset and mid heel. They cost me a fortune and I could never part with them. They’d be vintage by now and have travelled hemispheres.

Favourite book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Its POV defies logic. It’s lyrical, haunting and inspiring.

Favourite fruit: Raspberries. I love those red-pink bursts of tang so much.

Favourite TV show: The X Files, Luther, Blackadder, Prime Suspect, The Americans, The Handmaid’s Tale, Breaking Bad, Waking the Dead, Inspector Morse

Last film in the cinema: Possibly The Rise of Skywalker, but in all honestly, I can’t remember the last time I went to the movies.

No idea who has done this so feel free to join in if you want to.

[deveharrington]

And I would consider David skipping Gillian’s Hollywood Star Ceremony while being in the same city and still somehow making a fucking mockery of it all with his “heartfelt message” (more fake over-sentimentality just like his self-sympathizing music and books) to be one of the worst, if not the worst (because, come on) thing he ever did to her. 

[pjstafford]

The Bad Boy/Good Guy public personality dynamic of David Duchovny

Written as a birthday gift (with her blog prompt) for Charmion @grungekid84

Dedication: Charmion and I are of different generations; separated in age by over twenty years. I was the age she is now, about, when the X-files was new and she watched it first as a child. Yet today we share similarities in thoughts related to our celebrity crush. To both Charmion and David Duchovny I say, I hope this blog does the love the justice it deserves.

Why are women 20 to 70 years of age fan girls of the 59 year old David Duchovny? Not simply fans! Fans might watch a movie because an actor is in it. They might rewatch a series a half dozen times. Fan girls like Charmion have an Xfile room and paint pictures. Fan girls like myself write blogs, fan fic and team up with fan girls like Cathy Glinski to present at academic conferences. Why do women who have no other celebrity crushes have this need to celebrate this one celebrity in these ways? It seems significant to me the age range of women who are fan girls. I have stood in an audience surrounded by women barely old enough to meet the 21 age limit who knew every word to each of his songs. I heard one such woman say that this is an experience she would tell her grandchildren about. I, also, know women closer to 70 who have traveled to a meet and greet or comic con because they wanted the opportunity to thank this celebrity for the years of joy. Just today as I start to write this a woman I do not know tweeted @hearteyes4david an open letter to the world with a life wish to meet and thank this man. There are so many of us who just want to say thank you. And I won’t say none of us are not, but most of us are not crazy. We are lobbyists, store managers, attorneys, emergency room nurses, church secretaries of different ages and nationalities, many happily married, most normal women ( and some men). So many of us eager, compelled almost, to meet a single specific man and say thank you.

Some of it, people will say, is lust. Yes, it’s possible that if he was a less attractive man we would wish to thank him in person less. Still, can you truly look at the picture at the end of this blog and say his looks are so much more Adonis like than any other man? To say it’s purely a physical lust for a handsome man is dismissive of the intelligent, thoughtful women so moved to want to thank him.

His talent? “Sweet baby Jesus” he gave us Mulder and if that wasn’t enough, Moody. Whether he is playing a man who has lost his wife in Return to me, a drugged out doctor in Playing God, or a Russian operative determine to see the US nuked in Phantomn he makes every character seem so real that he gets a reputation for only playing himself. He is so good of an actor playing such diverse roles that folks can’t believe is truly acting. Still, I think most of us would just be fans and not fan girls if good looks and talent was all he had going for him

He is multi-talented and many love the rock star with romantic, heart breaking lyrics. For me, as I have often said, he is my favorite living novelist with three novels published and a fourth to come out soon. He writes intelligent, funny, heart breaking novels with an unique style and characters that again seem real (even the talking animals). In a recent interview he said something to the effect that his kids could read these novels and know who he was a man. I think that’s why I love his writing so much is because lyrics or prose they are authentic expressions of an artist’s personality; which brings me to Charmion prompt...the personality of David Duchovny.

I have met the man briefly a handful of times. I like the man I have met, but I can’t pretend to know more anymore than his public persona. I know how he comes across in interviews, what others who know him say about him, and all I can possibly gleam from his public art...from the things he has acted in and from his written art- the XFiles the Unnatural, the movie “House of D”, the novels, the lyrics, the distorted selfies in the mirrors reflections he tweeted when he used to tweet. This is how I know what I know about the man...and the fact that the few times I met him he was soft spoken, polite, humble and kind; taking time to answer my questions intelligently, joke a little and write kind words.

I know he is flawed. It is impossible to be a fan and not know about some of the faults which have been well publicized. As he himself says in my favorite of his songs, “I got skeletons in my closet which time ain’t forgot...”. They will never be forgotten. They will be included 20 or 30 years from now in his obituary. His flawed character is a fact, it has been aired, it is part of who he is.

I have written that what I love best about his writing is the combination of darkness and despair with the lightness of the human spirit and resiliency (mmm...the ability to believe?) rising out of darkness. He writes about the most depressing subjects on earth realistically and the fairy tale quality which rises to fill our hearts, to make us laugh and cry, is as real. It is either or both n amazing technique and/ or a result of a world view. I choose to believe it is the latter.

David Duchovny is no saint, but God Damn, he seems like a remarkably good guy with enough of a bad/boy mischievous side to make his personality as sexy as fucking itself. See how I just got a little different in my language there. David puts fucking in a book title, god damn in a song, gets bleeped on air record breaking number of times. God damn, fuck you if you think this is a man who is afraid to swear. He is not really Fox Freaking Mulder but he is David Fucking Duchovny

He is a good guy. He is intelligent. His ability to reference the high brow literary comes across in all his works. His second album title is from a Shakespeare quote. Walt Whitman shows up throughout his novels (and his dog’s tweets). He is well read, it quite well known. If you don’t get that reference, he would, as a Dylan fan and a fan of many other musical artists. He is also happy to talk about and reference sporting heros.

He is a bad boy. Oh, but the lowbrow humor! Early interviews have fart jokes, bathroom humor. He has a knack for intermixing the profane and profound. His novel, Miss Subways, has the elementary teacher leaving the classroom in tears when an assignment (write a letter to a Shakespeare minor character) results in an innocent boy reading “My dearest Fellatio...”.

He is a good guy. He is a romantic. He gave the XFiles fans the shippy Mulder and Scully baseball scene. He believes in his heart that Californication was at heart a love story. He writes lyrics for his ex wife who loves the rain saying “ It will always be raining in this song.” In his novel are real people having real sex type of scenes...no great erotica with flowing hair and heaving bosoms for this man, but discussion of lights on or off or an older couple off screen and an adult son hearing and embarrassed.

He is a bad boy. The man has no fear of nudity. . In his first movie he was filmed completely naked. In the commentary to the rapture he admits that he told the director he thought the character slept in the nude. (Hence the balls shot). It was his idea to wear the red speedo. He improvised the moonshot in evolution.

He is a good guy. He believes in causes. He volunteers and donates to protect the planet, for animal rights, for music education and for planned parenthood. His was the only story in over 200 XFiles episodes that truly dealt with racial injustice and segregation.

He is a good guy. In House of D the thirteen year old boy’s best friend is a forty year old janitor with special needs. He is a bad boy. That boy and janitor told each other a lot of pee jokes.

I can go on and on and on about the bad boy/good guy public personna of David Duchovny, but I am going to close with a subject that might tempt fate and bring forth the haters. I want to end with thinking about David and women.

In Red Shoes diaries David was in the forefront of the soft porn explosion. In an interview this year Brigitte Bako describes her experience in filming the movie as the “worst experience of my life”; but has nothing but complimentary things to say about David, how sweet and nice he was. They became close friends and she later appeared in an episode of Californication.

In Californication, David was the star of one of the raunchiest series in television history. Tits and ass, fucking and punching. I love the show but it would likely not be made today although, to be fair, it demonstrates women having agency over their sexuality. Nevertheless, actresses who appeared on that show have recently been asked what it was like. Over and over again they talk about how comfortable the environment was and how polite and respectful David was.

Much has been made over Gillian Anderson being paid half of David Duchovny’s salary. This is hardly his fault and something he argued against once he was made aware of it, but, as a fan of the show, I love hearing him talk protectively of Mulder and of wanting to protect that relationship. I love that he was responsible for rewriting an ending to one of seasons 11 episodes which end not with Mulder objectifying Scully and not with him in his under wear, but with Scully opining the door and him standing there. As David said, Scully being in control of her own desires.

Finally in Miss Subways, I find a female character written with such realism and authenticity that I have to go back to the 19th century to find a female literary character so relatable to me. She is a reader, beautiful to some men, a little eccentric in some ways, vulnerable, strong but without a great belief in herself or her talent. She’s just fucking real in a fucking real world despite being in a surrealistic fantasy novel with Irish banshees and African spider goddesses, parallel timelines and phones that can alter reality.

We, the fan girls, love this celebrity, David Duchovny because of his looks, his talent and his personality; because he is a bad boy and a good guy; because he inspires us, because he is flawed as we all are and goes through his life trying to be present in the day. For all the fan women who have yet to meet you, Mr. Duchovny, I say thank you and we love you, until they can meet you and tell you themselves.

Happy Birthday, Charmion. If you should meet him someday when I am not there give him an extra hug for me.

[spookysexy]

Beautiful man 

Love this photoshoot.

[spookysexy]

👀

👄

[youreadarkwizard]

David Duchovny: The idea was that she’s gonna peek in the door and see me in my underwear. And I was like, “It’s five seconds later, and I was just in a suit.” So it’s like, what did I do? Like Charlie Chaplin, I jumped out of my clothes and I’m all of a sudden in my underwear. So it was trying to figure out, eh, that’s not gonna work.

Then Gillian and I doing her coverage, a shot that went to the end of the scene, she opens the door and I’m just standing right there.

Chris Carter: That was completely improvised by David. Everyone agreed that that was the perfect ending for the episode.

David: It gives Scully a sexual drive and not just to be objectified, but to be a subject. And when that happened, we all just said, “Oh, no, that’s gotta be the ending.”