#platonic like Scully and Mulder

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[ciaomarie]

Add them having not one but TWO conversations about whether or not Claire is his girlfriend in Ep 8, during which Sydney is suspiciously annoyed. But yep, not jealous or bitter. 100% professional platonic concern

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during the Table Scene, why would sydney say that she’s not being “jealous or bitter” about claire when literally no one has brought that up…….?

[keeweescribbles]

Guys the X Files is so good I love these sillies so much

[ayphyx]

Listen. I love romantic MSR as much as the next person, but has anyone considered queerplatonic msr????

Queerplatonic msr. Reblog if you agree.

[bmpmp3]

one of my favourite character relationship dynamics, platonic romantic or anything, is when two characters are absolutely the bestest of best friends and when one is hurt or something the other will scream and cry and wail and explode and when the other is in danger then the first one will go on some kind of silent terminator-esque rampage about it. besties (do no separate)

[sasakisniko]

Romantic love and friendship love are not mutually exclusive and feeling one does not inherently cheapen or negate the other. There's a reason friends-to-lovers is such a popular ship type.

[im-a-goddamn-cat]

unpopular opinion but i'm with chris carter. keep mulder and scully platonic.

[pennyserenade]

chris carter’s gotten to me. i’m starting to be especially fond of mulder and scully’s friendship, even outside of a romantic context. he’ll never get me completely though bc i do believe they should would and could have a lot freaky raw sex <3

[spookysexy]

There is a second one where she takes him down and they laugh afterwards that one’s harder to find for some reason!

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Again the fact that David and Gillian just wanted to do these two takes just for the fun of even though they already shot what was in the actual film just proves to me there was a Gilovny !!!

EVERY MSR KISS: Bonus → “The X-Files: Fight The Future” (Alternate Hallway Scene) (1998)

[zannolin]

it probably wouldn't work if i really got down to brass tacks and tried to plot it out but i will not lie to you. i am so compelled by the thought of madwheeler x-files au where mike's the mulder character because of will disappearing when they were kids

[bmpmp3]

i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of besties-turned-lovers stories but one thing that has always bothered me a little is when the besties actually become lovers and then the relationship loses all bestie-itude LIKE correct me if im wrong but i feel like these things aren’t usually mutually exclusive... i see it more often with m/f besties but i see it with same gender, etc besties on occasion too and like. YES its realistic that friendships change their dynamics over time (even without turning into lovers) but i always see this thing where these two besties get together and then are immediately like “but i CANT dick around with my bestie anymore because theyre also my significant other” you could if you werent a coward. can’t u dick around with ur bestie romantically. can’t you dick around with ur partner bestie-ly. what am i not getting here

[eightypercentjack-blog]

One of my favourite things is when two actors have so much sheer visceral chemistry together that it literally doesn't matter what the writers write or the director directs or what the intention ever was 😊

Being a Mulder/Scully shipper (aka everyone except Chris Carter) is such a profoundly confusing experience.

You get gaslit by the showrunner himself because for the first 6(?) seasons the characters are platonic. You get six years of them glancing at the other's lips, standing and walking so closely they're always touching, you get tender touches and warm embraces, you get forehead kisses, you get displays of jealousy and one of them even admitting to being territorial. You get this as soon as the damn pilot.

You get Mulder speaking into Scully's hair, you get Scully cradling and singing to him, you get Mulder making a scene threatening to fight anyone in sight when Scully is returned to the hospital, you get Scully wanting to have his child of all people.

You get that the connection is so profound they only trust the other and would (and have) gone to hell and back for their partner.

You have all of these feelings culminating in the intense way in which they gaze at each other, both directly and when the other isn't looking.

Then you have the actors, who were so horned up and fed up with the tension they went off script and made out like that, the same actors who did photoshoots in bed and kissed at award shows and interviews despite never being together, despite the characters never being canonically a couple. You get David, who when asked if he played it like he wanted Scully, he said he simply played it like he cares about her input and you get Gillian, who kissed David in the mouth before turning to kiss her husband when she won an emmy in 1997.

It's clearly love and although the absence of romance and sex don't make a connection any less legitimate or meaningful, I just don't buy it that there was never supposed to be an attraction from the beginning. That they remained friends for that long.

And still you're left questioning if it isn't all just projection because the two actors are so insanely attractive you can't help but want to see them in a sexual setting. If it's all just two good friends having so much chemistry that it makes it easy to come off as romantic. You're left to wonder if you have just been so blind in your own personal life that you have never so much as seen that kind of connection in marriages, let alone with coworkers. That perhaps you've just never had the fortune of having such a special connection with your platonic friend that you make out just for fun. You're made to believe that what you're seeing isn't desire but a deep understanding and care for the other's well being and happiness.

What is the truth. It's out there and at this point I have to believe it's all a ploy from the shadow government and Old Smokey himself to cover up what everyone already knows. The evidence is right in front of us and they keep trying to veer towards a specific answer and call bias if you don't agree.

[cryptidjeepers]

Actually so fucked up that the x files continues to be one of the few shows ive watched where the relationship between the male and female protagonists feel real to me. Like they arent just love interests from the get go. The romantic subtext isnt as important as their platonic relationship most of the time. Mulder is protective of scully because shes his friend. He checks in on her but it never feels like shes being belittled. She feels comfortable speaking her opinion without fearing that mulder will be condescending to her. Idk it just makes me feel safe to watch as a female viewer, knowing there is this respect between the main characters. That these characters actually care about each other. Very refreshing for a 30 year old tv show

[ezekiel13]

Mulder and Scully are so wild because they’re codependent and like. Platonic? Romantic? Fucked up third thing? Mate it’s all of the above and more. The only consistent thing is their codependency.

[crowcaws]

Okay so I am watching X-Files for the first time rn, having a great time glad to be here etc. etc. and look I knew going in that it takes seasons upon seasons for anything to happen between Mulder and Scully and it was platonic for a really long time. Right. I thought I understood this, I was (and still am) perfectly fine with that. It's whatever.

But I'm on 2x01 and Mulder is in some random shed in Puerto Rico talking to a cassette tape like it's Scully saying shit like "before I could only trust myself, now I can only trust you, and they've taken you away from me" and if this is them being platonic mate what the fuck does Not Platonic look like? Is this why you're all like this???

[that-one-little-soybean]

It actually is tho…like that’s the over shirt he wears in Little Green Men and I have proof

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