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platinum-iridium · 3 months ago
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you know, in that episode where the shapeshifter is impersonating mulder and goes over to scully's place and opens with asking her why they don't really talk, my first thought was wtf is he talking about but then in subsequent episodes i really paid attention to how even when talking about the most personal shit, all they do is deflect, depersonalize, and intellectualize their feelings in that order. and it's just so crazy because they'll trust the other with their health, their safety, their future, their freedom, and their damn lives but can't extend that trust to their feelings. it's insanity. i'm obsessed
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twogravesinsomecemetery · 3 months ago
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thinking about how Scully probably sprinted back to the Workplace Therapist after small potatoes and literally had a manic breakdown in her office like "Omg so Mulder tried to sleep with me except it wasn't actually him it was his clone and I was super uncomfortable the whole time except I lowkey wanted it to happen even though we're supposed to be work partners and actually I WOULD like him to sleep with me bc i've had a major crush for years and also i'm dying of an incurable brain tumor and i don't have a lot of time left to admit my feelings even though I don't WANT to admit my feelings bc I could never tell him that I didn’t want to sleep with him because I do ACTUALLY want to sleep with him and i'm super mad it was his clone and I can't believe ACTUAL Mulder broke the door down and stopped the whole thing from happening even though I didn't want it to happen anyway. why are you looking at me like that. Which part of this is not making sense to you"
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azure-firecracker · 5 months ago
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I, like most people I’m sure, spent most of Small Potatoes laughing hysterically, but the more I think about it, the sadder the climactic scene makes me.
(And yes, I do think Scully knew something was up even though she may not have been sure what. You can see that she’s not leaning back into that kiss at all).
But I just feel so much for Scully in this scene. Because yes, she gave up on having a “normal” life ages ago. We know she’s drawn to the strangeness and charm of Mulder’s quest, maybe more than she’s willing to admit, and that she’s willing to sacrifice normality and conventions for that. But I don’t think that means she doesn’t want normality.
Mulder, I think, is someone who would be content if he never did anything other than search for aliens. And I think Scully would be content that way too, but I also think there’s a small part of her that wants to go on dates and drink wine and make scrapbooks and exist away from the danger where things are easy. And she knows Mulder can’t give her that, that the odd and dangerous is an intrinsic part of him, but still she wishes for balance.
(Fanfic does a great job of giving them more normal moments. In fact, it does such a great job that I forget how few there are in the show. But Eddie was right - they usually don’t talk. They’re connected more deeply than maybe anyone else could be. But they don’t talk).
The inherent tragedy of Mulder and Scully’s relationship is that Scully wants to be seen and valued, and though Mulder does see and value her above all else, he doesn’t show it in a way she always understands. She thinks she’ll always play second fiddle to his quest, and doesn’t see the moments where he reveals he’d throw the whole thing away for her sake. He runs off without her time and time again, and she’s left to pick up the pieces and do the less glamorous parts of the job, without seeing the lengths he goes to to keep her out of danger.
Scully is such a closed-off person that she wants to just exist comfortably and without fear and feel like she’s important. And though Mulder gives her that in some ways, it’s never quite in the ways she understands. She doesn’t know how much she means to him - I think that’s pretty evident.
And now she’s dying. The job she sacrificed all hope of normalcy, of being seen and valued exactly how she wants to be, for, is slowly killing her. And here comes someone she thinks is Mulder, wine in hand. And he finally gives her what she’s been craving - a shred of normalcy. A space she can be herself, be seen, be loved without everything being tied up in desperation and danger and fear.
It’s everything she wanted from Mulder that he couldn’t give her.
But it was all a lie.
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thisisbeefjerky · 3 months ago
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🚨 🚨 FOX MULDER DOES NOT OWN OR HAVE A BED IN HIS APARTMENT 🚨 🚨
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thirddagger · 3 months ago
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Watching the legendary Small Potatoes (s4 e20 lol blaze it) and I don't know what emotion I'm experiencing because it's adjacent to second-hand embarrassment but either way it's excruciating because that MAN is not my MAN give me MY REAL MULDER BACK
Kudos to David Duchovny for being A Different Man because of acting powers that are making me almost physically ill, but like damn the classic Mulder-falling-off-the-desk clip is when Van Blundht is pretending to be Mulder, like the clip of him smiling through the door peephole and the showing off in the mirror, and yes it's still David Duchovny but that Is NOT Mulder my favorite sci fi agent man
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bakedbakermom · 9 months ago
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@phillippadgettwrites i need you to know that note has been bouncing around my head like a dvd screensaver for WEEKS
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thexfileswithoutcontext · 10 months ago
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deathsbestgirl · 1 year ago
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thinking about this and the unscripted memento mori kiss. in memento mori, mulder goes to kiss and stops, scully makes the decision to kiss him. small potatoes...they've held the silence and this is a sudden change. they haven't held the same physical affection since memento mori. this is not what they agreed to in their silence.
the millennium kiss is a little different. mulder is thinking about it, and he just looks at scully until she turns. he goes for it and she's ready. they're on the same page, and the world didn't end.
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scullyphile · 2 months ago
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Essentially Exactly the Way It Happened - Chapter 7: He Didn't Bring It
Category: F/M | Fandom: X-Files | Ship: Mulder/Scully (MSR)
Rating: Explicit | Words: 25,363 | Chapters: 7/? | Author: scullyphile
Did someone say there's an update to the Vampire!Scully AU?!
Oh yeah, that was me!
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Chapter 7 Snippet:
There are several things about Eddie Van Blundht that Scully notices off the bat. First, he’s more concerned about the proper spelling of his name than he is with the fact that he’s been arrested as the main suspect in a serious crime. Second, he shows absolutely no remorse. Third, he doesn’t seem at all surprised to be there. Fourth, he is most definitely a rapist. 
start at the beginning | continue at chapter 7
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mezzo-morte · 2 months ago
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What if.... The one identifying trait of Eddie van der Blundht is that, unlike Mulder's, both his pupils are the same size. And Scully only realised when he was just about to kiss her, hence her panic and hesitation
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elstabler · 4 days ago
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daiyanerd · 1 year ago
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Small Potatoes is a fave of mine, and while watching it I thought it would be funny as the Soiderman meme lol. It’s a pitty we never got the animated series that apparently had been discussed.
One thing that puzzles me:
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Clearly wearing black slacks - so
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Where did her pants go??? 👀
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azure-firecracker · 5 months ago
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Excuse me I did not know that David Duchovny had such comedic skills!
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okanadafreakingfan · 1 year ago
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All I can think about is buggy saying “Arlong babyyyy~ you don’t gotta worry about me I’m small potatoes!” And now all I want is for buggy to call me a smoll potato
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is-on-its-way · 7 months ago
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We've got a big potato
Post-Episode: s04e20 Small Potatoes
Part of the Scully is a human Series
Summary: Small potatoes ending with Mulder making light of the fact that Scully was almost sexually assaulted by Van Blundt just didn't sit right with me. So here's their very uncommunicative conversation about it.
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(They walk down the hall together, neither looking very happy. Scully's arms are folded, but then she unfolds them and puts her hands in her coat pockets. Mulder is fiddling with his sleeves and looking down at the floor as he walks.) SCULLY: I don't imagine you need to be told this Mulder, but you're not a loser. MULDER: Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either. Am I? (He glances quickly over at her. She doesn't respond and stares straight ahead. Mulder continues to fiddle with his hands and looks ahead as well.
They had reached the car outside in the parking lot before Scully spoke. 
She whipped around on him and looked him straight in the face as he startled at her anger. He had been so caught up in his own thoughts and self pity and confusion at everything Eddie had just said and everything Scully had done he hadn’t noticed how livid she had become. 
She took a deep breath, the breath before she‘d let him have it. For what, he truly did not know.
“That man attempted to rape me Mulder. For you to suggest I would ever have chosen him...”
His eyes widened and his eyebrows shot up in panic. “Scully, I didn’t mean…” He started but she cut him off.
“He looked exactly like you and he had your voice and…” she trailed off and looked away from him blinked and frustrated at the tears blossoming in her eyes 
“How could you think it was me? “He whispered looking at the ground next to her.
He had been burning to know since the police had carted a dazed Van Blunt out of Scully’s apartment, having been on the receiving end of a pretty good punch in the jaw from Mulder “You know me, we’ve spent four years together. Why couldn’t you tell me apart from that... that…” He wanted to say loser, but truth be told, he’d never been more certain he was the loser of the situation. “criminal?” He finally finished.
She brushed her cheek quickly and looked back at him. “You want to know why it was so easy? Because he didn’t talk about the work and I thought..." She spluttered in embarrassment, then restarted "Because he seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say… in my life.” He cheeks were bright red now.
“I am genuinely interested in what you have to say Scully. Always.” his voice choked on the last word. He felt a deep shame bubble up in his chest. 
How could she believe it was any other way? He wanted to know everything about her. Her deepest feelings on every subject, he just, had a hard time finding the words to start a conversation. They were closer that anything he'd ever experienced with another human being, but in some ways felt like strangers still. He was always so excited to talk to her about their work because she was the only one who would listen, the only one just as invested, she'd made that clear. Anything he found his first thought was always her. He would guess at what she would say or think or feel about it, he could hear her voice so clearly in his head.
But that wasn’t enough anymore and that terrified him. He wasn’t enough. Illness can make a person reevaluate their life. He was terrified she’d leave the x files, leave him alone and his life would be transformed back to that empty lonely place it had been before her. Worse, because he knew what it was to have her now. And she was sick, possibly… he couldn’t even think it. 
She pursed her lips looking hurt avoiding his gaze. Her chin crinkled betraying her fight not to come to tears. 
“Let’s just forget it okay Mulder?” She glanced back at him quickly “Please?”
“Yeah, okay Scully, if thats what you need.” He swallowed, he couldn’t let this end like this.
He grabbed her arm as she walked away from him to the car and stopped her. She turned only halfway back to him.
“Scully I never meant to imply… Im sorry, I know he took advantage of you. Im so glad I got there in time.”
She searched his face, her own inscrutable, and then nodded at him, eyes softening. "You always get there in time." She gave him a small smile and he let his hand drop from her arm as she started to the passenger side of their car.
@today-in-fic🙏
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bakedbakermom · 7 months ago
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Blood and Wine (read on ao3)
angst/cancer arc // rated T // 1k tagging @today-in-fic @ao3feed-msr
A missing scene. After van Blundht's arrest, Scully and Mulder say a lot while saying very nearly nothing at all.
Because Scully deserved to be pissed, and Mulder is a mess, and these two beautiful, wounded idiots don't know what to do anymore.
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