#softiescully

[luthienne]

I don't even know if it's a "real poem" or not, but a few lines have been stuck in my head since my grandmother passed. "I created a world of my own because I couldn't imagine one where my grandmother doesn't exist". Do you recognise this? I can't seem to find it.

oh gosh i know exactly the piece you're referring to and i think it may have been an interview actually? does anyone else remember who wrote this?

edit: @softiescully found it!! it's ramona ausubel's essay, how to be a writer: the map is the territory:

[trappergirl]

Hi i'm not dead!! my wife @softiescully tagged me aaages ago, thank u 🫶💐

favourite song at the moment: dream brother by jeff buckley or a&w by lana

current obsession: i'm in between obsessions atm but twd always & i do still randomly bring bj up in conversation

style: lots of ditsy florals and lace for summer, 70s prairie dresses, red or green accent pieces, 90s square toe kitten heels, my thrifted leather jacket and red white & blue cowboy boots

celebrity crush: jdm lol. and did u guys see anne hathaway in the wattpad movie oh my god...

favourite food and drink: had the dreamiest fluffiest scrambled eggs recently in paris 🍳🩷 at home i've been loving brioche, hbaf almonds, espresso tonics

places where i'd like to live: my friends pockets or holland, but i actually love where i live... new jersey for like a month

hobby: reading, writing, best friend and i are slowly getting into scrapbooking

sooo nice to catch up @anatomicvenus @weirdlittlegirl @majorbaby @teamtoby @katiehoughton @10000000fish @strideofpride & every mutual i have ever had and forgot... what have u been up to!!

[mulderscully]

tagged by beloved @bronzeagepizzeria to put my music in shuffle and post the first ten songs 🎧

1. sedated - hozier

2. slumber party - britney speaks ft. tinashe

3. all the pretty faces - the killers

4. i fucking love you - zolita

5. i'd have to think about it - leith ross

6. horses - maggie rogers

7. jaded - miley cyrus

8. versace on the floor - bruno mars

9. sure thing - miguel

10. do me - kim petras

no pressure tagging @ninzied @chrissiewatts @softiescully @yrsonpurpose @krysten-knitter @dreamsinthewitchouse @bisexualfbiagents @nick-nellson @esmealux @gaypeople and anyone who wants to 🤸

[softiescully]

softiescully nation: i’ve been really into baking recently. here’s what i’ve made :)

apple crumb muffins

peanut butter and jelly muffins

mixed berry scones

mini bacon cheddar scones

[waddingham]

tag 9 people to get to know better // thank you for tagging meeee @slightlyintimidating !

Last song: Manic Monday lmao

Currently watching: if we're being literal, mom and I have Downton Abbey on rn while we finish piecing this quilt

Three ships: mulder/scully, ted/rebecca, kirk/spock

Favorite color: green? 🪴 i love lots of colors

Currently consuming: coffee!

First ship: eric and sookie from true blood or maria and the captain from tsom i honestly don't remember which came first lmao

Relationship status: single!

tagging (if you're in the mood!): @softiescully @chiefofmilfs @broadwayfreak5357 @kittensittin @mulderscully @tennesseewillams @banditsregina @endlessblasphemy @fandomfrolics

[hourgloss]

tagged by @softiescully one million years ago for 6 albums I’ve been listening to! one thing about me i don’t listen to music by men

[universalinvariant]

My beloved @softiescully tagged me to post some books that I want to read this year!

Tagging @deadly-calm-inside and @randomfatechidna if you guys want mwah

[qqueenofhades]

17 for helnik?? <3

fleurdufeu asked: 63 for helnik?

Anonymous asked: Uhm so if you still accept prompt requests (damn these time differences, my sorry european ass didnt see the prompt post till now), could you do #43 for helnik pls: “You have no idea how much I want you right now.” 💙

17. “I can’t sleep, can I stay here?”

43. “You have no idea how much I want you right now.”

63. “I am home.”

The distant whine of Spitfires and Lancaster bombers in the sky, heading across the Channel as they do every night to tangle with the Luftwaffe, has become akin to a soothing lullaby. How else would they sleep, Nina thinks, except to this strange howl that is almost comforting, the promise that they have a better-than-even chance of not dying in their beds tonight. Not when it's October 1943, and the world has been coming apart at the seams for almost four years.

That is not to say that she isn't unbelievably lucky to be here. She is. She knows full well the horror that is unfolding back home in Leningrad right now, at least when news manages to make it out from behind the siege lines. She is stationed in London as a member of Soviet intelligence, and since the British and the Russians are, of course, allies, she has been welcomed in particularly by the deputy head of MI6's Section Five, Harold Russell "Kim" Philby. Nina is responsible for running a covert network of informants across Europe, trying to keep Westminster apprised on how the Soviets are holding out on the Eastern Front, and other such responsibilities. It's good for a tiny apartment in the Blitz-battered East End, a more-or-less guarantee that she will get to eat once a day, and an utterly obnoxious tall blond Norwegian roommate. Matthias Helvar.

Matthias is, of course, also a spy, and the two of them didn't break protocol and tell each other their real names until after they had already been stationed here for almost eighteen months. His country is presently occupied by the Nazis and run by a man whose name will become synonymous with "craven collaborationist": Vidkun Quisling. Matthias himself runs a ring of Scandinavian informants and tries to recruit sympathizers inside Norway to join the anti-Nazi resistance. Since it would be improper and attention-grabbing for a young couple, especially a young foreign couple, to live here together otherwise, he and Nina are posing as husband and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Trassel.

The furniture on the table rocks as a particularly heavy Lancaster rumbles overhead. Nina twiddles the dial on the radio and tries to concentrate on copying down the transmission on her one-time pad. It will make its way via a byzantine network of sympathizers to the Soviet high command in Moscow -- some things that the British know Nina knows, and some things they don't. That is how this works.

Another boom out there in the darkness. She grimaces, struggling to still her shaking hand, lights a candle since the power is at best unreliable, and finishes her work. Then she gets up, hides everything away, and goes upstairs. Climbs onto her narrow bed, pulls up the scanty covers, and tries to sleep. She can't.

After almost two hours of tossing and turning, Nina gives up. Climbs out of bed, crosses the creaky hallway, and knocks. Quietly, though she doesn't think he's asleep either, she whispers, "Can I come in?"

A pause. Then. "Yes. Of course."

Nina bites her lip and enters Matthias's equally small garret of a room. He's sitting up on his bed, trying to read a cheap paperback book, but he puts it aside at the sight of her. "Is everything all right?"

"I can't sleep," Nina says. "Can I stay here?"

Matthias blinks owlishly. No matter how good they have gotten at playing an ordinary married couple to their neighbors' eyes, they've been careful -- perhaps a little too careful -- at maintaining private boundaries. Not that anyone would be surprised if they didn't. They're young and otherwise unattached, it's war and everyone is clinging onto whoever they can find, and it's not like Nina isn't interested. Truly, Matthias has no idea (or maybe he does, and is pretending otherwise) how much she wants him right now. Just to hold her, if nothing else. To keep her close in the dark, and tell her that this will end.

He moves aside, and she squirms into his bed. He's large enough that there's not really room in it for him, much less her, but he gallantly does not protest when she edges onto his lap. He wraps his arms around her and rests his chin on her hair, and Nina lets loose a shuddering sigh, tracing her fingers on his broad chest. His breath catches, and he gulps. She looks up, and their eyes meet.

Slowly, ever so slowly, as if he is holding something fragile and perfect and lovely in his hands, as if he can't believe it's there and has to take care not to frighten it, Matthias says, "Nina...?"

"Shh," she whispers. "Shh. Just kiss me."

For once, for bloody once, he does as told without arguing. He bends his head, as she fists her hands in his rough blond hair and pulls his mouth to hers. They kiss and kiss in almost-silence, in their lonely attic kingdom in the middle of a broken world and shivering city, on a long dark night that seems, in more ways than one, as if it will never end. And yet, be all that as it may, much as her heart still lies in Russia and always will, Nina Zenik is not unhappy.

Don't you want to go home? he asked her, the other day. She knew the answer, but did not say it. Yet now, she does, and it is not London that she means. Not a place, but a person.

I am home.

[scullysflannel]

🐄🪄

[trappergirl]

@psychopomp2016 tagged me to post 6 albums ive been listening to thank u schnecke 🩷 @softiescully @anatomicvenus @majorbaby @katiehoughton @10000000fish tag ur it :o)

[mulderscully]

get to know me with five drinks 🍹

tagged by @nostradamus0, @thirdeyeblue and @naaer thanks besties 🫶🏻

1. gotta give it to water bc where would we be without her? literally nowhere. she's everything and she's everywhere. and she's there for me at 3 am like no one else 💆🏻‍♀️ chug, chug, chug.

2. i'm that do not talk to me until i've had my coffee person. i'm sorry 😭 i don't segregate coffee. a latte is coffee, an espresso? that's also coffee. i just love coffee in all it's forms!!

lately my go to is the toasted oatmilk espresso 😩

3. 🎶🎤 if you like piña coladas 🍍 this doesn't have to have alcohol in it to be good. i'm puerto rican so i'm legally requires to love pineapples and coconuts! lately i do drink them with rum but for the longest time i just had them virgin and they still hit. i once paid $17 for one at the puerto rican festival bc it was served in a hollow coconut.

4. apple cider babey. not just a fall drink to me. i will drink it anytime. iced, hot, sparking, hard? i love she 🍎🍏

5. really hard choice between chai and yerba mate but i had to choose mate. my uncle/god father is from paraguay and got me hooked on the stuff from a young age. tea has nothing on her. and i don't mean the bs they sell at whole foods in a can. i mean HER:

tagging: @wexler-mcgill @softiescully @thewollfgang @tinyconfusion @reputation @edierone @angelic37 @jpierrepontcriss @xenobites @slayerbuffy @chasingfictions @mindymeeks-martin and anyone who wants to!!

[dnscully]

top 5 pics of santiago cabrera 🥸

I’m gonna use gifs bc I feel like they better encapsulate how hot he is 😌 listen,,, he is quite actually the loml so there r no top pics, they r all top pics

I’m going to combust

ask me my top 5 anything!

[tomcriuse]

what does she find in his pocket payton i’ve never seen this movie

her shoe it’s her shoe what more do expect of tarantino

[universalinvariant]

I was tagged by my beloved pastry chef @softiescully to shuffle my on repeat playlist and post 10 songs. Thank you king 🫂

My Lady of Mercy - The Last Dinner Party

Dying Star - Ashnikko ft Ethel Cain

Into Your Room (with MUNA) - Holly Humberstone ft MUNA

On Your Side - The Last Dinner Party

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler (it's the full 7 min version btw)

Only If For A Night - Florence + The Machine

Sky Full of Song - Florence + The Machine

No Children - The Mountain Goats

Chinese Satellite - Phoebe Bridgers

Touching Yourself - The Japanese House

Tagging anyone who wants to show off their very cool and normal music taste 😎

[qqueenofhades]

happy birthday!!! hope it’s amazing 🥳🥳🥳 been lucky enough to share many fandoms with you and love reading everything you write <3

Aw, thanks very much. Speaking of fandom writing, I am celebrating my oldness by NOT doing work and instead starting on chapter 10 of the lighthouse au, which will absolutely get me yelled at some more in due course. Ahem.

I will get some extra cake later, too, so that sounds like a good plan. Nom. 🎂🥳

[scullysflannel]

top 5 movie casts that u would love to hang out with (inspired by me seeing pics of the mamma mia cast party again today)

1. clue!!! I want to vibe with madeline kahn and young michael mkean and tim curry and company. 

2. mamma mia, clearly

3. that one movie I’ve never seen where victor garber plays gillian anderson’s dad? hello????

4. assuming I could hang out with them while filming... the x-files: fight the future. but not because I think it would be fun. I just want to observe.

5. bridesmaids. this is for jon hamm.