#the gunmen

[fine-nephrit]

🥏 TXF Fic Rec #43: "Practice" by Alelou

Today’s rec is a delightful first-time love confession story—a glorious mix of hilarity and fluff. Alelou’s distinctive, deliberate style has a charming, storybook simplicity, with a fable-like quality. Her signature, subtle humor blends beautifully with vulnerability and emotional depth. Awesome writing.

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🥏 on author's site 🥏 on Gossamer

length: short, 2,000+ words season: season 6 pairing(s): M/S UST to RST tags: vignette, humor, fluff, Scully-POV, theGunmen rating: teen/PG-13

tagging @today-in-fic

[theratking21]

The Gunmen Project

(TW/ Experiments, suicide) (Reminder, this story isn't real its a story I made up)

In September 12th 1936 Germany, General Gerhard Ritcher had the bright idea to make soldiers into weapons as quoted: "What if instead of using guns, we become the weapons?" The project was called "The Gunmen Project" or better known as Die Bewaffneten Männer. This project lasted 4 months The Project officially started in September 13th 1936 and the first subject was a man named Darmen Franks, he was a worker inside the mines and he was drafted into the ranks of the Nazis. Darmen explained that he would be of great help for this project and so they started the experiment. Darmen was the first weapon to come out and used for testing, Subject complained of burning feeling of where he fired his bullet. Darmen has a gun for a hand, he had lost it during a collapse of a mine. The Gunmen Project started to get more subjects like homeless people, soldiers and even worse, Jewish people were forced to fight. Gerhard believed that this would be the project to end the war and let them take over. But however, This project was a huge failure and it caused large amount of pain and terrible losses to name, this project was slowly falling apart and what's worse people are killing themselves just to put a stop to the suffering Gerhard had no choice…The project was eventually discontinued and the subjects were put out of commission, however some believe that some of the subjects known as "Tankmen" are around the abandoned bases still waiting their eventual death. The Files containing the project and its subjects was lost and the scientists never spoke of this project ever again…and maybe that's for the best.

[thebetterluthor]

Of all the tragedies that plagued Scully during the X-Files run, I think the worst one was Melissa's death.

Her father's was natural, and at some point expected. Her various abductions and close calls, part of the job. She survived the cancer. Emily was a tragedy, but her suffering was short, and her connection with Scully herself even shorter. Mulder, in the end, came back from the dead.

I guess if I accepted William's arc, I'd have to agree that losing your child, twice, is just too damn tragic. But with the way the William plot evolved I feel no respect for it, as it completely ignores character arcs, so I can safely say, Melissa's death was the worst of all.

Melissa was her sister. Her big sister. And not an annoying one, they were close. Can you imagine losing a big sister, and having her being murdered instead of you? In your house? There are so many layers of grief there that have only ever been explored in fanfic, because the X-Files were already buried decades deep into the grief of losing one sister, and couldn't afford to spend time on the loss of another.

And for that exact reason, I think Melissa's death was a big miscalculation from a storytelling point of view as well. Because Melissa couldn't possibly get the attention Samantha did, and Scully wasn't allowed to process what was a tremendous amount of grief, because the show didn't have the space for it.

[dearemma]

THE WEST WING 2.02 / 2.22

[seapotty]

The Lone Gunmen + Mulder & Frohike lifelong friendship...

[spookyrabbit87]

Langly, from the X-Files. Watercolour on paper.

[enterprise420patriots]

The X Files: E.B.E. (1994)

[pomegranateplumes]

Booty rockin cowgirl come into ma barn ✨

slap me a dollar, cowboy

read my webcomic (new pages on the way 😱)

[jellicle-chants]

i’m sorry but the funniest thing to ever happen in the x-files is by far mulder receiving a vial supposedly containing an important antidote in a vial from a villain character, so to test it first he gives it to the lone gunmen to run through the gc-mass spec they have (???) and it comes back as pure water, nothing else in it. naturally he goes back to the villain demanding the real antidote and the villain is like “there’s a microchip in the bottom of the vial dumbass”

[unidentifiedprimate]

[webhead10]

when your circle small but all y'all crazy

[bookofjudith]

the scene in the crackpots and these women where Josh is standing in front of a target listening to Ave Maria talking about how he doesn’t want to be saved while his friends aren’t. When he will in fact be targeted when his friends are saved and he will be so traumatized from nearly dying that he will associate music with sirens and nearly have a breakdown listening to another piece of classical music. Aaron sorkin when I find you.

[introspectivememories]

sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.

[katesfatcat]

What kind of kahoots would these idiots play?

[bisexualfbiagents]

That's why we like you, Mulder, your ideas are weirder than ours.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF THE X FILES Day 4: Favorite Dynamic ➤ Fox Mulder & The Lone Gunmen

[seapotty]

moar Lone Gunmen