#this is not happening

[california-112]

S08E14 / S08E15 / 'Work Song' - Hozier

[raiisakitsune]

“i already got my wish” and it’s kiara. SOMEONE HAND ME A ROPE.

[cabesswtaer]

[taechnological]

. . . no

[fringephile]

She really needs a hug.

[gaycrouton]

I love the dynamic between Scully and Doggett, and I think the parallel between his son’s death and his desire to protect Scully from what he experienced is so powerful.

We know his son tragically died, but it isn’t until Empedocles that we know just how much his experience of finding him mirrored Scully’s (i.e, stumbling across the dead body discarded carelessly in a field).

From approaching a group of people huddled around the body to your partner looking at you with despair, he’s been in her shoes

He knows what it’s like to see the body of someone you love more than anything lying lifelessly in a field.

I know him pulling Scully back is frustrating to us as viewers. We’ve watched Mulder and Scully for seven years, we know the depth of their love for one another, and it can be aggravating seeing someone coming in between them in such a devastating moment.

But thinking of it from his perspective is so heartbreaking.

He is haunted by the memory of seeing his son like that. That is how he remembers his little boy. It was cruel, senseless, and (until Release) a mystery.

He wanted to spare Scully from having that with Mulder.

If I’m remembering correctly, Reyes even said seeing him unmoving next to his son in that field was haunting, he was paralyzed with grief and shock.

Doggett was trying to do Scully a kindness because he’s still haunted from when he experienced something hauntingly similar.

Again, we don’t get to know that was his motivation until a few episodes later. But with how similar the framing was, we know that it was a purposeful parallel.

It’s heartbreaking to think Reyes recognized the similarities at the time they found Mulder, and she knew how re-traumatizing that would be for Doggett.

She watched him relive the worst moment of his life and try to intervene to prevent someone from experiencing what he did.

It reminds me of how Skinner knew how awful it was to deliver heart-shattering news and chose to intervene and save Scully from having to do it.

In both cases, it may feel like it wasn’t their place, but it came from a place of empathetic kindness.

[swan2swan]

MOM I'M SCARED COME GET ME

"I BETRAYED YOU?!?"

[salty-autistic-writer]

Me after seeing the current spoilers: thanks for the cast + Lou content, I’m going to put the context for these bts into my denial box! 🙂

[winchesticles67]

when i hear skinner say “nothing says we’re gonna stumble over him in some field” the irony makes me laugh. like my humour is dark or smth because that’s the funniest shit. THEY LITERALLY FOUND MULDER DEAD IN A FIELD. like come on that’s morbid but so funny.

[fcbalding]

what if i kill myself

[agent-troi]

ok so i was looking at screenshots from This Is Not Happening for fic reasons, and:

Scully staring up at the night sky looking for Mulder

vs:

Mulder staring up at the night sky looking for Scully

(i edited this post bc i figured out how to turn up the brightness on the first pic lol)

[amisupposedtobecool]

How about you let other countries vote too huh? Your dumb decisions are affecting ALL OF US, so why wouldn't we have a say in this?

[sahrberrii]

i want to curl train my hair so bad but i don’t have it in me to sit for two hours finger coiling each individual strand

[audreyh002]

For fucks sake I gotta stop going on tumblr for gifs during the commercial breaks I can’t believe this is how I found out mulder dies. I swear to God I will spend my last living breath falling in love with stories of a missing human and a lover who does everything in her power but who finds him too late

[starlightmesss]

I have two or three fics to post and Bobby's in them and I will be feeling violently ill reading them over to check/finish them but whatever I can do it