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[deathsbestgirl]

something i love about scully seeing ghosts throughout her whole life is she secretly thinks she's crazy and at a certain point stopped mentioning it to people (like after age 7) and YET it never actually stopped. she sees ghosts everywhere, literal & figurative. she's death's best girl. it's why she avoids people & connection. it's why she clings to facts & science and the studies that show it's just specific brain activity that causes it. she's fine if that's the ~only thing happening. and her dreams are just her subconscious working things out. (this is why she remembers so clearly what mulder said about dreams, it brought her a great deal of comfort.) all of it is very scientific and she is perfectly sane & normal. her cannibalistic tendencies are just normal human nature. it's like her men in authority & the men she gives authority, her little ouroboros, her patterns. that's all!!

[moss-gender]

fox mulder over here being a 2008 era emo with the password “trustno1” lmao I’m dying

[skelavender]

the delivery of mulder's "marry me" in chinga oh lord.... he MEANT IT.

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

This is directed at no one in particular but I don't think i've thought about Chris Carter even once. Certainly no further than: "He's the guy that wrote my favourite TV show. Cool." ...Some of you on here seem to think about him weirdly a lot.

Sure, when he was writing txf, maybe he wasn't paying attention to some things. Maybe he WAS. Maybe it's all deliberate. Maybe it really isn't. Maybe it would be better if everyone stopped giving a shit.

I see some people getting worked up over lack of continuity, or "trying to make sense of things that Chris Carter wasn't paying attention to", making him out like he's the worst person on Earth just because the choronology of some episodes doesn't really make sense or the fact that at one point Scully's apartment seemingly changes floors, (I have watched xf multiple times over the years and never actually noticed). What I mean is: you guys can watch the show without caring about any of it. Be blasé for once. It's surprisingly easy and will actually make you less pissed off every time something incremental happens and you feel the need to reply to a load of other people's text/meta posts going: "I don't know why you are trying to make sense of this, Chris Carter didn't!!!" It's. Really tedious, actually. I see see So MUCH of it. What is it even achieving?

So what if you think he never gave a shit. We enjoy it DESPITE that. If it turns out he really DID care deeply about the show he wrote for 25 years, (shocker), and just got lost and caught up in it along way then that's ALSO totally fine and we should have probably learnt by now to enjoy things for the sake of enjoying them. Like. It's OK that some things make no goddamn sense. You're still allowed to enjoy them. Conversely, if every single thing in txf DID suddenly make sense and a detailed explanation was given every time something happened, then it would be a significantly worse show, and would be the anti-txf, surely? I did not watch this show for over a decade a not learn that some things are better left unexplained.

[precedex-files]

Trying this text post thing 😅

[take-it-on-the-run]

Men be warned, the longer I am single, the more media I consume, and the more media I consume, the higher my standards become

[denyeverything69]

If the characters had ended up involved in the conspiracy from the other end, how do you think that would have gone for each of them? (be it bad end AU or .... well, just more people in Krycek's situation)

Hey, thank you so much for the idea!

Here's how I think it would go:

Fox Mulder: Fox is a really smart man, so he would eventually overpower the Cigarette Smoking Man. If Mulder wanted to, he could have the whole world wrapped around his finger.

Dana Scully: Scully would be the black widow of the Bureau; you can't tell me otherwise. She is witty, strong, and if she wants something, she will have it.

Walter Skinner: I think he would be the Bureau's puppet in a more cruel way. He'd make sure to screw people over every time they got close to covering something up. I don't think he would last long, since everyone is easily replaceable in his position.

John Doggett: John would be the hitman of the Bureau, considering his military background. He'd probably team up with Alex Krycek and Marita Covarrubias.

Monica Reyes: We all know how that one ended, lmao.

Jeffrey Spender: Same as Skinner—total puppet until he is no longer necessary.

The Lone Gunmen: These three, with enough motivation and resources, would be a nightmare for society's privacy and safety. I mean, they were able to bypass the government's security over and over like it was nothing... so I would be scared of them if they turned to the other side.

Sorry for the delay, but I had loads of homework to do. 🫶

Love you all, thanks for reading!

xx

[orangesnlavender]

Omg??? Me???? Writing fics again???? Crazy!!!

Anyway, I wrote a Cancer Arc drabble bc angst is my life <333

Willow

She laid her head down. He was sweet. Fabric softener mixed with something earthy. She imagined the weeping willow in her cousin's yard that she used to let engulf her; its weathered branches protecting her and the rope swing’s seat she’d etched her and Melissa’s initials into.

“Feeling better?” Mulder said quietly, the words traveling like a crooning saxophone into her ears.

“Yeah.” She whispered, taking a breath and releasing it slowly, not wanting her voice to betray her. It had been doing that often lately, too much for her liking.

Especially around Mulder. When he looked at her sunken cheeks and hollow blue eyes and just smiled. Smiled like nothing bad had ever happened. Smiled like she wasn’t dying.

[deathsbestgirl]

y'all i'm sorry, but fire + lazarus make no sense if mulder & scully wasn't intended. or the pilot or squeeze or THE JERSEY DEVIL or melissa hounding mulder in one breath or maggie letting mulder hold onto scully's cross (and him wearing it!!) or scully having his key so early on & letting herself into his apartment and so many other things like. please

[metronn]

need to crawl inside the x-files and live there. thanks

[ruscha]

i’m seriously considering writing some essays on the x-files as a show and as a phenomenon and would love any resource recommendations other fans may have when it comes to the making of the show and the discourses that occurred while it was on the air originally. documentaries, books, reviews, articles, interviews, podcasts, internet archives, etc. especially things that get at the cast and crew’s feelings on chris carter during the course of the show, anything documenting the early internet xf fandom while the show was on the air and esp early msr culture, how it was influenced by and had an influence on conspiracy culture in the us, stuff like that. anything and everything xf related is appreciated!

[skelavender]

if my partner started doing things like slapping my ass and reporting to our boss when he usually drinks respect woman juice and will fistfight authority at any chance, i would believe that he switched bodies with some guy instantly. rip to scully but i’m different

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

name me a better anti-smoking campaign than The X-Files (1993 - 2018)

[xf-cases-solved]

S1E6: Shadows

Case: In Philadelphia, Howard Graves, the boss of secretary, Lauren Kyte killed himself a few weeks ago, and Lauren is still really broken up about it. Turns out they had a really close relationship, but in a like, father/daughter way and not a creepy boss/employee way. They had such a close relationship, in fact, that Howard is now acting as Lauren's guardian angel, if guardian angels were the ghosts of dead businessmen who had dealings with terrorist groups in Iran who avenged you by Jedi strangling anyone who tries to cause you harm. Philadelphian agents from a vague, yet menacing, government agency are more interested in shady business practices than ghosts or answering direct questions, Scully has clearly watched too many classic horror movies, and Mulder is willfully participating in a campaign of misinformation. What could possibly happen next?

Does someone die in the cold open: Yes, but they deserved it.

Does Mulder present a slideshow: No

Does the evidence survive the investigation: The evidence completed its unfinished business and crossed over into the light.

Whodunit: Kinda depends on which crime you're talking about. Who committed the crime of doing business dealings with terrorists? That was the stereotypical White CEO Businessman(™) who secretly killed Howard Graves and staged his suicide. But if you're talking about the murder case Mulder and Scully were initially working on before getting roped into the terrorist shit, then the culprit was the ghost of Howard Graves. Naturally.

Convictions: In the terrorist case? Presumably the guy they arrested will serve time. In the murder case? Nada.

Did they solve it: Maybe. While Mulder is pretty certain he knows what's up, Scully remains uncertain and there's no way to prove either of them right. And besides, even if Mulder was right, they could not arrest nor prosecute a ghost.

[how do i determine if a case is solved? check the scale here: x]

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General Total Stats:

(green means stat has changed since last ep; red means new stat added to list)

Total Cases *Definitively* Solved So Far: 2 (streak lost again)

Total Number of "Mulder/Scully, it's me" phone calls: 1

Total Number of Times Scully Has Conveniently Not Seen Something Crucial: 3 (during two different paranormal events, she happened to be out of the room, only entering moments after the event ended)

Total Number of Times Mulder Has Been in Mortal Danger: 0

Total Number of Times Scully Has Been in Mortal Danger: 1

Total Number of Sexually Charged and/or Flirty Moments Between Friendly Coworkers: 4 (why did Mulder put his jacket over his shoulder so sluttily if not to seduce his hot partner??)

Total Number of Autopsies Scully Has Performed: 1

Total Number of Times Mulder Talks to an Informant: 2

Total Number of Nosebleeds: 4

Total Number of Cigarettes Cigarette Smoking Man Has Smoked: 2

Total Number of Alex Krycek Sightings: 0 :(

Total Number of Times I Had to Look Up What State the Episode Takes Place in Even Though I Literally Just Watched It: 1 (i almost had to, but then Mulder mentioned the Liberty Bell at the very end and saved me)

Total Number of Times I Had to Look at an Episode's Wikipedia Page to Fill This Out Because It Was Fucking Confusing and/or Too Boring for Me to Pay Attention: 1 (so far it's only been Conduit, but we'll see how it goes when we get to Space)

[ayphyx]

Just found like 15 more fanfics to read <- guy who has 30 tabs of ao3 open

[misspickman]

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tagged by @wakethedevils ty julia<3

last song: clean slate the mountain goats. its in my head

currently watching: the x files :) slowly going through them and being driven insane. also technically buffy the vampire slayer its been a minute since i watched but its on my mind as ongoing

currently reading: traitor baru cormorant and going through various comic lists

current obsession: dc unfortunately were in it

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