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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

[deathsbestgirl]

i haven’t stopped thinking about this since i saw it last night and @bakedbakermom ‘s tags. until you understand this, it’s insanely hard to hold onto hope or understand people who have it. this is so perfectly stated.

and because i’m me, this is exactly what mulder & scully struggle with through the whole series (hope & belief & even understanding their love) but they do it because they both understand this (eventually) this feels like the crux of my scully is a skeptic & a believer (and so is mulder) and she is doing exactly what she’s supposed to because she’s human (or sometimes what she thinks she’s supposed to do)

[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

[deathsbestgirl]

OKAY i know i’ve talked about how soft & gentle scully is with mulder but what about how soft & gentle he is with scully???? like those moments in beyond the sea, during the cancer arc when she’s in the hospital & she’s trying so hard to convince him to let her take the blame for the man in his apartment, and after her abduction & pfaster & really anytime she’s in danger. i need to come back to this but HIS VOICE in those scenes absolutely kill me

[spookysexy]

Amazing writing

“But The X-Files was there, in the background, for that year and for several years after it. In my memory of that time it seems to be running, muted, on every TV in every room I enter after dark.”

—

Brian Phillips, “In the Dark,” Grantland

This is one of my favorite pieces of X-Files journalism, in part because it captures what I both knew and did not know about the series before I watched it. I knew the theme song, the grainy monsters, the lights in the woods, the two agents in suits standing by a cornfield and looking into the sky. I knew Mulder and Scully were a kind of love story, even before I understood it. I don’t know how I knew. I just knew. 

“I was already used to imagining the series as a montage of empty atmosphere,” Phillips says, “and in fact I had fallen half in love with it as such.” It’s a mood. The X-Files is a feeling that we already recognize and an idea that resonates with us before we have the words or the facts to back it up–so it talks to us like Mulder and Scully talk to each other. It’s both the darkness and the flashlight. It’s the part of us that knows there’s something to fear but wants to run toward it. It’s the cozy idea that we might be able to run with someone else. It’s “you’ll never get there” and “keep going.” “Trust no one” but “trust this person.” Strain to believe in something you’re not sure you’ll ever believe.

The fact that we all know at some unspoken level the FEEL of The X-Files makes everything nostalgic, even for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to have a 22-year relationship with the show. This is still the return of a story we feel like we’ve been hearing our whole lives. It’s affirmation that yes, you were right, there are monsters, even now. But another bedtime story is just as real: There are people who fight the monsters and who are made better and more alive by the fight. And in a way that’s nostalgia brought into the future (it’s a nostalgia ouroboros). The fact that The X-Files is still going, and that Mulder and Scully are still going, is proof that no matter how many obstacles it’s up against, hope doesn’t have to run out, the truth is still out there, and the passage of time doesn’t have to bring with it the acceptance of easy answers. You can still want to believe in everything you used to want to believe in. You’re still not alone.

(via thetvmouse)

[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 😅

[deathsbestgirl]

this…this right here is one of the reasons mulder & scully work so well together. i think they actually look for hope in the same places but they have different methods, and it’s their different methods that makes their partnership work.

but my real point is — i think this is exactly what first attracted scully to the x files. they opened a whole new world to her. and i refuse to believe she wasn’t already interested in the ~unexplainable~ this woman always wanted to explain what others couldn’t. it’s probably what lead her to science & medicine, pathology specifically.

THE X-FILES (1993-2018) - 4.01 • “Herrenvolk”

[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

[deathsbestgirl]

okay but scully is actually so funny in this epsiode. because her remarks about detective white really are so out of character. she never actually said anything bad about phoebe green or diana fowley and she had WAY more reason to with those two than det white. i LOVE this episode so much.

Top 17 18 Episodes of The X-Files [15/18] -> “Syzygy” | The X-Files — 3.13

[deathsbestgirl]

detour

okay this episode is SO SPECIAL. first case after reduxes & scully's remission. scully was dying and begging mulder to pin the murder on her & save himself. he would never do that. he never wants to get her in trouble, tarnish her name & record, hurt her family.

mulder saved scully!! she's not dying!! and skinner sends them to a team building seminar...neither of them are happy about this lol

mulder is absolutely unbearable on the car ride. he cannot stand these other agents, he wants no part of this exercise. he isn't even remotely subtle and the only good part about this is that he gets to make scully smile & laugh. and those are real smiles, she loves that he hates this. she hates it too, but as long as she gets to do it with him, it's fine!!

so simple. so funny. delivery & facial expressions were PERFECT.

like. i just need to emphasize how much mulder does not like people, he hates having to play nice. he doesn't even try !!! scully at least tries, but she doesn't have a reason to hate these two so. do with that what you will lol

so when mulder gets out of the car, he's just trying to escape that car for a few minutes. but a woman goes running up to him, asking him questions he can't answer. he wasn't actually looking for anything but he found it. he can't deny a woman asking for help...for answers. so he goes to look for them and finds michelle. i love this lesbian redhead sooooo much. mulder likes how focused on the work she is, how knowledgeable she is. nerds. but she doesn't want help from the fbi, it's her case.

(she loves him)

THE PAIN. like scully really thought this was just an excuse and she said let's make it worth it. but it was really an x file and people needed his help and he isn't ready for this.

after all the progress they made, how physical they were after her initial diagnosis and again when she was in the hospital. they chose silence before, but what did silence matter when they started showing each other so much physical affection? and now scully isn't dying, she's alive & she wants to do something about it. she thinks they're on the same page... but mulder still chooses silence, he flees. and he only takes her along after.

i don't blame him at all. he isn't ready. but this is painful for her. genuinely the closest she would ever get to making the first move, and she really just gives an opening. wine & cheese plate, the quip about partners consorting. we all know they don't have a problem hanging out or working in each other's rooms. it happened in the pilot & deep throat, literally right from the beginning lol evidence:

but. when mulder leaves, scully steels herself. you can visibly see her process & accept it.

(after this, the closest she gets to addressing their relationship is asking him about getting out of the damn car)

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

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

[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

[deathsbestgirl]

it’s actually my favorite the way scully talks to the officers wearing a giant shirt, telling them she’s an fbi agent, thinking nothing of it and when they stare at her like she’s crazy … only then does she go to grab her badge lmao

Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is my life.