#well probably i am

[allthngs]

what i loved about Small Potatoes is the way it shows scully’s journey with being seen by others.

she’s a doctor and an fbi agent, she works, lives and breaths an environment full of men. she needs to work twice as hard as anybody else to be recognized, but it seems like it’s never enough.

in Beyond the Sea she has just lost her father and she says to maggie “i need to know… was he at all proud of me?” and her mom just says “he was your father”. she probably has been seeking for his approval her entire life, but it looks like he won’t give it to her, not even now that he’s passed away.

the lack of recognition from her father made her seek it even more throughout her career and from the men in her life.

this is of course a big topic in Never again. we understand that she’s been working with mulder for four years now, they have been sharing the highs and lows of the job. but there’s his name on the door, on the desk. she doesn’t have a desk and she remains nameless in that room. it’s like there’s no trace of her ever being there. but she has been, for four years, doing half the work that has been sitting in that room. and that’s what makes the end of never again really bittersweet for me: they’re finally together again, but mulder can’t understand: “all of this because i didn’t give you a desk?”

but we have to remember this is progressively changing with mulder. in leornard betts (that was placed before never again, but should have been after -> read this by @deathsbestgirl — i totally agree with this view!) he says to her that she did a good job, that she must be proud. in memento mori her whole life is falling apart but mulder is there for her. he’d fly through space and cut a slice of the moon if she asked him to. she feels seen by him in a way that’s protecting her without being related to work. she feels seen on an emotion level, on a career level, but she’s still missing something.

she realizes what it is at the end of small potatoes, when “mulder” arrives at her house with a bottle of wine and a smile of his face. she seems skeptic at first, she’s not used to it so she starts talking to him about work, as usual. she’s probably expecting jokes. but when he asks about her — truly her, not her work or her illness — she feels seen in a way she’s never been seen by him. alcool helps dropping that barrier.

and she likes it. this situation and this new side of him. and when he leans in to kiss her she’s surprised because it had never happened before and she’s been drinking but she doesn’t hold back, and if mulder didn’t throw the door open and revealed the situation she would have gone all the way.

so the last scene, when she’s telling mulder he isn’t a loser, had this feeling of embarassement not only because he saw the she would have kissed him if she had the possibility, but also becuase she still has this piece of her she feels hasn’t been seen by anybody else. and she desperately wants to share with someone, with mulder. but she’s not there yet.

[marisashinx]

Azul is on to something here...

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[hinamie]

corvidae

[panstarry]

my final from last semester that i made into a zine. cooked this one up in a couple hours before the critique (the ink was still wet!), so it's very raw and kind of sloppy but the sentiment is there. i love you trans people of color. we are the backbone of this community 🌟

[technically-human]

Welcome to the reverse verse! This is part 1 of 2 of a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and I can't wait to tell you all about it, because I'm incapable of being normal and chill about these concepts, so I ran with it.

Charles Rowland was born in 1900, his mum was from India and moved to the UK after marrying Charles' dad, a soldier who was not... very loving. Charles' heritage gave him some problems, but none as bad as that one time in 1916 when he was sacrificed to a demon and spent the next 7 decades in Hell. He doesn't like to talk about it, except when it can get him what he wants. He was always an angry boy, or so he thought, but after his time spent in Hell, it became so much worse. He's explosive and unpredictable, and so he mostly avoids conflict. He doesn't need to fight anyone, as his charming personality and sweet smile (plus a few smart calculations) always seem to be enough to convince people to give him what he asks for. And when the fight is inevitable... well, he has Edwin for that!

Edwin Payne grew up very sheltered, in a deeply religious home, and he is proud of that. Don't try to argue with him, because he surely has a Bible verse that will help him win (and if not, he is not above using his croquet mallet now that he has someone to keep safe). Unfortunately for him, he realized at a quite young age that he felt attraction towards other boys. Even worse, somehow other people could tell as well, including those peers that ended up killing him for it (the rumour spread throughout school was that he had died due to AIDS, and most people just accepted it). He never acted on those unnatural urges of his, but when he met this ghost who had just escaped Hell... he decided not to risk eternal damnation, and to stay here with Charles, instead. Edwin has no interest in the supernatural or in magic, and sort of looks down on them, but luckily his friend's got that covered.

[lemonboyjosten]

— the foxhole court (2013)

— the sunshine court (2024)

[dogerbooger]

Lizzay mc sos doodle

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[ominouspuff]

Sketch Week!

Inspired in spirit by @husborth’s painfully satisfying AU Mustard Gas and Roses, which is a sheer delight to chew on and still surprises me with new details I didn’t notice every time I re-chew through it.

[bluegarners]

bruce and dick are both emotionally repressed but in kind of different but parallel ways. like, the repression that bruce experiences stems from never confronting trauma or any negative emotion, whereas dick's repression stems from needing to be the emotional support for an emotionally repressed man at the ripe age of 9 and so never being able to process any emotions associated with that responsibility

[hellmandraws]

I accidentally got really into X-Men lately, and I'm not immune to... them. 🥺❤️

[leenfiend]

what’s ur type first < prev full comic

This is it, end of the line! Thank you all so much for following along with this comic. Perhaps I will do more Klance comics in the future. Love u all <3 <3 <3 In the meantime, preorders for physical copies and PDFs of this comic are now OPEN until August 27th! There will be limited stock once preorders are done so grab it now if you want it. The PDF and book contain a little bit of a bonus scene as well!!

[theminecraftbee]

actually I will say all the “who could the new member be???” speculation has made me realize is. boy can those hermits sure hermit. I’m not sure ANY of them play much minecraft with literally anyone who isn’t each other. if it weren’t for grian spearheading first the life series and then the crossover in what now reads to me as a blatant “NOW MAKE FRIENDS I WANT MY FRIENDS TO BE FRIENDS” moves, I’m not sure we’d even have this much of a usual suspects list. no WONDER one of the guys on the shortlist of “most likely candidates” isn’t hermit-adjacent, we’re already out of hermit adjacent guys because they are TOO BUSY BEING HERMITS. LIKE THE LITERAL KIND OF HERMIT NOT THE—

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My Lawyer is going to Get Your Ass.

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