#why don't you

[kellysue]

Why Don't You...

Diana Vreeland helmed BAZAAR for 25 years, during which she very famously had a column called Why Don't You...

Denise and I laughed ourselves silly imagining our version, so here it is. This might become a regular thing, who knows?

Why don’t you…

Try making homemade marshmallows?

Embroider a secret message on the inside fly of your jeans?

Wear corpse paint to the grocery store on a sunny afternoon?

Keep a secret diary in the persona of a serial killer? Leave its location to your least favorite relative in your will.

Host a perfume sample swap?

Carve a linoleum stamp? Use it to personalize your correspondence.

Have some correspondence?

Lie down in the forest and be consumed by moss?

Sing along to Tina Turner?

Put your fucking phone down while you eat for once, c’mon?

Put pantyhose over your head and take a picture? Text it to your mom, then delete it and say “sorry, wrong thread.”

Make a gratitude list?

Start a zine?

Paint the edge of an interior door a bright surprising color?

Buy gnome figurines in bulk and start randomly leaving them places?

Get into geocaching?

Get your MFA?

Get a tattoo on your face?

Write a thank you note? Mail it. In the mail. With a stamp and everything.

Teach your dog to pick pockets?

Install the Library Extension?

Do one of the above and tell us about it? We’ll publish any that make us laugh in the next newsletter.

[numinousmysteries]

why don't you (x-phile edition)

inspired by the late, great diana vreeland, but zhuzhed up with a certain paranormal bouquet:

why don't you....

re-watch grotesque and join mulder on a terrifying descent into full-fledged profiler mode?

write a fic with that unpopular pairing you can't get out of your mind (mulder/melissa? scully/skinner?) and get surprised by how many others were thinking the same thing?

take a master class in the art of the perfect, hypnotic sentence and read (or re-read) Black Hole Season by Penumbra/ @mashnotesofthemythopoeic ?

sprinkle a few of your favorite lines into everyday conversation in a way that no one else would notice but that delights you? [can you get away with saying "lots and lots of files" at work?]

leave a comment on that comfort fic you've read and re-read dozens of times but haven't let the author know yet? (if you don't have one, may I suggest A Boy and His Fox by @sixhours?)

go to your local thrift store and see if you can find a former phile's discarded VHS tapes or X-Files '98 expo t-shirt?

start a podcast devoted to re-watching the series through a super-specific lens (scully's hairstyles, mulder's ties, decoding the decor of the basement office)? [i will listen.]

go for a walk around your neighborhood with Walking After You on repeat in your headphones?

re-watch i want to believe and not just the scratchy beard scene? [jk, no one should have to do that]

add your own ideas to the tags?

[starmocha]

Xavier: what are you doing

Zayne: understood

Rafayel: well, well, well...look who finally remembers me 😒

[beatsforbrothels]

NAHreally & The Expert - Why Don't You?

[ineedhjalp]

Ah, the feminine urge to cut your hair short and become a boy

[ultrio325]

Just discovered the "i hate math" tag exists and ??????? how tf is there a whole ass tag on this? is math *that* bad??????????????

[allo-frouto]

I asked for a good erotic book you told the rose 😮‍💨

Oh right! You should have mentioned you were talking about the book!

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[girldraki]

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[rocketplane]

@thebibliosphere

we expected nothing less… {x}

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[numinousmysteries]

why don't you (x-phile edition) pt. 2

I had a lot of fun with this post so I'm doing another one.

Why don’t you…

Make it an Unusual Suspects/Three of a Kind double feature in honor of our favorite triad?

Read a post-colonization fic and see how Mulder and Scully fare in the face of the apocalypse? (this week's xf fic discord book club pick, In the Watchfires of a Hundred Circling Camps by cthene, fits the bill and it is SO good and weird.)

Join the xf fic discord book club while you're at it?

Support a talented artist on Redbubble or Patreon? (how cool is this print?)

Find out if an episode originally aired on your birthday and then watch it? (if you're like me, you'll discover yours is Fearful Symmetry and be pleasantly surprised that it's not as bad as you remember.)

Write 100 words of Mulder and Scully road trip dialogue?

Write 1,000 words about what happens if their rental car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night? (no judgment if 900 of those words are smut.)

Send a mutual a fic prompt or random ask?

Write a fix-it fic for the aspect of canon that bothers you most?

As always, add your own to the tags or share your responses?

[evilgoodguys]

caught them doing the SIN, cos, tan (bad trigonometry joke, I'm sorry, you have permission to euthanize me)

bonus:

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.