#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 😒

[towerofglass]

[beatsforbrothels]

NAHreally & The Expert - Why Don't You?

[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!

[ghostofnuggetspast]

Oh dear

Hallucination series (parts 1, 2, 3).

[boasamishipper]

unpopular opinion but i think a ship that's not canon but both halves are canonically insane about each other is infinitely better than a ship that's canon and boring

[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

[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?

[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

[clonerightsagenda]

I think this is just a trend everywhere but I've been very frustrated this week by how much admin work is being outsourced to me as the patient/customer.

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

I feel like at a certain point these constant fetch quests become unreasonable?? Is it too much to expect these groups to communicate with each other instead of making me run back and forth between them???

[girldraki]

[dead-core]

i just need to have more rules for myself. more rules and limits. surely that will help me

[autumnstar06]

Lowkey sad that I don't think Steven, Caution or Jupiter would talk to themselves

Like you were abused, isolated and alone for years and you never once though to talk to yourself

Y'all suck