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The Rain King//6x08

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I keep telling myself I’m gonna stop drawing Fox Mulder lol

#fox mulder #fan art

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You ever think about how in “Pusher” Mulder is able to withstand Modell’s manipulation much longer when it comes to pulling the trigger on Scully than when it was about himself?

You ever think about how that’s probably because he thinks values her life so much more than his own?

#the power of #msr

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This parallel! ❤

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wanted a play-by-play of this

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What’s the secret for the heat between Mulder and Scully? We have a kind of furtive understanding that it’s me and her against the world. That’s kind of sexy regardless of whether or not you wanna fuck them all the time.

DD, ‘Rolling Stone,’ 1996

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Cut footage from Plus One

#msr #or #gillovny #you just never know

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Top 5 msr hand holds <3

below the cut because you know i'm gonna TALK.

1. closure

the two of them sitting in that coffee shop, both cups in front of them untouched, filled to the brim, reading samantha’s journal. bearing witness to the suffering of this little girl. they are in this moment together. they have been in this moment together since he looked at her and told her “nothing else matters” to him, seven years ago in that motel room.

for the past seven years, scully’s job has been to play the skeptic, to argue against the paranormal theories that his grief leads him to. later that night, she stands outside the door of the last person to see samantha alive, and prays for aliens.

they’ve been in this together for the better part of a decade and they’re sitting in a coffee shop reading the truth they’ve been looking for, how devastatingly human the evil of it was, and she looks at him with tears in her eyes and squeezes his hand.

2. redux ii

one of the few moments in the series where you see scully break…scully defines herself so completely in loyalty. in following him, in being ahab’s starbuck, in being her captain father’s first mate.

in this moment, mulder is heading off to a hearing where he will be testifying to details of the conspiracy and against members of the FBI. this is It. this is The Truth. this is The Quest that they’ve been working on for five years. the dutiful first mate would send him on his way.

scully clings to his hand. she doesn’t want to lose any more time (nine minutes in bellefleur was enough). she can’t believe either of them are going to go through the next few hours, the last few hours, without each other.

she might not be there when he returns, she’ll be the next on the list of people to have disappeared behind his back, and he’s kissing her cheek and casually cracking jokes, and she‘s desperate to hold on for just a moment longer.

3. tithonus thumb war

one, two, three, four…we die next to each other or never at all. what’s immortality next to a mindless game with your best friend?

scully asked fellig, “how can you have too much life? what about love?”

he answered, “love lasts 75 years, if you’re lucky. you don’t want to be around when it’s gone.”

in a story about the grief of eternal life, waking up in that hospital, i don’t see scully taking on the quest to give it up.

4. dreamland

the central question of this episode, becomes the central question of the rest of the series: don't you ever want to get out of the car?

while they may be years from stepping away from the car long enough for that house and "normal life" that scully laments driving past, for a moment they stand in front of it.

they gaze up at lights in the sky the way they did on their second case together, the way they did in antarctica, and he reaches wordlessly for her. half "scully, you gotta see this" and half "stay here on the ground," it's an instinct that doesn't disappear with their memories.

it's like that thing DD said once, "there is no such thing as that story ever ending. those characters are forever searching. that’s what they do. even if we’re not watching them, they’re out there."

they'll get back in the car and they'll "just keep driving," for years and for decades and for the rest of their lives, because they'll forever be searching. and when there's something to see, they'll reach for each other.

5. pusher

"smile, scully."

kneeling down before her to surrender his weapons, he meets her worried eyes with a calm smile.

this episode is all about palpable tension and anxiety, about walking into a losing battle without control of the stakes, and it's most visceral in scully from the moment they decide to send mulder in alone.

but before she nervously watches a surveillance screen, before she jumps up the moment the feed cuts out, before she runs in after him, before she screams at a serial killer and cries out to him in fear...she quietly looks down at him, the way she has so many times before, and keeps his hand still. steadies them both, holds them both in this moment.

the emotional arc of this episode is bookended with touch, and more than the absolution in the way she reaches for his hand in the final scene, it's this moment that simplifies it to me. it's the calm before the storm, and the time that's taken in the midst of it all, to pause outside influence while they still can.

(BONUS: Fight The Future)

reaching out to him as she recommits, parroting back his own words to him. she has memorized everything that he has ever said and it is the two of them in this work, in this fight.

if they quit on each other now, they lose.

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this is how you act with someone you’ve known 2 days, right?

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I Love the Unanswered Questions of the X-Files

Who feeds Mulder's fish when he's out of town?

When did he and Scully exchange apartment keys?

When did Scully have Mulder witness her living will?

Does Scully fall asleep often on stakeouts, or did the strenuous 24/7 Modell manhunt force her to lose sleep and conk out on Mulder's shoulder that one time (...and also All Things)?

Did Mulder and Scully watch movies together before Je Souhaite?

What happened after the elevator doors closed in Folie a Deux?

Did Mulder ever tell Scully about his Monday-repeating-days theory?

The little things. Honestly, the unanswered questions are the charm of the show for me-- I don't need to see everything, and those missing elements perpetuate questions into eternity, hooking me for more (excluding the obvious ridiculous ones-- "that one lonely night", "Are we together?", etc.)

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Hello and happy Saturday once again!

And if you have any cat questions you’d like the panel to take on, feel free to ask.

#cats #xfiles #catfiles

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“When we were doing the show, Gillian and I had got tired of it. And we wanted to be ourselves outside of it. I remember struggling. But now I think, ‘God what a great love affair.’” - David Duchovny

#gillovny #gillian anderson #david duchovny

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“I don’t think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He’s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don’t know if they’re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they can’t live without each other. When I play a scene with Gillian, there are always little looks between us which mean ‘what do you think about what’s happening?’

“It’s a little as if we have secrets between us. Everything is conveyed by communication beyond words. Perhaps, after all, you could interpret that as love.”

Studio (France), Nov 98

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#msr #gillovny #the x files

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But he was Mulder. It had been five years going on six and he got worn in. He drove her crazy. He talked with food in his mouth when he was excited. She was always surprised when they’d be renting a car and the woman would fumble with the credit card and couldn’t seem to look away as Mulder scribbled his signature, touching the pen to his tongue to get the ink moving. Signing Fox, for god’s sake. “Talk to me when he’s covered in bile,” she wanted to say. But she’d always touch the inside of his elbow then, and enjoy the fact that her one touch would cause him to immediately fold in on her, everything else disappearing from his periphery just because he wanted to see what she had to say.

Snakebitten by onpaperfirst

#msr #le sigh

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