#New outlook

[atths--twice]

Life Keeps Moving

Life keeps on moving even if we wish it would stand still.

Fictober day 8

Prompt: Are you with me?

I love these family stories. I love them happy and experiencing the life they should have had. 💓

May 2007

“You know,” Mulder said, as they took the collapsible wagon out of the back of the car and set it on the pavement. “There are two things… well, perhaps a few things I’ve been thinking about.” 

“Oh, brother,” Scully teased as she began to unload the car and put the items into the wagon. “Here we go.” 

“Shut it,” he said, adding the ice chest that held the oranges he and William had painstakingly cut into slices the previous evening. When it was his turn to bring the game snacks, he took the job very seriously. 

“Daddy,” William admonished him as he closed the back left passenger door and walked to the back of the car. “It’s not nice to say those words.” 

Confused, Mulder looked at him and then Scully, who appeared equally perplexed. 

“What words, buddy?”

“You said to Mommy…” He looked at Scully and then stepped closer to Mulder, his voice quieter. “You said… shut… up.” He frowned, his light brown eyebrows knitting together. “That’s not nice to say to your friends.”

“Oh,” Scully said, coughing to cover her laughter. 

“You shouldn’t talk to mommy that way.” 

“Well,” Mulder said, clearing his throat and also trying not to laugh. “You’re right, I shouldn’t tell her to shut up, but I actually didn’t say that. I said shut it and I was talking about…” He looked at Scully and she raised her eyebrows, waiting to see what he would say. “The top was open on this ice chest and I was talking to myself, saying I needed to shut it before the ice started to melt.”

William stared at him, still frowning, trying to decide if he was telling the truth. He looked at Scully and she nodded in the affirmative. 

“Okay,” he said, letting out a big sigh and nodding. “Then that’s okay. I’m going to get my bag and my water.” He walked around to the other side of the car and Scully grinned at Mulder. 

“You got in trouble,” she said, leaning in close to him. 

“Shut it,” he said through his teeth and she laughed, reaching in to grab more stuff. 

“Mommy,” William said, putting on his backpack and attempting to fix the twisted strap. 

“Here, honey, let me help you.” She stepped over and had it fixed quickly, adjusting it to fit him better. “There you go.” 

“Thank you. Can I go over to see Tyler?” 

Scully shaded her eyes and saw Tyler and his parents setting up their own wagon of items. Sylvia, Tyler’s mom, caught her eye and waved. Scully pointed to William and Sylvia nodded. 

“Yes, you can go over. Daddy and I will be over in just a couple of minutes okay?” 

“Okay, Mommy,” he said, holding his bottle of water as he ran to join Tyler. Scully sighed as she watched him, a hand on her chest. 

“Sometimes it’s hard to believe he’s six already,” she said, stepping back to help Mulder finish with the unloading. “Wasn’t it just yesterday that he was smiling at me for the first time?” 

“Or taking his first steps?” Mulder asked and she stuck out her lower lip while she closed her eyes. 

“Remember how he would say bloofbewey? And he called Skinner, Sinner?” She opened her eyes and smiled at him as he chuckled with a nod. 

“And Frohike- heh heh. He got a kick out of that at least.” 

“And now he’s so big.” She sighed again, glancing around the car to see him laughing with Tyler. 

“Ah, Scully, he’s not so big. Well, he is and he isn’t.” 

“Yeah,” she agreed, smiling at William and waving when he looked at her and grinned. 

“Hey,” Mulder said and she looked at him. He raised his eyebrows questioningly and she nodded that she was fine. “Okay. Let’s get this stuff set up and then sit down. I’m already tired.” 

“Poor man,” she laughed, pulling the wagon as he shut and locked the car. “Oh, there was something you were going to say earlier. You know, before you got schooled for telling me to shut up.”

“Har, har, har,” he said, shaking his head. “I was going to say a few things.” 

“Let’s hear ‘em.” 

“First, I don’t remember seeing any parents at games when I was younger with as much stuff as we cart around. People showed up and sat on blankets or sat in the stands.” 

“Did you have to walk uphill, both ways, to get there?” she teased, nodding and smiling at Sylvia and Mike as they walked past them to set up their own spot on the sidelines. 

“Sometimes,” Mulder replied. “It depended from which direction we arrived.” Scully laughed and shook her head, stopping and looking at him. 

“You’re so full of sh…” She trailed off as William came running over, his eyes bright. 

“Daddy, can I show Tyler the oranges I helped you cut up? I told him I got to help and he said that’s so cool. It was pretty cool, Daddy. I liked cutting them up and using the knife.” 

“Good, bud. Hang on a second and I’ll get them for you. They’re under some of this stuff. If you help take it out, we could find it faster.”

“Okay, I can help.” 

When William ran off with the prized bag of sliced oranges, promising not to open it, their spot was nearly finished. The pop up canopy offered shade to the three camping chairs that were placed beneath it and the ice chests sat beside the chairs. 

“That’s another thing,” Mulder said, wiping the sweat from his brow. “I never had snacks after any of my games. We never had a round robin for who was next to bring them. There was none of that.” 

“Are you complaining or simply stating a fact?” 

“Complaining,” he said quietly. “And I know I shouldn’t. But I would have killed to have my parents watching me play. Looking over and seeing them sitting there would have…” He stopped speaking and sighed. 

“Honey,” Scully said, stepping close to him. “I know you would have, but just think about how much it means to William to see us here.” 

“I know,” he said and she smiled. “And I know it’s different. We’re different. All of it is… I just can't help but think of how things would have been.”

“Hmmm,” she hummed, nodding in understanding. “What if you looked at it from another perspective? Perhaps a healing one.” 

“How do you mean?” he asked as she put her arms around his waist. 

“Similar to what I was just saying, thinking about how it affects William. You’re giving him what you never had and I think that’s wonderful. He will never tell his children that he didn’t have parents who didn’t show up. Who didn’t cheer him on and celebrate every win and loss. Every goal that was scored. It’s almost as if you’ve been given a chance for a redo. To get right what was wrong in the childhood of Fox Mulder.” 

“Fucking hell, Scully,” he whispered, pulling her close and holding her tight. “Who’s the psychologist here?”    “Sometimes you psychologists can’t see the forest for the trees,” she said, laughing softly as she hugged him back. “It happens to the best of you.” 

“Yeah,” he agreed and she pulled back, smiling at him. He shook his head and kissed her softly before stepping back, mindful of all the people around them. 

“Daddy, here’s the oranges. I didn’t open the bag. Can you put them back in the ice chess?” William asked. Scully smiled at the incorrect wordage and Mulder winked as he took the oranges from William. 

He put them back into the ice chest as William sat down in his chair. Scully sat down beside him and smiled. 

“Mommy, I’m really excited for the game today. I think I’m going to get a goal. I’m going to try really hard,” William said, staring out at the field. 

“If you do, that will be wonderful. But if you don’t, that’s also okay. You know what’s most important, right?” Scully said, taking his hand and giving it a squeeze. 

“That I tried?” he asked, turning his head to look at her, his blue eyes serious. 

“And that you had fun,” Mulder said, coming to sit beside him. “That’s most important. Any sport you play, you should enjoy it.” 

“I do enjoy it. I really do,” William said, squeezing Scully’s hand and smiling. 

“Good,” Scully said, smiling at Mulder and then kissing the top of William’s sweet smelling head.

“Hey, hey! Where are my Golden Lightning players?” Coach Peters called as he arrived, carrying a large bag of soccer balls. 

William shouted excitedly, let go of Scully’s hand, and jumped out of his chair. Running onto the field, the other kids joining him, he high fived the coach and started jumping up and down. 

“He really does enjoy it,” Scully said as she watched him, smiling happily. 

“We’re going to have a great game today! Are you with me, Golden Lightning?” Coach Peters shouted and all the kids cheered and clapped in agreement. 

Mulder moved to sit beside Scully, taking her hand in his as they watched the kids begin to warm up and get ready for the game. 

“Thank you for changing my outlook,” he said, raising her hand to his lips and brushing her knuckles across them.

“You’re welcome,” she said, glancing at him and smiling as he kissed her knuckles. 

She turned her attention back to the field and specifically to the little boy who was laughing with his friends as they started to do jumping jacks with absolutely no coordination. 

And she smiled. 

#fictober23 #fictober 2023 #xffictober23 #canon divergence #family #family fluff #domestic #soccer games #friends #new outlook #love #happy

[saintjimmy1992-blog]

A rose by any other name would still have its thorns but I would suffer a million cuts just to hold you again. Was it fate that pulled up apart all that time ago, or was it young arrogance and ignorance that did us in?

“Well, there’s nothing I wouldn’t give in this whole world to be the man you met long ago” - Slow by The Fratellis

#purple #rose #ai art #feels #lyrics #old wounds #new outlook

[heavyheartedhorror]

You deserve to smile until your face is tight, laugh until everyone around you laughs without knowing why, and to enjoy yourself as if are on the vacation of your dreams....

#new mindset #new beginnings #new outlook #new life #eye know #eye can see clearly now #do you see what eye see #quotes #words of wisdom #understanding self #beauty is in the eye of the beholder #do you see what i see

[cgarttrailsandtails]

Solar system…?

My friend stabbed two holes through that whole stack of post its 🤣

#art #stars #space #outer space #new outlook #i guess

[slipstickcom]

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[biblebloodhound]

A New Outlook on Life (2 Corinthians 5:17-22)

Everyone sees things (and people) only in part. We all have our own unique perspective and take on life. And we interpret life from that particular angle.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s…

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[crocodilenjoyer]

given sabo’s reputation and bounty do you think the topic of the revolutionaries ever comes up among goa royalty and nobility. do you think they ever clap outlook on the shoulder and go wow that flame emperor sabo boy sure is a handful. seems like an extra insult that he shares the same name as your dead son 😔 and outlook, didit, and stelly all look at each other like

#it’d be SO funny if they connected the dots #the fear of their blood connection being discovered and traced back to them thus possibly getting arrested and losing everything #vs realizing via the news what sabo is capable of and going holy shit we could’ve died. he could kill us. what if he comes BACK #he won’t. he’s more than happy to leave them behind. but they don’t know that #i just think the revolutionaries and loose cannon sabo in particular should be the monsters under the bed for more people. #sabo #riko.txt #stelly #didit #outlook iii

[aurorangen]

Vincent made his way to his law firm. Thump. Thump. Why was his heart beating so fast? Maybe it's because he will meet his new co-worker soon. He entered his office and sat down when Pam, his childhood friend came in. "Hey! How's my-" she saw him feeling his chest, "Take it easy, is it happening again?". Vincent doesn't like talking about his congenital heart defect, no one at work knows except Pam. "No it's not that. It's like, I'm nervous, but also excited to meet my new paralegal," Vincent confessed. "You? nervous?! That's not the Vinny I know!" Pam laughed and they caught up with one another. Then he heard footsteps. Knock knock. "Come in," he said.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #vincent kingsley #pam thawatchai #trying this new outlook in taking pics it was meant to be dialogue #but i scrapped it. tried to make this post look a bit cinematic idk #took too long taking pics/editing and also decorating his office!! #so this will come out 1hr later

[duckyfann9871]

Bitches be like “I hate drama” and then their romantic vs Dramatic points is like

It’s me, I’m bitches

#i just #the dramatic routes are so entertaining #shit is going down #in Sebastian’s route rn #I’m at like chapter 13 #my heart #but also I’m frustrated bc I’m literally a medical student so I feel like MC would have a differe outlook than me #eh whatever #ikemen series #ikemen vampire sebastian #like I would want to help Faust make the new meds or monitor sebs health and just generally would not feel as helpless as the heroine idk #cybird ikemen #ikemen #ikemen sengoku #ikemen revolution #ikevamp #romantic vs dramatic #team drama all the way #drama queen

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

As far as character progression goes, I'd argue that the most important aspect of the RLJ reveal isn't just Jon learning that he isn't Ned's son. The most important part is him learning that he isn't Ned Stark's bastard son. He's spent all his life chasing after Ned's shadow, trying to prove to himself and to the world that he is worthy of being Ned Stark's son, "let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons not three", “he was not a Stark but he could die like one” and all that. He's internalized the shame of being the one stain on honorable Ned Starks' reputation

“But it’s a lie,” Jon insisted. How could they think his father was a traitor, had they all gone mad? Lord Eddard Stark would never dishonor himself … would he? He fathered a bastard, a small voice whispered inside him. Where was the honor in that? And your mother, what of her? He will not even speak her name.

So it's important for him to finally stop chasing after that elusive shadow. It's important for him to understand that Ned's dishonor was a deliberate choice that he made by himself, and it's thus no fault of his own. Once Jon internalizes that, then he can finally move on and ask himself, who am I? What do I want for myself? What can I be in this world, just as I am? So far, he's been unable to do that successfully because he still has an incomplete (and false) understanding of who he is.

#jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #jon specifically being ned’s bastard cannot be overstated #it heavily colors his outlooks on his own life and how he navigates through the world #like let’s talk about his sex hangups for example #being ned's bastard is so so important to his character arc #ffs whenever he meets someone new it’s always you must be ned stark’s bastard #it’s how he and everyone else understand his role in life so for him to progress as a character we need to ask #what happens when jon is no longer ned stark’s bastard? #what happens when the one thing that drove him to the wall - to seek glory and kickstarted his heroic journey #is proven to be false? #what then? #what does he do then? where does he go then? who does he become then? #I think he will at first be resistant - and it’s been my personal theory that his learning of robb’s will #will coincide with that and that will be the greatest temptation for him #just like with stannis’ offer and how he agonized over it he will try to cling to some form of #-I can still be ned’s son can’t I? look robb legitimized me as such- #yes I think he’ll already be aware of his parentage by the time he learns of the will #but ultimately he will choose to forge his own path in the end just like he chose to remain with the nw #which then doesn’t look good for the kitn prospects I’m ngl 😬 #because just like accepting Stannis’ offer meant desecrating his father’s gods #accepting the will while knowing that he has no right over his now cousins would straight up be usurpation regardless of age or skill #and I can see grrm throwing in that moral dilemma for Jon because his arc is full of them #but just as he rejected stannis and ended up as lc then his final rejection will lead to something else that is greater - king of winter 🤭 #Just my opinion tho 🙂 #tagging #eddard stark #r plus l equals j #As well

[merrysithmas]

me when someone says luke is a bad teacher and made grogu "choose" btw being a jedi and his dad:

what he did was ensure grogu could one day be a jedi AND have his dad now!!!

#bruh.... #he said grogu's HEART wasnt in it #then created a child-appropriate scenario where grogu would be free to choose his dad with no ill will #realizing of course the love between grogu and din and feeling compassion as he loved and misses his own father so dearly #and he has a new Order where he will allow those attachments #only to hope one day (perhaps even after his own death) grogh would return to complete his trainjng #KNOWING he would never be able to do so if he isnt ALLOWED TO LOVE HIS DAD NOW WHILE HE HAS HIM #which was the OPPOSITE OF THE OLD ORDER AND THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE JEDI DID TO ANAKIN AND SHMI #luke skywalker is WISE and compassionate #he totally understood grogu #he said you may never see the mandalorian again- your training may take you elsewhere your bond may be frayed #and its true #maybe din would die on his own without grogu's help #which would have happened several times already in s1-2 #LUKE GETS IT #anyway #dinluke #luke skywalker #i mean im not defending favloni bc they have no idea what theyre doing #but i dont think this was ooc as per luke's outlook on his new jedi ordee #order #din grogu #what he did was ENSURE GROGU COULD HAVE THE JEDI AND HIS DAD!!!

[goemon-fan]

fujigoe

#this will likely be the last of my recent twcfm posts #but i did love goemon's (and fujiko's) depictions/relationships #all goemon wants is a friend like him since he feels so alone in the world #but he fell in love with a person who doesn't exist #and he keeps setting himself up for failure by hoping for fujiko to change into the woman he thought she was #only to end up more lonely since before meeting fujiko (the ending of twcfm “resolves” their relationship but it felt wrapped up too soon) #also i'm specifically thinking of the scene where they're on the beach and goemon interprets her actions as having been good and honest for #once only to end up disappointed when she hadn't changed for the better to be more in line with his values #as for fujiko she got closure from her trauma but her relationship with goemon went nowhere #she was too traumatized to understand that goemon was trustworty and genuinely did love her unlike all the other men in her life so far #but it was interesting to see her being comfortable “alone” after she dealt with her trauma as well as her new outlook on life #but i still feel bad for goemon; he deserved better and all he wanted was for someone to want/love him and make him feel he belongs #lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #goemon ishikawa xiii #goemon #fujiko mine #twcfm #the woman called fujiko mine #fujigoe

[setaflow]

🙂👍

#New York Rangers #NYR #Alexis Lafreniere #Local French Canadian with the most positive outlook you ever done did see #First pic from Pan's most recent BWH middle is a BWH win from 2 years ago and last is from Pan's series clincher against the Caps #seta liveblogs hockey

[finexbright]

i am honestly so in awe of how when louis first announced the away from home festival, he did it completely for free and the logistics of handling that must've been insane and now, he's been able to take it to two entirely different countries, on different continents and the venue he has now is literally four times bigger than the first time. this time next year he'll either be doing a full blown 80k capacity venue or doing a proper weekend festival and it honestly fascinates me how when louis puts his mind to something, he never half arses it, he gives his all to it and it always soars so high

#like looking at louis and all of these things truly makes me believe in having a positive outlook on things and how it actually changes #your entire perspective and how it always works #also it's the stubborn determination of how he really said a big fuck you to all the big festivals that never bothered to give him a chance #and now he's successfully crafted his own festival that's doing insane numbers #like in a few years away from home festival fully has the potential to become a staple annual thing and it'll just expand more and more #and the fact that he's already doing it in two whole new countries #endless possibilities honestly

[thebillyengland]

World Economic Forum's ENTIRE plan EXPOSED in just 60 seconds— This is what attacks against Dutch farmers are REALLY about...

#WEF #politics #liberals #liberalism is a mental disorder #liberal agenda #sjws ruin everything #government #democrats #klaus schwab #one world government #big brother #dutch farmers #world economy #world economic forum #world economic outlook #world economic crisis #world economic news #evil

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