#Oubliette

[oublieette]

I want to run into the woods and never return. To escape from the chains of my humanity and simply become one with nature.

#oubliette #female poets #writeblr #writers and poets #original poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #stay hydrated 🫶🏻 #on the spot #drunk thoughts

[bisexualfbiagents]

You of all people should realize that sometimes motivations for behavior can be more complex and mysterious than tracing them back to one single childhood experience.

THE X FILES GIF MEME [2/9] SCENES from Oubliette (3.08)

#the x files #txf #dailytxf #txfedit #xfilesnet #fox mulder #dana scully #3x08 #oubliette #txfmeme #memescenes #mine #yeah this is long and wordy but it's VERY important to me #i could be wrong but i think this is the first time we really see mulder push back on the notion that everything goes back to his sister #and he is so visibly hurt and angry that scully would even question him like this #but in a way she's right! #he was so profoundly shaped by losing his sister that of course that's the reason he fights so hard for women like lucy #but he's also right that his motivations are complex and go beyond his sister's abduction #unstoppable force meets immovable object or whatever #anyway am i making any sense? even if not i still love this scene and I LOVE this episode #there's so much to unpack here #i also love dd's delivery here #it's season 3 baby we are ACTING now

[al-911]

An oubliette (from French oublier meaning to forget) or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an angstloch) in a high ceiling.

That, I am afraid my dear, is what you find yourself in. Jump as you might, you simply are not reaching that hatch in the ceiling.

This oubliette is much nicer than the medieval kind with which it shares it's name. It is padded, and lit, has a bed and seating area, a fully fitted bathroom. Small, but cosy, you'll be comfortable here.

You just won't leave.

What kind of torturer simply leaves his captive to live in comfort, you ask? Oh, there is a twist, don't you worry.

This dungeon can be filled with two substances. From the ceiling hatch, a gas which will heighten your senses.

From hidden grills on the floor, a liquid with similar properties which when combined with the gas, will cause unbearable sensitivity.

Won't you drown? No, I don't want that. When the liquid begins to rise, a full fave scuba mask will drop from the ceiling hatch, providing air indefinitely. The way to escape the liquid will be to climb into the apparatus which slides from the wall when a depth of 6 inches is reached. About ankle depth...

This apparatus looks like a bed with a sleeping bag on it. You will climb in, and zip it up,.before moving your arms to your sides to press two buttons which tell the machine you are in position.

The bed will then be retracted into the circular hole in the wall, and the hatch will close behind you, protecting you from the liquid.

The sleeping bag will then inflate, pressing in from all sides, suspending and immobilising you in the centre of the tube you now reside in. Safe from the sensitivity, left to relax in the dark confines of the apparatus.

Of course, then you'll sense the hatch at the foot end of the tube opening. You will begin to squeal as your toes are restrained, and you will realise the cost of escaping full body immersion in the fluid is your soles having been immersed in it...

And then your real torture will begin.

Why are you here? Don't ask me, I just work here. Now, get comfortable. I've got some other guests to take care of while you take some nice deep breaths of the gas. Remember: climb into the device once it opens to you.

You don't want to know what happens if you wait until you're fully immersed in the serum.

#tickling #tickletorture #ticklish #tickles #tickle kink #tied up #soles #feet #tickle #mummified #oubliette #dungeon #depraved #evil

[whovianderson]

Why does Fox Mulder mean so much to me?

Trigger warnings: discussions of trauma, abuse, cancer, suicide, depression

Fox Mulder is so much more than a character to me. Never have I seen the inner workings of my mind represented in the way that I do in him. I feel like we understand each other, like we function the same way in this world.

Not to state the obvious, but Mulder is traumatised. Samantha’s disappearance changed his brain chemistry, and in turn, his life. As someone who has complex PTSD as a result of relationship abuse, I relate to this more than I can say. In ‘Oubliette’, Mulder’s desperation to change the course of events was out of fear of a repeat of what happened to Samantha. In this, I see myself trying to ensure that nothing like what I experienced happens again, both because of its effects on the other person, and on me. Of course, I've had to learn the hard way that I am ultimately powerless to control what happens to others. The difficulties I’ve had coming to terms with that are portrayed perfectly by Mulder's distress when he realised that Lucy had sacrificed herself for Amy, despite his best efforts. There's also a sense of inevitability and inescapability from the cycle of trauma when such things keep happening that is deeply harrowing.

In ‘Demons’, Mulder’s fear of not knowing something traumatic that happened reminded me of what I have been grappling with for years. As well as trauma from a past relationship, my sister has further traumatised me due to her severe mental health problems. It would trigger my own too much for me to know everything that is happening to her, but the unknown is worse for me, because I can't process it. My traumatised mind jumps to the worst case scenario. Thus, once again, Mulder’s reaction to being left in the dark felt like I was looking in a mirror. The sympathetic way in which his behaviour in this episode was written shows how no reaction can be considered disproportionate when it's because you're traumatised, and that is beyond validating for me. The depiction of flashbacks here also felt painfully accurate.

In ‘Memento Mori’, I recognised a lot of Mulder’s emotions due to my own experiences of life-threatening illness in people I love. Little did I know how much harder ‘Redux’ would hit! In ‘Redux’, Mulder believes he is responsible for Scully’s cancer and impending death. I know firsthand what it’s like to hold yourself responsible for someone else’s life, what it feels like to believe that you are killing somebody. I was continually shown that I couldn’t save the very person who told me I had to, because she kept getting sicker. As a result, other people’s suffering has become synonymous with my own personal failure and the consequent guilt in my mind. I would rather be failed by somebody else than have failed myself. This means that exactly like Mulder, on the verge of suicide in this episode, I would rather be the one who dies than feel so crushingly guilty. While horrible to witness, I have never seen the mental deterioration of a character who has assumed responsibility for another’s life so accurately portrayed, and that makes me feel more understood than ever before.

The entire premise of ‘The X-Files’ is that Mulder refuses to come to terms with his sister’s disappearance. His constant search for an alternative explanation, no matter how far-fetched, is what drives his character from the beginning. As an audience, we can see how that’s a form of denial, as can characters like Scully. Scully says “if it’s only by knowing where he’s been that he can hope to understand where he’s going, then I fear Agent Mulder may lose his course”. I haven’t finished the show yet, but having watched seven seasons, I am confident when I say that the crux of its development is that Mulder comes to understand “where he’s going”, without relying on “where he’s been”. As someone with a past that they quite frankly would rather die than relive, it brings me so much hope to think that I don’t have to dwell on it, that like Mulder learns to over the course of the show, I can live my life free of its shackles. That’s why ‘Closure’ is such a significant episode. However much one tries, it is impossible to explain away trauma - it happened, and one simply has to come to terms with its incomprehensible injustice. That is exactly what Mulder does here. It’s ironically titled, because there is no closure when it comes to the past, but he shows that personal growth isn’t dependent on getting that closure. Instead, he is of his own volition able to let go of the coping mechanism that has driven him up to this point: his belief that Samantha was abducted. Engaging in various types of therapy, including EMDR, to overcome my own coping mechanisms in response to my trauma is the scariest thing I have ever had to do (and that’s saying something). Seeing not only that journey represented onscreen, but shown coming to fruition, means everything.

Mulder’s trauma should incline him to be distrustful of everyone, as his ‘trust no one’ catchphrase would suggest. He evidently knows this, and yet he wants to believe in other people’s integrity so much so that it overrides the fear, and he trusts them anyway. He will take people at their word, whether that be about UFO sightings or something else. He chooses to see the good in everybody, despite having every reason not to, because, in his words, “if you don’t start trusting someone, you don’t stand a chance”. This attitude is possibly the aspect of my own personality about which I am most insecure. I used to hate myself so much for it that I wouldn’t open up to anyone at all in an effort to change who I was. I suppose I hated acting against what my experiences had shown to be true: that I could ‘trust no one’. Since meeting Mulder, though, I have thought of him every single time I begin to hate myself for being this way. This soothes me more than I can possibly describe. He makes me feel like it’s okay to be like me, or should I say, like us. Me wanting to believe in other people is not the detestable thing I had always viewed it as. I don’t think I would be able to carry on if it weren’t for his presence in this part my life. I cannot overstate his impact on me here.

Part of the reason for both me and Mulder being so trusting of others is because we do not trust ourselves. Deep down, he is insecure about whether his belief in Samantha’s abduction is credible, and so he relies on others to evidence it. For me, I do not treat my experiences as legitimate, and so I need other people’s responses to give me the validation that I cannot find within myself.

If it weren’t already obvious, I am autistic. My predisposition to trust, taking things at face value, is one manifestation of my autism. That’s not to say it’s the same for every autistic person, of course, but for me and for Mulder, I believe it is. In general, he is one of the most clearly autistic-coded characters I have ever encountered. He is ostracised by his peers and written off as ‘spooky’ for being different, something that many of us go through. Maybe, like it is for me, that’s part of the reason why he trusts people right off the bat: he wants to get the rejection that he’s used to facing out of the way before he puts in any effort. Or maybe he’s just a bad judge of what is and isn’t appropriate in a social context, again very much a trait of autism. And that’s not to mention his devotion to the X-Files and to Scully. Him surrendering every part of himself to them is exactly how I relate to the world, because all-or-nothing thinking is a huge way in which my autism functions. I was actually only diagnosed with autism two years ago, and having representation, implied or otherwise, in a character as alike to me as Mulder has helped me settle into my new identity.

It would be remiss not to further explore the fact that Mulder wouldn’t be Mulder without Scully. In the pilot, he tells Scully about his theory because he desperately wants someone on his side. She ends up not being the person he thinks he wants, but the person he actually needs. Without her, he wouldn’t have made it to the place he does in ‘Closure’; she challenges the beliefs he uses to cope, but most importantly, she loves him through it. Scully shows Mulder how genuine love can be when you’re not just being told what you want to hear, and as a result, she becomes the only person whom he can truly rely upon. The most important similarity between me and Mulder is of course that I too am in love with Scully! Scully is an incredible character who I would love to write more about in her own right, but I don’t feel as personally connected to her as I do to Mulder. I guess I’ll just say that I hope that I, and every other Mulder out there, find our Scully. People like us have so much love to give. We love so much and so deeply that people who return our love in full are almost impossible to find. One in five billion, you could say.

I cannot wait to get to know different facets of my all-time favourite character as I finish watching ‘The X-Files’. I know he will only become more important to me, especially since I know he ends up struggling with depression like I do. I hope I’ve demonstrated in writing this how beyond grateful I am to have been introduced to him, someone who is practically more me than I am! The fandom is a wonderful place to be, but in writing this, I also aim to remind myself how much the show and Mulder’s character mean to me personally.

Like Mulder, I am constantly moving, driven by the thought that “I wouldn’t know what I’d be missing”. But every once in a while, something comes along that makes me want to stay with it forever. And ‘The X-Files’, specifically the character of Fox Mulder, is one of them.

#the x files #the x-files #x files #txf #fox mulder #mulder #mulder and scully #mulder x scully #msr #oubliette #demons #memento mori #redux #closure #comfort character #favourite character #personal #trauma #autism #trust no one #i want to believe

[ragnarockz]

"I WANNA DO EVERYTHING TO HELP THAT LITTLE GIRL!"

He's not only talking about Emily.

He's talking about Samantha.

About Melissa.

About Scully.

Amy Jacobs and Lucy Householder.

All the little girls in Paper Hearts.

All these little girls that should have and did grow up only to be violated, harmed, and killed.

#X Files #The X Files #txf #Dana Scully #Scully #Fox Mulder #Mulder #Samantha Mulder #Melissa Scully #Emily Sim #Season 5 #Emily #Amy Jacobs #Lucy Householder #Oubliette #Paper Hearts #Season 3 #Season 4

[lafemani]

#tweeter #lol memes #funny #tumblr memes #dank memes #funny memes #funny tweets #humour #humor #lol #anxitey #anxiété #anxienty #oubliette #souvenir #dark memes #memes for days #memes #meme humour #meme humor #meme #memesdaily #depressiv #depressing shit #pleurer #poets on tumblr

[agent-troi]

thinking about when i realized that lucy householder was the exact same age samantha would’ve been if she lived and was the exact same age when she was taken as samantha was when she was abducted

#x files #txf s3 #oubliette #fox mulder #samantha mulder

[keiruhhhh]

Sarah in the Oubliette Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth, 1986

#labyrinth #labyrinth 1986 #jennifer connelly #oubliette

[grimvr]

stalactites to diffuse the darkness

oubliette

#oubliette #jewelry

[oublieette]

Soft kisses, longing looks, the gentle breeze thick with the smell of honey, oh how I long for you

#stay hydrated 🫶🏻 #stay kind #stay safe #oubliette #female poets #writeblr #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #dark academism #chaotic academia #classic academia #romantic academia

[bisexualfbiagents]

Whatever there was between them, you were part of that connection. Did you think about that? Lucy may have died for Amy, but without you, they never would have found her.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF THE X FILES Day 1: Favorite Episode ➤ Oubliette (3.08)

#the x files #txf #txfedit #xf30th #xfiles #xfilesnet #3x08 #oubliette #happy 30th txf!!!!!!! #i'm so excited to share these posts and to see what other people made :)))))) #these have all been so fun to work on!! #anyway fox mulder in this episode especially MY BELOVED #dailytxf #mine

[carefulfears]

just mulder telling abused women with criminal histories that he needs their help and they’re capable

#he’s so sweet to them #this isn’t even touching on the way he protects them from law enforcement #the way he tells them he admires them and that they’re strong #when they both give him nothing but trouble and pushback #but i think it’s so important that he tells them they matter in these situations #that they can END it #they can help #the way he tells the woman in schizogeny that she can stand up to her father #he believes in them all #mind’s eye #oubliette

[mimikimbach]

Put me in your heart when it’s all over

#my art #magical girl #oc #yumekawaii #yamikawaii #oubliette

[necronyancy]

anthro versions of my mlp ocs + their ogres and oubliettes characters

#mlp #mlp:fim #mlp oc #anthro ponies #pavo sierra #oubliette #casino #myart

[trulygreatfanfiction]

[HARRY POTTER]

Oubliette

'An oubliette, dark and deep, you tumble down and here you keep. Where things are put and are forgotten, where they molder and are rotten.

Less you wish to turn to bone, find the secret hidden in the stone. Escape is but a thought away, find the answer or here you will stay.'

Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy, 1996, 7 hours.

By Syn

Teen

Here

#syn #verucawerewolf #oubliette #ginny weasley #draco malfoy #drinny #draco/ginny #escape room

[agent-troi]

“not everything i say and do and think and feel goes back to my sister” except it kind of does a little bit

#x files #txf s3 #oubliette #fox mulder #samantha mulder