[Description: a cropped screenshot from the Sony movie "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs", with the characters of Sam Sparks and Flint Lockwood standing in the docks, looking in awe as burgers fall from the sky, flint looks like he's losing his shit with an "°0°" face, under them is written "Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic"]
just thought of something re:never again/leonard betts/memento mori that i failed to articulate.
the thing about never again coming right before memento mori without leonard betts as a cushion/linking episode — scully would go right from sitting in silence with mulder, to calling him first. which i do think is completely believable with these two. but she tried to talk to him (badly) about what was going on with her, and she didn't like his responses. they hurt her and made her feel devalued & incompetent.
at the end of never again, they sit in silence. mulder won't voice that scully's life has become his, like she said about him. they both chose silence. in leonard betts, there's a glimmer of hope in the way he tries to make her laugh and validates her work. the way he agrees to help her dig through body parts, because she asked, despite how disgusted he was. it's like he understood at least some of what was going on, that he tried to hear her through the silence.
that feels like a way better bridge into memento mori (to me). like there was a little healing that happened after their argument. they're still drowning in silence, but neither one of them denies what they have. they show each other so much compassion & tenderness & affection. a brand new level for them. hand holding, hugging, forehead kisses. another level of vulnerability as they both face the possibility of scully's death.
tagged by @inafieldofdaisies, @cassietrn, and @voidika to do one or more of these picrews
Picrew 1 // Picrew 2
and/or to do this uquiz! which hozier song is your oc?
took this one twice because there were a few qs where syb could go either way on
TAKE ME TO CHURCH. ah, religious trauma. i feel you. but i think you're really brave to try to find something real, even if it doesn't look like what your family thinks it should. also, you have the sexiest song of them all, so uh. good for you ;)
IT WILL COME BACK. why is it so hard to stay away? you might have a tendency to get addicted. and it makes sense. if you've always been starving, then any scraps look like a feast. but you really do deserve better than this. i hope you treat yourself with kindness.
tagging: @jillvalentinesday, @purplehairsecretlair, @aceghosts, @adelaidedrubman, @madparadoxum, @socially-awkward-skeleton, @locustandwildhoney, @testyfestyenthusiast, @strangefable, @alexxmason, @deputyash, @josephslittledeputy, and anyone else wanting to do one or more of these! (to be added/removed from the list for tag games, like/reply to this post!)