#oh mulder must be a fan of the x files

[zeitschluessel]

i watched the x-files for the first time today and the "i want to believe" poster is actually a part of the show?

like, i thought that was just a fandom thing. but it's actually there. in the first episode. hanging on a wall.

#the x files #i want to believe #my first thought was #oh mulder must be a fan of the x files #and then i remembered #no wait this IS the x files

[deathsbestgirl]

wanna hear all you have to say about fire / phoebe <3

oh mikaela, i hope you're prepared <3 (some of this is more well thought out than other parts, tbh the longer i watched the harder it got to put my thoughts into words because phoebe is truly maddening — like you said about scully, phoebe is bad enough for me. i didn't need them to go as far as they did with diana. i get it !!!)

phoebe’s first scene hits pretty hard. because just before she enters, mulder & scully were talking about court, scully was teasing him “must be an x file” and his face is just SO CUTE because as much as they tease each other, i just don't think he's used to it yet. and scully always does it so affectionately (no other motive than she likes him & teasing him is fun)

and it's just. he's so sure he locked the car. he doesn't understand how scully was able to open it and then scully sees the tape. before we even meet her, we see how she invaded his space. breaking into his car to play a cruel “joke” to ask for his help (that's just not how you ask for help, these are adults, they're professionals — i'm so mad about it). phoebe opens the door right on time, so she's also nearby watching so she can get the timing right. it's creepy & calculated. like scully was scared, the way she gasps & jumps. cruel.

i really don't know how to put this into words but “aren’t you going to thank me? …[for] saving your life” haunts me. she does this terrible thing she knows would frighten him (and anyone else he's with...) and then tries to make it look like a favor to him. like he's lucky to have learned this lesson, that she's waltzing back into his life — with a puzzle, people for him to help, a case that we’ll learn soon is all about one of his biggest fears.

and then he talks about her driving a stake through him and she sees that as the perfect opportunity to kiss him (i am not a fan of kissing someone to shut them up, no matter the context. let them speak bitch). waits for scully to exit the car, so she can witness phoebe stake her claim on him. a kiss he doesn't return, but doesn't exactly reject either. after, he tries to move forward, introducing the two women. phoebe immediately tries to set scully against them, against her. “she hates me.” it's an attempt to isolate him and make him more vulnerable to her tactics.

what really hurts is the way it kind of works. he lets scully stick around for learning all about the case, talks to her about phoebe a little, and then tries to protect her — when she isn't the one who needs protecting. but he knows phoebe's games. she will try to drive a wedge between them. she's already started with “she hates me” — it's belittling scully. creating a fake scenario of scully vs her. she's dismissive, acts like she forgets scully is there listening to everything she says. (the way scully always observes him, follows his lead — it's special, and it helps her figure out how to navigate the situations they find themselves in. this is no exception.) phoebe tries so hard to make it just her & mulder, and he falls right into that trap.

there's just something so distasteful about bringing up a private joke in the company of others who aren't in on it. again, staking her claim and another way to push mulder & scully apart, to isolate mulder, cut off his relationships & resources so they can go back to where they left off.

scully sees so much. she was obviously put off by their introduction, but had mulder’s response to phoebe been different, more receptive, happy, excited… she may have been able to look past her distaste. the way he becomes practically docile, which is very unlike mulder except in situations with people who have hurt him, taken advantage of him, neglected or abused him… scully understands exactly what's happening. here, she doesn't even say anything yet. she comments on his behavior, but the only thing she actually says about phoebe is he won't be able to get rid of her just by taking the case to their arson guys. they both know he isn't walking away having done nothing for the case, for phoebe. they both know her motives aren't simply the case. (and god, it could have been so easy for phoebe to be genuine. asking mulder for help because she know he can solve the case. respectfully, professionally. it could have been easy enough to swallow that she's a woman in a male dominated field and uses her ‘feminine wiles’ to get what she needs. but it isn't just that at all. phoebe knows the effect she has on mulder and uses it. it's twisted. someone who has grown would not continue to act this way.)

[i talked about “mulder, you just keep unfolding like a flower” (with welsharcher’s tags) here]

the comparison beatty makes of the case & phoebe:

this is so sick actually. and scully is observing all of it, keeping herself on the outside.

something here about scully making sherlock & watson theirs <3

and oh god the rest of this scene!! this is what i mean about mulder “protecting” scully. the way he shares this … is a lot.

scully asks and mulder answers. one of my favorite things about them. they don't tend to just volunteer information, even to each other, without some kind of prompt. scully gives him the space to talk about it, never says too much but she says enough. her phrasing is SO important. she repeats what he just told her in a way that frames it as wrong and then mulder makes the same comparison beatty did, of phoebe to fire. but in the negative way we're meant to understand.

it's a little maddening that he's so aware. she was brilliant, he got in over his head, her mind games (manipulation, cruelty, forcing him to face things instead of letting him do it in his own time) and it’s a perfect contrast to scully. she’s the opposite of scully in every way. where phoebe is fire, scully is ice. where phoebe is cruel, she's so kind & gentle & supportive. where phoebe is manipulative, scully is supportive — literally so supportive, constantly throwing him a lifeline, making sure he knows he doesn't have to do it alone but (mostly) respecting his choice.

she lets him face is demons, but she’s going to continue working the case. because they're partners, and she can tell they're not going to get very far.

also. everyone should read kae's posts about fire/phoebe. they are the best ones:

fire script

scully is not jealous with kae's tags

scully knows phoebe is Awful

and bonus: i did one of my episode posts lol (genuinely don't remember it oops)

#fire #phoebe greene #mulder and scully #the x files

[mulderwearingglasses]

In 2020, I lost my grandma to COVID-19.

I had already lost the parts of her who knew me to Alzheimer’s.

But many years before, she was my summer salvation. My mom was a working single mom so that meant summers were spent nestled in my grandma’s little house. She’d cut me up apple slices and pass them to me on tiny plates to eat inside blanket forts and take me to the library and the ice cream shop and buy ladybugs at the garden store so I could watch them fly in the backyard. We watched cartoons and cooked messes together. By this point, her husband was long gone so I like to think that we both gave each other something those summers. Companionship and simple joys to pass our hot, lazy days.

To me, she was a quintessential grandmotherly figure: she had perfect wrinkles, a soft and warm body, sweet temperament. I can’t remember her raising her voice. Only soft-spoken, simple smiles.

As an adult now, I recognize I didn’t know much about her. I knew what she ordered at the ice cream shop and what her soft snores sounded like when she fell asleep on the couch next to me, but I didn’t know what she was afraid of or what her proudest moment was or what the last thing that made her cry was.

I did know the X-Files was her favorite show. Not because we watched it together - she’d turn the channel back to cartoons whenever I came into the room and say it was too scary for me.

I didn’t really know what the X-Files were growing up other than it was a show about aliens. I assumed because my sweet, mild-mannered grandma liked it, it wasn’t something of interest to me.

I didn’t give the show much thought until my grandma died. I was talking about her with my mom and remembering all the little things I could, recounting my favorite times with her. How she worked at a chocolate shop and we’d visit her and she’d sneak me pieces of candy. Her shuffling gait, the way her shoes barely left the ground and she’d marched forward in tiny, deliberate steps.

“And she loved The X-Files” my mom had said.

Oh yeah, I remembered.

By this time, I was in my mid-20s and had grown into exactly who I wanted to: a macabre, little writer who loved Halloween, the paranormal and all things spooky.

“Isn’t the X-Files about aliens? It just seems like a show grandma wouldn’t have liked,” I’d said. “She was so sweet and, I don’t know, I never heard her talk about aliens and she didn’t like scary things and I can’t remember her talking about the fantastical or anything.”

“Yeah, I never watched it either,” my mom said “But your grandma loved that show. I guess it’s hard to fully know someone. But you know what she always said. ‘There’s so much we don’t know.’”

And I laughed remembering the phrase my grandma frequently uttered after a lull in conversation, when she’d stare off into space.

One night shortly after my grandma died, I was stuck inside during the pandemic and missing my family. I had moved away years before and felt disconnected from mourning our matriarch. I couldn’t even fly home to see her because of the virus.

So I started watching The X-Files. And, oh my god, it was just the kind of show I would lose my mind over. Government conspiracies and supernatural spooks and an emphasis on belief and trust and vulnerability and, not to mention, two hot idiots in love?? I was hooked. I became obsessed with this show during a very weird time in my life, and the more I watched, the more I imagined my grandma feeling the same. We must have been so much more alike than I knew. I wished I could ask her what she thought about UFOs and what her favorite episode was and what episode freaked her out the most and what season of Mulder she thought was the hottest (season 1, Duh)

I found the X-Files fan fic community and now look for X-Files treasures every time I step into a thrift store (some great finds!!) and play my favorite episodes almost every night. I feel the soft warmth of my grandma with me when I do.

And whenever I watch a scene or episode where I’m like “man, I can’t believe my unassuming little grandma loved this show” I always smile to myself and think “there’s so much we don’t know”

#just was thinking about my grandma today and wanted to thank you all for making this space where I could find her again #and find a show that could become a personality trait of course #txf #the xfiles #xfiles #x files

[darkccfinds]

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[aion-rsa]

Best Horror TV Shows on Hulu

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You thought movies were the only place to get your daily dose of horror? Oh you fool! You absolute FOOL! There are plenty of bingeworthy and scary horror TV shows out there and Hulu just happens to be a great place to find them. 

Hulu is home to recent hits like The Terror and Castle Rock but there are still more scares to be found for the horror enthusiast willing to dig deep. Gathered here are some of the best and scariest horror TV shows that Hulu has to offer.

Editor’s Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back every month to see the additions to the best horror TV shows on Hulu.

Updated for October 2020

The Terror

Based on a 2007 book of the same name by Dan Simmons, The Terror season 1 tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s expedition to the arctic in 1845. In real life, the doomed men likely got lost and succumbed to the cold but the show asks “what if there was something more sinister than low temperatures lurking about?”

The Terror features a cast impressively full of “hey it’s that guy” guys like Jared Harris, Ciarán Hindis, and Tobias Menzes. It deftly turned itself into an anthology with the second season The Terror: Infamy that tells a ghost story within the setting of a Japanese interment camp in World War II.

American Horror Story

Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story is revolutionary in quite a few ways. Not only did it help usher in a renewed era of anthology storytelling on television, it also was arguably the first successful network television horror show since The X-Files.

Like all anthologies, American Horror Story has its better seasons (season 1 a.k.a. Murder House, season 2 a.k.a. Asylum, season 6 a.k.a. Roanoke) and its worse (season 3 a.k.a. Coven and season 8 a.k.a. Apocalypse). Still, for nine years and counting, American Horror Story has been one of the go-to options for TV horror fans.

Castle Rock

Stephen King properties have made their way to television before. There have been miniseries for classic King texts like The Stand and ‘Salem’s Lot and even full series for works like Rose Red and Under the Dome. Still, none of those series has had the audacity to adapt multiple aspects of the Stephen King universe itself…until Castle Rock.

Castle Rock takes multiple characters, storylines, and concepts from the vast works of Stephen King and puts them all in King’s own Castle Rock, Maine. The first season featured inmates from Shawshank prison, extended family of Jack Torrance, and maybe even a touch of the shine. The show opened itself up for more storytelling possibilities in season 2, adopting an anthology format and bringing Annie Wilkes into the fold.

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The Strain

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Stan Against Evil

To parody horror, one needs to love horror. And Stan Against Evil creator Dana Gould really, really, really loves horror. The longtime standup comedian and comedy writer brings his unique humor sensibilities and lifelong appreciation of horror to tell the story of a quaint New Hampshire town that just happens to be built on the cursed site of a massive witch burning.

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John C. McGinley stars as the titular Stan, a disgraced former sheriff who opts to pick up the battle against evil after a close call. He teams up with new sheriff Evie Barret (Janet Varney) to defend the town (and sometimes world) from supernatural threats.

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The X-Files is quite simply the gold standard for horror on television. Chris Carter’s conspiracy-tinged supernatural masterpiece not only inspired every horror TV show that came after it, but just about every other TV show in general.

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Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural

When it first premiered on YouTube back in 2016, Buzzfeed Unsolved became a huge hit by appealing to one of the Internet’s favorite subjects: true crime. Still Buzzfeed saw all of that success and realzied there was still another audience to serve. Thus Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural was born.

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The Outer Limits

When The Twilight Zone premiered in 1959, it set off a brief little renaissance of anthology horror storytelling on television. The best of these contenders to the Zone‘s throne was probably the sci-fi centric The Outer Limits.

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Freakish

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Debuting in 2016, Freakish ran for two seasons on Hulu. The show embraces its teenage soapiness and isn’t necessarily the most heavyweight horror option. But it’s a quick, fun watch for any zombie horror fan nonetheless.

The Exorcist

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The Exorcist is a two-season long anthology series that follows two different cases of demonic possession. In the first installment, two Catholic priests assist a woman with a possession in her home. In the second, two new priests help a young girl battle evil.

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Monsterland

Since Netflix acquired the rights to Black Mirror back in 2015, the streaming world has been a veritable arms race of sci-fi and horror anthology series. Hulu has already tried its hand at horror anthology with the Blumhouse-produced Into the Dark, and Monsterland represents the latest effort.

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Monsterland is based on the short story collection North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud. It consists of eight spooky, unconnected tales and features the acting talents of Kaitlyn Dever, Bill Camp, Kelly Marie Tran, and more. The twist here is that each episode focuses on an urban legend from a different city within the United States. And given how weird this country is, the series won’t be running out of of stories anytime soon.

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[duhragonball]

Oh, Shit,I Just Remembered Pete Wisdom.

I started looking into Warren Ellis a little more, to see what he accusations against him were, exactly.   So much has come out about so many people that it’s hard to keep it all straight, but I’ve been a comics fan since 1993, and Ellis has been in the industry for about as long, I think, so I wanted to know more.  

The quick version, from what I can tell, is that Ellis would offer to mentor fans who wanted to break into the comics industry, and with the women, he would start to segue that relationship into something more physical.   It would get to the point where he’d want to have sex with them, and they felt like they couldn’t refuse him, since he could torpedo their careers before they could get off the ground.   A few women must have spoken out about it, leading others to do the same, and eventually it started to become clear that there was a lot of similarities in their stories.   

As I was thinking about this, it suddenly dawned on me that I first heard of Ellis from his work on Marvel Comics’ Excalibur, where he introduced Kitty Pryde’s love interest, Pete Wisdom.    And then a bunch of stuff started to make a lot more sense in hindsight.  

The X-Men franchise is overrated trash, but probably the wankiest, most usless, most overrated part of the X-Men mythos is the spin-off series Excalibur, which was basically a splinter group of X-Men operating in Great Britain.   Fans loved this book, I think because it featured popular characters like Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler, and the book (mostly) managed to steer clear of the mega-crossovers that dominated the rest of the franchise in the 80′s and 90′s.  When I finally sat down to read my X-Men collection in 2015 and 2018, I did so confident that I wouldn’t need to bother with Excalibur, because it rarely had anything to do with the main books.   The message Marvel sent me with this book was that it doesn’t matter and it never did.

Anyway, around 1995 or so, Warren Ellis took over as the writer, and he introduced a new character named Pete Wisdom, who quickly became romantically involved with Kitty Pryde.   This was somewhat controversial for a few reasons:

1) When Kitty was introduced in 1980, she was stated to be only 13 years old.    “Thirteen-and-a-half”, to be precise.    They actually threw in the fraction, just to make her seem even more like a little kid, if that was possible.    Comic book time moves slower than real time, but it wasn’t entirely clear to anyone how old Kitty was by the time she relocated to England and met Pete.   Later stories by other writers would attempt to set Kitty’s age as being 16 or 18, which makes Kitty’s relationship with Pete a continuity error at best. 

2) In spite of Kitty being very young, people had been shipping her with Colossus for years, and it annoyed them that there was yet another obstacle for their extremely problematic-but-much-desired relationship.   

3) People accused Pete Wisdom of being a Mary Sue, since he seemed to just pop in out of nowhere and work himself into the team, win the heart of the most popular female character, and he’s supposed to be this super cool secret agent type.  The implication here was that Ellis only invented Pete as a self-insert OC for the purpose of getting it on with Kitty Pryde.  

I think there were two schools of thought on how Kitty was supposed to be portrayed in comics.   The first was that Chris Claremont had insisted on keeping her eternally 16 or whatever, this plucky kid prodigy who was always too young to get into these kinds of relationships.    Ellis’s supporters felt that this was too restrictive, and it was foolish of Claremont to think that other writers would be beholden to his wishes, especially after he left Marvel Comics in 1991.  Ellis seemed to be allowing Kitty to grow and mature as a character, and it didn’t matter if it messed around with “comic book time”, since no one knows how that works exactly anyway. 

For my part, I always thought Pete Wisdom was a fucking tool of a character.    He was yet another government spook riding on the popularity of “The X-Files”.    Plus, the conventional wisdom among comics nerds in the 90′s was that U.K. writers were better somehow, just because they liked to write snarky dialogue and deconstruct the superhero genre.   Pete Wisdom was a mutant, and he joined the Excalibur team, but he wasn’t gonna wear any poncy tights, innit?   No, he went into action with a suit and tie, smoking cigarettes and constantly drinking shots, because that’s more bloody realistic, mate.   Ellis gave him an eyepatch in 2001, because of course he did.

The point I want to make here is that Ellis came up with this big idea in the 90′s, and fans ate it up because they were X-Men fans and had no taste.   You have to understand that in the 90′s, the big overused cliche was giant guns.   The second biggest cliche was nostalgia references to the 1960′s.   So when someone trotted out “Fox Mulder, but he’s sarcastic and British”, people actually thought it was kind of fresh by comparison.  Surely this bold new concept could only take Kitty Pryde into amazing new directions...

But no, Excalibur got cancelled in 1998, and they moved Kitty back to the X-Men.  Did they even break up Pryde and Wisdom on panel?  I have no idea.   All I know is I read a bunch of her post-Excalibur appearances and she barely mentions the guy, probably because a lot of people in Marvel probably wanted to forget the time she got aged up just enough to sleep with a skeevy-looking older man.  

Looking back on it, I always sort of assumed that Ellis only did the Pete/Kitty thing because he was just looking for something interesting to do with the characters, and he wasn’t going to let tradition or continuity stand in the way.   But in 2020, the whole thing starts to feel more autobiographical, since this resembles the sort of thing he was doing with young women through his online community.   Ellis’ “apology” states that he didn’t notice the power imbalance when he was involved with these women.   “I have never considered myself famous or powerful.”   I find this insulting to my intelligence, since I used to see fans worship every stroke of his pen like he was some kind of genius.   News would come out that Warren Ellis would be taking over the writing duties of a book, and fans would say “Good, they finally fixed it.” They just trusted him to do right by whatever project he was given.    So I can only imagine how overwhelmed they might have felt when they signed up for his mailing list fan club thing and he would offer to help some of them become professional writers.  

So maybe the critics had Pete Wisdom figured out from the beginning.   Whether Ellis realized it or not, Pete was his power fantasy, an older guy just impressive enough to get the attention of a (very) young woman and take her under his wing.   And he teaches her how to drink whiskey and smoke and how to know all this black ops horseshit, and-- well whaddya know?-- they’re having the sex.   

And to a point, maybe that’s human nature.   I always wanted to be a writer because I liked the feeling of power it offered.   Imagine being the guy who could put words in Captain Picard’s mouth, or decide exactly what kind of music Superman likes.  And yeah, if I could make a name for myself in that kind of field, maybe the ladies would start to notice me, and then I’d be doing pretty well for myself.  

The thing is, I eventually learned that writing for comics is a real bullshit thing to get into.   You can’t just submit scripts, and there’s no set of steps to follow.   I remember reading stories of writers breaking into the comics industry, and they were all different, usually involving some improbable meeting with someone who was already there.  A comics writer I respect once wrote that it takes some creativity to figure out how to break in, and if you can’t find your own way, then maybe you’re not creative enough to be in the business in the first place.  

And that’s how these women got pulled into Ellis’s nonsense, I assume.    They had similar aspirations to my own, and at first he seemed to be offering them a lifeline, but then it led to something they hadn’t bargained for, and what could they do?   If they refused to have sex with him, they might have to start from scratch.   

Which sort of confirms my suspicions that writing for comics is just a bullshit job, because maybe it’s only hard to get into because of all the gatekeeping that goes on.    Why bother accepting submissions and hiring based on merit, when a handful of writers can just vouch for friends or fans willing to do anything they ask?   All I know is it’s relatively straightforward to get a job in chemistry.   I got a degree in chemistry, and then I sent out some applications, went to some interviews and they offered me a job.    Maybe if Marvel worked the same way, guys like Warren Ellis wouldn’t have the sort of unfair influence they have over their fans. 

[lokisgame]

Some Things Never Change

A/N for @kiwiphroot who suggested a Matrix/X-Files crossover 

It was his first time in Zion, and the first thing that struck him, were the people, there were so many of them. All races, all ages, some with sockets in their heads and arms, some without. He followed Trinity through levels filled with life, with all its' scents and debris and usual everyday stuff. They went through living quarters, with lines of laundry hanging everywhere. They passed something like a market, where street vendors, for lack of a better word, sold food and hand made goods. Countless units were turned into workshops, manufacturing everything, from crafted spoons and pots to shoemakers and tailors, making and mending shoes and clothes. Everywhere, clients haggled for better deals, exchanging whatever they had for whatever they needed. "Man, some things never change." He murmured to himself, but she caught it. "Keep up." Trinity smiled and took his hand, pulling him through the crowd.

Three levels up, the elevator doors opened to a wide walkway, and he followed Trinity dutifully, though looking around curiously. He noticed mothers with kids waiting in chairs along the wall, the elderly and the injured, while men and women in almost white robes, walked among them, sorting them depending on the urgency and severity of their illnesses. It looked just like an emergency room, only more ragged. "We fixed you as well as we could when we found you, but every new freed citizen, must undergo full physical and psychological checkup." She looked over her shoulder and gave him a smile, or rather the corners of her eyes crinkled lightly, which for Trinity, amounted to the same thing. "Don't worry, it won't take long." "You have a med school down here too?" Trinity huffed out a small laugh and paused in front of unremarkable doors, knocking lightly. A female voice called for them to come in. "I'm telling you, Scully, it was real!" "Mulder, internet isn't good for you."

"Doctor?" "Hello Trinity." A small, red-haired woman got up from behind a desk, and the man she was talking to turned around, swivelling in his chair. "Zion's finest! Have't seen you around here in ages!" He cheered. "Which is a good thing." The woman finished for him. Neo looked at the bantering couple, trying to get his jaw off the floor. "We have a new crew member." Trinity said then turned to him, "Neo, this is Doctor Scully and Doctor Mulder." "I," he began, trying not to stare at the faces he watched on tv for what felt like forever. "Here it comes," the man, who looked like Mulder said, folding his arms over his chest, "c'mon, say it." "You were characters! On tv!" "We have a fan." Mulder chuckled. "We get that a lot." The one who looked just like Scully, if her hair was allowed to grow and her freckles to show, took Neo by the elbow, leading him to a nearby cot. "Sit down, let me look at you." "And breath, you're not crazy." Mulder said, turning a monitor to himself and began typing. It seemed to be wirelessly connected to a scanner that Scully ran over Neo's arms. Tip of the device touched each socket, and a new readout popped up on the screen. "Connections look okay." He said and Scully nodded. "Turn around and take off your shirt." Scully said, picking up a different instrument, one that looked more like a soldering iron. "This will feel a little tingly." "How does that work?" Neo asked, feeling a tickle skipping up his spine. "You guys were inside, weren't you?" "We were. Mainline?" Scully asked and Mulder whistled. "Wow, 99.9%." "Check again." "I did." Scully glanced over her shoulder to the screen, which Mulder turned for her to see, then they both looked at Trinity. She gave them a little nod. "What?" Neo asked. "Neuron network responsible for the input-output loop is very dense." "Think of it as having more bandwidth than anyone else." "What does that mean in here?" "It means, theoretically," Scully explained, "when logged in, you can process more data and do it faster, than others, giving you quicker reflexes and making your perception sharper. Possibly, even let you reprogram the matrix in close enough range." "It's a little fuzzy, how it happens, but it seems the machines wrote the code so that we can interact with it on a subconscious, instinctive level." Mulder said, typing, "You take a mug in your hand, start a subroutine with a list of actions, reach out, hand doesn't go through the mug, close hand, it's hot, it burns you, you drop the mug, it falls, run coin toss, it brakes or not." As Mulder spoke, Scully kept prodding at his back, lifting his arms, checking reach and movability of joints. Her hands were steady and warm, and soon she was done. "You can get dressed now." She patted Neo's shoulder and turned to her partner. "Look out, Mulder, someone might think you love the machines." "I'd call it knowing your enemy." Mulder chuckled and rolled his chair closer, taking her place. "So what are you saying, my brain is some kind of a super computer?" Neo asked, pulling the sweater over his head. "In sheep's clothing." Mulder replied, gently taking his face in his hands, tiling it back. "Open up." Neo opened his mouth, closed, followed the finger, squinted at the light, and listened. "With your potential capabilities, and awareness of the program, you could try and shape it, in real time, disrupting the pre-programmed cause-effect loops. Slow down or dodge bullets, walk through walls, even fly." "You're shitting me." "Why would I." "If I can do it, why no one else has tried it." "Oh, they tried it." Scully said, a little sad. "And failed, squeeze my fingers," Mulder said, holding his hands out, Neo squeezed. "Responses normal. She's the medical examiner too." Neo noticed the sockets, just like his own, on both of them. "So you guys were inside too." "Yeah." Mulder bumped the side of his hand just below his knee and Neo's leg kicked, "reflexes normal." "And you were actors? It was all just a tv show." "I wish," Mulder chuckled without humour, "I'd give myself a happy ending." "We were working for the FBI." Scully said. "Doctor and a psychologist, turned feds, investing the paranormal," Mulder recited in a tone of a b-movie trailer voice-over, "I'd show you my badge, but I left it in the pod." Neo laughed. "One day we found an artefact, and it had to be a virus of some kind, because it started to mess with the code around me, making me hear peoples' thoughts, that kind of thing. It put me in a hospital, almost catatonic from sensory overload. Then Trin found Scully." "And we pulled each other out." Scully finished for him, leaning against the desk. On a wall behind her, Neo noticed a drawing, just as the one he remembered, a UFO hovering above the tree line, bold letters at the bottom declaring 'I want to believe' Old habits die hard, he thought. "And you guys never knew it was a TV show." "It was to you, for us it was life." Scully said, as Mulder pushed away, back at her side. "Maybe the machines lacked the imagination to create something as abstract as entertainment, to fill humans' need for escape, and took our story to fed it to the masses. One thing they couldn't fake though." "They could never tear us apart." He said, kissing her knuckles. There was a small knock on the door, Mulder asked who was it and a small head peeked inside. "Daddy?" "C'mere Will, we're done." A little boy came in and quickly scrambled into his lap. No sockets, a real child, born outside. "Can we go play now?" The boy asked. "In a second, honey." Scully said, fondly ruffling his light brown mane. "So, everything looks okay, though your muscle mass could use some work. If you find time, I'd recommend physical training, a real one." "It'll keep you sane, and in touch with your physical body." Mulder added. "We lost quite a few, who couldn't handle the transition, so take this one seriously." "Thanks." Neo chuckled, looking from Mulder to Scully. "What?" "I find it hard not to call you guys Agents." "I don't think anyone in here would appreciate that title, and it's not like we were really a part of the system, since we broke free." Scully petted Mulder's head as well, and her smile was an order of magnitude warmer than he remembered. Trinity nodded in thanks and reached for the door, Neo got up to follow. Mulder got up with him, keeping his son in his arms. "Remember Neo," he said softly, "in there, you're as strong as your beliefs. We believe in you." They left the little family behind, and headed back to their living quarters. In the elevator, Neo took Trinity's hand, fingers twining with hers, her words echoing in his head. "The Matrix can not tell you who you are."

#some things never change #I had so much fun writing this #x files fanfic #msr fanfic #sweet nothings #crossover #the marix

[tessatechaitea]

Teen Titans Spotlight #8: Hawk

Whenever I wield a flamethrower, I like to do a bit of grappling with my enemy first.

And right out of the gate! First fucking panel! Christ, Hank Hall!

This comic book is from 1987 so even though I had a gut feeling that "zipperheads" was super racist, I still had to look it up to make sure. So now my Google search history contains a search for "zipperhead"! Man, I hope I don't get gunned down in a mass shooting over the next few days! Not like anybody will be able to log onto my laptop by guessing my new super racist password!

Visually, I don't like what this panel is implying!

How long did Hank Hall carry that stupid hang glider kit around with him before some editor huffed, "Just give him fucking flight powers already!"? I love when a comic book introduces a sexy woman and then has the main character instantly refer to her as a "kid." Way to make me feel like a pedo, comic books! I mean, I expect to feel like a pedo when reading Deathstork. But not Teen Titans Spotlight On Colon! Two soldiers begin following Hank and the Sexy Kid but Hank knows how to deal with them! First he calls them dinks which is weird because how does he know they're a committed couple with no children? And you'll never guess what he does second! Oh, you guessed. Yeah, he punches them in the face.

Ha! I bet Hank is feeling pretty dumb about his dink comment now!

The sexy kid's name is Lupe. She works for the Queen of the Hive whom Hank has traveled to South America to see. She was a huge fan of Hawk's sneaking panel last issue so she wanted a memorable walking away panel of her own.

You would think she's running away because of the violent man comment but really she's just headed to the Jeep. I have no idea why a couple Slendermen make an appearance.

I only included the second panel in the above image to show I wasn't lying like I totally hardly ever do. She really was just heading back to the car. Hank and Lupe drive into the jungle to meet with Arachnid, the creature composed of billions of other insects. He's waiting to give them a ride on a gigantic tick that's also probably composed of other insects. If these insects have such great powers of transformation, why can't they take the form of a limousine or a helicopter or Heidi Klum? I'm not too impressed. Arachnid and the giant tick take Hawk and Lupe deep into some jungle ruins to relax before meeting the Queen of the Hive. Relaxing means eating dinner topless and now I regret never having relaxed with anybody in high school. Although after eating, Hank is swarmed with bugs so thankfully that regret only lasted a few seconds. I knew it was a trap, Gabrielle Ruggero! Although now that I'm remembering Gabrielle, how likely would it have been to die from bug bites?! The regret is back! Lupe drugs Hank so that when she reveals the big surprise (that she's the queen! Surprise!), he'll be too fucked up to remember that she's a kid when he puts his face in her pleasure region. Hank's main concern isn't that Lupe might be a little young but that he might be sticking his dick in a vagina made from cockroaches. "No homo, dude!" is probably what Hank would say when he learned his cock touched a cockroach.

"She told me she was as ancient as the first life that crawled on Earth" is no excuse for statutory rape. Better play it safe and go jerk off in a bush, Hank!

Queen Lupe tells Hank her life's story which doesn't include any proof that she's older than sixteen. I thought she would be all, "I was born within the buzzing chaos of a hornet's nest!" But instead, she's all, "My whole village was slaughtered and I followed a butterfly to safety where it taught me how to spell and rub my genitals on the soft moss of the river rocks while thinking of someone like you."

Don't worry. She's probably nine hundred and sixty-two here.

The Queen of the Hive didn't just bring Hank Hall all this way to fuck him. She also needs his help defeating a white colonialist named Toxicator. I'm not sure what his power or his plans are but who cares? You don't call yourself Toxicator because you're looking to make the world a better place. Hank asks Lupe her age one more time and she's all, "Older than you!" So that cinches it and they fuck all night. In the morning, Lupe is all, "Um, I don't mean to be rude but could you get the fuck out of my bed and go defeat the Toxicator already?!" I bet while she was fucking Hank, she was dreaming of a mossy rock by a waterfall. Seriously, Hank doesn't seem the type of guy to care about a woman's needs. Hank wastes valuable time putting his PVC hang glider together before finally heading off to stop the men ruining the environment. It's not the kind of thing he usually cares about but he got some action out of it and now feels slightly obligated to give a shit. What a hero. On his way to talk to the lead man behind the deforestation, the rest of the man's crew begins shooting at him. It's a good thing because now he knows he can be as rough as he wants! It would have looked bad if Hank just showed up and started punching a guy in the face without getting his side of things. Maybe the Queen of the Hive just doesn't want the white man discovering her nuclear testing facility!

Apparently nobody on the board of the Comics Code Authority could speak Mexican Spanish.

Just like any good Californian, I've always known the phrase "Chinga tu madre" to mean fuck your mother. I've also never put any thought to the phrase than that. Apparently, it's got a lot more subtlety and nuance that I've been ignorant about. And used in this context, where a guy just yells "Chinga!", I can see why maybe it wouldn't offend (especially to some East Coast editor who didn't grow up with the phrase "chinga tu madre" and was just working from an English-to-Spanish dictionary). Or maybe they just didn't care? I certainly don't! Or maybe the person who reviewed this issue let it go because they were working on The Flash and the memo in the background reads, "Buy The Flash by us guys!" The Toxicator interrupts Hawk's interrogation of this guy who is probably just a secretary. He looks exactly like the rejected G.I. Joe action figure you'd expect him to look like. He and Hawk talk mercenary trade secrets for a bit until The Toxicator is reminded that he's getting paid a lot of money to protect this deforestation company. At that moment, he shoots Hank in the face with his super-soaker full of what I'm assuming are toxic chemicals. One of the guard's speeches is translated with a note that it's translated from the Portuguese which is when I realize this is taking place in Brazil. Whoops! That also explains the "chinga" thing although in Portuguese, "chingar" means "to scold." So I don't know if it totally explains it! Sometimes when a guy crashes through my front window causing me to shit my pants, I yell, "Scold!" I should have know they were in Brazil since the first panel says Hank is landing at an airfield in "Matto Grosso." But since it's spelled incorrectly, I can pretend that I thought it was just a made up place! Hank's lungs are now full of something called u-cyclotron so he has to escape on the giant tick. To revive, he has to suckle at Lupe's breast. Man, I really wasn't paying enough attention to this comic book in 1987! I could have told Gabrielle that my lungs were full of u-cyclotron and there was only one remedy!

"So, uh ... cough cough ... Gabrielle. Um, I've got a weird ... cough cough ... request?" "Who the fuck are you, nerd?"

Oh yeah. That's totally how that would have went down. My regrets are many but not hitting on Gabrielle Ruggero definitely isn't one of them. You gotta remember your limits! Hank comes up with a new plan after tripping balls off of Lupe's breast milk. He tells her to gather all the bees together and make sure they drink deeply of her titty juice. Then he has them sting all of the invaders so that they're out of their minds from the hallucinations. At that point, it's just a simple matter of telling them he's God and that they really need to change their ways. Being backwards Brazilian Catholics full of Portuguese and Native superstitions as opposed to logical white oppressors, they're all, "Chinga me! Chinga me, God! Tell me what I've done wrong my entire life and fix it!" Boom! Problem solved and Hank Hall got laid to boot! Teen Titans Spotlight #8: Hawk Rating: B+. It's a good thing the writer clarified that Lupe was older than sixteen. I mean, she didn't offer any valid proof or anything. She just said she was! But it's not like a sixteen year old would lie about her age just because she was thirsty for some big super hero dick, right?! Also, she's completely fictional so who fucking cares?! Anyway, it was a decent story that ended rather abruptly and super weirdly (even if I lied about the breast milk which was really just rare pollen used to make healing mead). How can you go wrong with a comic book that shows an ass, uses the slur "zipperhead," and swears in another language?! I bet Comicsgaters hold this comic book up as a triumph of what the medium can produce!

#Teen Titans Spotlight #DC Comics #Hawk #Hawk and Dove #DC #Teen Titans

[serahsanguine]

The Experience of London Film and Comic Con

I will be writing this a blog typestyle. Starting from the beginning of the day and ending up with the journey home. All spelling mistakes are my own and probably has punctuation missing.  I am hoping by writing this it helps sink in or so I have a documented record of what happened for a future purpose. (also I was asked) so the morning was a very early start 3 o'clock wow lol. the train from Derby to London was pleasant either if the steward/stewardess was sick there no freshments/ drinks on the journey there.   so when I arrived at St Pancras international finding which tube was slightly stressful as I get so confused by maps, it's unreal. but I asked for help and they were lovely, telling me where to go and it helped so much as I was a nervous wreck (The first time of many throughout the day)   when I finally arrived at Paddington station, around 8 the beautiful Mags @Magdalena357569 helped me out and find the bus route to Olympia which in its self-was a nice journey going past the Winston Churchill pub with some beautiful flowers on and around the building but I did wonder how they kept them all so vibrate with this heat wave we have experienced. arriving at Olympia was fun even though me and mags had no clue where we were going we arrived near the gold passes entrance and were told to wait there to be moved around to gate H, it was sunny and warm I honestly thought I was going to burn because of that's what I do in the sun.   anyways that was an s shape zigzag thing which took a good half hour before we were moved to gate H. when we actually got into the Olympia who would have guessed more queuing, we picked up our diamond passes which were by the first letter of Surname (There should have been signs!) so we had to queue twice.  when we finally got our David Duchovny Diamond pass we got our day passes scanned and more Zig-Zaging through at least this time it was moving well for a time anyway kept stopping every known and again but never mind. that took another 30 minutes to get through before we actually got into the venue. once in the venue the was a quate little coffee shop over to your right where we met half the hang of ladies that we were going with. once accomplished we no cat Caroline Poole @CarolineRPoole Sam @medicaldoctxr Elaine myself and mags and Elaine's dad  (Who is amazing by the way with a great sense of humor) we went to find David Duchovny signature place and oh boy was that fun. The Olympia if you have never been, is huge and I mean huge the maps available are very misleading. so we worked our way upstairs to find where most of the signatures were being held and guess what no DD so we asked a steward who hadn't a clue so we walked around like lost puppies not having a clue where to go. We walked through to where the photo were being held still no DD we kept asking steward's who hadn't a clue so, in the end, we got very very lost and hot and sweaty.  (There should have been a map to tell you where everything was just saying!. I was told there were maps but I never found them)   after about an hour of looking, (and a Very angry me) we finally found DD signature stand (Finally) we had lost some of our group oops lol. anyway, we were waiting for the queue to get that (Now me sam and Elaine) where I was able to get a copy of Miss subways (OMFG I finally got a copy) the line for the autographs wasn't that long. The actually autograph what a buzz first off I was so nervous, shaking everything but wow what an experience, David talked to me like we actually had a conversation he asked who was the signature so I said, Sarah and he asked with an h now I must have pronounced the h weird because he pronounced h differently to me obviously him in an American accent and me in a British accent or something like that. (later sam told me its because he couldn't get over it was with an h lol) but I was like yes it Sara with an H and we laughed about it.   let me tell you it was a surreal experience actually talking to the man that is your idol. for as long time. he was so nice and his voice was slightly deeper then I was expecting but soothing at the same time. and he was very pleasing to the eye if I don't say so myself.   Then I waited for Sam you had an amazing Brick Photo and he was stunned that it was his dog and he signed it to Samantha from Brick - David Duchovny and omg was she happy we got out of the enclosed both and she was having a meltdown in true sam style. we waited for Elaine and then had to sit down and calm down from our adrenaline rush (one of many).   once we had finally calmed down I needed to go outside. And wouldn't you know it? Me and Sam got lost again (They Need to sell Damn Maps just saying) so we finally got the exit and got stamped and were told we could come back in the same door (Yes i believed the lie)  so we finished up outside to find out we could not go back through the door we came out off and had to go back around to the start gate H bagged searched and stamp recognised with had to do the damn zig-zag thing again (oh the joy) luckily lot fewer people so only took us about 10 mins. we meet back up with Elaine and her dad we got the message that our friend and not so stalked dd on video which was so funny because he didn't realize (some bodyguards they were) so it was becoming near the time for photos (We got lost again) once the photo booth were found we had more queuing and more panicking and more adrenaline pumping through our systems.  and more zig-zag snake things (a regular occurrence) me and Sam were so excited and nervous but it was so fun. I got asked several occasions where I got my bag from and if it was for sale I am sorry guys I did it my self. one in the photo booth square we gave our bags to the photo people and waited for our time to have a photo taken. I was talking to Sam about I would just be happy with a hug all I wanted and then it was my turn.  when he spotted me he was like it Sarah with an h I was like yes it is. he asked how I was, I said I was great and asked him how he was. And we had our photo taken. His arm (Those arms are to die for) around my shoulders (i'm small) has hand touched my X-file tattoo (which at the time i didn't realize) and I put my head on his pectoral muscle/shoulder/neck area it was so warm and amazing (True Fan fic style) when finished I said by and went and waited for Sam and got my photo and bag and left the photo booth area. he was wearing dark jeans grey top black trainers with orange laces. (Wow damn he was hot)   So me and Sam (we lost Elaine)  talked about what happened and he remembered her because of the Brick photo and she tripped on his shoe (only sam) and she doesn't like her photo but in my opinion, she looks amazing. we live streamed (which can be found somewhere on my twitter profile.) to try and calm down and breath and because I promised I would we eventually found Elaine and her Dad and a hotdog stand yay. by this time we realized we had 4 hours to kill (WOW). food eat time to find an exit for some fresh air. we got lost again and if it wasn't for Elaine's dad we would have been lost a long time, we went past some of the best cosplay I have ever seen. I even found the TARDIS which for me as a Doctor Who fan was amazing, there were Daleks and everything including Cybermen cosplay. once done with our outside actives and back in we went in the search for merchandise and we found @underthefloorborads stall with @chimera work and yes i bought one and omg it amazing I also found a pop store with Fox Fricking Mulder (very rare indeed) and I found another beautiful poster for the X-Files and I even got an MSR pillow (no blankets I really want a blanket)  that killed about an hour - two hours looking for everything and getting lost so many times and a damn sight lof of walked we found somewhere to sit down and just rest.   so after this, me and Sam went to the talk and were in the third row I cam to know the Deadpool, Orville, the x-files trailers by heart waiting for David to appear on the screen. and wow what a talk it was so many good questions asked like Gillian question, would he work on other project directing, writing. what genre of work he finds scary or hard. different ways his name been pronounced, and if he had any European work coming up, Insta questions I have one complaint tbh and it's not David's fault but where the talk was placed was horrible and the sound of the questions plus the sound of David was not very clear. so basically the speakers were terrible. but all in all I got some good photo and David made me laugh and he's swearing is so funny and erotic he honestly so nice and sweet and one amazing person in general. I have meet so many people off twitter that was amazing to finally meet people that I have talked to over social media was surreal and amazing. so all together it was a long and exciting day meeting David was a dream come true. he nice and amazing. just an amazing all around person. the con its self-was amazing some amazing stalls. some amazing people met, amazing items being sold and very exciting and fulfilling journey. home-bound well I got my very first uber like that its self is an x-file especially after seeing David it gave me season 10 flashback.  that was nice and pleasant and quite cheap tbh. so i arrived at Paddington subway and had an anxiety attack (joy not) all sorts of stuff going through my head about missing train etc. but once arrived at St Pancras International I seemed to half calmed my self down I was 45 mins early for my train. so I waited and waited and finally got on the train home. I had a table all to myself I'm a lucky girl like that and it kind of hit me but I'm still not fully there even today writing this. i heard one of his song on Spotify and cried because i had actually met him (i think it was tiredness it had been a long day. I got home about home at 10 pm.   so that's

me recall of yesterday thanks for reading. any question just ask me on twitter or tumblr.        

#london film and comic con #londonfilmandcomiccon #lfcc #lfcc2018 #davidduchovny #david duchovny #london #blog

[sunshinetoday]

“It’s been 19 weeks since our favourite show is back in production!! Let’s see what happened in this week. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.16. 17. 18. week summaries.

*Clicking on links will take you to the original posting of the video/article/tweet… X marks the posting of linked content on Tumblr. It takes you to the post of the Tumblrino who posted it here.*

Our busy days continued on this week but you won’t hear anyone complaining😂We only have one week left before The X-files wraps its 11th Season😱😭  which also means that we have less than 2 weeks left before the show premiers!!!❤️️❤️️

Okay, so let’s see what we got this week. Disney bought 20th Century Fox which means they get to put their hands on some pretty cool TV-shows and movie franchises--> Dana Scully as a possible Disney Princess? Hell, yeah!! 

Maple Ridge became the main filming site for the X-files in the last couple of weeks and we got a lot of photographs and BTS bits from the press and the cast, too! @gillianaofficial shared a photo of David, Joel McHale and herself; “Oh look who I ran into in the parking lot.” and we also got a post about Princess Dana Scully:"Disney, meet Special Princess Dana Scully.“

Joel McHale was on-set and shared the dorkiest video we’ve seen this season;  The reason my head is so much larger than @gilliana & @davidduchovny’s is because I play a domesticated Sasquatch in this season (X)  I’m not sure what is cuter: David thinking he is begin photographed, Gillian trying to film but pressing the wrong button, or just the thought of how much fun they must have had while making Season 11. And why I know that Gillian pushed the wrong button is because she said so; “This was going to be MY video Joel Edward McHale!!!”  

It seemed to be a slower day, on Friday at the X-files set, so Gillian and Brick had some funny fuckery on Twitter

Another William theory surfaced, Austin Dunn @dontpointdownthere

We got a new photoshoot aaaaand Gillian & David are on the cover of TV Guide, again!! (X) 

@gillianaofficial shared one more picture from the set This time with Mitch Pileggi; “ Our last scene!!!!!  #TheXFiles” 😭😭😭 

The first 5 episode titles have been released!!!! The first five episode all airs in January!!!!! which made me realize that I will be probably unemployed by the beginning of February😂😂 No, but for real. Europen philes, we are here, we should have a plan in place and we should really get ready for the ‘3am alarms to watch this show, spend a bit of time spiralling after it aired, and go back to bed before you go to work by 8am’ lifestyle. This is what waiting for us:  

“My Struggle III”

“This”

“Plus One”

“The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”

“Ghouli" 

Reviews: 

No spoilers, but The XFiles’ first half of standalone episodes = probably my favorite consecutive run since Season 6. (X)

hi I just watched five new episodes of THE X-FILES AMA JK but just know that I’m feeling A LOT right now. (X)

‘The X-Files’ Season 11 Review: Mulder and Scully Return, and The Results Are Genuinely Exciting (X)

The best and only @thetvmouse posted her thoughts on the episodes, as well!

'The X-Files' Season 11 Review: It Starts Bad But Gets Better. (X)

Filming news:

   X-Files in Maple Ridge today.

“Misty Lagoon - Something evil lives here … 👽” - The X-Files season 11 bts (X)

“That’s a wrap! Thanks to an amazing cast a crew. It was a tough one. ❤️👽” (X)

FILMING IN VANCOUVER: THE X-FILES, (X)

miles robbins’ instagram story 12/19/17 @gilliansdavid

Some pictures I’ve saved on my phone from bts 👽 @inkcollectorus 

Press of the week:

Disney’s Weird New Princesses Created By Buying Fox (X)

Maple Ridge becomes the mysterious haunt of the X-Files (X)

The X-Files - Episode 11.01 - My Struggle III - Press Release (X)

Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger (X)

First 5 X-Files Season 11 Episode Titles Revealed (X)

SHOULD FANS AND FILMMAKERS BE WORRIED BY THE DISNEY-FOX MERGER? (X)

Gillian Anderson Shares Hilarious Vintage “X-Files” Christmas Commercial (X)

The X-Files' Mulder as Bigfoot? Bloody Skinner? Scully With a Desk?! New Season 11 Video Offers Key Intel (X)

A security guard walks past a billboard for ‘The X Files' on the lot of 20th Century Fox in Century City, Califorinia. (X)

9 best Groundhog Day episodes from TV shows (X)

Videos/Photos this week:

David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Talk Returning to “The X-Files on Extra TV (longer clip) (X)

Sneak Peek: What To Expect This Season | Season 11 | THE X-FILES

The X-Files Instagram sponsored post (featuring a bit of new footage).

Top 25 UFO Sightings | THE X-FILES (X)

X-Files Holiday Binge: Seasons 1-10 | THE X-FILES (X)

The X-Files - Episode 11.02 - This - Promotional Photos & Press Release (X)

Some awesome gifsets, pictures, videos and fan arts:

Bahahahahaha.The cutest fucking dorks ever! @ccoble

#CUTEST LIL NOSE SCRUNCH @ gilliankatic

The X-Files Season 11: Intel to Discuss @justholdinghandsok  

David and Gillian behind the scenes of The X-Files season 11 @youreadarkwizard

Sneak Peek: What To Expect This Season | Season 11 | THE X-FILES @trusttno1 🎵

Some new promo pics and a bit Chilis, thanks to @storybycorey

Spender got run over by a reindeer Skinner🎵 @startwreck

Chemistry gifsetLast week of filming is here

I think this is it for our 19th week! *Let me know if I missed something or if you have suggestions what to include in the next week summary, feel free to message me anytime*

Lots of love, fam! For another great week ahead!  ❤️ 👽😄👽

#gillian anderson #david duchovny #thexfiles #season 11 #weekly summary

[agentelmo]

The X-Files MSR Analysis Series: Season 1 Episode 9

“Space”

Previous episode analysis - 1x08 Ice.

What can I say about Space.  Other than “oh dear”, quite frankly.

But let’s not focus on the quality of the episode - we’re here for the MSR! 

Eh...

Ok, so in terms of the MSR, this episode isn’t much to write home about either, but it has a moment or two.  The most significant aspect of it overall is how it shines a bit of light on how Scully can respond sensitively to Mulder, even when he might not deserve it.  In this instance, it’s regarding his childhood hero-worship of Colonel Belt.  She teases him about it at first, but when the shit starts hitting the fan, her tone changes and you can see she’s much softer with him by the end.   

There are other elements of their relationship on display here, such as their working dynamic - again - each holding their own half of the truth that when put together solves the case.  But that doesn’t happen until the very end.  Throughout the majority of the episode, Mulder and Scully are on the same page - there’s no obvious paranormal involvement from their perspective until the final act.  It’s a very strange episode...

So we start with Mulder and Scully just chilling on a set of stairs as their contact arrives.

That’s not an awkward pose at all, Mulder.  I feel like he could be seconds away from letting one rip.  Sit down again - quick man!

As in most season 1 episodes, there is always a little scene of mundane ordinariness that fascinates me.  I like seeing Mulder and Scully really rooted in the real world, and just chilling on some steps in Washington D.C. on a sunny day feels plausible.  This is what an FBI agent might well do.

Also, hello there oral fixation.

Was it David Duchovny that first pointed this out about Mulder?  That the guy must have an oral fixation because he’s always tonguing a sunflower seed?

Ya. Tonguing.

It is also established (much later in season 2′s Aubrey) that it’s something his dad did when he was a child, so it seems this is a habit Mulder has adopted - in a way it’s quite interesting that the episode starts with a link to Mulder’s father, as another father figure to Mulder pops up later.  

Anyway, this munching on the sunflower seeds is one of his many idiosyncrasies that we learn of over the years.  

Still, if it is an oral fixation no one is gonna complain about the fact Mulder is substituting titty for sunflower seeds... I’m sure many a fanfic has been written based on the premise that Mulder is quite adept with his tongue as a result of all that “practice”.

Or it could just be that he really likes sunflower seeds, but hey ho.

So next Mulder and Scully head over to Houston and the NASA Space Centre to investigate the apparent sabotage of the shuttle Orbiter.

Pfft... Orbiter.  Atlantis was always my favourite.  You ever see the movie Space Camp?  Would totally recommend.

They are driven around on a little golf buggy thingy-mah-jig and there’s some straight up inappropriate staring going on.  

Right at the beginning Scully is staring at Mulder’s mouth as he talks.  I think all that sunflower seed tonging did a number on her.  She’s been reading those titty-lickin’-good fanfics, guys.  

I won’t subtitle the gif, because Mulder is just waffling - think of it as what Scully is hearing when she stares at his mouth.  Seriously, just look at her eyes.

“Hoo boy, he is pretty cute...God damn it.  Wait, what has he been saying?”

Also, look at all the space Mulder has beside him, and yet they’re sitting squashed up like this - very much in each other’s space.  I think what happened there is that Scully got in first, and Mulder just scooched up as close as possible, because Scully, amirite?

Don’t worry, Mulder gets in on this inappropriate eyeballing too.  The eye line suggests to me he’s checking her out.  See it?

EYES UP HERE, MULDER.

I like that he immediately looks away too. Smooth move, Mulder.  Don’t want to get caught checking out your partner’s “assets”.

Don’t give me that withering look, I haven’t got much to work with in this episode, so let’s make the most of every last second we can find!

The scene itself is quite nice in terms of their dynamic, because this is typical Mulder-Scully fare.  She asks a question and Mulder goes off on a spiel answering her in the form of Mulder Story Time.

Bless you, naive 1993!Scully.  Forget the X-Files, oh what geopolitical horrors lie in store for you.

Then of course we get to the meat and potatoes of it - why might Mulder be interested in a case like this?  The clear NASA involvement in a cover up of the existence of certain “evidence”.

I love how Mulder pauses with a knowing smile.  He anticipates her snarky response, but there’s no malice.  I’ve pointed this out in a few of the episodes thus far, and I love it every time.  Just the ease that they have with each other, they’ve already become each others best friend at this point - especially Scully to Mulder.

The next scene is all Mulder regressing into a 14 year-old boy again as he walks the halls of the Space Centre.  This makes me kinda sad now, because this child-like enthusiasm and glee for space exploration is everything he wanted to share with his son - William.  

Which we see in season 10′s Founder’s Mutation.

I’m just never gonna be okay with the fact Mulder and Scully missed out on being parents to their own child.

Never.

The fact Mulder dreams that he passes on this passion to him, and that William himself dreams of going “up there some day.”

Really, it does kinda make this next scene in Space a tiny bit heartbreaking with hindsight.  Look at how excited he is.  

He’s such a puppy.  So excited.  If he had a tail he’d be wagging it right now.  Why is it heartbreaking?  Because we’re getting to see a little bit of how he would have been as a dad.

It’s okay, take a moment.  I know I am.

Scully is being a bit of a stick in the mud here, but it’s fine I guess.  She doesn’t share his interest.  Her little smiling eye-roll seems to suggest she finds this behaviour from him to be a mix between endearing and pathetically cliché.  But it is actually kinda strange that Scully wasn’t interested in the space program growing up herself since, you know, she did her undergraduate degree in physics!!

So they meet this Colonel Belt and oh my word, Mulder acts like an utterly embarrassing fanboy.

Like, seriously... he can’t stop himself.

Mulder, you do remember you have a job to do here, right?  I find this little bit quite amusing since Scully is utterly no-nonsense with Colonel Belt and Mulder is one step away from clapping his hands over Scully’s mouth and then dragging her out of the room all the while profusely apologising.

“I have no idea who this person is; she is nothing to me.  I love you.”

Poor Scully is not enjoying being backed into a corner by the Colonel’s belligerent attitude...

...and is even less impressed with Mulder’s lack of support as he stares doe-eyed at Belt complete silence.

He knows he’s effed up; look at his face as he closes the door.

If I was to look a little deeper into why Mulder might idolise Belt to the point of making a fool of himself, I’d say it might have something to do with the fact that he came to idolise Belt at roughly the age of 14 - two years after Samantha was taken.  We come to know later in the series, that Mulder’s father was never around much after Samantha’s abduction, and I suspect not much before that either considering what his job was.  

His relationship with his father is strained now, as it was then, and I believe in season 1 they are totally estranged.  So after two years of having an absentee father, Mulder would have understandably needed another father figure; a hero to look up to.  Perhaps that’s what Belt is for him?  A heroic figure he looked up to in place of his father.

It would explain why he is so dismissive of the idea that Belt could be involved in sabotage when, so far, all evidence points to him.  He can’t conceive of his hero not being who he thought he was - the betrayal wouldn’t be to his adult self, but the 14 year old boy he was.

They head over to Mission Control to watch the launch of the shuttle Orbiter, and I have to mention this, it’s totally not relevant to the MSR but the music during this sequence is very strange - go back and listen to it.  It sounds very similar to the X-Files opening theme played slower and off-key.  Weird!

The launch is a success and Mulder is still being a huge nerdy fanboy.  Look at how happy he is, geezus, I don’t think we’ve seen him this happy about anything, ever.  Scully is completely unmoved - c’mon, lighten up, Scully.  Still feels a bit silly that she would be this disinterested. 

He’s so happy to have had one of his boyhood fantasies fulfilled, but he’s getting nothing out of her - she’s just so full of snark.

Why, Scully?! Chill out, woman!  I guess it’s because I would totally find this as exciting as Mulder does.  When I was a kid I definitely did have that dream of being an astronaut.  Went to college and studied physics myself (and psychology - I was trying to choose which direction I wanted to head in, and ended up being more Mulder than Scully) I didn’t have posters of boys on my bedroom walls, I had star maps; the shuttle Atlantis; one of my favourite movies of all time is Contact.  I totally get Mulder’s enthusiasm.

Her attitude here kinda reminds me of the season 7 episode First Person Shooter too, where Scully starts ragging on video games as being pointless, violence-inducing, clap-trap while Mulder tries to get her onboard with his childlike enthusiasm.  I also love video games, so I was always on Mulder’s side in that episode too.  So yeah... sorry Scullz, but I’m with Mulder on this one!

What’s so endearing about it though, is that this stuff is important to him and he keeps trying to get her to be excited about it along with him - he wants to share that joy with her.  

But before they leave and drop the case, something has gone wrong with the Orbiter and they’re called back to Mission Control.

On the way, there is a car accident where the contact from the beginning of the episode - Michelle Generoo - flips her car after seeing a ghostly grotesque face come at her in the fog.  

It’s the first hint of the paranormal about this case to Mulder and Scully, but they seemingly pay it no mind at all.  Not even Mulder, which is surprising.  I guess he just thinks she lost control of her car.  But he doesn’t say so... it’s just treated like she didn’t say it at all.  Odd.

Then back at Mission Control, Mulder starts to do something that grates on me just a tiny bit.  He starts explaining everything to Scully after it’s already been explained by the other characters.  I mean, it’s not like you need to be a NASA nerd to understand what they are saying, so it comes off as a teenie tiny bit like mansplaining  - sorry Mulder!

And again, Scully has a physics degree!  I think she would pick it up just as well as Mulder does.  

I get that in the context of this being a TV episode he’s explaining it as much to us, the viewers, as he is to Scully.  But still... perhaps it should have been a conversation between them, giving Scully the opportunity to show she does understand what is going on rather than him just talking at her like a complete ignorant.   I could write it off if it just happened once, but it does happen several times in the episode.

Wait, I’ve worked it out.  Coming over to explain everything to Scully gives Mulder an excuse to be a space invader -  whispering in Scully’s ear.  Cracked it!

Ok that’s fine, I’m totally fine with that.  Mansplain away, Mulder.

Whilst trying to work out who is sabotaging the shuttle, Mulder and Scully start running around the Space Centre waving their guns about.

Mah badass baby Agents. Pew pew!

But when they return to mission control they look like they’ve just been caught having a fumble in the NASA stationary cupoboard.

Now that things are going seriously wrong with the Orbiter and peoples lives are in danger, Scully seems to soften.  When Mission Control successfully reestablishes communication with the astronauts everyone in the room goes wild, and Scully finally allows herself to feel it... a little bit, at least. 

She’s still holding back compared to other people in the room, though.  Perhaps after all the ribbing she’s been giving Mulder, she feels embarrassed about just letting go and enjoying the moment with the same joy he does?

Don’t wanna give him the chance to lay down an “I told you so!”

Which would fit a pattern of behaviour we see from Scully as the show continues.  A reservedness that she can’t fully let go of; she can’t always fully let Mulder see her and how she’s truly feeling - she’s not good at being vulnerable with him.  But I don’t think this is anything specific to Mulder.  She does it with everyone - her family too.  As we come to know Scully, we come to realise she doesn’t like letting things in... or letting people in, either.

Admittedly, this is a very minor example of it, as we see her totally embrace the joy of the mission’s success later.  Wait for that gif... it’s literally the best moment of the episode because Scully is just so painfully beautiful.  

Mulder is just insane to not be going after this woman.  ANYWAY...

Before we move on... since we focused so much on Scully’s reaction, lets check out Mulder’s too.

♫ I’m a little teapot short and stout ♫  Come on, sing along everyone!  ♫ Here’s my handle and here’s my spout! ♫

♫ Tip me over and pour me out! ♫  Please, Mulder... never change.

Colonel Belt then gives a press conference to update the media on the mission’s progress, and he lies.  He tells the reporters that everything has been plain sailing and there were no issues at all.  Upon hearing this, Mulder is clearly feeling let down and naively disappointed.  But this is 14 year old Mulder, not 32 year old Mulder’s feelings here.  He’s still looking at Belt the way he did when he was a kid.

“When all my childhood dreams are being crushed to dust, I make this face.”

Alright, Scully... no need to rub it in.

Look at her face, I think she’s probably disappointed for Mulder, as much as anything, but that comment did feel a bit brutal.  I think it might have clicked for her by now why thinking this guy isn’t who Mulder believes he is, is so painful for him.  It’s not just about a childhood hero being a disappointment.  It can’t just be that, because Mulder really is pushing back against the idea Colonel Belt is a bad guy for no other reason than “he’s an astronaut too” - the evidence just keeps pointing to him.

Mulder chases down Colonel Belt and questions him about why he lied to the press.  The answer is already pretty obvious really, as Michelle has already told them - the government is looking for any reason to shut down the space program.

Belt explains that the astronauts do what they do for no other reason than the progress of mankind. Mulder’s response to this got me thinking.

True American heroes.  

Mulder worships these people, and sees them as not just heroes, but American heroes.  I think Mulder is actually quite a patriotic person.  There are odd comments here and there throughout the series which points to this.  His defending the American position during WW2 in Triangle; baulking at Scully’s preference for no butter on her popcorn calling it “un-American” in Je Souhaite.

I’m sure there’s many more I am just not recalling right now, but I think Mulder resists acknowledging Belt isn’t the hero he thought he was, because doing so not only kills the heroic figure of Belt from his childhood, but also erodes his view of America.  The positive patriotic view of America that NASA and the space program helped to instil, particularly in the 1960′s and 70′s when NASA was at it’s height, which is when Mulder grew up.

I suspect this is something you can only truly understand if you are American yourself, which I am not.  Patriotism is a funny old thing in Britain, mostly frowned upon.  So I have a certain view that I can’t deny when watching this episode - Mulder being patriotic is kind of jarring.

I know this is not MSR related exactly, it’s more to do with Mulder as a character, but it does come back up again later towards the end of the episode in a conversation with Scully, so... that kinda counts??

As another crisis on Orbiter unfolds, Mulder and Scully run around looking for Colonel Belt like a pair of errand monkeys.  They really do have nothing to do this whole episode.  Belt arrives at Mission Control and chooses to risk the astronauts lives to continue the mission to deliver their payload.  

Mulder looks like Belt just kicked a puppy, while Scully silently judges you.

I always thought this face was something she perfected over the years, but you know what?  She’s actually got it down pat already.

Michelle rushes out of Mission Control believing her fiancee aboard Orbiter has just been sent to his death and Scully agrees; Belt is acting very strangely and taking unnecessary risks. 

This is where we have the classic stalemate between Mulder and Scully, where she is right, but so is he.  Belt is compromised and “losing it” as she says.  He does know what is going on, and has known about it from the beginning, she believes he’s covering it up so that the mission can continue despite the obvious risks to avoid the space program being shut down.

She’s pretty much correct on all accounts, funnily enough.  But so is Mulder, who says Belt isn’t sabotaging the mission, he’s desperately trying to save the astronauts.  He wants to believe that Belt is a hero, and that what he’s doing he’s doing because he wants to save the men.

Amazingly, the paranormal aspect of this episode has still not been fully revealed to Mulder and Scully and we’re 30 minutes in at this point.  They both now need to prove whether or not Belt knew about the sabotage of Orbiter and so they start to go through all the documentation they can find.

I have no idea why this picture of them sitting cross-legged on the floor makes me happy, but it does.  I love it when they look like baby Agents!

Now Scully points out that finding any documented proof of Belt’s involvement is going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but apparently looking for a needle in a haystack isn’t as difficult as one might imagine, because they find the proof of his involvement pretty much immediately.

Within seemingly a few hours, Scully not only finds proof that Belt knew about the faulty components on Orbiter, but Mulder also finds that he was aware of the fault that led to the Challenger explosion.  Yikes.  

But before they can do anything with this information, Michelle informs them that Belt has collapsed in his office.  They rush off to find him.

Why hello, hello, hello, there.  If it isn’t our good friend Back Touch with a side order of Helping Hands.  Please, no, touch me more, Mulder, I insist.

They arrive to discover Belt babbling like a loon.  Then Mulder says...

Ummmmmm... Mulder?  You do know that your partner is a medical doctor, right?  I wonder if this is the reason why she feels the need to state this fact quite so much as the series goes on.

Why he needs a doctor I don’t even know, because it turns out, Mulder is secretly a doctor too??

He must be since he disregards the opinions of both Scully and the paramedics to do this focus your pain on my finger mumbo jumbo.  Why those paramedics didn’t just tell Mulder to get the fuck out of the way, I have no idea.  Scully, the actual doctor, says that what Mulder is doing is killing him.  But he just ignores her.  

I suppose this is a sign of the trust that she has in Mulder that she allows him to continue this, because if she didn’t think the information Mulder was trying to get was worth the risk, I don’t think she would have let this happen.  Belt does, in fact, almost die and they have to break out the defib to get him back.

Scully took a huge risk there, if he had died, she and Mulder would be on the chopping block.  Even when they have diverging viewpoints on things, when the shit really hits the fan they tend to have each others back.  So this is another example of the faith Scully has in him, even when it seems like he might not deserve the benefit of the doubt - something we learnt she is prepared to do in Ice.

The weirdest part of this whole scene though, is that Scully is finally allowed to see something paranormal - she witnesses the ghostly image appear over Belt’s face, but doesn’t seem to react to it at all!  Even Mulder doesn’t focus on that aspect of it, he single-mindedly keeps trying to get the information needed to save the astronauts from Belt.

Although, maybe Mulder saw the cruddy Pac-Man ghost SFX used for the space possession sequence and decided that shit is bananas.

B.A.N.A.N.A.S.

Mulder somehow gets what he needs from Belt, so he and Scully rush to Mission Control.  Fortunately, they get there just in time, and the shuttle comes down to Earth safely.

Then, as promised, the best 1.5 seconds of the episode.  Which I have slowed down for your viewing pleasure.

Honestly, she is so beautiful.  How does Mulder resist that smile?

After all the drama is over, we see Belt in his hospital room, still being terrorised by the ghostly entity.  Seemingly not being able to take it anymore, he throws himself out of his hospital room window, and to his death.

The last conversation between Mulder and Scully is quite a tender one, it’s the most they interact in a meaningful way throughout the whole episode.  There’s no more reproachful teasing, Scully understands that Belt meant something to Mulder and so she is very gentle with him - even her tone of voice changes.

I’d like to think that at some point during this episode, Scully recalls that Mulder’s childhood wasn’t especially great past the age of 12.  Mulder had specifically pointed out earlier that his hero-worship of Belt started at around the age of 14.  

Even though Mulder is basically suggesting that Belt was possessed and whatever possessed him forced him into sabotaging the shuttle, Scully doesn’t really challenge him on it.  There’s no point anymore since the case is closed, but also I think she is being kind to Mulder. 

Mulder suggests that Belt gave his own life to kill whatever it was that possessed him. 

With that reverent look on his face, Scully can no doubt see that Mulder wants to keep looking at Belt as a true American hero, and as a result Mulder is somewhat twisting Belt’s actions into some kind of heroic self-sacrifice, when actually, from what we see of his suicide, he was simply so tormented by this entity that he just wanted it to end.    

Mulder seems incredibly reluctant to see Belt as anything other than the true American hero he grew up believing him to be.  Perhaps it’s too painful for him to do otherwise.

Immediately after this scene, we’re at Belt’s funeral with the American flag draping his coffin shown prominently on screen.

The episode even ends with a close up of the flag.

There is something intrinsically linked between NASA, the space program and American patriotism.  It’s not something I ever really thought too much about with regards to Mulder’s character before, but he too, is an American hero.  Being the product of the 60′s and 70′s, Mulder grew up with the national pride and euphoria of NASA’s heyday.  As a result, Mulder too, carries the American pride that was symbolised by Belt and the space program - these were people who do what they do for nothing more than the betterment of mankind.  Isn’t that, in some ways, a little bit like Mulder himself?  Sacrificing so much to his pursuit of the truth to - in the end - save humanity from an alien invasion.

Belt would be proud.

In the end, though.  It’s not really explored.  Just left as another thread that makes up the tapestry that is Fox Mulder.

Next up... 1x10 - Fallen Angel.

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[pjstafford]

Quick Review of X-Files "plus one "

Spoilers ahead.

A little hard not to gush about this one.

Monster of the week -not a mythology. As Mulder says " back to our bread and butter." I enjoyed this monster of the week not necessarily because it was the most well developed psychic evil twin trope I have ever see (was not) but because it starts out scary and builds. Mulder and Scully, after all they have been through, being scared makes me scared. Once again I thought Duchovny played this perfectly- the panic, scared, I saw him scene made my blood pressure rise; although I am not sure about the two Mulders fighting each other. I liked the ending. Never thought about Mulder and Scully each having six letters. The twins killing each other rather than killing the agents they had a crush on was amusing. The mom and dad hang man at the end was unsettling. It. Was X-Files quintessentially being X-Files with or without the shipper stuff...shipper discussion later.

"Unsaid, Undone" is my favorite David Duchovny song. Thrilled it was used and a punk cover was appropriate, but not my favorite version.

As the season goes on I am more and more convinced that Chris Carter and the writers spent some time reviewing the thousands of fan fiction at Archive of our own. Oh, it's a seedy motel and there is only one room with a fold out bed but...will they stay in their separate rooms? Also quite sure the message got through loud and clear that fans wanted Mulder to be as sexy as Duchovny. (Nips, open shirt, arm porn...we got to see a lot of yummies tonight). Still the writers can't seem to resist making fun a little of how the 57 year old is still a sex symbol all these years later...possibly even more of one.

I love that in this ep the agents are still "estranged"- although it's a little confusing after last episode where they seemed domestic. My favorite scene is of them lying in bed talking about what happens if they lose their jobs or when they retire, what happens if Mulder finds someone younger, what happens if Scully finds someone, will they still be together in some fashion? I find this beautiful and frightfully realistic to a couple in their situation (a couple who can't seem to be together romantically but can't imagine not being in each other's lives). It just rang so true. I was thinking as we went to commercial break...that was better than sex! Then, though, it turns out that-apparently during the commercial break -Mulder must work quickly- they did have sex. This was wonderful too and wonderful that we know they had sex and still we didn't get a sex scene! Because it's X-Files! We don't need them groping each other...we just need Scully saying, "Mulder, come back to bed.". That's like porn for X-Files fans!

That scene will be discussed, chronicled...where does it fall in shipper moments? Heretofore my favorite shipper moment was the batting scene in the "Unnatural", but this one just shows an intimacy, a holding on, a romance broken but a couple still in love through the years. It wasn't quite what we asked for but it is what we wanted.

X-Files is back Y'all with episodes that hold up against their best!

[scullyitsme]

5, 11, & 16

5. Who do you think started having romantic thoughts about the other first, Mulder, or Scully?

I’ve gone back and forth on this so many times, and I’m not even mad about it because it was, in actuality, really good fic and fan analysis rather than canonical events that made me question it. Initially, I was convinced that Mulder did but over the years I’ve really come to question that assumption. I think I always assumed he did because, you know, , but really one of the most fundamental things about Mulder is his single-mindedness. I don’t think it’s much of a leap to say that Mulder acknowledged and admitted and perhaps conveyed romantic interest/feelings first, given his personality — but I actually think Scully felt attraction first. In the Pilot, actually. But I think she completely suppressed it, refused to acknowledge it, probably felt guilty about it, or like she was such a cliché, etc. 

I also like the idea of thinking Scully was empowered by it eventually. I always got the sense that deep down, despite being portrayed as somewhat hyper-sexualized (porn), Mulder didn’t really know what he wanted in love. I think his sexual desires drove him because they were obvious to him and fairly easy to meet. Part of me thinks that — as sappy as it my sound — he didn’t really understand love (in the nuanced way that’s necessary to really feel and be healed by it) until he examined his relationship with Scully. 

I think Scully did know what she wanted and needed in terms of love, but I think she grappled very heavily with it throughout her life. I think she knew before she let herself know how she felt about Mulder. I started a fic about this a million years ago and maybe some day I’ll finish it, but there’s a section that incorporates this headcanon I’ve had forever about a story Maggie Scully tells Mulder at some point before Scully has explicitly told him she loves him:

“Before Dana left for college she broke up with her high school sweetheart. We were in the kitchen. She was writing her name in all of her new anatomy and biology textbooks. I was making dinner. I knew she’d let the boy down easy. He was a nice boy, but they weren’t serious. They were just kids. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it and she said — in that self-assured way that you know well; she’s always been like that — she said, “It’s okay, I didn’t love him or anything.” And I asked, just to satisfy my own curiosity really, ‘Well now, how do you know that?’ and she sighed and said, “Oh, Mom. I’d never fall in love with someone who doesn’t have something to be passionate about besides me.”

11. What is the first episode of the show you ever watched?

I was very, very young when I happened across it, while it was still on TV, and I know I started watching somewhere around ‘98/’99/2000 (so probably sometime in season seven?). But the first episode that I vividly remember watching (which must have been on in reruns, or I rented earlier seasons from the video store on VHS or something) was Eve! 

16. Tell me a fond txf-related memory.

After the series ended but it would be on in reruns every night (on Spike or SyFy, one of those networks) my first little middle school boyfriend and I used to call each other on the phone and watch it together. We did the requisite Mulder and Scully Halloween costumes and the first time I ever dyed my hair Scully red was at his house, haha! 

X-Files revival asks 👽

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UPDATE: Suzanne’s 100 Followers Writing Challenge

So, as pointed out to me by the lovely @seenashwrite, I forgot to include the list of prompts when I posted my update about the writing challenge! 

So, I am going to repost everything below the “Keep Reading” tab!

Hey 100 Followers!

So, in honor of 100 followers, I am hosting a writing challenge! WOOHOO! I love reading fan fiction so I figured why not have you wonderful fan fiction authors write so I have stuff to read? LMAO

Here are the RULES AND REGULATIONS:

Suzanne's 100 Followers Supernatural Writing Challenge

To participate, YOU MUST BE FOLLOWING ME!! I will follow you bake!

Please reblog this post and tag any authors that might be interested.

There is a selection of 20 movies quotes, 20 TV quotes, and 20 song titles to choose from. Please choose a first choice and a second choice.

You may write for ANY PAIRING AT ALL!! M/M, F/F, F/M, Trans, Cis etc. Reader inserts ARE included and highly encouraged!

You may write ANY type of fic - smut, angst, fluff, canon, crack, crossovers (with crossover characters as secondary characters), RPF, RPS, Winsister, etc.  

You may use kinks in your fics. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it goes with the storyline.

Message or send me an ask with your choices AND pairings under @sea040561. You do not have to indicate if you are using a kink or what type of fic it is going to be.

Your fic must be a minimum of 750 words! Use the "Keep Reading" tab though. Fics DO NOT have to be a one-shot. That decision is up to you! You retain ownership of the fic.

IMPORTANT: Your quote or song title MUST BE USED SOMEWHERE in the fic as a piece of dialogue!

If you can, please have someone beta your fic even if just for punctuation and spelling errors!

When posting, please use the hashtag #Suzanne's 100 Followers Supernatural Writing Challenge within the first 3 tags!

Tag me under both my blogs: @sea040561 & @my-favorite-fiction67. A lot of people have trouble tagging me under @sea040561 which is why I included my secondary one.

Please include an author's note with your quote/song and where it is from or who sang it, who your pairing is, any kinks and any warnings you feel are needed and tag me in it @sea040561 and @my-favorite-fiction67 along with the title of this challenge

All fics are due by September 15th, 2017. I know there is a lot of other challenges going on right now which is why I am giving 3 months for it.

Finally, PLEASE MESSAGE ME WHEN YOU POST YOUR FIC!

100 Follower Challenge Movie quotes: 

1. "Because I'm 50 shades of fucked up" - Christian Grey - 50 Shades of Grey @sofreddie 2. "I'm not putting that in my butt" - Ana Steele - 50 Shades Darker   3. "It says right here it is a dessert wine" - Jan - Grease 4. "Marty: Do you think these glasses make me look smarter? Rizzo: No, you can still see your face." - Grease @redlipstickandthewinchesters 5. "So long, gay boys!" - Mr Chow - The Hangover 6. "Not you, fat Jesus" - The Hangover 7. "Stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen." - Regina George - Mean Girls 8. "I can't help it if I have a wide set vagina and a heavy flow" - Chubby girl - Mean Girls 9. "Aubrey: I know you have a toner for Jesse." "Becca: A what?" "Aubrey: A toner. A musical boner." - Pitch Perfect 10. "Lily: I set fires to feel joy. Donald: That's adorable" - Pitch Perfect 11. "There's gum on my seat... GUM!" Annie - Speed 12. "Jesus, Bob, what button did you push?" - Young Executive - Speed 13. "All the dinosaurs feared the mighty T-Rex" - Deadpool  @jayankles 14. "That's a face I'd be happy to sit on" - Vanessa - Deadpool - @crowleysplaythings/@allmightqueenofangst (John x reader) 15. "Show Dick some respect" - John Bender - The Breakfast Club 16. "Dick, I mean Richard, does Barry Manilow you raid his wardrobe on a daily basis." - John Bender - The Breakfast Club 17. "Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things? Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer, yellow spandex?" - X Men 18. "Steve Rogers: Is everything a joke to you? Tony Stark: Funny things are." - The Avengers 19. "Gamora: I am going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy." - Guardians of the Galaxy 20. "Slater: Didja ever look at a dollar bill, man? There's some spooky shit goin' on there. And it's green too." - Dazed and Confused

Songs:

1. "Love Screws Me Up" - Rick Springfield 2. "Living in Oz" - Rick Springfield 3. "Shape of You" - Ed Sheeren 4. "Thinking out Loud" - Ed Sheeren 5. "Slow Hands" - Naill Horan @redlipstickandthewinchesters 6. "Strip That Down" - Liam Payne 7. "Mo Bounce" - Iggy Azelea 8. "Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers 9. "Remix (I like it)" - New Kids on the Block 10. "Larger then Life" - Backstreet Boys 11. "It Make Me Ill" - 'N Sync 12. "Hungry Like a Wolf" - Duran Duran @wonderange 13. "I Wanna Sex You Up" - Color Me Badd 14. "Makin' Me Look Good Again" - Drake White 15. "Starving" by Hailee Steinfeld 16. "Hold Back the River" by James Bay 17. "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt 18. "Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes 19. "Way Down We Go" by Kaleo 20. "Unsteady" by X Ambassadors

TV Quotes

1. "Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You're gonna love it!" - Friends 2. "I'm not great at advice, can I interest you in a sarcastic comment instead?" - Friends @darling-highness 3. "We actually started an urban legend!" - Psych 4. "Falling in love with you was never part of the plan." - Psych - @invisibleassbutt (Destiel) 5. "It's a gift... and a curse." -  Monk 6. "Unless I'm wrong, which, you know, I'm not." - Monk 7. "I'm wearing the hat, where's the party?" - Full House 8. "Okay let's face it, I'm a lean, mean, hugging machine." - Full House 9. "You can have the worst crap in the world happen to you and you can get over it. All you gotta do is survive." - Grey's Anatomy - @benjerry77/@impalapiegirl67 10. "I'm sure it must feel as though everything is coming apart, but you can get through this." - Grey's Anatomy 11. "Scully: You have seen this before, I can tell. You lied to them. Mulder: I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation." - X Files 12. "Dr. Robert Romano: I'm beginning to think that "ER" stands for "everyone's retarded"." - ER 13. "Dr. John Carter: [Instructing his med student] Grab that penis and show it who's boss." - ER 14. "Emerson Cod: Future Me though, is going 'I told you so' up one side of you down the other one... but Now Me is just gonna sit back and watch.'' - Pushing Daisies 15. "Chrissy Snow: You know, if women ran the world there'd be none of these stupid wars! Janet Wood Dawson: Yeah! Stanley Roper: Yeah, all the countries would nag each other to death!" - Three's Company 16. "Ralph Furley: This is a respectable building. NO ROMAN ORGIES!" - Three's Company 17. "Sheldon: I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!" - The Big Bang Theory 18. "Monica Gellar: Guys can fake it? Unbelievable! The one thing that's ours!" - Friends 19. "Ross Gellar: OK, how about Ruth? Rachel Greene: Oh, I'm sorry, are we having an 89 year old woman?" - Friends (on naming their baby) -  @wideawakeandwriting 20. "Steven Hyde: When Kelso's the only one of us thinking straight, something's wrong." - That 70s Show

#Suzanne's 100 Followers Supernatural Writing Challenge #update #please reblog #calling all Supernatural Fan Fiction authors #amazing writers #I have 100 followers now! #I love reading fan fiction