#queen gillian

[oldfarmerbillswife]

Lololol, just learned that Gillian follows the Cillian Murphy fan account 😭😭😭 She's real for that

#new order #gillian gilbert #new wave #cillian Murphy #queen Gillian #same

[strawberryyboi]

#camille preaker #amma crellin #sharp objects #gillian flynn #laura palmer #twin peaks #fire walk with me #daria morgendorffer #daria mtv #daria #lottie matthews #antler queen #yellowjackets #mother suspiriorum #suspiria 2018 #beth harmon #the queens gambit #anya taylor joy

[bonafidehero]

I love when you can tell Gillian is on her little box in a scene. She just shoots up a bit randomly. Good for her

#short queens unite 🖤 #we are the same size. if you even care #the x files #txf #dana scully #gillian anderson

[cecilysass]

Scully the ice queen?

I often see people talking about the “ice queen” trope in XF fanfic from the 90s as an example of fanon becoming ubiquitous in fanfic. If you don't know what I'm talking about, this is it in a nutshell: basically, fanfic in the 1990s began to make reference to Scully as a perceived “ice queen,��� both at work and in her personal life, meaning that she didn’t express her emotions, that she was repressed and cold. And then that became a thing, a standard trope that other fanfic writers drew on.

My theory is that the “ice queen” / Scully association didn’t actually come from specific works of fic or from specific individuals.  I also don’t think it necessarily originated in fic and then crossed over into fan perceptions of Scully. I think it’s easy for 21st century fans to get the causal arrows mixed up on this because we're missing some historical context. I believe many viewers in the 1990s—not just fanfic writers—actually interpreted Scully differently than viewers now because they interpreted female characters differently. I think people in the 1990s were simply much more likely to interpret women serious about their professional lives as “ice queens.” Especially if their professional lives involved science.

Consider the below female scientist (P.K. Newby) writing about her graduate school experience in the 1990s.

Of course this still happens today, and of course it didn’t always happen in the 1990s. But I think it’s important that this impacted actual women living their lives in the same time period, because it’s reasonable that this also affected TV audiences’ perception of a character. 

I give you this message from the Usenet discussion group alt.tv.x-files, the first season of the show, from before the fanfic Usenet group was even created. This user characterizes Scully as an “ice queen,” claiming to notice a change after Darkness Falls, and even associating it with her skepticism specifically.

(This is me showing you the whole message with the date, then showing you parts close up because it's so tiny. I'm very dedicated.)

So in this (very early online fandom) conversation, we have a fan who already read her as an “ice queen” on their own without the filter of fanfic to sway them.

Now please don’t get me wrong. Fanfic definitely took hold of the Scully / ice queen thing and ran with it. There are many examples in the Usenet group during the 1990s of people asking, “Hey, which episode was Scully called ‘ice queen’ again? and people saying, ‘Oh never, ha, that’s just a fanfic thing.’” It was a well-established trope by at least 1997. See below.

I just want people to consider that it didn’t have to be one writer, one fic, or one incident that led to the popularization of this piece of fanon. This would have been something people understood right away because it already was culturally out there in the interpretation of the character and in associations with professional women. And like the person asking the question in the above message infers, it probably did come organically from several people at once. 

That said, some 1990s fans actively questioned it, observing it didn’t seem to fit with their interpretation of the show.

Notice that in the below conversation, Scully as ice queen is mixed up in perceptions of GA as ice queen, too. 

(Side note: I mean, you can totally get where that person was coming from, right? Gillian Anderson was TOTALLY giving repressed, cold, virginal saint in 1997.)

As a prolific reader of fanfic, old and new, I think it’s also important to add this: it seems to me that fanfic writers more often made “Ice Queen” a hurtful nickname that Scully was called by other people (like Mulder being called “Spooky”), not an actual characterization of her personality. And actually, especially given her mostly-male workplace, this seems not unrealistic in the 1990s? Some fanfic writers may even have been writing from experience. (At least, I think I'm right in saying that tendency was true. I'd be curious to know if other readers of old fanfic think Scully herself is characterized as an "ice queen" more often than I'm saying.)

I’m an Old Person. I’m ashamed to admit that in the same time period, I had a high school friend who always studied really hard in school and prioritized grades over social life, and sometimes we jokingly called her an “ice queen.” There was no male equivalent term. So unfortunately, I know this was most definitely a thing outside of Scully and the XF fandom. Fortunately, it does seem to be something we see less of in the 2020s. (At least I think?)  I just want to point it out because it’s one of those things you could think was just a little fanon quirk concerning this character or this show when really I do think it’s about gender perceptions overall. 

Very interested to know, though, if others think I'm wrong.

(actual Ice queen)

#the x files #ice queen #dana scully #gillian anderson #90s culture #xfiles fanfic #tropes #x files meta #txf meta #fanon

[scentedluminarysoul]

#queen #gillian anderson #queer #lgbtq

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2024

This year’s theme is #InspireInclusion so I chose a range of women who are working towards a world "free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination". All of these women have challenged the status quo in some way. They mean the world to me and inspire me every day.

#mine #royaltyedit #dailyedit #dailywomen #flawlessbeautyqueens #kate #princess madeleine #queen sonja #bhutanese royal family #queen letizia #da'vine joy randolph #taylor swift #billie piper #gillian anderson #lily gladstone

[i-lovefandom]

Stella Gibson

#all queued up #fucking queen #stella gibson #gillian anderson #the fall #favourites

[flipjack]

Invincible Season 2 November 3!

There's a special episode Atom Eve origin story out now. Gillian Jacobs isn't in it, but Lauren Cohan and Tatiana Maslany are!

#Invincible #Gillian Jacobs #Atom Eve #Tatiana Maslany #Queen Lizard #Lauren Cohan #War Woman #Community #Britta Perry #Orphan Black #The Walking Dead

[down-therabbit-hole]

Gillian Anderson - Boogie Woogie bts

#gillian anderson #redhead queen #boogie woogie

[ultimatemilvesbracket]

TESTIMONIALS

"smash"

"😳😳😳gillian anderson😳😳😳 have you SEEN her. im GAY. plus she's obvi very sex positive which.. works very well for the F in MILF :)"

#ultimate milves bracket #xenomorph queen #xenomorph alien #alien franchise #jean milburn #sex education #gillian anderson #tumblr bracket #tumblr tournament #tumblr polls #round 3

[knightofleo]

Gillian Welch | Revelator

#queen of fakes and imitators #gillian welch #revelator #time (the revelator) #old favourite #Bandcamp

[strawberryyboi]

They are sooooooo me

#she’s just like me fr #camille preaker #sharp objects #gillian flynn #beth harmon #the queens gambit #anya taylor joy

[omjitskailay]

Gillian Anderson give off such tall energy. Every time I see her in something she just radiates runway supermodel tall.

And then I see her standing next to any other human being and I'm like oh yes, she is in fact a smol bean

#gillian anderson #sex education #jean milburn #dana scully #x files #Margaret thatcher #the crown #queen is like 5'3 or something #she is always wearing heels #and still doesn't fit in the frame with any other actor

[kell-be-belle]

EX-FUCKING-CUSE ME?? We're talking about THE Gillian Anderson, right? The same Gillian Anderson who gifted me my gay awakening by hunting cryptids in those delicious little pantsuits? Yeah, those executives can GET FUCKED

#Gillian Anderson is a smoke show and she's only getting better with age #thank you queen for helping me become the diaster bi I am today #gillian anderson #x files

[scllymlder]

Gillian Anderson Interview- Parkinson - BBC Studios

#gillian anderson #mine #queen

[contrivedcoincidences6]

Emily Axford’s crush on Gillian Anderson makes me have an even bigger crush on both Emily and Gillian.

#bisexual queen #she’s so me tho openly talking about how hot GA is in front of her husband who is like hell yeah #kind of the story of my life #emily axford #gillian anderson #naddpod #the fall