“If The X-Files was a 90s anime.”
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I know Scully getting pregnant at 50 was unrealistic, but I think we’ve been ignoring the real x-file here and that’s how Fox Mulder was able to cum while taking antidepressants as an almost 60 year old man
Everyone finishes The X-Files queerer than they started, it’s just a fact
“Now, I want you to close your eyes and think of a place where you’ve always felt completely comfortable and safe.”
The X-Files episode “Monday” (6x14) is really just a 45 minute parable about the benefits of direct deposit
pov: you look out of the peephole in your apartment and see your neighbor and his girlfriend are being weird in the hallway again
“Why would I make them so uncomfortable?”
He asks her directly. His pretty new partner who has been treating him better in the past few weeks of working together than any of his former colleagues ever had. He wants to know what she really thinks of him. He wants to hear her articulate what everyone else whispers about him because, even though she’s nice, she surely must know that everyone thinks Fox Mulder is a fuckup.
But instead of saying why Colton finds him uncomfortable, admitting the distain they both know that man holds for him, Mulder watches his eloquent partner stumble over her words — he watches someone, for probably the first time in his life, try to spare his feelings. He smiles as she confidently states that he isn’t the problem, it’s his “reputation.” He wonders if she notices the way she’s shifted him from active antagonizer to passive recipient of a reputation he most certainly had a hand in creating. It was only their third case together and she was already treating the people who were unkind to him as simply misinformed.
He puts her out of her misery and offers to read aloud the word branded onto his chest that she was avoiding looking at. “Spooky?” Far more PG and polite than the words Colton would use to describe his discomfort.
When he says it, he can see from the way her lips purse together that she knows he understands all the sentiments that word stands in for. Freak. Loser. Joke. But what he doesn’t understand is why she isn’t finding the humor in it like he does.
The people who hate him — who think his theories are stupid, who think his work is a joke, who thinks his career is a failure — they think he’s spooky. People like that don’t matter to him. She clearly didn’t want him to know her friends from the academy thought of him that way, but it doesn’t bother him. It’s not like she-
His amusement falters ever so slightly as he realizes just how much he really likes this pretty new partner who spares his feelings. The exaggerated mask he wore to keep people like Colton away suddenly felt like poorly painted clown makeup in front of her.
He doesn’t want to make her uncomfortable.
“Do -you- think I’m spooky?”
#I’m so sleep deprived#idk what this even is#sorry to the 1992 truthers I forgot they were already partners for over a year at this point despite all evidence to the contrary#this episode only focused on the newness of their relationship to be silly since they’d so obviously been together for a year 🙄#msr#x files#scully#mulder#dana scully#fox mulder#mulder and scully#spooky#squeeze
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I still can’t believe Scully literally says “you remind me of my father” and Mulder’s immediate response is “are you coming onto me?” The X-Files is truly a show about the lifelong impact of daddy issues and what happens when two people with praise kinks fall in love.
I find it so funny that Scully goes off on a whole monologue comparing Mulder to her father only for Mulder to pull an uno reverse a few episodes later by saying Scully was his father in a past life. What is wrong with them?
“For Sartre, the idea that ‘existence precedes essence’ means that the meaning of who we are is not established by some pre-designed model or determined goal. This is a liberation of human essence which leaves it up to each and every one of to choose our own essential meaning.”
Having the titles for Scully’s birth episodes point to the fact this was all orchestrated, that their baby was part of something bigger than they ever could have known, because for them “Essence precedes Existence” is so gut wrenching
“Better perish for what I believe in than endure forever as a traitor to life.”
Gibson, a boy being used as a pawn in a game he never wanted to play, watching this on TV and then turning around to look straight at Diana. The way her smile falters in response.
Chefs kiss.