At This Point I'm Convinced Chris Carter's Strategy For The Entirety Of The Series Was Just "I Can Pretend

At this point i'm convinced Chris Carter's strategy for the entirety of the series was just "I can pretend the intense soulmate connection between those two doesn't exist if no one can see it".

Well, first of, fuck you.

Second of, meet modern digital video editing fueled by spite, Chris.

This scene from Firewalker is one of my favourites, and now it's visible to people without superhuman eyesight too!

God, the way Mulder screams her name and she immediately reassures him even though she's completely out of breath and just almost died. Then he squats down in front of her and she just lets out the biggest sigh and melts into his touch because everything is fine now that he's there.

How gently he touches her face??????? The smile she gives him?? The silent conversation they have that boils down to "it's okay, we're both together and okay, we're alright" after they spent the entire episode basically going batshit crazy with concern????

At This Point I'm Convinced Chris Carter's Strategy For The Entirety Of The Series Was Just "I Can Pretend

Deeply, deeply unwell.

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Personally I’m angst lover and I love the moments where angst forces emotion from characters. They couldn’t have killed Scully and we all knew that, but there was something about watching Mulder not know that is so txf. It’s so “he wants to believe” that she will get better while while still not knowing how exactly that is possible and her being completely convinced (after Momento Mori) that she will be dying and, “no Mulder don’t fight me in this, it’s a fact” that is just so in line with the entirety of the show. And while I’ve also not seen a lot of fics where Scully doesn’t get cancer I also think that a lot of caner arc fics dont get a lot of love. I understand people sometimes just want to read something feel-good and cute but don’t knock the emotional catharsis of watching two people who are madly in comfort each other through the fact that they are about to be ripped apart until you try it.

Y’all should go read “I Never Got Over Those Blue Eyes (I See Them Everywhere)” by HeavyOnTheTragedy on AO3 because shameless self promotion

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

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“No, for some reason I don’t think that would work. Hasn’t your landlord always hated you?”

“Yeah, I have no idea why.” Mulder watched as Scully made a show of looking around his apartment, first at the basketball on the floor, then to the collection of porn tapes in the cabinet under the T.V., then to the half open door of his “bed room” where a cardboard box filled with manilla files was wedged in the door.

“Yeah. I wonder,” She responded flatly, “There’s no way he’s letting you stay. Listen,” she was going to regret this, “You can stay with me until you find somewhere else.”

Mulder stared at her in awe like she’d grown white wings and there was suddenly a halo floating above her head. “You mean it-”

“Just until you find a new place,” She said firmly, more to herself than him.


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10 months ago
Inspired By A Message From My Dear Friend @penicillinsteve

inspired by a message from my dear friend @penicillinsteve

How To Say "I Love You" in X-files [46/?] ⤷ 6.03 — "Triangle"
How To Say "I Love You" in X-files [46/?] ⤷ 6.03 — "Triangle"
How To Say "I Love You" in X-files [46/?] ⤷ 6.03 — "Triangle"

how to say "I love you" in x-files [46/?] ⤷ 6.03 — "Triangle"

No mulder is not red green color blind he can regularly tell the difference between red human blood and green alien blood

I’m fucking haunted by the throwaway line in Wetwired when Mulder says he is red-green colorblind. I need to know the popular consensus on this.

11 months ago

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers :)

Thanks! I’ve already done one of these but i’ll give it another go

1. The sun: i’m a plant, i need to photosynthesis

2. My neighbor’s cats: i feed them whenever the neighbors are out if town and they are the goodest boys

3. Music! : enough said.

4. When my friends respond to my instagram stories: :)

5. Reading Poe stories in english class: i really enjoy Poe’s work and especially enjoy understanding it more than my classmates because I’ve often already listened to a classic lit podcast on them (give Fictional by Jason Wiesser a listen)

@elphabalewisofoz @krash-and-co @gendrsoup @fuck i dont think i know any more blogs names sorry

Happy 31st birthday to txf

it is the pilots birthday !!! 🤍🌸🎉

It is! Can't believe it's been 31 years.

It Is The Pilots Birthday !!! 🤍🌸🎉
It Is The Pilots Birthday !!! 🤍🌸🎉
It Is The Pilots Birthday !!! 🤍🌸🎉
10 months ago
We Are James C*rden Haters And I Don’t Onow The Reason But Im A Sheep

We are James C*rden haters and I don’t onow the reason but im a sheep


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Im Watching The Xfiles Rn

If youd like to listen to me ramble about it I do that now and also i write fanfiction (a HeavyOnTheTragedy on AO3)

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