Plz Reblog For Science

You'd think writing a chapter would make you one chapter closer to being done with a fic. You'd think that, wouldn't you??

But no, you are in fact 3 chapters further away.

No rizz just pretty green eyes and texting “everyone knows birds are government drones anyway”

No thoughts just arcadia

he’s a sad puppy when she’s more than six feet away from him.

headcanon that when Scully is suffering from motherly or brotherly pressure about her life choices or hears about another old med school or college friend meeting ordinary life milestones she missed, or Skinner's annoyed with them about something (like Mulder being behind on the paperwork which she refuses to do for him), she starts stress cleaning her apartment.

But because she's already neat and also not home a lot, there isn't a lot to clean, so usually after the second time she finds herself disinfecting the kitchen sink on a Satunday mid-morning, she goes to Mulder's place, lets herself in and stars stress cleaning there, too. Usually Mulder's still asleep on the couch with the classic movie station still playing, but she has blanket permission after the first couple of times trying to distract a tightly wound Scully at his place from his scrap file of tabloid cases turned into her trying to declutter his place while lecturing him about dust mites, tripping hazards, bacteria, eccentrics who live in danger of being crushed by their prized collections, which certainly was a distraction, so now she knows she's welcome to come over any time and disinfect and tidy and sort the mail etc as long as she doesn't try anything purge-like on his boxroom (listed as a bedroom on his lease). And she usually tries not to wake him unless his lackadaisical book keeping is why she's stressed. So some weekend late mornings Mulder wakes up to a spotless table and laundry bags by the door and the smell of lemon clorox and coffee and a manic-but-winding-down flannel shirt Scully sitting with her mug in the desk chair, not quite watching him sleep (she usually claims to be hypnotized by the fish).

Greetings are usually ridiculous Mulder guesses about what's got her on the boil ("Maggie signed you up for ballroom dancing classes with Engleburt from Sunday potluck and your Spanish heels are in the shop?" "Douglas from organic chem invented a new breed of hypoallergenic bio-luminescent guinea pigs and this singularly useful achievement makes you worry about measuring up, dr. Frankenstein-wise?") and complaints that she was going to make brunch but all he had in the fridge was former milk swiftly becoming yogurt and desiccated pizza of dubious provenance, both of which are in the trash bag she expects him to take out. So he usually goes out for bagels and cream cheese and eggs and chives and milk, and half and half for the coffee (he prefers real cream but she won't drink it, claiming it makes the coffee taste "slimy" so it would be a waste).

If she's still wound up enough to be running the vacuum when he gets back, he makes a project of cajoling until she talk about it and remind her she's on a different but still immensely valuable path, which isn't a bad way to spend a day together really. Or if she's re-entered his reality where she doesn't have to compete with Normal People (or doesn't need to remind him five more times to finish that report) and worked through the stress, she's usually curled up asleep on the couch when he gets back with brunch fixings. This is also fine because toasting and munching and wiggling onto the far end of the couch to watch a ball game while his partner naps is also a good way to spend an afternoon and they can have dinner together later. (And he can always spread those files back out across the table the same way after she leaves for the night.)

😳

Gillian Anderson in my camera roll

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????

Deeply, deeply unwell.

(Jury’s still out on that but shes the loml)

IM A HOMOSEXUAL!

IM A HOMOSEXUAL !!

Season 4… save me..

Save me

Save me season 4

FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY in TELIKO (4.03)

The realest character in the xfiles is that one pathologist in x-cops who’s like “hey, why aren’t we wearing masks rn” BECAUSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE TOTAL LACK OF PPE IN ALL THE LABS IN THE SHOW

Scully put some fucking gloves on sometimes i’m begging you

Put some goggles on before start looking at things or mixing any chemicals

ESPECIALLY DURING FIREWALKER LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? (Like yes they do later find out the specimens shes studying are non-pathogenic when they are not immediately exposed but she didnt know that at the time and she was leaning close to it not wearing a mask to look through the microscope. That’s bad lab etiquette.)

Triangle is so important to me cuz what the fuck do you mean they’re platonic work partners but they find each other in every universe? You thought sad boy Mulder from abduction arc was unhinged? You are not prepared for Scully when Mulder hasn’t called her in 12 hours. SHE PULLS A GUN ON SPENDER IIRC or at least threatens to, we get to see gillian anderson dressed to the 9s in 1940s fashion and then the fact that Scully canonically kisses skinner before Mulder and the poor man is just flabbergasted. And then the end, when Scully is convinced Mulder is delusional and so on drugs that he doesn’t know what he saying/doesnt mean it. OH BROTHER?!?!?

What do you think their relationship was like the few days after that episode, did Mulder remember saying that? Did Scully remember him saying that everytime she walked into his hospital room and when he walked through the door at work for their shitty season 6 background checks?

Also “I suggest you get your Nazi paws off me before you get one in the kisser.” -> “i was expecting a left.” GOLD AHH