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I guess 54 isn’t too old to have a baby when you’re immortal?

The final episode was basically just some random old man in a hoodie showing up at teens’ front doors yelling about HIS TALL SON and then showing off what a tight turn his muscle car makes.

My Midlife Struggle IV.

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Catherine, please remind me that we're all going to be ok.

We will be OK!!

Mulder and Scully are alive and together and they love each other. I’m genuinely grateful for that.

They’re gonna move back into the Unremarkable House and, depending on what direction you wish to go, will either go to Ikea and load the fuck up on baby shit, or go to the farmers’ market and buy a bunch of brie and salami and microbrews because Scully isn’t pregnant and none of that happened. I suspect there will be fics from both angles.

Jackson will become a sea monster and will swim off to the lake where Big Blue lives and hang out with her and Queequeg.

(I once wrote a story where Queequeg was attacked by the alligator but Big Blue was real and she saved him, and they lived together on an island in the middle of the lake. So, that is canon.)

Skinner is fine, he just lay under the car for a while because he needed some rest.

Monica fake-died because that was the only way to get out of her shitty job.

Tad and Karen got married and they adopted a bald eagle.

Mulder and Scully inherited CSM’s fortune and immediately blew it all on fancy muffins.

I had a baby when I was 40. He’s now 7-months-old, and my ass is a special kind of exhausted that I never knew existed.

Good luck with that, Scully.

#txf #x files #season 11 #whatever carter #sigh

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Season 7 ending : I’m pregnant

Season 11 ending : *ctrl + V*

Because I had to put the intense squee SOMEWHERE, I put it in my planner.

#txf revival #planner #nerd #ATTHS #twice #!!!

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Après avoir repris son rôle de Scully dans «X-Files» en 2016, l'actrice abandonne définitivement le personnage.

This is the translation from a French interview with Gillian Anderson. There’s a few weird things that might have been lost in translation, but here it is. (Thanks anon for the submission.)

The X-File will stop because you don’t want to return as Scully. Why?

We filmed 6 episodes that aired in 2017 even though I thought I was done with The X-Files already. I said yes because of friendship, to work with the old team once again, when Chris Carter asked me again if I wanted to come back for a few more episodes. I thought it was only for a couple weeks. Then, Chris asked me to become Scully again for 10 more episodes that we just wrapped. No one said we would do 10 a year or I would have said no.

Really?

Yes. I have three kids and they’re my priority. I stepped back a few years ago for other projects, but mostly for them. I’ve always wanted them to have a balanced life, far away from this industry. I became famous too young with The X-Files and all my mistakes were documented in the press. Living away from that only have good sides for me.

So there’s no change you will change you mind in a few months or years?

No, no and no. I’m very serious. I have a profound respect for Chris Carter, I adore David Duchovny and I enjoyed working with the whole team, but this is my final decision and nothing will make me change my mind. Nothing.

Not even a big paycheck?

No. I must say that I’m very lucky because I’ve always had the same salary of my male costars. I’m happy to see everything that is happening in Hollywood lately. We’re only at the step of discussions, but managing to talk about pay equality over there, and everywhere, is already a big step. Now, there needs to be laws so all the wrong things that we saw recently don’t happen again.

You’re also one of the many women who were wearing black at the Golden Globes. Are your an activist in the “Time’s up” mouvement against harassment?

I want to add my voice and do what I can to help. “Time’s up” is a great mouvement because it’s not only in Hollywood. We want to help women to defend themselves and to talk about it to make things change.

During the last saison of the x-files in 2001, you said you had too much pressure and you didn’t want to be a celebrity but an actress. Is it also one of the reason why you’re leaving the show?

The main reason is that I need to be motivated as an actress. I need to be challenged. I became an actress to play many characters and to play different women. Certainly not to play Scully for decades! I have many projects for the next two years very different from the xfiles . I look forward to live those new experiences without feeling tied up to one particular show.

Does Scully die in the end so you really don’t have to come back?

You know I can’t answer this question! Let’s say I’ve filmed my last scene and I’m happy with what happens to her. Okay, but what can you tell us about those 10 new episodes? We did one that barely has dialogues in it. It was fascinating to express all these feelings without talking. It was a real challenge because I didn’t want to look like Charlie Chaplin and mime things.

How can you explain that the duet Mulder-Scully worked so well?

My relationship with Scully has changed so much over the years. I didn’t have any expectations in the beginning. I was very naive. I grew up between London and Michigan. When I arrived to Hollywood. I didn’t know how tv production worked, or what the idea of filming 10 months out of 12 meant and the personal implications that it required. Then I’ve been sucked up by fame and success. I felt like I couldn’t control anything. It was a very intense period and I needed to go away. But I just figured why our duo worked so well. I needed 25 years to get it (laughs)

So why?

Fox asked me to tape an interview to talk about my favorites episodes so I took the time the rewatch different stories from our beginnings. That’s the camaraderie between Mulder and Scully that fascinates since day one. There’s an attraction between them that has nothing to do with lust but more with mutual respect. Actually, David Duchovny and I are very different, but we understood each other very well. I can even tell you that we’re neighbors now because we live a few minutes away from each other.

Could we say that Scully was a independant women role model even before it was the case in many tv shows?

Absolutely! She’s always been a pro who didn’t depend on men, who has her own opinions and didn’t wait for a guy to come save her. I know that in the 90s, she was a role model for teenagers.

You now have platinium blond hair. Is it for a role or to forget Scully?

We can say that! (Laughs). The platinium blond isn’t the best to go incognito, but st least, I know no one will call me Scully now, ‘cause I don’t look like her anymore.

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“I must say I’m very lucky because I’ve always had the same salary of my male costars.”

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Mulder smiling at himself in the mirror because he just had sex with Dana Scully. 😉😏

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I wanted to fucking high five him in this moment. You got her back you stud!!

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Mulder and Scully in “Requiem” 7x22 / “Plus One” 11x03

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scully’s double just standing there watching mulder & scully fuck bitch Same

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I rewrote CC’s bed scene dialogue in “Plus One”- SO BIG SPOILERS FOR THAT EPISODE - I know there’ll be plenty more in the following days, weeks - years? But I had to get it out of my head.

Tagging @today-in-fic

She hasn’t been held by Mulder in a while. Or rather she hasn’t allowed herself that particular comfort. Tonight, though, she knows that she won’t sleep, won’t calm down until she’s in his arms. They go around her so easily, fit exactly right, as if they’ve been doing it every night for the last 25 years. It’s a half truth, she thinks and smiles. Then the darkness slips into bed with them, tries to get into Scully’s head and in between them. Mulder, oblivious to her thoughts, holds her tight, breathes against her neck.

“What’s gonna happen?”

“What’s gonna happen when?”

“When we’re old.”

“What do you mean ‘when’?” He chuckles and she smiles. He is right, of course. She won’t let him know it, though. Not now.

“Sooner or later we’re gonna retire and… are we gonna spend time together?”

“Where is that kind of talk coming from, Scully? That’s not you.” His is deep, sounds like sleep. She feels him get closer, if that’s at all possible. His warmth is everywhere around her. How she’s missed this, missed him.

“I’ll push your wheelchair around,” he mumbles into her ear, his breath tickling her, “with my own wheelchair.” More chuckling that rumbles through him.

“It’s not what I mean.” She tells him without any humor in her voice.

“What do you mean? I know you like to keep me guessing but… I’m old, Scully. I’m tired.” There’s a pause, a beat before she answers him.

“What if you meet someone? What if you meet someone… younger who wants to have kids.”

“That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard you say, Scully.”

“Thanks.” She mutters trying to move away from him, but he strengthens his hold on her.

“First of all, Scully, I am not looking for anyone,” he pauses and she wonders if he’s going to continue, the sentence half finished dangling over them for a long second, “It’s you, Scully. It’s been you for longer than I can recall. So that’s one thing you can take off your mind right now. As for kids… we already do. But what about you, hm? What if you meet someone with kids, or you adopt them, or-”

“Mulder.”

“What? You started it.”

“That’s not going to happen, Mulder.” She feels him nod against her as if he’s proving a point.

“Would you want… we never talked about it after William. Would you have wanted more kids?”

“I think… I would have liked to have another one.” She thinks of William. Of his smile that always reminded him of Mulder. What does his smile look like now? What color are his eyes, his hair? How does his laugh sound? Does he ever wonder about them, about the parents who gave him up? She sighs, thinks of Emily now. The memory is hazy; a blurry photo missing the edges. She has two children. Had. She had two children.

“Would have liked.” Mulder’s voice is no more than a whisper against her neck, his voice tapping against her skin. He kisses her there this time like he’s done so often as if he could soften her guilt, her thoughts. Take them away from her.

“Would you have wanted another one?” H

“Hmm. With you? Always, Scully.” They’re quiet for a moment. This is something else they haven’t done in a while; talk. It’s easier here in the safeness of the darkness, of a place that is not their home. If she needs to she can claim it was a moment of insanity, a moment of fear. Nothing else. But as Mulder sighs against her, as she sighs, too, just out of habit, she realizes that she doesn’t want to walk the tightrope anymore. She wriggles and turns in his arms. His eyes are small, he is so tired. Scully smiles at him. He smells good, he always does. Handsome, Judy called him. He’s always been handsome, ever since she first saw him. Now he is so much more than that, to her. More than she wants, sometimes. But as she looks at him now the half-smile lightening up his whole face as if he knows exactly what she’s going to do next, she couldn’t care less.

“I think… we can’t change the past, Mulder. And no matter what you’ll be out there with your theories and I’ll be there to prove you wrong.”

“While pushing each other around in wheelchairs.” This time it’s her who chuckles. She nods, moves closer. Their faces are almost touching. She tries to remember the first time. Not the first time they had sex; the first time they stared at each other like this, open and vulnerable, sharing secrets that could never be uttered during the day, in the light.

“And doing other stuff.”

“Other… stuff? Like what, Scully?”

“Like this.” She closes the distance, not that there is much to cover, and devours his mouth. She hasn’t allowed him to hold her in so long; she’s deprived them both of this so much longer. Scully forgets each and every ridiculous fear she’s just entertained, as Mulder’s hands start to roam, rediscover all the places they once knew; still know, she realizes. She moans into his mouth and his tongue comes to meet hers as if it were the first time. They know what they’re doing, she thinks with a grin against his lips, and they’ll be doing it for a while yet. Even when they’re retired and in wheelchairs. She gets it now. Nothing will change this, will come between them. Scully lets go.