The X-Feels

The Emotional Labor of Special Agent Dana Scully

[emotionallaborofscully]

I'm noticing that every time Scully knows something that Mulder doesn't that's in a sphere that's conventionally considered masculine, she always explains that it's because her dad or brothers were into whatever it was.

I'm sorry but if you were not into model kits and your brothers were, that is not gonna give you encyclopedic knowledge of WW2 airplane models, just admit you're into it Scully.

Mulder won't judge.

[evvywevvy]

if Mulder looked at me, tilted his head down and raised his eyebrows in mild inquisitive surprise at something I said, I would stammer so many excuses whether I needed to or not

[emotionallaborofscully]

I'm noticing that every time Scully knows something that Mulder doesn't that's in a sphere that's conventionally considered masculine, she always explains that it's because her dad or brothers were into whatever it was.

I'm sorry but if you were not into model kits and your brothers were, that is not gonna give you encyclopedic knowledge of WW2 airplane models, just admit you're into it Scully.

Mulder won't judge.

[emotionallaborofscully]

This episode of The X-Files stars Jack Black, Giovanni Ribisi, and Virtua Fighter 2.

Plus The Vandals and Filter (I swear this fucking song was everywhere)

[emotionallaborofscully]

Scully: I told your mother you were gonna be okay

Mulder: How did you know?

Scully: I just knew

Mulder: *proud smile*

[maisiewilliams]

[well-and-true]

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

i have once again arrived at the airport way too early, so I'm making these to pass the time

[cock-holliday]

Me and my mutuals

[rosenkranz-does-things]

a handy guide.

companion piece for the "it's both" crew

[cock-holliday]

Motivational things to send in the group chat

[crowcaws]

Okay so I am watching X-Files for the first time rn, having a great time glad to be here etc. etc. and look I knew going in that it takes seasons upon seasons for anything to happen between Mulder and Scully and it was platonic for a really long time. Right. I thought I understood this, I was (and still am) perfectly fine with that. It's whatever.

But I'm on 2x01 and Mulder is in some random shed in Puerto Rico talking to a cassette tape like it's Scully saying shit like "before I could only trust myself, now I can only trust you, and they've taken you away from me" and if this is them being platonic mate what the fuck does Not Platonic look like? Is this why you're all like this???

[paxamericana]

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

[cryptid-sighting]

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

[hound-slut]

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

[not-the-mothercrystal]

I only remember the plots of 2 X-Files episodes and this is one of them.

[carlithiel]

The X-Files + Scully’s Darkness Falls Jacket

[delightfullyvague]

(source)

[dvseye777]

[bowditch]

love the x-files having the most BATSHIT promo photos

just weird af.

it's like the photo shoots were themselves an x-files about a possessed photographer but nobody stopped him

[meme-lord-santa]

[doe-eyed-des-deactivated2023082]

[geniusoflove]

these tags made me so mad for no reason. u don’t understand him at all first of all like 40% of his correspondence is via email its the 90s second he definitely checks it all the time bc he’s probably subscribed to a hundred different stupid ass e-newsletters. use your head

[geniusoflove]

he forwards her like bloody mary spam emails pretending he wants to investigate it just to piss her off

[geniusoflove]

YES ^

[assiraphales]

my favorite part about x files is how mulder is always like ‘bigfoot has been riding thru the town on a skateboard’ and scully is like ‘that’s ridiculous’ and the second her back is turned bigfoot skates by