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Currently obsessed with The X-files❤ I DO ART!! MAINLY watercolor. Check out the #myart tag Feel free to talk!

[deschanels]

[opentheskies]

[megdoesart]

Emerging from the depths of my unintentional creative hiatus to share some David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson art with you all...

[evuwus]

I am not particularly happy with this but here's another Memento mori sketch :D

[volpeantica]

“No, I don’t hate it.”

A small detail from a scene of “Dreamland II” I find intriguing is when Scully exposes Morris Fletcher as fake Mulder. Fletcher has just more or less dragged her onto the waterbed, and they are both lying next to each other looking at themselves in the mirror above.

“You hate it”, Fletcher/Mulder tells her, half question, half statement. There’s a significant little pause before she answers, in a pensive, (I find) somewhat sad tone: “No, I don’t hate it”. And this is revelatory, and I love it to bits, because it so cleverly done, both visually and how GA interprets it. What she sees in the reflection is something unreal (and that’s what we see in mirrors, an inverted, alternative world, a possible threshold, think of Alice’s Looking glass), a wish: Mulder and herself together, in a bed = as lovers. But what’s meaningful, it’s what we see and hear there as well: not Fletcher, as in all the other body-switch scenes, but Mulder, speaking with his own voice. We get to see her dream-wish too.

Then Fletcher turns around, rests his hand on his face and says, “You hate it”. Scully pauses, knowing it is Fletcher but choosing to look at the “Dreamland” up there for two more heartbeats. “No, I don’t hate it”, she says in that melancholy voice and means, I wish this were real, I wish it were you. Then sits up, slips back into reality (steels herself, I guess) and proceeds to unmask Fletcher.  

There is so much in this single sentence for me, it’s so subtly done and so precious to me that she reveals what she is longing for by saying it the way she does.

[randomlyckopiler]

He had to make a joke about this.

[meeeridith]

real cinema

[randomfoggytiger]

Mulder and Scully's Journey: the Truth (ala Frank Spotnitz)

Still, as much as The X-Files typically leaves volumes unsaid, after eight years no one should underestimate the strength of the bond between Mulder and Scully. “I think they mean everything to each other,” affirms Spotnitz. “They love each other, on a profound level such is rarely found in life. I think people sense that, and that’s why they love these two characters and they love them together. They’d do anything for each other. They’re soul mates.”

{April 2001}

Q: What has Mulder and Scully’s journey meant for each of them?

Spotnitz: The final scene addresses this head-on. You can’t get the truth. You can’t. There’s a larger truth, though: that you can’t harness the forces of the cosmos, but you may find somebody else. You may find another human being. That may be kind of corny and all of that, but that’s really it: Love is the only truth we can hope to know, as human beings. That’s what Mulder and Scully found after nine years. And that’s a lot.

{May 2002}

Spotnitz found the final episode’s treatment of the elusive truth in turn served to highlight the long road Mulder and Scully traveled together. The two, he says, are intertwined. “More importantly, the show talked about the journey Mulder and Scully had been on,” he says. ” To me, the theme of the episode and the series was that you can never find the truth. The truth is out there, but you can never hold it in your hand. But you can find another human being, and Mulder and Scully found each other, and the believer and the skeptic were able to say at the end of the day that they believed the same things. That is the most powerful truth that human beings can hope for is finding another kindred spirit and not being alone. And that to me was the perfect end to the journey that they had begun nine years earlier.”

{October 2002}

[scullee]

do older x-files fic writers/readers have a giggle when reading fics by younger authors who get 90s tech/culture/slang completely wrong

[pearlofthewoods]

I’m finding the comments under this post actually really enlightening and useful as someone born in the 2000s. Some of these things i just never would have thought to consider - the plan B example comes to mind, and definitely not blue m&ms lol.

I’m currently dealing with the double whammy of being both Gen Z and not-American when it comes to writing accurate 90s America, so if anyone would like to add in the comments anything that is a (slightly less-obvious) tell that a fic writer is non-American as well that would be so so helpful!

[rosenkranz-does-things]

one of the greatest commissions I've ever gotten

[leiascully]

But he did ruin her life. He’s the reason her sister is dead and the reason she had cancer and can’t have children.

It's amazing that you can ascribe total control over the universe to Mulder and not an ounce of self-determination or autonomy to Scully, who could have quit at any time but wanted to be there and chose to continue the work because it fascinated and compelled her as a scientist and spoke deeply to her sense of justice as a military kid and a person of faith. That really speaks to your understanding of and deep care about women. Isn't it just great when someone claims to love and defend a character and in so doing reduces them to just a Little Lady who couldn't possibly be making these decisions on her own?

[peacenik0]

Thank you @leiascully for reminding anon that Dana Scully is a woman who makes her own decisions.

[eljanehoppers]

mulder & scully + losing it when the other is in danger

[evuwus]

Memento mori hug sketch👺I might do the kiss next

[volpeantica]

#If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you Still my heart this moment Or it might burst Could we stay right here Until the end of time until the earth stops turning Wanna love you until the seas run dry I've found the one I've waited for

#Lamb, Górecki

#This made me think of this

[evuwus]

Memento mori hug sketch👺I might do the kiss next

[pseudomantis]

[katebeckets]

idiots (affectionate)・[68/?] ⤷ 3.16 — “Apocrypha”

[ace-sleeping-soldier]

msr x3 this week