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[whellk1]

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[mmahuikap]

incel force user on a first date: so what's your midichlorian count

[ngalitzine]

been thinking about the x-files place in media and how the show, and mulder and scully’s relationship influences how tv is created. i think any show that is a police procedural with the skeptic/believer dynamic is genuinely inspired mulder and scully. i’m talking about bones, castle, and lucifer among many others.

i enjoy this dynamic but have been wondering why, aside from lacking david and gillian’s chemistry, these shows and ships cannot capture what the x-files and msr did so effortlessly.

i’ve come to a few conclusions.

first: the msr dynamic is misunderstood. people think that this dynamic is man is an annoying manchild and woman puts up with him. the msr dynamic is not that. not really.

mulder is, at his core, a deeply traumatized person on a mission to find his sister who was abducted by aliens. he becomes blinded by his mission, but he is highly intelligent and accomplished on his own. scully is also highly intelligent and accomplished, and they see that about each other in very first scene that meet. there is immediate respect between them, which is VITAL.

i think a lot of modern media thinks that the man has to be kind of an actual idiot (or overly sexual in his advances) at first and the woman has to help him “grow up” when that is not the case with mulder and scully at all. mulder and scully challenge each other’s world views and beliefs and help each other become the fullest versions of themselves, which is not always easy. but it is always with fundamental respect and true friendship. if mulder becomes a more mature and serious person because of scully it’s because of her influence on him, just how he influenced her to have the courage to open herself up to belief in the unknown.

and mulder and scully’s “slow burn” is so iconic because their moments of flirtation and intimacy early on is subtle. but it is there. mulder doesn’t have to ask to see scully’s tits for us to know he wants to. (but it’s a hell of a long time til he does.)

and, unlike instances with caskett and deckerstar - they are not “forced” or tricked to work together, they choose to. they actually refuse to be pulled apart because together, they will find what they’re looking for

which brings me to my next point! i think something a lot of shows don’t do is give a real reason for the copaganda other than it just being copaganda, especially a fantasy show like lucifer. on the x-files, mulder and scully are fbi agents- but them working for the fbi serves for the plot as a way for them to gain access to government secrets and lies by working from within. in a lot of ways, it is a criticism of the fbi and the government at large. mulder and scully are fbi agents because of their mission, their mission is NOT to be fbi agents.

[continentalblue]

mark watney is my favorite competent cringeboy. Like fuck dude he makes no pretenses for what he is, he's a goofy goober at his core and smart as shit too. Mark if youre out there ily come home to ME

[vielaesque]

girlhood is a spectrum.

[undekaying-deactivated20240629]

A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.

[velvetbags]

movies that are metaphors for being queer >>>

[cowboystokes]

in my world they’re in the same universe and people are experiencing a generational run of vlogs from men abandoned in space

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

thinking about how matthew looks at declan as his protector. as the person he can always count on to keep him safe, and fed, and housed, and happy. how he asks declan for his company when he's sad. how (with the exception of his little rebellion in td3) he is almost never mad at him, even when declan is telling him what to do, bc he believes that declan always has his best interests at heart. how he trusts him more than anyone else in the world. i'm thinking about how matthew loves declan openly and unconditionally

and i am also thinking about how matthew is literally a manifestation of ronan's deepest subconscious feelings

and anyway the implications of that are making me a little bit insane

[lesbiansforkevinday]

I feel like Matthew Lynch would vape… and it wouldn’t even do any damage because he has no internal organs… he wins at vape

[fireandashes]

hey so was anybody gonna tell me that the raven boys is one of the best contemporary fantasy novels of the twenty-first century and an insane study on the cycles of abuse and the mindset of rich teenage boys and class divides or was i just gonna have to figure this out on my own

[searchingforglendowerwithleah]

also like genuinely one of the most beautiful insights into mental health / overcoming passive suicidal ideation / growing up / identity and finding oneself / AUTONOMY!!!! / and healing!!!!

[depsidase]

[gaynessopimizationalgorithm]

You can't just show that part The thread has so so much worse

[feminicid3]

Trans women should be able to kill medical staff.

[cheeeryos]

just spent way too long looking for this screenshot because I was worried I had hallucinated it

[the-kings-of-henrietta]

it's so funny to me how bluesy are just. extraordinarily bad at hiding their feelings for each other from the start, whereas pynch’s entire dynamic pre-second secret is just adam making eye contact with ronan for 0.2 milliseconds and going “fuck that guy. hope he explodes” and then proceeding to do donuts in his bmw for the next 2 hours

[searchingforglendowerwithleah]

The Raven Boys Rizz Ranked

6. That one cray guy who tried to seduce his crush by kidnapping his crushes little brother and stuffing him into a car which is suprisingly not effective. Heard he died which is kinda awkies.

5. In almost dead last is ironically everyone’s favourite evader of death. You guessed right! Gansey boy!!! Reading through his first interaction with Blue was so painful I almost permanently died. However, credit where credit is due because he did somehow get with her at the end but he is just lucky Blue is deadsexual.

4. Ronan - bless his heart he tried but fuck is he embarrassing to watch sometimes. I’m not even going to detail all of the second hand embarrassment I had watching him flirt. But hey at least he didn’t call his crush a prostitute and then try and set them up with his bestie because of his saviour complex and crippling lack of self worth. Also his lil gifts were so sweet like A+ for effort.

3. The bisexual king himself Adam Parrish who could pull anybody in Henrietta with complete and utter ease. His only downfall is being kinda creepy, yk being possessed by a forest and all but you know what some people find that hot (not me of course …). ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT ADAM IN A LEATHER JACKET BECAUSE WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT ENOUGH. Also you know the line in call down the hawk where he was like I need to take off your clothes!!! Damn he is kind of being robbed at 3rd.

2. My husband and everyone’s favourite man whore DECLAN TADHG LYNCH. My boy pulled 3 Ashley’s is a row and the goddess that is Jordan and he had me giggling at every single turn. Nothing is more seductive than a plain white guy with stomach issues and an art kink. Everyone hated you because they weren’t you and that’s why all of the bitches who slut shamed him *cough*Gansey*cough*Adam*cough*Ronan *cough* are ranked lower than him. Also his murder spree in Greywaren is the sexiest scene ever written, you cannot argue me on this. PSA: before anyone comes with for me for putting him above Adam just remember there is textual evidence of Adam literally learning to flirt off of Declan after observing him in trb. HE WAS THE TRENDSETTER.

1. Noah - Sometimes being creepy and dead can have it’s benefits. He saw his opportunity to kiss Blue and he fucking ran with it. He really said I know someone you could kiss 🤭 and I admire that confidence which I firmly believe makes him extremely deserving of 1st place. The ability to pull bitches whilst literally decomposing is quite frankly unbeatable.

[searchingforglendowerwithleah]

Actually my magnum opus post…like I said what I said

[vesrtapen]

look at my silly orange cat dawggg

[prlssprfctn]

there is so much about the fact that we get the name of adam's father but never his mother to unpack......... can we recycle back to adam's huge mommy issues struggle..................... please.................