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I believe that what unites Scully and Mulder above all else is their absolute integrity as people. Their moral incorruptibility – the fact that they’ll stand up for what they believe in, no matter what, no matter the personal costs. Their loyalty to the truth they believe in. The stubborness in never giving that up.

I believe that’s what they recognise in each other straight away. And it’s the first thing they love about each other. What makes them trust each other. That’s their common ground. The differences between them teach them how they will complement each other. That they can do so because that deep respect for one another is there right from the start: we’re the same; we take our moral obligation to ourselves seriously. We don’t betray what we believe in.

(That is why I love them.)

sculderand-mully

skinner gets so tired

go-lick-a-boot

they should give scully and mulder a shared hospital punchcard and after 10 total visits they get a free bag of blood or some shit

osanzo

me when anything even remotely inconvenient happens

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's 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 face on his hand 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 here with me instead of this horrible man. 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.

wintersnails

msr are like ‘ok we can share souls and minds and hearts but not hotel rooms. that would be TOO far’

intimacynerd

So funny that by not wanting to turn Scully and Mulder's story into a romance, it became one of the best het romance stories ever

katebeckets

how to say "I love you" in x-files [311/?] ⤷ 6.16 — "Alpha"

dartmoorpixie

thursdayinspace

allthingswhumpyandangsty

redteekal

This film terrified me, genuinely gave me nightmares about space for weeks.

sophsun1

Scully, we came on this case lookin' for a werewolf, right? No, you did, that's correct.

The X-Files – 7.12: X-Cops

fantasticvoidnerdshoe

also i REFUSE to believe mulders never remembered scullys birthday hes so obsessed with her & facts BUT i think he has never brought it up before despite knowing her birthday because he simply doesnt know how to bring it up i dont think that man has not celebrated a birthday since samantha went missing and has no clue where to even start (let alone with Scully - his best friend, the love of his life, his cornerstone, thw person who makes him human)

mad-hare

in love with this Norwegian trotter named Express Go that’s won 7/7 races so far, is only 14.2hh, and has taught herself to duck down her head to give herself super speed (and lengthen her stride I guess)