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Fanart for @edierone. A scene from her amazing fanfic She Can Just.

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The printed fanfic I've amassed over the last year is my most prized possession.

There are instructions in pdf form here and a library of ready made book files 😀

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Sunday Scully by @edierone

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OK but have you seen Keanu in the Paula Abdul video “Rush, Rush”? [siiiiiiiiiiigh]

GOD yes. keanu reeves in paula abdul’s rush rush (1991) is something that can be SO personal

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okay, at @edierone‘s request, I’m elaborating on maggie scully. my thoughts under the cut.

to preface, the way I’ve experienced having a conservative mom hasn’t been through the catholic tradition; my dad was raised catholic but my mom is baptist, which in my experience is a separate form of smothering. that being said, I don’t click with the image of maggie scully as a super conservative catholic mom. the first time mulder meets her she tells him she had a dream about dana being taken, and it’s coded as just low-key mystical enough to be at odds with scully’s skepticism (“she doesn’t believe in that kind of thing, you know”). maggie’s dreams are a little motif; she has the dream again later in “ascension,” and then in “christmas carol” she says she saw her husband in her dreams after he died. maggie accepts and loves mulder in a way his own family doesn’t, and I know that’s part of why she’s generally and maybe myopically beloved by a lot of fans, but I think it goes beyond that. maggie also accepts mulder’s beliefs. she’s at least a little bit open to the unexplained. (see also: “wetwired.”) her relationship with catholicism seems to be more about tradition and family (giving a cross necklace because her grandma gave one to her) than personal belief, which is what scully wrestles with.

maggie does send the priest to dana to talk about her faith when she’s got cancer, but maggie, personally, doesn’t push (she actually shuts her down in “redux ii” when scully starts to berate herself for not having faith), so it never feels like she’s conditioning her love on whether or not dana returns to the church. I’m not saying scully wouldn’t feel pressured, but it’s nothing that goes beyond what you’d expect as a complicated expression of care from a mom who raised her daughter in a certain tradition, and by those standards it feels tame to me—she’s just trying awkwardly to make dana stop repressing one thing⁠. on that note, I love the scene in “memento mori” when maggie yells at scully for not telling her right away that she's sick. it’s the most real scene in the whole episode. her daughter has cancer and she’s reacting emotionally! 

outside scully and mulder, maggie is the most human character on the show to me, and even scully and mulder are kind of deliberately heightened. maggie’s relationship with scully is only difficult in ways that emphasize how much love there is between them, and that makes both of them feel more real. I wouldn’t like her this much if she were a literal dream mom. I also think it’s a sign of how well written and mom-like she is that everyone has their own angle on her and she basically pushes everyone’s buttons (good or bad) differently. but I just don’t have it in me not to love maggie. she loves her daughter, and I don’t get the impression that scully ever had to do anything to earn that. 

the picture scully paints of her childhood is that her dad was the authority figure she was trying to impress or rebel against. her mom was the one whose cigarettes scully was stealing. maggie isn’t written as a total prude. I think the area of parenting where it’s clear she fell short was in how much she let her husband call the shots. I know the frustration of having a peacemaker parent who’s too passive. but I don’t see maggie expecting dana to be the dutiful wife like that⁠—if anything it seems like the opposite, based on her love for mulder, who for all the sway he holds over scully would also follow her anywhere.

last thing: I don’t fully buy any explanation for maggie’s estrangement from charlie, because she cares too much about communicating with her kids. (her first response when scully thinks melissa had a baby is that melissa would have told her.) glen morgan didn’t seem to think too much about it beyond just thinking it would be interesting because estrangement is common in families, which is simultaneously a frustrating lack of depth and also kind of right. I don’t know exactly why my mom and her mom aren’t talking anymore. things happen in families. it’s sad, but I don’t think the explanation necessarily has to be extreme

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What’d Cherry Jones do? 👀

I don't know exactly what she did, but ive seen some interviews that Sarah has done and I assume the ending of the relationship wasn't great. But I'm sure Sarah is better off now with Holland ❤️

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@edierone replied to your post “@agirlcallednarelle replied to your post “It’s Friday!  Let’s talk...”

Were I her, I would take that salutation as irrefutable proof that mulder was being held hostage and the villains were using him to catfish me.

Dearest Dana is a cry for help.

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edierone replied to your post “OK, you know what’s funny, I’m totally laughing along with everyone...”

oh my god "salad bar purgatory" is worth the entirety of my cursed 20-year xf fandom journey jesus h. w. christ in a sidecar nearly spitting out a large mouthful of the goddamned Balvenie holy SHIT

Heeheeee, I can’t take credit for Salad Bar Mulder, unfortunately. My particular fan group used to call him that back in the day. But it is APT AS HELL.