#kittenscully

[mulderscully]

I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can, and if I quit now, they win.

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

The way she touches his arm, though.

The X-Files: Pilot (1x01)

Shout out to the anon who directed me to this small moment, hidden in darkness.

[jimmymcgools]

can i get some director's commentary on the section of a controlled burn with the fireworks in the sandias? in chapter 16? thank you <3

omg of course! thank you 🎆🎇🎆

i wanted kim taking charge and setting off all the fireworks to have similar energy to the bottle throwing scene in canon. this gleeful and danger-edged way of relinquishing control on her hyper-controlled mask. venting some of the gas from the kim pressure cooker. 

here, it sets up her opening up to jimmy in the next scene. like, this explosive release of tension sets up for the quieter and more personal one when they sit on the car.

He throws on his old leather jacket and slides her the other one across the roof—an ancient, fleece-lined corduroy thing he brought back from Cicero after Thanksgiving [...]

Kim shrugs it on as he walks around to her. It was always big on him and it’s enormous on her, the sleeves hanging over her hands.

@transatlanticalienart drew a slippin’ jimmy in a jacket like this once, so i snuck it into the fic! look at the angry boy!

Kim is always a dark silhouette in an oversized coat between him and the brightness, always closer than him, always backing away from each fuse at the last possible moment.

character arc words! “i go too far you pull me back” my ass!

Then the hissing trail of the fuse starts, and she stays beside it for so long that Jimmy almost calls to her, stepping unconsciously forward, but then she’s running to him; and she doesn’t even look back at the firework as it screams and whistles into the air and explodes in an enormous flurry of red sparks—but it lights up the edges of her, and she’s grinning this strange grin, and she comes up and presses him against the side of the car and kisses him.

i’m really proud of some of the prose in the scene! i love when i’m able to think of ways to mirror the story/action in the structure of the language itself, and this was a great scene for that. the sentence starts with the fuse lighting and runs and runs and runs and then ends with the kiss. 

i also think it’s one of the scenes where i best managed to present the vibe/setting -- the smell of it, the sound of it, the haze of smoke. any time i write anything, i always have to remind myself to really think through that sensory stuff, and often i think i come up a bit short, but i’m happy with how this one came together. 

... returning to the stack of fireworks that traveled all the way to White Sands and back and have been sitting in his kitchen cupboard ever since.

and also sitting as a note in my planning doc like “hey buddy you gonna do anything with those fireworks?” 

i did NOT have a plan for them for a long time 😂

Some of her hair still clings to his own chest, like static, connecting them with threads.

thenationalpullofyou.mp3

“Kim,” Jimmy says, falling back to the name yet again, to the sharpness and the hum.

oh you know, that old thing about them saying each other’s name = them saying ‘i love you’.

and then the end, jimmy waiting for kim to talk. like i said at the beginning of this answer, i thought about the fireworks moment as this bright and explosive and loud breaking of tension that leaves in its wake something still and calm enough that kim can take a tentative step forward. the fireworks burning away all the bullshit so that she’s comfortable enough to open up in a smaller and more sustainable way. like an atom bomb vs nuclear power. 

[connellwaldron]

Favourite X-Files episodes 3/?: Invocation (08x05)

[softiescully]

WHAT is your current sidebar obsession(s). you know the things you’re into/having a lot of fun with/thinking about a lot even though you won’t devote your blog to it

my mom and i finished the mentalist like a month ago and i’m still in that post show stupor...it was cute and simon baker is The Only Blonde Man on TV that i respect <3 also. alias. i finished that in the summer and i think about it every day.......(it helps that i’m egged on by kelly who is thee alias girl) jennifer garner said i will do so many cool stunts and look gorgeous and wear a billion different wigs and i’m so happy that i went along for the ride

sleepover time!! send some questions :)

[robintunney]

The X Files/The Mentalist parallels

[dnscully]

scully + 5C?

send me a character and an expression!

[rylandgraces]

9, 14, 14, 46 🥺

9. The Lone Gunmen or Walter Skinner?

bro on god. walter skinner fucks BUT i didnt just say that. whatever. definitely the lone gunmen man :/// i just wanna give them blankets n my vhs cop of jurassic park and make them breakfast )))): they r so pure.....so good............

14. Favorite episode(s)? Why?

in addition to those other ones

pusher: this episode messed with me kinda but i think it was the interactions between mulder and scully that made this episode get put on the list? the small smile that mulder looks up at her with in the van. how scared and upset she looks when he has to go. her completely breaking protocol to run to his side. her unwavering trust that he could fight modell. the terror on mulder’s face when she wont leave. the work in this episode is impeccable.

triangle: bro i love history and wwii so much and i really enjoy the two parallel stories that intertwine at the end and-- god this episode had everything. also. mulder is just an idiot. let em take you to germany, they have nice cars. yeah you’re all big men now, but wait til u get to russia. i hope u like the cold........homie.....

humbug: i think for a while this was my favourite episode and i love it still so much. i just. love humour man and this episode was big brain. scully saying she thought the twin could detach himself and everyone looking at her like she was crazy and mulder going “now you know how i feel.” blockhead being confronted by mulder and scully and saying “im not gonna answer any questions until i speak to my lawyer” “who’s your lawyer” “i represent myself.” scully eating but not eating the cricket. this episode broke me

46. What are your thoughts about extraterrestrial life?

bro it is FOOLISH if u think that aliens are not real. ur just a fool. i dont think it’s in the way that like. media portrays them at all like little green men or whatever. but i think it would be some kind of single-cell organism u know? like. idk if u have seen the movie life with jake gyllenhaal. but i think it would be something like that FOR SURE

[txf themed asks!]