#txf ftf

[medicatedmaniac]

I’ve finally given in and drawn The Scene™️ of all time

[justexactlywhatareyouimplying]

"Gillian has beautiful eyes," Duchovny says. "Her eyes anchor me to the scene. They're big and they're blue and they're wet. And the top of her nose goes up and down when she talks. Her nose is a good actor." [Allure Magazine, December 1997]

[ye-olde-tardis]

Once again sitting at work thinking about mulders' microexpressions during the almost-kiss scene in ftf

[finleykitten]

watching the x files movie and it’s stressing me out that they don’t know they’re in a movie. scully girl i need you to get better PPE for this autopsy das the black oil!!! you aint in a mystery of the week episode or even a season finale this a MOVIE!!!! the stakes are higher!!

[damianwaynetruther]

genuinely need to get to fight the future. all i know about the movie is the hallway scene and the fuckass bee. nothing about the plot. absolutely nothing. i’m thrilling to watch

[actual-changeling]

let scully say fuck!!!

haven't done any video editing in a while (what else is new) but i came across this clip on my dash—you can find it here—and decided to play with it a little. mostly fixed the audio not being synchronized and adjusted the lighting/colouring

[freckleslikestars]

I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe me nothing.

Acrylic on canvas, A3

[deathsbestgirl]

the cancer arc, but especially elegy to demons to gethsemane & reduxes is such a heavy run and three of my favorite episodes ever (into reduxes obviously)

elegy is one of those episodes i can't really talk about. the way neither of them can face her cancer head on. in memento mori, mulder helped scully face it as an investigator. penny northern helped her face it as a victim, opening scully's mind to what happened to her. but she reverts back, she decides to live with cancer & keep working as long as she can. which allows them to bury their heads in the sand. scully can keep it away from mulder, and they can pretend to forget until her next nose bleed, or a tough update from her doctor.

we hear scully, again & again, take inventory of her life, their work & their partnership. to talk about how well they know each other. but they can't actually talk about it. they can't talk about feelings or the elephant in the room. mulder is barely holding onto hope and they both need answers and he doesn't know how to get them. he tries to tell scully that they can't keep avoiding everything, talking circles around it. she needs to let him in, to be honest. but she goes to her car and cries alone and wonders what it means that she saw harold.

in irresistible, scully didn't want mulder to think he had to protect her. this time, she doesn't want him to believe he can save her. scully is resigned to death, but she's not resigned to what it means. she says in memento mori that she needs him to keep going, to find the truth.

mulder believes they're afraid of the same thing, but he didn't get to read the whole journal of letters to him. they're not afraid of the same thing and demons brings out a huge part of her fears. demons ends with mulder yelling at scully to leave, gun loaded and going down the same path as others. but he doesn't shoot her or himself. in gethsemane & reduxes, mulder's fear comes true and he's left sitting alone, crying. again, with a loaded gun.

scully has to to identify mulder's body, report that he died by suicide. a fear she's had since pusher, put into overdrive through season 4 (paper hearts, cancer, demons) and now she's dying, the end (seemingly) within sight and she can't save him. she won't be there to have his back, to take the blame and he won't put it on her. who will have his back? who will continue the work if mulder doesn't? fight the future hasn't happened yet but this is a huge step to that speech he gives. how he can't do it by himself.

they are so slow to say everything, we get to see everything before they actualize it and verbalize it. it's something i adore about them. there's so much at stake for them and they care so much.