#txf revival

[jtt-033-1613]

something along the lines of ‘wanting to laugh with you for the rest of my life’ etc etc…

[mulders-slutty-black-turtleneck]

out of curiosity,

Regardless of actual canon, do you think Mulder and Scully ever left the FBI?

yes, but only when retiring at an older age

yes, to avoid the dangers/trauma of their job

yes, due to their distrust of the government

no, they continued to work with the FBI/x files in some way until they died

more specific (tell me in tags/replies/comments)

Voting ended onJun 28

Personally, I like to think they finally came to their senses (how it's stupid that they work for a government they know to be corrupt) and up and left, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks

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[elstabler]

tumblr i have to inform you i just finished txf and i loved it so much yet i would never recommend it even to my worst enemy

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

Mulder and Scully really say things like 'I may not believe in God but I believe in you' to one another and then just. go about their daily lives ??? are they aware that that is Not Normal

[starliers]

this might be a controversial opinion (and before you pull out your pitchforks and torches, x files fans - please sit down and take a breather, okay? thank you). but i think msr being canon (or whatever the hell it is) low key ruined scully’s character.

it’s not even the ship’s fault, necessarily, it’s the writers who were in charge of writing the script who fucked up, but it just angers me how scully was once this strong, powerful woman and then changed into this fearful woman who is reduced to nothing more than being a mother and a lonesome lover who became a shell of who she once was.

it just makes me mad that you have this female character who has this long, interesting history and lore, and all she’s made to be in the later seasons of the show (and revival) is her male counterpart’s wife who is obsessed with being a mother.

and this isn’t me saying that scully (and other strong female characters) can’t fall in love and have families, because that’s not true - they totally SHOULD, and it’s fine if they do! good on them!

it just irritates me that the x files writers (and the fandom, low key) only make scully out to be mulder’s wife and baby mama.

[deathsbestgirl]

scully hanging up on mulder in the lost art of forehead sweat is one of my favorite moments ever. she was trying to call him all day, finally gets him on the phone and then. she just hangs up on him because she doesn't want to hear the bigfoot story again. best friends. married.

[touchstoneaf]

(Related to The X-Files fandom here, which seems to trend toward early seasons, don't continue reading if you don't want spoilers for s9 and onward!)

So... I have a request to make of the people who actually watched seasons 10 and 11 of the X-Files, because I very much did not and I never will. (Don’t try to change my mind. My soul can't handle all of the retcons and what they've done to my babies. Even just hearing about what they did to them and how they screwed up the mythology I worked so hard to untangle is enough pain that it made me lose my love for this series for a solid 6 years or something, and I couldn't finish my AU. I've just achieved the appropriate level of willful ignorance to resume my will to continue. And the only reason I was able to write it in the first place is because I was able to pretend that that @#÷%$ adoption and TLG dying never happened, and live happily in my AU.)

Anyway, any of you who *did* watch these CC-bullshittery train-wrecks, please relay to me any moments dialogue that I should incorporate into my AU version of their lives together. (As I've already done with moments from IWTB and the finale, because from s8 onward I don't have whole episodes I enjoy, just little moments that are really all that keeps me from wanting to throw everything in the trash barrel and burn it). I want to include more fun/lovely moments than just the "how do you operate so well with your hands tied behind your back?" bit, but that's the only one I know about, and I can't actually watch it in order to glean these moments because otherwise I will lose my will to write them again, and I don't want that to happen. Any help would be appreciated!

(Note: moments related to missing William or to Maggie dying are not of interest to me, because they don't lose William in my version and I'm not going to even deal with the whole Maggie thing, I have another future set up for a lot of people. Tho, if anybody wants to tell me the episode name where they have those daydreams about what it would have been like to be William's parents, I'd love to know that, cuz I might actually watch that. Or if there's a source for links for snippets of episodes that are actually shippy and lovely in any way, that would be awesome.)

[television-overload]

Actually, I'm so glad they got the same house for Mulder and Scully in the revival as in IWTB. Because it is genuinely the PERFECT house for them and I love it so much. It's just HOME for them, as it should be.

It would have been so easy for the crew to find a different house, and easy to explain that they moved somewhere else when they split up, but they DIDN'T and for that, I'm so thankful