#txf thoughts

[nachosncheezies]

AU wherein Scully drunk-emails an itemized expense list to Skinner from Hollywood and then marks the lapse in sanity with a tattoo of a fox

[dreamingofscully]

OK listen.

I know that the way they set up all of these intimate moments between Mulder and Scully (at the beginning of season 2) was because they wanted to make it even more devastating when Duane Barry happened, but I am starting to believe that them not getting together after she’s returned was just CRIMINAL!! The GUILLOTINE!! 100 YEARS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!! levels of failure.

Just call the episodes before Duane Barry edging for msr. And AFTERWARD THEY TRY TO GET US TO FORGET IT ALL HAPPENED. No sir nope nope nope not this time!!!!!

[agent-troi]

the first line of mulder's opening monologue in colony is actually so important:

"i have lived with a fragile faith built on the ether of vague memories from an experience that I can neither prove nor explain."

this is IT guys!! this is the crux of the whole show, of the whole dynamic between mulder and scully.

mulder wants to believe, but it doesn't come naturally or easily to him, the foundation being so fragile, as he puts it. his seeming naivete, his eagerness to believe just about anything, all of it stems from a deep insecurity that actually none of it is real, that all of his efforts and sacrifices have been in service to the illusion that one day he will see his sister again.

it's the opposite for scully. she is a believer, naturally, but she's afraid to face the inherent loss of control in believing in things beyond science, beyond reason. the possibility of these things being real frightens her as much as the possibility of them not being real frightens mulder.

the only way either of them can find the strength to overcome their respective fears is through each other. only when mulder's belief falters can scully find the strength to give in to hers, and only when scully fails to doubt can mulder afford to scrutinize the world through the lens of skepticism. they balance each other, make each other whole.

at the end of endgame, mulder tells scully he's found "something i thought i'd lost. faith to keep looking." that's exactly what they give each other!! faith and hope and companionship and love in a world that continually threatens to deprive them of those things❤️

[ariverofsongs]

You know I think one of the best roles to get on txf would be the Alien Bounty Hunter. Barely any lines but repeated casting throughout so many seasons where you just have to walk around looking menacing with a big stabby knitting needle.

[crossedbeams]

Logging back in

Just to say, Donnie Pfaster doesn't have a bad body.

[settle-down-frohike]

Being a fan of the X-Files, MSR specifically, is a lot like obsessing over an old flame. Occasionally reminiscing about the good times, the beautiful moments; wallowing in misery over the painful ones. Bouts of maudlin, tear-inducing playlists dedicated to exploiting the pain. I’m 3rd party to a make-believe relationship, and yet it lives in my mind like something I lived. It’s a very odd feeling indeed.

[dreamingofscully]

I feel like txf fans come in two groups — ppl who love the slow burn and prefer only reading it in fic, and people who appreciated the slow burn on the show but want to read abt m&s fucking in e.g. the pilot. And ofc there’s some overlap with people who aren’t picky.

[agent-troi]

So I just had an amazing thought: at the end of amor fati, Mulder tells Scully that he was going into work because he wanted to tell her Albert Hosteen was dead.

But like… why? He doesn’t need to tell her that in person, he could have just called her on the phone. Hell, Scully’s mom gave her the news that her father died by phone, so it’s not like news of a death must absolutely be delivered in person.

Mulder was just using that as a pretext, because what he really wanted to tell her, which he also hinted at at the end of that episode, is definitely the kind of thing you tell someone in person. Our boy heard Scully’s thoughts and knew his feelings weren’t unrequited, and he just had to tell her to her face how much she meant to him.