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so neat that the x-files opens on an anti-prophecy. the first image of the show is a dead redhead and then year after year scully doesn't die and doesn't die and doesn't die. and not because she's metaphorically immortal (by virtue of being fictional) but because that's just the condition of being alive. look at what we learn about samantha — if x-files are about reckoning with death then investigating them is about facing the fact that death took someone else instead of you
omg i didnt know that the x files pilot info...... can u explain im losing my mind
no one can explain it, not even chris carter. it's one of the only things he's ever said "my bad" for (this is the only record I can find of him apologizing, but maybe someone else has an exact quote). but the pilot is set in march 1992 even though it aired in september 1993. and apparently chris carter didn't even start writing the pilot until august 1992. so literally why march. it's only mentioned in the time stamps. they could have fixed it. the rest of season 1 seems like it's roughly set in real time, so we all have to decide within ourselves whether we treat it like a time jump. I ignore it every day but today, march 6, when it's real. romance was invented 30 years ago today and then mulder and scully spent a year and a half redoing their filing system
@iconicscullyoutfits please it’s still early here
Prompt: holding hands while running in the rain, then pulling each other into a kiss
Thank you lovely!!! (one of my favourite tropes, btw!)
Set during Pilot
I hope this is okay, I'm not sure about it.
hand in hand, from the very beginning
290 words, Read here on AO3
The rain was falling around them in sheets, pelting down against them to make hands and faces slick.
He’d grabbed her hand. They’d laughed in a graveyard and he’d grabbed her hand.
She’d known him for less than a week, they’d laughed in a graveyard and he’d grabbed her hand.
They’d run, slipping on grave dirt, hands gripped tightly together and laughter piercing the air along with the thunder. He’d pulled her through the night like teenagers, and she was giddy with the headiness of it all.
She skidded when they reached the bottom of the knoll, only staying upright with the aid of his arms coming around her, pulling her into him.
She felt so small in his arms, like she had earlier, as he gathered her to him in his motel room, just the silk of her robe between them.
And yet, as he looked down at her, brushed wet strands of hair from her forehead, she felt like the whole galaxy, exploding stars under his gaze, and for a moment she felt all the life in the universe thrum inside of her.
His nose brushed hers as she reached up around his neck, cold fingers playing against the slippery skin at the nape of his neck.
Pillowy lips careened together, the glide of a tongue. A gasp and a sigh. Eyes shut at the bump of foreheads.
‘I...hey,’ he smiled sheepishly, turning away with a ducked head.
‘Hey.’
‘We should...probably go get dried up. Go visit Billyboy.’
She swallowed, nodded; refused to meet his eyes, ‘yeah. Yeah,’ she slipped into the passenger seat of their rental when he opened the door for her, wiping rain away from her cheeks, along with the blush that was warming them.
Tagging @today-in-fic
watched the x-files pilot again. mulder obviously knew he was getting partnered up with scully before she knew she was getting partnered up with mulder. the bureau wanted her to be caught off guard when they sent her into the lion’s den. they wanted mulder to know in advance so he’d be edgy and paranoid. they really thought they had them. didn’t count on mulder using that time to read scully’s senior thesis, huh!! and he liked it ! get wrecked blevins
love to ignore that the x-files pilot was set a year and a half before the rest of the series on all days except march 6, when it’s true and interesting
alignment chart but it’s for david duchovny’s line deliveries in the x-files pilot. chaotic good is “I did! I liked it!” u already know chaotic evil
honestly the economy of writing in the x-files pilot is up there with the twilight zone. five and a half minutes in mulder and scully have already met. we know what the x-files are, why scully joined the fbi after med school, why she’s assigned to work with mulder, how much the bureau hates him, and what case they’re investigating. six minutes in we know scully wrote her senior thesis on einstein’s twin paradox. eight minutes in we know they like each other
