it’s me

side blog for documenting my first TXF watch. currently on s6. main @excuse-me-thanks

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

Happy 'sorry nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted' day to those who celebrate

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

a lot has been said about Mulder and Scully's dynamic but I think what it ultimately comes down to is Mulder looking at her with his big pleading eyes and saying "let's touch a hot stove together. ok?" and she sighs and is like. sure. will that hurt her? yes but she gets to spend time with Mulder who hardly ever hangs out with her outside of touching the hot stove. but she also possesses a scientific curiosity about the nature of stove burns. sometimes she's like "I've had enough, Mulder, I'm not touching the hot stove anymore". and he's like well fine, I'll do it alone then. afterwards she's bandaging his fingers and chiding him for touching the hot stove without her

[benoitblanc]

one of the many many reasons why the x files works so well as a genre-bending show is that every single character actually is genre-aware, but they're only aware of one of the genres they're in, and they for the most part act solely according to the rules of that genre. mulder and reyes think they're in a paranormal show, scully and doggett think they're in a procedural, skinner and byers think they're in an espionage drama, frohike and langly think they're in a buddy action comedy, etc.

there are two notable exceptions to this:

the smoking man, who is not genre-aware at all

krycek, who is the only person in the whole show who is aware of every single genre they're in, which unfortunately means he's the only one who knows they're also all in a romantic drama

[starstruckbasementbread]

I've seen a lot of opinions about Fox Mulder, some I agree with, but most of the hate I don't really get. For me it will always come down to this, though:

Fox Mulder would break into/dismantle any government agency if it means that it would save Scully.

But I don't think he'd do the dishes.

[sculderand-mully]

this is my truth

[psychicpinenut]

recommending the x files to people is like yeah this is one of the most influential pieces of television created, it's the best and also one of the worst things you'll ever see. are there aliens? you'll never know. are mulder and scully lovers? worse. what do bees have to do with this? everything.

[wendydoodles]

They call him Spooky Mulder.

[wendydoodles]

Tooms!

(I colored his eyes digitally)

[psychicpinenut]

i'm standing with you in the rain in the graveyard. i've known you for two days. you're suggesting that a boy who has been in a coma for years is luring teenagers into the forest. that they're being abducted by aliens and experimented on. you're so passionate about it, your eyes are glimmering and you're not at all bothered by the pouring rain that's found its way into every crevice of my clothing. maybe it's the way you said it, maybe it's the strangeness of the situation but i offer up a piece of information that just seems to excite you more. for a moment it all makes sense, empirical evidence be damned. it makes sense in the way your brows furrow and your voice changes, the way you hover over me and i feel protected from the rain and the cold. i start laughing at the absurdity. it's a hysterical laugh and you join in. you laugh with me because you can feel me trusting you, because maybe i'm the first person to do so. i've known you for two days

[drizzledrawings]

I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion

[sxsterplanet-deactivated2026041]

on season three of the x files and I truly cannot figure out what happens to mulder and scully through fanfics and gifsets. they tenderly embrace in bed. they never get together. they get married. they get divorced. they never even kiss. they have sex in season seven. what is secret sex? scully can’t have kids. she has his baby. it’s not confirmed to be his. there’s two different children referenced at various points. three? mulder disappears? she gets pregnant again and she’s like 50. they get together again. or they never did in the first place. but they’re married. what the hell do bees have to do with this

[hmm-questionable]

Wasn’t happy with the colours of my last post so I changed it a bit and now I think I’ve wrapped my head around gradient maps :D

[aphrostiel]

msr inspired my mcr

[nothinggold13]

X-Files is iconic because in the first episode Scully shows up at Mulder's hotel room in her underwear and neither of them treat it as remotely sexual. X-Files is also iconic because by the second episode Scully is holding an air force officer hostage to get Mulder back and by the third she is staking her professional reputation on his right to have insane theories. She thinks he's crazy. She's ride-or-die for him. These two facts exist in equal measure no matter how many weird things he shows her or how impossible his latest theories might be. Again, this is just the first three episodes. They're already making television history.

[dana-scullys-cross-necklace]

They’d known each other for all of five minutes and independently concluded that they’d kill and die for one another without hesitation.

And you think soulmates don’t exist.

[mulderscully]

THE X-FILES | 2.06

[junegoose]

The x files has fully ruined my brain. I see MSR in everything. I just saw a photo of a deer gently licking another deer’s face and I was like “that’s so Mulder and Scully.” There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

[awihog]

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" ok well I asked fbi special agent fox mulder and he said that his theory is chatgpt is powered by a historical demon referenced in two (2) twelfth century texts that he actually believes is an alien taking the form of technology in order to assimilate better with the modern world and dana scully was also there and she just put her head in her hands and sighed