the only normal person in the world

⚠️🔞 • they/them • bad opinions for free • your local msr anti • scullythirsting

[wintersnails]

sorry toxic msr is kind of compelling to me 😳

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[wintersnails]

a character breaks the 4th wall but there’s just another 5th wall behind it

[scottsummerrs]

David Duchovny as Fox Mulder in The X Files Season 01 Episode 01 Pilot

[wintersnails]

watching season 6 of the x files so i can watch two people who were never married go through their divorce era and honeymoon era simultaneously

[mekammin]

i was gonna write a lowkey little post but when i actually started thinking about it it’s craaaaazy how diana fowley is characterized in fanworks as like. an annoying harpy whose only goal is to drive mulder and scully apart when her actual onscreen, offscreen actions are soooo much more interesting, even when theyre unexplored. she was infiltrating support groups to report on women who’d been used as guinea pigs in a global conspiracy in order to secure her place in the world to come!!!! she was a player and a pawn in the same game! she hedged her bets against humanity and then gave it up in a last act of kindness?? that’s crazy thats insane what happened there! no one seems to care!

[vizual-demon]

David Duchovny

The X-Files S02E05 "Duane Barry"

[motheringbird]

Obsessed with Mulder going from “idk if this is a good idea Scully, who’s going to protect you?” to beating the shit out of Emily’s doctor for withholding information

[katebeckets]

idiots (affectionate)・[59/?] ⤷ 3.12 — “War of the Coprophages”

[wintersnails]

i forgot that part of the set-up for everything that goes down in Never Again was Mulder having so much unused PTO that he was practically getting kicked off the premises

[limnaea]

Also very funny how s6/7 keep prodding Mulder with foreshadowing of what happens if he doesn’t pay attention. Hey here’s this guy that gets stuck in the car and is cursed to keep driving. Hey here’s this guy who can’t ever see his family and is stuck in a mental hospital because he got too caught up with conspiracy and endangered his daughter. Here’s a guy who never got to meet his kid after being put away and dies by his own actions before he gets another chance. Here’s a guys whose repressed emotions & desires control his life. Here’s a guy who lost his son and who can’t ever confront his grief. They’re trying to hit him over the head with it and he doesn’t figure it out until it’s a story about aliens and baseball

[deathsbestgirl]

there's so much love in the way scully watches mulder learn lessons she's already learned and when he decides to show her, she meets him right there. like she's been waiting and he's only just realizing and they just smile.

[mockingjaysongbird]

You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday.

THE X FILES : season 4 episode 17 (TEMPUS FUGIT)

[dailytxf]

The X-Files | 1.14 “Gender Bender”

[translucentshine]

rewatching "e.b.e." and "i think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot" is still one of the craziest lines in this entire show 😭😭 the way mulder doesn't even glance at scully pretending to busy himself. the way she stops and looks up at him. the silence after!!!!! OMG.

[benoitblanc]

top 5 txf seasons?

season 3 is not only the best season of the show by a HIGH bar but it's one of the best seasons of all of scifi. the mythology is gripping and shockingly coherent. the motw episodes are scary and funny and heartfelt all at once. (overall it's got the highest ratio of bangers to clinkers of the whole show.) it's gorgeously shot. both mulder and scully have good hair at the same time. the character work is CRAZY. the foreshadowing for season 4 is unmatched. it's even got the best episode of all of tv AND scully's dog. what more do you need from a show

this is normally a tossup spot for me between season 2 and season 4. right now i'm going to go with s4 because the mythology in s4 gives me brain worms. holy fucking shit. leonard betts into never again into memento mori is absolutely generational and CRAZY risky with RIDICULOUSLY high reward

so by default then this is season 2, which is when i think the show really hit its stride and figured out what kind of story it was telling. scully's abduction is some of the best doomed-from-the-beginning writing i've ever seen. it didn't have to happen but it was always going to happen and they could have stopped it but it would have happened anyway. it changed the entire show

season 5 is deeply underrated but SO fascinating... by switching mulder and scully's roles in the narrative and introducing the idea that maybe aliens actually aren't real, it's able to dig really deep into all of its characters (even secondary characters like skinner and the gunmen and krycek!). it's one of the most tonally cohesive seasons and has a lot of hidden gem episodes (pine bluff variant is top 20 for me, and i think kill switch and folie a deux in particular deserve more love too), with only three (schizogeny, travellers, and all souls) that i'd say aren't good. chris carter going back on the mythology of this season by saying that aliens ARE actually real was a huge mistake in my opinion. that's not the kind of story he'd been telling the entire time

i'm going to cheat and tie seasons 1 and 6, because season 6 is a much better season from a technical perspective (it's sharp, it's original, it's cohesive, it's got really incisive character work that needs just a little more followthrough), but the spookier, more mysterious vibes in season 1 work a lot better for the show. and it's got some classic episodes too- i actually think the pilot is largely kind of bullshit, but the tooms sequence, ice, and beyond the sea, at the very least, deserve all their flowers. rip deep throat. what a guy

ask my top 5/10 anything!!!

[sophsun1]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as Dana Scully

The X-Files – 3.04: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose