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[youokayscully]

if you were to get an x-files themed customized license plate for a car which option would you pick. asking for a friend ;)

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Voting ended onSep 2, 2023

[leonardbetts]

Mulder and Scully, seasons 1-5

[dargina]

[iconicscullyoutfits]

your blog is dedicated to scully's style but i wonder, what do you think of mulder's sense of fashion?

I feel like a sleeper agent who has been called upon by the secret word. Buckle in.

The Suits

The loose-fitting suits which bag at all the right places like they should are so much more appealing to me than modern, tightly-tailored suits. Strikes me as perfect for a romantic noir lead, which is of course what he and Scully are. The way he slings those hips forward, tie a little loose, jacket fronts tucked behind his forearms. That’s not even mentioning the Coats™. 

If you ask me about the ties, well, don’t, because you don’t want to hear my answer. I’m the kind of person who thinks every (harmless) thing about the person they love is endearing, no matter how stupid or annoying or seemingly deliberately inflammatory (maybe he rlly did pick those ties just to mess with people).

Casual Mulder

There was the time in early seasons where Mulder was the civilized world’s most vocal advocate for washed out double denim ensembles, and I wholly, passionately support that endeavour.

Unfortunately, Mulder goes full middle-aged white dad who got really into shorty-shorts and race-walking in the 80s whenever he goes exercising. But you know what!!! I stan! I’m not a quitter!! Show off those arms, baby, you didn’t swim all those laps in your low-resistance speedo slip for nothing.

Never forget the time he dressed like Lesbian Icon Bruce Springsteen and we all went cuckoo for coco pops over a pair of blue jeans. There’s the classic and extremely handsome leather jacket look, which also happens to be a harbinger for a night of unpredictable course (not necessarily in a bad way...but often).

The sweaters....what can I say about the sweaters. I want this man to live in a log cabin with me, shake off his rain jacket at the threshold and sit by the fire to warm his hands. I make him a tea. He tells me he found evidence of primeval organ harvesting suggestive of enduring and barbaric mothmen activity in the dense wood beyond our little abode. We kiss and go to bed.

Really, though, I think the fact that fox mulder can sport a $2000 armani suit and a $2 left-handed scissors haircut and make it work says everything you need to know.

[danakscully1964-deactivated2021]

Dana Scully in The X Files - The Jersey Devil (season 1 episode 5)

[iconicscullyoutfits]

i love hearing your thoughts, so - could you speak a little about david duchovny's acting? i know gillian is phenomenal, and is often considered the stronger actor. but also i just can't picture anyone else as Mulder. so i was just thinking of what is it that he did with the character that made me, well, absolutely devoted to the character. have a good day, your blog is a fav!

No one else could have played Mulder, and no other attempt to create a Mulder and Scully pair has come close to recapturing their dynamic. David didn’t play Mulder as just a goof or a wise-ass or a romantic sap. He was intelligent and petulant and too emotionally vulnerable. Other attempts to imitate Mulder come off as a romantic self-confident joker. David played it as someone who thinks quietly and talks very softly and occasionally erupts in bouts of rage and grief.

I think David’s micro-expression acting is perfect for Mulder - he has this quiet, unassuming expression, but there’s always a joke or a whirring thought or a memory of pain in his eyes. The quietness is what makes him intense and introspective, and all those times it seems like he hasn’t registered what Scully has said when she’s been vulnerable with him, or when he has a blank expression during a moment of crisis, actually strikes me as being true to Mulder’s character. He wears his heart on his sleeve, but only in a way that Scully can see, and in a way that is hidden from everyone else after years of isolation. I think David understood that Mulder’s numbness and isolation would make him act that way.

Every now and again, he did give standout dramatic performances; I’m thinking in particular of Paper Hearts, especially that scene in his mother’s basement, where he laughs to dismiss her worries, but his eyes are red and shining and he’s thrumming with grief, or when he gets choked up looking at a corpse he thinks is Samantha’s.  

One of my favourite underrated moments is when Scully calls him from the hospital in Memento Mori and asks him to bring an overnight bag, and he talks very gently with her on the phone, trying to act like he’s not worried, though you can see from his face that he is, and when he hangs up, he slams a draw shut and storms off. That anger is so real and more moving than concern. And then all of David’s improvised flood of tenderness in Redux ii, and the way he laughs whenever Mulder’s heart is breaking.

Overall, the subtlety and unexpected reactions are what makes Mulder complex and dark and light. Sometimes he’s intensely present, sometimes a crazy ass cosmonaut, and always with his mind in a million places and his heart like a stone in a grave.

[i-heart-scully]

ummmmm how is it that i’ve seen this ep approximately 87 times and i’ve never noticed mulder’s hand on scully’s back here?????????

[trusttnno1]

[the-pink-posse]

She’s my partner. 

[fistful-of-fandom]

The X-Files

↳ Mulder & Scully + close talking

[i-heart-scully]

You know these people love each other; they don’t need to say it. - Frank Spotnitz, DVD commentary for “Memento Mori”

[ngalitzine]

THE X FILES  — “Aubrey” (1994)

[trusttnno1]

Deep Throat

[robintunney]

mulder x scully height difference

[confessionsofatvjunkie]

Checking your business partner for a possible alien parasite should not be THAT sexually charged!!!

[scullydubois]

txf polaroids: ascension (2x06)

[dana-sculy]

The X Files season 11 bts