Watching Atla For The First Time

Fox Mulder won the autism lottery. He made the FBI give him an entire subdivision for his special interest AND someone to infodump to

dana scully is stronger than any other person on this earth bc if I had to listen to mulder's stupid fucking theories every day of my job only for him to be RIGHT?? most of the time I would go insane

what do you mean lin manuel miranda dropped a hamilton nightcore album today i dont see anyone talking about this. Are you guys aware

can someone rewrite criminal minds but elle’s storyline and trauma is more explored, less of making her seem like a villain!!! and maeve plotline is better and she lives and they have children and also jeid NEVER happens pleek😭😭😭😭💔

ao3 writers GET. TO. IT.

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back

Love these guys what was going on with their old photoshoots

bones is my emotional support copaganda show because never before has a straight couple exhibited such homosexual levels of yearning

Re-watching early X-Files, it strikes one that it's not actually unreasonable for Mulder to assume a lot of what Scully says to him is some sort of esoteric flirting thing, because who the fuck talks to people like that, while we as the audience can see that she just talks like that all the time, including to herself when she's alone.

mulder and scully thinking they're stranded in the middle of this lake when they're actually 5 feet away from shore and they flirt and talk about cannibalism and scully tells him how her dad used to read moby dick to her and she compares mulder to ahab and then mulder catches her off guard by QUOTING moby dick and she mouths the line along and and and

The reason why Scully and Mulder clicked so quickly and mesh so well as a pair is because they both posses a very natural, intense curiosity. It manifests in different ways, and in slightly different areas of interest, but the spirit is one in the same, and I think they recognize and love this in one another.

Scully is different, and so immediately endearing to Mulder, because she’s the first person to want to know what he thinks, and why he thinks the way he does, instead of writing him off outright. He's an interesting puzzle to her. Even if she’s steadfast in her constant disagreement, her curiosity itself is—in a way—an act of validation, respect, care.

Mulder is so immediately endearing to Scully because the way he thinks is unusual for their profession, and probably refreshing. He's anti-bureaucratic, emotionally sensitive, unapologetically strange. A "lone wolf" yet so open and easily taken by her. It turns out, his curiosity in the supernatural was born from something equally fascinating, and all too rare: his care for other people.

And love is a kind of curiosity… a deliberate interest, a constant desire to know…