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how to say "I love you" in x-files [105/?] ⤷ 6.04 — “Dreamland”

Every day I think of that one "blooper" from fight the future where Scully and Mulder aren't interrupted at the bee scene, but it's pretty much just Gillian and David making out

my stuff

top of mind: my fic rec list (my curated / categorized list of fics I love, which I actively add to all the time) me @ AO3 (because not everything is on Tumblr) my fic on Tumblr (but not everything is on Tumblr) oh yeah me on Gossamer (I was but a child) meta: Sexualizing Scully (in Never Again and the whole series) Me on 3 (Mulder's Depressed Vampire Sex) Penultimate Partner Episode Analysis: Season 3-7 Why the XF isn't Really About Watergate Why The End is an Underappreciated Critical MSR Episode Scully the Ice Queen Trope

themed fic recs: Rain King fic recs for Valentine's Day Biogenesis / Sixth Extinction / Amor Fati fic recs Spooky Fic Recs for Tricks and Treats (Halloween) Undercover Mulder Smolder: Pine Bluff Variant fic recs Mulder-centric fic for Mulder's birthday Season 1 /Early Season 2 Fics W/ No Spoilers Outsider POV fic recs 3 fic recs Milagro fic recs for Valentine's Day DeadAlive / Three Words fic recs

genuinely being a tv enjoyer in this current time sucks balls because tv is trying to do what movies do and it makes it WORSE. the best part about tv is that you spend time with it consistently week after week year after year and now because tv shows are fractured and have the budget of major movies they're becoming shorter with way longer time between seasons and it hurts the one (at least to me) best thing about tv!! which is that it's reliable and consistent and has longevity because tv is a long form format!!! But it's being pushed into being made more short term like movies because of all these economic pressures and bonkers expectations. I'm sick of it!!! I'm sick of tv shows being acclaimed when they don't feel like tv shows as if that's a bad thing!!! I'm sick of waiting 2-4 years for 4-8 episodes. I'm sick of reading about the best writers in the business not being able to make a living. I'm sick of it!!!! I want tv back!!! I miss my friend tv!

'never again' but instead of ed jersey scully goes on a date with a woman who also has an evil tattoo that makes her go insane and kill people <3

scully deserves some hot lesbian sex as a treat

(mulder is still jealous and a bit of a dick bc of that but then they kiss and make out up and everything's fine)

If there's one thing supernatural has taught me, it's that. Gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.

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

X-Files S1E1

- that's a pretty cool title screen

- * woman running in the woods at night * yeah this was made in the 90s

- ooooh aliens (so soon?)

- sir, why are you touching a dead body with your bare fingertips??

- sheriff's shady af

- GILLIAN ANDERSON

- the fashion is very very 90s, also she's so tiny

- cigarette man is sus

- Title Card

- so she's being assigned to essentially ruin this man's career/hyperfixation?

- of course he's in the basement (so was the BAU at first but Jason Gideon and David Rossi got em outta there and into a private jet *sigh* I miss Reid)

- that has to be an iconic line right?

- HyperfixationTM

- and thus the ship that invented shipping meets (Spirk are the still forefathers tho)

- sir, sir, you are staring

- wait they did something cool here. Mulder was introduced as a character in a conversation with Scully and Scully was introduced in a conversation with Mulder

- she rewrote Einstein? He read her dissertation?

- he's so excited someone's listening to him. Oh my God, is Mulder a wet cat loser?

- she's a Skeptic

- "the answers are there, you just have to know where to look" they're going to become the FBI's worst fucking nightmare aren't they

- ma'am what was that smile??

- will her airplane phobia come up again? I think her airplane phobia will come up again

- ew sunflower seeds

- how many apple boxes is the tiny doctor sitting on?

- medical examiner's shady af

- the height difference

- what Final Destination bullshit was that?

- that is a whole ass alien body

- loser cat let me work!!! (He's absolutely definitely a cat)

- ma'am that was not funny

- ahhh the days of dynamic camera work and actual colour grading that doesn't make you wanna weep

- prediction time: Peggy did it

- they're doing a good job of establishing that Mulder is actually the experienced agent and Scully's very green

- so the conversation earlier in the office more or less says that the FBI's been trying to shut down the X-Files for a while. Mulder is probably hella jaded and cynical when it comes to partners, he's made it clear he knows Scully's there to spy on him and yet... he's not blaming her for it, he's listening to her, working with her. What is this?

- tell me she did not just pick up dirt from a crime scene and shove it into her pocket

- I fucking knew the sheriff was shady

- why are you just holding out that dirt in his rental car and touching it with your bare hands??!?!?!?!?

- scully don't ruin his eureka moment (Time is a universal invariance is a great line tho)

- mulder looked cute as hell when he opened the door

- THE HUG????

- ar you kidding me?? Are you fucking kidding me???? They've known each other 24 hours and they're already physically (Scully) and metaphorically (Mulder) stripping down in front of each other????? This is the FIRST EPISODE?????????

- ok I've calmed down

- is there actually a conspiracy here? Or is it a bait and switch?

- also he gave her the bed and sat on the floor

- nvm my prediction was wrong

- the watch!

- oh yeah, there's a conspiracy here

- the ME's daughter?

- blood coming out of a hidden tube is very obviously blood coming out of a hidden tube

- it's the sheriff son isn't it?

- if Supernatural has taught me anything (beside soul-numbing grief and mind- breaking psychological torture), it's incredibly hard to dig a grave actually

- he starts to lose hope she's not actually with him and she immediately tells about the watch. If I'm already looking for a void to scream into during the first episode, I'm gonna be dead by the end of this show aren't I?

- it is the sheriff's son

- *takes fortifying breath* now Scully's convinced it's the son but Mulder's asking her to be cautious because she's gonna have to write all this down in a report. And she's so taken aback by this caution for her sake, she actually takes a minute

- immediately comes up with a scientific way to make it make sense. Worst Fucking Nightmare

- sheriff knew and was covering for him, bastard

- Scully conveniently and continuously missing the proof is gonna be a Thing isn't it

- he got decent proof aliens exist and he ran to check on Scully

- ok smolder holder

- they're looking at each other across a two-way mirror

- that implant is Checkov's gun

- see even she knows the cigarette man is sus

- he called her because he couldn't sleep??? They met 48 HOURS AGO (I don't actually know how many days have passed in total but my point STILL SATNDS)

- the Pentagon? Definitely a conspiracy

So I've decided to watch The X-Files for the very first time after doomscrolling on Pinterest and being Intruiged.

I know this much about the show from the Internet:

- Very Important show in the sci-fi genre and cultural zeitgeist

- the MulderxScully ship invented the concept of shipping

- it's about aliens?

- the title sequence music gets used in all the meme videos

- Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny hate each other, except maybe they don't, it's really fucking complicated

Also I've decided to document this journey on Tumblr bc why not?

“If The X-Files was a 90s anime.”

credit: MabooCraboo on imgur

I started watching the x files on this day 2 years ago, so here's some experiments with style/composition to celebrate it I guess. some details are under the cut

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

THE X-FILES — 06x20

Love these guys what was going on with their old photoshoots

Funniest x files moment is the jersey devil episode when scully goes on a date and it doesn't go well and she has a character development moment about weighing how much she wants a normal life and relationship vs being dedicated to her career and the x files. And then it cuts to mulder looking intently at a drawing of a bigfoot with boobs

gillian anderson at the 1998 golden globes save me. save me gillian anderson at the 1998 golden globes

dana scully may be the girl of all time

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.

as he should

x files studies but this time I tired to achieve that VHS feeling. I very vaguely remember watching some episodes as a kid, and I think this is as close as I've ever got to recreating that memory of a small, grainy tv in a dark room

They are emailing eachother

the tragedy of characters attempting to break free from the cycle (violence, fate, generational trauma, etc.) that they go down a path and become someone they don’t even recognize all to fulfill the cycle they had every intention of breaking and fail the quest

I think I'm having déjà vu. The light, the forest. As if all of this has already happened before. A glitch in the matrix.

Dark - S01E01 - Geheimnisse

Day 4 of Criminal Minds Evolution Week!

Here's everything we know about season 18 so far:

The season is going to be focused on JJ and Tara

The official plot summary for the season is "six months after fellow inmates attacked the notorious Sicarius Killer aka Elias Voit, leading his restless followers on the dark web to begin wreaking havoc all over the country. In order to stop this nefarious group from killing more innocents, the BAU is forced to once again work in concert with an increasingly unpredictable Voit, who of course has his own agenda"

The episodes are called: 'Swimmer's Calculus', 'The Zookeeper', 'Time to Say Goodbye', 'I'm Fine, It's Fine. Everything is Fine', 'The Brutal Man', 'Hell is Empty...', 'All the Devils are Here', 'Tara', 'CollateRal', 'The Disciple'

Episode 1 will air on May 8th and the episodes will continue to air weekly after that (according to TVLine)

The summary for episode 1 is "when bodies wash up ashore in Maryland, autopsies reveal a new threat". The summary for episode 2 is "Voit awakens from his coma, the BAU discovers a dormant Network killer"

Sandy Jareau (JJ's mom), Henry Lamontagne, and Vincent Orlov (Voit's lawyer) are all confirmed to be returning (either through photos from set or through interviews with Erica Messer)

Two new characters, Dr. Ochoa played by Aimee Garcia and an unknown character played by Linda Lavin

Dr. Ochoa is "one of the country's leading neuropsychiatrists who is assigned to help a high-profile patient recover from his injury-induced brain trauma [who] clashes with Alvez, who believes in a more aggressive approach than her gentle approach"

Spencer Reid will be returning for a cameo. It will be for a major life event and fans will be happy about the reason why he returns according to Erica Messer and Paget Brewster

This season will be more about standalone cases rather than one overarching storyline (but the unsubs will still be connected through Voit's network)

Scenes for s18 have been filmed at a cemetary, JJ's house, and a hospital

Voit is going to be more vulnerable this season and we're going to see a different side of him

At the beginning of the season, Rossi is being investigated by internal affairs for Voit's attack

Here's a list of all the promo photos organized by episode!

Fuck whoever decided it wasn't one of the worst possible ideas to introduce a certain plot point into the S14 finale Truth or Dare

I'm sorry you could have said ANYTHING else

And not done your best to ruin a beautiful friendship and amazing family

You know what, no. It didn't happen. I disagree. They are literally siblings atp like please what is this

No, because I actually love them interacting more before this. We actually see them being "best friends" and bonding.

But they are friends. Sibling coded. JJ as much as I loved her, she doesn't listen to Spencer, his info dumps and many interests. You just cannot write in that characters like these are in love after 14 SEASONS of evidence that would say otherwise.

Erica Mereditch, I am actually your biggest hater. Even the cast didn't like this, who fucking approved the script??

Then in S15 trying to fix it and Spencer struggling as if he still had those underlying feelings?? Girl i can't. I'm not even in the head space to vent about this properly. Might just skip through some scenes

On a cuter note, he took after his dad (Hotch)

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.

new fanfic: i use hozier’s lyric "i’ll crawl home to her" to apply it to an AU with the doyle storyline

Someone write a fic where bau!reader and the team get into a heated discussion about Team Jeremiah vs Team Conrad that ends in reader having a fiery monologue about how they both suck. And hotch walks in on it and is just internally like “that’s my girl” because he secretly has the hots for her and seeing her so passionate about them both being wrong and even Belly being wrong makes him abskshdjs. 🥺😫