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how unfortunately relevant

I think everyone has their “this should’ve been the canonically get-together” episode, mine is Detour.

Its right after cancer arc and I don’t think they would’ve gotten together during is because there was to much of a possibility for Mulder that she would be ripped away from him and it would feel too much to Scully like he was only with her out of guilt or pity because she was sick. But in detour they’ve both already realized what they are to each other, they have all these cute moments and god the motel room scene and the scene at night in the woods- don’t even get me started!

Anyway drop your “get together episode”

I feel like i should clarify that canon would be different after this, like they definitely weren’t together yet in ftf, but if they got together in detour it would be different, y’know?

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comm for @palevvitch tysm for trusting me with this !

Okay I know better than to post my face on tumblr but i lowkey got a Scully-bob (i cut it today) so do with that information what you will

"live, laugh, love" cursive wall art but instead it says "confuse, inveigle, obfuscate"

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I bet on losing dogs

Personally I’m angst lover and I love the moments where angst forces emotion from characters. They couldn’t have killed Scully and we all knew that, but there was something about watching Mulder not know that is so txf. It’s so “he wants to believe” that she will get better while while still not knowing how exactly that is possible and her being completely convinced (after Momento Mori) that she will be dying and, “no Mulder don’t fight me in this, it’s a fact” that is just so in line with the entirety of the show. And while I’ve also not seen a lot of fics where Scully doesn’t get cancer I also think that a lot of caner arc fics dont get a lot of love. I understand people sometimes just want to read something feel-good and cute but don’t knock the emotional catharsis of watching two people who are madly in comfort each other through the fact that they are about to be ripped apart until you try it.

Y’all should go read “I Never Got Over Those Blue Eyes (I See Them Everywhere)” by HeavyOnTheTragedy on AO3 because shameless self promotion

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

I just realize a posses a very similar shirt now i just need a cheeky little brown vest

The Keystone Ellens of The X-Files

Skinner didn’t really think the Arcadia case was going to be an x-file. They asked him if he knew any two agents who could believable portray a married couple and he said “these babies wont just act like a married couple for their neighbors, they’ll have US questioning weather or not they’re a married couple”