#but mulder checking in with scully

[thatfragilecapricorn30]

damn. david was so right for this.

#yes i cut out some of the quote bc i wanted to focus on this part #but mulder checking in with scully #and looking for her opinion even when he knows he’s gonna disagree #is very sexy #david duchovny #the x files #txf #msr #my.txf

[agent-troi]

scully is soooo protective of trevor it gives me feelings

#the way scully and mulder are with kids makes me soooooooo #new headcanon scully checks up on trevor several times after the case ends just to make sure he’s doing ok #and maybe he imprints on her like a baby duck and starts calling her aunt dana #and maybe she gets mulder to talk to him too bc he’s a psychologist and they help him work through some of his trauma #x files #txf s6 #trevor #dana scully #fox mulder

[mindibindi]

What people fail to recognise is that Mulder and Scully aren't just any other ship. 30 years later some people seem stunned by their staying power and popularity. But not me. And look, every ship is unique and magical in its own way. But there are a few ships that occupy a higher tier all of their own. Mulder and Scully are one of these. If there is justice, then A03's results will reflect this. At the same time, this ship has nothing to prove. It effortlessly holds its rightful and unchallenged place in modern fandom history. Pitting this ship against others is almost unfair. It's like racing a human being against a super soldier okay. It ain't a fair fight. There is no reason for tumblr to have an identity crisis when destiel loses to an opponent this mighty. MSR is simply a different beast. It isn't A ship. It's THE ship.

#txf #the x files #msr #mulder x scully #fox mulder #dana scully #ao3 top ships #not dissing other ships #tongue firmly in cheek #but also: check yr fandom history #the only ships that can touch them came from star trek #i said what i said #be cool in the comments #this can still be the destiel site #just pay appropriate homage to the gods of shippery

[carefulfears]

thinking about the inherent grief in being needed

#it doesn’t last forever #that’s always on her mind #who will check on him? who will be his friend? who will keep him present on the earth? #who will listen to him and tell him if he’s making a mistake #when she’s gone #how could she possibly be so important to this person #and how could it all be so fragile #it aches to be depended on #txf #msr #fox mulder #dana scully #the x files #might do a web weave about this later #kae meta

[freckleslikestars]

Okay but this moment gets me every time right because it gives me so many thoughts. Like, she’s so exasperated, but also she lets him with - maybe not patience - but a kind of resigned acceptance and you just know they’ve been through this routine time and again, and I seriously need the fic looking at all the times he’s checked her for vampire bites.

#my gifs #GA gifs #xf gifs #bad blood #the x files #txf #msr #dana scully #fox mulder #checking for vampire bites is romantic okay? #x files

[nefertitisfjordd]

Agent Scully playing with her bf's hair

(6.08)

#or as she likes to put it 'checking for head trauma' #girl okay #you are fooling no one #not a single one #but please do carry on #x files #the x files #txf #fox mulder #dana scully #david duchovny #gillian anderson #mulder x scully #msr #scully x mulder #rain king

[marsixm]

im trying to wrap my head around why i dont get enthusiastic about reddit style fiction (not a dig but a descriptor) like scp and shit like that, bc its not that i can’t enjoy them but i think its like… when stuff is framed as if it were real, but its fiction, its like, well KNOWING its fiction eliminates a huge element of the intrigue, but also, crucially, i like character-driven stories, or at least stories WITH characters. but i also like it when things are interesting for said characters to experience, like, i want the ghosts and monsters and conspiracies but i want the characters to be character-ing, yknow? not that i dont enjoy slice of life and… what would u call the first thing, non-character specific horror? idk? but i prefer when its both. its like i love kirk and spock but also i do enjoy watching them Experience Situations when i watch star trek. i enjoy the idea of spooky national forest monsters that arent real but experiencing it alongside a character would be better, and i want more trans and gay characters whose lives are clearly trans and gay but i want a plotline to unfold too

#i dont think im saying anything different or interesting im just #listening to a wendigoon podcast thats one of his things just #explaining a classic reddit horror story #and ig i enjoy the concept of this one more #but it leaves me thinking like #ok so why do i not wanna hear about this that much….? #and also why i dont rly give a fuck about scp at all when my friends tell me about it #or the mystery flesh pit thing #and its the same reason i didnt give a shit about 2017 IT but loved the 1990 mini series. connecting to the damn characters!!! #i guess i ought to give shit a try again i mean i did read creepypastas once when i was a teenager and enjoyed it #i had a similar thought thw other day when they announced another new star trek aos flashback movie #not that it explicitly said anything about this sort of stuff but like #i just remember hearing some ppl in a college course i was in talking about aos and like ohh the flashbacks to kirks childhood!!! #but in that ‘discussing superheroes’ way of like ‘oh this is good bc it checked the correct canon box!’ #like idk dawg i do enjoy fact gathering about characters i love but thats not why i love them? #ok that rly was a tangent i just dont vibe w scp. but if you put a mulder and scully situation in there with it. boom. id be there. ok???? #its almost like theres a reason this formula has proven to be so successful over and over and over again

[silo1013]

my favorite phenomenon is when someone writes something that’s very much msr but there’s like a tiny scene or line of dialogue that feels like the author going “oh yeah just so you know. scully likes women/mulder likes men”

#it’s so funny like it’s just an inimitable fact #once read something that was like a redo of the dreamland episode where mulder and scully swap bodies instead of mulder and that other guy #and at one point scully walks into a restaurant or something and a bunch of girls are checking her out bc she looks like mulder #and there’s a line that’s like ‘not that she’s a stranger to approving glances from other women—nor a stranger to enjoying them’ #and i was like ohhhhh okay. this person understands.

[carefulfears]

Explain what you said on Twitter

assuming that you're talking about when i said that imo the conversations around "scully, you're making this personal" aren't aligned with the intent/impact of the scene (actually i think what i said was that the scene is very serious but y'all never talk about what's serious about it so you loop back around to being unserious) and tbh i can do a post on my own feelings about the scene sometime when i'm feeling more with it if y'all want but i just meant that people bitch about that line every single day talking about how it's hypocritical and how infuriating it is and how much you hate mulder in s6 etc etc but i literally never see anyone even think about like...the actual meaning of the scene and implications of the line and the context and where they're each coming from. it's all just a very shallow and reactionary discussion in my experience

(i ended up talking more in the tags lol i never shut up in the tags)

#interesting to watch byers' reaction in that scene tbh. considering he's the one who said he 'always wondered' why mulder and diana split up #he very much has a look of 'don't go there' when scully keeps pushing it #as pointed out in randomfoggytiger's analysis of the scene which is linked on their page #this obv isn't shade to anyone who's talked about the scene lol #asks #scully LOATHESSS diana lol and has literally every reason and more #i just think the convos around that scene are missing the biggest emotional aspect (scully's violation in relation to diana's participation #to like.....focus on a totally different angle and blow it up #when i say that the scene IS very serious but never in the way discussed #i mean that it's very much about scully begging to be heard and kind of quietly betraying how much her own exploitation impacts her #how much it IS personal #and it's also kind of a last ditch effort to try to get the person she loves out of this abusive/manipulative situation using evidence #and he IS listening to her (he goes from there to check diana's apartment and tells diana he has doubts about her. which he didnt before) #but she doesn't know that bc she just hears 'scully you're reaching' 'scully you're making this personal' #my interpretation of the line is that he's talking about her criticism of diana. which we know she's been vocal about from her #'you KNOW what i think THAT woman is' in the previous episode #i think he's taking it as input on HIS personal life and what he does with HIS relationships and HIS ex (wife) (lol) #but what makes the scene serious and kind of haunting is that that actually is not what she's talking about at all #she's talking about the chip in her neck. she's talking about her dead daughter. her dead sister. HIS dead sister. the dead MUFON women. #all things that she KNOWS diana is involved with. but she can't MAKE him see that or believe her #(even though he does take in her input moving forward) #they're just not on the same page for once and they're not talking about the same thing #like it's a very deep and very very difficult conversation because it's so convoluted in abuse and power structures and trauma #but my main thought on it is that like...i never see anyone think about the implications or even the aspect of scully's personal history #all anyone ever says all the time is like omg of course it's personal to her i hate him for this men are so stupid #NO ONE EVER EVEN REMEMBERS WHAT THE SCENE WAS ABOUT #and ofc people are allowed their jokes and not every post on every scene is gonna go into how people think about it or how they interpret i #it's just always a very shallow conversation surrounding a very important scene which bothers me! that's all

[freckleslikestars]

The X Files: Piper Maru

Living Polariod Project: 64/219

#living polaroid project #living polaroid project season three #the x files #my gifs #xf gifs #txf #x files #msr #mulder #scully #fox mulder #dana scully #piper maru #‘I just got very turned on’ the way she looks at him when he says that #but also women knowing planes is incredibly hot so I get that #season three had some big hitters #although i just checked and this is the first season of a trend of two two parters per season #so its not actually that important in the long run #but having two two parters - particularly so close together - feels important when its the first time

[guitarnacle]

Hey babe I'm watching txf s1e8 ice again yeah the one with the CGI worms and tender neck touching and the ending that is the absolute representation and epitome of Mulder's problem with the government he works for yes I'm feeling ok why do you ask

#they genuinly have sex si much in this episode its not even funny #when theyre pointing the guns at each other and then get real close and yell each others names #when they go in that locked room and then “check each other for infection” #when scully trusts him so much she risks the whole expedition and its only their 8th episode together #so much sex and yet they touched like twice #also scully wears a really cute winter jacket #and mulder gets shirtless like 4 times and has a very cozy jumper also #the x files #x files #msr #mulder #scully #mulder and scully #s1e08 ice #txf

[sandrabullockthehedgehog]

do you think mulder sends scully haunted tiktoks

#i picture scully checking her phone after work and seeing 50 dms from mulder #and she has to be like 'mulder these are all edited' #and he whips out an xfile for each of them #x files #me #mine

[universalsatan]

i’m only 3/4s of the way thru the first season of x-files and im already losing my mind. is this how unbearable slowburn is from the outside??? jesus christ i am so sorry to everyone around me irl LMAO. and the fact that i can See myself in mulder in so many ways (yes fine, another adhd idiot on which to project), but most significantly, that he Realizes. he Realizes he’s falling for scully halfway thru the FIRST season, but also that his lil crush is already COMPLETELY obvious to the rest of the office, apparently????? i have never been so thoroughly called out by a show,

#and also. the way they treat each other. they are so soft and caring and HOUFHFHHH #always checking up on each other and making sure they do what’s in the other’s best interest #it’s always about them. no one is more important in the entire world #it’s only halfway thru the first season. im going crazy #looking at my own situation. five and a half years of me pining #so many incidents and we’re already acting married as shit. it’s like looking in a goddamn mirror #yall this show means so much to me im genuinely going insane #and FUCK. i can ESPECIALLY see how mulder has a Feeling. he Acknowledges it himself and accepts it #but he won’t touch it. everything is to protect scully. what he yearns doesnt matter. it’s that she’s safe and okay anddjfjfkskfjd #im yearning hard cause i havent seen him in. three days. fuck. i won’t see him for a goddamn week #god. the second they started bickering. literally i recognized it as flirting. very first meeting. because thats what we fuckin do #hngngngng whelp #personal #mandont

[cryptidjeepers]

Actually so fucked up that the x files continues to be one of the few shows ive watched where the relationship between the male and female protagonists feel real to me. Like they arent just love interests from the get go. The romantic subtext isnt as important as their platonic relationship most of the time. Mulder is protective of scully because shes his friend. He checks in on her but it never feels like shes being belittled. She feels comfortable speaking her opinion without fearing that mulder will be condescending to her. Idk it just makes me feel safe to watch as a female viewer, knowing there is this respect between the main characters. That these characters actually care about each other. Very refreshing for a 30 year old tv show

#i hope i explained this right? i just feels like a lot of male protagonists have this vibe of wanting or needing something from the female #or the female character is straight up just a love interest or this poor baby that needs to be protected #or the opposite where the female character just wants something from the guy and diesnt actually care #and you're supposed to root for them but they clearly dont care about each other #im tired im sorry #x files #the x files #tv show writers please make your characters actually like each other

[silo1013]

ice is like obviously a fucked up gross episode but it’s also like. weirdly tender in places. it’s kind of interesting actually

#even outside of the ‘checking each other for parasites’ scene which we are all familiar with #at the end when they have to wrestle the infected girl (dasilva?) to get the worm in her ear #and she’s like screaming and squirming and then she just stops. and mulder and scully are like holding her really gently #idk. i noticed it

[fangirleaconmigo]

You know what I think is missing from modern M/F ships? Women who Fuck Shit Up to protect the men they love.

Yes ok I’m queer and I love queer ships but I was thinking…I did used to have a M/F ship. I did love Mulder/Scully. What did they have?

It was this:

This is like ep TWO and Scully finds out that someone has kidnapped Mulder and THIS is what she does to find and rescue him. LOOK AT THOSE EYES THE HOMICIDE IN THEM!

I feel like modern writers think feminism and Strong Female means that women characters have to be unimpressed and cool and so critical of the love interest that you can’t even tell she likes the guy.

Fuck that.

Because when that happens I COULDNT GIVE TWO SHITS About that ship. She doesn’t even like his ass!! She should find someone she likes!!

The only caveat of course is that you make the man someone who is worthy of her (I.e. he respects her mind, supports her dreams, is loyal etc)

David Duchovny was asked about the chemistry between them in 1996 and he said:

Do you play it like Fox has impure thoughts about Scully?

No, what I tend to play is that I always want to check with her. Whenever I hear something interesting, I’ll look at her. That’s sexy to people.

If you’ve established that he respects her, then yes she should be a fucking simp. Otherwise I am not rooting for them!!! Otherwise! I! do! Not! Care!

Scully believed in Mulder immediately! She didn’t believe in aliens but she believed IN HIM. She defended him from DAY ONE to the higher ups, she fought for him, she respected how he really listened and how he really cared about regular people getting fucked over by the government.

In the same interview, Gillian said:

I think what makes the relationship between Scully and Mulder sexy is the respect they have for one another. They don’t manipulate or take advantage of one another. I’m sure that’s very intriguing for the audience.

So yeah.

Real respect. Real devotion.

And a woman who will demolish a motherfucker for harming her man.

#the x files #mulder x scully #fox mulder #dana scully #fandom #fanfic