#gillian anderson facts

[hannibalspubes]

IM LOSING MY MIND RIGHT NOW GUYS !!!!!

LOOK

She’s standing on his feet 😭😭😭😭😭

This is so cute I’m going to die

#fun fact me and Gillian Anderson are the same height #5’3 #she’s so fuckin cute #I was wondering why I never really noticed how short she is in Hannibal #you can tell alot more in xfile when she’s standing next to Mulder #but Mulder and Hannibal are the same height #I guess this explains it lol #very cute #10/10 #bedelia du maurier #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannigram #hannibal lecter #gillian anderson #mads mikkelsen

[jessiesjaded]

Little Mulder and Scully moments, 1x03.

#I love how theyre already so soft and comfy with each other its sooooooo #also scully defending him all ep regardless of the fact he got his memory wiped and she had to save him last ep like #she really did have a crush first its so cute.... #msr #mulder x scully #dana scully #fox mulder #txfedit #the x files #thexfilesedit #david duchovny #gillian anderson #Okayi think im done giffing squeeze now ive mad elike 15 gifsets from it ☠

[pookie-mulder]

I would sell my soul for David and Gillian to do an X-Files rewatch podcast together

#the gossip. the drama. the insight. the fun facts. #imagine the possibilities! #txf #david duchovny #gillian anderson #gillovny

[gingerteaonthetardis]

The X-Files Season 1 + close talking

#i'm aware that there are probably 500 gifsets exactly like this but *shrug* life is too short for me not to go after my passions #and my passion is every time that dumb mf puts his head right in her face. girl that's hot. it's also probably an hr violation #txfedit #msredit #danascullyedit #foxmulderedit #xfilesedit #tvedit #tvandfilm #tvgifs #fox mulder #dana scully #mulder x scully #90sedit #also i specifically chose scenes where he does it to her because there's something about the looming. something about it. idk #don't analyze me pls #and in fact. don't analyze these gifs either because the coloring/lighting is NOT consistent and. well. that's just life #on the bright side gillian anderson looks good in all lights so. that certainly makes life easier #anyway i just finished rewatching s1 because i'm not over it. about to move on to s2 while i work on another crochet project sooooo #the xfiles phase is not over babes <3 soz

[mindibindi]

The fact that Mulder and Scully never got a well-lit, well-shot kiss unencumbered by obstacles of any variety (be they bosses, babies or broken bones) is made all the more frustrating by the fact that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson both look like really, REALLY good kissers. DD has played a lot of sexy/romantic roles; "Californication" alone gives ample evidence of his kissing prowess. Gillian hasn't played as many roles requiring make-out skills but she does this thing in "Playing By Heart" where she pulls back from Jon Stewart's mouth and traces his lips with hers.... 😳😳😳 She does a similar thing in the FTF blooper kiss, where she pulls back from David/Mulder and makes his mouth chase hers. She teases him a bit with her tongue before diving in... 🥴🤯🤤 and YES, she is hamming it up for the crew (not us cos we were never supposed to see it GRR). Actually, she hams up that moment more than David, who just plays it straight. That is NOT how Scully would kiss Mulder for the first time. (Maybe for the second time. But even so. Mulder would be like: Wait a minute. Nice girls don't kiss like that. And Scully would be like: Oh yes they fucking do.... And then do it again). Those blooper kisses are ALL Gillian, not Scully. And as grateful as I am that the kisses Gillovny tried so hard to insert into the M/S narrative leaked, I can't even believe THEM as real Mulder and Scully kisses. In short (not that this is news): WE WERE ROBBED. Over and over and over again. Because not only do DD and GA have the most epic chemistry in television history, not only do Mulder and Scully have the most epic love story in television history, NOT ONLY do DD and GA have the most kissable lips in television history, I believe to this day that they also possess the oral skills to elevate a well-lit, well-shot, well-timed, completely unencumbered kiss to the most sensual and satisfying consummation of sexual tension of all time. Only Chris Carter is a puritan so. Here we are. 30 years later.

#txf #the x files #kiss #mulder x scully #fox mulder #dana scully #gillian anderson #david duchovny #msr #gillovny #bless them for trying to rectify this mess #i apologise if this post made anyone wanna hot to kiss DD GA both or just in general #ftf #chris carter #is a puritan who can't separate sex from reproduction #the fact that this state of affairs was not remedied in the reboot is a travesty #bridget jones ref #californication #playing by heart

[stargirl22222222]

If my wife isnt dana scully im dont want her she is THE woman in stem

#i am in love with scully #mulder and scully #x files #the x files #gillian anderson #dana scully #i love her so much i swear to god #i will cook clean dance sing and work for her #she is the woman ever #ide let her talk to me about science facts even if i don't understand it #like okay the pathogenesis of the something something just kiss me

[t3acupz]

That fact that Gillian Anderson is 5’3” but when she plays Bedelia it feels like she towers over Will and Hannibal is a testament to her acting abilities

#hannibal #gillian anderson #she can turn anyone into a lesbian #it’s just facts

[gaycrouton]

January 2016 was such a special time

#for all intents and purposes this is a joke #I don’t want the anti-gillovnys coming for me lol #david duchovny #gillian anderson #gillovny #2016 #I mean… the facts are there

[chicalepidopterareblogs]

Ignore the horrible quality please but...this Gabrielle and this Marius?🥹🥹🥹

Picture is from Mr Morgan's Last Love (2013)

#interview with the vampire #gabrielle #marius de romanus #gillian anderson #justin kirk #the fact that this could be probably half true already🥹🥹🥹

[adverbian]

I am watching Sex Education on Netflix, and I may or may not have literally sighed and said to my husband “Gillian Anderson is so pretty. Why is she so pretty?”

#look at her she’s gorgeous #I am glad I figured out that I am in fact bi #gillian anderson #sex ed netflix

[halechief]

it is time actually for things to get a little gayer around here.

#i actually still very much remember the highly popular tumblr hoc fandom reimagine where francis was in fact frances and played #by gillian anderson #..... we're not doing that #but we are going to get a little queer. because im worth it

[moiraiinesedai]

Gillian Anderson in DePaul University (1986-1990)

#look at this cute bb 🥹 #but also thinking about the fact that she had a girlfriend during this time #🥵 #Gillian Anderson #you will always be iconic #DePaul University

[sometimesitswho]

Me every time something happens: I love Mulder and Scully, not the actors…

#the x files #mulder and scully #MSR #david duchovny #gillian anderson #in fact I really love Mulder and scully

[fernsehn]

Everything you kinda need to know about The X-Files is in this clip...

#as a starting point for a conversation :) #Youtube #the x-files #quintessential moment #by conversation I mean the fact that this is gillian anderson's first chance to write and direct her own x-files story and THIS is theintro #gillian anderson #scully #mulder

[doctor-milfi]

One thing about me is I can tell *everything* I need to know about a person based off their favorite episode of the XFiles.

#facts #about me #the x files #gillian anderson #dana scully #david duchovny #fox mulder

[olderthannetfic]

i was listening to the fanficmaverick podcast episode you did on fanfiction history, in which you mentioned (~55 min in) that you were one of the main people writing the terms of service for AO3 and bringing up the types of "would this be allowed" test cases, that these were not "oh it's a slightly problematic kink" but "violent snuff porn of gillian anderson, not scully, but gillian anderson" — and that you all eventually landed on "kinda gross, but legal in the US, and therefore would host." question: was this the most contentious case? any other memorable/notable test cases, or other interesting discussions you can remember?

i'd also love to hear more about how the major archive warnings were decided on — on what basis were these chosen? which others were considered? — if you happen to know!

sincerest thank you for all the work you've done for fandom and the preservation of fandom history. ❤️ seriously, such a feat, and so interesting!

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I think even then my personal level of wallowing in annoying wank or looking at horrifying fic was vastly higher than everyone else's, so this was pretty much the example we looked at.

Though, if you want to laugh, astolat's original post is still up on LJ with the comments, and there were totally people going "I'd be interested in this new archive project, but not if it includes RPF!" or "Not if it includes any underage fic at all!" etc.

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On usenet in the 90s, there was somebody or somebodies who were reaaaaally into that specific type of snuff story. I remember noticing how many of them involved not only hangings but very specific imagery of one high heel falling off. I was 13, so I really couldn't tell you if it was one dude with a specific fetish or genuinely super widespread. But it made an impression.

The alt.sex.stories hierarchy was a wild time.

Anyway, in practice, badwrong RPF of female celebs that sounds like it's aimed at straight dudes ends up on fetish sites for whatever the fetish is, not on fic archives for the most part, but I thought it was a useful example because it was so far into actually offensive to AO3y types. We're not talking the weaksauce shit people are always asking me about on here like "Oooh, what if someone posted [bog standard slash trope] to AO3?" as though it's a gotcha.

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Man... were there other test cases? I'm trying to remember. This was all in like 2008, and of course, I didn't keep internal documents when I left OTW. Not that half of this was stuff I'd have had documented on my computer anyway.

My memory is that the general shape of the content policy had been decided by the founding Board before Content Policy started up. I don't think we were actually making the ruling on RPF ourselves.

I'm pretty sure most of what we were up to was looking at wank and trying to determine how to head off shitty behavior with the ToS. Trying to define harassment is a mega pain in the ass, let me tell you.

One major internal wank there was was deciding whether to allow Original Work. I was the one who'd been in anime fandom, and I was very used to archives that have an original section, often for the "original slash" and "original yaoi" that had nowhere else to go at the time. (These days, you'd just become a "m/m romance" author, as I in fact have.) Fanfiction.net had spun off its original years ago at that point, but a lot of the non-English archives and a lot of the archives in other parts of English-speaking fandom found fannish-but-original to be a normal thing.

I am a grudgy bitch, and I am still not over how much pushback I got on this.

AO3 went live with a ban on original work, but the policy never ended up being heavily enforced. We waited to see what would happen with posting, and it was predictably that people from those backgrounds outside of US Media Fandom posted some original without even thinking it might be banned, but they didn't post so much it overwhelmed the archive.

The big fears had been that #1 people would flood AO3 and drown out the fic. This was predicated on the idiotic notion that original = inherently not fannish, so there's no dividing line. In reality, the people who were used to posting original to fic archives had an internal sense of what belongs and what doesn't. Fear #2 was that people would try to post chapter 1 of a commercial story and then go "See here to buy the rest". Little did we know that this would soon be a problem with fucking fan fiction itself. (Also, commercial spam was always against the rules and needed no extra anti-original work rule.)

People didn't just disagree with me: they looked at me blankly.

Pretty sure I vented about this on that podcast too though. Anyway, most of the shit people find contentious now was already decided before we started writing the ToS, I think... though I don't really remember clearly. We were more looking to plug up holes in the rules that nitpicking trolls could use to harass.

The kinds of things we were deciding were often like the policy that AO3 doesn't necessarily tell you if someone reported you. If they need info, they'll contact you, and if they decide you broke the ToS, you'll hear about it, but obviously bogus reports don't get passed on. This is to remove the temptation to use the team as a proxy to harass a target. An official e-mail, even if it's "You're fine, actually", can be disturbing.

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Re the warnings themselves, I know I'd done a survey of what archives were out there at the time and had come up with a list of a few dozen. This was early on in OTW's development process, not just for Content Policy. You can still find the list somewhere on that LJ group. Anyway, for the ToS writing, we looked at the commonplace warnings from archives past, which were basically character death, character death, and also character death.

It always cracks me up when people are like "Um, rape makes sense, but how dare they downplay these other bad things with a character death warning?" Old fandom places were full of unwarned for rape, but woe betide the person who posted surprise character death of a main ship!

We needed an under-18 warning because we had a lot of Australian fans who were like "Dude, my government is a bitch, and I cannot use this archive at all if I can't filter that out". Past archives had mostly just banned it entirely or been full of death eaters raping teenage Harry Potter characters with nary an underage warning in sight.

I don't remember why we picked the violence one. It really wasn't common, but maybe we wanted to make a philosophical point that sex doesn't have more cooties than violence.

CNTW was a compromise with older fandom standards where people objected to literally any warnings existing. A lot of the really oldschool warnings debates aren't about which ones you should have but about whether you should have them at all.

I think people around here miss how non-universal warnings are and how many other communities and spaces even today don't think you need all that.

I don't recall if we seriously considered any specific others. I don't think we had a big list, then ruled them out. It's more like we accreted a few must-haves as we went along. We probably looked at the metadata for the eFiction archives that actually had ticky boxes for search (as opposed to the very low-metadata norm on many archives). But a lot of those filters would have been fandom-specific or redundant or hella vague.

One thing to keep in mind is that this was an Era of Archives, so there were fucktons of examples to look at, though only a few flavors of example since a bunch used eFiction or otherwise copied each other's design. It was possible to make some judgements about past norms on archives, not just go "Are we copying FFN or not?" A lot of fans now see fic hosting as the big three or see AO3 as the only option, but we were used to having many archives with many designs.

I know we wanted a short and manageable list of warnings, and we wanted unambiguous things that could be effectively enforced. If I'm populating my hard-coded 90s website with other people's fics, I can go through each for dubcon before I post it (not that you'd ever have warned for dubcon in the 90s). On a big fic archive, making judgement calls on vague ass categories like dubcon is a nightmare.

We did do some focus groups where other interested fans came in and critiqued our work. I can't recall how much was about our ToS wording and how much was about the actual policies. But we did workshop this shit extensively with people who were around at the time. I think many of the whiners now assume it wasn't enough of a community effort (since we didn't decide things they like). But actually, a bunch of people weighed in. Maybe elf remembers what we actually asked them. I think she was in a focus group.