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yo do y'all remember in the x files S7 E7 this woman in the blue dress who works at that restaurant? She totally slays. Like, someone tried to harm her and she just grabs the hot tea and slams it in his face while the police has to focus on that guy who escaped prison. After that guy who escaped disappears and the police tries to find him that woman just smiles and gives the police tea and cleans the restaurant like nothing happened.

Women in the x files are totally slaying!

“If The X-Files was a 90s anime.”

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This is one of my old “Back in the Day” passions. I highly recommend Prufrocke and Dawson E. Rambo in this grouping, but do check out the other fics, as well. 

I will do this with other fics and writers I can recommend, too. This is a great start, though.

👽 X-Files Fic Rec Roundup 2021, Part 1

Here is a master list of all my new X-Files fic recs from the last month. These and all my earlier recs can be found under my fic rec tag, where you can also read why I recced each story. This month I also newly posted the themed lists below. Enjoy!

College AU fics

Fics involving “The Field Where I Died” past lives

Fics with Scully on her period

“Providence” and “Provenance” fics

Also related to fic, last month I continued the Old School X project where I’m interviewing XF fanfic writers from during the show’s original run. New interviews were with:

Circe Invidiosa

Dawson E. Rambo

nevdull

Piper Sargasso

The Art of Reading by prufrocke (MSR - 4,793 words - Not rated) But Ourselves by Marguerite (Tithonus - ~15,100 words - PG-13) The Ghosts of Thurmere Hall by Stephen Greenwood (Season 7 - 35,549 words - Teen and up) Heaven in Hell’s Despair and Lower Heaven by Meredith (MSR - ~4,850 words - PG-13/NC-17) Listening to Mountains Grow by cucumberspy (Pusher - ~4,850 words - R) wander’d mony a weary foot by @we-mad-guys (New Year’s - ~850 words - Not rated)

SHADOWS

I met Gillian first (she was absolutely lovely!) and when I met David (also lovely!) and I told him I'd met Gillian already he insisted I find the page she'd autographed in my journal so he could sign on the opposite page and have their signatures be together. I grew up on the X-Files back when I could never have dreamed I'd get to meet them both one day and that melted my little nostalgic heart.

Absolutely adorable 🥰

Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny BTS photoshoot by gavinbondphorography via boggsfiles

Grew up on The X-Files and it's still my fave ever show if I had to pick just one

the thing about mulder and scully is that if you watch the x files, you WILL love them forever. there's no other way.

My friend said I should try and write an essay (or at least a post I guess) on whether I grew up besotted with Mulder and Scully because of my whole slow burn friendship-love thing, or if I have a whole slow burn friendship-love thing because of Mulder and Scully 😄

The way I continually gravitate towards uniquely-bonded friends who finally kiss after like ten years is just an absolute pattern at this point 😆

question for academic discussion: when did mulder realize he was in love with scully? and when did scully realize she was in love with mulder?

They really were the cutest. I owe them so much 😄

how to say “I love you” in x-files [9/?] ⤷ 2.07 — “3”

I wanna say insightful beautiful things about Mulder and Scully's gorgeous dynamic but my brain is just like

That. Vest.

“I was sure you were dead. Mulder? It's Scully. Dana Scully. Do you know where you are?” // “They came, Scully... the ones that took her. They were here.” // “Here? Or here?” // “On the tapes... the tape. Evidence. Proof. And the transmissions, it's all here.” // “Proof of what?” // “Contact.”

I still love them so so much 🥰

Special Agent Fox “I do not gaze at Scully” Mulder ⤷ [3/13] ✧ Season Three

I had you big time...

Happy Anniversary to the show that made me the lore-loving, slowburn-savouring nerd I am today!

I'm from a very nerdy family and we all loved The X Files. I remember reading the companion books for a few series and becoming obsessed with how much detail went into things like the episode titles and every tiny reference. We'd get *so* excited anytime the title card changed. One of the creepiest episodes inspired me to write a poem I love. My big fluffy Maine Coon cat, affectionately known as just Kit, is actually named Kitsunegari as one of a whole litter of X-File episode-honouring kittens 😄

I try to make sure everyone knows about Bree Sharp's glorious pun-filled homage to David Duchuvny. I love figuring out just how many movie stars got their first break on the show (hello Ryan Reynolds, Jack Black etc...). I've hiked round Lynn Canyon Park where so much of it was filmed and felt like I could have literally been in 'Darkness Falls'. My first ever celebrity meet & greet was with Mitch Pileggi and Nicholas Lea and I've since met Smoking Man himself (an absolute delight) and eventually our beloved duo too, a few years apart - Gillian Anderson gave me chilli chocolate and David insisted on signing next to Gillian's autograph. They were both sweethearts (and he especially still lit up at the mention of her name 🥰).

I *love* virtually everything about The X Files (definitely some exceptions 😄) but as someone who values friendship so very highly and whose connection to deeper relationships is rooted completely in this, Mulder and Scully were so much more than a cliché slowburn friends-to-lovers for me, they beautifully exemplified the fact that line can be a little blurred from the start, and that deep genuine mutual respect, trust, care and admiration can be as powerful as, or indistinguishable from, more traditionally depicted romantic love. Their journey and that gorgeous message is one I've subconsciously sought out in so many fictional pairings since and in my own life too.

My little probably demi-of-some-description heart identified with them so much and the wait for what was so adorably inevitable between them was so, so worth it and earned and magical. They were *the* ship, the og sweet, sweet slowburn-but-they-kinda-already-got-there-years-before-the-kiss kinda pairing 😄 (I truly have a pattern of loving this exact scenario!!!)

So yeah, happy anniversary you crazy little show. I laugh, I cry, I'm very grateful and if I could only pick a single show, I want to believe you'll always be the one 👽

Flashback to the other night when we were describing X-Files to my friend and she thought Mulder and Scully were actual aliens caught in a cycle of sombre yearning and sexual tension 😄

My Friend (while showing them X-Files): Damn the way she looked into his eyes right there, looked like they was about to kiss Me: That's this whole show, these two looking like they're about to kiss, occasionally interjected by aliens or whatever.

The fact they were saying this stuff in S1 and we had *eleven* seasons of this 😄

The OG slowburn 😎

how to say “I love you” in x-files [13/?] ⤷ 1.21 — “Tooms”

You'd be in trouble just sitting in this car, and I'd hate to see you carry an official reprimand in your career file because of me.

Doe-eyed from day one 😊

how to say “I love you” in x-files [14/?] ⤷ 1.01 — “Pilot”

#definitely not gazing at scully

In more ways than one 😄

Oh to be Season 1 Scully who’s spent her entire academic career in male-dominated fields just to be assigned to a whackfuck FBI department with a partner who is so malewife she gets whiplash from trying to figure out how to fit this grown babygirl of a man into the template of all the men she’s worked with in the past.

Oh to expect to have to fight for respect with one’s partner only to be handed it on a golden platter.

Scully won the FBI partner lottery.

One of my favourite things is when two actors have so much sheer visceral chemistry together that it literally doesn't matter what the writers write or the director directs or what the intention ever was 😊

Being a Mulder/Scully shipper (aka everyone except Chris Carter) is such a profoundly confusing experience.

You get gaslit by the showrunner himself because for the first 6(?) seasons the characters are platonic. You get six years of them glancing at the other's lips, standing and walking so closely they're always touching, you get tender touches and warm embraces, you get forehead kisses, you get displays of jealousy and one of them even admitting to being territorial. You get this as soon as the damn pilot.

You get Mulder speaking into Scully's hair, you get Scully cradling and singing to him, you get Mulder making a scene threatening to fight anyone in sight when Scully is returned to the hospital, you get Scully wanting to have his child of all people.

You get that the connection is so profound they only trust the other and would (and have) gone to hell and back for their partner.

You have all of these feelings culminating in the intense way in which they gaze at each other, both directly and when the other isn't looking.

Then you have the actors, who were so horned up and fed up with the tension they went off script and made out like that, the same actors who did photoshoots in bed and kissed at award shows and interviews despite never being together, despite the characters never being canonically a couple. You get David, who when asked if he played it like he wanted Scully, he said he simply played it like he cares about her input and you get Gillian, who kissed David in the mouth before turning to kiss her husband when she won an emmy in 1997.

It's clearly love and although the absence of romance and sex don't make a connection any less legitimate or meaningful, I just don't buy it that there was never supposed to be an attraction from the beginning. That they remained friends for that long.

And still you're left questioning if it isn't all just projection because the two actors are so insanely attractive you can't help but want to see them in a sexual setting. If it's all just two good friends having so much chemistry that it makes it easy to come off as romantic. You're left to wonder if you have just been so blind in your own personal life that you have never so much as seen that kind of connection in marriages, let alone with coworkers. That perhaps you've just never had the fortune of having such a special connection with your platonic friend that you make out just for fun. You're made to believe that what you're seeing isn't desire but a deep understanding and care for the other's well being and happiness.

What is the truth. It's out there and at this point I have to believe it's all a ploy from the shadow government and Old Smokey himself to cover up what everyone already knows. The evidence is right in front of us and they keep trying to veer towards a specific answer and call bias if you don't agree.

Everyone needs someone like this in their life :)

how to say “I love you” in x-files [17/?] ⤷ 4.01 — “Herrenvolk”

Mulder & Scully, 5x7″ ink on bristol.

Imagine showing only this clip to someone who has never seen the X-Files