Mediocrity at its Finest

One of the better parts of The X-Files keeping its monster-of-the-week episodes and mythology episodes completely separate is that several of the monster-of-the-week episodes just have other aliens in them and it's never addressed. Like in the mytharc it's said that only the colonists and humans are left & the colonists have killed every other species but no. There's genderfluid Amish sex-murderer aliens, once. There's aliens who abduct animals to save their DNA from extinction and/or make them invisible, once. There's a ghost alien on Mars, once

there’s an alien who is hiding on earth so he can play baseball

Not only an alien hiding on Earth to play baseball, but an alien who is physically turned into a human being by his love of baseball

Sometimes I think about how “Bad Blood” proves Mulder specifically does not see himself as an object of desire for Scully, even in his own version of events. There’s no attempt to make himself seem macho or capable; in fact, he becomes even more pathetic when he is the narrator. He has a milliliter-sized amount of self esteem and I wouldn’t have it any other way

“Larper” being used like “poser” is so annoying bc actual LARPers are cool as hell. Get me some armour and a fake sword too

LOCK THE FUCK IN MUTUALS AND FOLLOWERS SPOCK CANNOT BE LOSING HERE

Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.

i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33

mulder using the memory of waking up at night, as a scared child, and hearing his dad eating sunflower seeds in the living room, as proof of genetic predisposition... and it's season 2, so they maybe aren't thinking about mulder's paternity; but the fact that mulder's love of sunflower seeds probably isn't genetic at all; it's him searching for little bits of comfort leftover from growing up in a cold household, a household where he lost his sister -- but a household, still, where the sound of his father crunching sunflower seeds was proof that he wasn't all alone in the universe

what mulder and scully do is gayer than kissing

msr is probably my favorite ship of all time, which is why it makes me so angry that the x files writers never really let scully be a character separately of her relationship with mulder esp in the later seasons. most of the conflicts she has are either directly related to mulder, or exist purely to drive mulders story. a lot of their dynamic is mulder doing things and making mistakes and then scully reacting to mulder doing things and fixing mulders mistakes. most of the time they put her in a ‘motherly’ position compared to the rest of the cast. she is put her in a role to babysit mulder and clean up his messes, and is rarely allowed to make her own mistakes or interact with the plot directly and not through mulder. and i do understand that she is a different character who is much less impulsive, but it seems like all her decisions are either directly related to or facilitated by mulder. it’s rare the writers ever let her be anything more than mulders sidekick.

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