this is how i get my ya-yas out

part of what makes writing MSR so intriguing is that to realistically capture their style of emotional communication, you are forced to use dialogue solely composed of hints and shadows. and now you must use this unique vocabulary to express how they haunt each other while both parties are still breathing. good luck, have fun, and don't forget to be yourself!!!

and to up the difficulty: they're smarter than you, but YOU are the one that must decide their actions. agony!

if i wrote the x files there would at least one scene where mulder picks up scully by the scruff of her neck like an angry cat and walks off with her

"they're not doing this you, scully, they're doing it to me" what a fucking line. mulder means it to reassure her that her reassignment isn't because she failed. he's the one who failed. but what scully hears is a complete invalidation of her work on the files. mulder is so convinced that she's too good for him that he cannot see how lost and lonely she feels, and she in turn is so blinded by her fear that no one will ever take her seriously that she can't see that he already does. shrieking and wailing

scully is a dog person and mulder is a dog

maybe watching the x files again would fix me. that or my heart will burst with love.

sometimes i think about how gillian anderson herself wrote the "all things" episode of the x files and then i am hit with the most insane wave of tenderness that seeps into my bones and makes a home inside my marrow bc. she spent years in her role as scully, and she wrote a script that essentially said "scully will always choose mulder. scully will choose mulder again and again and again because in her eyes, mulder is the only choice. it may seem as if there are other choices, like there are other pathways she could walk down, but there arent. mulder is the only choice she sees, and she will choose him every time." she knows her character so well and it just makes me so.. i dunno happy like. yeah, they really do love each other. they will always choose each other. they love each other so deeply that they dont see any other choice but to be with one another; there is no universe in which they wont find each other because any other choice that couldve possibly kept them apart was just wrong. there is only one choice and it is for them to be together. anyways gillian anderson i love u and adore u for writing the all things episode.