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haha mitali funny story i JUST found this in my inbox while doing another top 5/10 game. fml. sincere apologies these are such fun questions and i will be answering them out of order

top 10 scully moments that live in my brain rent free:

pusher russian roulette... never not thinking about pusher russian roulette...

kidnapping a man in black to do hostage negotiations for government-abducted mulder in deep throat. queen shit

the confrontation with boggs in beyond the sea

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT ME TO DO ANOTHER AUTOPSY??? AND WHY DO I HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT NOW??? I JUST SPENT HOURS ON MY FEET DOING AN AUTOPSY ALL FOR YOU!!! I DO IT ALL FOR YOU, MULDER!!! YOU KNOW I HAVEN'T EATEN SINCE SIX O'CLOCK THIS MORNING AND ALL THAT WAS WAS HALF A CREAM CHEESE BAGEL, AND IT WASN'T EVEN REAL CREAM CHEESE, IT WAS LIGHT CREAM CHEESE!!! AND NOW YOU WANT ME TO RUN OFF AND DO ANOTHER AUTOPSY?????!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!? ...what the hell happened to you?

her solving the case in clyde bruckman based on a tiny piece of scrap evidence... girl's good at her job

every time she interacts with children makes me want to throw up (affectionate)

PLEASE I'M A LITTLE ON EDGE!!!

going to jail instead of ratting mulder out in terma is possibly the most iconic thing she ever does. ride or fucking die bitch

wetwired... oughhhh wetwired...

please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy

top 5 passages from my current wip are under the cut!

ask my top 5/10 anything!!!

i know nothing about txf besides what i've gleaned from this hellsite which is a) mulder is a lovable idiot, b) scully both loves him (almost against her will??), and c) they literally invented shipping BUT tell me about your top 5 txf episodes!!!

hi mitali i have been EXTREMELY patchy on here lately haven't i lol. local woman appears on tumblr to write ten meta posts about the x files and then disappears again! i'm doing okay; my real life has been kind of chaotic (had to last-minute cancel a trip i have been desperate to go on for years so :/ but! on the bright side it means i get to see my flatmates sooner than i thought and i miss them even though i've been gone from my flat for like a week and a half lol). how have you been???

those are very accurate txf vibes but i will say that scully is a very active and willing participant in being in love with mulder even though he can be very very stupid at times lol. i hope you watch it someday- i think it would be right up your alley! kind of similar doctor who ecological niche of being weird, heartfelt, politically relevant sci-fi with no consistent quality or tone.

ANYWAY. top 5 txf episodes, bearing in mind that i've technically only watched up until the end of the fourth season so far; i'm just a ho for spoilers:

pusher (3.17)... what can i say about pusher that i haven't said already. a lot, probably, because every single day i log on here and i see someone's written new meta about pusher that makes the entire show make more sense. it's just... it's txf distilled to its barest elements. it's about trust and codependency and a supernatural force that is made all the more unsettling by the fact that at its core it is just some guy. it's funny and terrifying and heartfelt all at once. the russian roulette scene changed television

clyde bruckman's final repose (3.04) is also just so txf. darin morgan (the writer) tended to write episodes that were so absurdist they wrapped back around to satirical, but this is far and away my favorite of his because it's not too bonkers. i love coprophages and from outer space especially, but clyde bruckman is a little more grounded, and it manages to be sarcastic and sincere in equal measure. and i love when scully gets to solve the mystery

irresistible (2.13), which is famous for being pretty much the only txf episode where there isn't actually an x-file. and it's SO fucked up. it is hands-down the most fucked up episode of the entire sh- well. besides the episode that they banned from reruns for like a decade for being so fucked up, it's hands-down the most fucked up episode of the entire show

beyond the sea (1.13) and paper hearts (4.10) are thematic sisters so i'm keeping them together. they're both about choosing to move past grief instead of wallowing in it and choosing the future over the past. so what if a criminal says they can give you the answers you've spent your whole life chasing? what matters is that you're at your partner's hospital bedside when he wakes up from an injury, or that you save a little girl's life

right now? probably ice (1.08), because i just rewatched it with my flatmate (who is going through s1 for the first time and is almost as obsessed as i am). it's like if midnight doctor who and the thing had a baby. normally i think this slot would go to duane barry/ascension/one breath (2.05/2.06/2.08) or nisei/731 (3.09/3.10), which are the tightest, tensest episodes relating to the show's overarching mythology

honorable mention goes to elegy (4.22) because the a-plot is a very 90s depiction of neurodivergence and it's not the best-handled thing i've ever seen, but the character showcase of scully in the b-plot gave me fucking brain worms. i cannot stop thinking about it. it's haunting.

also, memento mori (4.14). vince gilligan and gillian anderson you're splitting my therapy bill

okay this kind of has three answers so i'll answer all of them! i always love talking about my writing projects (derogatory and affectionate) :)

original project: i am still dragging my feet with my crime show, which i have made little to no progress on in the past like two years, rip. you might have seen me talking about it before but tldr the very basic premise is that it's about a group of petty grifters who accidentally pull a con on the mob and get roped into this massive imbroglio of crime lords and long-seated feuds in the parisian criminal underworld. i unfortunately am STILL outlining, and the two scenes i do have written are in script format anyway, so i'm not going to post a favorite line

x-files university au: this has sort of replaced my peggysous time loop fic as my big fic project right now, which is really a shame because i am literally a loop and a half away from being done with the time loop fic so i should really get back to it so i can PUBLISH THE GODDAMN THING. sigh. i hate plot bunnies. this one is especially annoying because it's pretty much a rehashing of the mytharc episodes from season 1 (with a little futzing around with the timeline + m&s are uni students + doggett and reyes are also there), which means i kind of need to rewatch them... but i am only 2.5 seasons into watching this show for the first time. (sort of. as you'll see with the next project i've sort of been skipping around a little. don't worry about it.) however, i am kind of obsessed with my weird little college agents and their weird little project for investigative journalism 401, so we keep chugging away at it. i'm putting my favorite scene from it thus far under the cut below, plus a bonus line specifically for you :)

x-files uhhhhhhhh: i literally do not know what to say about this one without giving things away, but i will try: it's a season 5 au that deals with grief, devotion, and codependency with a hint of psychological thriller mixed in just for shits and giggles. i also read the recipe wrong and added a full cup of angst instead of a teaspoon, whoops. i know this means nothing to you because you don't even watch this show but for those of my followers who do i don't even think i can say what characters are in this without spoiling things. as such i am not going to post a line from this one either

sleepover asks!!!

(and read on for some snippets from my txf wip!)

i'm going to throw in some poetry and shakespeare because i am That Bitch, lol

"the brothers grimm- lovely fellas, they're on my darts team. according to them, there's this emperor and he asks this shepherd's boy, how many seconds in eternity? and the shepherd's boy says, there's this mountain of pure diamond. it takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it. every hundred years, a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. and when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the first second of eternity will have passed! you must think that's a hell of a long time. personally, i think that's a hell of a bird." (doctor who 9.11)

"rebellions are built on hope." (rogue one (2016))

"to the world we dream about, and the one we live in now." ("living it up on top" from hadestown)

"lord, what fools these mortals be!" (a midsummer night's dream by shakespeare)

"it was awful, being at war with you." (goliath by scott westerfeld)

"here is the deepest secret nobody knows- here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life, which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart: i carry your heart. i carry it in my heart." ("i carry your heart" by ee cummings)

“a truth should exist; it should not be used like this. if i love you, is that a fact or a weapon?” (”we are hard” by margaret atwood)

"it's funny: the day you lose someone isn't the worst. at least you've got something to do. it's all the days they stay dead." (doctor who 9.11 was NOT fucking around)

"i love nothing in the world so well as you. is not that strange?" (much ado about nothing by shakespeare)

"the truth is out there, but so are lies." (the x-files 1.17)

bonus 1: “900 years of time and space and i’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.” (doctor who 6.00)

bonus 2: literally the entirety of the book thief by markus zusak

bonus 3 which i promise is my last one: "i believe in peace, bitch." (good omens 1.06)

YES GOOD THANK YOU MITALI. also i am currently watching the adaptation of why didn't they ask evans from last year and if you haven't seen it yet you need to watch it immediately. it's brilliant. lucy boynton as frankie marry me challenge

murder on the orient express

the murder of roger ackroyd

the abc murders

the mysterious affair at styles

peril at end house

RACH!!! it's so good to see you- it's been such a long time! how are you???

i'll do some very old friends for this one- @anakinskyiwalker, @maguiretobey, and @obiwankencbii are not only incredible people but very loyal, considering they've stuck with about fifteen different fandom changes of mine over the past years. i love them all to death