Queen of the Lesbians

"You can qualify for a GLP-1 regardless of size" ...Regardless of size?? So you can be severely underweight and qualify for a fucking weight loss drug? We're openly selling ozempic to anorexics now?

Humans are Persistence Predators

A male hooded parrot (Psephotellus dissimilis) at Pine Creek, NT, Australia

GILLIAN ANDERSON as Dana Scully

Absolutely ridiculous on its face because it seems contradictory, but like… Scully wants to protect people from what she views as earthly sins — people hurting people, lying, cheating, stealing, killing — but it’s anchored in a place that’s spiritual. Mulder wants to protect people from the unbelievable, but it’s anchored in a place that’s very real, his baby sister being taken from him.

It’s the reason Mulder can turn around after everything outrageous he’s ever said and tell Scully to remain skeptical; it’s the reason Scully can scoff and whinge at all those outrageous things and then turn around and try to protect Mulder’s curiosity and belief and hope.

It would actually be more outrageous if the believer in all of the things the world tries to convince you AREN’T true also believed in the one thing everyone wants you to believe IS. The same way it’d be more outrageous if the skeptic believed in nothing, because a skeptic has the strongest faith of all. To be told that something is true again and again and still choose to turn away — to seek meaning elsewhere is the biggest act of faith there could possibly be. And faith in the principles espoused by a religion isn’t necessarily the same thing as faith in God itself.

It’s why, amidst all of that, the one thing Scully and Mulder will always agree on is believing in each other. Which is why they have to have that one little incongruence in character in the first place. It is, so it has to be.