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I have 1 episode of season 8 left and i keep going back to watch season 2 episodes for my fic (a muse, a myth, a mortal) and I miss the vibe of the early seasons so much, i hate that the later seasons feel like a different show, I hate Mulder’s abduction, I hate William arc, what the fuck was that?

I love Reyes and Dogget though, I think the show could end now and have a spin off with them where Mulder and Scully occasionally appear as guest stars to help them with cases and their life is otherwise domestic bliss

Im distracted by how ugly his tie is

THE X-FILES ⏤ 1.13, Beyond the Sea

Oh my god do i want her or do i want to be her

oh she was SLAYING the 90’s

inspired by a message from my dear friend @penicillinsteve

ok sorry you may already know this but in a post in like june i think you said mulder isn’t color blind WRONG he is confirmed red-green color blind in wetwired S3EP8

-a fellow ex files fanatic

p.s have a cookie 🍪

Hey!!! I did end up making a post about this, cannon is wrong not me, i am aware that this is establish in s3e23 wetwired❤️ i don’t feel like digging through my blog to find it so ill just reiterate myself: it doesn’t make logical sense for him to be red/green color blind. In either colony or endgame or both (i cant remember off the too of my head) he can tell the difference between green “alien blood” and red human blood, so he is not red green color blind as he does not perceive one as the other and can clearly see the distinction (it does happen other times in cannon but i dont feel like digging through the wiki rn)

Edit: also if he were color blind enough not to be able to perceive the colors in wetwired he would’ve failed a Farnsworth D-15 test and not be allowed to be in the FBI it was a throw away line plot device that they didn’t think through

Okay so i recently started doing dissections in my biology class and if you’ve ever done a dissection you know that you have to flip the left and right because you are facing the specimen, which leads me to a head canon:

Scully constantly gets her left and right confused. Not when shes autopsying, thats the only time she actually knows it, but shes terrible at giving and taking directions. She’ll look at a map and tell Mulder to turn right only to realize three miles later that they were supposed to go left. Mulder will tell her the paper she’s looking for is in the pile on her left and she only looks in the right stack 1 in 3 times

The realest character in the xfiles is that one pathologist in x-cops who’s like “hey, why aren’t we wearing masks rn” BECAUSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE TOTAL LACK OF PPE IN ALL THE LABS IN THE SHOW

Scully put some fucking gloves on sometimes i’m begging you

Put some goggles on before start looking at things or mixing any chemicals

ESPECIALLY DURING FIREWALKER LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? (Like yes they do later find out the specimens shes studying are non-pathogenic when they are not immediately exposed but she didnt know that at the time and she was leaning close to it not wearing a mask to look through the microscope. That’s bad lab etiquette.)

Damn. I could write a fanfic about that.

That gif of GA going around talking about how she lied about her age when auditioning for scully bc they don't let 24 yos be doctor-fbi agents made me think about an au of TXF where you lean into the total babyface thing and have Scully be this wunderkind prodigy doctor who maybe even made the news and skipped grades and went to college at 15 and med school at 18/19 and really did finish her residency at 24/25.... It would add a whole new dimension to her choice to switch to pathology over cardio thoracic surgery and also to leave private practice for the FBI. Like, a whole magnitude bigger of the 'you're a g-d gifted prodigy and you choose to do this? Not save living patients? Throw away all your hard work to be a field agent?' and then to compound the issue, she chooses to flame out into fringe obscurity with that slacker alien nut Mulder.

Really lean into the Jodie Foster character parallels (Clarice Starling and Ellie Arroway).

Also the whole triumph of free will or rebellion against the Obligations Of Genius. Also somewhat of a Mulder parallel except he had a lot of outside forces moving him away from the things that he was gifted at but were destructive for him, so idk

I feel like someone mentioned this idea already actually, @unremarkablehouse maybe? But just seconding that yes aus digging into prodigy Scully would be really interesting! 👀