:,-) i think they deserve to hug and whatnot.
ID: digital sketch of mulder and scully asleep/cuddling on his couch. scully is wearing a large t shirt and mulder is in shorts and a t shirt. His arms are around her and her arms are clutched by his chest.
If you ever need proof of how overworked and stressed out David was during parts of the run of TXF, just check out these screenshots from Pusher. See that little bare patch of skin right at the curve of his lower jaw? That’s alopecia. He mentioned it at some point, though I can’t find the quote right now. I’m sure the stress manifested itself in some ways in Gillian too, though not outwardly as far as I’ve been able to see.
It does strike me, though, especially when watching the earlier seasons, just how fucking tired they both looked in some of the scenes. These two worked their asses off (along with the crew) for many, many years to bring us the moments we still obsess over almost 30 years later.
Cheers to David and Gillian for gifting us with the timeless fruits of their labor. ❤️
For @cock-holliday !! :D
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
William B. Davis as The Cigarette Smoking Man
“A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.”
Fox Mulder, “Spooky”
Very silly X-Files comic that turned out to be much more elaborate than I would have liked it to be, but at least it looks really fun now :D
Inspired by this alien cheerleader set that @awkwardlyvanilla shared with me, so thank you very much for that!
Bonus Mulder vision:
Yes.
Did some drawings of Gillian Anderson today at work
I've been slowly catching up with S6, and I absolutely loved Triangle! This is basically how it went, right? /D
XF lighting study
They're also demanding social reforms in housing & child/elder care: requesting an increase in public housing units & for the state to hire workers in order to ensure proper & free care of the elderly and children for all families.
#SouthKorea
Access to safe abortion is a woman’s right.
And abortion is a decision to be made between a woman, her doctor, her family, and her god.
...Not a majority white male cohort of politicians with a false sense of morality.
And your judgement?
It matters not.
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The UK government has got a survey on about reform of the disability benefits system, and has kept mega quiet about it presumably to keep responses down.
Please can we spread this? People who can fill it in: "Our approach must be informed by different views and opinions, particularly those of disabled people and people with health conditions."
This system has killed tens of thousands of us. Odds are they'll ignore the responses the same way they ignored the GRA consultation, but...
@ayeforscotland sorry to bother you, but you're the only person I know on this site who talks about Scottish & UK politics on the regular
Mind spreading word about this disability survey?
@thebibliosphere if you havnt seen this already
q: imagine you're in italy in a nice restaurant what do you order?
gillian: the wAiTEr?
Mulder & Scully “The X - Files”
What's wrong with Gandhi?
Where do I begin?
- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.
- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.
- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.
- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.
- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.
- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.
- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.
- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.
- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.
- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.
Sources:
Websites: Women Suffer From Gandhi’s Legacy, People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick Chiles
Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Also literally went on hunger strike to prevent the new Indian constitution from outlawing the caste system, because he believed in the idea that people are born into the wealth/privilege or poverty/privation they find themselves in. Patronisingly referred to the so-called Untouchables as “children of god”. It took another half century to get caste outlawed, and of course its still deeply embedded in the culture and people are still getting murdered for transgressing its theoretically illegal rules.
