the many faces of dana katherine scully 5.12 bad blood

i hate hate hate hate hate hate hate when a monster is loved and that love turns them human I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH. tell that thing that goes bump in the night that you love the way its fangs glimmer in the moonlight and the way its horrible gnarled claws are so gentle with you or GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!

I am, like, a long running proponent of the "eat something and you'll feel better" crowd and am often one of the first people to suggest "maybe it's time for a snack before I get whipped into a frenzy" but I really do resent how instantaneous it is. like it'll feel like I'm having my worst day in months and then I'll start eating and literally before I even finish I'm like oh yeah the world is beautiful

can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

yesterday i remembered one (1) person from my "real life", way way back follows me here and let me tell you the dread? real. besides leaving me weak in the knees it also makes me want to go back, revise and censor everything.

Me, online: I am cringe, but I am free. Cringe culture isn’t dead, but I’m killing it with my bare hands. I will enjoy my dumb little hobbies and interests and I will take pride in them. Everyone should do what they want forever.

Me, irl: If I stop masking my autism/ADHD/whatever makes me Like This™️ for one (1) second, then my entire family will hate me and I will crawl in a hole to decompose.

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

I didn’t mean to make a part two to this but my hand slipped

9:12pm... lazarus rising finished airing 12 minutes earlier

Idea from @/shyorchidghost on twitter, saying: "I think Alastor sips loudly just to bother people but if someone else does it, it pisses him off lol"

ALASTOR SKETCH DUMP WITH A DASH OF STATICRADIO

Alastor Headcanon #1

While he dislikes sweets in general, he's a fan of black licorice. He genuinely enjoys the flavor, but he revels in the appalled reactions of others when he eats it. A snack AND entertainment? What more could he ask for?

my aunt who owns horses constantly posts these excellent horse memes

Fragrance girlies: what do we think Scully wears?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently because I’m searching for my signature scent and have been learning about fragrances in the process.

I think Scully is someone who chooses how she presents herself very carefully. She would employ the scientific method to find her signature scent, doing research, testing dozens of samples, and keeping track of which notes she prefers.

Here’s how I imagine Scully’s signature scent, in the style of a fragrance review (which are, on the whole, surprisingly lyrical):

I think she wants her scent to be subtle but layered. Apart from simply liking the smell, she wants to evoke a scene, feeling, or memory. As we know, Scully is a family-oriented person who cherishes the gifts bestowed on her by her parents—notably, the cross necklace, but more broadly, her Catholic faith. As I suspect is the case for many Catholics, for Scully, much of the appeal of going to church is rooted in ancient traditions and worship aesthetics—think incense, smooth wood, gospel processions, tall beeswax candles, blood-red fabrics, chants, bitter Communion wine, textured bulletin paper. I think Scully would want her signature scent to evoke, if not a sense of Catholicism, something monumental, ritualistic, and purifying; a promise of salvation that science can never provide.

However, speaking of science, I think there must be something about the freshness and modernity of what you might call more “clinical” scents that appeals to Dana Scully, Medical Doctor. Even the pickiest of noses cannot ignore the allure of a good lobby smell, complete with a whiff of commercial floor cleaner, and as a star medical student, young Dana Scully was often in labs and hospitals, surrounded by chemicals. I think she likes the comfortability of the fresh, clean, and methodical. It feels like her, what she brings to the table.

Lastly, I think Scully has a deep reverence for nature, and judging by her behavior in episodes like “Darkness Falls” and “Detour,” she’s always been a forest girl. I associate The X-Files in general with foresty smells, and I think when Scully remembers the early days, she pictures all those times she and Mulder ran around in the woods together. Think fallen pine needles, miles of conifer trees wet with rain, damp, rich soil. Woodsy and earthy and rooted. Tethered to the ground, not flying around amongst the stars, fate unknown.

So, based on all of that, I think Scully would want a fragrance that’s traditional/nostalgic, fresh/modern, and woodsy/earthy, possibly with some of these notes:

Traditional/nostalgic: frankincense, myrrh, patchouli, elemi, benzoin

Fresh/modern: bergamot, cotton blossom, lemongrass, aldehydes, white tea, lavender

Woodsy/earthy: Cedarwood, cypress, pine, rain, soil, orris, petrichor, vetiver, oud

But what do you think? What would Scully wear? What scents do you think she would like? I know this is so nerdy and random but I am so curious what the fandom thinks!

I’m weak for a cozy-looking, domestic Alastor~

Did a couple studies of J. C. Leyendecker’s work! I love his style and attention to detail. He and Norman Rockwell were truly iconic Saturday Evening Post artists.

Edit: drew one last Leyendecker inspired Alastor for this set! Print samples will be arriving soon 👀

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?