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figureofdismay · 4 months

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Pitch: An absurdist dramady version of The X Files. Like in the style of Pushing Daisies or Northern Exposure. Or Arrested Development lol. where instead of being assigned together they meet at some kind of investigative seminar (or a new agey 'self discovery' thing Melissa dragged Scully to and Mulder's there investigating something or meeting someone?), and Mulder and Scully meet and instantly become inseparable and get married by the end of the conference and have to integrate their lives. It's like a supernatural version of 'Dharma and Greg' except instead of trying to mesh the hippy stoner astrology rebel family background on one side and the WASPy conservative rich family background on the other side, you've got the 'emotionally traumatized and involved in a massive conspiracy involving aliens and eugenics for profit' background and the 'boisterously eclectic middle class family of navy brats and moby dick fanatics' background on the other side.

Scully's a pathologist and Mulder's working the x-files with Jerry from Ghost in the Machine and later Jeffrey Spender, but they end up involved in each other's cases all the time while arguing about them. Samantha was taken but returned like a year/18 months later with no memory of what happened and she grew up feeling like such a freak because of it that she's obsessed with being very normal, so she thinks Mulder is too 'out there' and too overprotective, and doesn't want to believe in the conspiracy stuff. Scully and Samantha don't get along but Sam does think she's better than Diana. Who pops up from time to time to wreck havoc.

Carl Spender is openly Mulder's biological father because it came out when Teena divorced Bill, but he's still a megalomaniacal power monger in the center of a conspiracy and Mulder still hates him, he just also thinks that Mulder should acknowledge him as a 'decent father' because he hasn't let the syndicate outright kill him and hasn't targeted his new sort-of daughter in law. Mulder and Jeffrey know they are half brothers and Jeffry is insanely jealous both because 'Ol Smokey likes Mulder better (cares enough to taunt him instead of just ignoring him) and because Mulder's much better at investigating paranormal stuff. Jeffrey has also always had a crush on Samantha and is trying to protect her from the Syndicate, but Samantha thinks it's too weird that he's her brother's half brother and won't have anything to do with him.

Jeffrey's also jealous that Mulder got married and to such a normal woman from outside the pool of special conspiracy people when CGB will be expecting him to marry who he picks, so he keeps trying to set Scully up in the eyes of the Syndicate or the Bureau in retribution but she and Melissa have the opposite of CC's 'woman danger tragedy magnet syndrome' and effortlessly sidestep his incompetent little plots without hardly even noticing by simply being focused and intuitive.

Melissa is the only one from either of their families who thinks their being married is a good idea. Also Melissa ends up dating the Lone Gunmen. All of them, in a complicated poly situation that both Mulder and Scully are mildly alarmed by this but it's actually very sweet.

Scully's friend Ellen is concerned that Scully doesn't seem to see how suddenly and wildly insane her life became, kind of like becoming a mob wife but with bugs and goo and aliens, but Scully shrugs it off because it's interesting and she has Mulder now so that part's good, plus he needs her, and you can't choose your in-laws can you.

#txf #msr #i don't even know okay #the thought just popped into my head and while I would love to write a series of minisodes to flesh this out #my ability to focus just hasn't been there since like june #but the concept popped into my head fully formed while browsing hulu (dharma & greg listed right above the x files lol) and it made me laug #and also feel insane while picturing these characters as processed through heavier absurdism filters #feel free to tell me i've snapped under the weight of 20 years of wrestling with this show's canon bc i probably have 🤣💀

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aphrostarot · 3 years

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Month of July Pick a Pile

How will the month of July go for you?

Please remember that this is a general reading and some things may not apply to you. Don't force it to fit. I offer paid readings on my page if you would like a personal reading. Prices are listed there. Please message me if you are interested!

Pile One (Sodalite):

Who are you currently:

Judgment:

The Judgment card shows a period of time where you have reached a result of some sort. It could be in love, career, etc. In your life, you have reached a point where you have some answers, some answers that you have sought for a long time.

What is your theme for the month?

Ace of Cups:

Spirit is telling you that you will find new love this month. For some, I feel this may be a newfound love for yourself. As you learn more about yourself, how you want to be treated, and what you enjoy doing, you will fall in love with yourself all over again. For others, it feels like a new romantic love. Spirit tells you that new love is coming your way this month and that this love is something you have been waiting a long time for.

What will you accomplish this month?

Seven of Pentacles:

You may have been planning something for a long time without seeing any results. The desire for this thing has been burning within you for so long and you have been working towards the end goal, but it just hasn't come fast enough.

The World:

The World is all about completion and having it come out here is Spirit's way of telling you that you will see results. You will finally see results in your plans this month. You don't need to worry about this anymore. You are going to have a great month this month.

What should you avoid this month?

Queen of Pentacles:

You may be the type of person who spends their money without thinking. Due to this, you often end up with low funds. Your guides are telling you that you need to be wary of this, this month. Before you purchase anything major this month, make sure you think it through.

What should you embrace this month?

High Priestess:

It's time to embrace your intuition and psychic abilities this month, according to your guides. You need to expand your abilities this month. Your guides want you to try and learn more about these this month, as you may not be fully aware of them. Your guides want you to practice them more this month if you are aware of them.

What obstacle will you face this month?

The Artist:

This month, you will find it difficult to be creative. This month, you may find it difficult to find inspiration or to think that your work is good enough. In any case, Spirit says that you are going to struggle with creativity this month.

Where can you find support?

Nine of Swords:

Spirit says that a way for you to help find your inspiration again, or to realize that your work is good enough is to embrace your insecurities as they are. Your guides want you to use and embrace your insecurities. Bring them into your work because they will inspire you and help you to create your best work.

What action do you need to take this month?

Ten of Cups:

Although you may not think that you will have a fairytale happy ending, your guides say that you need to start believing it this month. You are deserving of a happy ending, and you will receive it. The sooner you realize this, the sooner it will arrive.

Some advice/encouragement:

Four of Pentacles:

You need to be more careful with your possessions and finances this month. You should be cautious with your finances this month, according to your guides. Don't overspend this month because the money may not come as fast.

Ace of Pentacles:

Your guides are telling you that money will come into your life in the future and that you just need to hold on this month. You will soon face a change in your finances, so be careful this month.

Pile Two (Amethyst):

Who are you currently:

Queen of Wands:

You've felt very ambitious, more motivated than usual to accomplish your dreams. It seems like you want to be in more control, you want to be in a leadership role.

The World:

Completion is what this card represents. Some sort of completion has recently taken place for you. Perhaps this is why you have felt more motivated than usual. A chapter of your life has ended in one area, and a new one is about to begin.

What is your theme for the month?

Two of Pentacles:

You will be focusing on finding balance this month. This doesn’t mean that your life has been lacking balance but this month you will be experiencing more balance than anything else. Some of you though have been lacking balance in your life for some time now and that has been very difficult for you to handle, but this month that will change.

What will you accomplish this month?

Five of Pentacles:

You have suffered some great losses in your life. Because of this, you have been pretty sad. Recently, your life hasn't been going well for you and this has been very difficult.

King of Pentacles:

With the King of Pentacles coming out alongside the Five of Pentacles this is telling me that this month you are going to get out of this period of poverty. This month, you will achieve great abundance. Additionally, you will be able to exert control and leadership.

What should you avoid this month?

Eight of Pentacles:

You may dislike taking advice from others and think you know what is best for you. Your guides want you to take advice this month. This is the best option for you to help you come out on the other side. Even if you think you know what is best, you should start taking more advice from others.

What should you embrace this month?

Three of Swords:

You have been running from your pain for so long and your guides are telling you that it is time to stop. This month you need to embrace the pain that you have been running from for so long. It is time for you to feel that pain so you can heal from it.

King of Swords:

In this month, you will embrace this energy, you will heal from your past wounds, and you will begin to embrace who you were meant to be. You are strong and you are meant to be in charge and leading with quick-wit and intelligence. This month you will start to take your steps to do that.

What obstacle will you face this month?

Strength:

As I stated above, you will be taking the first steps to become the strong person you are meant to become. That doesn't mean it will be easy. Your guides are saying that this month you will struggle to find your strength.

Where can you find support?

The High Priestess:

This month, you can find support from your guides. You think that you are the only one who can help you through anything but, this is untrue. Your guides are there to help you and all you have to do is let them.

What action do you need to take this month?

Four of Wands:

Your guides are telling you that you need to take steps to find stability this month. You'll be taking steps towards your true self this month. You will be healing and finding your footing again. With that comes stability.

Some advice/encouragement:

Death:

You are blossoming, becoming your truest most beautiful self. This is one of your death cycles that you have gone through in the past, and now you are coming out of it. Yes, we go through many death cycles in our lifetimes but that is nothing to fear because it allows you the chance to heal and to blossom into your best self.

Pile Three (Rose Quartz):

Who are you currently:

Seven of Wands:

Recently, you had a fight with someone and this has affected you greatly. You didn't have a good month in June and it seemed as though the first part of it was going to be a good one, but then you had this fight and your whole world turned upside down. After that, you weren't the same.

Four of Swords:

You have been resting and trying to recover from this fight. You have gone into a hermit mode, keeping to yourself because you feel like you are the only one who has your back. You spent the last half of June alone for this reason.

What is your theme for the month?

Nine of Cups:

This month will be good for you with this card coming out. This is the card of wish fulfillment. Your guides are telling you that this month you will be experiencing some wish fulfillment. For some, the wish-fulfillment feels like it has to do with getting over your fight and healing. This month it seems you will be getting back on your feet.

What will you accomplish this month?

Nine of Swords:

You may have experienced an increase in anxiety last month. Your focus this month will be on getting back on your feet and working through your anxieties. This month, you will be healing yourself. Your spirit guides are excited for you to get back on your feet. This month you will be feeling more like yourself after taking your hermit mode in June.

What should you avoid this month?

The World:

You are just starting to regain your bearings. Spirit doesn’t want you to rush yourself take baby steps this month. During June, you avoided the world, and this month you don't need to rush yourself. You will be returning to the world, but that doesn't have to happen immediately. This month, Spirit wants you to avoid rushing into the world. If you took a social media break last month you may need to continue that again for the first half of this month. You can take your time because this month you need to focus on yourself and only do what you believe is right for you.

Six of Swords:

Since this is the progress card, it suggests you want to make progress this month, but Spirit doesn't want you to rush into anything. Take care of yourself this month so that you can keep progressing. Make sure you only do things that are healthy for you.

What should you embrace this month?

The Emperor:

Your guides want you to believe that you control the course of your life. Every aspect of your life is under your control. You may have been going through a lot in the recent past, and you may have developed a "why me" mindset that makes you think that the things that happen in your life are beyond your control. Your guides want you to believe that the things that happen in your life don't happen to you, they happen for you. Say to yourself, "what happens in my life doesn't happen to me, it happens for me.". When you do this you will begin to believe that you are in control of your life.

What obstacle will you face this month?

The Sun:

It is hard for us to accept that healing is not a linear process because, as a society, we are conditioned to look for the quickest solution to our problems. Healing takes time, and happiness will be hard for you to achieve this month. Having said that, that does not mean you will not be happy this month; it simply means that you will have to work extra hard to experience happiness.

Where can you find support?

The Magician:

Manifesting things into your life is the purpose of this card. It reminds you that you are in control of the outcome of your life and that you can achieve whatever you desire. Your guides want you to strive for happiness, to do things that make you happy, and to discover new things that make you happy. As you have been caught up in the idea that everything in your life is out of your control, your guides want you to begin to understand that you can make yourself happy.

What action do you need to take this month?

The Fool:

The card of new beginnings is your guide's way of telling you to leap into the newness of your life this month. Explore yourself this month, find new things you like to do. Since you have been in a funk for a while, now is the best time to learn more about yourself. You are coming out of that funk and are becoming a new person, allowing you to explore yourself more.

Some advice/encouragement:

Ten of Pentacles:

Here, your guides tell you that you will soon experience great abundance in your life. You just need to start to take the first steps towards getting yourself out there. This is the card of legacy building, so your guides want you to be aware that the steps you are taking now will help you create more abundance in your life.

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holidaywishes · 3 years

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Let’s Catch Up...

I've spent another month on dating apps and the results are... pretty damn similar. I kept going with conversations I had started before the start of June and did a week of solely swiping right to see how many matches I would get. It was a long week, that happened to wind up being the last week of the month (save a few days) but the general outcome was that Tinder and Badoo were the successes. At least in terms of numbers.

Here's the breakdown:

Badoo

For the entirety of the month, I had one date from here - it had been rescheduled once and we had a mix-up of where we were supposed to meet. I gave my number to one guy who I had been talking to at the start of this whole experiment but he's proven to be.. elusive to say the least.

To be honest, I still don’t think this app is for me. Even if I did get a date from here who seemed to be a decent guy. The fact is, dating at my age only garners attention from people at the top of the age range, at least for me (I know that won’t be the same for everyone but it was my experience.) I didn’t really keep a good record after day one, but from what I can gather of all my notes -- yes, I took notes, -- is that I matched with an average of 4.86 guys on Badoo for the whole week. That number would probably be lower if I only averaged the number of conversations I started or the dates I went on.

Bumble

What the hell is going on with the guys on Bumble? I was supposed to have a date yesterday with a guy from the app but he wouldn't communicate with me clearly so I accidentally stood him up and now he hasn't responded to me since I told him I wouldn't ditch my mom to talk to him on the phone for an hour.

I’ve always had a bit of an issue with Bumble. I’m not one for talking first, because I don’t know what the best icebreaker is and no one wants to respond to “hey.” So, like I said, I didn’t really keep track but from what I could tell, my average was 7.36 but I often forget about matches on there and they expire. That number is probably much higher lol.

Hinge

I did have a date from Hinge during this week of swiping right on everyone -- or in Hinge's case, liking everyone -- but it had just been scheduled that way. We had matched even before I started the experiment but the conversations were always a bit weird and I could never tell why. He's a nice guy but he's more a friend than someone I could see myself dating. As for the app, I never got any new matches. No new likes. Nothing...

That being said, the matches on this app were the easiest to keep track of... because there was nothing to track. I only had one date so when I added him into my average, I got a whopping 0.25 matches! It’s a weird app and I don’t think that it’s for me either. I wanted it to work because I think that it has the ability to form genuine connections in people, however, you have to match with people in order for those connections to start and for me, it just doesn’t seem to be happening.

Tinder

So, Tinder was a bit of a surprise to me. It's a numbers game honestly. It's the app that everyone knows or heard about first so everyone and their dog is on it. But, because it's a dating app, you never really know what you're gonna get. I think I have a very specific type, physically, which I like to say is "guys who are way too out of my league" i.e. the tall, handsome, athletic guys I could never ever get. None of the guys I had conversations with on Tinder during the last week was my type. One of the guys I matched with was so my type that I was trying so hard to play it cool but he just never initiated a conversation so he's just like sitting in my list and I'm trying desperately not to give into him.

Tinder had a lot going on during this week-long experiment. The tally was all over the place, averaging 51.63 matches, but that’s not a typical thing for me on these apps. Because of how specific my taste is, I typically unmatch with a lot of the guys who match with me on Tinder and then I’m left with maybe 10 guys with who I might consider continuing a conversation. Out of this average, I’ve only kept having conversations with 2 guys, setting up 1 date for Friday and a possible date with the other in like a week when he gets back from camping. I think I’ve started to sabotage both of them because I just.. don’t know how to do the dating thing.

Unfortunately, I’ll probably keep using Tinder. Even though I hate it. Even though the guys are often creepy. Even though I don’t match with my “type.” Even though it likes to play these games ("vibes,” “hot takes,” “swipe night,” etc.”) The fact is, it has the most options. If the conversation doesn’t work, or the vibe doesn’t work, unmatching is easy but Tinder has the majority of people to match with because it’s such a common app. Most of the time, It’s a blow to my ego but every now and then, someone cute comes along and boosts the ego a bit. If only for a minute.

In conclusion:

It’s like a freakin’ essay up in this bitch. I wish I could’ve written all my essays as Tumblr posts -- they would’ve been far more entertaining -- but I digress.

If anything, this whole thing is an experiment in sexuality and how comfortable I could be in my own body. I wanted it to be about finding someone I had a genuine connection with and who I felt like I could tell my truth to without being judged but in the end, I did feel extremely judged.

But not about sex.

Most guys were curious why I was still a virgin but it wasn't as big of a deal as I thought it was going to be. There were guys who made me feel like I should feel free to explore my body and my sexuality and they made me feel beautiful; even if it was in the form of innuendos and double entendre's.

No, no. When they found out I had never been in a relationship before, suddenly nothing made sense and they had all these questions and they felt pressured even though I told them that I had no expectations. The more times that I got asked "why have you never been in a relationship?" the more I wanted to delete the apps, curl up in my skin and die.

If I knew why I've never been in a relationship, then I would have been in a relationship by now...

It just felt so humiliating to keep explaining it over and over again and I couldn't believe this is where everyone was going to focus on. That being said, the guys who didn't focus on my relationship status or my virginity, more or less ghosted me and I was doing everything in my power not to double message them. I finally understand why people go after people who treat them like sh*t. Like, yes, I'm getting attention from other people but I'm not getting your attention and it's confusing the hell outta me. Look, if I'm being honest, I know that everyone's experiences are different and everyone is looking for something different on different apps. I am one of these people who have a very specific type and it's hard for me to get past that, even when I do match with perfectly nice guys outside of my preferences. I think there's part of me that knows I'll never end up with a guy who's my "type" so I don't try as hard or I sabotage things too quickly but I think there's another part of me that thinks "fuck it. If I match with this guy and the conversation doesn't go anywhere, then oh well."

So, is it my mindset that's the problem? Are my standards too high? or does my lack of self-esteem come through in conversation?

It's probably all three but I know what kind of a person I am. I know that I care too much, I know that I'm kind, I know that I'm a bubbly person and I know that, in time, I'll find someone who matches my energy and what I want out of this. The bottom line is this: dating apps are fine and they work for some people but dating, in general, is hard.

So... that's my little dating journey. It was a bit of an ego boost and a truly wild ride and I don't really know where to go from here...

#i'm baring everything to y'all #sorry for the tmi #my dating life #my dating journey #this was a sh*t show #and i'm over dating

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