Tortured Poets Department will likely be my favorite Taylor Swift album in 30 years, when I’ve finally listened to all of it

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

Liars: “It’s not a love story.”

Me: Then why is it written, shot, framed, set, directed, acted, composed, and edited like a love story?

Never underestimate how much people want to watch two hot people who are madly in love with each other never fuck

X-Files fans, is this solvable at all?

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose//3x04

I would like to thank Fox Mulder for his contribution to insomniac representation on screen

I never, ever recommend The X-Files to anyone and almost never sit down with someone to watch an episode because the show is so precious to me that if I hear one negative word from a non-fan I will smile painfully, say “that’s okay, it’s not for everyone!🥹” and then go to my room and bawl

They done did Dune!!!

If anyone has wondered about my gender (please don’t) I am both a muldergirl and a scullyboy

One of the interesting, or perhaps silly, things about me is that I’m asexual but don’t read Mulder and Scully as aspec at all. I just think if you’re going to read characters as aspec, they should probably not be played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson idk 🤷🏻

The development of AI has only made Ghost in the Shell more relevant. As we increasingly rely on technology to run, shape, augment, and mimic our reality, what is real and what isn’t will become less clear. The line between man and machine will become so blurred that we won’t be able to tell the difference anymore.

Re: my last post, let it be known that Scully saved countless lives by being thirsty

Man vs. machine

Can you imagine being Karin Berquist, hiding away in your house until you meet someone online you really like to the point you orchestrate a meeting, and then he comes and brings Dana Scully with him