love shack, baby, love shack
Remember months and months ago, that sort of cross between a fanmix and a meme where you pick a song for ten of your OTPs? Well I have finally, finally gotten around to it.
( lots of love stories! )
( lots of love stories! )
I think it'd still count if you narrowed it down to five or three :) Not everyone is as crazyshippy as me, I don't think.
Heh, it's not so much "crazy" as "I don't watch that much TV, and get into ships even more rarely." I couldn't even tell you why -- I honestly don't know!
As far as I'm concerned, Mulder and Scully are the OTP to end all OTPs. Perfection is the perfect word for them.
Yessss. OTP to end all OTPs about covers it for me!
And I realized I didn't quite comment on anything specific you wrote in the comment above (FAIL), so I'm totally going to do that now! Win! (Not.)
I think it'd be nearly impossible to make a fanmix that was purely Mulder and Scully, because their dynamic in season one is completely and totally different from the one they have in season four or six or eight.
People have often suggested I make an MSR fanmix, but I've always felt reluctant to do so, though without ever being sure why I was hesitant to try. You just totally articulated why, though!
Season One they're tentatively feeling one another out, Season Two oscillates between their missing working together (without outwardly admitting it), then Scully being GONE and Mulder pretty much losing all ability to work, and then they're just really glad she's back. Season Three they're really settling into that perfect dynamic I think, both having recently lost so much. Season Four is tricky as hell -- they're strained but they don't even seem to know why, but then Scully getting sick makes them both want to die, and ultimately brings them closer than ever. Season Five is so perfect, I cannot even, even when they swap roles for a bit and are more confused than ever. Season Six they're finally getting really forward and flirty (which is awesome), but there are also issues that crop up in the background that quickly move to the foreground and test their mutual trust (*coughDIANAcough*) that aren't fully resolved until Season Seven rolls around. And by then, no one can convince me they're not having The Sex, and that it is not Awesome. In Season Eight Scully is pretty much rudderless without Mulder, not to mention very weepy (and who can blame her?), until he comes back, and they're just relieved as hell to be back together, and Nine, well... the end of The Truth has always screamed perfection to me, I don't care what anyone else says.
They're both completely complex characters, and they have this completely complex relationship, and after a certain point I'm not entirely sure they remember exactly how to function without each other. It is a beautiful thing to watch and absorb.
WORD. They reach that point of no return, where it's like they just can't do anything without the other. I LOVE IT.
And I'm going to shut up now, because this is the longest comment ever constructed. *runs*
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WOW, that is exactly it. I was thinking today that I show draw a chart to illustrate how they fluctuate -- because sometimes they're close and sometimes they're rifty (although whatever the internal state of their relationship, they always present a united front) and sometimes it's hard to pinpoint exactly why they act that way. The infamous season three "rift" seems to sort of come out of nowhere, and they recover from it relatively fast (only to nosedive again in season four) and really the relationship is so damn complicated it's hard to ever completely understand it. We try, though, and that summary of it all was nearly perfect.
That said, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and tell you that you really should, at some point, make an MSR fanmix. Just pick a season (or a theme -- there's one song I love that perfectly expresses the sexual side of the tension between them and I secretly feel like making a mix centered around that)! That's sort of what I've always intended to do. Someday I'll get around to it!
And I'm going to shut up now, because this is the longest comment ever constructed.
Lies! I've had to split one into three separate ones before.
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Very true! It would be a pretty nifty (albeit pretty complicated) project, trying to make like... an MSR flow chart, lmao. But still, awesome.
The infamous season three "rift" seems to sort of come out of nowhere, and they recover from it relatively fast (only to nosedive again in season four) and really the relationship is so damn complicated it's hard to ever completely understand it. We try, though, and that summary of it all was nearly perfect.
Aww, thank you! I tried, but I'm sure I missed a lot of things. It's weird how they fluctuate in S3, isn't it? I think, without putting too much thought at this moment into it, Scully may have finally been questioning things she'd repressed for some time (as we all know, Scully is the Queen of Self-Denial), and it was starting to take its toll on the relationship. They briefly patch it up due to extreme circumstances forcing their way to the forefront, but I think they didn't really fix anything, which is why everything kind of goes KABOOM! in S4. The end of "Never Again" always makes me just completely anxious, because they don't even know what to do with each other, let alone themselves. It's brilliant, but damn is it stressful.
That said, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and tell you that you really should, at some point, make an MSR fanmix. Just pick a season (or a theme -- there's one song I love that perfectly expresses the sexual side of the tension between them and I secretly feel like making a mix centered around that)! That's sort of what I've always intended to do. Someday I'll get around to it!
I may do just that! Problem is, there are SO many XF-related projects I'm either working on, or want to do in the future. First and foremost, capping the entire series and hosting it (xf-caps.com WILL happen, I swear to God!), and I even have a couple of fanvid ideas (but have no clue what I'm doing, so I need to learn a thing or two so as not to look like a complete and total ASS). But I may squeeze a fanmix or two in there somewhere, you never know. ;)
Lies! I've had to split one into three separate ones before.
Heh, I've had to do that a few times in the past, too! Because I am rambly and never know when to shut up, and LJ and its comment character limits can kiss my ass.
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This seems completely true! I've always thought they sort of thought that the patch-up moment is Wetwired, but it's absolutely an extenuating circumstances sort of thing and then he ditches her the next episode, which is really just leaving them open to exascerbate each other at the next possible opportunity.
The end of "Never Again" always makes me just completely anxious, because they don't even know what to do with each other, let alone themselves. It's brilliant, but damn is it stressful.
That episode makes me so sad and... I don't even know at the same time. Well done but SO SAD.
I may do just that! Problem is, there are SO many XF-related projects I'm either working on, or want to do in the future. First and foremost, capping the entire series and hosting it (xf-caps.com WILL happen, I swear to God!), and I even have a couple of fanvid ideas (but have no clue what I'm doing, so I need to learn a thing or two so as not to look like a complete and total ASS). But I may squeeze a fanmix or two in there somewhere, you never know. ;)
Yes, I absolutely know what you mean. My fandom project to-do list is nearly as long, and xf-caps.com is for the great good of the many! If you ever do get time, I guess!
Because I am rambly and never know when to shut up, and LJ and its comment character limits can kiss my ass.
EXACTLY.
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Heh, yeah, Mulder and his ditching. He never really learns, does he? But we love him anyway. It's funny, with the myriad of episodes in S3 that I love, where they work well together ("Clyde Bruckman," "Jose Chung" -- to an extent -- "Oubliette" and "PUSHER," OMG, and even "Quagmire"), there are also the great ones that show a lot of strain ("War of the Coprophages," no matter how hilarious it is, "Syzygy", etc.). Those times, they're almost at each other's throats, and you're like, "Wow, this has become slightly dysfunctional."
That episode makes me so sad and... I don't even know at the same time. Well done but SO SAD.
Yeah, I feel you on that. I mean, it's definitely a great episode, and even has its very funny moments (Mulder saying "moose and squirrel!", Mulder dancing around trying to get cell phone reception, MULDER IN GRACELAND), there's all the extremely anxiety-inducing, creepy stuff with Ed Jerse, and all the tension between the better moose and squirrel, of course. I still can't believe how effective that ending line is, despite (or maybe because of) the fact that it's cut of: "Yes, but it's m--" GAH.
Yes, I absolutely know what you mean. My fandom project to-do list is nearly as long, and xf-caps.com is for the great good of the many! If you ever do get time, I guess!
Oh, I will have time -- xf-caps.com is #1 on my priority list right now. I own the full series, I have all the software I need, and I've already capped several episodes and am working on more. The bigger problems are more like, "Gah, I don't know anything about Dreamhost!" and "Ack, I know nothing about using Coppermine!" You know, basically, I'm a website-idiot. Whee! This bodes SO WELL.
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