How about Germany? They've never been the bad guys.

[annakovsky]

I've been having a weird impromptu X-Files marathon lately -- I haven't watched that show in FOREVER but for some reason out of the blue I got the urge to watch the first season episode "Eve", and it held up SHOCKINGLY WELL. I tend to the think of the first season as being kind of terrible, but man, I can see why my 14 year old self got really into

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[mushfromnewsies]

I just want to add that season one of The X-Files was not filmed and aired fifteen years ago. It was filmed and aired EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, beginning this August. Actually, the pilot was filmed in Jan/Feb so for that it's been almost nineteen. But, EIGHTEEN. 18. 10 PLUS 8. THAT IS TO SAY, ALMOST TWENTY YEARS.

Lol Gillian was on a talk show thing in Australia recently promoting her Johnny English movie, and one of the presenters said the show began "almost twenty years ago" and she like visibly reacted, and was totally flummoxed. She was like, I've never heard anyone say that before! Twenty years! Oh Gillian.

[annakovsky]

Ahahahaha, true story, initially this post said that it aired "almost twenty years ago" but I changed it to "over fifteen" because the first one made me feel old and sad. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE. Also Gillian Anderson was such a baby, I can't even cope with it. Ahahaha, I bet she did a double-take, that's so cute.

♪ David Duchovny, why won't you love me? ♫

[cleversimon]

Like, there are times when Mulder rants about how the truth will come out and the American people will never tolerate it, etc! And my reaction to that is, "Yeah, right, like the truth coming out ever stops anything."

My reaction to that is to pour a large whiskey and try not to get too many tears in it. But otherwise, yeah, that.

I found the first four seasons of X-Files on DVD for, like, eight bucks apiece last year, so of course I bought them. And in a year where I got married, my younger sister had a baby, my little brother got engaged, and I actually sat down with my boss and talked about my ~*~career plans~*~, nothing gave me the psychological "oh shit, I'm an adult now" slap in the face like realizing I was older than Gillian Anderson was in Season 1.

Nerrrrrrrrd.

THAT SONG WAS SO GOOD remember the cast-made video to it?

[annakovsky]

Oh my God, I know, she was SO YOUNG in season 1, wasn't she? And I thought they were so grownup! I spent every morning on the school bus thinking about her and Mulder getting together how am I grown person. DDDDD: Haha, it's nice of television to give us these milestones, I was seriously a little disturbed by HOW MANY vivid memories of my life I had around the show.

[annakovsky]

Ahahahahaha, should we make some sort of wordcount exchange pact?

(Actually I have, like, 1000 words of a high school AU where Ben and Leslie are stepsiblings, based on a prompt my friend left on the kinkmeme for me, but then someone else started writing that prompt and I felt like probably the fandom didn't need TWO stepsib AUs, hahaha.)

[cypanache]

As the one who started responding to that prompt . . . I'm now incredibly sad I did so knowing it resulted in fic not being written by you. I think fandom could absolutely do with stebsiblings responses. (And please tell your friend I'm sorry if I prevented her from getting fic she wanted from you, but also thank her because her prompt was brilliant).

[annakovsky]

Oh no, not at all! Mine was totally stalling out anyway, so I was just psyched to see that you were writing one -- I've been waiting till it was done to read it, but was super happy someone was into the prompt and actually being productive on it!

(I have, like, at least six Parks fics started in my gdocs that have stalled out for whatever reason. Haha, so honestly it was a relief to just go ahead and abandon it instead of keeping trying to force it. I don't know what my inability to finish fic is about lately! But don't feel bad, if it had been going well I would've gone ahead and kept writing it anyway, but it... was not, haha.)

[irishmizzy]

Basically I feel like Leslie Knope (and, honestly, a little bit Amy Poehler) are what would happen if a girl was allowed to get through puberty with her real self intact, instead of getting relentlessly socialized to be whatever an acceptable woman is supposed to be

BEAUTIFUL 2 ME. I want so much for the Poehler/Knope archetype to become the next manic pixie dream girl. BECOME OBSESSED WITH THIS, PLEASE, HOLLYWOOD. I will sit through a zillion movies about them, I promise.

[annakovsky]

ME TOO, SO MUCH. Super competent, super badass, unselfconscious weirdos who have their own shit going on! PROTAGONIST LADIES FTW! Kaitlin from SNL all grown up!

[ruidoso]

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[annakovsky]

I DON'T WANT TO GET MY EARS PIERCED, RIIIIIIIICK.

[annakovsky]

Tumblrization, I know! I-I honestly keep wanting to, like, cross-post things there a little bit. MAYBE I SHALL DO SO WITH LESLIE META. I love many things about tumblr but it is weird to me that fannishness is shifting over there because it is such a specific non-wordy platform.

Man, the being obtuse thing was SUPER HARSH. Haha a-and hot. But I know, like, secret handshakes one minute and then WE CANNOT HANG OUT? Pick a lane, Ben! No wonder she declared war on him! Heeee, his poor little feelings just cannot handle being with her and her amazingness but not being WITH her, which I guess is understandable.