What's so SPECIAL about YOU?!

[rachg82]

So, I know you all are a bunch of Buffyites (fuckin' Buffy, man. Hee. Kidding! *ducks*), but I know at least Nehallania will get what the Hell I'm on about, if I talk about the X Files, around here. Oh, and the lovely Ms. Ugly Bug Ball, who I know drops by, occasionally, will also. The rest of you can just talk amongst yourselves, when I do. Here, I'll give you a topic. Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Discuss.



I'm watching Fight Club on TNT, right now, and this episode really did pretty much suck llama balls. But, because I swear I'm going through XF withdrawal now that the show is over, I'm sitting here watching it anyway. I haven't seen this episode since it first ran, like two years ago. Anyway, I forgot that there's this adorable scene in the beginning, between Mulder and Scully in the office, as he's doing his whole slideshow rigmarole. A couple months ago, I would've hopped over to TWoP, and been all "Shippy moment, bishes! Booyah!" But I can't now, so, right. Heh. I'll just do it here, where no one even knows what I'm talking about. Hee. Good plan! Anyway, Mulder's all "So, whatever could this be, Scully?" and--rather than playing along--she actually calls him on the game he plays, dropping hints, and keeping information to himself, so she can sit there and guess shit. And then she starts getting all playful, and guessing anyway, and I'm like "Aw, look at you! Ms. Rational, throwing out the paranormal lingo!" Finally, she's like "Mulder, would you just show the slide?" and he does, and she's like "Ha! I knew it" or something, and Mulder's like "I'm going to start doing the autopsies now." Hee! I want to marry both of them, and have their babies. Except, you know, without the whole miraclenotalienorisit???-ness.

Ooh, and now they're playing Je Souhaite. I like this ep, and not only because Mulder and Scully are so obviously tappin' that sweet ass, during the commercial breaks. Hee. Scully is so cute, I want to just eat her right up (not like that, you pervs. Haha), when she thinks she's really found an invisible man she can show to people. And then it disappears. My poor girlfriend!

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[nehallania.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I said to Methos the other day that I'd been feeling really weird that the World Series was over, like there was something missing, and I realized that it was because there wasn't a new season of XF. It's in my head: World Series ends/ X-Files begins. Not that I'd have wanted another season, but still.

On the Scully front, my older daughter was at a meeting of the Academic Decathalon team at the house of the teacher who coaches the team. She's about 25, and her younger brother is a good friend of my daughter's (and goes to Emerson, where she wants to go), and her mom is also a teacher at the high school. Anyway, my daughter already thought she was cool, because she has the movie "Clerks" on DVD (so do I), and she let them watch it one night after their meeting. So the next meeting, they were talking about cool toys they'd like to have, and my daughter said that for years she's wanted the Scully Barbie. The teacher said "Did I hear Scully Barbie?," ran upstairs, and came back down holding the Scully Barbie AND the Mulder Ken.

How cool is that?

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[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is indeed cool. I remember when I found out my Ohana teacher (our hippy version of Homeroom, heh. She also taught a few of my required classes, so I spent a lot of time with her), my freshman year of HS, was into the X Files, I flipped. I thought it was so cool. It was fun, because that was 4th season, so I remember her and I in class, Monday mornings, going off about the prior night's episode. Like, after Momento Mori, being all "Dude! Scully has cancer! In the brain! Cancer! Scully! DUDE!" Hee. Meanwhile, everyone around us is like "Huh?"

My Biology teacher, later on, also watched it. We'd talk about the episodes Monday mornings, every week. He was a damn noromo, though. Hee. And he and I would mess with each other all the time, over it. I remember after Amor Fati, he was all "Rachael! You are my touchstone! My constant! Haha! That is so cheesy! God! How long did she need to kiss his forehead, too?" and I was like "Hey! You shut your dirty mouth!" Heeee. Good times, good times.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

*looks at own screenname*

Sure. NEHALLANIA'd be the only one to recognize XFage.

*runs off to a corner and cries*

[dosidella.livejournal.com]

Erm. Putting tapes in the mail tomorrow. Just sayin'. I know you're very excited, too.

*hides*

[kopernik.livejournal.com]

"Sure. NEHALLANIA'd be the only one to recognize XFage."

No fucking doubt, Fox.

It's not like anyone who watches Buffy was ever obsessed with X-Files until the goddamn bees showed up and everything went to hell.

*would happily eat Doggett up with a spoon*

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Word, Kope. I was massively obsessed with XF and DD until the stupid movie ruined everything.

[keenai.livejournal.com]

Don't be afraid of those Buffy freaks!

[(Anonymous)]

Woo! I got a shout out in Rach's journal. Hee, I'm so down with my bad self!!!

Anyhoo...yay, X-files ranting!! Did I tell you Rach that we're only just getting Season 9 here in Australia? It's on at the 'well, this won't rate, but we're contractually obligated to air it' time of 8.30 on a Saturday night. Last weekend they didn't run it at all, in favour of the Blues Brother's movie, for Burt's sake! This weekend it's pushed back to 10.30!!! I'm scared they're going to lose interest all together by the time we get to the finale, and I'm going to miss the opportunity to see Mulder and Scully spooning on my own TV. Damn you Network Ten! And damn you Chris Carter for turning my beloved show into the crapfest it is, which has made people turn away, which means Network Ten can treat it with such disrespect. Damn you all!

Phew! That feel's better!! Got that off my chest. Speaking of Scully, I have the worst ID photo on my badge for work I think I've ever seen. Happily however, the badge is really only useful for the magnetic stripey thing on the back, which lets me into the car park, and to the building after hours, and into the threate corridor in emergencies etc.

Anyway (don't worry, this is getting to the Scully bit) I've taken to pasting photographs of other people over my own, because no one ever checks that I am the person in the photograph. I was the Queen Mum for a while, until I got scared she was going to die, and I would look all disrespectful, and I took her off (I don't think this counts as being psychic, in that she did die a few weeks after this, she was like 100 or somethiing!) Then I was Austin Powers, until the vicious car park swiper tore him right off. So, about a month ago, I found this great picture of Scully, which was the right size, and pasted her right on there. Woo! I wanted to write FBI in really big letters right next to it, but thought that might really be disrespecting the whole security angle. So, I've just been quietly going around with GA's face where my ugly mug should be. No ones noticed much because Scully is a bit subtler than Austin, as well as the correct gender for me, and I have red hair, so at a VERY cursory glance, it all looks A-OK.


So last weekend I'm at work, and one of my patients Dad's (I work in neonatal intensive care, when I'm not at uni) goes, 'wow, that is an awesome ID photo'.
I thought he was kidding, so I'm like, 'Yeah, thanks. Hee'
Then he's like, 'Did you have to wear a suit for the interview?'
And I was like 'Oh, yeah, power dressing you know'
And then (and this is the clincher) he says, 'Has anyone told you with your hair out you look just like that chick from the X Files?"
I still thought he was kidding and I'm like 'Oh yeah, get that all the time?' (Me and GA? Same gender, sameish age, red hair, called Gillian. Similarity ends there. She - gorgeous, toned, tiny. Me - not so gorgeous, slightly less than toned, 5'9")

So this guy was like 'No, that's amazing, you could be her sister in that photo.' And then it finally dawned on me that he wasn't joking, and I was like 'Errr, that is the chick from the X files dude!'. And he was all embarassed, but I told him that being mistaken for Scully? Even though he was actually looking at the real Scully, and admittedly, through the perspex of the isolette. Best damn five minutes of my sad little life! Hee!

Why? Because Scully is my girlfriend!!! Yay!

OK, end incredibly long, rambling story without a real point to it.

Love
Ugly Bug Ball

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Hee! How much do I love that you walk around with Scully on your work ID?

Re: Fox. Aww. Hee. Sorry. Duh, I know you used to watch the show! But, I didn't think you still watched it in the seventh season, or if you did, would be interested in reading stuff about it.

I didn't realize so many of y'all used to watch it! Except it sounds like most of you stopped around the time of the movie, so I'm assuming none of you are shippers? Well, the hell with all of you, then! Hee. Kidding! Or am I?

Hee. All right, you've all screwed yourselves over then, admitting that so many of you have been into the show before. Now you've all bought yourselves a ticket to future Rachael!Rambling, X Files style. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[innle.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm up for X-Files Rambling. I actually spent a bit of time at the X-Files boards in those halcyon days of yore, but there didn't seem to be much point after a while because the episodes sounded really shit in s8-9, and we weren't even going to get them for months (I'm Australian, like Ugly Bug Ball).

I'm a shipper, too. Anti-baby shipper, but shipper all the same. Can I say shipper any more times? Possibly.

Anyway. Rant, my pretty! Rant!

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[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Another meta xf shipper? Could it be? (other than by bud, dietcokeofevil, of course) Praise the Lord-ah! Hee.