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So remember how that night the first XF2 promo photo came out EVERY SINGLE PERSON who remotedly loved the show made a post that consisted of little more than !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the pictures themselves reuploaded to their image host of choice? We were so ridiculously spammy that it almost looped back around to charming again? AND IT WAS GREAT?
I have since been weirdly terrified that any repeat experience would ruin the first one. Indeeeed, I have refrained from bringing up any of the other promo pictures here (except for the Wondercon ones, which, SHUT UP, was totally important, as I had a grainy cell phone photo to show everyone, PLUS GILLIAN PICKED LINT OFF DAVID, ergo -- IMPORTANT EVENT), because after the second or third time it shows up on my friends list, my (wet blanket) reaction is "god, you guys, HOW MANY EXCLAMATION POINTS DO YOU WANT OUT OF ME?"
Well, no more, my friends. This picture (this picture!!!) DOES THINGS TO ME. When I first saw it, it literally took me a full minute to start processing words again. It's unbelivably intimate and intoxicating and perfect, and even though we've all got it set as our desktop background by now, you cannot deny it deserves to be crossposted across the internet as many times as possible.
( i seriously almost put 'warning: dangerously hot' for my cut tag, but that was just... sad, even for me. )
Somewhat related question: are there other TV shows that have at least once exploited foreheads as a way to express affection? I thought there were -- I think I remember, on more than one occasion, telling someone two fictional people were "pulling a Mulder and Scully", but I cannot for the life of me remember who, when, and where?!
(I swear to god, in most of those intervening years, THEIR FOREHEADS saw more action than they did. Forehead kisses were their bizarro way of saying "I love you! And I want to share this INTIMATE MOMENT with you! But it's not... like that. Which is why we aren't kissing on the lips! [subtextual sexual tension]" I swear to god, no other show has ever put sex on that high of a pedestal. There is no way their first time measured up to the zillions and zillions of fantasties they must've been having about each other since season one, no matter how many fanfiction authors believe the contrary. Unresolved sexual tension as realized by the X-Files is simultaneously the very very best and most excruciating gift television has ever given me.)
I have since been weirdly terrified that any repeat experience would ruin the first one. Indeeeed, I have refrained from bringing up any of the other promo pictures here (except for the Wondercon ones, which, SHUT UP, was totally important, as I had a grainy cell phone photo to show everyone, PLUS GILLIAN PICKED LINT OFF DAVID, ergo -- IMPORTANT EVENT), because after the second or third time it shows up on my friends list, my (wet blanket) reaction is "god, you guys, HOW MANY EXCLAMATION POINTS DO YOU WANT OUT OF ME?"
Well, no more, my friends. This picture (this picture!!!) DOES THINGS TO ME. When I first saw it, it literally took me a full minute to start processing words again. It's unbelivably intimate and intoxicating and perfect, and even though we've all got it set as our desktop background by now, you cannot deny it deserves to be crossposted across the internet as many times as possible.
( i seriously almost put 'warning: dangerously hot' for my cut tag, but that was just... sad, even for me. )
Somewhat related question: are there other TV shows that have at least once exploited foreheads as a way to express affection? I thought there were -- I think I remember, on more than one occasion, telling someone two fictional people were "pulling a Mulder and Scully", but I cannot for the life of me remember who, when, and where?!
(I swear to god, in most of those intervening years, THEIR FOREHEADS saw more action than they did. Forehead kisses were their bizarro way of saying "I love you! And I want to share this INTIMATE MOMENT with you! But it's not... like that. Which is why we aren't kissing on the lips! [subtextual sexual tension]" I swear to god, no other show has ever put sex on that high of a pedestal. There is no way their first time measured up to the zillions and zillions of fantasties they must've been having about each other since season one, no matter how many fanfiction authors believe the contrary. Unresolved sexual tension as realized by the X-Files is simultaneously the very very best and most excruciating gift television has ever given me.)
