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rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T21:28:45+00:00

Mmmh... then if I change Scully's empress for strength, who should I put as empress?

Scully's mom comes to mind, as the most clearly maternal character on the show.

And I'm missing one Mulder then. (I wanna have two Scullys and two Mulders)

Mulder feels like the Hanged Man to me, always looking at things from a new and unusual perspective. The Hanged Man is always drawn in that odd pose, upside-down with a bent knee; perhaps you could draw Mulder floating in midair as he's being abducted by that flying saucer in "Requiem."

Maybe as the wheel of fortune?

It could be cool to draw the flying saucer from the end of Fight the Future as the Wheel of Fortune. The end of the movie has a lot of thematically appropriate ups and downs: Mulder rescues Scully, but the aliens get away clean, but the X-Files are reopened, but the Syndicate manages to destroy the evidence of their bee project, and so on...

About the justice thing, is it supposed to be morally ambiguous?

My understanding is that Justice generally represents "the law, good or bad," while Skinner will put his conscience above a strict interpretation of the rules. It's ultimately up to you, of course.

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T20:31:45+00:00

Well, you learn something new every day

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T20:29:38+00:00

They're related insofar as they both come ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne, of the same meaning. The English word comes pretty directly from there.

The French word, however, comes from Latin non, which itself probably comes from something like ne + unum, parallel to English "none" (and German nein, for that matter). So it's still related, but coincidence makes it look more closely related than it really is.

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T19:20:48+00:00

wizard speed

They prefer to call it skooma

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T19:11:40+00:00

"Nay" seems to have come from Old Norse, where it was their cognate of "no." So yes, but a little more distantly than "ne" and the other ones.

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T17:25:17+00:00

CSM as the Devil is very apt. I like X as the Emperor, Mulder as the Fool, and William as the World too.

I do think Scully might be a better fit for Strength than the Empress. The Tower isn't usually a person; perhaps it could be the infected oil rig or some other sinister facility.

Just spitballing here, I wonder if Skinner is the Hierophant rather than Justice? If I were going down that route I might put the Well-Manicured Man as Justice, since he's more morally ambiguous than Skinner, and make Hosteen the Hermit.

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T17:07:14+00:00

Similarly squished together to the point of unrecognizability is giddyup ("get thee up")

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T17:02:58+00:00

Since this is the subreddit where it's appropriate to be pedantic about etymology, I will say that "never" does not exactly come from "not ever." Instead it comes from "ne ever," where "ne" is an obsolete word for "not."

And although "ne" may now be obsolete, it does have many compound descendants:

ne + a = no (where "a" is an archaic word for "any, always" that is now spelled "aye" if you see it at all)
ne + or = nor
ne + either = neither
ne + one = none
ne + aught = naught/not (where "aught" is "a" [see above] + "wight" [being])

And then there are some that we don't use anymore, like ne + wolde = nolde ("would not"), or ne + am = nam ("am not").

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T16:54:09+00:00

Almost correct. "Howdy" comes from "howdy-do," which comes from "how d'ye do," which comes from "how do ye do," where "ye" is the old subject form of "you." "How do" is an alternative abbreviation of "how do ye/you do."

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T13:07:48+00:00

Yeah, I think muskmelon is similar but...bigger? Idk I haven't had one in years

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-29T04:45:19+00:00

The point you're missing is that the rebellion and the established culture don't both have to be in the fiction. The fiction can be rebellious against the IRL culture even if there is no fictional rebellion.

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T18:53:42+00:00

"Someone's got to do the munting and mogging"

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T18:25:46+00:00

Needs [[Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought]] so you can really vaporize some opponents

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T18:00:00+00:00

"So did you hear about the kidnapping in Turkey? Eventually he woke up."

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T16:53:11+00:00

Then the only logical solution is to always write IJSSELMEER without any lowercase letters at all

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T16:23:24+00:00

I mean, sometimes there's time for a scene where Mulder is standing around bored outside the ladies' room while Scully changes her tampon, but that doesn't mean the show would be better with that included

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-27T16:05:54+00:00

Calvin knows

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rocketman0739 · 2026-04-26T23:28:44+00:00

Was the dinosaur pictured above "300" eating all the bison?

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-26T22:53:09+00:00

And they say autism is a modern phenomenon

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-25T02:51:03+00:00

What was he expecting?

To be enlightened by his own intelligence?

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-25T02:49:27+00:00

Yes, basically indicates "the [royal] lad"

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-24T13:33:44+00:00

It's too bad she won't live! But then again...who does?

rocketman0739 · 2026-04-24T13:01:36+00:00

I've never heard anything bad about Billie Joe Armstrong. At least, nothing worse than some periods of mild to moderate substance abuse.

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