I’m part way through my project of rectifying the glaring oversight of not including the Gunmen in the official Lego set.

The first of my boys to come together completely is Frohike. In the second slide I provided the official Lego pieces I used. His head is custom printed from Byron Bricks, as I could not find any sufficient already existing Lego head for him. Additionally I painted his hands to look like fingerless gloves, because you can’t have a Frohike without a heinous vest and fingerless gloves.

In the parts I picked out, I included the second torso I thought works well for his style too. But really there a good few choices with various vests you could go with. I also have a tuxedo and bow tie torso in case I ever feel inclined to recreate the scene from ‘One Breath’.

Stay tuned for Langly, Byers, and their van!

Early on in the X-Files PC game there is an issue of ‘The Magic Bullet’ (later known as ‘The Lone Gunman’) in Mulder’s hotel room. You can inspect it, and find two pages worth of articles in it.

Each section comes up separately, but I’ve put the readable images from the game together into the full pages again, for your reading pleasure.

I was going through all the video files from the X-Files PC game to make sure I didn't miss any with the Gunmen, and to compile their clips into a video, and at the very end there's an easter egg clip with Jose Chung's superimposed on the video of Willmore with his FBI badge. Really tickled me, so I had to share.

Hi there! I wanted to share my recent plushie knits. I decided to do a collection of moldy fruit and veg after finding some really fun hand dyed wool that inspired thoughts of the kaleidoscope of colors in decomposing produce. I added some beadwork as well to represent the extra gnarly spots!

The patterns are self drafted, I don’t currently offer my patterns publicly. The yarn was various hand dyed sock weight wools.

Spoilers ahead for The Lone Gunmen spinoff.

I was really struck by Langly’s opening monologue in this episode:

“My best memory is of my family's old Zenith. Every afternoon, after school and chores, and more chores, I'd watch TV — all three channels of it — and I'd escape. There was Bozo the Clown, and Captain Kangaroo, he was cool, there was Sherry Lewis and Lamb Chop, and they were like good friends who were always looking out for me, good friends who'd help me grow up strong and true, and who would never make fun of my hair. These old shows were comforting, they made me feel good about the world I was growing up in. And none made me feel better than Cap'n Toby.

For my money he was the best. Cap'n Toby and his first mate, Clarence the Crab. Maybe it's because I grew up in land-locked Nebraska that I dug his show so much. Or maybe it's just that he was so decent, so true blue, that I'd give anything to ship off with him. He made my childhood bearable. He was someone I could trust growing up, someone I could count on.”

Imagine my surprise and delight when I learned that my favorite character had such a similar childhood experience to my own. There were no safe adults in my life, I was extremely isolated in a rural area, and I grew up almost entirely alone. Fictional worlds were my escape, and the characters from them my only friends. This necessary coping mechanism has never left me. To this day, I treasure the internal world that I built with the fandoms and characters I love.

This episode gives us a lot of sweet moments of Langly gushing over his favorite childhood show, clearly still holding a huge place in his heart. Which I take to mean he likely still values the role of fiction and escapism in the face of trying to survive the real world. I didn’t know this about him when my mind said, “Yes, that’s your person.” But I’m beyond tickled, and it feels so fitting.

Fictional characters and worlds do become real, through the feelings and creativity they inspire in people. It’s a lot more common now that people feel comfortable openly expressing their fandom love and fixations, and I’m thankful for that. But there’s a part of me that will always be the little neurodivergent girl, who no one seemed to understand, and who had to make up her own reality to survive. To know Langly would get it, that healed something in me.

And I think a lot of fellow X-Files fans would get it too. After all, here we are, 30 years later, still talking about it, some of us discovering it for the first time, and that’s special and worth celebrating. To quote Langly from the end of the episode:

“So, like I said, everybody has one single best memory of childhood. That one perfect image that sums up everything wonderful about being a kid. And it's nice to think that mine might be the same as somebody else's somewhere.“

Hello, I hope it’s okay to post this here, I thought maybe this community may have the best chance at helping me identify two old shirts.

The short of it is: I have a favorite character who wears band shirts and there’s two that I can’t identify through any googling, image searches, etc.

I wish I had better images for you. These are from the X-Files spin off The Lone Gunmen, and it has never received an HD release. This is the best I got from the DVD rips.

The first is a shirt worn for only a few seconds at the end of the pilot. It would reason it’s a band shirt. Something pre 2001, likely a punk/alt rock band. The letters appear to be C ? D E without space for any additional letters underneath. But I can’t be 100% with the limited time it’s on screen. The image appears to be some sort of industrial/building photo. I’ve thought about the theory that the text is part of the photo, and that’s why it doesn’t make sense. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The second I don’t believe is a band shirt. Maybe some tech brand? But I can’t find any leads on this logo. I’m just hoping someone in the world recognizes what it is.

Any help is deeply appreciated. I’ve lots a lot of sleep over mystery shirts. 😂

I have one of those wacky knockoff Garfield plushies whom I love dearly.

It was his fifth birthday yesterday, so I created an art piece to celebrate him!

Meme credit: Aphrostiel/Jules (I don’t think they’re on Reddit but wanted to share this gem here)

Recently I have been on a mission to collect artifacts from old X-Files fan websites via the Wayback Machine. This is quite possibly my favorite find yet, a bizarro parody advert for The Lone Gunmen spin off series. Enjoy this blast from the past, and some clips of our boys in beach gear!

Her name is Puff. She’s the third generation from feral cats I rescued in my neighborhood, and she’s a panleuk survivor. ❤️

Welcome to my latest edition of: how I choose to use my free will!

For quite some time I have been collecting Langly shirts. (Admittedly, not the Korn shirts.) And early on in my acquisition endeavor I had the thought to recreate the JOEY LIVES! shirt, but with our favorite hacker.

Thus, I present: LANGLY LIVES! The shirt.

Some thoughts on the process:

There was less choice in moments in which one could grab a clear still of Langly wearing this shirt, in ‘Jump the Shark’, than I’d have liked. I ended up going with the most well lit option. I’d also have preferred if Langly looked a bit more pleased, but ultimately he spends the entire episode in some form of concern or irritation, and Joey doesn’t look all that happy on the solo album cover either, so maybe it’s fitting after all.

The font was extremely easy to track down, and for maximum recursion I left the JOEY LIVES! on Langly’s shirt red.

I don’t have confirmation of this, but as far as I’ve been able to tell, the JOEY LIVES! shirt doesn’t seem to exist outside of this episode. It’s only speculation, but considering the way it prompts Langly’s speech about Joey, which is also echoed at the end of the episode, it stands to reason, in my estimation, that this may have been created solely for the episode.

This was something I was thinking about, because it has a specific quality of looking like the iron on shirts I used to make myself in 2002. The heathering of the shirt shows through the decal, which presented the most challenging issue in trying to recreate it. Modern DTG processes usually add a white layer under designs, so you won’t be seeing your shirt bleeding through. This is the third iteration, where I said to myself: “Why don’t I just put a heather texture on the graphic?” and I think it’s a fairly close approximation. Ideally, it’ll fade a bit with wash and wear, and will be closer to the original vision.

As always, thank you for coming to my LANGLY Talk.

tl;dr: I created my own JOEY LIVES! shirt, but with Langly.

ETA: I hate to have to do this, but please don’t click or try and buy anything from random links in the comments. Scammers seem to be targeting posts about shirts to try and sell things/steal cc info. I’m not selling this, and I won’t be selling it. This is a personal fan project I made for myself. If you were even to receive anything from these shady people it won’t look good, as I haven’t shared the graphic I created to make this with anyone. So please be safe out there folks, and I’m sorry scammers have tried to hi jack my post. Please report these comments if you see them, the commenters block OP often, so I may not be able to report them all myself.

I’ve never done anything like this, and feel pretty bad about myself to be doing it in the first place, but I’ve seen this sub pop up and I really enjoy the idea there’s a group of people who want to help lift others up.

I’ve been struggling on the whole for months, but in particular the last three days have been brutal. It feels like I have lost all hope that things could return to an upward trajectory. I’m angry that I don’t have anything within myself that makes me feel valuable or worthy, even though intellectually I know that’s where it needs to come from, it feels unfixable despite how much effort I try to put into working on myself, therapy, or achieving things.

I’m autistic and usually I’m proud and glad to be. But lately it feels like the unique perspective and creativity isn’t worth the price of being so isolated and alienated. It feels like the barrier between everything I wish my life was and my current reality.

Humbly requesting a toast, desperately hoping to feel better. :’)

“Imagine going through your whole life looking like that.”

A small preview of my next project, The X-Fibers: The Knit is Out There!

I began with Mulder, and when I put his little hands on his hips, I of course, was reminded of this scene.

Scully will be next, and I hear you asking yourselves, “but Amber, you didn’t start with the Gunmen?” No, simply because if I started with them, I’d never make S&M. (Saving the best for last so I’m motivated to finish them all. :P)

Absolutely nobody:

Me: What if I made pixel art of The Lone Gunmen from Season 10’s ‘Babylon’?

Say what you will about Season 10, but I was just excited to see my boys again. I wanted to create some trippy pixel art, and I could think of no better muse. Please enjoy another unhinged offering from yours truly.

(8-bit Honky Tonk Badonkadonk emulation by 8-Bit Arcade.)

Specifically re: TLG. Spoiler alert for seasons 9-11 & the comics.

I was discussing the revival and how the Gunmen were used in it with my rewatch group today, and I realized something.

Initially, I was very frustrated with the fact that the ways they were utilized in the revival didn’t necessitate a retcon of the comics. (Save for Mulder and Scully being aware that they faked their deaths.) But generally, the story lines and scenes they’re in can still exist, as is, within a reality where they faked it and are out there somewhere.

Then, it dawned on me, if that’s the case, why must I be so certain it’s to be implied they are really dead?

Specifically the dialogue from season 11’s ‘This’, could be argued as a point in favor of the faked their deaths scenario:

M: Could-could Langly be alive?
S: No. I was at Langly's, at the Lone Gunmen's burial in Arlington Cemetery.
M: But did you ever see Langly's body?
S: Well, nobody did. They were exposed to a weaponized strain of the Marburg virus. Their bodies were incinerated.

It stands to reason, in my estimation, this is about as weak of a confirmation of someone actually being deceased, as you can get in the X-Files universe. We’ve seen CSM come back from on screen incineration, how do you expect me to believe an off screen incineration!?

Is this the world’s biggest cope, from the world’s biggest TLG fangirl? Maybe. But it makes perfect sense to me, I’m hanging my hat on this as my canon explanation, and you won’t be able to talk me out of it.

The Lone Gunmen are out there!

My boys! ❤️

Obviously the first thing I did in Tomodachi life was make them. 😌

ETA: Just realized I bungled the title. 🤣 Forgive me, I’d feel like a jack ass to repost it at this point.

The game has spoken.

Just me, two months late to Tomodachi life, because I knew it would consume me once I allowed myself some leisure time.

I finally started up the full game last night, and made Scully and Mulder, my demo spots were reserved for TLG, obviously. Delighted of course, that Scully fell for him immediately. 🥲

An aside: I actually found Mulder the most challenging to get recognizable as a mii. 😮‍💨 Over 200 episodes later, and I realized I haven’t spent all that much time looking at him, much to the shock and horror of all my DD loving friends.