Do you think there would be this gillovny obsession if we had actually had some RST and on-screen love affair between Mulder and Scully during the original series run? Is our obsession with gillovny some subconscious desire to see the characters together that we never got from the show?? These are the random thoughts that flow through my head in the middle of the night when I’m trying to sleep

Hi anon! I hope you managed to sleep 😀
I think there are many different ways to see and interpret Gillovny, but in my case, it has nothing to do with msr. Those are completely separated in my head, maybe except for the few confusing bts such as the hallway scene where we’ll never know where msr stopped and where Gillovny began.
Besides that, in my mind, they have nothing to do with one another. When I see Gillian, I don’t see Scully, and same for David and Mulder. Resolving the sexual tension between two fictional characters will not have an impact on real persons, and as they great actors they are, Gillovny being real and out won’t impact their character.
I don’t do a transfer either. If msr was happening and they were a real couple and all, I’d still ship Gillovny this hard. I wouldn’t see Gillian and David kissing, but Mulder and Scully, so it wouldn’t change anything, except that we would have more bts and hot bloopers.
So when David, denying his relationship with Gillian, says “they can have Mulder and Scully, it should be enough”, I say it’s not the same and it depends who you ship harder. And we don’t have Mulder and Scully anyway, so this is not even a question for now.