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You know how sometimes when you visit another country you’re unable to drink the tap water, because your body isn’t used to the stuff in the water from that region and you’ll get sick when you do? People who don’t live in Gotham drinking Gotham tap water is like that times a hundred. Between all the chemicals, drugs, pollution and the literal crocodile man who lives in the sewers, Gothams tap water is basically toxic and would be considered hazardous by most other cities standards. Gothamites who have been exposed to it, and much worse, regularly for years are fine, but any tourist who drinks Gotham tap water is in for some serious shit. Kids from Metropolis actually drink Gotham water as an internet challenge to show off. The worse part is that Gotham actually has a really good sanitation system, it’s just that the water starts out even worse before it’s filtered.

Smallvillers are Victorian children in that they'd explode if you showed them a spice rack and Gothamites are Victorian children in that they snort six lines before their 16-hour shift at the crime factory

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I love how we all agree that, even if we prefer another character, Invisible Woman would be good at it, or at least not the worst in the group.

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You have just lost the game

I am Arran, god of the most important thing

EDIT: if y'all don’t wanna use your name use your username

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I am Quad, god of the game

I am Arran, god of the most important thing

EDIT: if y'all don’t wanna use your name use your username

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Body horror, but its just me and its my body because its horrible I'm joking please don't tell the self esteem police

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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The pen may be mightier than the sword but the sword is more fuckable

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this, but Vlad also gives the another full ride football scholarship to Danny, who he is well aware knows nothing about football. Now Danny has to learn how to play football or get kicked from his dream school, all while Vlad laughs at him, and Dash takes every opportunity to tackle him as hard as possible

Vlad decides to fuck with Danny by giving Dash a full ride football scholarship to Danny's dream school.

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someone do this but just with the word tired

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vote rock, paper or scissors and then click the read more to see if you beat me! :3

i play scissors!!!!

did you win? :3

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I actually think you're wrong about Aliss being in on it. Your analysis is great, and I think it's supposed to be a mystery on whether she was completely innocent or not, but I just don't think Aliss is in on it. Maybe it's me being sensitive, but theres a specific part that makes me think that she isn't helping the monster, at least not knowingly 'No matter the year, signing still makes some people paranoid' A lot of people naturally assume that those who are different than us, those who speak or dress different, are hiding something. It's not even a conscious thing really, or even a malicious one in many cases, we just seem something thats different and feel suspicious. Our brains are hardwired to find patterns and deviations from those patterns, as a part of survival. And it's not just biological. Our culture naturally treats those who are different, those we don't understand, as suspicious. A woman wearing a burqa? Whats she hiding under there? A person who doesn't fit traditional gender norms going into a different bathroom than you'd expect? Whats their angle? A deaf person signing? What are they saying? What are they keeping from us? I'm not saying you're a bigot or anything like that, but these implicit biases are built into our society. We see them in popular culture all the time, and it's something I think this episode was really aware of. They knew people would see Aliss as suspicious, just from the circumstances alone, and making her a deaf woman adds another layer to that. You could be right. She could have been the one to break the mirrors, and thats how she got cut. She could have been possessed or already dead. She could have been trying to get sympathy. Or she could be an innocent, frighted, traumatized young mother with multiple guns being pointed at her. The cut could be from anything, including the fight where she had to kill her best friend. The mirrors could have been broken by others, or by the monster itself in all the chaos it caused. She could have not backed up against a wall because she knew the monster would react. She could have just not said anything because she wants to go home and be with her daughter, and knows that if they know she's infected she'll never be allowed to leave. She could just be a regular, flawed, scared person. But theres one reason that makes me believe that she is innocent. At the core of the episode is the Doctor, all of the people there really, having to make a decision, between turning their backs on Aliss and leaving, or risking it all to try and save her. And I just don't think that Doctor Who would ever tell us that turning your back on someone is the right answer. Maybe the monster did get out in the end. Between the extra person in the air lock, and the tease that the Midnight entity attached itself to Mo, it's entirely possible. But I just can't imagine the show we all love so much saying 'yes, turn your back on this person who is in need, you shouldn't trust them'. I just can't. ___ I will include a small addendum however. There was one question you posed that I fully believe I have the answer to: why could Aliss turn 360 degrees? The answer to this is simple: It's not going behind Aliss that kills you, it's being seen going behind her. The people who died didn't just go behind Aliss, they were OBSERVED going behind her. If you look closely, the moment they were attacked was literally the moment that they disappeared from view behind Aliss, when her silhouette covered their figure. It's not just about going behind her, it's about being seen doing so. At least that was what I think.

If Aliss has been alone for 15 days, then she shouldn't still have an unhealed scratch on her arm from when she fell and scraped it in the chaos. Self harm? (And more mirroring?)

The captain was 14 when she left home and joined the forces. Ruby's biomom was 15 when she had her. I assume we're framing the 1st Doctor as a teen (grand)parent by association

Belinda and Mo are casually chatting in front of Aliss without their screens on. We get a shot of Aliss looking anxiously back and forth between them, struggling to read their lips in profile. When Belinda finally looks at Aliss to include her in the conversation ("Have you ever heard of-"), that's when the entity appears for the first time. As some sort of symbol of her resentment/sense of exclusion?

Aliss jumps up, says "Look at me! I'm all clean!" and does a 360 twirl. The soliders flinch and raise their guns, but nothing happens. Does this indicate she has some level of control over the flinging-people power? Or at least that she knows exactly how long someone can be behind her back before it kicks in?

It seems like there might be a pattern where people catch glimpses of the entity at the moments where Aliss's irritation or anger bleeds through? She's definitely putting on a performance of not knowing what happened/what's on her back, and she seems to be playing up the "I just want to go home" thing at least a little for sympathy. Is one of the themes here the performance she has to give of the good, sympathetic, grateful disabled person, and the consequences when she lets her real frustrations show?

Pointed shot of Rogue's ring as the Doctor enhances the "we don't know what it is!" clip. This leads into his realization - "Oh, my old, old head!" Where did the radiation come from, he asks? The planet's star is burnt out, but it used to be an Xtonic star. The Doctor is a star, and a star that's collapsed = a "burnt out" time lord? I'm also reminded of the Psychedelic Sun that turned the Meep evil (another Master mirror).

The soldiers try to form a circle around Aliss to see what's behind her. She pleads with them to stop, but doesn't, say, back up against a wall. When asked "or what?" her face hardens.

Just as the first soldier steps behind her, Aliss grimaces a little, then winces at the scream. She's not thrilled about this, but she's not shocked or horrified either

"Don't go behind Aliss!" "Please don't turn your back on me!" The power kicks in when you enter the point in Aliss's field of vision where she absolutely can't see what you're doing or read your lips. Maybe this isn't some instrinsic "rule" of the entity...but the entity reacting to her emotions about people "going behind her back"? (The thing everyone keeps literally and metaphorically doing?)

"Something came out of the well, and now it's behind me. And they said it was laughing." This is more Master/untempered schism mirroring btw

Belinda is the one who lays out the points on a clock theory. Could Aliss and/or the entity have started following those rules based on her theory? (her narrative? her investment of meaning?) Is that why the 360 turn earlier didn't do anything?

Doomed Soldier Guy declares that they should kill the entity. It's possible that Aliss is so intertwined with the entity that you can't kill one without killing the other. When she says "because if you kill me, it goes behind you," is that a "rule"? Or an improvised self defense?

"And I met something so vile. It had no face. No name. No self." The Doctor has no (consistent) face, no ("real") name, no (fixed) self. Natch the Master. This is still about the Doctor hating what he sees in the mirror

"Clearly bodies have been broken by some kinetic force, manipulated either by Fenly, or by something in collusion with, or in control of her." Doomed Soldier Guy may be an idiot, but he's also right lol

"Either we disprove this story, or we meet the enemy." It's all about the story that's being crafted around these events, and proven or disproven

The power activates again not at the moment we see the volunteer step behind her, but at the moment we see Doomed Solider Guy step directly in front of Aliss. His pose suggests that he was going to shoot through her to get to the entity

The resulting massacre is edited chaotically enough that it's not always clear how people are getting behind her back (whether they moved there or she turned slightly), or even if they were directly behind her. This probably mirrors the characters' experience - they assume The Rule is being followed, but in all the chaos, how could they be sure? Then the captain tells Aliss to turn 180 - finally giving her "permission" to weaponize it against the guy who actually threatened her

"But...it's not my fault." "I know," the Doctor says. Aliss nods a little too eagerly, and her expression looks more like she's assessing whether he believes her

"I'm sorry. You're contaminated." "You are diseased," is what the Master got when the time lords refused to take him to safety with them. "But...my daughter!" Missy's daughter, the My Daughter Died And I Forgot arc, etc

The Doctor says "she's not leaving this planet. Not with that thing," and Aliss actually rolls her eyes mid sob. I think another element here is the idea that Aliss isn't neatly separable from her shadow self, her negative emotions, her willingness to kill if it's the only way out of here - but it's easier for the Doctor, if he can draw a hard line between the sympathetic victim and the monster

"Don't turn your back on me. Please don't turn your back on me." Apart from everything else, if that's not the Master @ the Doctor...

When the Doctor tries to address "the thing behind Aliss Fenly...my old friend," we keep getting shots of Aliss's confusion and then exasperation. Again, there's no neatly divisible thing behind me - you're talking to me. I am your friend.

"It knows my name." And the Doctor smiles as he cries. If the entity is a mirror - of Aliss, and now of the Doctor - then he's talking to himself. He's seeing what he wants to see: that the monster is still his old friend, still knows him more intimately than anyone else.

And that, of course, is when the Doctor realizes that "the way out" is to use a mirror

He switches from talking to Aliss to the thing behind her again - "you stone cold murderer" - and Aliss gives a wry smile.

"What if the thing behind you...is you?" YES. IT IS.

"It broke all the mirrors," so they assume mirrors are the Secret Kryptonite. Aliss broke all the mirrors. Days after the massacre. She still had the open wound from the mirror shards. She didn't want to look at herself.

Aliss smiles just before the "mirror" closes behind her. And then the kinetic force gives her a nice gentle shove forward into the Doctor's arms, so they can all run away together.

And as people have already noticed: Aliss mouths "thank you" to the Doctor from the airlock, her eyes are dead, the lights on her helmet are out, and the wrong number of people are on the monitor.

imo, I don't think this indicates Aliss was "just" possesed, or dead all along - anymore than the Master is.

There's a kinetic force blast just after Aliss leaves. This is the point where maybe another entity has made itself known? Or maybe Aliss just took one small piece of the entity with her, and the rest of it was still there? Or...as long as there's still someone left to look in the mirror (so to speak), a new entity can still be born from their reflection (give form to their shadow self, their darkest impulses)?

Mo is the first to insist that "It's not me." Belinda can hear the whispers, so they assume it's her...but the Doctor could hear the whispers from Aliss's shadow. The whispers were probably it trying to birth a new shadow from his psyche - that's how it knew his name. Belinda only heard Mo's shadow whispering.

(I think Mo's reaction shots in this scene also imply that she secretly suspects it's her, and she's staying quiet/letting Belinda take the fall out of fear)

And everything from that point on is pointless. They assume the answer is self harm - shooting Belinda, the captain killing herself. Aliss self harmed, and it didn't help. You can't carve your shadow self out of you, can't kill yourself into not having a dark side.

...Not that that's gonna stop the Doctor from trying 😜🤙

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Yes

Wait fuck-

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Mary Poppins is the associate. Duh.

The Doctor and The Master implies a third, less prestigious renegade timelord named The Bachelor

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Yeah this is a terrible idea, please don't do this. The first people a mob of of people ment to kill predators will go after won't be real predators. It'll just be people who they THINK are predators, mainly LGBTQ people and BIPOC.

i have actually never seen a prison/police abolitionist give a reasonable alternative for domestic violence victims, not even once :|

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I'm only saying this for your sake, but objectively, it's not a smart idea to bring politics into normal hobbies. You might lose supporters of your blog just because of your political stance, and that would be terrible since you're so amazing!! It's only a suggestion, but I really reccomend not bringing politics into anything.

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this post reminds me of the post where we learned that the ‘mlady fedora meme guy’ was actually just a really nice person who was harassed because of the meme. These jokes can have real consequences people, please just remember that.

"neckbeards" are a common facial hair pattern for people with PCOS and hirsutism and people who go on T and people who have a lot of weight on their face. It is not funny or cool or based to use physical features as a moral attack, and especially not when it's a common feature of intersex people and trans people and fat people and countless other types of people who society already mocks.