#73:start

[starry1avender]

"There's a new Sonic game coming out??"

"Yes it's called sonic x shadow look it up on your school computer now"

[post-punk-revival]

Which song is your #6 or #14 or whatever isn't interesting to me; I wanna hear where in your list the first song from each of your top 5 artists shows up. Or the last one

[to-boldly-ship-mcspirk]

my friends and I do regular presentation nights and I'm working on my current one, which I have titled "I will not stand for Bones erasure - why you should ship McSpirk and not just Spirk"

so far I have 73 slides and a ton of photos, gifs, clips, and comic/novel snippets ... but I still have much work to do

(for reference: I did a previous presentation explaining TNG characters and lore and that one had 66 slides and was over an hour long, and my goal is to somehow talk for only 45 min this time ...)

(don't ask me why I made this a post, just thought it was funny)

[yesokayiknow]

What fic ideas do you have for Belinda?

i got annoyed about ummmm aspects of 15's whole run so i've decided to write out a 2 series (13 eps each + specials) long au in which bel & ruby travel w 15 at the same time lol

[icewindandboringhorror]

At what temperature INDOORS (not outdoor weather) do you start to become noticeably uncomfortable (sweaty, heavy, don't feel like doing anything, etc.) and begin trying to cool off yourself or your environment?

(Like, at what point do you start putting out fans, turning on the AC, getting ice water, etc. because the indoor room temperature has gotten too high for you?)

It's starting to get warmer weather where I live, so I was thinking about it/curious how this might vary :0

(sorry if the celsius conversions aren't entirely accurate, I just used a website to look them up/am not familiar with measuring things that way myself lol)

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Seeing people say that we never see the Doctor and Ruby talking for more than 30 seconds makes me think 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble has just clouded their memories because the first four episodes of this era are almost nothing but the Doctor and Ruby talking and bonding.

Yeah, the Doctor-lite episodes meant we haven't had as much lately, but so many are going on as there's been none at all, as if every episode before 73 Yards was like Rogue where they were mostly separated in their own plotlines.

[artfixations]

Out of everything I think I’m the worst at painting backgrounds. Soooooo to improve I decided to try a painting without a character as the main subject. And what better to use that the TARDIS!!!

[mwagneto]

HAAANK DON'T GET MAD AT SCIFI FOR NOT MAKING SENSE HAAAAANK !!! IT'S A METAPHOR FOR REAL LIFE THAT'S MEANT TO MAKE YOU ASK QUESTIONS HANK YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE EXACT MECHANICS!!!! HAAAANK

[artifeast]

thanks for the request, @yamikakyuu, and @kingmakerpod for the tags that inspired it! i thought it'd be appropriate to draw eisen's 2011 design for this lol

[bring-cringe-back]

Okay I might just be reading too much into this. But while I was watching the episode *cough cough* procrastinating *cough cough I realised that they don't show how the Doctor and Ruby got there.

And I know that it's probably just meant to be vaguely like 'they just went for fun'.

BUT this is the third episode in a row where we haven't seen them arrive. And for 73 yards it was clearly a doctor who episode when it started but it immediately gets rid of the doctor. ( I know that for 73 yards and for dot and bubble it was because Ncuti Gatwa was filming other stuff but let me cook) In Dot and Bubble you could effectively be forgiven for assuming that it was a random Black Mirror episode or something similar until the Doctor turns up, and tbh if you were just flicking through channels and haven't been watching Doctor Who you could probably basically not know for much longer. In Rogue they are just there, except for the title screen (the same for dot and bubble) you could basically watch it as a Bridgerton episode until the Chuldur turn up.

(And there's whole other rant about how the Chuldur fits into the theory about this basically being a TV show within a TV show, I don't know the name for this theory)

But anyway these episodes are increasingly separated from the Doctor and Ruby as plot points particularly in the beginning of episodes. They are more and more like an excuse to tell the story or explore the topic that the writers want to explore. Which isn't totally different from the occasional episode of previous series, but this is a lot more in my memory at least from previous series. So it feels a lot like they are skimming over the more sci-fi doctor who elements. Which fits in in my mind to the idea that the 'One who waits' is a representation of story telling. I've seen theories that it's Ruby but she doesn't know it which makes sense, I think it would also make sense for it to be her parent(s) who left her, or alternatively just it's own thing all together. But it feels very like that bit where Amy is living a life and starts to realise it's all fake.

The narrowing down of these episodes into not showing them arriving, and at least in Rogue - I can't remember in the others - not showing them leaving the story, feels very different.

It feels more and more like story telling. They have covered fairy tales, Period pieces/Romance, Dystopia, War/SciFi, Musicals, Political Drama. They are also showing the doctor playing his role, something that we see companions doing often enough but we seldom see the doctor doing it.

In Space Babies he is scared of a new creature. In the Devil's Code he sings a song that makes little sense in the story, he doesn't question the road making noise. In Boom he's more himself but it's also the closes to his 'normal' environment. In 73 Yards they just fully remove him from the story, which I realise was done for filming requirements but would have been so interesting to see the doctor in a Political drama. In Dot and Bubble he plays the role of the outsider bringing information to those living under a Dystopia, how is he UNABLE to access the inside, sure he plays a role that's fairly similar to himself but Doctor Who is really Dystopian.

In Rogue he is becoming more and more his role, he is playing the role of a sort of Elizabeth Bennet style character, a strong romantic interest for the brooding man. Which is great, he makes fun of the genre, but he is hyper aware of the genre and still ends up in its pitfalls. He trusts a man so quickly he ends up handing over his sonic, he gets proposed to and basically immediately accepts. Now I am really hoping that Rogue gets to stay around I really liked him as a character, regardless of which theory of his identity if any are true. But the Doctors reaction to him is still a little out of character, he is feeling what he is SUPPOSED to feel and he is acting how he is SUPPOSED to act.

It just feels to me like an increasing number of these episodes are more and more story like and more and more separated from the more Doctor Who elements. And the lack of an introduction of how they get there, and the lack of them leaving in the TARDIS is so unusual to me and stands out to my brain so much.

It feels like they are removing elements that don't fit the genre. Anyway not sure if that makes any sense but I'm vibing with it.

[kroosluvr]

THE LEADER OF THE PHANTOM THIEVES & THE OVERLORD OF CENTURY'S END !!!

[lat-north]

i love the weather here and i'm not even being sarcastic

[dwendemound]

✨️The Infinight Chariots!!✨️

Or: what cars I think the Interns would drive lol (Warning for spoilers)

Kyborg the Mighty! aka Kydelius of Evirwinter:

Kyborg drives a an awful pickup truck, probably a Toyota Tacoma or 90s Chevrolet. It was one of the only things to survive the raid on his village. It's falling apart, but Kyborg would rather spend all of his gold and time fixing it up than trade it in for something new. It's run for over 100 years and, Dia willing, it will run for 700 more.

Mudd Bramblecrack (and Gumbo):

Mudd drives a used 90s Subaru that he bought right after leaving home. He doesn't care if he's way too big for it or that he could literally afford any brand new car he could dream of. It carries his stuff and gets him where he's headed. That's enough for him.

Bartholomew "Bart" Finn:

Bart's first car was an infallible Toyota Corolla. He saved up for it with the money he (ahem) acquired while traveling aboard the Jebidiah. He traded it in when he went back to pick up Gum Gum. Knowing they'd need a place to stay while on the road, Bart was able to pick up an RV for free from a past lover who'd inherited it from their late-mom or something.

"Gum Gum" Galindor:

Gum Gum doesn't have his license yet, so he rides a bike when he's out by himself. Bart and Gum Gum didn't have a lot of money, but Bart still saved up to get his friend a brand new bike complete with baskets for flowers and other treasures found on his rides. Gum Gum takes really good care of it, and it's probably named something like Vroomba.

[musicals-and-mushrooms]

made a 73 yards shuffle!!

[chantlight]

Cassandra is the biggest and best example of why considering a character within the full context of their historical and cultural background is so important to me

[apexteeth]

YES. LOOK AT MY BABY~ I can now fully represent my Acearo ass officially 🙌🙌🙌