#at least that's the implication I got

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

I understand and appreciate this take. and def agree it could have been gone about better.

but I also enjoyed it?

one because I thought it was hilarious! the implication that the doctor could become so much dumber within what was likely a 24 hour time span!? because again, The Doctor is Just Like That.

(esp when he's in that post regeneration high/sickness.)

i also of course found it funny because Donna would be the one to say something like that! because she's so sassy and loves to tear him apart!

I also feel it fit because it tied into canon lore! because woman time lords can choose their appearance while male time lords cannot. as evidenced by Melody choosing a dress size when she turned into River

so yeah I feel like it was SUPPOSED to be silly, and an easy way to free Donna from the past without going into an overcomplicated solution like Chibnall tended to botch with his writing.

the “he doesn’t get it cause he’s male presenting” was a bit silly to me like. the doctor can’t let things go bcus it’s a character trait for him, not bcus of his current gender presentation. he just be like that

[enidtendo64]

The Commander’s still got it

[dutchs-paisley-vest]

Been thinking about Hosea a lot as I write this analysis on Dutch and Micah.

Maybe I’ll eventually whip something up about him, but for now I’m left with thoughts about knowing that not only is Hosea just as guilty as Dutch when it comes to how their boys were brought up (and continued to be treated through adulthood and ultimately up to their deaths), but also the way the two irreparably damaged John and Arthur’s entire lives beyond even their own comprehension. FURTHERMORE, they set forth a viscous cycle of familial violence and neglect that maintained momentum into the next generation. (See: John and Jack.)

The way Hosea’s action, but more importantly his inaction had in part led to… well, [gestures vaguely to RDR1 + RDR2].

Hosea might have been gentler than Dutch on the surface, but he saw it all, and at times both implicitly and explicitly encouraged it through the meticulous timing of his decisions to remain a “silent watcher.”

Yes, refusal to mitigate the violence makes him complicit, but the matter of the fact is… Hosea can’t even feign partial innocence as a third-party bystander because of how calculated he is in nature.

Additionally, there is no “third party.” Dutch and Hosea are a single unit. They occupy the same space even as two separate individuals in John and Arthur’s lives.

The deliberate nature of Hosea’s inaction puts him in the same position as the “perpetrator” because he isn’t just a watcher, he corroborates directly with Dutch and agrees with what he is doing on principle. He reenforces it in perhaps more subtle ways, but that doesn’t make him any less responsible for the outcome.

The only difference between the two is that while they’re dealing different cards, they are playing the exact same game.

[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

[syn0vial]

funniest part about the bounty hunter wars by K.W jeter is how palpatine thinks he's screwing boba fett over by hiring him to take down the bounty hunters' guild, completely ignorant to the fact that boba is a sicko who thinks making himself public enemy #1 of every bounty hunter in the galaxy sounds like the most fun he's had in ages.

it's literally like,

palpatine: that fool boba fett doesn't know that he is but a pawn in my nefarious plot to sow desperation and discord among the bounty hunters of the galaxy. he will be completely unprepared for the torrent of violence and retribution he is about to unleash upon himself. how wonderful it is to make a creature complicit in the workings of its own destruction! >:) boba, like 2 pages later: i can't wait to sow desperation and discord among the bounty hunters of the galaxy 😊 it's going to be sooo fun when my actions unleash a torrent of violence and retribution against me 😃 can't wait!

[callmeselfish]

How have I not seen anybody else point this out?? Am I grasping at straws... these scenes were shown one after the other (if we count pre intro helena scene as one)

[meili-sheep]

I really, REALLY want to go off more on how Jason's red hair is part of a bad portrayal of a very complex character. A bad portrayal that plays into a classism that had unfortunately been an undertone of Jason's story.

But instead I'm going to talk about what makes Jason's Robin work for me. And that's because the majority of it, Jason being a happy hard worker, honestly trying to be a good Robin, shows us that given the chance and opportunity, people can and WILL try to do good. Saying that Jason was doomed to fail because he was aggressive, disobedient, and not a rightfully ANGRY CHILD whose adults had constantly failed him is a horrid reading of the character because, well, it does the opposite, and ultimately it reads like a revisionist history. Especially since we have not had another telling of Jason's time as Robin, we just have his original run, where he's just a kid trying to be a hero. So every attempt to rewrite that feels forced and well? It doesn't help or provide anything to Jason's character; it actually makes him a weaker character and boils down his complexity while playing into classist narratives. I'm not saying the more aggressive Jason can't work. It can but you have to do it right.

Now, what makes Red Hood's story work? It's that despite Jason's poor upbringing, despite when the adults in his life CONTINUED to fail him, Jason still became great. Maybe not wholly good but still great. He overtook a drug trade in such a short time and had BATMAN floundering. Had Batman questioning himself.

But this was NEVER Jason's destiny. Jason works for me because I've always read him as a source of rebellion against a world that's constantly failed him. He might have made bad choices, but it's always been because he thinks he's providing safety. The best Red Hood never has Red Hood thinking that he's the "hero." Red Hood has to be self-aware; taking that away from him making him impulsive and violent again takes away his complexity.

Red-haired Jason is an extension of this problem of boiling down Jason's morally complex position into something more palatable. An easy trope for Jason to fit into to justify violence to a child. Pre-Crisis Jason was blonde; Post was Black until they needed him to be a villain. Someone different. In New 52 and Rebirth, he's always had black hair, and always a more of an anti-hero.

I'm still holding hope because this is concept art. But it has me worried, not just that we are going to get more disingenuous "bad/violent Robin," but that it's going to play into an even LARGER problem of people not expecting more from Batman comics.

[vigilskept]

Taking ancient Egypt art and Symbols slapping it on victorian architecture and changing the entire setting from Egyptian to English is really what the english tried to do back in the day when they tried and failed to colonise Egypt (long story short people rose up ended the Egyptian monarchy that was allowing it went from kingdom to country and threw the english out along with the last king of Egypt but the english ligit had plans to insert themselves into the DNA pool and try to sever the Egyptians claim to their history and claim it for their own) i know bioware wasn't really intentionally doing that but its so funny that whenever a bunch of white people get together to try and make a world inspired by ours but "perfect" we end up here they are never beating the allegations lmao

ur so right and you should say it. this is exactly why i made the british/pergamon museum comment earlier like. the implications they have accidentally stumbled into by making these leaps are so bad that they’re funny atp.

[lesbianralzarek]

thinking about all of the masks kim wears. he hides his generational trauma and foreign heritage behind his thick local accent, his homosexuality behind his (genuine) love of cars, his entire system of beliefs and morals and self-identity behind his badge. his creation of the self looks to have largely involved cutting off anything someone might consider objectionable, trying to earn respect from people who will never see more in him than the shape of his eyes, until he was left more lieutenant than human. kim is a man who accepted the world's invitation to hate himself

[yepmadness]

“The Ghosts at the window echo all our quiet Prayers…”

Yeah so, there is definitely a theme of loss/grief this season, and the different ways of addressing and dealing with it. Of acknowledging it. And how it changes over time. These aren’t even all of them (clearly, I mean, Arthur died too—I’d count John understanding himself as like a rebirth) I just picked three I thought fit with the lyrics from “The Garden” by the Crane Wives.

[lameow-l]

the only good thing that happened to childe in his 4.0 comeback is that he got a new magical girl transformation animation especially the final part.. absolutely magical

[chickinu]

LOOP WITH A JIRACHI!!!! Loop never wanted to have a jirachi but the jirachi just, Stays with them against loop's own will!

IM FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO THE REQUESTS THANK U FOR YOUR PATIENCE WJWJNDND

*ahem*

The idea of Loop having a Jirachi after actually thinking about it hurt me in the stomach im...ouchie

[xnackery027]

Sundroid had it SO GOOD man! If I get isekai-ed into a dimension where everyone is hot as hell, you would never see me again. He went from “you are made to battle indestructible creatures that will definitely get you killed” to “Heyyy, buddy! Wanna go get tacos together?” Said by the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen. And the whole time he’s still like “ew. Ew. Don’t touch me. I don’t like women. I really need to go back to the serious business dimension.” Went after the world’s most mid wolf, and then got shot sixty times by TERFs. Incredible.

[sunlight-shunlight]

"the writer for anders in da2 based him (somewhat negatively) off an ex-boyfriend with bipolar disorder and was also a zionist" is truly one of the factoids that makes me nod solemnly at dragon age the most. ough... the canadian centrism is inescapable.

[chirpsythismorning]

Nick himself said that his knowledge is confined to the leaks prior to s4, the s4 scripts from his verified source (likely within a source) and basic knowledge most fans paying attention have been able to formulate about s5 based on what has been released officially/unofficially, trends from Netflix and common sense.

He is saying based on all that, he doesn’t think byler is happening. 

And if we think back to what the Duffers themselves shared in the 4x09 script, it literally implies Mike’s monologue worked, and that it was entirely genuine. This tells me that the script the Duffers released for Emmy consideration, is not that far off from what Nick saw for himself. 

I think it’s likely Nick got something that the average below the line worker might manage to get their hands on if they tried hard enough. A copy they know they have to water-down to prevent these very situations from happening.

Unfortunately for the Duffers, it just so happens that they didn’t scrub their watered down copy hard enough.

Unfortunately for Nick, he admitted that it’s possible and even likely that the production will release things that aren’t exactly accurate with the sole purpose to lead fans sleuthing astray, without realizing it may have ironically already happened to him. 

[mamawasatesttube]

do you ever think about how kon got drugged to the point of inability to think clearly and then enslaved for Two Fucking Months and then we just never mentioned that again? that is, except for when he went back to visit and help out the guys who enslaved and drugged him because he was lonely enough to befriend them after they said oh sowwy we didn't know you were a person uwu. i think about this a normal amount