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[rememberthelullabies]

god i'm having series 12 thoughts...

the way the fam finally decide to get the Doctor to open up, to share things about herself... the way they were so ready to support her when they realized she was going through something... the way this could have been the season where the Doctor and the others form a deeper and more personal bond. one based on them truly understanding the Doctor and being on the same level as her instead of seeing her as this mysterious hero figure - and her learning to trust them in return...

but instead, the Doctor loses her planet and immediately feels so much more alone. like no one can understand her. the way she snaps at Ryan in Fugitive of the Judoon - "i've lived for thousands of years. [...] how long have you been here? you don't know me. not even a little bit." the way she feels like they couldn't possibly understand her pain, so she pushes them away. and then The Haunting of Villa Diodati adds another layer to this estrangement by presenting her with an impossible choice. and reminding her that she's the only one who can understand all the horrible consequences. making her conclude she'll have to be the one to bear all the weight of responsibility. "sometimes this team structure isn't flat. It's mountainous, with me at the summit in the stratosphere, alone, left to choose." more loneliness, more feeling isolated from the fam and everyone else.

a lonely god. cursed to see the complexity of the universe, forced to make choices even when there's no right one. forced to face losses bigger than anyone could imagine, and live with them for an eternity. cursed never to be truly understood by the ones she loves - cursing herself, because she won't let them try.

putting herself on top of this mountain out of hurt.

[deniable-masterpiece]

I hate that, to give any criticism to born again and have it be seen as valid by fans, it is expected that you think it’s “just as good as the original” or “really good in its own way.” (Lemme put this in understandable terms: I don’t think ALL fans are like this, but i’ve already seen born again dickriders attacking people for being nostalgic or looking at daredevil through rose-tinted glasses.) But it’s not. I think the show is just not good and any direction that these last two upcoming episodes take will not save this season from being a clunky, horrible, sadly Disney-fied mess. The show has very little in terms of redeeming characteristics, the way it’s shot and edited is sloppy and lost a lot of things that made the original show as cinematic as it was without adding anything new to make up for it beyond the bland camera work of modern Marvel movies, anyone who isn’t Matt is a flat character (<- Wilson included, he’s basically done nothing and then using muse as a pawn in his story was bad for both of their arcs, and even his relationship with vanessa isn’t nearly as interesting as before and she’s trying to kill him now! and somehow, i literally don’t care, the show has given me no investment in the way of it), and worst of all, it’s just sad to see what it has become now that we have a majority of the episodes. It makes me wonder just how much better the first draft of the show was that “everyone hated” because maybe it would’ve been better than what we actually got. And truly, there hasn’t been a moment this entire season yet that has made me feel what the original series made me feel. Even when we saw the three avocados at the beginning of the show, it was just so off. They didn’t feel like how they used to, and that can be said about the whole show. Also I do want to say that Matt’s descent into his dark side as Daredevil again was done masterfully better in season 3, there is no argument.

[atropinenightshade]

Tomorrow please don't spam me with April fools. Some lighthearted jokes or sarcasm are fine but nothing beyond that. Especially don't spam my asks with April Fools stuff.

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[chipper-smol]

Damn bro....

[voltaspistol]

[drumlincountry]

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

[waveoftheocean]

absolute menace but still such a good boy :')))

[inkskinned]

hey... don't cry.... tesla recall for most cybertrucks, okay? >46,000 vehicles affected <3

[jandjsalmon]

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

———

Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

[redrook]

I spent a lot of time handcuffed and in a cage in high school, for a charity bit the grocery store I worked at would do

the bit was that I was "put in jail for having too big a heart" and customers could donate to my bail to get me out (and the money would go to a children's hospital or something)

now. I was very clearly a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a large cage. and I would honestly tell people that I had been in there for hours. and people would say, that's terrible! that's awful! and I would show them my wrists red from the tight handcuffs, and say but I'm sooooooo close to making bail.

and then they would dump some cash in the basket, I'd thank them, and they'd walk away.

and every so often, one of the managers would come by and collect some of the cash, so I could keep being soooooo close to making bail.

I was very good with this bit. Parents with small kids would pay $5-10 if I told their children I had been placed in jail for not cleaning my room/doing my homework, etc. For people in their 20s, I'd threaten that I was very bad at playing the harmonica, but I WOULD play it and we'd all suffer unless they paid me. and for the most amount of money, older men in suits would almost always pay $20s if I avoided eye contact and stammered a lot.

eventually, the managers started to feel bad because I was in the cage so fucking long and often, that I'd need someone to brace me when I got out because I'd have no feeling in my legs. wobbling like a newborn giraffe.

but I would also rake in at LEAST $100 an hour in charity.

so they were like, hey champ. can we, uh, give you a pillow to sit on. in the cage. would you like a pillow so you're not just sitting on a cold metal slab. can we give you a pillow.

and I had to explain to them that if they gave me a pillow, people would think I was more comfortable, so they wouldn't feel as bad, so I'd bring in less money.

the compromise was that they'd bring me a nice coffee every couple hours, which I would have to try to block with my body from the customers.

all this money went to charity. that's what the money was for. it's what was on the sign. but how much they were willing to pay was very contingent on how comfortable I looked, never mind the fact that I was still a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a cage.

and out of the dozens of shifts I did this on, not ONCE did ANYONE say, hey kid I'm going to go talk to your manager because what the fuck is going on here. they would just drop money in the basket, and I'd thank them and sip from my secret drink.

I actually had people get MAD at me that I told them I was far away from bail, they donated like $15, and then 20 minutes I got let out because my shift ended.

again. the money was for charity. it was on the sign that was very clearly placed on the upper half of my cage.

so yeah. even when people think they mean well. people can be really, really fucking stupid.

[ducktollers]

🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

[rouge-the-bat]

"can we normalize-" NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!

[electricpurrs]

he's like a patron saint to me

[seashellronan]

the person who realised you could rearrange the letters in gossip girl to read “go piss girl” truly one of the great minds of our generation, madam your legacy