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I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

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Did NOT like this episode. But 13 appearing still felt very special. Made a drawing loosely based on that.

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

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russell I’m in your walls

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also shitposting aside it should've been a horror movie. belinda chandra should've looked down at that child and known she would've died for her. she would've killed for her. and known also that those aren't her feelings. this isn't her child. fifteen wanted this dream so badly that he rewrote belinda's whole life. this ending isn't just a tragedy for the doctor

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Fuckin insane (derogatory) move to pull with Belinda. Rewrite time so she has a child and sideline her by quite literally putting her in a box much of the episode, then have that child Vanish and her forget it, then give her the child back by changing reality AGAIN so that she's always had said child and act like this is a win? Woman Gets Happy Ending With Child played entirely straight as far as I can tell??

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Cool how someone can wax rhetoric about their incompetent partner being unpleasant but I'm suddenly the asshole for being like, idk sounds like you're with someone who sucks. "You don't know them like I do" okay!! Notice how there's no way I'd know that since you haven't shared anything positive!

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About Interstellar Song Contest: (spoilers and analysis below the cut)

I’ve seen a bunch of people really digging into this episode on Twitter and I agree, but only to an extent. The torture scene was horrible and unnecessary and Belinda should have had way more of a reaction to the Doctor’s actions than saying he scared her (and definitely should have told him he’s wonderful so soon after).

This tweet encompasses my thoughts on her response.

Also, I really hope we see him get consequences in future episodes for it (especially along the lines of how they did it in waters of mars). And I think (please be the case) that there might me some coming bc of the Doctor saying the ice in his heart was still there. I feel like including that line sets up for further discussion and exploration into the Doctors dark side and moral ambiguity and the consequences of it. It wouldn’t make sense narratively to include that line (which seems to be very obvious foreshadowing) and then go no where.

In regards to the Doctors actions, they are wrong, there’s no doubt about it. But people are portraying it as him knowingly punishing Kid for his response to the genocide of his people. But the Doctor didn’t know about Hellia, Cora only told Belinda. He had no way to know, he thought this was just a guy who wanted to kill 3 trillion people, he didn’t know what had happened to radicalize him. The Doctor is also a victim of genocide and he probably saw it as (bc of his lack of knowledge of Kids background and situation) Kid being about to commit another one (which he was). He literally said it reminded him of Gallifrey.

This is also a timing issue with the episode. Because we just had the scene of their situation being explained to Belinda. Which makes us sympathetic to them (as we should be) followed by /that/ scene. So people forget the Doctor doesn’t know.

A lot of people were also mad about the singing at the end and felt it kind of trivialized everything and while I understand that. I don’t really agree. It shows that the first step in fighting this kind of stuff is humanizing the victims because people don’t care about people they don’t see as human (or whatever they may be in doctor who).

The timing of this episode is also poor but a quick google search will show that filming began for this season in October 2023 and so the episode was most likely written before Oct 7.

There’s a very good and nuanced discussion to be had about this episode and what it both fails and succeeds at doing, and I feel like people are seeing this in a very black and white way. I’m seeing people say that the episode is spreading the message that ‘if we don’t eradicate/stop them they will do something worse’ (paraphrased) and I think that’s just not the case and while I understand where people get that impression I feel like it is a bit of a ridiculous interpretation and ignores a lot of nuance and Cora’s character. It’s totally understandable and right to fight back against the company and the perpetrators of genocide and it is understandable for the victims to want to get revenge in the same violent manner, but that just can’t be allowed. It is also an ineffective way of fighting back bc that just gives the oppressor more “reason” to oppress. They can point and say, “look what just happened, this is why we’re doing this.” By trying to get revenge in this way, Kid is becoming what he hates.

These are just my quickly thrown together thoughts. Hope this makes sense.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Edit:

Another thing I thought of is how it could be a commentary about how our actions and inactions lead to extremism. For example, in his letters Bin Laden said the motivation for 9/11 was the West’s support for attacking and oppressing Muslims and the US interference in the Middle East and imperialist aggressions against the ‘Muslim world’.

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I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself.

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being a fan of David Tennant at the BAFTAs is like supporting a football team that has never made it to the finals but now that they made it to the finals you're happy enough even if they didn't win the cup but at least they have the best looking jersey on the field and they look good going down

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i had a dream that there was like a revival of the man vs bear debate but instead it was "would you rather be alone in a woman's bathroom with a random trans woman or jk rowling?" and everyone picked the trans woman and jkr crashed out on twitter because of it

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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has anyone figured out how much art you need to make to make your mental illness go away

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We just knew.

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

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question. do your irl friends know about your presence on this hellsite or are you in full hannah montana mode for life