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Jan Mankes.

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Bad wolf

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it will pass ..

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Richard Bernabe Photography

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random twelveclara doodles because i miss them :(

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unrestrained summer fun

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beach souvenirs

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Reading Room

Mark Beck, contemporary artist born in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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heyy u mentioned in a recent rb that rtd was only "writing for ppl on tiktok" could u elaborate maybe? idk what that means nd i dont read a lot of interviews esp with That Man

It's symptomatic of a wider problem in TV/film these days. It's the norm of TV nowadays to deliberately be written for people who are only half paying attention because they're on their phones:

Lila Byock, who has written for the HBO series “The Leftovers” and “Watchmen” (and had previously been a New Yorker fact checker), lamented, “What the streamers want most right now is ‘second-screen content,’ where you can be on your phone while it’s on.

Bateman said, "I’ve heard from showrunners who are given notes from the streamers that 'This isn’t second screen enough.' Meaning, the viewer’s primary screen is their phone and the laptop and they don’t want anything on your show to distract them from their primary screen because if they get distracted, they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off. I heard somebody use this term before: they want a 'visual muzak.' When showrunners are getting notes like that, are they able to do their best work? No."

Content slop and how the industry has stagnated with absolutely nothing new, with old franchises/villains etc being rehashed over and over, the Disney/Marvelification of it all - which RTD has said he wants

I can just feel all of this while watching RTD2. the costume change scenes being the exact same shot, perfect for making shorts each ep, Omega, Sutehk, the Rani all being defeated in one short #badass moment that can be put nicely in a tweet/tiktok etc, the ragebait of bringing back Tennant, now Piper, the absolute lack of care towards the story, character consistency (Juno Dawson: "I didn't know who would be playing Belinda at the time of writing the script. I knew she was a nurse in her thirties, but that was it, that's all I had to go on. But the good news is, with any companion, he or she is always you. They are the audience. They are the person being swept along into an extraordinary adventure."), dealing with legacy characters well, dealing with the NEW characters well, the over expositing to make sure the people who are on the "primary screen" don't get confused about what's going on.

Susan Twist, Mrs Flood, the Snow around Ruby, the 4th wall breaks, Susan, Rogue, oh look Billie Piper is back as the Doctor, no she's not... is she? all these mysteries that they tease and tease and tease and it's just key jangling to get us to be oooh... whats going to happen next ? but it doesn't matter because RTD doesn't care, he's not doing it all for a good story he's doing it to keep people clicking next episode.

[ID screenshots taken from Doctor Who Unleashed episode 7.

RTD: it’s very much kind of internet-age storytelling where…

Stefan Powell: was that deliberate?

RTD: yes. You just hope it will generate content.

End ID]

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actually i j wna post it in plain format :P comic i made for uni. it looked better irl

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guy who says "well, it's nice just to be part of a community :)" as he's being absorbed into a hivemind

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your “loyal and virtuous” knight is doubting the cause he pledged his very soul to 🫵😂