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“Why are you mad at Thing™? I thought you liked Thing™.”

First of all, I do like Thing™. I adore Thing™. I have composed sonnets to Thing™ in the silence of my mind. But also—how dare Thing™.

I am a being of multitudes, do not doubt the depth of my emotions.

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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“protect children” <- reactionary drivel basically every time

“be kind to children” <-radical thinking that causes way more arguments than you would ever imagine

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"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing. "live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom

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It's really striking me, going all the way back to the beginning of Chibnall's Era (I'm currently watching Arachnids in the U.K.), how much this Era cares about how it talks about family and adoption and unconventional families and the like.

There is a stark contrast between Ryan talking about his father and protesting that his father doesn't get to use the words "proper family" to describe their relationship when his Nan (and Graham, as the season comes to show their growing relationship/understanding) was the one to actually show care and raise him and take care of him when his father didn't show up and Ruby referring to her biological mother- who gave her up at birth- as her "real mum" above Carla Sunday, the woman who raised her and loved her and was the one that was there for her. (The Timeless Child complicates the themes of adoption in this era, what with how the Doctor's own adopted backstory is complicated by themes of colonialism and other matters, and I think that's actually a good and interesting angle to explore in contrast to the Sinclair/O'Brien storyline, without treating adopted families aa if they don't matter- if anything, the Doctor's messy feelings on the subject only hammer in how complicated it can be to wrestle with adoption and nature v. Nurture and exploitation and the like without invalidating experiences entirely, as I think is done so often with the treatment of Carla Sunday in alternate timelines/Ruby's elevation of her biological mother as her "real mom" over the woman who took her in. There is a difference that the Chibnall era makes between child-stealing/colonialism and adoption with the contrasting character arcs/themes/circumstances that RTD2 absolutely lacks nuance on.)

I think it really shows both the complicated feelings of being someone is adopted as Chris Chibnall is while also the appreciation and respect for adoption and the fact that "real" family is the family that chose you, biological (Grace and Ryan) or not (Ryan and Graham).

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"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably

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i hope every single one of you outlives these hateful fucks on the news right now. i hope each and every one of you is able to find joy and support throughout these tumultuous times and i hope you get to live so fiercely as yourself. i hope you wake up one day to news that you’ve outlived those pieces of absolute shit and whether that brings you joy or relief or hope or what have you, i hope you live to see that day

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jodie and mandip holding hands ♡ requested by anon

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anyone else notice that looking at the calendar is getting scary recently

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the dumbest person alive has come to warn you that fruit has sugar in it

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making shitty picsart memes about thasmin. what year is it

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so we had:

an indian woman talking to another indian women about blood purity

the indian rani being a dictator and then getting killed for no reason while the white rani survives

the indian companion being randomly shoved into the role of mother and then getting sidelined in favour of the white companion from the previous series

the black, openly queer doctor regenerating into a white woman from a previous series

russell t davies back to his old tricks i see

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the fact that donna didn't turn up to UNIT after the chip went off means she's out of the 10 mile radius which i can only assume means she's on holiday for the end of the world again and honestly good for her., i hope she's drinking a pina colada on a sun lounger and eyeing up poolside waiters with fourteen

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Martha Jones, Yasmin Khan, Belinda Chandra you have my full support to blow the TARDIS and UNIT up

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wish world being like "its bad to force women into being nothing but mothers" and then the finale of her own season literally shoves belinda in a closet with a baby during all the action like okayyy

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