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Guiiay

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They’re all dating each other btw… {It’s canon because I said so}

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happy pride month to team super hell and team super hell only🫶🫶

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Belinda in episode 1: Ewww, my ex was an incel who tried to force me into marriage to enforce traditional gender roles and hierarchy upon me. And don't you dare Doctor even to sonic-scan my body without my consent.

Belinda in episode 8: Radcon force-wished me into a marriage and a daughter upon me without consent or respect for my bodily autonomy. Doctor, please rewrite time so that she was my daughter all along by a father none of us ever heard of before. That's totally fine.

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YALL WE COULD’VE HAD SUCH A CUNTY ENDING WHY DID WE NOT GET A NCUTI THIRD SEASON WITH BELINDA AND THE DOCTOR AT THE CLUBBBB

she should’ve been out shaking ass not raising some damn space baby😔

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I guess this is what the new animal farm movie is going to look like huh...

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this makes sense to me

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Waking up on christmas morning at your girlfriend´s house 💖🎄

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TUMBLR GIRLIE SACHIKA

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every time someone says “look how they’re looking at each other! they’re in love!” about a non-canon ship i just think of the kuleshov effect for a second but then i come to my senses and decide to have fun

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researching parrying daggers as a fun little treat and i'm delighted by how much every single one of these things looks like it's designed to be as annoying as possible

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This came to me in a dream and I woke up to make it.

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It makes me so mad how excited I was for Belinda. To see a companion who didn't buy into the hype and the mystique that often surrounds The Doctor, who didn't see him as this infallible hero but as this flawed and potentially dangerous man, who never fell in line or at his feet but stood in front and asserted herself as an equal, who isn't in the TARDIS by choice and has a life of her own as a single woman in a high-pressured job that she still wants to get back to despite the time travel and the adventure, because she too gets to save lives every day even back on Earth and she doesn't need a Time Lord to do that - it was so incredibly refreshing.

And the issue is, while Belinda continued to call the shots for at least the first five episodes of the series, they dropped the ball with her characterisation as early as the second episode. For her to be so critical of The Doctor at the end of episode one, and so immediately perceptive of his ability to endanger those around him for the sake of his own pursuit of adventure, and yet for her to already abandon that notion and trust him entirely by the end of the next episode, to the extent that by the end of the series she is completely unfazed when on several occasions her instincts were proven to be correct, is not only a massive change in characterisation, but also a colossal waste of such a compelling premise.

And then for her character to be reduced not only to being the mother of The Doctor's child, but ultimately completely rewritten so that they were brought together so that she could be Poppy's mother - and choose to leave on that premise also - is so unbelievably insulting and disappointing. Varada is wonderful. Belinda is wonderful. The dynamic between the actors and the characters is one of my favourites in a long time.

Belinda and Varada aren't the only ones who deserve better after this series (I could write entire essays about Ruby and Fifteen), but I really thought we were onto something and while Belinda will always have a place in my heart, I'm just gutted the series and the character ended on this note.

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if i had a nickel for every time rtd introduced a woman of color medical professional companion who gets mistreated by the narrative i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s telling that it happend twice