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I wish that desi designers be hired for desi characters we have such rich designs, fabrics and history without being gentrified

KATHANI SHARMA's sari-inspired gown (3x05) Costume design by John Glaser

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Booktok needs therapy

WHAT IS GOING ON.

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when everyone else is in the dragon show but you're still stuck in a scary A24 movie

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So you're telling me Sutekh, the god of death, and Jack Harkness, a city death can visit but never live in, were hitchhiking on the TARDIS at the same time. Death and Anti-Death went on a joyride together through the naked vortex, a cosmic event that freaked out the TARDIS so hard it ran face first into the heat death of the universe, and Ten walked out and looked at cold dead Jack and said "yeah that was just because the TARDIS hates immortals" and somewhere invisible hitchhiker Sutekh sighed in relief because he was so sure he was busted that time. That's what you're saying here

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lord take all of their suffering & give it to criston cole

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Caught up on hotd s2e1

Idk how I feel, I loved Emma's performance, they had the fewest lines but stole each and every scene.

My contentions are the way blood and cheese was handled, in the book it's the most devastating thing to happen. Helaena has to choose which of her sons she wants to kill, the guilt and trauma of which ends in her taking her own life. It is worse than the red wedding

In the show it was a unplayed and felt a little anticlimactic.

I'm going to ignore the hypocrisy of Criston breaking his oath between Alicent's righteous legs.

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you ppl love villains/morally grey characters UNTIL they're a woman, then all of a sudden they are annoying, evil and irredeemable

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I don’t normally do meta analysis on tumblr of Doctor Who episodes but I’ve seen people so far reducing Dot and Bubble as a critique of Gen Z and the obsession with social media and “no one wants to work these days!” When I took away a different interpretation of the episode.

Dot and Bubble is about a group of rich white settlers. They’re so rich that to them two hours of work is too much and by their own admission they spend all their time partying otherwise. But I think it’s that scene at the end that really cemented my interpretations of the episode. The other member of the survivors is like “we can live like our ancestors and tame the wilderness.”

They’re trying to capture the magic of the good old days when they aren’t equipped to handle it, but not because of social media, but because they’re so out of touch with reality due to their rich backgrounds! *Lindy gets Ricky September killed and then tells people a lie in order to save her own skin, but also ends up with an ownership over his memory. She tells everyone that she couldn’t stop Ricky from going back to save more people but her tone reminds me a lot of the people on rich reality shows. “He was so brave.”

Idk where else I’m going with this but just something I noticed and thought was interesting about the episode.

*Edit addition: the reason I brought that up was because it’s the kind of ownership over something that isn’t theirs that is only really found by rich people. See Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress.

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slugs really said eat the rich

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would you care for a poorly-made meme in this trying time?

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I personally don’t understand how people are getting “phone bad” from the new Doctor Who episode when privileged socialites created a colony to preserve their status and race, and technology to keep them constantly connected to each other and separated from anything else outside of them just so they can preserve prejudiced values…

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I noticed myself getting uncomfortable seeing so many people in the bubble and then just the doctor being the poc.

As a brown girl idk it just made my guts twist

this is so insane because like... the little things that just felt off, but i didn't think about for long because it was just a moment in the story and the story keeps moving...

when lindy immediately blocked the doctor but spoke to ruby

the way the "pioneers" spoke about fighting and taming the "wild woods", just like their ancestors (and i'm sorry but in classic who this kind of statement would NOT complicate a protagonist figure at all)

these turned out to go right to the core. they didn't have to spell it out. it was so clear the moment i realised, the moment i saw the way lindy looked at the doctor in person - oh my god, theyre all white.

and the dot "learned to hate them" (big hmmm)

these aren't metatextual criticisms anymore. they ARE the text.

i want to say i am proud of this show for getting to this point. and i would argue the point was made effectively, even elegantly. but that's coming from me, a white person, talking about a script written by RTD, another white person. it felt like it spoke to ME. it felt like it spoke to ITSELF (the show, rug-pulling itself, setting itself apart from its own racist history and a certain large subset of science fiction)

there is a lot to unpack in the real world, even just within the production of this show, about diversity and whose voices get heard and the material reality of it all. i will be listening because i am sure people will have a lot to say.

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This episode is a mirror to society

This episode might be one of the only ones that directly translates to what our society is like right now.

Everyone wanting the comfort of their bubble, everyone being selfish. The rich pushing everything to the extreme and still turning around to maintain their prejudices.

This being the first time the doctor has been rejected for his help for no apparent reason beside the fact that he looks a certain way. And he breaks because he doesn't know what to do with it. It's frustration, it's helplessness and disbelief.

The last 5 minutes broke my heart because that wasn't the doctor experiencing this. That was every poc, queer, person who is not the "norm". That last 5 minutes was all of us who have opportunities taken away from them for things that shouldn't be of any consequence, for being a part of a community that isn't rich and white.

This is modern day colonialism. This episode was a mirror to our world, where we're safe behind out social media and family bubbles hiding away from genocide, cost of living and climate crises, where we can protect ourselves and our standing because people are scared to reach out, out of fear of the way they live being taken away.

This is our reality

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Average Australians with tourists

I think the only funny bit of 73 Yards is how a bunch of random folks in a pub suddenly decided to pull off Royal Shakespeare Company level of acting in uniformity just so they could freak out a poor girl who's been out in the cold for hours.

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Stephen Moffatt really writes the best doctor who

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"ukraine invasion" vs "israel-hamas war" hm. something something wording and western media bias and propaganda