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On the topic of the Doctor Who Christmas special ending on a shot of Bethlehem, I feel like it's an apt time to remind everyone that for a second year in a row, the real-life Bethlehem has canceled their Christmas in a show of solidarity with Gaza, which is continuing to face heavy bombardment and genocide by the Israeli forces

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well this was fun very high school to get sucked into doctor who then immediately get angry by shitty writing. im getting back from a break but ill be doing a lot of anti racist community organizing this week and here’s some literature that’s been shaping my work lately

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Ncuti Gatwa really was an absolute joy doctor who doesn’t deserve him

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it’s gotta be a new record how fast they speedran the character assassination of Belinda Chandra rip to the woman who called out the doctors bullshit and needed to get back to her nursing job you would’ve loved Martha “I am a doctor he is my patient and I’m not leaving him” Jones and Rory “I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe” Williams

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funny how we've been boycotting eurovision for years for supporting genocide and then doctor who had the interstellar song contest villainize a survivor of genocide with a bullshit goal but its ok because someone sang a song and everyone feels the power of love now who cares about righting the wrongs of a genocide especially now. I saw someone call this episode uninspired centrism and that's honestly the perfect descriptor

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Top Books of 2025 (Jan-June)

Thank you @fluoresensitives for tagging me. I am the same, I usually do half and half wrap ups, instead of per quarter, simply because it gives me enough time to accumulate a good number of reads. Giving a short summary for each so people can look them up:

Some Desperate Glory (adult, sci-fi): a child soldier raised on an imperial military space station unlearns some hardcore fascist propaganda when she rescues an unlikely war prisoner from her unit. really well written military deradicalization arc for mc, and overall a solid sci-fi space odyssey novel.

The Calcutta Chromosome (adult, thriller, speculative fiction?): a magnus archives-esque story about computers, scientology cults, time travelling ancient gods and lots of mosquitoes. take three benadryls and walk the streets of north and central kolkata during the monsoon and you'll see this novel unfold vividly.

DD's umbrella (adult, litfic): two novellas about two queer couples in Seoul, Korea, navigating adulthood, economic crisis, personal losses and the nationwide grief following the 2014 sewol ferry tragedy. just beautifully written and endlessly heartbreaking, but ends with hope.

The Fall That Saved Us (adult, paranormal romance): a woman who fled her abusive, religious family of demon hunters and now lives a secluded life in the Midwest, realises one night that she is being haunted by a succubus. it's slow paced, sapphic, sensual, deals with religious and familial trauma and is genuinely poetic and lovely.

Mrs S. (adult, litfic): a young butch matron at a secluded girls' boarding school in England falls for the headmaster's wife. BANGING beautifully written, feverish and horny with lesbian desire, plus captures the nuances of life in a convent school that I really liked.

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (adult, manga): recounts the author's journey with coming to terms with her lesbian identity, figuring out her adult life choices, and how alienating it is for queer working class adults in Japan. Really heartbreaking but also weirdly comforting if you are queer and live in Asia and feel like this.

Salt Slow (adult, magical realism): short story collection about bodily transformations, femininity, and all things grotesque, macabre and haunting. I want to be wrapped up in Julia Armfield's prose and put to bed, except it will probably be slimy and smelling of fish scales and salt water and I'll have nightmares.

When We Lost Our Heads (adult, historical): retells the lives of Marie Antoinette and Marquis de Sade by reimagining them as spoilt teenage girls growing up in 1800s Montreal during the American Industrial Revolution. I reviewed this for the Lesbrary, which you can read, but anyway, banging exploration of queer desire, sexuality, class privilege, identity politics, unions and labor movements + what a fun retelling concept!

Small Things Like These (historical, litfic): in 1980s Ireland, a coal merchant discovers the horrifying truths behind the convent operating in his sleepy little hamlet. probably the best book on this list: short, powerful, and somber story about the Irish Magdalene laundries, asking the reader what we owe to each other, but also to ourselves.

Tagging @ripley-stark @somerabbitholes @cuntylittlesalmon @ghostpoetics whoever else wants to.

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the story and the engine was such an incredible episode

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DOCTOR WHO | 14x01 "Space Babies"

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Watching Dot and Bubble like

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Now that the doctor has experienced racism for the first time, he better get right back in that TARDIS and offer Martha Jones that long overdue apology he owes her.

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immediate thought whenever i hear the word ‘alphabet’ in a doctor who setting

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based slugs

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down with "let people enjoy things" up with "let people be critical of things"

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Can't believe I haven't seen any thirst posts for Dr Shamsi. MILF as fuck

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A poem by Kai Cheng Thom, as it appears in Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, that reads:

ON THE ORIGIN OF TRANS FEMMES

for Meredith Russo

we are the daughters of witches that they could and did burn we are the daughters of witches that they are still burning & you know in my dreams, a woman keeps whispering: keep going maybe in the next lifetime we’ll make it to the water

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An incomplete list of books my local library has added on Libby since I’ve tagged them with the “notify me when added” option. If you have access to a Libby library use it.

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get a friend like inej, she’s such a girls’ girl