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What do you think about Ryan's character development? I think I really like it but I always have trouble putting it into words

I love love love LOve Ryan's entire A-Z, we witnessed a whole ass coming of age story and it was so nice to see him grow into the person he is when he says he's done and wants to stay at home.

Because like, both Yaz and Ryan's arcs are coming of age stories, but they have one key difference that meant Ryan was always going to choose to leave and that Yaz was always going to wait till she had no choice but to leave. That difference is, of course, that Yaz saw travelling as a way to grow up, to gain independence as an adult and gain that power to help people she had craved for years. A way to escape the cage of home that was limiting her, she saw it as an increase in responsibility. Ryan, however, saw travelling as a break from growing up. Ryan saw it as a fun pass time, because to him, growing up was going back home to his responsibilities. To be present for those around him and be reliable. To him, in the end, traveling became irresponsible, and irresponsibility is Ryan's worst fear.

They have similar narratives, but that one key difference in perspective leads them to taking totally different paths in the end.

Because we meet Ryan and he has his mates and all, and he's a friendly guy and obviously cares a lot about them, but his person is Grace. His mum dies, his dad leaves him high and dry and who was there for him the whole way through? It was is Gran. To a kid who has basically suddenly lost both parents, one to a sudden death and the other who abandoned him in his grief, having a rock like her would have been a lifeline. And then she dies.

Now, at that point, it's clear Graham does care about Ryan but from Ryan's perspective he's basically just lost everything suddenly, Again. I think it would have been fair for him to think Graham would just leave at this point, he's never liked him and it's not a great relationship and if even his actual dad packed up and left and didn't even bother to go to his own mum's funeral, then why on earth would Graham stick around?

But. He did. Graham didn't care that Ryan didn't like him, only that Ryan would let him help him anyway. Graham stuck around and looked out for him and cared for him even if really, very few people would have judged him had he not managed to make a good relationship with his late wife's grandson who notably did not like him. Graham wasn't morally, legally or for fear of overt judgement required to stick it out for him and he still did.

And Ryan, he's a smart dude. He notices this and he notices it pretty quickly, and he reacts to that by softening on Graham and deepening their relationship, and letting Graham guide and mentor him in a grandparental way. He talks to him about his frustrations with his dad, that he's annoyed he's acting that they can be a happy family now, when he's never put in the work and is putting Graham down when Graham Did and Has put in all that work. Then they get interrupted by a gargantuan spider, but nvmd.

A few episodes worth of Graham proving he's not gonna up and leave and will be there, even if he's not perfect, and Ryan's learning that that's what family really does for you. He's learnt that family isn't always what it's supposed to look like and that the people who show up for you are important, even if the people who show up aren't who you were expecting them to be. He continues to learn from Graham through the two seasons, his conflict resolution skills improve vastly through his tenure and he sure didn't learn it from anybody but Graham. He puts in sincere effort into being there for people as the most important thing you can do and he learnt this from Grace and Graham.

In Can You Hear Me? His fear is not Only that earth is wrecked and destroyed, it's that he wasn't there to help! He ran off and abandoned the planet and it died! He wasn't responsible enough. He was irresponsible like his dad and look what happened! In the same episode he's also hit with the fact that despite the fact that he's been off galivanting the universe, life at home had gone on without him and maybe he left people who needed him there for a bit Too long. Like, nobody's gonna begrudge a guy just out of school his gap year travels and that's basically what went on, but after a while it's not being on a fun trip for a while, it's shirking to a point. And like, you can live a life where it's not irresponsible and you're not beholden to one place and its people, but Ryan is categorically NOT this person because he has no urge to be this person. He's not the wine aunt who drops in every few months with cool gifts and wild advice who swans off again without a care. He saw his friend was really suffering in his absence and could have used his help and presence and is suddenly hit with the fact that he's running away, kind of sort of like his dad. A bit. and That hits him hard.

Can You Hear Me? Is when Ryan decided he's going to leave. His talk with Yaz about this demonstrates their differences but kind of makes it clear he's had this revelation, he probably was going to give it an adventure or two more and bow out, except the next adventure was the haunting of villa diodati and it snowballs and at the end they're all forced home anyway. He's not okay with the situation, but he can do being at home, he wanted it anyway.

(and damn, Ryan being the one who was strong in the face of 13 going off to be responsible for her actions and blow up the planet (and herself) kills me. It hits me in the face. He's used to losing people he loves. At least this is her choice. At least she's being responsible for her actions. At least this is an act of saving people. The least he could do is not make it harder for her to do. He can be strong. Yaz couldn't, she's not used to this, and Graham was clearly having a harder time here, but Ryan can be that guy for her. It just eats me up inside in all the good ways that storytelling can do.).

This whole thing with 13 ending up in prison and not being able to go back to them, and his disappointed but not over-reaction to it also showed us he'd learnt an important lesson in the arc with his dad as he's handling this very maturely. His dad didn't abandon him out of cruelty or apathy, he didn't fail to show up because he hated him or wished him ill. Not everybody who isn't present for you is being malicious. He sees in with Hanne's dad in it takes you away and he sees it with his own eventually in resolution. They were two men who failed because they couldn't do it, weren't strong enough to step up. The lesson that not everybody is Trying to hurt us is painful and not always one we want to hear, it can be comforting to make the other person the Malicious guy, but that just isn't always realistic. He learnt his dad was swimming in his own grief and it was too hard and he didn't step up from the pain. It had nothing to do with Ryan. This is not good, but it's also him being human rather than not caring for Ryan. So when 13 appears 10 months later... He can take it. He doesn't react how Ryan of S11 would have. He knows better now. He grew. He's sad, but he knows she didn't try to hurt him. He sees she's sorry and knows she's not often sorry, so that has to mean something.

There is also his Doctor arc, which is different from Yaz's in flavour because he's not trying to be her, he's trying to be him inspired by her, he's taking inspiration from her and graham and taking what he needs. He takes in what she has to teach over the era like a sponge. Ryan who thinks guns are cool in TGM and goes to shoot those robots to live out a gaming fantasy has it blow up in his face and gets his ass chewed out by 13 for it. He learns from her, takes in her lessons of compassion and care, appreciates her guidance even though she's a massive weirdo.

She teaches him the kids guide to the universe, in effect imo. No violence, no guns, we are peaceful, we do not hurt people and we live the idea of pacifism, which is the height of goodness... But the thing is, that's a very reductive view of the world, isn't it? In reality, The Doctor is a pacifist till they're not, which is code for they're not a pacifist (kind of an all or nothing thing). When it gets down to it, the Doctor Will do bad things in the name of good even if they hate themselves for it (or sometimes when it doesn't pass their mind to fell bad at all). In The Timeless Children, the master takes the doctor out of play and the fam have to -in effect- join forces to be the doctor, Yaz and Graham have different roles, but Ryan's final personal lesson in doctor school is that when it gets bad and the doctor is the last line of defence, they take up arms.

When Ryan is confronted with the choices the doctor makes every day he does what she'd have done, and blows up the cybermen in defence of himself and the people around him. He lost her protection and had to be the 'adult' here and he steps up, and to Ryan stepping up is The most important thing.

13 had shown him the nice parts of the universe, and gotten her own hands dirty instead of making his dirty over and over again. But she wasn't there this time, and he had to grow up and take the mantle. And was not warning him harsh? possibly, but it was also an act of love. We don't (ideally) tell our young people the harsh realities of life until they get to have a childhood for a reason. It is a gift, one she tried to give him, but he had to 'grow up' before he left and that he did.

by the time revolution of the daleks happens, Ryan knows absolutely that he is done. He will help save earth because he's one of the few people in the know and he views it as his responsibility, but he doesn't want to travel the universe anymore. He has important things to do at home, things that are just as important as anything out there in the big universe. He went travelling as a young adult, saw how vast and wide the world was, and went home and hunkered down and got to making the world He has a better place.

What a charming arc.

What a good person, and what a beautiful man.

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The Weeping Angels are really scary until you realize if any organism sees them they are fucked so they get hard countered by geckos, who don't blink and can see in the dark. If the Doctor strapped like two geckos onto him he'd be fine.

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Let's GOOOO

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post-time war 9 + dhawan master

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⭐ Fifteen

[ Some 15th art for the soul Im still in shambles, ill make another version of this when I have the time ]

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the silurians are such a fucked up concept like imagine if you went to sleep and when you woke up ants had invented nuclear weapons and they've renamed the earth to antworld and they keep trying to kill you and when you try to kill them back a god shows up and is like can't you guys just get along :( and you're like i was literally here first and also they're ants. what the fuck man

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I just hate Gelphie. Or at least the mindset behind it.

Every time I see it brought up as a viable romantic pairing by anyone, it’s like they are just trying to diminish or erase Fiyeraba and everything Fiyero does for Elphaba in Act 2.

Like what he does for her doesn’t even matter. And why? Because he’s GASP! a man. And femslash shippers can’t have a gross man getting in the way of their perfect lesbian ship. No no no.

Everything he does for the woman he loves and the sacrifices he makes doesn’t mean a thing to them.

Because to them there’s only one character who matters in Wicked. This poor misunderstood pretty pink princess in the closet, who deserves to win Elphie like she’s some kind of prize.

Never mind how morally wrong the wizard’s regime is, how wrong Glinda is for just accepting it, or how Elphaba feels about what’s being done to the animals. Her morals and her convictions are just considered insignificant.

As long as Glinda gets what she wants. Or what her fans thinks she wants. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Did any of these people even watch Wicked? Or do they just confuse it for their own fanfic version that doesn’t actually exist in canon?

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so Ruby Sunday was likely meant to be Desiderium before behind the scenes stuff made the show go to all hell.

This is an expansion of the theory I posted on Bluesky (kicked off by this Reddit thread), and maybe I am just copin' and seethin' but. like. even Charles Dickens would think this is all too much of a coincidence to not be Something.

Here's how I think it probably went down before Millie and Ncuti decided to leave early: The Rani kidnaps the God of Wishes and places her with a normal foster family, moving in next door to keep tabs on her, and when the time comes engineers things for the Doctor to take an interest in her (Church on Ruby Road). Ruby's DNA scans as human because she was born to human parents, but cannot be traced in the UK because she was born 180 years ago in Bavaria. And also her mum is flowers.

In Space Babies Fifteen wishes he and Ruby could be Poppy's parents within earshot of the God of Wishes, who unintentionally makes this true when Wish World opens with Ruby and John Smith having Poppy as their kid. Series 1 then plays out much as it had done before, with Ruby's ability to recognise something is wrong with the Doctorless universe in 73 Yards and Maestro's fear of her hidden song because she's a powerful member of the Pantheon. I think the rewrites only began with the ending of Empire of Death - in the original cut, it turns out even the fash DNA supercomputer doesn't know who she is and we're left on a cliffhanger with regards to this.

Ruby decides to take time out of the TARDIS after seeing the whole universe end and whilst Fifteen is off having adventures in Joy to the World she briefly dates Alan Budd before dumping him due to his controlling behaviour during a date where he gifts her a star certificate. She rejoins Fifteen after she is kidnapped by robots from Missrubysunday (with Ruby replacing Belinda this season the star certificate thing is centred on her) and he rescues her, with the time fracture in that episode reversing the events of the episode but leaving Alan's memory intact. He's dumped back on Earth where he becomes determined to ruin Ruby's life and so Lucky Day is about Alan, not Conrad, attacking UNIT/Ruby. At the end of the episode Alan is picked up by an ecstatic Rani who now has the God of Wishes and her ex boyfriend who has a serious grudge against her and wants to change the world for the worst.

Season two remains pretty much the same as well. We then hit the finale which also plays out the same initially - sorry guys I think Omega was always going to be a skeleton baby :( - but with Ruby ending the fake reality by breaking into where Alan is holding her as a baby and touching her baby self's hand, just like the resolution with the certificate in Robot Revolution. The universe resets but Ruby notices Poppy is missing, able to remember her because a) she was the one who cast the wish; b) her experience with parallel universes (73 Yards); and c) her characterisation as an "abandoned" baby who wants everyone to have a home. She uses her powers one final time to bring Poppy back and decides to leave the TARDIS for good and raise her new daughter.

The episode ends with Ruby donning the Rani's cloak and leaving her baby self outside the church on Ruby Road to ensure the timeloop is maintained, changing Fifteen's memory by pointing at the Doctor just as we saw in Empire in order to keep that mystery intact as well.

Fifteen, touched by Ruby's decision, flies off in the TARDIS determined to find Susan. and also rescue Rogue from Superb Hell I guess #justiceforrogue

The end.

(To be clear I adore Belinda, the above was not written to write her out of the show - I think she deserved better in her own story, when clearly she was simply recycled from story beats taken from Ruby).

Some supporting evidence -

• Desiderium is the seventh child of a seventh child. Ruby Sunday's name alludes to both: rubies are the birthstone of July, the seventh month, and Sunday is the seventh day of the week.

• the Goblins in Church on Ruby Road fed on coincidences. Desiderium was born to the Zufall family. Zufall in German means "coincidence".

• The Rani talks about having to keep track of the Doctor's companions to make her plan to summon Omega work, but only actually references Ruby by making a slight about blonde girls. Belinda also has absolutely no impact on The Rani's plan whatsoever, to the extent she was locked in a box for the whole finale, so The Rani's interest in her feels utterly pointless. (Because it was).

• Strong themes of motherhood, childhood abandonment, and adoption paralleling what happened with the Doctor as per Timeless Child revelations throughout the series that make absolutely no sense for Belinda, who came from a home with both parents present. Ruby was always meant to complement Fifteen's recent discovery of his adopted status and help him work through it as he helped her work through hers.

• Space Babies also literally opens the show on a spaceship misinterpreting stories and making them real.

• The odd duplication of fashy boys Conrad and Alan - it makes more narrative sense if they were both once the same character who got sawed in half during hasty rewrites.

• Ruby's name being tied to sevens is similar to River Song, Melody Pond, and Amy Pond being related to water, hinting at their connection.

maybe I am wrong, maybe the show was always meant to be written this way but like. theorising. is also fun!

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THOSCHEI ANIMATION MEME... HOLY FREAK ITS DONE.,...

I hope this helps you guys cope with uhm. the newest episode . i think we need to put down rtd like a sick dog at this point

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doctor+clara+bill

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Diva 💫

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happy pride month

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Imagine being Shigaraki's friends and being told that the war ended. Heroes defeated Shigaraki Tomura - oh, but don't worry, they didn't kill him, they actually saved him! Stopped him from trying to destroy everything, rescued him from his pain; that lump of lead he spoke of, that spews out endless rage, so that he thought he would never feel good again - that's gone. He's okay now.

And while there will be undoubtably the disappointment from having lost the fight after all that, Shigaraki's friends - because they are his friends - think, well, at least Heroes saved him. Didn't just kill him off. Made an effort to stop him without dismissing his suffering; acted like actual Heroes and helped. Addressed his rage and despair. Despite what he had done, they still went and helped Shigaraki Tomura.

Plus like: Shigaraki Tomura told the League that he wanted them to live as they see fit; told them that they should get what they want in life, that changed world, a world that isn't so hard to live in. He promised that, he who gave them a place to belong; who took Twice in and trusted him, who avenged Magne's death and Compress' arm, who said it was fine that Toga didn't choose a Villain name, who treated them to sushi. Shigaraki, who had always accepted them, who fought for them. He wouldn't give up without surely having made some deal with the Heroes to change things.

His friends love him. So whatever happens, can they all see Shigaraki Tomura one last time?

Imagine being Shigaraki's friends and being told, well, actually. That guy doesn't exist anymore. Yeah. We turned him back into a five-year-old. Wiped his memory while we were at it. Of course that's saving him, we didn't kill him, did we? We turned him back to who he truly was, and it just so happened it's a five-year-old who hadn't been broken by the failures of society. (By the way, those failures still exist, but Tenko doesn't know about them. So he has hope now.)

Imagine being Shigaraki's friends and when expressing horror at this, get laughed at - what does it matter what Villains think? And not like they can do anything about it; or getting pity - well, the man they knew as 'Shigaraki Tomura' wasn't actually a real person. So maybe relationships they developed with him also weren't real or genuine. Everything was just ultimately manipulation; or being told they being awful for being horrified - we only purged the impurities that AFO planted in him. That it happened to include the struggles you guys bonded over, well. If you truly cared about him, you'll be glad he's wiped clean; and inevitably being told they will never see Shigaraki Tomura or Shimura Tenko again - you guys are still Villains. He's an innocent child. What connections do you have anymore?

Imagine being Shigaraki's friends and losing him, then still being told, no, Heroes actually saved him.

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can you imagine a timeline in which the story let Dabi and Geten team up to be Shouto's final boss. Fire and Ice vs Fire and Ice. Fire hotter than Shouto's and Ice control more varied and precise than Shouto's vs Shouto. Shouto needing to reconcile both sides of his fucked up family and save both his brother and (distant) cousin.

Imagine the story having Geten be carried off by Machia too during the Jaku arc. Dabi giving his reveal, Geten may or may not have known it already, this connection between them that was so obvious the moment Geten showed up in My Villain Academia. Dabi and Geten calling truce and combining their bitterness over the bloodlines that screwed them over.

Enji was supposed to die, Horikoshi said that on record - likely it was when he was frozen by emotions and Dabi was coming for him. But like, Dabi's thing was that he wanted to die with his dad, right? Kill himself and his dad together in a blue blaze. Enji's body can't stand that degree of fire. But Dabi's can.

Enji's dying, but Dabi is still alive - perfect time for Shouto (and Best Jeanist?) to intervene. Shouto tries to use ice not only to subdue Dabi, but also to capture him - except Geten has control over all ice. Geten able to control Shouto's ice, manipulating it in complex ways Shouto can't because Shouto can only create ice.

Imagine the rest of the Todoroki family actually getting a role in saving Touya because Enji's dead. Imagine Rei able to be free of Enji, and now also able to confront her family that sold her. That made victims of her and her branch family cousin.

Imagine the story delving into Geten and Dabi as foils. Add in Shouto as a third foil, too. Two main family sons, one heir and one spare, and then a branch family child. Shouto was forced to train, Dabi wanted to train but wasn't allowed, Geten wanted to train and encouraged to. Shouto hates his dad and doesn't want anything to do with Enji if he can help it, Dabi hates his dad because he wanted his dad's love, Geten caring deeply for a father figure in ReDestro and having receiving affection. Yet all three still trapped in the toxicity of family history and the darkness of quirk society.

And in the final battle, Shouto's cold fire able to confront both fire and ice, both sides of his family, all aspects of his blood. Geten sprouting dangerous ideas about strength, Dabi wanting to prove his power within that same framework that excluded him, Shouto the one to break free from that framework altogether - and bringing both his brother and cousin out from it too.