#<- she shows up for like 2 seconds

[cbennetti]

and why she ourple

[twst-mer]

najma viper sketch

[yeetlegay]

Peace and love to Rain’s mom, she’s a peach for sure, but what in the bedazzled fuck was she thinking when she gave her son, chairman of the whoopsie daisy committee, a BRAND NEW BMW????

[cashmere-caveman]

shogun ep. 9 is just bisexual suicide speed chess toxic breakup edition

[faceofpoe]

As apparently one of few people who took Ventress at her word that Omega showed no signs in the moment of innate Force potential in between bitching about the challenges lol, I took the ending of this episode and Ventress's final "you're lying" vaguely ambiguous convo with Hunter and Crosshair to be an echo of Crosshair's earlier sentiment: "It doesn't matter [why they want her], we're not handing her over"

vs

"It doesn't matter if her count is high, she's in the same danger either way and you're not ready."

But this is also swayed by the hill I will be dying on, that episode 3 did not in any way imply Omega has a high number. Her use to Hemlock is much deeper than that, he clearly has plenty of "m-count" specimens already.

[frogmanfae]

Y'all I had the WRONG idea what Tuck Everlasting was about

[the-lark-ascending69]

> be a robin buckley fan

> be lesbian

> project on robin

> look up "internalized homophobia robin buckley" on tumblr because it's cathartic

> 3/4 of the posts are about st3ddie or just about steve

[aq2003]

series 3 is so frustrating because there is like a shining core of pure diamond underneath the problems . like conceptually it rocks so incredibly hard. but the problems

[apotelesmaa]

I love how whenever tsukasa and/or rui (more so tsukasa) are doing some deeply obnoxious dumb shit in public nene is like I genuinely hate you guys you are the most embarrassing people to spend time with EVER & then when emu does the same stuff nene is just like (sighs fondly) noo stop that. She doesn’t even try that hard to stop emu she just accepts it. Nene willingly spends time with someone who runs around screaming wonderhoy and canonically digs holes to hide in so she can jumpscare people. I know what you are nene.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Robb having to choose between his sister and his people is exactly the kind of moral quandary GRRM gives his leaders. But they want Sansa to be queen while simultaneously stripping any kind of moral flaw from her. They don’t even want to admit that she’s complicit in LF poisoning SR and it’s like ? GRRM himself has said that “ruling is hard.” How can she be the smartest and most adept at the game of thrones while at the same time not having any flaws in their eyes ?

I think that's why they're so obsessed with her being "morally pure", they think it makes her special compared to the other characters. They imagine that she'll have to face no hard decisions and be able to achieve anything by being kind and gentle. That's why they constantly talk about and exaggerate the flaws of other characters, it's the only way they have to prop her up. George does indeed make the point, with multiple rulers, that ruling is hard. It isn't something that anybody is going to be instantly, perfectly good at. But then, they just want her to be Queen because they think it's the perfect fairytale ending for her. They think of it as a reward more than anything else, so they aren't actually concerned with the logistics of the ruling. That's why they think her ordering servants around the Vale is comparable to Dany being a Queen and actively ruling.

[sirompp]

[oufrelou]

i read somewhere that tom & jacques were supposed to be canon boyfriends but they had to cut it out for some reason. no clue if thats true or if people just like lying to me but its real to me...........................

(update: yeah people do just like lying to me its misinfo. still tomjac sweep but thats out of the question /silly)

[worstloki]

MCU trying to prove that Thor's not interested in his brother: look! he's kissing a pirate girl with blue hair!! and a werewolf lady!!!!! his type is a lot more vast than--

Me: they're both Loki aren't they.

MCU: What? There is NOTHING implying that.

Me: Ohhhhh, so Thor is trying to get over his bro by trying eccentric things, then?

MCU: Where are you getting this from??????

Me: I knew it.

[everyfandomsprincess]

Dragons Rising is so trippy in a sense.

Like in Ninjago as a whole, every season aside from 1-2 and the Oni Trilogy(8-10) have been pretty stand alone

Like sometimes they’d make references and other times there’s not even a sense of progression.

But Dragons Rising?

Dragons Rising references several seasons so far and is set up to be a continuous story.

And I really love that this is what’s going on. (I mean the og show was only supposed to have 2 seasons)

But also if all the seasons of Dragons rising is like this than it makes it feel more coherent than before where it just felt like another season instead of it’s own show

[transgenderdoctorwhomst]

So I've spent the past like, two weeks, trying to dissect with my partner what exactly is making 13's first season so... uninteresting and even just bad to us. And today I've finally figured it out!

Obviously just my opinions, disclaimer I've only watched up to the end of Spyfall, this is not intended as hate but rather criticism, and you are completely free to disagree or just ignore the whole post..

I'm going to put this under a cut in order to not take up the whole dash. Topics: The Doctor's autism, and the dynamics between 13 and her companions. So, let's start!

The failure to characterize 13 consistently with past incarnations, especially in regards to the Doctor's naturally rebellious nature and extremely visible autism.

As someone who's autistic, the very very consistent autistic traits in the Doctor are always extremely obvious. And for an incarnation written with that in mind, you'd think that it would be consistent, right?

But here's where something major about the Doctor is missing: so far, as of the end of Spyfall part 2, I have rarely seen 13 engage extensively with her special interests. The only examples I can think of are when she meets Rosa Parks, visits Kerblam!, and when she meets the Solitract.

The Doctor has a strong tendency to get so caught up in their special interests that they basically will not shut up about it when it comes up, often rambling without fully checking if someone is actually listening. I... feel like I rarely see 13 do it that much? Sure, she's happy to explain things when she's asked, and she clearly has special interests, the sheer prevalence it should have in how she engages with the world is just... not really there.

The lack of it makes it feel like her character is missing something major, and was hard to put together that it was this specifically that was bothering me. I can think of a million examples of each Doctor respectively engaging with their special interests near constantly, but it feels like it's hardly there for 13 in comparison.

As for her rebellious nature, 13 has so far been remarkably passive about capitalistic crimes. I'm sure we all remember her and Kerblam!. And the spiders in the hotel. You would expect the Doctor to challenge the systems that caused those respective problems, encourage the people in those systems to fix it, but she just sort of... doesn't.

She doesn't care the warehouse employees have to save up miniscule wages just to see their family once a year, that they're tracked and constantly under threat of losing what little income they have, that even though society has progressed so this can all be automated, the powers that be are not adapting with that to provide basic necessities to the public, and instead are telling everyone they're lucky if they get to be indentured to Kerblam!. The Doctor stops a man from committing terrorism (because all protesters of these systems are also serial killer terrorists, clearly), and then doesn't stop to deal with the root cause. She just tells him he's wrong, is satisfied the company will hire more humans (put more people in the meat grinder), and leaves.

The spiders episode is a whole thing, focusing more on the side effects of the actual problem, which is capitalist businessmen cutting corners for profit and ignoring regulations, and getting away with it. The message of the episode at the end comes out as "you shouldn't actively kill any living thing for any reason", citing trapping the spiders in a room to die as more humane. But I would strongly disagree.

The humane thing to do for those spiders, who were mutated, suffering, and having a negative impact on both the local spiders and humans, would have been to swiftly kill them. The Doctor cares more about not feeling bad about killing the spiders than the system that made this happen in the first place, or ending their suffering, which feels wildly out of character.

2. The companions don't feel like they have a lot going on, and lack the kind of strange connection past companions have.

So, Graham Ryan and Yaz are all kind of just boring. I see the dynamics and relationships they're supposed to have with each other, but none of it feels compelling. I don't feel any connection to them.

At first, I thought that it was because Chibnall introduced three companions in the first episode. It's definitely a contribution, since having to introduce four major characters compared to one or two isn't the easiest thing to do. But it's possible.

Torchwood introduces six characters to us at the start: five members of Torchwood 3, and Gwen. Every single character feels distinctive, they have clashing personalities that also bounce of each other. The introduction feels great, and you can immediately watch their characters develop and change over the course of the first season.

The Doctor and the Fam? I literally cannot tell you distinctive personality traits about each of them besides basic vibes. It took until Spyfall for them to start feeling distinct. I can't tell you major flaws, major anything. I can barely describe their respective relationships to the Doctor, besides "weird friend with the time machine we know nothing about."

The single thing portrayed as a flaw in the Doctor is that she doesn't like talking about herself unprompted. They don't know a lot about her, but in her defence, they barely ask.

Past companions in New Who always have some strange relationship with the Doctor. Rose is having a situationship with him after he blew up her workplace, and has complex feelings about how travelling with him affects her life at home. Martha is having this weird situation where he's using her to fill the gap left by Rose, while trying to keep his distance, and Martha is just trying to figure out how the fuck to get him to look at her as her own person. Donna decided she wanted more in life, and by god was she going to grab the Doctor and take it, assigning herself his new best friend.

Amy met the Doctor as a child, obsessed over him for 14 years, ran away with him before her wedding, and then dragged Rory along, and ended up with the weirdest family dynamics possible. Rory isn't sure how to feel about the Doctor, and the two of them for some reason take turns being the "mature" one. Clara is overly dedicated to him and deeply enjoys the power trip that comes along with having time travel.

I can't speak about Bill or Nardole, because I haven't actually met them, but I know there's some kind of dynamic going on there.

The point is, every individual has some kind of distinctive and very strange relationship with the Doctor, from the very start. Friends, but something else. Romantically interested in each other, but dancing around that boundary. The 13th Doctor has absolutely nothing strange or compelling with hers so far.

Like, I could think of at least some with what we have! 13 decides Graham is her grandson, because Ryan and Yaz have a grandparent figure, but Graham doesn't, and then extends that to Ryan with deciding to be a great-great-grandparent figure to him.

At least in her first season, she doesn't seem opposed at all to a relationship with Yaz. The Doctor is notoriously weird about relationships. If Yaz panicked and told her mom that she was dating the Doctor, the Doctor could just roll with it and now Apparently They're Dating ???. It could be so fun! But there just... isn't anything!

Maybe it gets better in her second season onwards, but these kinds of things should be established fairly quickly. Like, at least halfway through the first series. I genuinely hoped her first season would be better on a rewatch, because I watched it while it was airing, and dropped the show after because I was just so not into it. I shouldn't have to be doing this much work to make it interesting to me! I shouldn't be enjoying early Moffat Who more than this!

Anyways if you read all this, I am very happy to hear thoughts and counterpoints, just please don't send me hate anons :)

[tracle0]

hi! hi! word tag!

thank you @loopyhoopywrites for the tag woo love this game hell yeah

Find: Cool, warm and hot frommmm prophet WIP woah!

Cool (x2!)

… Why was he even down here? He hated the generator room, even when it was turned off. And yet here he was, pressed into the corner furthest from the door, eyes glinting the darkness like little amber shards, crying out at her. Not hungry.  Scared.  “Oh,” she said. “Good. Good timing. Glad someone’s here to see this. Good. Cool. I can look like an idiot with witnesses. Cool. Okay. Fine.” 

Warm

It makes a decision, and explodes from his stomach. Unlike last time, it is a reckless advance, a starburst spread across his body, nothing like the methodical conquering from before. It claws at his bones, scatters through his veins, darts along his muscles, and Cain snarls, lips curled back and throat dry enough to make the sound crack, and holds himself tense, ready for the incoming fight.  He hasn’t snarled before. Not like this. Not with his mouth twisting in fury, his nose wrinkling, eyebrows nearly touching. It doesn’t feel right. It feels like he’s putting on a performance, trying to cover his own apathy to settle the nerves of any onlookers, but he’s alone here, nobody to perform to, why is he snarling like this? Why does he want to? It doesn’t feel right, but god, it feels good, a warm prickle of delight up his spine. 

Hot

Instinct also told her that he wasn’t going to leave without this knowledge. She had a lighthouse to protect, a lamp to fix, a cat to comfort. Every part of her wanted him gone.  “It’s high tide,” she said stiffly. “The paths underwater, so your shoes –“ “I don’t care about my shoes,” he said. A note of urgency had entered his voice, and needles of alarm pressed into the back of her neck, something hot and bubbling starting to fester in her gut. “Can I get there now?”

That's fun. It's Mole, then Cain, then Mole with Cain, cool kids woah.

Tagging uhhhh @kaatiba @ace-malarky @daisywords @chauceryfairytales @albatris to find mmm void, corrupt, sparkle and twitch if you will :)