#I'm not my system is fucked and I need to go to the doctor

[nightmanatee]

You can enjoy flawed characters and episodes and still acknowledge those flaws.

well this is what we both can agree on which is... at least something.

Yes, how convenient you can't "comment" on this post, by which you mean leave a snarky reply, instead of publicly reblogging which you were 'forced' to do; for exactly that reason. My replies are limited because racist assholes on a million empty side blogs love to leave snarky insulting racist or ableist replies on my posts if I dare call out their explicit racism, so my replies are limited to mutuals who I trust not to leave random witty "one-liners" in my replies.

i'm also glad you assume something about me without actually knowing me (for instance - i would've left the exact SAME comment in the comments and argue there instead of reblogs).

i'm not gonna leave a long reply bc we clearly argue about different things - you'll just keep adding chibnall as the bad white author (please google who CO-WROTE rosa with him btw) and i'll keep mentioning that on-screen thing is more important to me.

the thing you keep mentioning about yaz being bad as a cop and how she complains about wanting to do "heroic things"... well yes???? bc as i've said she's 19 and it *can be seen* as first steps of aknowledging it's not her career path. she needs a good lead (13 in s11-13) and help as to how properly do things - something her boss can't give her. if yaz had been shown as a "good" cop who actually resolves things as you've mentioned that would actually be worse imo (at least given all other stories in this era).

that Yaz became a cop to try to change the system for the better

literally not what i've said and not what the show says. she wanted to become a cop bc she thought she's gonna help people and instead she has to go and investigate a bike on a tree.

its *literally* the most generic characterization line you can give to an underdog hero cop character, to show that they're dissatisfied with the boring everyday cop work of parking disputes and tickets and instead want to instead do the 'real cop work' of busting crime rings, heroically stopping bank robberies, saving battered women from violent husbands, etc.

AGAIN??? yeah she wants a challenging work her complaining about her current job can be an indicator of dissatisfaction of career path and what do you think people do when this happens and if they can?? leave. another example of someone who WASN'T skipping work and loved their job is literally clara who's even made 11 have a SCHEDULE of their adventures.

despite her literally seeing the evidence of alien activity right in front of her in a world where aliens publicly invade every single fucking christmas.

CLARA: That is amazing. How will they explain this tomorrow? DOCTOR: You'll all forget it ever happened. CLARA: We are not going to forget an overnight forest. DOCTOR: You forgot the last time. You remembered the fear and you put it into fairy stories. It's a human superpower, forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you'd have stopped having wars. And stopped having babies.

(cmon even graham says how they don't have aliens in sheffield)

and if you love pointing out author's ideas here's a part of the script you've described (clearly having a much different tone):

oh and thasmin. right as i've said that i don't want to argue about that.. AGAIN if you use the author and how his words are important here are screenshots of some things from the podcast that he did in 2023:

where he clearly states about thasmin having implications and even being deliberate in s11.

Yeah, you can say it's good that Chibnall "listened to audience feedback and made Yaz stop being a cop" but you can't say that while you're also arguing that he supposedly had this overarching plot where 'Yaz was always going to stop being a cop'

i've also never said "it was always like that" i've said that in RETROSPECTIVE this is how her arc works out. same thing with thasmin when chibnall listened to fans and has made it happen - i've only ever said how it's good when a showrunner LISTENS to fans and the critique.

as for the judoon mention: i've mentioned this bc chibnall as an author loves parallels and NONE of his characters who are cops are happy/good. yaz is unhappy and leaves, cops in rosa are super racist, jake leaves police (praxeus), judoons are violent against the actual main charater of the show, the division is full of shit and violence (even anita complains about salaries).

Do you really think that pointing out that Yaz's sister called the police on her for being suicidal instead of Yaz herself calling the police on herself for being suicidal really has any bearing on the fact that it's copaganda because the white police officer sees a young brown girl on the side of the road and gives her a life-changing, inspiring pep talk as cop propaganda

also didn't know white people are being called anita patel and look like this these days:

People are trying to say "chibnall's era didn't have any copaganda" because by the time Flux came around Yaz said she was an ex cop.

As though there weren't years and years in between her first season's appearance and the last appearance, filled with people pointing out the blatant copaganda in making Yaz a cop of color to try to make cops look better.

And yes, her backstory of becoming a cop because she ran away from home / was implied to be suicidal and was saved by a cop is further copaganda.

People who actually call the cops because they're suicidal usually end up getting murdered or brutalized by the police , especially people of color, not given a random inspiring one-liner that magically turns their life around. That's fucking copaganda.

If Yaz wanted to make the world a better place, why didn't she get saved by a random paramedic or nurse ? Why didn't she go into the medical industry?

Nope, instead gotta say she's a relatable quirky female cop of color, don't pay any attention to her racially profiling Ryan in episode one and the narrative not even acknowledging that harm when it came time to bastardize and whitewash Rosa Park's history!

You know, the episode that uses Ryan as the laughingstock of the rest of the non-Black cast so they can mock and deride him for not knowing Black History which they're all experts on????

Yaz and Ryan's first meeting in episode one is her LITERALLY racially profile Ryan and accuse him of a crime based on literally nothing except him being a young Black man!

When she knows for a fact that HE is the one who called the police in the first place!

Literally the only thing that saved Ryan from her no-doubt arresting him for "being a troublemaker" or "refusing to cooperate" is her recognizing him from school and that she knew his grandmother --

-- if that personal connection had not been made, do you have any doubt that Yaz wouldn't have treated him just as callously as the woman who had a hammer put through her windshield, for the crime of parking in the wrong spot, which was framed by Yaz as equal crimes???

One person parked in the wrong spot, and one person decided to violently put a hammer through her windshield in retaliation, costing hundreds of dollars and probably making that car legally undrivable?? Do you remember that 'funny' scene?

Hey guys, if I called the cops because my neighbor violently vandalized my personal transportation with the implicit threat of physical harm to my person, and the cop just looked at us and said both me and my neighbor who just put a hammer through my windshield and said we're both 'being childish'.... I'd say fuck the police because what the fuck.

Especially because Yaz goes right back to the station after this "funny relatable" scene and complains shes not getting to do "real police work" which begs the question of what the fuck does she consider to be "real police work"? Arresting criminals? Heroically stopping armed robberies, when she can't even handle property damage calls without being unprofessional and condescending to the victim?

The literal only reason Yaz stopped being a cop is because of the constant backlash from fandom and professional critics.

Because people pointed out how Yaz being a cop was trying to paint cops in a better light (especially with that "heart to heart" with Ryan in the shitty ahistorical, racist Rosa Parks episode, where Yaz promises she's one of the good ones, just pretend she didn't racially profile Ryan in episode one).

Because people actually pointed out the racism implicit in making a "good cop" let alone making a woman of color a cop when the discussions about police brutality and how cops are an inherently racist institution since inception has been in full swing for years at that point.

Yaz didn't quit being a cop because Chibnall was "actually doing the opposite of copaganda" Yaz quit being a cop because actual people spoke up against the copaganda and forced the writers to downplay and one-liner try to erase that plot point because he was desperately trying to regain relevancy.

Chibnall is not a master fucking writer of subtle anti-cop or anti-capitalist plotlines.

Yaz being a cop was copaganda that audience hatred forced them to downplay.

Kerbalm was capitalistic bullshit worshipping institutions like Amazon and Apple because "its not the exploitative company that's bad, it's the [capitalist system upheld by the exploitative company] that is the real bad!"

[gay-ppl-real]

Oh yeah I wrote the words again btw :)

Frank finally decides to open up about their feelings - to his best friend.

[shima-draws]

RAHHH!! I'M GONNA DRAW TONIGHT. IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN

[doctorweebmd]

ok my OTHER reflection:

on the one hand its really frustrating to see the posts about docs and healthcare in general on here be so narrow-minded. bad experiences with certain providers have lead to a huge spread of misinformation and mistrust with the whole system. which can and HAS lead to people avoiding 'evil' doctors for perfectly treatable illnesses and dying from them (the vaccine bullshit, anyone?)

but on the other hand. it is TERRIFYING how some of these docs practice medicine. at times i think 'are you just burned out and don't give a shit or are you straight up just stupid?' and i work in critical care. where quite literally every case is life or death. even in the academic sector where there is supposedly a standard of excellence, some doctors i would not let touch my loved ones with a ten foot pole.

and that sucks. i know this is the no nuance piss on the poor webbed site but 'the medical system and people that work for it are fallible and aspects of it are morally questionable at best/unethical at worst' AND 'the field of medicine exists to help people first and foremost and mistrusting/avoiding it can be detrimental in the long run' can and DO co-exist

[insufferablemod]

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[mars-ipan]

there's always more fucking shit to do

[jon-withnoh]

🙃

[onethousand825days]

anyway. nothing is wrong with me because I made it all up :) of course :)

[danlous]

There are literally 3 euros left on my bank account

[ourceliumnetwork]

i have acquired a mystical and powerful ointment (hydrocortisone cream) from the village herbalist (rite aid) to assist with the curse set upon my bloodline from many generations ago (eczema)

[quillvice]

"was there a reason you didn't cancel this" honestly I thought I had so no there wasn't a reason but also if clients are going to have Your personal number and reach out to You about canceling (when they Should be reaching out via email per our cancelation policy) then You should be canceling the appt anyway imo. all the other trainers cancel their appointments AND add their appointments to the system 🤪

[pa-pa-plasma]

one thing that I never see anyone talk about is the fact that House never makes his patients educate him on their conditions. like, I know it's a "he's smarter than everyone" thing but also as a doctor he should be the one looking into that & educating the patient, not the other way around. why the hell should I spend my entire appointment convincing my doctor that my symptoms & conditions are real before they bother considering a single blood test. the only people that seem to be doctors also happen to be the only people who fucking hate being a doctor

[midnightwind]

alright nearly 12 hours later and my stomach is almost back to the normal background discomfort/pain, we're getting there, normalcy is almost back, gonna go lie down tho-

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David Tennant interview at the British LGBT Awards, June 2024 (x)

Int: You being an ally to the community isn't something new. You've been doing it, but recently you've obviously really stepped up for trans and non-binary people in a time that's so, so needed. What made you do that?

David: I don't know that I feel like I've done anything that I wouldn't just sort of be normally doing. I mean, it's for me it's just common sense that there's there should be any suggestion that people aren't allowed to live the life they want to live and and to be who they want to be with and to express themselves wholeheartedly. I mean, as long as you aren't hurting anybody else, everybody else just needs to fucking butt out. I don't really understand why...

Int: ...it's controversial.

David: Yeah, there is and the thing... the thing, if there's something that's particularly sobering and depressing, it's that certain debates are being weaponized by certain elements of the political class, often for no... it seems it's not ideological so much as opportunistic. And I just think that's pretty disgusting, really.

Int: I couldn't agree more. What message would you like to send out to trans youth?

David: Please don't feel like you're not loved and that you're not accepted and that you're not... you know, most people in the world are good and kind and just want you to be able to be who you are. Most people in the world don't really care. I mean... you know what I mean?

Int: We're all narcissistic.

David: Exactly. Everyone's so self obsessed that really, the sort of noise that comes from a certain area of the press and of the political class is... it's a minority. It really is. And please don't let that make you feel diminished or dissuaded or discouraged, because, you know, you just... you have to be allowed to be yourself, and you are, and you are yourself and you must thrive and flourish, and we're all here for it.

Int: Amazing. I think, yeah, it's so important .I think sometimes it feels like there's so many people, but it is a minority. It's such a minority.

David: It's a tiny bunch of little whinging fuckers that are on the wrong side of history and they'll all go away soon.

Int: Like what happened with gay people 20 years ago.

David: When I was a kid, when I was a kid, exactly. You know, I was at school when Clause 28 came in and it all felt like being gay was something to be terrified of. And gay men in particular were demonised as paedophiles and now that just feels historic and ludicrous and, I mean, I don't see all those... all those battles aren't won, but we're in a very, very different place. And I feel like.I feel like history is on a progressive trajectory and it might get knocked sideways now and again by people for all sorts of reasons, which are often quite selfish and quite, as I say, not coming from a place of any sort of genuine belief system, but other than a place of opportunism. And that's something that we... I hope that in 20 years time, we're talking about, you know, these culture wars as something of the past.

Int: I believe we will. I'm a huge Doctor Who fan, so.

David: Oh, good, me too!

Int: You are my Doctor.

David: Oh, thank you very much.

Int: But recently, obviously, you came back for the 60th anniversary and you got to work with Yasmin Finney.

David: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Int: What was it like working with her?

David: Oh, she's brilliant. She's fantastic. Yeah. And she's in the show again now, she's back in it, so that's fantastic to see. She's lovely, talented, cool as a cucumber, articulate, brilliant. I learned a lot from her as an actor and also as someone who, you know, who's become a sort of de facto activist just because of who she is and where she is, and she becomes a sort of symbol of hope, and she's wonderful.

[a-little-bit-oddish]

so i'm joining the stem cell registry and donating blood regularly now, because i like, should. and it's been a good process and they're very nice. but as i was signing up for things, it had the box for sex at birth. Which is kind of an insane question. not "what hormones does your body primarily run on". but just... sex at birth. something that is not relevant for blood donation, and also extremely misleading??

they check your red blood cell count when you show up. if I told them my sex at birth was female they'd be fucking horrified by my count. testosterone does shit to the blood! It is so much more relevant to know that my body runs on testosterone! i keep seeing medical fields doing this.

i think that they assume it's nicer, somehow. they don't just ask sex anymore, they just go haha please tell us what you were called as a baby :) we're doctors so we need to know, it's important :)

except it's not. at all. it is more ethical for me to lie to the blood donation centre so that they don't see my blood and flag it, when it is perfectly good blood for people with more testosterone.

i have to go to a throat doctor next month. they specifically asked for my sex at birth. there was not an option to tell them what they should actually expect from my voice and body. when it asked me to list medications, it physically wouldn't allow me to list testosterone, and it flagged it.

it's nuts, because all these places have actually been really welcoming and cool about me being trans, but the actual system is horrific, it's just forcing me to out myself by having to reach out after to correct it. because answering honestly is medical misinformation.

anyway you can just fucking lie i guess

[wereh0gz]

I was gonna comment this under a youtube short abt a specific stim (tapping your ears) that reminded me of something from my childhood but I realized I was on youtube and decided I won't risk being emotionally open on that hellhole so I'm posting it here instead

Anyways the video reminded me of when i was in elementary school back when i still lived in Puerto Rico. i got so overwhelmed in one of my classes because all the other kids were being deafeningly loud and i couldn't keep up with the notes (had written two whole whiteboards worth of notes and the teacher was erasing one of the boards to write more)(notes were all fully handwritten, no guided notes packets or anything)(was always made to write ALL OF IT, no shorthands) and then the teacher started using a goddamn WHISTLE to get the kids' attention and shut them up (didn't work, just made more noise which made me more overwhelmed). i burst into tears and started tapping my ears almost unconsciously to try and mitigate the noise since just covering them wasn't enough somehow.

I still do it sometimes when there's too much noise but like. In a less noticeable way i guess? Just kinda rub my ear which gets a similar effect to tapping it. Bc i know it's weird and i was already the weird kid by then so like i can't be More Weird. Y'know. So most of the time i just endure loud noise and try not to get super pissed off or cry instead.

Anyways i'm not saying i'm for real neurodivergent but i am saying that my parents should've done something about my very obvious issues way earlier on instead of just chalking it up to me being "shy" or "sensitive" or "a perfectionist" or whatever the fuck. Bc this incident among other things that happened before and after it were literally big flashing signs that i was Not Normal. But noooo instead they had to leave current me with emotional regulation issues constantly wondering what the fuck is wrong with me