#Rebound Girl

[sofuss-y]

i love them so dearly....im so heartbroken they didnt even kiss like not even once not even a little bit...... (NO SPOILERS HERE DW!!!! ^_^)

[egberts]

ALSO if prisoners could get educated then prisons could run themselves more reliably and function like communities which is conducive to a growing/healing/learning/absolving mindset

[gynoidgearhead]

tradwife is a neogender for mostly cis people. change my mind

[respectthepetty]

The Rebound is going to be everything I wanted it to be!

Golf is doing the damn thing as usual by bringing back the Cafe for All plus a good story!

So I have faith that I'm getting the sports romance that I deserve!

It's giving me brotherly conflict that revolves around attaining one's dreams versus family obligations.

And everyone is struggling here! Zen has multiple jobs, Ryu is hustling, Coach might have a drinking problem, and his daughter is walking around with holes in her bra because a new bra? en esta economia?

I'm getting color coding all over the place because in the present, Zen is light while Ryu is dark, which makes sense because Zen is far more optimistic.

But I'm also getting MORE colors since Atom is a Green Guy (peep his watch), so he'll hopefully be a chill, easy-going guy even though he has daddy issues.

Ryu is a loyal Blue Boy, which is probably why he has been helping his brother out so much and will help Zen out.

And Zen is the optimistic and communicative Yellow/Orange Oddity.

But I think he'll be more orange

Like that basketball patch he sewed on Ryu's jacket!

I like the potential of the side couple since one is pouty and the other is a jerk.

And I'm LOUDLY rooting for my ghost ship of these former championship teammates to turn into something more since the principal clearly wants to help out his down-on-his-luck "friend"

And I'm quietly rooting for these two because even though one is a clear baddie, I think Q could calm him down

Because we all know how a boy is calmed down in BL Land *cough* sex *cough*

Basically, I am seated, sat, satted, sitted, and here for this! Ryu and Zen love each other, I love them, and I'm going to love this because teamwork makes the dream work.

LET'S GO!

[pharawee]

[aq2003]

really love how throughout a lot of smith and jones martha is really skeptical and apprehensive towards ten (+ one of my favorite exchanges between them - "what, people call you 'the doctor'?" "yeah?" "well, i'm not. far as i'm concerned, you've got to earn that title."), not taking everything he says at face value, even doubting the fact he's an alien until over halfway through the episode.. And like. i really truly think the thing that wins her over isn't him kissing her or any of the other insane mixed messages he manages to send, it's this scene here, where he /earns that title/ in her eyes:

(+ david's bit in the commentary, where he says: "[the doctor] has actually sacrificed himself, and - i would say, that that final act of selflessness is what finally, eventually, welds martha to him. [...] and she now returns it. she returns that act of selflessness.")

this is what their relationship is built on. it isn't about martha being the second-best replacement to rose or a rebound or whatever. bc it isn't really about rose. it's about doctor-in-training martha meeting someone (quite literally, "the doctor") whose ideals she aspires to, and doing her best to be the same person to him as he is to everyone else. it's about ten in return admiring her intelligence and inquisitiveness and how she cares for human life, recovering his compassion, letting himself lean on her for support - and then remembering at the most inopportune moments that he's supposed to not need anyone and be on his own forever. And around in their little nightmare loop they go where they save each other over and over until one of them breaks

i've seen ppl look at martha and go "why she does she admire/why is she so in love with ten if he acts like that to her?" or something along those lines and like. it's not just the fact she's in love with him (in fact i'd argue she actively tries to push it aside post-gridlock). it's the fact that she knows he's the kind of person to put everyone else's lives/well-being over his own. she trusts him to save her when she's in trouble even though it's been like two days at most that they've known one another bc she recognizes that same "deep all-encompassing drive to help others" in him. and she also recognizes, much much earlier than him, that he needs someone to save him, especially when he's unwilling to save himself. and yeah for a bit she thinks he returns her feelings and is just playing hard-to-get, but she realizes pretty early on that this probably isn't the case, and i think that realization fully solidifies here:

(this is when she's listening to ten talk abt gallifrey). And idk it might just be me but i think this expression isn't just her empathizing with his loss. it's also guilt, for wanting something from him that he's clearly unable to give when he's wracked with so much grief. (and you see it in the next episode, where tallulah asks if they're together and martha says for certain that they're not, and that he doesn't know about her feelings for him. she keeps everything to herself bc she now knows that when he shut her flirting down at the end of 3x01 it was the genuine reaction of someone who a) isn't interested and b) is scared of getting close with someone else again)

freema described their dynamic as "she's keener than him" and i think about this all the time. martha doesn't really take what ten throws at her. what she does instead is constantly poke holes in his already-failing front of "i will show someone the wonders of the universe so i can ignore what is wrong with me". what she does is stand up and fight him when he tries to go off on his own. what she does is put aside her well-being in favor of helping someone - just like what she saw him do for the people in the hospital when they first met. tldr, that's the doctor and his doctor and rip martha you would've loved who's gonna save u now by rina sawayama

[graciereadshannigram]

hey so putting in the work to unmask is actually kinda worth it*, who knew??

i was just at the grocery store with my girlfriend, in total space cadet mode** just following her around and carrying the wire basket while she picked out produce. basically, my ideal grocery store experience.

but then

we're standing in front of one of those produce cases that has those water misters to keep the veg fresh. she picks out a bundle of green onions and goes to put them in the basket, but then immediately pulls it back out? and before i can say anything, she's grabbing one of the plastic produce bags and wrapping the green onions in it while explaining, "I was just going to toss it in, but then I realized it would drip and your feet would get drops of water on them***, and I know you would hate that."

and then she just moves on and goes back to picking out more produce as if she DIDN'T just make me feel the most seen and cared for in an environment that is already incredibly overstimulating???

if i wasn't already madly obsessed and in love with her, that woulda been the moment.

*when safe to do so, obviously

**read: lost in my head, a lil stoned with my noise filtering ear plugs in

***i was wearing sandals b/c it was 100 degrees outside lmao

[dozydawn]

[caloricangel]

The rebound actually affected me more than the previous relationship. I might need a rebound for the rebound.

[callmedylan]

Trody Week Day 1!!

I usually don’t do Ship Weeks things but I adore Trody and I had to do them Justice, so here’s day 1!!

I feel like Trent would try to shoot up an artsy philosophical talk about smth deep but Cody is just munching on his marshmallow and lowkey dgaf (he’s listening very intently.)

[yuridovewing]

Definitely a little controversial but tbh I'm a "Crowfeather would have been a bad dad to the three if he and Leafpool succeeded in running or if he knew about them" truther.

[ewwww-what]

Sorry guys, I actually really liked Nara and I’m sad she was only in two episodes.

[clever-fox-studios]

Found the art meme and thought of them cuz... that's what I see i my head every time. Every. Time.

Greer is just... completely susceptible to the Disney Villain Rizz and I can't for the life of me tell if and when Cat is serious about anything and I have so much temptation to crank the villain part up to an 11

This can only end in either a Greer Corruption Arc or a Cataclysm Redepmtion Arc and I'm not holding my breath that Greer is in a good headspace to see if 'love' even works on crazy so...

2024 Greer Villain Arc?? Probably

@8um8le come get your boy, he's a bad influence

[annabelle--cane]

fellow family business enjoyers, anyone else getting the vibes that alice and sam are kinda like an alternate universe xen and diya?

[jrueships]

Paul George on Stephen A. Smith’s Kawhi Leonard jab: “I didn’t like that moment… Kawhi wants to play… We exhausted a lot out of Kawhi this season. So at some point your body breaks you down… I didn’t appreciate that moment. I know I laughed because the situation was lighthearted, but deep down it was like you gotta let that go, Stephen A.”

Paul George, knight in shining armor

[strawberrystepmom]

it’s so hard to be self indulgent when you’re so used to cutting yourself off from everything that may spark even the slightest bit of joy as a means to punish yourself for being sad