#Rjalker listens to Charley's adventures

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I want a story where Eight and Charley get taken prisoner, as usual, but this time it's by people who actually treat prisoners well and the whole time they're like. "wow. we're actually getting food that's edible for us. wow. we actually have beds and a separate bathroom and they haven't even hinted at torturing us yet."

and then they get let go once it becomes clear they're definitely not the murderers or perpetrators of whatever I'm sure horrific crime whose scene they wandered onto and then got covered in blood trying to help the victim. (Y'know, again)

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[ID: An edited screenshot of text, so that "Eight & Charley" are saying, "Our hungry ass couldn't be a surgeon" with two skull emojis. Someone else, now labled, "Literally Everyone Else", replies, "What do you mean? What do you mean by that?" End ID.]

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[ID: The aro flag, which has horizontal stripes of dark green, light green, white, grey, and black, with black bubble text that reads, "Amatanormativity will not save you", with white sparkles all over the flag. End ID.]

Edit: Redbubble stopped pretending not to be evil, so here's a Threadless link instead. Please delete reblogs with the redbubble link, it goes nowhere now.

Threadless link since I figure this is gonna be wildly popular lol.

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[ID: The "zero days since our last nonsense" meme, with the characters now edited to be wearing MS-Paint scribbled Time Lord headdresses from Doctor Who, and the sign now reading, "Zero days since our last crime against life". End ID.]

@walks-the-ages post this to the discord I'm lazy

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"Come on. Take my hand." "But...we can see now, we don't need to hold onto eachother..." "I know. Take my hand anyway."

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Charley "if I joke about it like it was no big deal then it wasn't traumatizing" Pollard

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one of the fun things about Scherzo is that you will know immediately if someone new listens to it for the first time or someone else relistens to it because, without fail, all your Scherzo posts will get notes.

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Robert Shearman please explain to me how they're using a broach as a knife.

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what if I just made a shirt that says "Shall I tell you about friendship?" to just 1-hit KO everyone who's listened to Zagreus the moment they lay eyes on it.

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Society if Lord Tepesh actually got to strangle Rassilon to death.

Well, I guess if all universes exist and there are infinite universes, that means there's infinite universes out there where he succeeded.

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Funniest ever Doctor Who episode would be the current Doctor and Companion(s) just...

accidentally stumbling upon Charley and Zagreus. The absolute "Whoopsie fucking daisies" of all time.

And having to run for their fucking lives.

Neither Charley, nor Eight, nor Zagreus remember any of this because they're still just completely fucking Out Of It™ from radiation poisoning. In the backgrounds of scenes there'd just be Charley shuffling past looking dazed and muttering about carrots.

and the TARDIS was the one trying to do the murdering of the current Doctor and Companion(s) and is the reason they had to run for their lives. Possibly she gets into a fight with her future self, which would be fucking great because it'd give her more time to give heartbreaking speeches that make everyone cry.

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Charley Pollard literally has to be 90% unconscious before she'll ask for help or express the fact that she's scared or in pain :(

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One time I saw someone complaining that everyone always draws Charley, and I quote: "butch or wearing pants", and I paraphrase from memory: "no one ever lets her be feminine" "because letting women be feminine is a crime these days" or something like that and I've never fucking recovered.

Ma'am what fucking universe are you living in that you think women aren't allowed to be feminine. What fucking universe are you living in that you think that it's a crime for women to wear dresses.

Charley Pollard is fucking gendernonconforming and has been this entire gods damned time, get the fuck over it.

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THERE'S ART?!!!!?!?!?!??!

LOOK AT CHARLEY'S OUTFIT

DOES THIS MEAN THERE'S A WHOLE FUCKING COMIC

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"why do you say 'solidarity or drown' where did that come from?"

a Doctor Who audio drama set in the future, where the city of Venice is finally sinking beneath the waves, and has been for generations and for generations.

The poor people of the city have also been slowly mutating for generations to form gills and flippers and other aquatic adaptations, because nothing can stop the city from sinking, but they don't have to die. The city doesn't want them to die. They're the only one who care about it.

But the rich people? Who do nothing but celebrate the city's demise? Who abuse and oppress the poor? Who have spent their whole lives causing others nothing but misery and pain?

They are going to drown.

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they think that saying "I love you" will make all of their problems disappear, will make all the hard decisions disappear, will make all of the pain and suffering and consequences disappear, but it doesn't. It's just words.

Saying, "I love you" does not stop you from hurting the person you're saying them to. It does not grant you forgiveness or righteousness. It does not mean you are doing the right thing. It doesn't make you the hero.

Saying, "I love you" doesn't undo or make right any of the things you've done wrong.

Saying, "I love you" doesn't mean you get a happy ending now. It doesn't mean your problems are gone. It doesn't fix anything.

It can't solve anything. It doesn't magically fix relationships, because it has nothing to do with what caused the problem in the first place.

The Doctor telling Charley, "I love you" does not make up for what he did.

Charley telling the Doctor, "I love you" does not fix what has gone wrong between them because whether or not they're in love with each other has no bearing on the issue.

It's not a matter of "okay, if I say it back then it means that things are okay between us after all." because no, it doesn't. Him saying it in the first place did not help anything. It was just an excuse.

He made his decision. And saying "I love you" did not change that decision or the consequences of it. It did nothing to help. He did nothing to help. He made his choice and his choice led to nothing but pain for everyone around him.

The Doctor telling Charley, "I love you" does not negate the cruelty of what he did when he said it. It doesn't make what he did, to Charley or to the TARDIS, okay.

Charley telling the Doctor, "I love you" does not mean that she wasn't hurt and it's all perfectly fine now and not a problem. She refuses to ever acknowledge when she's really hurt or in pain or scared, and this is just a continuation of that, only now instead of pretending it didn't happen, she's pretending that if she says it back, it makes it okay.

Except it doesn't, and it's not okay. It never will be.