#The ruby

[diznam]

Listening to the Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue audiobooks and rediscovering 13-year-old me's lust for Gideon De Villiers

[indireneedofsleeeep]

Question: (Had he accurately known of its powers, ) Could Roderick Burgess have reached immortality by using the ruby? By (keeping it around his neck and keep on) wishing he was immortal? Because it was one of his dreams? And if so, would he have stayed immortal had the ruby been stolen from him?

[foxspeterpan]

[paintdoktahwho]

google it

[ratective]

credit

[the-purvashadha]

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

[sepiamestus]

Shapeshifter characters are so inherently tragic and i eat that shit up every time. I fucking LOVE when a character's sense of identity hinges upon being anyone but themself. Like yesssss babygirl struggle with your identity as an individual person and not just a reflection of others youre so sexy haha

[weedle-testaburger]

You know, since it's Pride Month (and also I miss them), I feel like reminding everyone how fucking important Ruby and Sapphire were.

The way they were both unambiguously conceived as queer characters and let the writers make an established character queer retroactively. The fact that as soon as they share the screen, they immediately show how in love they are, without any ambiguity to please the censors, and they do that almost every episode they're in.

How their relationship isn't always 100% perfect, and they do conflict and fall out, but make up in the end because they genuinely love each other. How they were allowed to be iconic parts of the show, not just through being the focus of two of its most famous songs (Stronger Than You and Here Comes A Thought) but also through the book version of The Answer.

The fact they got the first gay kiss...

...and the first gay wedding in the history of kid's TV.

The way their reception showed networks that yes, people do enjoy media with queer characters, and so they contributed to many other series with prominent LGBTQ characters getting greenlit.

I honestly don't think it's exaggerating to say they're among the most important queer characters in the history of fiction for all that. And people need to say it more, and demand stuff like them more.

[ayo-edebiri]

#I'm obsessed with the fact that Jackie and Ruby go to the same bar, which could mean nothing.

[claraoswalds]

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[ngatwa]

DOCTOR WHO: EMPIRE OF DEATH

[pagerunner-j]

Sometimes Twitter is still good.

[w3mb13r]

close enough, welcome back ninejackrose

[paintdoktahwho]

would solve a lot of problems i bet

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

the doctor dna-scanning ruby like immediately after meeting her is SO funny he's still traumatized from amy's pregnancy and the clara echoes he said we are getting AHEAD of this nonsense

[dwgif]

Doctor Who The Devil’s Chord