#You deserved so much better

[snugspheal]

I absolutely agree, but the problems with Belinda's arc started long before Reality War. As soon as she forgave him in Lux I knew they were too interested in making them "besties" to explore the toxicity. I mean, we had just had Ruby "no conflict with the Doctor" Sunday, after all

The Well was good as an early point in this relationship - Belinda is literally shot and has to be resuscitated, too in shock to blame the Doctor yet but you can see the fear settling in. And then they just... move on. In an 8 episode run the next just... doesn't have Belinda in it. Nothing ever builds on that moment from The Well

TS&TE separates them for half the episode, and even when Belinda hears how the Doctor treated Abena it's only a passing criticism - over halfway into their story and it's a huge step back from her stance in TRR

Then Interstellar Song Contest. Oh boy! She gets the first look at the real darkness at the core of the doctor and the first thing she says to him? "You're wonderful"???? You're bloody wonderful!? It's the precipice of the finale and you don't want to push the envelope any further than "you scare me sometimes"?! There was so much potential there and RTD just squandered it. And don't get me started on how the episode was written not knowing who Belinda is so she just sounds like a blank slate

Hell, the last time Belinda is Belinda is probably TS&TE because lord knows all of Wish World is only interested in giving us a brainwashed Belinda. One who is suddenly a mother and wife and has no agency in getting out of that situation despite what TRR shows us-

I'm just. I'm so tired

I thought doctor who was doing pretty well this season. It had several things that I actively loved. Midnight and lux and ruby sunday. I loved belinda and I loved the fugitive doctor showing up in "The story and the engine". And honestly that episode in general.

And I want people to know that. But that doesn't mean I'm blind to its flaws. Of which there are many. But what I'm about to rant about fills me with a very particular kind of disgust.

I really enjoyed the direction everything was going in. I loved belinda taking none of the doctors shit and just wanting to go home. I thought we were gonna get some commentary on some of the toxic dynamics between the doctor and his companions as well as the ultimate power dynamic that consistently falls into place. (Eg: the doctor basically having complete control over the companions comings and goings.) And I honestly thought "Toxic" was confirming that.

Then "reality war" happened and all my hopes and dreams fell flat. "Toxic" was just cheap nostalgia bait. The doctor got to expert total power over his companions lives by deciding what the 'correct' timeline was.

We even had a whole "I knew you would come arround" speech like it was inevitable that belinda would just come to her senses and realise that the Doctor was just a brilliant amazing person giving her the opportunity of a life time. LIKE ALL HER INITIAL NOs MEANT NOTHING.

... like she was just playing hard to get.

He actively rewrote belinda's entire history and decided NOT to tell her! Leaving her with a daughter she never wanted and should not of existed. While he ran away.

I don't wanna spell it out but theres some very particular subtext I'm reading here and it is disgusting

[moodyvoid]

[hitmanflam]

Very good question Endou

[cemetary-shifts]

[versatileversion]

“Regretfully for you, I’m not interested in virtue or saving anyone. I’m only interested in results. And you are useless to me.”

How you can say that to a kid you yourself took responsibility for, is insane to me.

How you can repeatedly say you don’t like pain and yet shoot bullets at a boy who is bone deep exhausted, on the floor, with no guarantee he’ll be able to block- is insane to me.

How you can know what it’s like to be at rock bottom, get help from somebody who shows you actual kindness, and deny that to someone you took on, is insane to me.

Osamu Dazai is legitimately insane to me.

Him claiming he doesn’t like to be hurt is such a slap in the face to me- because how dare you say that, then take “in” a child for the sole purpose of hurting them?

And to be so self aware of it too.

To openly admit that Akutagawa was unlucky to be taken in by him instead of Oda. He knew what he was doing. And that, is insane.

Maybe it’s a good thing Oda died before he got to see how cruel the kid he had believed in actually was.

Or maybe it was more of Akutagawa’s “bad luck” that he never got rescued from the monster clawing at him, known as Osamu Dazai.

[rosietealeaves]

Elizabeth Lavenza is one of my favourite characters in Frankenstein

There's just a lot to her character that I always interesting to analyse and the tragedy of her character as someone who was raised with a lot of responsibilities on her shoulders who has to watch all her attempts to make things right in her adoptive family come crashing down. But I digress haha, she's also just fun for me to draw <3

[nickesx]

i absolutely DESPISE voltron for not giving hunk enough screen time. he’s a very complex character, and has a lot of potential for an amazing character arc, but they just threw him out. 🙁

please give my sweet beautiful angel more. he deserved better!!!🙏🙏

[captain--steve--rogers]

In 3x03, Lassiter tells Jules, “So what if I seriously considered planting evidence on my wife’s new boyfriend?” and then 8 episodes later in 3x11, when the guy asks “oh, so you think he’s capable of it?” (Lassiter shooting someone), Shawn responds with “no he doesn’t. At most Lassiter would plant evidence,” and I’m supposed to believe they’re not boyfriend coded???

[soup--champ]

chaos is inevitable.

[ilovepersephoneprice]

I love him so much, you guys actually don't understand. I just want to kiss him and cuddle with him

[helpmeimblorboing]

I wonder how Daisuke’s mother feels after her son’s body is eventually recovered from the crashed Tulpar, shredded beyond repair, with a massive axe wound in his face and mouthwash in his veins.

The son who would never have been on the Tulpar had she not made him take that internship at Pony Express.

The son who would never have died had she not tried to solve him being a “slacker”

[immagrosscandy]

y6ch18 feat. hora de aventura reference

[cherry-aqua-blossom]

My scrimbly

[emptyportrait]

[akew-sabe]

"one day i am gonna grow wings"

[fanfictionroxs]

"We leave the damage so we never forget the damage."

Lestat living in the shack with his broken piano that he smashed because one of his last memories with his family in NOLA was playing that piano with Claudia. Claudia who burned alive in front of him because he didn't save her, Claudia who he abused her entire life, his fledgling, his daughter. "It was never you," he told her. "A mistake," he called her. You can get a new piano, but can you get your child back?