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snowwtrapped34 · 10 months

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#it would be so funny #it would be so fucking funny.#Smg4 #smg3 #smg34 #snowtrapped #a classic episode #reanimated collab

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 10 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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claraoswalds · 5 months

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The Giggle // The Devil's Chord

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#dwedit #doctor who #usertennant #userteri #userdiana #miatendos #usertreena #the toymaker #maestro #*#the billboard is actually a classic who reference #(they're mentioned in the very first episode of doctor who!)#but with rtd you never know... it could still mean smth else #plus i'd already giffed it before i bothered googling it and i refuse to delete it now jflksdjfs #anyway goodnight <3

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idkaguyorsomething · 10 months

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it always brings a smile to my face, remembering the first ever title drop on doctor who. it became a tradition for our titular character to introduce himself as the doctor and then have someone else understandably ask “¿doctor who?”. but no, the first time was susan mentioning that he was a doctor before anyone ever met him. then, since susan is his granddaughter and her last name is foreman, ian called him “doctor foreman”, leading this centuries-old mf who apparently doesn’t understand human naming conventions for a society he’s been presumably hiding out in for months to be the first ever character on the show to say the words out loud: doctor who

#note that he never actually introduced himself in that episode #so for all we know that’s when he decided to start going by the doctor #doctor who #classic who #first doctor #susan foreman #ian chesterton

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months

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I *need* to get pregnant by him.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #Ah yes. The classic MXTX 'trapped in close quarters' scene.#Two guys 1 cm apart. Trying so hard to make this as gay as possible while still saying no homo.#The sheer baby fever in this episode was bonkers. The teasing in this scene is probably the most you can physically feel LWJ shaking #WWX is right that it is very funny to watch LWJ fluster. Alas he is just digging his grave.#All this flirting is also so...so much funnier after the Lan Xichen talk. He *just* told WWX to look after LWJ's gentle heart #And now he's trying to give him repeated heart attacks.#We needed a funny goofs episode after all the emotions these comics have been going through.#Remember that 1 reblog = one prayer for LWJ. Send him strength.

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wickedlarkspur · 9 months

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a very major part of being in the doctor who fandom is watching critics say that “doctor who has become too political” or “doctor who has become woke” as if it wasn’t political the last ten times they said that

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bottomoftheriverbed · 2 months

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They keep trying to make first doctor into a stuffy old man like he's not also a feral grandpa who's absolutely batshit and has the most mischievous little giggle you've ever heard

#like i get that this is because it's always in multi doctor episodes which always highten specific traits #and narratively it makes sense #and he can be a stuffy old man at times #but like he's the doctor #doctor who #first doctor #classic who

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causalityparadoxes · 3 months

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The Pantheon of Discord | Doctor Who, The Legend of Ruby Sunday

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expelliarmus · 5 months

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#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #beloveds!!!!#i saw the newest dw trailer on tv today!!!#i need the new episodes now!!!#oh and i've gotten back into catching up on my big finish audios #i'm listening to the newest classic doctors new monsters set #it's been very fun #oh also i got a new student today #and his mom was a bit worried about how he'd be on his first day at a new school #but he saw my lanyard during carpet time and was like 'is that raichu?'#and all of my other kids were like 'LOOK AT ALL HER OTHER POKEMON THINGS' and he was very happy #and i was like bro you are going to fit right in #ok i haven't talked in the tags about my day in a long while hahaha #byeee good night tumblr friends!!

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donutdrawsthings · 5 months

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A telesnap redraw. I wish the first episode of Evil Of The Daleks were found, so we could see the 2nd Doctor moping around in a colourful 60's café (once colourised) and Jamie being severely out of place among people his age.

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oldbutchdaniel · 5 months

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have you ever seen two people more married in your entire life. please

#doctor who #twelveclara #so much to unpack here.#first of all the banter. just kill me.#the fact that he's helping her students on a regular basis. the intertwining of their lives to a dangerous degree #the fact that he jokes about their season 8 breakup as if that's something they joke about #the hug. THE HUG.#suggesting that physical touch is something they Do now #him admitting he missed her. not a huge deal but meaningful To Me.#the doctor who classic 'im never leaving you!' <- dies 1-3 episodes later. which will never get old #can we return to the hug one more time. insert joke about how i know he takes it from behind. and so on and so forth.#and last but not least the way he looks at her. man. stares off into the distance forever #i always forget about this little moment but it really is such a beautiful one

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ecoterrorist-katara · 7 months

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“It’s gross if Katara marries Zuko since he’s her colonizer” she overthrew the last Fire Lord to put Zuko on the throne. If anything the Fire Nation would be worried that he’s Katara’s puppet

#“Katara and Zuko are like Pocahontas and John Smith” yeah if Pocahontas toppled the British Empire and made John Smith run it #Trivia: the episode The Puppetmaster foreshadows the geopolitical conflict stemming from the paranoia that Fire Lord Zuko is a puppet king #Especially since palace servants can confirm that he is a simp for Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe #Tbh installing a ruler in line w your interests is actually a classic colonialism move so she reverse UNO’ed the whole situation #Zutara #pro zutara #anti anti zutara #fire lady katara #ATLA colonization discourse

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genderqueerpond · 1 month

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this is literally my favorite bit of metatextual doctor who canon

#i just think that is so clever #memory IS like that!!!#especially when you're still growing up!!#yes yes!!! it was real when it happened but also the doctor retains exactly what we the audience do #WHAT a way to work the missing episodes into the mythos of doctor who itself #this is five speaking in cold fusion btw #doctor who #classic who #dweu #dw #'second REGENERATION = third incarnation' it checks out #lavender thoughts

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demigodofhoolemere · 27 days

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You think you know every detail about your special interest and then one day you spot something that’s somehow escaped your notice all this time…

The Doctor is wearing a bandaid on his index finger in The Power of the Daleks. Some of the most well-known production images of this Doctor, and I have spent all these flipping years NEVER seeing it there.

And for a moment I thought, well, maybe it’s just the production images, maybe Pat just personally had one on when they were taking promo pics and he doesn’t actually have it in the story. But…

It’s there. Not only that, but he doesn’t put it on later when he’s rummaging through the trunk or something — he wakes up with it on.

Here’s the thing. At no point in The Tenth Planet is the Doctor wearing a bandaid on his finger. Thinking I was losing my mind and seriously never noticed this in one of my favorite stories, I just checked, but no, even up to his regeneration I can find no evidence of the bandaid’s existence on the First Doctor.

It’s not like the ring that was already there and stayed there when he regenerated, it just… appears. I know there’s already precedent for some weirdness with this regeneration because he wakes up wearing new clothes, which otherwise never happened up until Whittaker -> Tennant, but… a bandaid? The regeneration created a bandaid? And it’s been there this WHOLE time?!

#PLEASE tell me i am not the dunce of the century for not noticing this #i feel like i am a victim of the mandela effect right now #classic who #second doctor #the power of the daleks #missing episodes #i have been watching classic who for. eleven years.#has this seriously been here and i’ve been blind for that long…

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warpfactor9 · 10 months

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how am i supposed to be normal about star trek when [cunty spock voice] why THANK you, CAPTAIN mccoy.

#the immunity syndrome #is an exceedingly normal star trek episode #featuring hit classics such as: spock willingly does something insane that will likely kill him #bones and spock enter a bitchfest at the beginning of the episode that continues until the very end #kirk has Loves Bones And Spock Disease and its terminal #risking the entire enterprise for spock #uhura doing her job perfectly despite deranged circumstances and ailments Once Again #and scotty being the most exhausted bitch in outer space #star trek: tos #spock #james t. kirk #leonard mccoy #spones #tos: 2x18 #star trek memes #star trek

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jamieiantocastiel · 2 months

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DOCTOR WHO’S GONE WOKE!!!

Meanwhile, Doctor who in the 60’s:

#doctor who #classic who #new who #disneywho #frazer hines #jamie mccrimmon #second doctor #doctor who magazine #the mag is from the 90’s but the episode was written in 68

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