#blame Jodi for this actually

[blakbonnet]

on why am I crying today

[macksartblock]

i'm working at 'em lol remember to vote Terry

[justablah56]

Jodie foster for the ask game

Jodie my beloved blorbo in law <33

First impression - I . did not like him shjsjsksk he was a dick and a cop and also replaced my beloved girl Glenn . I just very much did not like him .

Impression now - what a little guy oh my fuck . someone help him please . the most cringefail divorced loser who needs a hug and someone who will just stay with him PLEASE that man has the worst attachment issues known to all living and dead and has chosen to deal with them by just . not getting attached . he still does he just forces himself not to interact with the people he's already attached to and makes things worse for himself . I love him dearly , I hope someone gives him a fucking hug .

Favorite moment - him giving Nick the fuckign . grenade ? I think ? when they're escaping prison hsjdjdn he's literally so insane why is he like that

Idea for a story - one that me and @taylortheanimerangerteen have talked abt , him and Zhao Dae getting separated and Zhao just taking care of him honestly . like this demon has had to deal with the depressed fuck for a while now , and now that they're separated he can actually help him out . I just think Jodie deserves someone willing to force him to let someone take care of him tbh

Unpopular opinion - uhhhhh idk . ig thinking Jodie's actually a decent human being is unpopular ish ? idk, thanks to my dear friend, Taylor I just think he's more of an actual person than I think lots of the fandom thinks of him .

Favorite relationship - Jodie and Zhao !! the most qpr guys to exist !! they're fuckign head mates !! I could go on for so long abt their relationship , they're just everything to me . and yeah ik lots of the fandom barely even knows who tf Zhao is but fuck you my friend made me think abt them so now I'm forcing that on anyone who decides to read this lmao

Favorite headcanon - Jodie had a rebellious phase in like . high school / college ish and that's when him and Morgan got together , but for Jodie it was actually a phase (unlike Glenn) bcs I think then Morgan getting w Jodie in the first place makes more sense lmao .

[skeleton-squid-boy]

accidentally talked continually abt dr who for half an hour my bad

[shanesbluechicken]

Taking Sam to the mines

Shane

TW: none

Buckle up, because this is going to be quite a ride

In my opinion, he is probably going to do great, but only after a while. The poor man has to get used to the monsters first, because WTF NO ONE TOLD HIM THERE IS STUFF ATTACKING YOU DOWN IN THE MINES

Farmer: Why do you think I always bring a sword with me then?

Sam: To feel cool?!

Insists on accompanying you as soon as you tell him about this, because now he can't let you go by yourself at all. Sam is simply too worried to just sit around and wait for your return. That also means that you can't go to the mines when he's at work and such.

You tried going once without him and it was the last time. It's not like he started a fight with you, but he was so incredibly upset that your heart ached from merely looking at him.

Now as I said the beginning is quite rough, since he didn't even know there are any monsters in general. So nothing could have really prepared him for what he's going to go up against, even tho you did your best to do so.

The first couple times you have to interfere with the pickaxe. Sam isn't sure if you killing these horrible looking creatures is hot or terrifying. (Both, both is good.)

But to your surprise he learns super quick! And I mean in the speed of light. It's as if he just switched up his entire fighting style over night. Had an entire arc going on while you were asleep smh.

You notice that his footing is completely different and his stance looks more confident. That precious boy is COMMITTED on keeping you safe.

Not only is he an amazing mining partner, but also great company. His jokes and big smile make the mines seem less dark and lonely. Just now you realize how isolated you actually felt whenever you came down here by yourself.

The two of you tried hard to keep this a secret from Jodi, but she found out eventually and was anything but happy about it. You couldn't blame her trying to talk Sam out of it and you didn't stop her once, but it became obvious to her pretty quick that her son doesn't plan on backing down.

Vincent on the other hand was absolutely thrilled when he first heard about it. He and Jas literally track you down to ask if they can join so you and Sam have to regularly sneak around town to avoid them. Your giggles almost always blow your cover.

Masterlist

[winchester-girl67]

Wild Hearts (Part 4) - Postcards From Dean

Summary: Postcards from Dean to Y/N; sent over the years they were apart. 

Masterlist

Pairing: AU!Dean x reader 

Square: Postcards @j3bingo

Word Count: 743 

Warnings: underage, age gap (reader is 16-22, Dean is 20-26), language, slow burn, long distance relationship of sorts, pining, maybe a little angst, time jumps, fluff 

A/N: This part was written for @j3bingo go as a collection of AU postcards from Dean to Y/N.

_____ 

A few of your favourite postcards from Dean - from the six years you were apart. 

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Hey Y/N, 

What do you write on a postcard? 

Dean

P.S. I picked up a stack of these at a rest stop on the way to Sioux Falls and I thought you'd like some old school snail-mail. I'm aware that your parents and the mailman will probably read this too, so... I'm sorry I got your daughter into trouble and now she has- what, ten hours of community service left? But, she's kind of a badass and saved my life so don't go too hard on her. 

P.P.S. And to the mailman: Not cool, dude. 

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Dear Y/N, 

Sam told me to start these with 'Dear' instead of 'Hey', I kind of like the way it sounds so I let him be right for once. Bobby and Jody are pretty cool, they won't even let me pay rent so we can save more money. We'll have a place of our own in no time now. 

xo Dean 

P.S. I hope the 'x' is okay, if not I blame Sam. If so, it was all my idea. You can't tell but I just winked at you. 

P.P.S. It's my birthday and Jody made me a cherry pie! It was so good, I had every intention of saving you a piece but now I'll just have to learn how to make one for you instead. Can't wait for your phone call tonight so I can tell you all about it. 

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Dear Y/N, 

It took a little longer than I thought but we just moved into our own apartment! It's closer to Sam's college but we can still visit Bobby and Jody with a short car ride. 

xo Dean 

P.S. Think you'll come visit me on your gap year? 

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Dear Y/N, 

It snowed today! And I'm making pasta tonight. You can drool over it via video chat later. I wish we were in the same time zone so you could ring in the new year with me too. 

I’m missing you a lot lately,  xo Dean 

P.S. I'm sending you a big fat kiss. You can put it where you want it. X 

P.P.S. To the mailman: Get your mind out of the gutter. She's a lady! 

___________________________________

Dear Y/N, 

I'm seriously craving Donna's mocha ice cream right now. I think it would go great with Jody’s cherry pie recipe. Don't knock it till you try it! 

xo Dean

P.S. Sam hasn't stopped playing that playlist you made him for studying. I swear you have the worst taste in music. I'm going to make you a playlist tonight. 

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Dear Y/N, 

I think I like the mountains on this postcard best, we should take a roadtrip there together, maybe next Valentine’s day? 

x Dean 

P.S. I don't like airplanes. 

P.P.S. But I'm going to take you to all the places on these postcards some day. 

P.P.P.S. I hope you're still pinning these postcards to your wall so you can hold them over my head some day. 

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Dear Y/N, 

I'm sorry. 

xx Dean 

P.S. If I could have one superpower it would be the ability to control the weather. 

P.P.S. Getting snowed in would be a lot more fun WITH you. 

P.P.P.S. Maybe my superpower should’ve been teleportation! Damn it, is it too late to change my answer? 

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Dear Y/N, 

I just dropped Sam off for his first year of law school. I feel old. Luckily, he got another scholarship though, so I don't have to worry about paying his tuition. Kid's a major nerd. 

x Dean 

P.S. I'm actually in California! The salt air here makes me think of home, of you. You feel so far away right now. I'm not even looking at the same ocean. That sucks. 

P.P.S. We haven't talked in a while and I know that's mostly my fault, but I wanted to give you a heads up. I'm coming home... Soon. 

___________________________________

Dear Y/N, 

Did you notice there's no stamp? 

Always yours, 

xoxo Dean 

P.S. I was going to tell you to meet me where I first kissed you but that's a hell of a walk. So meet me under our streetlamp. The one where you put ice cream on my nose the first night we met. 

P.P.S. I hope you come, I can't wait to see you. But I understand and no hard feelings if you don't. 

_________________________

Part 5

_________________________ Dean: @akshi8278 @laycblack @thoughts-and-funnies @mrsjenniferwinchester @crustycheeks @kazsrm67 @sexyvixen7 @lyarr24 @suckitands33  @eliwinchester99 @yvonneeeee @igotmajordaddyissues @djs8891 @leigh70 @globetrotter28 @backseat-of-deans-67chevy

SPN: @hobby27

Wild Hearts: @justrealizedimmascifygurl @evieluvsjamie @kimberkingrivers @vicmc624 @ladysparkles78

[masterof-blabber]

random information about sam:

he still burns CDs, and has a portable CD player to listen to them on. he very rarely remembers to bring it with him, though

he swims, and surfs, and plays beach volleyball (summer is his favourite season and beach sports reign supreme)

he’s into ALL the dad bands: weezer, radiohead, blur, the cure, oasis, etc. blame kent.

the first song he ever learned on guitar was achy breaky heart by billy ray cyrus tho LOL he started learning to play when he was like 8

his fave song is undone (the sweater song) by weezer but he actually listens to quite a lot of different genres including ska

he just loves music so much no matter what music it is

also a massive video games nerd, generally plays on PC but used to visit Abby and play on her SNES with her and Sebastian all the time as kids

that boy has ADHD but nobody realised it when he was a kid, it’s only now he’s an adult he’s starting to learn actual coping mechanisms for it. I don’t think Jodi would like the idea of him going on meds for it so he probably tries to avoid that, at least in the first few years after he finds out

he always carries round a spare lighter/papers/filters for sebastian because he is deeply in love with him a good friend

he drops his phone like 3x a day, it is SO bashed up but it still works so his parents have given up trying to prevent it. he had one of those military-grade anti-drop cases at one point and managed to break it.

he has a raggedy old friendship bracelet Vincent made for him at school and he never takes it off. that kid means the WORLD to him dude

I think he would really like the movie Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure

[clumsykleptorocketscientist]

The Winchester Family: A Rant

Can I just say that Sheriff Jody Mills was more of a mother to Sam and Dean Winchester more than Mary ever was, even after Amara brought her back. Like I guess no hate to Mary...? But like isn't the whole thing about the Winchesters is that family isn't just blood. They developed wayy closer bonds than the ones with Mary, and I know it isn't necessarily her fault, but she wasn't there. Like I dunno, I just wasn't in love with Mary coming back, especially since when she did come back, it seemed like she saw they were grown up and like, didn't care..? Like it felt like she went "oh my job is done these are just two grown dudes that I gave birth to once." Like I know its a weird situation, but as a person who grew up watching Once Upon a Time, where like almost the same thing happened, with Snow, David, and Emma, I can't help but compare their reactions and Mary just didn't stack up.

Snow and David were so ecstatic to see Emma and tried so hard to make up for lost time and parent her as much as they could. They kept trying even as Emma pushed them away saying she was grown and that her and her parents were technically the same age. Throughout the show they found a way to still be her parents while still acknowledging she was grown. It was really beautiful to see, but in comparison Mary did not stack up.

Yes, she is a badass, and, yes, her identity should not solely surround her being the boys' mother, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't be a mother at all. It would've been nice to see her figure out a way to strike the balance the Snow and David did, and I never got that vibe. In Supernatural, it seemed the opposite. It was Dean and Sam trying to be her sons and she pushed them away for the same reasons. I'm not saying she was a bad person, or even a bad mother, as it was a really weird situation and I can't necessarily blame her for how she dealt with it. What I AM saying, though, is that her name had no right to be carved onto that table. Point. Blank. Period.

Also, by the way, since I'm complaining, that weird episode with the pearl thing that let John Winchester come back so they could have a family dinner?????? As if that could truly be what Dean desired. Are you fucking kidding me. John sucked, made them both feel like shit, abused them, and yet that was the "family dinner" we got. It's been a while since I watched the show, so Idk a timeline, but screw the timeline for a sec. Across the entire show, a true family dinner would be Dean and Cas with their son Jack, Sam as the Uncle with Eileen, Bobby and Jody as the Dean and Sam's parents (because, unlike Mary, I very much feel like Jody struck that balance even though they weren't her actual sons) and Jody's brigade of wayward sisters trailing behind her, Donna as like the step-mother or aunt (Idk how Donna fits, I just LOVE Donna), and Charlie as Sam and Dean's little sister. Jo, Ellen, and Ash pop in with Rufus as those family members that are close, but you can't quite pinpoint how exactly you're related to them. Bonus: Kevin and Linda Tran come over like friendly neighbors because, even though they have a family of their own, the Trans are definitely close to the Winchesters, though, whether they like it or not. As much as I'd like to add Adam (to make up for him being left in the pit), I have a feeling he wouldn't want to. He seemed like a guy who refused to subscribe to the idea that because they were blood, they were family. (Maybe Sam and Dean should've learned a thing or two).

TL;DR:

Sam and Dean had a much bigger, and better, family then just John and Mary, but it was never really acknowledged fully and in the best way.

[fanonical]

so there’s this older tv show i’m into 

(it aired when my parents were babies, it’s very much the kind of thing my granddad watches)

it’s based on true events, and like most stories based on true events, it fictionalises them a bit. characters are either fictional people playing the roles that real people played or are composites of real people

there is one exception to that, though - one character who is directly inspired by one real person. (they have the same name, it’s not subtle.) and the real person was actually a consultant on the show!

but here’s the thing. all of the fictionalised characters are, like, characters. they have quirks and flaws and foibles and political opinions. this guy, however...doesn’t. he’s bland as hell. he has no opinions and is completely neutral on all but the most basic politics. he doesn’t have flaws. he doesn’t have anything. he’s just blandly Heroic. and that’s prooooobably because they didn’t wanna piss off the real person this character was based on

so why is this in the doctor who tag? because that’s how i feel about the thirteenth doctor. poor jodie was trying her best, but thirteen doesn’t have the same kind of distinct identity like the other new who doctors. and i reckon that’s because dear old chibbers didn’t want to be blamed for making the First Female Doctor anything other than blandly likeable, so he didn’t give her a personality

it’s most evident in all the timeless child stuff, where everyone’s spending their time expositing at thirteen while she stands there making a surprised pikachu face. there’s no personality there, it’s all reaction, and not particularly interesting reaction either. and it’s such a waste!

[ironheartcloud]

People have been saying that he is a bad brother and friend, and boyfriend. I'm here to defend him.

Evidence that he is not bad character:

When Teri was "decapitated," in the episode "The Virus," he literally cried and apologized to her for making fun of her, legitimately thinking he just lost a friend.

And sure, Gumball is genuinely dumb, and arrogant, and also pretty snarky. But in the episode, "The Shell," he didn’t care what Penny looked like, which showed that he didn’t just think she was hot. It showed that he genuinely loves her for who she is. In "The Shell," Gumball helps Penny get over her insecurities when she comes out of her shell. He is there to tell her how her appearance does not matter and that he will always love her. After that, Gumball and Penny seem to share a healthy romantic relationship, often spending time together as seen in "The Blame" and "The Misunderstandings." Gumball also occasionally likes to shake things up, as seen in his romantic quest in "The Romantic." Also, Penny trusts Gumball enough to have him babysit her sister Polly in "The Mess," but he ends up getting insulted in the end for almost having Polly get in trouble.

When Rob destroyed his life and took EVERYONE that Gumball loved away from him, including his family and girlfriend, my man lost it. The look on his face when he charged at Rob was that of pure anger. Not only did Rob do all that - as soon as Gumball realized he sent someone with no family or friends to an eternity in limbo (making a stupid quip about it) he IMMEDIATELY decided to save him, even with his OWN life on the line. He could've just fixed everything and allow Rob to remain in limbo but he didn't. And AGAIN; in the Future when they erase Rob - he feels bad and has him painted back, when he didn't have to do that.

He quite literally cried when Idaho was buried by his family after he went into shock. He literally thought he killed his friend after pulling an all-nighter, even though he didn't. He is also shown to value Idaho's happiness when he convinces Darwin to stop eating potatoes for Idaho's sake, despite Darwin's addiction to them. He is horrified when he believes that Darwin has killed Idaho, crying out in grief and refusing to be interrupted in his mourning, and is overjoyed to see Idaho alive.

Then there is his brother, Darwin. The two are often seen together and, thus, are prone to getting into mischief with each other. Through thick and thin, the two seem to have each other's back. Hell, Gumball's love for Darwin is what allowed Darwin to be the way he is in the first place. "The Origins," part one, and part two give more insight into the strength of the two brothers' bonds. Gumball's love for Darwin is so strong that it allowed Darwin to evolve quickly and return home to the family.

Then there is his sister, Anais. Gumball loves his little sister very much and sometimes appears to be very proud of her. Despite her seeming not to reciprocate this love and his occasional snarkiness towards her, Gumball does truly care for her. Gumball is also very protective of his little sister. In "The Pest," Gumball is quick to get into a duel with Billy after he catches him insulting her. Gumball also tries to sabotage her relationship with Jodie in "The Parasite" and even tries to poison Jodie when he believes that Jodie is abusing Anais' social awkwardness. Also, in "The Spoiler," he refuses to take his sister to watch The Screamening with him and Darwin, as its scary premise would traumatize her.

Nicole time, people! Gumball loves his mother very much and looks up to her. Although he does fear his mom's temper, Gumball does legitimately hold his mother up in high regard. In "The Mothers," both he and Darwin are eager to prove to their friends that their mother is the best. In "The Fury," he is blown away by his mother's abilities.

Time for Richard. Richard is Gumball's father, but Gumball sees Richard more as an older brother rather than an actual father figure. Gumball often plays video games with his father, and in general, he can be seen goofing off with his children as opposed to showing any parental authority. Because of this, Gumball fails to take his father seriously. This can be seen in "The Hero," in which he insults his father, believing him to be a joke. This is rectified by the end of the episode, as Gumball rebonds with his father after Richard saves him.

Then there is Carrie, the girlfriend of his brother. Carrie and Gumball are really good and close friends. Although Carrie initially took advantage of the friendship, as seen in "The Ghost," in which she possessed Gumball's body for a junk food spree, the two later become good friends. In episodes such as "Halloween" and "The Flower," Carrie is quick to goof off with Gumball and his brother. "The Scam" also further highlights the mischievous side the two share. In the episode "The Mirror" she came to Gumball's aid when he was cursed by the Snatcher, who is her long-lost father, and Gumball also helped to reunite her with her father.

And that is all the evidence I have... Need I say more... My fingers hurt.

[lol-jackles]

The strike has made a lot of actors share their stories about how difficult and almost impossible is to actually live out of acting. Now I understand why Jensen was so unwilling to let SPN go and how the rest of the cast might hold a grudge with Jared for ending the show to work in another show.

In comparison with most of their colleges, Jensen and Jared had a privilege situation in SPN. The fact that Jared got an even better deal would be hard to watch for some.

https://twitter.com/kimrhodes4real/status/1681380134685917184?t=TX2a6idhIJGitiUClgafqw&s=19

https://twitter.com/kimrhodes4real/status/1680019447875248128?t=fOLZC-I-cO60kXXAV8bZIQ&s=19

Yup, the strike is reminding me why I had to leave the Industry, it wasn't the '80s or '90s anymore. Unemployment is a lifestyle of actors, most working actors have day non-acting jobs and many celebrities have endorsements to help ward off the inevitable leans years in their careers. I used to work in real estate to support myself and my then-wife.

Link and Link. Kim "mathed" and came to "milk the $PN fandom". Now you know why she was upset she wasn't in the finale and lost the chance to further indelibly stamp her character in the impression with the $PN fandom. I still don't understand why Kim thought she could have been in the SPN finale just because Richard Speight said he was going to have Jody in the finale even though he didn’t write nor direct it.  What kind of funny math was Kim smoking??

My post here and here explaining why Kim and co gravitated towards Jensen and yeah, blaming Jared for ending their $PN cash cow. Even from space you can see Jensen didn't want SPN to end and keep it going indefinitely, so Kim and co see Jensen as being on ~their side when he "dreamed" of a post-Sam SPN (in case you didn't crack the code, he was pitching), and why he cooked up the prequel-then-retconned-to-a-sequel spinoff.

I honestly don't begrudge Kim and co for latching onto the $PN ATM fandom, but I would have advised them do it a little differently and know their place.

[medicallymercury]

Tinderbox (30/12/23)

I did end up waking up super early (on accident) and watching this episode but I decided not to post my review until after it had been on TV. I've really got to start getting into writing my essays now cause I have less than two weeks even with the deadline extension but I can manage to spend 12 straight hours thinking about writing it (rotating Casualty in my microwave brain) and not even realise I've done it until my mum's alarm goes off.

Well, it was an episode, wasn't it? Sometimes Casualty gives us masterpieces of television (cough Switzerland) and sometimes Casualty gives us "what the fuck was that?" (cough Too Much, Too Young - that was a very mixed Saturday) and Tinderbox was, at least for me, pretty much in the middle. I guess I wasn't as invested as I could've been cause there wasn’t much of my faves, I'd probably be more positive if we had more of them.

Pretty busy and all over the place episode but that’s to be expected at the start of a miniseries, I guess.

Stevie my beloved, she was great in this one. Elinor Lawless is very talented!! This has got me looking forward to her own storyline even more.

I know Ryan was unpopular but I loved him as a problematic little bitch character. Shows like this sometimes need a Ryan to cause problems for everyone and he served his purpose. Like, he is terrible but it was amusing to have a terrible member of the predominantly very sweet baby nurse quartet. I’ll miss him, honestly. I don’t imagine he’ll come back since there’s a new new (I still think of the baby nurses as new) nurse joining next week.

I made this last night, he didn’t actually die but I still think it’s funny:

I really liked that final shot of Jodie, Rida and Cam together but, to quote my mum as it happened, “I feel like all three of them have wanted Ryan to get beaten up at least once before”.

I love a good family storyline, especially when the family has multiple members in the main cast cause I think it allows for more development of the relationship (gestures wildly at Jan and Teddy), and Max and Jodie were great today. Loved all their interactions. Especially loved their conversation about Max’s kidney failure and especially “I wouldn’t allow it, even if you wanted to.” “Which I don’t.” “Well at least we agree on one thing” and “I’m sorry I’m not what you expected” (!!!!!!!!!!). I think they’re more similar than either of them realises, and I love that kind of dynamic - in both my ‘main fandoms’ my favourite characters are girls whose relationships with their fathers could be described as “I’m nothing like my dad (I’m just acting exactly like him)”. There’s definitely examples of that in this episode but back in Driving Force I remember a scene where Dylan tells them that neither of them should be treating Max’s mum and they both stand there looking at him with the same expression.

I expected that knowing the Teddy infidelity arc will happen would affect how I watch the show and when Paige and Jodie were treating the same patient I was 👁️👁️ the whole time. Whatever, I’ll get over it (hhhhhhh).

Sah was in this but so barely that the credits didn’t actually include Arin, which is weird to me.

I will say I think Casualty has been on weird pacing recently. I’d blame the miniseries format but it feels like there has been some storylines that are too long-running without saying anything new (FAITH) and other ones that get dropped too quickly without enough time to actually go into the ideas they implied were happening.

I think it was a good start to the new series but I would’ve liked them to cut the Faith stuff and have something actually happening with the paramedics instead.

Yes, I know complaining about Faith is beating a dead horse. However, in continuing to write her and this storyline, the writers have invented a dead horse beating machine to keep beating the dead horse perpetually. It goes on endlessly and has absolutely nothing new to say. And while some storylines have been getting these rushed and incomplete conclusions, Casualty had an opportunity to give the Faith storyline a conclusion with her going to rehab and staying there and then they didn’t. Tired of it. Also, not to be mean to the presumably overwhelmed Holby HR department but why would they ask Faith of Drug Theft Fame to come back??? This is why your hospital is like this, your hiring practices are terrible.

[magicaljarofbeans]

Doctor Who is BACK!

I don't remember when I was last actually excited for Doctor who!

It was such a big thing growing up, and I would wait with baited breath for each new episode and I have missed this feeling!

While I don't think the specials were the best episodes of Doctor who, they did feel more like DW than the last few years (I don't blame Jodie, I blame the writing). Although, the Giggle was quite good, a nice above average episode.

I just can't wait to see what Ncuti has to offer. We got to see a bit of him in the last special and I have high hopes. I think the cheekiness, and energy he brings is just what the character needs. I also love how stupid the Christmas special looks. I'm not expecting the most epic DW episode, but I'm sure there will be plenty of goofiness, as is fitting for the Christmas special.

Oh what a time to be a Whovian

[same-name-supremacy]

Im fairly new to this au so im not sure if you have answered this! But can we have everyones reactions after finding out what simons actual behaviour is like (stalking,etc..) ? I genuinly just want to see simon getting absolutely hated on tbh

Well then! Welcome! Hope you enjoy my au! I did answer this but hey! Why not more opinions?!

So all of them were disgusted by his behaviours.

Glenn, Corey and Heath also felt guilt because they didn’t do anything about it, blamed Jody for Simon crying, not yelling at Simon to shut up and grow a backbone

Jody deals with paranoia a lot, she keeps out of the media scene so Simon won’t find her. She keeps her hair short because Simon always grabbed her by the hair when she tried to run away or go stand further away from him. She’s too nervous to grow it out, no matter how much she wants too

Noelle, Jody’s girlfriend, is very concerned for Jody, she doesn’t like that this creep made the girl she loves a paranoid wreck. Noelle does her best to make sure she feels safe, she even tries to encourage her to grow her hair out, since she knows how much she misses it.

Opal and Taylor helped the best they could during their time on World Tour, standing between Jody and Simon, Taylor offered Jody her jacket, when Jody felt uncomfortable in her swimsuit.

Evan becomes Jody’s bodyguard at this point

All the girls did they’re absolute best to keep Jody away from Simon, Alejandra attempts had second motives behind it, but by All Stars she was on board of beat the daylights out of the stalker creep

Lincoln was technically the first to clue into Simon stealing Jody’s stuff when he noticed Jody’s lipstick colour is a different shade or red then the one she usually wore.

Danika our feminist queen would straight up punch or kick Simon every chance she gets

[thefiresofpompeii]

resolution was… watchable. fine. okay. reasonably tolerable tv. chibnall has a real talent for turning even the most exciting potential concepts (an escaped dalek attaching itself to a human and reassembling itself from scratch) into wishy-washy stand-around-a-room-and-talk half-arsed dullness. you couldn’t get me to care for a second about ryan’s deadbeat dad or their out-of-nowhere “reconciliation”. at least if he’d been forced to sacrifice himself at the end and throw himself into the gravity well to get rid of the dalek that would have been satisfying from a narrative standpoint and would have been a point of conflict to drive a wedge between ryan and the doctor, with ryan blaming the doctor for his father’s death and potentially even storming out of the TARDIS in anger only to begrudgingly return much later in the next series out of necessity when disaster strikes, similarly to how martha came back in the middle of s4. i was so sure that he’d end up dying, and if moffat had been writing this he 100% would have, but instead we get chris neoliberal chibnall’s ‘you always have to forgive your parents because they’re family’ bullshit (for what?? what has he ever done for ryan but mistreat him and fuck off when he was at his most vulnerable?)

i liked some of it. the scene where thirteen was taunting the dalek was good ol’ who and reminded me of s1’s dalek, especially with the way it showed just how much death, mass panic, devastation and havoc one singular dalek can wreak. really portrayed it as a formidable enemy again and that was effective. imo thirteen could have been more imposing and commanding in her confrontation (this is always a criticism i have of her and why i’m still adamant that twelve should have regenerated into michelle gomez), maybe jodie’s just incapable of going oncoming storm mode. which is a bit sad, and don’t accuse me of misogyny please, it has nothing to do with her gender

all in all, i miss christmas specials. cultural christianity sucks but if you’re gonna feature the new year actually do something with it other than “ooh the time vortex looks like fireworks”. the tv movie did more with the new year than your new year’s special, chris.

[toonbly]

actually wait i let the glenn and morgan thing simmer with me a bit and this kind of rules actually. like from a character standpoint for jodie anyway

like judging by the timeline, which like. from my guess its that morgan had a similar crisis that jodie has been for Years now abt how all the timeline bullshittery basically made their entire lives a lie, broke it off with him as a result, started adventuring with glenn as a kind of "fuck it lets go out and fight demons so i can take out all my emotions on them" sort of thing, they fell in love again over that period of time, meanwhile jodie was dating scam and after they had hermie scam ran off with hermie, leaving jodie alone in this Crisis he's having unable to connect with either of his families.

like. to me it kinda feels like jodie is rebounding onto morgan and blaming glenn for his problems. theyve never gotten along and glenn losing the trial in s1 caused the whole timeline shift in the first place. im not saying it IS glenns fault but you could totally see how jodie would think that, esp after glenn and morgan fall in love again. and right when he feels safe and secure and is ready to have a family he can more easily connect with, one he can say with Certainty is his, his partner steals their kid and runs away with him. he's probably trying to "get morgan back" now because he's desperately trying to cling to a time where everything was safe and normal and happy back on earth.

like this is probably not actually that deep and if this never gets addressed in podcast i WILL sound insane but you get me right. you get me. you understand.