Just finished Time Bastard and I can’t get over how Ted and Pete’s romantic arcs parallel each other but their fates are polar opposites.
Like, they both fall for girls who they see as ‘too good’ for them, and they’re both challenged with accepting themselves as they are. The difference is Ted changes himself to be loved by Jenny, but that’s what drives her away and gets her killed. Pete, on the other hand, accepts who he is and refuses to change who he is just so he’s ‘good enough’ for Steph, and that authenticity was what made Steph fall for him in the first place.
Ted inadvertently ruins his life because he couldn’t accept himself, but Pete’s self-acceptance helps him get the girl (and low key saves his life, but that’s just a theory, A FILM THEORY)
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Things I can't stop thinking about from Steven and Vicki's Tales of the TARDIS episode
- This reunion. Seeing them together again kills me anyway, but when you look at the context of the last time they saw each other, both of them could have easily thought the other might be dead. The last Vicki saw of Steven he was bleeding out and slipping away from consciousness, and to Steven he woke up to learn that they'd left Vicki in a city that was being razed to the ground and its inhabitants slaughtered. There wasn’t a proper goodbye and neither could have known for sure whether the other had survived. These are two people who must have spent decades of their lives just hoping and praying that the other was okay.
They take each other's presence in like it’s a miracle. I don’t know if they intentionally wrote/acted this with that particular context of their last time together in mind, but nevertheless it can very easily be read that way since their reactions lend themselves to it so well.
- ^ In particular, Steven’s voice breaks in a way that absolutely destroys me.
- Is this girlish giggling not the most Vicki thing you’ve ever seen?
- There are certain moments that just really hit as, ‘This is them.’ I mean, look at her. That’s Vicki. It keeps blowing my mind.
- Steven is SO happy to see her again, oh my word. “I’ve got my little sister back!” is gonna live in my mind for the rest of my life. To have that dynamic acknowledged in those words and to see how much they love each other kills me. Look at this unreserved fluff. This means the world to me.
- Hearing that they’ve had wonderfully happy lives is so nice. Vicki could have been dealing with all kinds of turmoil given the time she chose to stay in, and with Steven’s luck he could have had literally anything happen to him, like Big Finish decided to do. I’m so glad they’ve been given full and happy lives onscreen, that Vicki has done so well in such a wildly different time and that Steven’s bad luck curse is finally broken. (The trauma curse is broken at least — it’s too much of a stretch for me to believe that he wouldn’t still have mundane bad luck lol.)
- Someone needs to either sue Peter for these faces or give him an award. There is so much emotion going on here and I can barely handle it. And knowing how much Peter truly loved this show and his time on it, I get the feeling some of this is real for him.
- “Vicki, this might not be his TARDIS. I mean, can you imagine the Doctor wearing something like this?” Well I’m sure as heck imagining it now! Someone PLEASE make fan art of One in Six’s coat.
- Their reverence for the Doctor’s pocket watch. Vicki is so happy and clutches it with joy and Steven stares at it and strokes it for a good minute. 💗
- Love having some skeptical Steven wondering if it could be a trap and warning Vicki to be careful. His older brother mode got reactivated so fast. And, “Don’t be such a spoilsport!” is so delightfully Vicki.
- Space helmet for a cow!!!
- “Well, it had been a busy week.” Lol, more like a busy (or not so busy) 2 years on Mechanus! You’re more than excused!
- I know it was naturally gonna happen because they’re going over The Time Meddler but I love the references to the Monk, and I love that we also get a subtle reference to The Daleks’ Master Plan out of it.
- Another one of those moments that just strikes you. Look at him.
- “He rescued me. I was an orphan and he became my family. I became the granddaughter he’d lost.” 😭
- Vicki’s little, “Come out, come out, wherever you are!” dance is so perfectly Vicki. It warms my heart how well-characterized they both are here.
- Anyone else see this and immediately start crying thinking about her putting her hands over her eyes in The Chase? Just me?
- Steven’s face when he agrees with her about wishing more than anything to see the Doctor again. I love his relationship with the Doctor so much, it kills me to see him emotional about it, to see how much he still loves him after all this time. But on top of it, once again I feel like there’s some genuine Peter in here who misses Bill. You can see in a lot of interviews, panels, commentaries and so on that Peter really truly cared about Bill as his friend and is still protective over him as a person and his character. When Steven makes this face in agreement about wishing he could just see the Doctor again, I feel something else very real in it.
- Look at them. Just look at them. No further comment.
- Vicki’s face hearing the Doctor’s laugh is my face.
I still haven’t been able to get through this without crying at his laugh. I don’t really have the words for how magical and touching it is that they included him in that way. It tugs on my heartstrings so hard.
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Okay I’m supposed to be writing my riddler server gift exchange. But instead I’ve been working on a JayTim piece that I started after going clubbing last weekend. And I’m so close to finishing it but then I saw a prompt on here that inspired another JayTim piece.
So thoughts so that I can hopefully get them onto paper and actually post something coherent:
Tim raised as a sacrifice. Like literally. He’s been raised so that the village can sacrifice him when he’s 17 to the local god of the harvest
Dick is training as a priest and every 18 years they make this sacrifice and this year it’s his turn to complete the rights. But he messes up the pronunciation and accidentally sends Tim’s soul to another deity, not the harvest god who expects a virgin sacrifice so that the town’s crops are good.
No he sends Tim’s soul to a newer deity, the patron god of the lost and hurt. Jason. Who died only a year or so ago but had been granted godhood.
Jason is very surprised when this man in white shows up literally in his bed chamber. Like ????? Hello????
Tim is also confused, because he had never expected the old god to be handsome, nor had he expected him to not be touching him??? Like Tim was ready, this was literally what he was raised for. To die and then be an old god’s bride.
Jason is very confused and after a very upsetting conversation he realises what has happened.
“So… you’re not going to make my town’s harvest good and now my people are going to die and my parents will live in shame?”
“No, no I am not. But! I can get you to the old man’s home and maybe we can fix this before anything happens?”
Cue them travelling to the harvest god through the other world. But on their journey Jason starts to fall for this mortal and his sense of duty. Realising that he had been alone for so long and now there’s someone who’s so dedicated to duty and pretty and funny and oh shit maybe I’m in love with him??? But he’s supposed to be marrying the old god and I can’t let him fail his mission because he would be sad.
Tim just wants to do what’s right. But Jason is really nice and the god takes care of him and has a killer smile and fuck he has to complete the ritual to help his town and keep his family’s pride. But Jason is sweet and amazing.
Not sure where this goes but they do end up together because I want a happy ending
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I keep thinking about this discussion I was watching the other day where two people were talking about tattoos and how people say younger people shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos because "they might regret them later."
One of the people spoke up and said something along the lines of that if she got a tattoo when they were younger and regretted it later, they didn't think that meant they shouldn't have been allowed to get the tattoo.
Because her younger self deserved the right to get that tattoo and enjoy it, even if they didn't like it 100 evolutions of character later. Their younger self still deserved the right to make that choice, just like her [insert age] self deserves the right to get tattoos their 90 year old self would despise. It would be a disrespect to claim otherwise.
Your younger self deserved the right to your body just as much as you do now, even if you don't like or agree with what they did with it.
What a beautiful mentality that applies to so many things.
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