#episode eleven

[loid-a-day]

Loid a day☆

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on sacrifice and activism - the eclipse

the eclipse meta - ep 11

I really like how this show’s portrayed and shown so many ways to achieve change through all the characters, and I don’t think it makes a point that one is less valid than the other.

Instead, it demonstrates how they are all interlinked and need each other to gain the momentum needed to have an actual effect, and carry the change-makers through it as well.

Thua’s recent break through is badass and ruthless and surely effective, but only Ayan’s approach and support for Akk makes it have that happy ending inside that strong group of friends that we are seeing.

I mean, Thua is willing to sacrifice. Himself, his career, Akk to an extent, maybe even his chance on a relationship with Kan.

He can only be this effective in his ruthless plan because he switches off his compassion for individuals, including himself, for the greater good, and the welfare of future and younger generations of students as he says.

I’d like to think he could choose to do so, because he could trust in the strength of his friends, as well as the support system that Aye has become to Akk.

Because Thua can sacrifice himself, but could he have for example sacrificed Kan if he were in Akk’s stead, and Thua was the boyfriend seeing how unstable and guilt-ridden and mentally fragile his partner currently was? And should he have to?

Could he really sacrifice Akk like this if he’d seen Akk like Ayan has seen him, at a very vulnerable point right now? Could he have lived with a sacrifice if that sacrifice was maybe Akk’s life? The point is he is not in Aye’s situation and only because of that he can do what he can do.

Ayan chooses compassion over absolute truth for the time being, he chooses the human in front of him and shelves radical change until that human is ready to carry the load of his responsibilities himself; because as he has experienced, it would cost too much, to force too much on someone in a vulnerable state.

Change is carried by humans, concrete and living, not abstract ideals; as is the cost of change, carried by humans alone.

So no, I don’t think Ayan was ever trying to hide or cover up the truth, it was just more important to him, that the involved got out on the other side as safe and sound as possible, so he gave Akk time and support, but never excuses or absolution from mistakes. Just fresh chances.

And on this base of mental support Thua could launch his strike and not have it cost too much of a sacrifice on his hands, as for example, a human life.

Change needs the ruthless without compromise, to really get moving, even though it hurts, but it needs the protectors as well, who support with a compassionate approach and care for the ones crushed inside the machine of change and resistance.

Because what would change be, if the most vulnerable would not be there afterwards to live it?

Activism has many faces and they are all needed and valid and important: the marginalized protestors risking it all because they need and deserve the change they fight for, the caregivers and emotional supporters caring for the humans behind the great deeds and stances, the ruthless who can make the hard choices, the ones who choose compassion over ruthlessness at times but still uphold their ideals and integrity, the ones documenting the truths of the activists and giving them a platform, the ones that push, the ones that heal and soothe, the changed minds dealing death blows from within a crumbling system, the ones powering through and enduring and growing in the wake of the momentary destruction change must be to allow something new.

They are all represented in this show and in the existence of the material itself, the show is its own form of meta commentary and catalyst in shaping, sharpening minds and soothing them too.

[whosbian]

[cuepickle]

If stranger things was a comic (and I was the artist)

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

[expelliarmus]

[demigodofhoolemere]

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?!

[nicollekidman]

twelve's introductory episode landing on not my friend, not my boyfriend, but a third worse thing dynamic and it only gets crazier from here.....

[pichichustudios]

Plot of the Ina Galaxy 💀

[lonelyzarquon]

THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES | Death of the Doctor

[respectthepetty]

FUCK!

[fighting-naturalist]

"I beg of you to show mercy."

[aflawedfashion]

Doctor Who 6x06

[y3lise]

Sorry @randomnumber20 once again I erased Someoka's buzz cut... 😔

[thinkdoctorriver]

a couple that gasps together stays together