it’s also baffling to me that tumblr, home of the ‘why are white men Still being cast as the doctor’ for So many years now (For you know, like over a decade.) is somehow not appalled that they hired a white dude to be the next Doctor because look okay it’s okay if it’s This white man.
I mean, I do not consent to acknowledge that they’ve shoved him in there under any circumstance, but my Only need for the casting of the next person was that it was Not a white man, otherwise i didn’t care who it was, so when they “announced” Gatwa I was satisfied (i am hesitant to say they announced it bc it was more like a tiny footnote than an announcement, oh the disrespect) and it took a whole seven days (it was literally seven days. Yes i counted. it was easy since it was only seven days) it was ‘actually sorry no it’s this white dude we’ve already had before did we forget to mention that???’ and it’s steadily gotten worse and worse.
That This site of all places is not up in arms about both the situation and how it specifically played out is depressing, but also massively and darkly hilarious.
Especially since i Also remember nobody on this site thought casting Whittaker was good enough but literally going backward to a previous white man is?? This is not even a metaphor about diversity getting worse, they literally looked backwards.
But, yeah, tenn/ant with the ‘what the future looks like’ headline is uh... Good???? Not super worrying and ominous?
I feel like i’ve been dumped in some weird parallel universe by reactions to all of this on here like??? the whole way this was done was appalling, the situation is appalling, but i guess the bbc/disney should get a rousing round of applause for accurately judging that nobody would care about their poor actions if the specific white guy they cast was popular enough that next to nobody would care.
( and to the ‘it’s an anniversary ep’ thing, they legit could have just set a couple of eps in the past. i don’t mean they travel to the past. i mean just say ‘hey this ep is set during s4!’ and nobody would care. this show does weirder stuff than this every second episode. and it would still be bad, but how they did it is so much Worse.)
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people can say what they like about mockumentaries, but that thing where a character we haven't seen in 2 seasons shows up and we cut to a confessional explaining who they are and showing us the last time they were on the programme slaps. undefeated.
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im also floridian. this weather is too suspicious its not meant to be winter weather in march! summer will kill us all
It’s starting to heat up. But then it’s going down again?
LOWS IN THE 60S AT THIS TIME OF YEAR IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD..? That ain’t right. No. It can’t be. No way.
It’s going to be a constant 102* in June-September because nice things aren’t allowed here and we must suffer. We’re supposed to get our designated 2 weeks of nice weather randomly in dec-feb and THATS IT. We have been too greedy. The end is coming.
*for non swamp dwellers, the actual temp stays between 80-95 mostly, but humidity makes it feel like you’re being steamed alive. Which is fun! (government mandated propaganda)
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there's this...thing...that happens to me a non zero amount lately where like I will say something along the lines of, "I think X would be a reasonable expectation, I would certainly never consider doing less than that for someone"
and someone will respond to me like "yes but you're a special case" and like. make a thing about how I'm Unusually Nice or Unusually Thoughtful and generally Unusual.
and idk that pisses me off a bit and I don't know how fair that is. to me it feels like an abdication of responsibility. to be like, 'well YOU would do the nice thing but that's because you're a Special Kind Of Person, nobody ELSE should be expected to do the nice thing'
yes they should!!!!! if we agree it's the decent thing to do to eg stop and take a breath and think about the other person's perspective!!!! I'm not a Special Super Nice Guy for thinking about what other people need or where they're coming from!!!!! I'm literally just a Guy and You Can Too!!!!!!
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Listen listen listen
I have to tell this to someone before I explode out of my bloody skin
Apparently my grandmother is upset at my grandfather for something stupid he said - the usual, really - and she called me to complain, as one does
We were having a normal ass conversation when the following happens:
Grandma: "Men are useless. They are only good to open jars and carry groceries."
Me: "What men? Grandpa doesn't have strenght in his hands since the surgery and every time we go grocery shopping he stays in the car. I'm the one that opens your jars and carries your groceries!"
Grandma: "Precisely! You're the only man I need."
Ma'am, whatever came over you to validate my gender on this friday afternoon? 😭 She called me fucking "son" for the first time ever before she ended the fucking call. I don't know what's happening behind those big brown eyes of hers, but I'm experiencing a type of gender euphoria I never felt in my fucking existence
That mixed with the bloody fever I'm nursing atm cannot be good for my health
If ya'll need me I'll be trying not to fucking cry again while I watch Young Royals
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