Man, two shows that were terribly underrated that I finally got a chance to see :
-Scavenger's Reign
- Blue-Eye Samurai
Both incredibly good, exceptional story and very human characters, incredible art, thought provoking messages, symbolism, and dialogue. Excellent queen rep in both. Why aren't more of ya'll taking about it XD
Especially if you are following me for Fallout reasons, go check out Scavenger's Reign. You will not regret it.
Currently watching the warp effect since it's been on my list since forever and omg I love it??? Which I didn't think I would for some reason. But it's very queer? And even the straights are interesting?????
I briefly considered a roleswap AU where Cora is the one to be enslaved by the Celestial Dragons and get horribly mistreated by them but then I realized it would be over in five minutes bc if Law saw that he would literally burn Mary Geoise to the ground with ZERO hesitation whatsoever
can we PLEASE bring Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog back?? someone needs to introduce the newest generation of weirdos to Dr. Horrible. it's got a lovesick mad scientist antihero, NPH pretending to be straight yet again, musical theater, cheap practical effects, an ending -- what more could a Tumblr user want??
the way my mind works is musing over how Eleven never mentions River's name again onscreen (apparently he kept on mentioning her to Clara as 'Professor Song') while planning an edit because earlier today, I encountered a River hater gloating over how the Doctor moved on so quickly from River because he never mentioned her again and that she's not that important because the Doctor didn't spend billions of years (relative) trying to get her back after having a conversation with @croxxbunx over Eleven not mentioning River in series 7b after she sent this reel to wondering whether Twelve had done the same post-Darillium to dropping my edit planning because I wanted to continue my series 10 watch. After all, I wanted to know whether Twelve made any River namedrop other than that one deleted scene in Thin Ice. oh wait no that's not a River namedrop.
anyways...
YOUR NAME
Your name is something
I will never forget.
The way it made me smile
when I would say it.
Now I can't even bear
to say it without
a tear coming
down my eye
or the thought of
me never finding
another you ever again.
It's like a spell that won't cast.
It's the curse of me never saying it again.
anatomy of a broken soul - sehejspoetry
I've seen much hate (or glee) over Eleven not even talking about or mentioning River throughout series 7b. But then I recall Clara telling River that the Doctor mentioned her as 'Professor Song'. I also remember the moments that River is alluded to throughout series 7b. And those three minutes~ish in TNOTD where we get the most romantic DoctorRiver scene in the history of evers where the Doctor tells River that she is always there to him, and he always listens, and he can always see her.
The reason he didn't speak to her, didn't say her name, didn't tell Clara who she was to him, was because he thought it would hurt too much.
And he was right.
River may have already experienced Darillium with Twelve, but from Eleven's POV, he genuinely believed that his time with River had run its course.
When I lost a dear family member about a decade ago, it took me years before I was able to say her name out loud again. I just realized it now after ruminating on the Doctor's grief and their reticence of mentioning River or saying her name.
It's not because they've moved on fairly quickly even though that seems to be the general consensus. As the poem above aptly described, it is the profound pain and fear the Doctor feels over the probability of never seeing their wife ever again. I only had less than half a decade's worth of memories with my loved one, but it physically pained me to utter her name out loud, even a mere whisper. Now think about the Doctor, who had decades upon decades worth of memories with River Song. How much more would it pain them?