#has just opened the floodgates

[dayurno]

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

[valfeathers]

if you draw masky i will kiss you on the mouth

goodness gracious

[nalt0r]

Anyways the new era of DW is the most “woke” (/pos) franchise media I’ve ever seen. In 6 episodes it’s been established that:

Doctor is gay

Donna gas a trans daughter, would commit murder to protect said daughter

Doctor has a discussion about assuming pronouns

Isaac Newton played by a person of color

UNIT’s scientific advisor is an ambulatory wheelchair user

The doctor gets killed by a universe breaking deity who takes the form of Neil Patrick Harris acting fruity

Doctor decides Donna’s daughter is his niece now

Doctor is a new guy but he’s still gay and he’s black now

The new companion and him bond over being adopted

The doctor goes on a pro-choice allegory adventure

The new companion’s best friend is a different trans woman, trans woman is shown as lead singer of a band

The Doctor meets another evil deity, this time taking the form of a genderqueer drag queen who represents the evils of corporations hoarding music copyrights

The word “lesbian” is used for possibly the first time in the shows history, referring to the aforementioned trans singer

[silverskye13]

What if I finished another chapter of Redstone and Skulk tomorrow? What if that happened?

[roychewtoy]

shots from simons flickr account

[doverstar]

reading your posts about your time watching doctor who reminded me of the first time i discovered doctor who, mainly, the eleventh doctor. i was going through such a tough time, and one day i just decided to watch doctor who to see what all of the fuss was about and started 'the eleventh hour.' it was pure magic to me. everyone has their doctor, and matt smith will always be mine. he was great! i loved how eccentric and warm he could be. i loved how he was just so sweet and kind to all of his companions, and i loved that undercurrent of darkness that was always bubbling under the surface of his character. matt smith was brilliant and i really, really wish they'd bring him back as the doctor in some way. i miss him so.

I so enjoy your blog and I was delighted to get this in my inbox. I loved reading this and picturing how you discovered the show; if anyone else wants to share their own DW experience with me, please take this as a sign! Commiserating over loving and missing the Doctor, feeling like he really is your friend (silly but true), is very cathartic to me. Nine was my first, and so was Rose. I didn't know anything about the show at all when I started in that basement bedroom, went in completely blind. I know what you mean by pure magic! I thought Christopher Eccleston would be the Doctor forever, and I was totally in love with him. I thought he was the reason everyone loved the show (I hadn't even seen Matt Smith's face yet, that's how in the dark I was at the time!). When he changed into David Tennant, I'll never forget how strong my feelings were. The revulsion and despair were huge. I was a lil teenager wrapped up in a zebra-patterned blanket downstairs, outraged that the 40-something with the big ears had transformed into hot young hair man. When Harriet Jones pleaded for the Doctor's help and Rose started crying in the kitchen, I was a mess. No television show that I can recall inspired in me such realistic emotions before Doctor Who, not like that! It took me so long to get used to Ten, and even now I still look at him and remember how hard it was to get used to him. Felt like someone had forced me to move homes or something. And when I finally got caught up to the show on live television, Matt Smith was finishing off his first season, and oh, he was so easy to love. Even as an adult now, his variation feels so safe. I love everything about him, the childish energy, the old man movement, the rhyming way he talks, and when he's angry, he reminds me of Eccleston. I'm like, That's him! That's the Doctor! I rewatch that era for Matt alone. When Clara looks at him regenerating and whispers "Please don't change," I cry every time. She's right. We were all saying it. Also reading your I miss him so totally made me stop and actually get emotional too - that says it all about the Doctor, about that time in my life (yours too, sounds like!) Eccleston to Smith. I miss him so.

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

[windienine]

please understand that while loïc was not strictly constructed in a lab for anyone but his creator, i sometimes reopen soulsov just to look at his sprites some more

[d0d0-b0i]

it’s weird how much lighter my life feels now. not that i don’t have any issues (because there are many in my life, as i am sure there are in yours), but they’re just so much more manageable than they were a year ago.

​what’s more; i love myself now. i may not be perfect. but i am trying my best, and i can tell that i am! i see myself in the mirror, and sometimes i just examine myself, and my features, and i smile. i feel so much more authentic when talking to people, not worrying about how they view me, because i don’t have to anymore. i wish i could’ve told 15-year old me just how good it’s gotten so far, i know that he would’ve loved hearing about the shitty sideburns we’re growing out right now :’)

[omarwolaeth]

thinking 'bout how the lads interact with what the bracelets represent, especially in their decks

[sysig]

Oh getting very close now, villainy feels right around the corner (Patreon)

[ebbpettier]

HAPPY WEDNESDAY. IT IS RAINING SO HARD. @artsyunderstudy @rimeswithpurple thank you for the tags!

i have reached a point where i'm not actually super sure what excerpts i've already posted. if i start churning out repeats, blame it on The Curses and pretend you haven't seen it oTL

Then he lunged, all teeth. Fuck that. (Everything about that.)

Running’s easier if I don’t think about it too hard, so I don’t. I tear across the grounds as fast as I bloody can, out of the woods and away from Baz’s sea of shining incisors. I don’t even notice that I’m not covered in viscera anymore until I make it to the foot of Mummer’s, but I figure it must have vanished with my clothes. The smell lingers. Thank Magic it still lets me in, I don’t know what I’d do if I had to go straight to the Mage’s office right now. I’m starkers and I haven’t got my wand, even if I could think up a way to communicate. Or even get his attention; the Mage hates cats.

@shrekgogurt @ivelovedhimthroughworse @stitchyqueer @mangorumpuscandyfactory TAG YOU'RE IT

[harrylights]

do u ever wish u could go back to the first time u heard sott

[fastfists]

Which Rage Language Are You

step back usually, you're able to bottle up your emotions and ignore the frustrations. but, after weeks of shoving everything down, your body needs a release, and i pity the poor person who managed to piss you off. it's screaming crying, shouting, kicking lockers, whatever you can do to get it out of your system. it's a whole jean grey moment, fire and fury blasting out of you.

[plantb0t]

It's so funny how I spent the entirety of stormblood, all the way up til shadowbringers planning for zeynha and aymeric to get together. In my mind at this point they'd gone on dates. Multiple of them. And then I got to shadowbringers and completely forgot all about that in favor of shipping zeynha with urianger. I wrote ship stuff for them and just totally forgot about it. I'm sorry aymeric

[forter-from-meteos]

painting! i forgot how much i love painting