3 am but i needed to post….i foresaw this in a dream (my friend sent me the meme a few minutes ago)
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really love how throughout a lot of smith and jones martha is really skeptical and apprehensive towards ten (+ one of my favorite exchanges between them - "what, people call you 'the doctor'?" "yeah?" "well, i'm not. far as i'm concerned, you've got to earn that title."), not taking everything he says at face value, even doubting the fact he's an alien until over halfway through the episode.. And like. i really truly think the thing that wins her over isn't him kissing her or any of the other insane mixed messages he manages to send, it's this scene here, where he /earns that title/ in her eyes:
(+ david's bit in the commentary, where he says: "[the doctor] has actually sacrificed himself, and - i would say, that that final act of selflessness is what finally, eventually, welds martha to him. [...] and she now returns it. she returns that act of selflessness.")
this is what their relationship is built on. it isn't about martha being the second-best replacement to rose or a rebound or whatever. bc it isn't really about rose. it's about doctor-in-training martha meeting someone (quite literally, "the doctor") whose ideals she aspires to, and doing her best to be the same person to him as he is to everyone else. it's about ten in return admiring her intelligence and inquisitiveness and how she cares for human life, recovering his compassion, letting himself lean on her for support - and then remembering at the most inopportune moments that he's supposed to not need anyone and be on his own forever. And around in their little nightmare loop they go where they save each other over and over until one of them breaks
i've seen ppl look at martha and go "why she does she admire/why is she so in love with ten if he acts like that to her?" or something along those lines and like. it's not just the fact she's in love with him (in fact i'd argue she actively tries to push it aside post-gridlock). it's the fact that she knows he's the kind of person to put everyone else's lives/well-being over his own. she trusts him to save her when she's in trouble even though it's been like two days at most that they've known one another bc she recognizes that same "deep all-encompassing drive to help others" in him. and she also recognizes, much much earlier than him, that he needs someone to save him, especially when he's unwilling to save himself. and yeah for a bit she thinks he returns her feelings and is just playing hard-to-get, but she realizes pretty early on that this probably isn't the case, and i think that realization fully solidifies here:
(this is when she's listening to ten talk abt gallifrey). And idk it might just be me but i think this expression isn't just her empathizing with his loss. it's also guilt, for wanting something from him that he's clearly unable to give when he's wracked with so much grief. (and you see it in the next episode, where tallulah asks if they're together and martha says for certain that they're not, and that he doesn't know about her feelings for him. she keeps everything to herself bc she now knows that when he shut her flirting down at the end of 3x01 it was the genuine reaction of someone who a) isn't interested and b) is scared of getting close with someone else again)
freema described their dynamic as "she's keener than him" and i think about this all the time. martha doesn't really take what ten throws at her. what she does instead is constantly poke holes in his already-failing front of "i will show someone the wonders of the universe so i can ignore what is wrong with me". what she does is stand up and fight him when he tries to go off on his own. what she does is put aside her well-being in favor of helping someone - just like what she saw him do for the people in the hospital when they first met. tldr, that's the doctor and his doctor and rip martha you would've loved who's gonna save u now by rina sawayama
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“I’m always doing what I think I should, almost always doing everybody good”
been listening to a lot of fiona apple lately and have been losing my mind over when the pawn. my brain is drawing conclusions, ideas are spawning in my head, and traffic!impulse is at the center of the saturated red hurricane
anyways please listen to when the pawn it’s so him core and I’m not normal about it
reference!! fiona apple the woman you are <3
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Not me making a s/i for a game that I'm probably not even gonna play myself 😭🙏 here it is folks some simple ref of my bg3 tav!
She's a half-elf Paladin and a follower of Oghma, the God of Knowledge, with a sage background ♡ she's got an insatiable and somewhat macabre curiosity that leads her to explore things that are sometimes considered a bit disturbing but she finds fascinating! She has a bit of a manic edge that can make her seem a bit inconsiderate at times because she talks faster than she can think, but she means well and is very sweet! And of course she's catching feelings for a certain someone 😊
♡taglist♡: @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @changeling-selfship @crushes-georg @squips-ship @drjohndisco @adoredbyalatus
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Wanted to draw some spamtons together :^) What are they talking about!!!
(Surprise gifts for @insulationsun and @cupidtxt !!)
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Anyway Link’s memory about Grant tucking him in and saying “I love you every day” is the only thing I will think about forever I think. That’s all I have to say about this episode
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Okay but y’all know when a group has to go undercover and bid in an auction to get some sort of rare artifact so it doesn’t get bought by the antagonist(s)?
That but with the ninja.
Zane goes all in on disguises after researching what group or auction they’re infiltrating, and Jay aids in their costuming adventures. They are hair, makeup, costumes, and also the best actors.
Lloyd and Cole are doing dreadful accents that somehow are believed by the guards.
Kai and Nya are the ones handling the ninja’s bid, having had experience with bartering and auctions as kids. (The other ninja still chime in though because SHOUTING!! FUN!!!)
But my favorite part about this and what prompted me to make this post is the idea that the ninja are being cautious because they’re actually going to use their own money and resources to buy this artifact. They don't really know how much they have, but they definitely don't want to get the artifact and suddenly not have enough money to buy groceries.
They’re about to lose the auction, but then WU shows up and bids at an outrageously high price that wins them the artifact.
The ninja ask him about it and he just raises an eyebrow. “You do know I have quite the large inheritance? My father literally created Ninjago. How do you think I pay for your gis, your mechs, the constant monastery repairs, your video games-"
"Actually," Jay pipes up. "We pay for those with the money we make from merch sales."
Et cetera, et cetera.
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