#reproaches

[mordacitatis]

the NBC live update with Nancy Pelosi's comments is my favorite piece of news to come out of today

the amount of lifting that last line is doing for the entire article

[tom4jc]

March 26, 2023 Verse Of The Day

[superbdonutpoetry]

Circumstances and Situations

Where many still have a covenant mentality: they let the world’s circumstances and situations, define the Bible for them. But we are not under the circumstances of this world, rather, we operate despite them – work through them. We are not in a covenant relationship with God today, as a covenant relationship speaks to circumstances. The things happening in the world today, are happening…

[taishaunas]

wlwpride23 ☆ favorite non canon ship ≡ eleanor & drea (do revenge)

[nikoisme]

Yes Troy (2004) is shit,, but they were so real for having Hector hug Helen

[nesiacha]

"I am 92 years old. There is not a single act in my life that I regret, except for having misunderstood Robespierre and having taken a citizen for a tyrant." Marc Alexis Guillaume Vadier

[lesharl-eclair]

talking f1 rivalries with alain prost! [2021]

[thirdeyeblue]

“Nine would have treated Martha better than Ten did”

I need to talk about this argument that never seems to stop circulating.

Note: Not a venomous/anti post. There’s more than enough of that across fandom spaces as is, and this is supposed to be a place for ✨sweet, blissful escapism✨

When making this argument, people seem to envision a scenario in which Nine never met Rose.

While I can appreciate a good hypothetical, recognizing Rose's significance to the Doctor (Nine and Ten) is essential to understanding why things with Martha played out the way they did in the first place.

In the third series, the Doctor is grieving. This grief is deliberately threaded into nearly every script, whether spoken aloud or not (and these are just a few examples):

He's burning in Rose’s wake the entire time Martha travels with him, which is why it’s so frequently called upon: It’s 100% deliberate in framing his grief. He grieved as Nine too, of course— having been fresh on the heels of the Time War — but then he met Rose, which changed everything.

Back then, he was still a rude, traumatized pain in the ass, but we watch Rose soften more of those jagged edges with every episode as they grow closer; as he lets his guard down and forms a deep connection with her.

He falls in love (against his better judgment) and it's game over.

And yes: provided S1E1 had been titled 'Martha', one can realistically assume things might have unfolded similarly to how they did with Rose. However, it wouldn’t have been that way just because the Doctor was Nine and “Nine was different” — it would be because he wasn’t already in love with someone else. The same can't be said for the start of S3.

Think of it like this: if Rose AND Martha had been in that cellar — if Nine had taken both of them along with him in S1 — we’d eventually be looking at the most melodramatic love triangle ever, what with him living in close quarters with two brilliant, gorgeous, compassionate young women... But Doctor Who is plenty “soap opera” as is with just one woman in the TARDIS.

(I certainly wouldn’t object to reading that fic, though)

Now, regarding the unrequited elephant in the room…

His inability to be romantic with Martha isn’t because he thinks her lesser, nor is it for lack of compatibility. It isn't because Rose is any better than her. It certainly isn’t just because he’s Ten.

It’s really only for one reason, which can't be denied — and now I’m a broken record:

He is still in love with Rose.

(cut from a tenrosedaily gif)

Nine is Ten, and Ten is only such a mess in S3 because he’s just lost the love of his life. Martha merely got caught in the crosshairs of a volatile Time Lord in mourning, and yes — it sucks. Absolutely.

But it also feels dismissive to chalk Ten and Martha’s relationship up to little more than some sort of mindless dance of pining, jealousy, and toxicity.

Ten trusted Martha with his life over and over again — and hers, with him. He constantly praised her brilliance, happily carting her around time and space with no intention of letting her go. In the BBC’s extended universe of novels/comics/cartoons/etc, there’s so much depth to their relationship: love and trust and trauma and sacrifice. They had their own special bond as mates, their own complexities — so it’s a bummer that it's forever overshadowed by the other things.

I’m not denying that there was a lot of stuff that sucked/was for sure toxic about Ten's S3 behavior, but so many of the things I've seen him catching flak for can be directly attributed to being A Clueless Fucking Alien Idiot (not a trait that’s unique to Ten) — as well as his flat-out obliviousness to Martha’s feelings.

So yes, I agree: if Rose never existed, he would have treated Martha differently as Nine. He also would have treated her differently as Ten. Certainly.

But Rose did exist, and when discussing canon, it matters.

“He tells me that he absolutely, 100% loves Rose... He tells me how my daughter; my wonderful, beautiful, clever little girl saved him from himself before… And he says that’s all because of me! I made her into the Rose Tyler that saved him.”

-Jackie Tyler, Flight Into Hull!

Martha got the short end of the stick in S3. She came round at the wrong place and time, but that doesn't mean it was all bad. It doesn't mean the Doctor didn’t adore her. It certainly doesn't mean the time they spent together was wasted or worthless. They were brilliant!

Sure, he could be a twat, but let it be known that he was a twat with Rose as well, both as Nine and Ten. I’m sure Tentoo can be plenty infuriating, too. So while I'll defend Ten (and Tentoo) into the ground forever and ever and ever, I'll concede that he's fucked up.

The Doctor is a certified Pain In The Ass. It’s one of the things I love so much about this character — dynamics.

But never forget that Martha was goddamn tough as nails and overcame every bit of it. She moved on with her life, and the Doctor moved on with his. One can only pray that, when they inevitably drag her back onto the show (which feels inevitable if I'm honest), we see at once that she's been living her best life for all these years.

[fadeintoyou1993]

RIVERDALE (2017—2023) S07E05 | "Tales in a Jugular Vein"

[booasaur]

Ted Lasso - 3x05

Bonus:

[vvitchy]

[moonssugar]

i love when people say you can't examine the jedi order's flaws or discuss them or ever portray them as bad because that would be misrepresenting buddhism and would be bad because thats a minority religion (in the west) as if real life buddism isnt as flawed as every single other religion in existence. people also forget two other important things: first that theres another religion that starts with a c the jedi are also partially based off of and secondly the reason the jedi has buddist influences in their worldbuilding is because of this pesky thing called orientalism that star wars happens to be full of to the brim. also the idea that examining the jedi critically 1:1 equals slandering its influences is such a example of the inability to distinguish fiction and in universe things from actual reality

youre defending a half assed orientalist idea of actual religion in its poorly executed fictional amalgamative form...why?

[shapituha]

This entity's name is Reproach and he's from the same dimension as Corner. It's called the Room and it's like an endless multi-story maze that was created by another powerful cosmic entity named Varr.

The Varr does not interact with Non-Earth, but essentially exists within its universe.

Like all of the Room's creatures, Reproach feeds on the energy it receives from Varr's emotions. Mostly shame and grief. The Room most likely exists as a whole to balance him out. There is no way out of the Room, but its inhabitants seek it, most likely even unconsciously. And this very search leads the creatures to clash with each other and to confrontation.

Corner, on the other hand, only fell out of the room because of the Shift. And since his "reality" coincided with Morphus' level of existence, he now travels through other people's dreams and terrorizes all dreamers by partially transforming their dreams into a shattered semblance of the Room.

Also, the inhabitants of the Room don't need to eat. Because they depend entirely on the emotions that Varr feels. But Corner, who has literally fallen out of his natural environment, must now, through his own efforts, achieve terror from those into whose dreams he is sneaking. Otherwise he will starve to death.

And Corner wasn't a strong entity of the Room anyway, because Varr is a majestic deity who doesn't feel the fear that the triangle feeds on.

The entities of the Room also exist in such an environment that they often don't have a wide range of emotions and their character is sometimes horribly primitive. That is, the same Reproach constantly feels only shame and grief because he doesn't know or can't do anything else.

Corner, in this respect, has the opportunity to develop some other traits because he no longer exists in that "vacuum"

[mid-nighttiger]

ok here's the thing when people talk about fandom genocide apologia. do we think that people who call for the eradication of a fictional culture actually for-real wish death upon us & those who practice a similar culture? no of course not, everyone knows that killing people in real life is bad

however, do we think that they are the kind of people who complain that [x] culture isn't western enough or doesn't fit their personal experience enough and is inherently inferior/oppressive/etc, a sentiment we do see quite often in real life? yes, and in that sense people's fictional opinions can mirror their real life ones. especially if someone proposes 'outlawing a culture until it is forgotten' as the 'good' alternative to physically killing all the members of that culture, apparently without the single whit of self-awareness that that is exactly what happened in several real-life genocides

[wiirocku]

1 Timothy 4:10 (NKJV) - For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

[larsnicklas]

lotto line at the 2024 nhl asg red carpet