#ruby era

[sumerainn]

JENNIE Handlebars (feat. Dua Lipa), 2025.

[greyhoundone]

“'Think Tank' is a deliberate call-back to the story Robot from 1975. I figured Conrad did his research.” – writer Pete McTighe

[gothtarrare]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

We, collectively as a society, NEED to return to making weird freak ass goth girls and overall weird girl characters!!!

We must return to the age of drawing weird little girls with knives and edgy sayings that belong on a 90s Hot Topic shirt!!!

THESE ARE THE TYPES OF OCS I WANT TO SEE FROM NOW ON, DAMNIT!!!!

I WANT TO SEE BLINGEE STYLE GIFS OF SAID OCS ON YOUR BLOG LIKE ITS YOUR FUCKING 2005 MYSPACE PAGE, GOD DAMNIT!!!

🗣🗣🗣AND YALL BETTER BE DESIGNING MERCH FOR YOUR WEIRD GIRL OCS TOO EVEN IF YOU AREN'T GONNA EVER MAKE SAID MERCH TRUST ME ITS FUN!!!🗣🗣🗣

[otterology]

I would like to award you the highest honour I can bestow

[flying-lustful-box-in-space]

The lack of mid season two parters in Ncuti’s run is an underrated problem in developing the characters and story. Interstellar Song Contest would’ve made a banging two parter with the first showing a few of the songs and slowly building the terror as things go wrong. Having a two parter last season would’ve done wonders in fleshing out 15 and Ruby’s dynamic.

[truebluewhocanoe]

ngl the optics of this episode (youth-led social movement questioning a clandestine government military organization is the bad guy, actually) suck ass but it also gave us kate stewart being a problematic baddie, one of the best looks at the psychology of being an ex-companion we've ever had, and RTD transparently just turning a vent fic of his blorbos dunking on a right-wing grifter into an actual episode of television, so, go off I guess

EDIT: guys it was written by pete mctighe not rtd. sorry mr rtd i forgot that there are other white guys writing politically clumsy doctor who episodes

[causalityparadoxes]

FUNNIEST (read: fucked up) THING about the Doctor deciding the Chuldurs' needed to suffer for killing Ruby? Is that the plan seemingly did not change.

The Doctor didn't change the settings to super hell dimension or anything. They just admitted to themselves how utterly inhumane trapping someone on a barren dimension for 600~ years would be. Flipping the exact same action from 'merciful' to 'rightful suffering', in an instant. They knew it was a fate worse than death. So no plan reworking was needed.

The Doctor is so fucked up, I love them.

[olympain]

Ncuti and Millie just 'strolling' by the Doctor Who train in NYC

[dandelionjack]

somebody once sent me an ask wondering what my #the language of rope doctor who blog tag meant — well, here’s an approximation

it’s Anansi’s spider-web, it’s the network of stories, it’s the invisible threads of TV broadcasting and the internet and patterns and hyperlinks connecting one fate to another, it’s Belinda and Mundy, it’s the red string on corkboard of a post-truth conspiracy theorist like Conrad, it’s lies-that-become-reality, it’s fairy circle string and celluloid film tape and a rope to stop a train and the Story Nexus and the Web of Time; and i’m not sure what it’s all leading up to, but there must be something to it

this may all sound like a bit of a reach to you. like i’m tracing a motif that’s not really there. engaging in wishful thinking (as if i live on Wish World, coming up in two weeks! interesting episode title, that.) but i’m not the only one — jamie cowan, DWEU author and one of the people who genuinely knows more about this show than the rest of the planet, agrees with me. and if you needed further confirmation…

[stradakiev]

Iconic of Doctor Who for making the **20 year old girl suffering from PTSD the only reasonable voice in Lucky Day.

• Ruby is the one reminding her Moms and Cherry that she’s only been going out with Conrad for 5 days and their excitement is excessive. That is her mom’s fridge of photos I don’t think Ruby hung that picture up.

• she spends the entire episode trying to convince Conrad to have literally any reason. The whole reason she’s on his doorstep in the first place is the give him the antidote to the shrek will stop tracking him.

• she called Kate when she saw signs of trouble but didn’t have her come when she was reassured. Then had her come with confirmation (I’ll need to rewatch if we see her contact UNIT after the lights go out I honestly don’t remember)

• she was able to recognize her trauma from traveling with the doctor in a way only really Martha has done before and ask for help/say she needed time and such to heal. (Only counting new who companions and Belinda doesn’t count because she noticed that toxic behavior BEFORE traveling)

• she sought safety with the people she trusted when she was doxxed by Conrad

•BEGGED Kate to stop and see reason and not let things go further when Kate had clearly taken things too far. Ruby was the one who eventually stopped the shreek and ended the situation.

• took time away from UNIT when their actions further traumatized her

I have two things to say about this:

1. The companions are supposed to be our moral compass in the show as their role has traditionally been the audience surrogate. They show us how a “reasonably acting” person would respond to these situations (except for Clara Oswald you fucked up queen I adore you and when you were the doctors moral compass it all crashed and burned so beautifully) and Ruby is HORRIFIED by Kate’s actions so I don’t think UNIT was meant to be a benevolent government organization but a deeply flawed one who Geneva is breathing down the neck of

2. This is a population of people that is so used to not getting taken seriously. (I.e. people don’t take their trauma seriously, they often get gaslit by doctors, society loves to make fun of their interests, I could go on) She is belittled by Conrad and his friends, her friends think she’s bonkers, and her moms just want her to move on from things but she’s traumatized. Yet through it all you see she is the voice of reason and I respect the shit out of that. I definitely shed a tear or two when she talked about how traumatizing everything had been. Of course she is still a 19 year old who gets swept up in things as 19 year olds do but it’s not UNIT good and Conrad bad but there is a battle going on everywhere while normal people are just trying to live their lives.

[sumerainn]

SEOUL CITY JENNIE, dir. Dasom Han, 2025.

[okaydays22]

[ncuts]

Collecting my thoughts..

[polaritydisturbed]

Yeah, yeah, ik the reason Ruby saw through the Wish World is probably because of 73 Yards or whatever—and sure, that tracks, that’s probably canon.

But I prefer to believe her subconscious just got so violently irritated by seeing Conrad’s smug little mayonnaise-on-white-bread face on TV every single day that her brain went, “Absolutely not. We are not living in a world where he is a national treasure.” And that’s what broke the illusion.

[flying-lustful-box-in-space]

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[aquanutart]

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