#underrated role

[mvrlance]

blonde colin morgan as oscar wilde’s love interest 📽

[stardreamer28]

look at this handsome man! noticed there was no gifs for this and it needs talking about! David as Jonah Raitt in a 2010 episode of Warehouse 13. "It needs artistic vision and independant thinking." "I wish you loved me more." "I wish you loved me less." I gotta admit I teared up for him! (though when don't I lol)

[littleulvar]

some older art of my favourite grave cleric

[cornpickerart]

Kiki✨️🌿🍁🍂

[arcaneworms]

Yussa

This was also amazingly animated by my friend who you can find here

Please check her out!! She is amazing. I can’t believe how nice she was to animate this.

[variousqueerthings]

thing about rose, for me, is that she wasn't there first -- this in a "she was first in nu!who in the sense that this was the first person to travel with nine, and the first person since the timewar, and the last person that nine was with, to the point that ten was born out of that experience/modelled on her."

and in that framing, I am a big fan of her haunting of the narrative, because it start outs with her placing herself inside the doctor's ribcage and rebooting their ability to want to feel things, but unfortunately rose is still a human, like every human the doctor travelled with before, it's just that the doctor forgot how to steel themself against that inevitability because of the circumstances around meeting rose

this is The thing that I find tragic about martha, because I think she could have been that person, if she'd been the first person post-timewar to travel with the doctor, but because she's coming in during bleeding-heart times, she's got to deal with triage instead. and yes, there are wonders, and yes, there are good times, but for a lot of it, it's shrapnel, and I think if it hadn't been, she would have had a very different attitude towards *waves hands* space and time travel and aliens and the universe (one where she wouldn't be the person trusted with something like the osterhagen key)

and donna had a sense of that Space the doctor was in post-rose (she canonically stopped the doctor from dying in runaway bride) and stepped away from it, and didn't get back to the doctor until some of that hole-in-chest had been bandaged up, which martha did a great job of, but didn't get to really benefit from, and I think that's the sad thing about martha jones, is that she absolutely got a taste of the beauty and the splendor, but never without all the violence and heave weight that was put onto her

which, again, she seems to have been very aware of, considering she joined UNIT and Torchwood. her eyes were barely ever rose tinted (no pun here) during her whole journey in the story. martha really is in my opinion the most tragic companion (that I've met so far, I know Adric straight up dies, but maybe he had some fun times before that?), because yes, donna loses her memories and rose is in a parallel universe, but that's more tragic for the doctor -- they've both built lives

in donna's case there's probably a lot of imperfection in that life, but clearly a lot of joy as well, with her and her husband and her kid and her mum, and I'm sure she'd have preferred to be the donna who saw the universe and was splendid, but martha never gets to forget, and has to continue her life one step out of sync of everything she could have been

which, maybe her life is pretty flipping fantastic, but we really don't know, which is the biggest thing I side-eye about the first nu!who era. that whole weird ending with the sontaran and mickey is like... anti-character work, it answers nothing and it makes very little sense

all I know about her at the end is that she more than anyone saw the doctor's life and became a soldier (still a doctor as well, but...) because that was the work she saw needed doing, and she's the kind of person who does what needs doing. but is she... okay? youknow?

but going back to the original point, is that framing martha through the lens of rose is all well and good in the sense that rose is the reason the doctor is at that emotional point when he meets martha -- although donna absolutely had a very big hand in that as well -- but once we've established that, martha's arc is martha's arc, and it's dull to me to frame it as the "rebound" arc or even particularly about alloromanticism (including -- and this is why i get why people do it in fandom -- some shit said by rtd, which is just less interesting than what I get out of it, so shhhh)

she's got so much going on, and her relationship with the doctor changes the trajectory of her life, and it's in many ways a more interesting and far less straightforward trajectory of bad-to-better that many companions get -- it's a wonderfully complicated narrative that (and again, I get that some of this comes from within deliberate framings of the text, even though I think it's more than open enough to do more with, death of the author and all that -- but certainly not all of this is text either, some of it is ignoring what is actually there) is done a disservice by not going through the real messed up fascinating extraordinary shit that's going on during her era + arc in s4

but also... is she ok? I want to know. it's one of my top three burning questions, since we're getting a bit of best-ofs of the noughties DW era, some of your crimes can be righted by a simple bit of martha mr davies

[princeloww]

tell me and i will make part 2

UPDATE: part 2

[zaphiyy207]

Dear, Prince

Oh my Little Prince,

Do you remember?

Roleswap Forgotten Land AU by @jojo-schmo

[leclercskiesahead]

“Charles, Yuki, and Carlos”

[gwynbleiddyn]

even though it hurts, even though it scars, love me when it storms, love me when i fall, every time it breaks, every time it's torn / love me like i'm not made of stone--

something about broken-hearted barbs and choosing to love as much as they hurt really gets me in the honey nut feelios

[cluescorner]

I’ve slowly grown to realize that my one of my favorite relationship dynamics is: most competent person in the universe with identity-based struggles x absolute goofball who instinctively knows exactly who they are and loves them so, so much. 

[samskaterguy]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FARRAH GOODFAIRY!! 

(September 27th!) ✨🪩🌟

[nowyoursoulisforfeit]

This post is for the singular purpose of appreciating Grog.

Like, my man is the biggest, strongest, most stereotypically masculine of Vox Machina, and despite being considered pretty dense, he is the most emotionally aware of all the guys, maybe even the whole team. No spoilers, but in the Origin comics, he also single handedly saved the whole groups asses by just being nice to a nymph. He is so understanding and concerned for his friends, and even people he doesn't know. He has such a good heart.

Somebody tell him he's doing a good job or give him a gold star, just do something because he deserves it.

[thelesbiandeli]

Just some of my thoughts on Ruth's death (including Just For Once) real quick:

So. In 'Just For Once', I am assume the main part song is from the point of view of the character she's playing, a middle-aged woman with a simple, complicated, but happy life. But the fun part comes in during the chorus, when the line 'Just for once' is actually used. From what I can infer (which may be completely wrong), these are referring to her dream of acting. How if she could just be on stage and perform without her anxiety and insecurities, just for once she could finally feel alive, and have a reason to live. (Also, it is implied that she's the only person doing lights for the Barbecue Monologues, and let me tell you, that shit is difficult. The level of dedication she would need to have to put that much effort into a production that she doesn't even get to be on stage for is incredible, seeing as she clearly isn't respected by the teacher in charge. She cares a lot about theatre.)

She kills it in Just For Once, pours her whole heart out in a beautiful combination of her characters feelings and her own, and the only person who sees it is Max. The guy who kills her minutes later. And something else, too. Richie got a death song. He got a final duet with Max before hes murdered. Ruth, who clearly cares more than anything about performing and singing, didn't. She isn't even given the chance.

She gets a horrific death (genuinely makes me a tad uncomfortable to watch with the sound effects) on the same stage where she poured her heart out for an audience of One. She had one clear dream, and by sharing it, unknowingly signs her own death warrant. If she hadn't been left alone on the stage, she would have never shared her inner feelings, but then again, if she hadn't been left alone, Max wouldn't have had the chance to kill her.

This may be absolute nonsense, but I've been listening to the soundtrack on loop and can't help thinking about Ruth. The horny theatre kid, who's true inner feelings were only known by two people. Her, and her killer.

[elemental-plane]

i think we as a society need to talk about madam glask and oscar's dynamic more it's very interesting to me

like she's his boss so when she sees him at cosmo's shop she's like "wait a minute." but doesn't get mad or frustrated, just tells him to let her know ahead of time. and her reaction to elsie killing him? the way that *that's* what pushes her towards not really trusting elsie? idk man their dynamic is just very dear to me idk why i just love the way gina and sam bounce off of each other like that

[ourfandomcrazyuniverse]

She’s back!!! Give her her voice!!! Let her speak and fistfight Joe from whatever plane she needs to!!!