#world news dw

[mydearestdarlingdead]

If you ask me it is, in fact, very meaningful that the 9th doctor took Rose to see her planet get destroyed on a first date and the 10th doctor took her to see it rebuilt

[thelvadams]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS - Subspace Rhapsody DOCTOR WHO - The Devil's Chord

[jayd3nray]

Glisten sketch oooo

[clarasoswinsoswald]

Doctor Who Rewatch -> The End of the World "The end of the Earth. It's gone. And we were too busy saving ourselves, no one saw it go. All those years... all that history and no one was even looking."

[swedenis-h]

The girls!! (X)

[zivazivc]

I made a Trolls OC because of course I did. She is a bee herder and she's constantly covered in pollen.

[fluffylord]

TWELFTH DOCTOR | TWICE UPON A TIME

[blueberry-toast-art]

The next chapter of the Pop Tour AU is taking a bit to finish up. But in the meantime, I provide a silly video of PT!Trollex and PT!Barb.

[eldest-of-katts]

okay because people have shown up in my dms talking smack I'm going to make one blanket statement on the 1000 year loli chilchuck thing.

yes, there has been a problem with young girls being put in suggestive positions in anime with the "uhmmm she's actually a bajillion years old" excuse. yes, other characters don't treat chilchuck like an adult. yes, he is short with big eyes.

However, chilchuck consistently acts like a grown man. he- in both the manga and the anime- straight up just is an adult. He looks like an adult when he is any other race during the swaps in the manga. When the other characters get turned into half-foots they look similar to chilchuck. He is explicitly stated to have more dungeon and general life experience than laios, and he acts like it.

The 1000 year loli trope explicitly functions as an excuse to prey on people who are inexperienced and unable to advocate for themselves. Chilchuck is a parent, is a union organizer, has explicit boundaries that he enforces rigidly, and he is treated as an adult man by everyone who doesn't have a fantasy racism-focused character arc/issue.

I can see how if you haven't read the manga and seen that he has an established life that he later reveals (and haven't paid attention to him in the anime lol) you could get a mistaken impression about him. Marcielle does too in the source material! It's part of her character at the start of her arc that she has issues with longevity!

The thing that irks me a little about this interpretation is that it leans into the child-coded discourse that was prominent a while ago (she's short!!!!! but has boob???? ILLEGAL!!1!) and it does a disservice to the themes of infantilization as a policy maneuver hurting the working class.

I saw chilchuck and his labor advocacy for half-foots both as a metaphor for racism (obvious take ik) and for ageism.

The working gen z as a cohort are being infantilized and pushed out of job markets due to infantilization, similar to half-foots in the show. gen z is being maliciously portrayed as too young to vote, enter office, know themselves, know their rights, and take advantage of their resources. Simultaneously, child labor protections and protections against workplace abuse are being rolled back in the US. In Japan, young people are being worked to the bone for nothing and are becoming disenfranchised as a generation while simultaneously expected to be the labor faction that supports the postwar generations in their old age.

Chilchuck's being treated poorly I saw as a clever commentary on the ways infantilization allows for protections to be stripped away under the guise that "oh it's just a job for teenagers- they don't need more than minimum wage" or "let the kids rescue the economy! they're always complaining about that job market!" while simultaneously stripping away rights under the guise of protection- "We can't have that on the internet! think of the children!" "to protect these young people we must raise the age of medical consent for hormones/reproductive health decisions!"

Kui's work with this series spoke to me on many levels, and specifically, the infantilization issue touched me in a way that few other pieces of media have. The struggle to be taken seriously in a stem field as someone young, as someone female, and as someone who had a high-pitched voice to the point I did years of voice training to be taken seriously, chilchuck's character resonated. I (kinda) understand your instinct to think "SHORT! CHILD! RALLY THE MASSES AND KILL THE PEDOS!!1!" but in this case, it's misdirected- mostly because the author was trying to use this misdirection to prove something to you, the reader.

Kui consistently makes cutting commentary on modern issues, the show's take on food neutrality as its headliner, but also the author's takes on cultural issues and the environment (with a focus on our place in the food web as animals). I feel that reducing chilchuck's very conscious position as a tradesman and an activist discounted due to his apparent age down to "1000 year loli ewwww let's send this random tumblr user suicide bait" just displays a lack of critical analysis of the show and a level of disrespect towards Kui and the work as a whole.

TL:DR- stop sending me kys messages I'm fucking that old man

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The writers should give the Doctor a baby to hold more often. Seeing them with one always brings me such glee. Like...there! The parent! The grandparent! That's them right there! Come on, give them a baby carrier to strap to their chest and have them start running around like the silly alien they are.

[mikimeiko]

Doctor Who | 60th Anniversary + Christmas Specials (2023), Russel T. Davies

[notyoujamie]

[the-enjoyerrr]

at your service, captain finn!

shout out to @non-bun-ary for the whole au and the ideas. yippee!!!

[piquuroblox]

i want tap to be my bestest bud 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

( dude im so silly over this fella i cant even guuguhdhsgauiansiaohajoahsbnanwkwowooaj)

💥💥💥

[a-hug-a-day]

Goob!

I would hug you if I wasn't worried it'd mess with your upset tum. You should really go sit down. Medicine or not, your body needs rest!

... Onto other things... Do you all just... Live in Gardenview? Don't think I've seen any sleeping quarters or bedrooms... Anywhere.

<Glisten takes a minute to pat Goob gently.>

Glisten: "I thought it would be pretty obvious we lived here. We're the main attraction for the museum after all! Everyone but Dandy has a floor they share. I believe the humans referred to it as 'apartment-like'. The reason you never see it is because they're our private area! Employees only, you know?"

[brainrot-stitch]

Didn't draw too much today but yall can have the little bit I did :3