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rewatched Last of the Time Lords

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Lackluster is such a good word. Nice argument but unfortunately you have no sparkle :/

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Reading Brave New World and alternating between shaking and nodding my head so people know I have nuanced and ambivalent feelings about it

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absolute all timer of a line lmaoooo

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‘Doctor Who effects/sets etc looked terrible in the classic era’ okay you’re right mayyybe some of them did. But have you seen the opening shot of Trial of a Timelord from 1986

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Buck should get back with Tommy and then cheat on him with a Bobby doppelgänger played by Peter Krause. Eddie walks in on them, goes “Bobby?”, and then of course has to go back to El Paso to live with his parents

If Buck doesn’t get back with Tommy, I think his next boyfriend should be a man in his 50s who looks suspiciously like Bobby, perhaps even played by Peter Krause

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So through our 12th Doctor transition metaphor, Missy and Clara are two visions of "the Doctor as a woman" (not really competing visions; they're more like the same person at different life stages). Missy represents "would being a woman make me irredeemably evil," while Clara represents "would the lack of a protective masculine mask make me 'breakable' enough to inevitably get me killed." Each of their arcs reaches a sort of "no, but" conclusion: Missy is capable of goodness, but also so dogged by self-destructive impulses that no one will ever know; Clara is capable of fully embodying the Doctor role (and surviving the "death" of transition a la tv glow), but only at the cost of full alienation from everyone she once loved.

Bill is the Doctor's younger self if he'd actually gotten to self-actualize as a teen/twentysomething autistic lesbian. She gets sabotaged by Saxon Master, who self-destructs rather than become a woman. Missy and Bill are again two faces of the "self" - Missy as the self subject to a literal suicide, and Bill as the young-lesbian-self, spiritually smothered, forced into the ultimate mask/closet of cyber conversion. (This is the culmination of the themes we've been setting up since deep breath, re undeath, turning yourself into a literal or emotional robot in order to survive, killing the true parts of yourself so many times that you've ship of theseus'd your "self" out of existence and all that's left to you is to jump or be pushed, etc). And yet, Bill can't be extinguished. Where there's tears, there's hope. The Doctor has to face both the younger self who was (oh god I said so much sexist shit when I was younger, I'm going to throw up), and the younger self who never was (Bill, the self beneath the robotic mask). The Doctor has to grieve Bill, and yet understand that she's still there. She never really died. Despite your best efforts, despite the machine you tried to turn yourself into, the living death you made of your life...that inner spark survived.

So the Doctor is able to reach the same choice as the Master - kill yourself, or become a woman - and choose change.

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all-timer daniel molloy questions:

1. did you eat the baby?

2. are you schizophrenic, louis?

3. and then what?

4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?

5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?

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Ginger????

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Not far enough. They should build Deep Space Nine in real life and we should build a life there.

I really wanna see a ds9 "episode" (idk what to call it) where they are just... Doing nothing. Like the camera cuts and it's people going about their day. Nothing of importance happens on the station, just another day at work. The camera never really follows or focuses on one character either, but acts as more of a way for us to see what normal life on the station is like. Certain conversations are more audible than others due to close proximity to the camera, but nothing ever that important.

Like one shot is just a still of Quarks bar from a distance and you can see him working and serving customers, Odo leaning against the counter watching people walk past while Bashir and O'Brien make their way to the holosuite, their banter only faintly heard against the chatter of the bar.

Idk... Might have been fun

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Transgender George Constanza voice: Jerry, would you describe me as a “passoid”??

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my top megalopolis moment

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Happy summer solstice ☀️Who wants to kiss in the british supermax penal labor camp when we’re both 40 and scarred with thinning hair and betrayed by our trusted friend and ruined by our fathers and lost everyone who ever cared about us and saw our life’s work and ideals unraveled and our identities permanently slandered and survived the past decade accumulating continuous trauma and the narrator put a yellow filter on us while our tear-jerker theme plays in the background and we both also need a glass of water real bad ☀️

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Hetbait kind of goes harder than queerbait sometimes. Queerbait you understand that the creators very rarely could do it even if they wanted to so implication and suggestion was better and safer than being explicit. Hetbait though there's no such justifiable reason they just want to fuck with you.

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Haim always gets me rocking out hetero style

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Megalopolis greatest stoner comedy of 2024