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Space wives!! I really wish we got some thirteen/river interactions

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Duality

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It has come to my attention that apparently a bunch of people started publishing fanfics generated by AI.

This makes me so sad and angry. I am not sure if these people are aware that AI uses existing stories to generate something, which means AI fanfics are basically plagiarized stories.

I have posted over 100 oneshots for this fandom and poured my heart and a lot of hours of work into each and every one of them. It's infuriating to think they might be the basis for someone generating an AI fic and publishing it as their own.

Every comment on my stories means so much to me and inspires me to write more fics. Writing fanfic is about creativity and finding a community and it breaks my heart that people using AI keep tainting this experience.

If you are one of these people and feel called out by this post, here's my message to you: Please try writing your own story. It is incredibly rewarding to find pleasure in creating something you can call your own. I am sure you're better at writing than you think and there are people out there who will appreciate your stories. As the fandom keeps getting smaller, we have to work together to have a safe little community. Please stop stealing from other people to gain followers and likes - it's really unfair.

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Meta-crisis 13 thasmin au 👍😁

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The outfit ever!!!

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Ok but what if thirteen had a suit and short hair

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I’m not ready to let you go yet

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Thinking about the Doctor Who centennial ✨💫

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80s thasmin AU for some reason

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New Who absolutely committed to the bit that if you leave a humanoid civilization long enough, they will eventually reinvent the cybermen

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Dot and bubble was a masterpiece

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Doctor Who has dealt with racism in the past. Sometimes it’s Ten being oblivious to the racism toward Martha, sometimes it’s Twelve punching a racist in the face (iconic), and sometimes it’s whatever tf that Rosa Parks episode was. But every time, the racism has been very “tell don’t show,” and I think that’s why- for the most part- I’ve never really resonated with those moments when they happened.

But this episode portrayed racism that was both very obvious (at least to me) while also not hitting us over the head with the fact that the characters were in fact “doing a racism”. And the fact that this was an episode that took place in the future made it much more interesting as well. Because I could totally see our society progressing in this direction. It’s already happening to some extent. I watch year after year as more privileged families move to more affluent neighborhoods creating rich little bubbles of comfort and complacency, and sending their kids to private or expensive charter schools.

They would never describe themselves as racist- no! But then they explain wanting their kids to go to a “better school” and grow up in a “better neighborhood” and create a “safer environment,” while glaring their eyes if anyone who looked even a little bit different drove through playing their music even a little bit loud.

Racism presents itself today in a very “show don’t tell” way. You don’t have to hear anyone throwing around a slur to know. I think this week’s episode showed that.

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At the beginning of Dot and Bubble : “Oh it’s classic Black Mirror anti phone shit”

In the middle of Dot and Bubble : “Oh I really don’t like this Lindy girl, but their probably setting it up so she’ll realize the bubble is bad or whatever,,,, wait why is EVERYONE white??”

At the end of Dot and Bubble *screaming and crying* “OHH IT WAS A COMMENTARY ON HOW RACISM AND CLASSISM IS EXACERBATED THROUGH INTERNET SPACES WHERE PEOPLE ONLY SOCIALIZE WITH OTHER RICH WHITE ELITES…. I KNEW I HATED LINDY”

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I think it was frankly brilliant that the first time we see 15 experience racism when time traveling is in the future and not in the past. It would have been so easy to have that happen in 'The Devil's Chord' or 'Rogue' and you know what? It would have been perfectly good, but it does sort of subconsciously reinforce the idea that racism is a thing of the past.

When... No, racism is still very much present, still normalized in different ways, and still fighting to regress society back to "the old ways". One of the richest men of the world turned one of the biggest social media platforms into a racist echo-chamber that not only allows but outright encourages the most racist rhetoric to be spoken.

It's not something The 15th Doctor or we as an audience can escape by simply going back to the present or escaping into the future, but a reality we are forced to face.

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I can't stop thinking about the Doctor's reaction at the end of "Dot and Bubble." That penny drop moment, the stunned laughter followed by the scream of futile anguish followed by the silent tears. Fantastically played by Ncuti Gatwa, and for me, it's a reaction that absolutely makes sense for this situation and this Doctor.

First of all, of course the Doctor wants to save them and gets desperate when they won't let him. Of course he does--that's just who the Doctor is. We've seen them save vile, self-serving humans before, we've seen them offer Sycorax and Rachnoss and Daleks a last chance. No matter how these people have treated him or what they think of him, he still wants to be able to save them.

I keep thinking about how his laughter gives way to a scream. That's very fitting for his Doctor in particular. For all of Fourteen's "rehab," it's clear that Fifteen still has his issues, and I've seen them in the moments where he shouldn't be smiling. The way he briskly tells Ruby that Gallifrey is gone, the way he seems to shrug off not knowing whether Susan was killed with the rest of the Time Lords. It makes a lot of sense to me that he would laugh before he would scream.

Then too, there's the laughter being in part due to his surprise. The Doctor knows they've been Black before, because Thirteen met the Fugitive Doctor and saw the hints of their pre-One past in the Matrix, but he doesn't have those actual memories of the experience of being Black. He's not used to walking around in this skin, with this face. I'm sure he noticed how rude and distrustful Lindy was to him, but he didn't catch why. Not until the end. And it's so dumb and hateful and pointless and absurd, and she's going to die because of it, so in that very first moment, what can he do but laugh?

Finally, I've also been thinking about Ruby crying for him, wanting to comfort the Doctor but knowing she can't make it better. Millie Gibson does a beautiful job as well, capturing Ruby's reaction to a tee without drawing focus from Ncuti's powerhouse performance.

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