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THANK YOU @thasminfanzine ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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Yknow now i have my keys on a pink carabiner with a thasmin keychain on it, it really simply DOES NOT get more lesbian than this

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The thasmin zine is so gorgeous! All of the art is beautiful and the quality of all the merch is great too ❤️

My heart is so full for the creators of the zine @thasminfanzine you all did so amazing with this! ❤️

For anyone who thinks "damn i want some more stories and merch from these sapphics" go and get ur zine, orders are open again rn! Go to @thasminfanzine for more info 💖

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Im SHAKING IT SO PRETTY!!!

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My THASMIN ZINE ARRIVED!

Unboxing soon!

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thirteen's face appreciation: 97/?

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rendering & lighting practice with 13 ^_^

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Im looking forward to getting my nightcover hehe

Just really curious about which cover ended up being more popular, can we get the numbers on that?

Sure! The night cover was more popular by quite a bit - I think partially due to it being more true to a scene from the show, and partially because the daylight cover was the only one we were offering on the tote bag (so if you bought the bundle then you could have both covers by getting the night zine and tote).

We had 403 orders total (more since, which have just been digitals), and sold 464 copies. 65 of those copies were digital, and of the physical copies: 156 were the daylight covers, and 243 were the night covers!

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in honor of us surpassing 100 followers on twitter, please enjoy some feral 13 on the house

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thinking abt her a lot lately :3

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Gosh i cant wait to get mine!

The opening story from @thasminfanzine has a (possibly accidental) ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL comedic beat. Intentional or not, i assume (and was backed up on this) that @eriadu-in-the-wildwood (Layout Designer) is responsible, so very well done to them.

There’s a beautiful heartwarming story from @sapphicsgalaxy ending with the line:

“today had given [Yaz]… a glimmer of hope for whatever the future might have in store for her”

Immediately followed by this image from @lara-jenn:

I absolutely creased! Very Lilo+Stitch vibes 😃

(Of course an overall well done to everyone involved, it’s beautiful so far, can’t put it down ❤️)

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The opening story from @thasminfanzine has a (possibly accidental) ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL comedic beat. Intentional or not, i assume (and was backed up on this) that @eriadu-in-the-wildwood (Layout Designer) is responsible, so very well done to them.

There’s a beautiful heartwarming story from @sapphicsgalaxy ending with the line:

“today had given [Yaz]… a glimmer of hope for whatever the future might have in store for her”

Immediately followed by this image from @lara-jenn:

I absolutely creased! Very Lilo+Stitch vibes 😃

(Of course an overall well done to everyone involved, it’s beautiful so far, can’t put it down ❤️)

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Chibnall era costume design got me gaggeeeeddd

Doctor Who - Alforians

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Even when the stories are wobbly (and God knows that a lot of them have been), as long as there is that warm, human heart(s) to the show, I’m still watching the Doctor Who I love most.

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some more old doctor who art :)

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i just rewatched ‘the woman who fell to earth’ a couple of days ago for the first time since it aired back in 2018 and the more i think about it, the more i like it.

thirteen is the only doctor for whom i feel a tangible, rose-tinted nostalgia. she wasn’t my first doctor, but she was the first doctor i watched live, the first doctor that i spent an actual extended period of time with over the episode rollout. her intro episode has middling parts (as can be expected with most episodes of Who) but there’s also so much good that i really want to highlight.

first of all, there are some really great character dynamics set up here. much more interesting than i remember, tbh. ryan is a guy who loves mechanics but is stuck in a warehouse job he hates, a guy who obviously wants to connect to people, a guy who by the end of the episode has lost both his mother and grandmother in the space of a couple of years and the step-grandfather he didn’t really want is all he has left (minus his absent father). that’s interesting.

yaz has a keen sense of justice and this raw, intense yearning to help people, to do something worthwhile, something more - the way she has chosen to express that is through law enforcement, but it’s not quite giving her the satisfaction she wants. that’s interesting.

graham’s experience with cancer means that he constantly feels like he’s living on borrowed time. meeting grace gave him purpose, gave him family, gave him the will to fight when he fought it was all but over, but now grace is gone. he and ryan aren’t related, but they’re family, and now they’ve got to figure out how to care for each other without the very lynchpin that brought them together. once again with feeling: interesting!

“i’m just a traveller. sometimes i see things that need fixing. i do what i can.” i like that they circle back to the ‘just some guy’ portrayal of the doctor here, both because it’s the one i’m partial to and because it feeds particularly well into the whole ‘the doctor is an unreliable narrator’ aspect, especially in the wake of the increased deification in the moffat era. it's a nice set up, even if it gets completely overhauled circa series 12/13. in fact, having thirteen keep this as a persistent attitude throughout the Timeless Child of it all could have been really effective re: her reticence with her companions and refusal to address or deal with her past.

the scene where thirteen builds her sonic screwdriver might be one of my favourite sequences in nuwho. i love that it’s a hybrid of alien tech and sheffield steel. i also love that they highlight the ‘mad inventor’ side of the doctor here (her teleportation circuit is based around a microwave?) and wish that they had carried it forward more. it would have been the perfect basis for her to bond with ryan over. jodie also pulls off the humour of the episode well, considering the significant shift from moffat dialogue.

i enjoy thirteen's outfit: the vibrancy of it as mirroring her childish excitability, but also as another part of the mask - if i dress all colourful then maybe i can ignore/outrun/masquerade my great capacity for darkness! etc etc. the shopping trip with yaz and ryan is a bit shoe-horned in at the end but it's cute that she finds it in a charity shop. (back in 2018 i bought a t-shirt with a couple of stripes across the chest solely because it remotely resembled the one she wore lol. nerd from a young age, me.) jodie also looks soo hot in capaldi's outfit though so a spin on the traditional suit would also have been appreciated.

some miscellaneous points: i like that she tells Karl off (“you had no right to do that”) right after saving him. i like that she gets it wrong at first and makes it clear that she’s working on the fly. she’s following her instinct, and that instinct is to help people. doctor who has been beautiful before but the cinematography takes such a huge step this era. “it’s been a long time since i bought women’s clothes” i am choosing to believe this is about river thank you and good night.

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Fans that refused to watch series 13 really missed out on some sick ass set pieces, costumes, and character design.

They did all of this for a 30 second scene