#My Rebound Girl

[sofuss-y]

i love them so dearly....im so heartbroken they didnt even kiss like not even once not even a little bit...... (NO SPOILERS HERE DW!!!! ^_^)

[seths-art-suffers]

POV it's Warrover for your pansexual poly ass

[egberts]

ALSO if prisoners could get educated then prisons could run themselves more reliably and function like communities which is conducive to a growing/healing/learning/absolving mindset

[pharawee]

[aq2003]

really love how throughout a lot of smith and jones martha is really skeptical and apprehensive towards ten (+ one of my favorite exchanges between them - "what, people call you 'the doctor'?" "yeah?" "well, i'm not. far as i'm concerned, you've got to earn that title."), not taking everything he says at face value, even doubting the fact he's an alien until over halfway through the episode.. And like. i really truly think the thing that wins her over isn't him kissing her or any of the other insane mixed messages he manages to send, it's this scene here, where he /earns that title/ in her eyes:

(+ david's bit in the commentary, where he says: "[the doctor] has actually sacrificed himself, and - i would say, that that final act of selflessness is what finally, eventually, welds martha to him. [...] and she now returns it. she returns that act of selflessness.")

this is what their relationship is built on. it isn't about martha being the second-best replacement to rose or a rebound or whatever. bc it isn't really about rose. it's about doctor-in-training martha meeting someone (quite literally, "the doctor") whose ideals she aspires to, and doing her best to be the same person to him as he is to everyone else. it's about ten in return admiring her intelligence and inquisitiveness and how she cares for human life, recovering his compassion, letting himself lean on her for support - and then remembering at the most inopportune moments that he's supposed to not need anyone and be on his own forever. And around in their little nightmare loop they go where they save each other over and over until one of them breaks

i've seen ppl look at martha and go "why she does she admire/why is she so in love with ten if he acts like that to her?" or something along those lines and like. it's not just the fact she's in love with him (in fact i'd argue she actively tries to push it aside post-gridlock). it's the fact that she knows he's the kind of person to put everyone else's lives/well-being over his own. she trusts him to save her when she's in trouble even though it's been like two days at most that they've known one another bc she recognizes that same "deep all-encompassing drive to help others" in him. and she also recognizes, much much earlier than him, that he needs someone to save him, especially when he's unwilling to save himself. and yeah for a bit she thinks he returns her feelings and is just playing hard-to-get, but she realizes pretty early on that this probably isn't the case, and i think that realization fully solidifies here:

(this is when she's listening to ten talk abt gallifrey). And idk it might just be me but i think this expression isn't just her empathizing with his loss. it's also guilt, for wanting something from him that he's clearly unable to give when he's wracked with so much grief. (and you see it in the next episode, where tallulah asks if they're together and martha says for certain that they're not, and that he doesn't know about her feelings for him. she keeps everything to herself bc she now knows that when he shut her flirting down at the end of 3x01 it was the genuine reaction of someone who a) isn't interested and b) is scared of getting close with someone else again)

freema described their dynamic as "she's keener than him" and i think about this all the time. martha doesn't really take what ten throws at her. what she does instead is constantly poke holes in his already-failing front of "i will show someone the wonders of the universe so i can ignore what is wrong with me". what she does is stand up and fight him when he tries to go off on his own. what she does is put aside her well-being in favor of helping someone - just like what she saw him do for the people in the hospital when they first met. tldr, that's the doctor and his doctor and rip martha you would've loved who's gonna save u now by rina sawayama

[callmedylan]

Trody Week Day 1!!

I usually don’t do Ship Weeks things but I adore Trody and I had to do them Justice, so here’s day 1!!

I feel like Trent would try to shoot up an artsy philosophical talk about smth deep but Cody is just munching on his marshmallow and lowkey dgaf (he’s listening very intently.)

[ewwww-what]

Sorry guys, I actually really liked Nara and I’m sad she was only in two episodes.

[caloricangel]

The rebound actually affected me more than the previous relationship. I might need a rebound for the rebound.

[jrueships]

Paul George on Stephen A. Smith’s Kawhi Leonard jab: “I didn’t like that moment… Kawhi wants to play… We exhausted a lot out of Kawhi this season. So at some point your body breaks you down… I didn’t appreciate that moment. I know I laughed because the situation was lighthearted, but deep down it was like you gotta let that go, Stephen A.”

Paul George, knight in shining armor

[jakeperalta]

sorry to be a bitch but I just have to say it. the way a lot of swifties are theorising on the whole breakup scenario is giving gaylor energy honestly... "I know this is what happened because taylor signalled it to us by shaking her head in that way during that song she is clearly sending out a message" like please...... you do not know this woman........

[suncattle]

Hello???

[whiskeyswifty]

i do find it incredibly funny that everyone's One Fear post j*e was that she would get with p*te davidson. and while she avoided P*te Davidson prime (so far) and we thought, phew! we're safe, one fear averted, but then she's like, surprise! how about the british p*te davidson! like it's almost uncanny how they're one to one in a lot of ways. what a hoot and a holler this situation is like congrats! everyone was right in the end!

[mothbaaalls]

there should really be like. a peer support network for people who work/volunteer in animal rescue and care. because good god it's needed

[saetoru]

the draken emma hate ship is so real... like good for yall ig...!!! im also jealous

i feel draken is a lot of ppls first fav in the show—he was my first fav. he downgraded to third fjsjfjsjf but he’s just that comforting kinda guy who respect you and take care of you and then it’s just … boom: he’s been in love with a girl from his childhood for quite literally over a decade even after her death and ur just like 😐 what about me 😒 it ruins the selfship a bit ngl 😒

[goodobservationshirley]

I wonder how differently things might have gone with Chapel if Boimler hadn’t made it clear that she doesn’t end up with Spock. It’s easy to forget, at least for me that is, just how rough she’s had it recently. Like she learns that her relationship with Spock is doomed and then has to interact and be polite to a horrible reminder of the war. It’s a good thing her career is doing well so she has something great to look forward to

idk, i'm not sure it changed much in terms of how things happen. i would have said it accelerated the inevitable but getting the fellowship would have done that anyway

you have to keep in mind chapel does not want a serious relationship, she's been very hesitant to label what they have as anything. even when it came to saving spock and an alien species pressuring her to put a label on it, she didn't. all she could bring herself to say is 'he's my friend, and yeah maybe i guess i kinda want more connection'. it is like one step below a life or death situation and girl can’t bring herself to commit to any more than that. thankfully the aliens took pity on her and were like ‘good enough i guess’ but this girl has ISSUES (affectionate) okay

chapel was always gonna try and sabotage this relationship first chance she got. i think the main consequence of Boimler’s comments is that it forced her to acknowledge there’s a part of her that wants this. and she HATED it okay. it’s much harder to convince yourself you don’t want something when being told you can’t have it hurts so much

so yeah, boimler’s comments hurt (and how dare they!) but chapel was on that self-sabotaging path long before that. i don’t think there’s any universe where chapel gets that fellowship and isn’t immediately relieved that she now has a good excuse to get out of the relationship on her terms

as for something great to look forward to… well there IS the whole korby thing coming so idk about that lol (though of course she doesn’t know that)

[spaciebabie]

breaths heavily katherine quin oc playlist