#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!!!! ^_^)

[arcanefanpage]

I’m feeling so bad for my girl Maddie the more a think about her

for one she’s obviously looks up to and idolizes Cait, but Cait is only using her as a rebound to get over Vi

secondly she had been trying to convince Caitlyn to withdraw from the underground for weeks, but Caitlyn refuses only to fold immediately when Vi asks

thirdly you can feel the power imbalance from their body language, Maddie is always behind Cait, never on equal ground with her like Vi

additionally the lighting makes it seems like Maddie’s a secret, something to be kept hidden, where in comparison everyone knows about Vi, heck Ambessa called Vi’s Cait’s weakness

[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

[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

[pharawee]

[ewwww-what]

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

[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.)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

In your professional educated psychology opinion. why is cherik Like That

i cannot give a Professional educated psychological opinion until at least may but as far as i can tell queer people cant be normal bout anything so thats why theyre like that

[sometipsygnostalgic]

i literally had to pause the episode for 10 minutes while processing what Maddie does because i have SO many opinions on that character

[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

[currentlyincognitoperson]

[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........

[ct-hardcase]

I've already pointed this out in dms before but it's wild that TotE got me to ship barrissoka despite my stance before being a pretty firm "I objectively get why people ship it but this is Not For Me" and being a departure from my usual thing of "I like characters that spend a lot of time together"

[suncattle]

Hello???

[vegaseatsass]

I hate that I refuse to look in a series tag til I've watched the whole thing because I need the scene where Jan and Pang hook up in front of Pim, and she has like six live slug reactions in a row about it, on my blog yesterday