#Ruby baby

[yourheartinyourmouth]

that’s odd. i don’t remember installing a gargoyle on this shelf. 🤔

[helloparkerrose]

[i-will-talk-fish]

Dion _ Ruby Baby

[introvertedbicryptid]

RWBY

Yeah, I can't watch that more than once ... It hurts too much

[myimaginaryradio]

Ruby Baby - Dion And The Belmonts - 1959

Good morning and happy Friday. There is no theme today. Today is good day to enjoy some tunes and spread some joy.

Be Safe Be Kind And Be Awesome

[vampir-el]

the doctor having to do a quick recap of 60 years of television and lore for new viewers

[johnnystorrm]

i cannot believe the doctor just spent 45 minutes mistaking fucking sutekh for his own granddaughter. funniest shit i've ever seen. i need susan to show up and find out about this because she'd make sure he never lives it down.

[ace-whovian-neuroscientist]

it feels like this season, doctor who is dealing with the fundamental rules changing. it was strictly sci-fi, you could always logic your way out of any problem with technobabble and a clever plan.

but it feels like so much of the plot is wrapped around poking at the medium of being a television show, of being a story. we have multiple characters looking at the viewers, we have the maestro playing the theme tune, we have such clear parallels to season 1 (2005) that it feels like a universal coincidence. like the whoniverse itself is recognizing its a medium and playing with its tropes.

the genre is changing too - we are leaning more and more into fantasy, rules like you would see in stories about fae, not sci-fi. musical numbers out of nowhere that no one seems to question, with rain inside and musical sidewalks. the vocabulary of rope and power in coincidences. hell, even the way that time travel works is changing! suddenly stepping on a butterfly (specifically a trope in scifi that has been mocked/debunked previously) has consequences. the doctor swiping away the translation circuit's effects with the wave of a hand and breathing life back into a creature without breaking a sweat.

not to mention the way that space babies foreshadows to a universe that creates a story with all the ingredients it knows are supposed to be there (re: bogeyman - there's supposed to be a villain so it made one)

something IS going on. there is a bigger player - bigger than tecteun, bigger than the toymaker. could it be rtd just having a grand ole time using canon as is playground? maybe. but i hope it's something cool.

[koschgay]

sooooo Ruby is totally one of the Toymaker’s pantheon, right? or something even Older and More Dangerous? even Maestro didn’t know what she was. girl can summon snow on command whenever she feels sad, she’s got carol of the bells stuck in her soul, and the entire universe has started playing along with her rules of what stories are supposed to look like, purely for her entertainment. just. y’know. I don’t think she KNOWS she’s an eldritch god. but she sooooo is and I can’t wait for her to get even weirder <3

[yourheartinyourmouth]

hey, this model kit is already opened!

[alldni]

hey guys i’ve seen no one else say it. but can we talk about the scene in space babies with ruby at the huge wall window, looking out at space, commenting on humans surviving, as the doctor watches from behind. how she goes “my mum is long gone” and the doctor says “give me your phone” and he sonics it and she calls her and it’s a silly little interaction. yeah? and then can we talk about how that’s Literally Exactly What Happened in The End of the World with ninerose. the parallels… gifmakers GET IN HERE NOW.

[ohmerricat]

tonal whiplash too, CATEGORICALLY doctor who, one minute it’s all lovey dovey baby huggies doggos paper flowers, the next oh all these toddlers have been ABANDONED PERMANENTLY and are going to die a painful death as they SLOWLY SUFFOCATE AND STARVE while a helpless nanny watches them locked away from preemptive grief. oh and there are still economic recessions in the first great and bountiful human empire. so they’ve banned abortions in the 21000s. #whimsy

[notyoujamie]

[humanstein]

Be careful where you step.

It has to mean something.

[octarineblues]

so you know how in space babies ruby is all like, are they growing the children for food, and the doctor responds really strongly how that's a silly idea? my dude, like a day ago you were both literally fighting goblins that feast on human babies, ruby made a perfectly reasonable guess here