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Best thing about Doctor Who, and I mean this so genuinely, is the way it goes from ‘haunting Celtic folk mystery about death and penitence’ to ‘what if your group chat banter was so dire that your phone developed sentience and tried to kill you’
#doctor who#dw#but in seriousness i really liked the ending of this one - very effectively unpleasant#also thought it was very funny that last week they tried to convince us that a 19 year old was 40 simply by giving her unflattering glasses#am enjoying this series :)#73 yards#dot and bubble
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#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmdedit#ofmd s2 spoilers#blackbonnet#blackbonnetedit#gentlebeard#gentlebeardedit#edward teach#blackbeard#stede bonnet#taika waititi#rhys darby#literally what do i do with this#WHAT DO I DO WITH ANY OF IT#THERE'S TOO MUCH STUFF MY BRAIN REFUSES TO PROCESS IT#im not even capable of reblogging things yet bc my chest feels like i've been gargling and swallowing glass#i keep having to get up and just walk in circles#i've hyperventilated 73 times since yesterday#i knew david was gonna give us everything we ever wanted but that doesn't mean i was ready to see any of it#anyway i just needed this in the highest resolution on my blog#my stuff
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This week in obscure Doctor Who expanded universe references the internet has found:
First, the pub has a beer called Llanfer Ceiriog Pale Ale. While there's some similarly named locations IRL, with the Ceiriog Valley being a valley in North-East Wales, there is no place actually called this. Instead it's seemingly a direct reference to a fictional Welsh village visited by Seven and Ace in Cat's Cradle: Witch's Mark, connected by a stone circle to a planet of fantasy creatures. Quite ironic, given how mocking the landlady and patrons are about people thinking Welsh villages are backwards and full of witchcraft.
Secondly, while this might be a coincidence, Kate's suggestion of a Sontaran's arrival inspiring belief in God could be referencing DWM 59's comic: "The Gods Walk Among Us", where ancient Egyptians indeed mistake a Sontaran named Styx for a god.
Bonus, because it's not actually a reference, but just a reused filming location:
The pub Ruby stays in is the same one in Countrycide. At least in this case, however, it's just a filming location coincidence. The external shots are completely different, they're in different villages, and the pubs have different names.
#Doctor Who#DW Spoilers#Doctor Who Spoilers#73 Yards#Torchwood#DWM#Doctor Who Magazine#VNAs#Cat's Cradle: Witch's Mark#The Gods Walk Among Us#Countrycide#Doctor Who EU
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heeey they graphically updated the ARR world leaders with custom models (well. Nanamo has one too but she seems the same to my eyes and she seems like a normal lala when not wearing her full costume?)...
Aside from Raubahn and Merlwyb somehow being even hotter I have to shout out Kan-E's unicorn necklace's radical improvement :D
(unicorn way up so you also never unsee it)
Aymeric, Lyse and Hien remained low poly at the Alliance meeting, as did poor HW-style Thancred, who just dramatically collapsed in order to travel the rift into graphical fidelity...
Also very funny that earlier Asahai showed up with the old graphics, but Maxima was already boasting full new skin textures despite having of course a way more custom model than the completely character creator ready Hyur next to him... This is the exact right time in the game's history to be in late Stormblood to enjoy the roll out.
#accidentally made the hrothgal on a preferred server so I'm desperately trying to make the most of road to 90#back when I was young it was road to 70 and you could cap out every job in HW and not worry about it#now I'm 86 and 84 on 2 jobs 73 on all hand/land and feeling scared I'll run out of buff before I hit shadowbringers...#ffxiv#I also have a staggering lack of character stuff to SAY about Anatalya even though I think she's great#not much Bozjan character building that leaps out aside from Huge Cid Feelings at every turn#ANYWAY back to clicking through cutscenes so I can get another 10 levels of hand/land before hitting another wall#unless you actually use the MB to buy mats (which I am not desperate enough to do) you can't do any hand ins at level :<#and if I wanted to do more than GC ones I'd have to buy crafting gear as well since scrip is expansion locked#so no collectables because I'd have to buy well over even levelling gil amounts of gear and mats#aurghhhh#I only wanted crafter/gatherer to save money on repairs and melding on an alt on a server I didn't have Frog's fc to nepo baby her on#and thought road to 90 would make it easy :P
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HE LOOKS SO GOOD!!!! He has to know he's fine. Just noticed he's grabbing a tiddie xd
People should worry about how much I love this man.
#matt rempe x reader#matt rempe#matt rempe x plus sized!reader#nhl players#nhl hockey#nhl#hartford wolfpack#matt rempe 73#i need him#i love him#my man my man my man#my man <3#my man fr#girlblogging#this is what makes us girls#im just a girl#just girly things#this is a girlblog#girl blogger#blogging#tumblr girls#blog girl#matt rempe imagines#i'm so in love#hockey#this man#new york rangers#mr73
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Going in for a kiss
wheelchair bonding <3
#elias leroux#fallen london#august of the calander council#the jovial contrarian#dye stained art#please do not ask how many pencils i used on this. i genuinly have no idea but it was over multiple dozen#him face <3#his suit is based on a morning jacket from 73! (83? one of those two) so! August's style is noticably older too <3#anyways. sick4sick relationships <3333333#kinda just. bust this out in a 7 hour frenzy so!! cjxjdbfjxhjsjdxjsjd#chittering#fallen london fanart#yes my oc x canon gets maintagged
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An F9F-6 of VF-73 makes a poor landing a catches the barrier aboard USS Tarawa (CVA-40) during carrier qualifications, December 1954
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Love the dual imagery of the old woman. How she represents both the previous generations that dealt with Mad Jack the first time, and the current generation worrying what their future will be. Will the older version of me look on me kindly? Is that even the older version of me, does that person even survive? Or is it only the past, silently watching us walk into destruction?
The old woman appeared after the the circle was broken, yes, but also after Ruby became aware of her own mortality due to the Doctor’s slip of the tongue.
As a representation of the previous generations, the woman is distant and offputting. Not even the oldest folks in the pub are worried about Mad Jack anymore, and when Ruby tries to bring other people in, tries to let those now-dead generations speak, Ruby becomes the problem.
She’s left to embark on this (in retrospect) decades-long mission virtually alone, getting involved in politics, taking calls, holding coats, pulling every strategic lever available to her even if it means working for this terrible man. She has to, because she’s one of the few people who fully recognize the danger he poses.
And both the past and herself-from-the-future are watching.
#ruby sunday#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#doctor who 73 yards#mad jack#roger ap gwilliam#doctor who meta#something something the way you deal with existential dread about the future is by getting involved#taking knowledge and strategies from the people who did this before#the dread keeps following#but in time that relationship becomes softer and more peaceful#more full of hope#and perhaps someday an even further future generation#will look to us to see how we bound Mad Jack
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I hope nothing gets explained about 73 yards, actually. I hope its left ambiguous. I don't think it would be a bad episode if RTD doesn't tell us everything, in fact I think it makes it a better one
#I don't wanna kno what old ruby was telling ppl to make them run away#I think its best if its left up to the watcher. I think if it was revealed to us it would ruin the horror element#it's one of those 'don't show the monster' deals#doctor who#73 yards
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Okay I might just be reading too much into this. But while I was watching the episode *cough cough* procrastinating *cough cough I realised that they don't show how the Doctor and Ruby got there.
And I know that it's probably just meant to be vaguely like 'they just went for fun'.
BUT this is the third episode in a row where we haven't seen them arrive. And for 73 yards it was clearly a doctor who episode when it started but it immediately gets rid of the doctor. ( I know that for 73 yards and for dot and bubble it was because Ncuti Gatwa was filming other stuff but let me cook) In Dot and Bubble you could effectively be forgiven for assuming that it was a random Black Mirror episode or something similar until the Doctor turns up, and tbh if you were just flicking through channels and haven't been watching Doctor Who you could probably basically not know for much longer. In Rogue they are just there, except for the title screen (the same for dot and bubble) you could basically watch it as a Bridgerton episode until the Chuldur turn up.
(And there's whole other rant about how the Chuldur fits into the theory about this basically being a TV show within a TV show, I don't know the name for this theory)
But anyway these episodes are increasingly separated from the Doctor and Ruby as plot points particularly in the beginning of episodes. They are more and more like an excuse to tell the story or explore the topic that the writers want to explore. Which isn't totally different from the occasional episode of previous series, but this is a lot more in my memory at least from previous series. So it feels a lot like they are skimming over the more sci-fi doctor who elements. Which fits in in my mind to the idea that the 'One who waits' is a representation of story telling. I've seen theories that it's Ruby but she doesn't know it which makes sense, I think it would also make sense for it to be her parent(s) who left her, or alternatively just it's own thing all together. But it feels very like that bit where Amy is living a life and starts to realise it's all fake.
The narrowing down of these episodes into not showing them arriving, and at least in Rogue - I can't remember in the others - not showing them leaving the story, feels very different.
It feels more and more like story telling. They have covered fairy tales, Period pieces/Romance, Dystopia, War/SciFi, Musicals, Political Drama. They are also showing the doctor playing his role, something that we see companions doing often enough but we seldom see the doctor doing it.
In Space Babies he is scared of a new creature. In the Devil's Code he sings a song that makes little sense in the story, he doesn't question the road making noise. In Boom he's more himself but it's also the closes to his 'normal' environment. In 73 Yards they just fully remove him from the story, which I realise was done for filming requirements but would have been so interesting to see the doctor in a Political drama. In Dot and Bubble he plays the role of the outsider bringing information to those living under a Dystopia, how is he UNABLE to access the inside, sure he plays a role that's fairly similar to himself but Doctor Who is really Dystopian.
In Rogue he is becoming more and more his role, he is playing the role of a sort of Elizabeth Bennet style character, a strong romantic interest for the brooding man. Which is great, he makes fun of the genre, but he is hyper aware of the genre and still ends up in its pitfalls. He trusts a man so quickly he ends up handing over his sonic, he gets proposed to and basically immediately accepts. Now I am really hoping that Rogue gets to stay around I really liked him as a character, regardless of which theory of his identity if any are true. But the Doctors reaction to him is still a little out of character, he is feeling what he is SUPPOSED to feel and he is acting how he is SUPPOSED to act.
It just feels to me like an increasing number of these episodes are more and more story like and more and more separated from the more Doctor Who elements. And the lack of an introduction of how they get there, and the lack of them leaving in the TARDIS is so unusual to me and stands out to my brain so much.
It feels like they are removing elements that don't fit the genre. Anyway not sure if that makes any sense but I'm vibing with it.
#15th Doctor#Rogue#Doctor Who#I am meant to be studying - Like i have a paper and exam due tomorrow#this is not a good use of my time but I also need to yap#I have been cooking way too hard on the stuff that just doesn't need to be done#Anyway please tell me which bits are making me sound like an idiot coz I don't think I've had a coherent thought since exams started#I did not realise how long this post was getting#Doctor Who Rogue#Rogue is hot too#I might be going insane but#Theres heaps of yap in this I'm so sorry I let it get away from me#Doctor Who theory#dw meta#73 yards#doctor who series 14#susan twist#space babies#And this doesn't even get me started on Susan Twist who was like#a. partially hiredfor her amazing last name#and b. the song being 'there's always a twist at the end' and then her name always being in the credits#oooo so good
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That said, the compulsory DNA bank instated by Britain’s future “worst prime minister ever” being the thing that the Doctor and Ruby use to find out Ruby’s birth mother's identity is Not Good. imagine why Roger ap Gwillam wanted that DNA bank? The implications of forcing every person in the UK to submit their DNA into a searchable bank that was created by a warmongering fascist government?? But it’s only mentioned as a plot device that helps Ruby find her mother? That’s not a good look that’s not a good look that’s not a good look
#I think I would have been slightly more fine with it this was already seeded in 73 yards#like if during that interview with amol he mentioned it while the camera is on Ruby and it’s kind of background noise#but to introduce it like that and be like “ooh let’s use that!’’ without a second thought is bad bad bad#doctor who#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#empire of death
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My ranking of this series of Doctor Who:
8. Space Babies
No surprise here. Starts out strong but doesn’t stick the landing. I’d rather skip the last half hour and watch The Mind Robber instead.
7. Empire of Death
This one didn’t do it for me. I’ve never liked big time skips, the reveal of Ruby’s mother was disappointing, and too many plot threads were left dangling. That being said, there were some wonderful moments, like the scene in Downing Street set to Carol of the Bells.
6. The Devil’s Chord
Jinkx’s performance is good, but she’s at a 12 when she needs to be at an 11. There wasn’t enough to ground Maestro’s character, and as a result the episode felt disjointed. Great fun, though, and RTD did a great job conveying the stakes of dealing with gods.
5. Rogue
I’m giving this one the benefit of the doubt, as I wasn’t in the right state of mind when it came out and I haven’t rewatched it. Great performances, but overall the story felt stilted. Every time someone said “cosplay” it took me out of the fantasy.
4. 73 Yards
Great episode, and Millie Gibson shines. I’m too confused to rank it properly. Scariest episode in a while, with a haunting ending.
3. Dot and Bubble
I’m sure 73 Yards was technically better, but this one was a shock. As with many of the stories this season, what makes the twist of this episode so effective is that it was in plain sight the whole time. Made me reflect on how I navigate the world.
2. Boom
Moffat, it’s good to have you back! Great premise, very suspenseful, had me on the edge of my seat. I am concerned that Ncuti doesn’t have the gravitas to consistently deliver as the Oncoming Storm, but we shall see.
1. The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Not the technical best of this list, but certainly the most enjoyable! I was hooked the whole time, and my jaw was on the floor at the end. I have been getting more into Classic Who lately, and I loved having that pay off. The best part of this episode is the shots of the TARDIS in UNIT HQ, making that horrible noise, a symbol of hope and joy transformed into something menacing and terrible. This is Ncuti’s best performance of the season, and it’s the first time I truly saw him as the Doctor.
#doctor who#dw spoilers#kind of#I can’t use ‘kinda’ as a tag bc that’s an episode title#15th doctor#space babies#empire of death#the devil's chord#rogue#dw rogue#73 yards#dot and bubble#boom#the legend of ruby sunday#my posts
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the even bigger questions is. why does susan twist have like. third billing in this ep lmao
#too lazy to go back and look but im pretty sure shes higher than the 73 yards lady?#that or theyre swapped 3rd and 4th#anyway. i thought it weird how she was so high up on the credits#they reaaaaaally want us to notice#doctor who#dw#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#73 yards#susan twist#tina talks#dwho
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i was thinking about the recent episode and ik we are all v confused and trying to make sense of everything that happened in it. and i was kinda hung up on why it was 73 yards exactly. i think there is a lot of theorizing on other parts of the episode but i haven’t really seen anyone talk about that so i was doing some research and something i found that was interesting is this:
it’s an old telegraph code! which did remind me of the static that you could hear through ruby’s phone when her mother was talking to “the woman”.
it feels kinda ironic because it’s a nice way to say goodbye while everyone that talks to “the woman” and thus also stands at 73 yards distance from ruby leaves her life pretty abruptly, feeling distaste/distrust for her. they leave, without sending their best regards.
it feels…cruel. if that iS the meaning of the 73 yards. it might not have any meaning at all after all. i just thought it was v interesting and when i saw this sth in my stomach kinda dropped like “oH”.
#doctor who#73 yards#millie gibson#ruby sunday#doctor who season 14#also it’s sent in morse coode which like the sigh languags??? the woman might be using is voiceless#did anyone figure out if she is using sign language??
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Bless you. Thank you so much, That's so kind of you. When you gave me that little thing. It was just so precious. How am i ever going to repay you? But we will think of something
I'm sure that this has already been shared, but people from the UK are saying that according to Doctor Who Unleashed (a UK-only show), that this is the translation of what Scary Lady is signing.
#26:47 for people in the UK#i can't say this is true since i'm in the US#73 yards#doctor who#ruby sunday
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US Vogue October 15, 1972
Anjelica Huston wears a natural silver fox coat. By Oscar de la Renta. Bright red sweater by Korrigan, gray flannel pants and belt by yves Saint Laurent Rive gauche, knit and leather gloves, by Keyser, red muffler, by Echo, sunglasses, Riviera, thick-soled crepe shoes, by Shoe Biz. Hairdressing, Cinandre.
Anjelica Huston porte un manteau en renard argenté naturel. Par Oscar de la Renta. Pull rouge vif par Korrigan, pantalon en flanelle gris et ceinture par yves Saint Laurent Rive gauche, gants en tricot et cuir, par Keyser, cache-nez rouge, par Echo, lunettes de soleil, Riviera, Chaussures à semelles épaisses en crêpe, par Shoe Biz. Coiffure, Cinandré.
Photo Irving Penn vogue archive
#us vogue#fashion 70s#1972-73#fall/winter#automne/hiver#ready to wear#prêt à porter#oscar de la renta#yves saint laurent rive gauche#korrigan#echo#riviera#keyser#shoe biz#anjelica huston#irving penn#silver fox#renard argenté
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