#and Rose was absolutely right

[theunknownmasks]

@mahoushojoumonster / @crimsonandgoldthieves

He's onto you both just you wait. He'll find out.

[praetorqueenreyna]

Hi-res version of the frostbite.studios & atouchofmagicdesigns ACOTAR dust covers! Bless them for making Lucien and Tamlin look SO FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDD!!!

[benevolenterrancy]

May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

[sirenetica]

It's never too early for Halloween festivities.

[obligatoryjauneblog]

Jaune: You think immortality is fun but then after the first few decades your mind starts to go, you forget 80% of your old life and start hallucinating your friends coming back to rescue you.

Ruby: Uh.. Jaune? That's a palm tree...

Jaune: ... So it is.

[harpoonsnotspoons]

Was only going to draw one thing today but Coraline AU Strilondes called to me

[supportanimy]

People saying they wouldn't want Amy and Rouge to be afterthoughts when they already are

If Amy wasn't an afterthought, she would've debuted before Knuckles and Shadow. And Rouge would debut with Shadow.

Honestly, I think people exaggerate Amy's role in SA2, but her role in the franchise as a whole is much bigger than Shadow's, and I'd argue Knuckles. Even if it was based on popularity over prominence, I feel like she still has a bigger fanbase than Knuckles, especially considering the shipping fandom

With Rouge, she is like actually important to Shadow as a character and also SA2. She's the first one to actually remind Shadow of Maria, a couple of times in fact. Also the one to find out all the secret details about the project, and also the one to find out about Gerald's real plan. And her appearance would probably also help Knuckles have an actual story for himself rather than be relegated to only supporting Sonic for this movie

Just, if Amy isn't in the third movie, it's already pretty bad. If Rouge isn't in it, it's fucking dire.

[rookie-icarus]

Doctor Who evolves with us as a society because that's what any good sci-fi should do: hold up a mirror.

To quote Pádraig Ó Tuama: "Science fiction is always a revelation of the present, not about the future."

So yes, I will celebrate lines that are a bit cheesy if it means we give trans and non-binary children stories they see themselves reflected in during a time when they need support most — especially when the UK is experiencing high rates of systemic transphobia and medical discrimination.

The more we fight for mainstream acceptance of targeted communities, the harder it is for politicians to fabricate reasons to justify the policies they are trying to pass under the radar. Stories matter. Rose Noble is so, so important. Her story is not new, but it hasn't been told nearly enough. It's a story of belonging, and fighting for your right to exist, and creating yourself.

Trans people have always been here, and they always will be. Rose Noble is truly a Timeless Child.

[master-missysversion]

I think Bill would lowkey judge the doctor if she found out about Rose and how she was only 19 when they met. Like not in any serious way but she would absolutely make fun of him

[camellcat]

right, so, as I was questioning the whole "why did the clockwork droids say rose was compatible?" it made me think of a fun fic idea where the droids are able to scan rose earlier and find her “compatible” or whatever, and now the episode is about finding a way to stop the droids, hoping that they don't lose their attention of trying to get rose, and making sure neither rose nor reinette are murked along the way

and, yeah, if the droids are focused on rose, they could just hop in the tardis and leave. but then, where does that leave history?

but at the same time, dilemma for the doctor by staying and consciously, actively deciding to put rose in harm's way, which I feel could be another fun “I could save the world but lose you” “do it” except a hell of a lot more tense between the two of them

like, I can just see a very upset and snappish doctor having to choose to stay on the ship with the droids bc this bit of history CAN'T be rewritten, except...

rose, and everything that just happened with sarah jane smith, and remembering that rose can very well leave him and die and will die eventually but could die NOW if he doesn't figure out how to save the day quick enough

and rose, also on edge from last episode, but also bc oh my god she's being hunted down like game for this insane ship repair. but also, would never ask him not to choose this, just also please please figure this out as quick as you can doctor bc she'd really rather not die ta

or like, imagine him going into rose's head, but it's horrible for them both bc he wants to soo bad, but not like this, never because of this. and she's just had bloody casandra rummaging around in there just a while ago, it can't be nice to have even MORE picking through her thoughts and memories. and, ohhh, I bet he'd be furious at how much rose has been messed with by casandra and the droids and then by him himself even if he means well, only wants to help

anyhow, I just think that'd be fun to read. surprised it's not been done before!

[yakny]

A TERRIBLE NIGHT IS COMING (WARNING)

[hottestthingalive]

ppl who are saying they don’t know why i included mickey in the world’s most fucked up polycule post are valid but do NOT feel about boom town like i do. jack harkness flirted with every single other character in that episode including mickey and listen I KNOW him alluding they all fucked in the tardis was a joke but. I maintain that they all fucked in the tardis before the slitheen stuff happened. jack & rose & the doctor & mickey are all rotating around each other like a collapsing star system. s2 is the polycule tragically dissolving bc mickey got a new boyfriend in another country (read: universe) and jack got. uh. ditched on the side of the road (read: left behind for his fixed-pointedness) but before that they were all being extremely toxic together. including mickey <3

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Dorothy being assaulted at 17 and then trapped in a marriage for the next 38 years really makes the queer subtext heartbreaking rather than funny. It also adds a whole lot to how barbed she gets when they discuss her sex life and how vanilla it is or how little sex she had, no wonder it would be a sore subject (and no wonder its consistent that she had very little sex with Stan in her marriage and said she didn't enjoy it when they did).

Yep, that's part of the reason why I think that queer subtext is so insightful!

A queer reading of Dorothy is not necessary to understand the gravity of what happened to her, to be fair. Stan is very clearly depicted as a bad lover in general and an especially inattentive lover to her -- take eg what she says of him in S1E22 Job Hunting:

"It took three seconds. I wasn't sure that we had done anything, actually… until nine months later, when the baby came. Then I figured out that we had."

Which... doesn't seem like a great experience. Add onto it the fact that a) this is a recollection of her first time, b) she was coerced into performing the act either via emotional manipulation or alcohol/substances (as well detailed in this post by @eeblouissant), and c) her situation didn't improve at all during her marriage; if anything it got worse, since Stan was always out cheating on her -- no wonder she has a bad relationship with sex! Actually, I've said before that I think she has a remarkably open and healthy attitude towards sex, all things considered.

Thinking of Dorothy as queer (especially as a repressed lesbian) makes it all even more tragic, though. I think it's very likely, considering that she's a Catholic of Italian origin, that she hadn't even realized she liked women by the time she got involved with Stan -- I myself reached that conclusion in my early 20s! However, by that time Dorothy was already married and a mother; can you imagine how painful the mere idea would have been, for her? Of course she'd never even consider it while still married to Stan, and she'd have a hard time coming to terms with it after her divorce. It adds a thick layer of suppression and self-sacrifice to her whole story that I think is very thematically appropriate for her character (and that personally destroys me lmao. I cannot think about it for too long or I'll cry my heart out).

I think her whole experience with Stan also justifies her enthusiasm for some of her lovers in the show, even in a queer reading. I mean -- after all that, her standards must be on the floor! The bar is so low, she's dancing the lambada with the devil! Even a modicum of attention to her needs would blow her mind, I think -- even if it didn't come from her preferred gender, and especially if she wasn't ready to confront the truth about her sexuality yet. A lifetime of suppression isn't easy to get over -- she'd probably blame her bad experience with sex during her marriage on Stan alone (instead of considering that maybe she'd rather not be with a man at all).

Sorry, anon -- you probably weren't expecting a ramble in response, haha! But yeah, you make a great point; reading Dorothy as queer adds even more depth to her character and greatly enhances the tragedy of her story.

(Just for the record -- I've never thought the queer reading of Dorothy was funny! Maybe I'm reading this wrong, I just wanted to clarify.)

[nostalgia-tblr]

Act 1, Scene 1

I am determined to prove a villain...

(update: there's a GIF version here cos I got ambitious)

[falderaletcetera]

come to think of it another reason I'm biased towards nine might be because we never reach such beautiful casual queer vibes as the doctor + rose + jack situation again, at least not as far as I've watched. like I'm honestly not that much of a shipper but that kiss scene DOES things to me. and part of that is how loosely defined the relationship seems to be, at least maybe from jack's perspective. I can't rightly say it was wholly romantic in canon, but it sure was something - yes, rose flirted with jack way more than the doctor did when they first met, but the doctor even just being chill about jack kissing him feels significant - and I do love a quasi-romantic loosely-defined Something.

[rosewilsonravager]

I find it really hard to get back into comics these days, DC specifically. I've tried, but there doesn't seem to be any internal consistency with stories and characters. It all seems to operate on a specific writer's whim to determine what in a character's history is canon/relevant at any given time, and character development or important events may be dropped without a word. Characters go through so many different writers that they may end up completely different than they were 5 years ago, or become flanderized version of themselves. Their histories might get erased, some parts of their histories might randomly come back, relationships they have with other characters might be forgotten about, etc.

DC seems to want to operate on the idea of "everything is canon", but that doesn't… really work, when there are direct contradictions to what's come before—things that couldn't be canon if other things are. And honestly, I don't enjoy that. I don't like the idea of all these stories happening in a vacuum, aand having to decide for myself what stories have or have not happened for each specific character I like (at least in official media, because that's what fan fic is for). I will always prefer fully developed narratives, and characters who are allowed to grow and evolve, and maintain internal consistency to their stories. I like beginnings, middles, and ends, not the constant state of stagnation these characters always seem to be in, because god forbid the status quo ever change.

As an example, my favorite DC character is/was Rose Wilson—but specifically from before Flashpoint and the New 52. Nowadays, even after Rebirth, she's just a different character to me. Most of what I loved about her has been written out or forgotten about, and I have tried to enjoy her for what she is now, but I haven't been as engaged by her stories or how she's been written. In my own opinion, most of what made her so compelling for me is gone, and with the exception of a couple standout moments here and there, she's been mostly a nerfed caricature of herself. Her backstory has been changed, her ethnicity was changed (from Khmer to Hmong), her dynamic with her family has changed, she no longer has the same relationships with so many characters, and even if you want to say "everything in her past and all her stories still happened", there are direct contradictions now that prevent that from making sense.

I have had to come to accept that, while I find the present-day Rose "okay"—not great, not bad, just okay—the character I fell in love with and who became my favorite of all time ended in 2011 when DC decided to reboot things. And that makes me a little sad.

This is, of course, only my own opinion. I will never knock on others for enjoying these comics or these characters how they are, and if you do I'm happy for you! I wish I could too, but unfortunately it's just not for me anymore. I have since taken solace in fan works and my own writing, where I can get that kind of concrete development and narrative consistency, and that's okay with me.