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mrcrawly · 2 months ago

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Dr. House is some of the best unintentional autistic representation I have seen in popular media

I think the title is a slight overstatement, but I honestly feel this way. I'm not finished with House MD by ANY means so do keep that in mind, but I'm almost finished with season 2 so this is based off what I have seen.

Also: I am aware that there is an episode where they discuss the possibility that House has Asperger's. Obviously that term has fallen out of favor because Asperger was, you know, a Nahtzee, but I am going to emphasize that House has particularly low-support needs. My source is that I'm autistic and this is a topic I'm relatively familiar with. (Also. please take this with a grain of salt because David Shore also created "The Good Doctor" which is a comparatively pretty poor representation of autism, but I'm going to talk about House MD in its own vacuum.)

Lack of knowledge or concern for social cues. I don't really think this needs explaining, but House doesn't seem to have much regard or respect for social norms. He doesn't care much for social approval or maintaining relationships. I don't necessarily characterize this as specifically being an autistic trait, because this can greatly vary, but this is something I see in myself and other autistic people.

Strong sense of justice and morals. I see a lot of people calling House a "sociopath" simply because he isn't particularly empathetic. But the word sociopath gets thrown around a lot and it really doesn't characterize him well at all. I would argue that House feels cognitive empathy rather than the more emotional sense of empathy that most people experience, but equating empathy and morality is a big no-go. House has little concern for some ethical principles, as the show points out pretty often, but House is never looking to hurt anybody. House is always pretty dry and easily annoyed, but the only time we see him openly angry and upset is when someone endangers a patient. When Chase fucks up the angiogram, potentially putting a woman's life in danger, he holds it against him for ages. And in "The Mistake," when a woman dies and it has to be determined whose fault it was, House yells at Chase in the middle of the lobby over his negligence. Also, House does actually have empathy when it's necessary. He typically softens himself around younger patients and will make an effort to be calm, and when Stacy admits that she and Mark have been fighting and becomes upset, he tries to help her calm down and doesn't try to make the situation about himself. When he thinks that his "nemesis" from school is faking the results of his migraine medicine, he goes out of his way to prove that he's right - partially because, yeah, he wants to be right and get Weber back - but also because he sees this as cheating, and knows it's ultimately harming people.

Very few, specific interests. House doesn't seem to have a lot that he's interested in. His job is one of them, because he gets joy and satisfaction out of solving medical problems. It's also established that he's deeply invested in General Hospital and monster trucks (although I wasn't sure if that was a House thing or a Wilson thing? But he seemed pretty excited about it too). Other than that, he doesn't have many obvious or noteworthy things he's interested in.

Difficulty maintaining interpersonal relationships. Wilson is House's only friend, and House seems to be (mostly) content with that. He cares about other people, in his own strange way, but he consistently struggles to create and maintain personal relationships, whether because of his disregard for social niceties or because of his fear of vulnerability. Again, this may not necessarily be in relation to autism, but it's worth noting.

Odd speech patterns. I'm sick of media making it seem like all autistic people can't comprehend sarcasm. It is common for autistic people to take things literally, but autistic people also sometimes use sarcasm and metaphors more than the average person in verbal communication. I do this all the time. House is constantly saying weird, offbeat things, or making strange, vague metaphors, especially when he's deep in thought.

Stimming. Throwing his ball at the wall. Pacing. Spinning his cane around. Tapping his cane on the floor. Spinning it like a baton when he's alone in the room and trying to think. Sometimes he also nods his head back and forth when he's thinking.

Routine. This one is a little hard to spot, because House actually does seem to thrive when things are changing or new things happen. I see this mostly in House wearing the same things all the time. He's usually wearing some button-up and a blazer/jacket over it, and typically jeans and the same pair of shoes. The shoes are most likely for his comfort, but sometimes autistic people like to wear the same things a lot because it's what's most comfortable or they don't have to worry about unpredictability. Also, it seems like he eats the same thing a lot, since everyone knows he gets a dry Reuben sandwich.

This is just what I noticed and based on my personal experiences as an autistic person. This doesn't mean I think the show discusses autism in the most graceful or meaningful way - I just really like to break down my favorite characters and analyze them.

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undiscovered-horizon · 5 months ago

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"Dream a little dream of me" - 11th Doctor x Reader

[TW: major character death, grief]

SUMMARY: When you, Doctor's love long gone, show up in the Dream Lord's reality, the decision becomes a lot harder for him to make.

WORDCOUNT: ~ 4k

based on 5x7, "Amy's choice"

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It was only a glimpse - a piece of flowing, lilac material seen in the corner of his eye. Although it wasn’t much, hardly anything, it was enough. The Doctor’s thoughts rushed in the direction of you. Yes, he really liked how pastels looked on you.

But it wasn’t you, obviously. It simply couldn’t have been. You didn’t buy ownership of the colour lilac, did you? It could have been anyone! Anything! A two-headed dog on a unicycle with a lilac party hat!

As much as he tried to reason himself out of this melancholy and “what ifs”, the notion lingered in the back of his head. Like an itch he couldn’t reach to scratch and so elected to ignore it. That didn’t mean the sensation suddenly disappeared.

"Right, so we had some sort of psychic episode." The Doctor seemed suspiciously calm while delivering that news as if it was hardly the first time it had happened to him.

"But how?" Amy dwelled on the subject. The experience was a little too strange and unsettling for her to simply let it go. "How can something like that happen?"

The Doctor shrugged slightly. "Well, there's a-"

Amy continued to stare at him with wide eyes but not a word left the Doctor's mouth. All colour left his face, his eyebrows became a little slanted in an expression of sadness and shock. Some melancholic cloud rendered his vision blank as though his mind had slipped into a world next door; he was remembering something he couldn’t bring himself to forget.

"Doctor?" she asked quietly but he wasn't listening to her. Not anymore.

"No," the Doctor whispered to himself.

He began frantically looking for something. Whipping his head around, he was running from one corner of the room to the other, clearly searching or checking. The Doctor even knocked on different surfaces, restlessly listening to the echo of whatever was underneath.

“Where is this coming from?!” he shouted. “Where is it?!”

Neither Amy nor Rory had seen the time-traveller in such profound distress. They couldn’t even begin to guess what caused his sudden breakdown. Whatever it was, they silently agreed that it was not anything recent; no, this pain had been festering for decades, if not longer. Unattended, unaccepted, it had grown into something too grievous to be understood by those, who had not experienced it. Perhaps, seeing his change of demeanour, Amy and Rory didn’t want to empathize with the Doctor. What madness could such grief bring?

Both Amy and Rory watched the Doctor in confusion. As the ridiculous, frantic search kept going, the man only became more unstable. What began as denial has turned into a true frenzy; madness brought by something that kept eluding him. The Doctor was ignoring the couple’s questions and so they were planning on simply grabbing him to force the answer out of the man.

But then Rory noticed something - a detail that was as unmistakable as it was impossible.

"Can you hear it?" he asked Amy. "It's like... someone's singing."

The comment made the Doctor suddenly stop. He turned on his heel to face his companions. With pale skin and reddened eyes, he looked seriously ill.

“So it’s not just me,” he said more to himself than anyone else. By the tone of his voice, it was hard to tell whether he considered this revelation positive or negative.

Among the whirring of engineering, a soft hum was audible. It sounded absentminded as if the enigmatic musician was preoccupied with something else and decided to sing to fill the overwhelming silence of the ship. For a moment, all three of them listened to the faint humming echoing throughout the emptiness of the TARDIS:

“Birds singing in the sycamore trees, dream a little dream of me.”

As though on command, a resounding birdsong forced them to sleep again.

The next time the three of them woke up in the TARDIS, their anxiety only multiplied. Neither of them could be sure which world belonged to fantasy and which to reality. Such lack of certainty of one's sanity, like a tree without roots, could only lead to madness and the death that always followed it.

"This could be a dream too!" Rory argued. Between the mundane and the fantasies closest to his heart, it was awfully hard to make up one’s mind. Especially if the outcome could prove unfavourable.

"But this feels real,” Amy continued. “I know I said it before but this time I mean it. Out of all the places, why would we be in Leadworth? It can’t be real.”

“Upper Leadworth,” he corrected her. As much as he tried, it was still quite obvious Amy’s question upset him. “And, well-”

“Examine everything!” The Doctor interjected the couple’s quarrel. If he was frenzied before, now he came off as paranoid. “Look for all the details that don’t ring true.”

“Like what?” Amelia asked.

The Doctor pressed his lips into a thin line. For an imperceptible second, his chin quivered.

“Like her,” he said as he pointed somewhere.

Confused, Amy and Rory followed the direction of the accusatory index finger. At its very end stood you - a stranger to them but painfully familiar to the Doctor. The lilac slip dress you were wearing seemed fitting for a vivid dream. Still leaning against the railing on the upper floor balcony, you gave the three a small wave. Out of everyone, you were the only one completely unbothered by the brain-racking scenario. Strangely enough, you must have been standing there for some time now and yet the couple noticed you only when the Doctor pointed you out - almost like it was he who was responsible for your appearance.

“What’s wrong with her?” Rory asked slowly. To him, you looked perfectly normal. Almost too normal, all things considered.

The Doctor suddenly began to tremble. He put his arm down only to nervously rub his hands together.

"She's dead," he whispered. The quietness of his voice makes the cracking and wavering almost inaudible. His eyes did not dare look towards his companions.“Has been for a while now.”

Despite answering his question, the Doctor didn’t quite satisfy Rory’s curiosity.

“Sorry, who is that?” he inquired further. “Or… was?”

“A long story,” the Doctor responded. Judging by the melancholy dripping from each of his words, he was using a diplomatic euphemism. “Ancient history actually,” he said in a forced cheerful voice as he looked at his friends. “Well, not literally ancient. Just someone from long ago. A lifetime ago, in a manner of speaking.”

Yes, he was a different man when he met you. When you died, he became someone else, too. Truthfully, he never stopped changing: as each new day separates him further from you, he continued to grow into a shell of who he once could have been. How strange this thought truly was, that he must remember you for longer than he had known you…

"Then this must be the dream,” Amy stated decisively. Whether it was the Doctor’s confession or the vision of a domestic, boring life, she seemed convinced. She couldn’t have actually chosen mundane, quiet Leadworth, could she?

But the Doctor isn’t quite as certain. In his mind, a complicated puzzle required an equally complicated solution.

"No, we're missing something,” he said. “It would be too easy."

What he really wanted to say was ‘it would be too easy for me to choose’. Never once in his life did a good thing come easy or free. Why should it now? Why should he suddenly have an opportunity to end this dull pain where his hearts used to be?

The Dream Lord’s reveal answered as many old questions as it posed new ones. Although ‘decide which one is real’ was just one objective, it was a highly complicated one. At least a thousand inquiries hid behind those five words; inquiries for which they didn’t have the time. The only thing they could be sure of is that the puzzle isn’t impossible - now, where would be fun in that? Except for that one fact, there was nothing that tethered them to their true lives.

Despite their jackets, Rory and Amy began to feel the gnawing cold. Space was cold, much colder than they could even imagine. With fear, confusion and desperation thrumming in their chests, the heatless atmosphere became something more profound. The shivering of their bodies only fed into anxiety; their mind and hearts were turning into stone.

The couple’s spat with the Doctor was cut short:

“You should get blankets,” you interjected. Strange, how the dead person’s voice is the last warm thing about the TARDIS. “It’s really cold in here.”

All things considered, you didn’t seem bothered by the drop in temperature. In fact, you appeared exactly as you did the last time they saw you. The lack of change makes Amy and Rory exchange a questioning look. Surely you must be proof that the life in Leadworth is the real one, right?

“You’re dead, you can’t be cold,” the Doctor retorted, his voice laced with uncharacteristic indifference. For some reason, he didn’t even bother to look in your direction. A strange device of a hand-held whisk and a corkscrew was more interesting to him than his late lover.

“I didn’t say I was,” you answered. “You’re the one feeling cold, sweetheart.”

Your words made him suddenly turn around. He looked at you with squinted eyes, a symptom of suspicion. In slow steps, the Doctor made his way towards the balcony you were standing on. Should the circumstances be a little different, the scene would have befitted a romance novel - a lovesick gentleman coming to his lady’s home, too sick with longing to patiently wait for their next meeting. The events on the TARDIS, however, were more akin to a gothic horror.

The Dream Lord’s words rang in his head. ‘I’ve always been able to see through you, Doctor.’

Could it be? Could their captor be cruel enough to use your likeness to toy with him?

“How can you know what I’m feeling?” the Doctor probed. Unconsciously, he rubbed his hands together, giving away the bustle of his troubled mind.

With a smile on your face, you answered him with a question: “Why do nightmares always know how to scare you?”

“They’re not sentient, nightmares can’t exactly know anything,” he began. “When you’re dreaming, it’s basically like being in the eye of the storm but instead of the wind, it’s your own thoughts. The monsters in your nightmares scare you because they have access to everything you’re thinking about.” The Doctor fell silent for a second. Then, his shoulders slouched. A pale shadow of grief danced across his features as his eyes glazed over. “Oh,” he whispered under his breath.

Perhaps the poets were right - the world did end with a sigh. Although, could it ever end if it never started in the first place?

Still as chipper as ever, you clapped enthusiastically. “Very clever! Now go grab some blankets before all three of you dream of the North Pole.”

Then you giggled and it was possibly the worst thing you could have done. The Doctor’s chest momentarily tightened, his breath taken from him. Must you laugh exactly the way you did? Can’t you take pity on the man you’re haunting and not remind him of the treasures he can never possess again?

“Are you alright?” asked Amy. She knew it was a silly question considering the moment but couldn’t help herself. The Raggedy Doctor from her childhood stories looked like a shadow of a memory, a mare; he appeared closer to a husk, whose creator kept remembering they had forgotten to put inside some vital piece.

“Don’t worry about little old me,” he reassured her. The lie was in no way convincing. “Get some blankets, they should be right over there.” He pointed in the general direction of an alcove-turned-storage.

With the couple gone, the Doctor turned towards you once again. You were just standing there, hands resting against the railing. The soft adoration in your eyes tore at his hearts. He missed the way you looked at him but he knew that none of this was real. Not in the way he wanted it to be. If your appearance was Dream Lord’s doing, there would be nothing to curb the anger brewing inside the Doctor.

“Are you really here?” he asked quietly, lest Rory and Amy hear. “Or are you only a nightmare?”

Maybe calling you a ‘bad dream’ sounded awful at first but there was a lot of truth in that. He couldn’t fear losing you as it had already happened. However, it is even more terrifying to find what was once lost, while knowing it can be taken at any moment. Without miracles this time.

You leaned your body forward against the railing. “Define ‘real’ and ‘here’.”

“Are you Dream Lord’s doing?”

You cocked your head from side to side. “Yes and no.”

Multiple wrinkles creased his forehead as he furrowed his eyebrows. “It can’t be both, has to be one or the other.”

“Does it, though?” you asked. The tone of your voice made it sound like he just asked something stupid. “Did the Dream Lord create the dream of a couple settling down in an English village or did he just materialize someone’s existing dream?”

The Doctor pondered for a moment. He wanted a straightforward answer but it seemed like, even as a ghost, you knew him all too well - he always preferred to solve the puzzle on his own.

He moved his lips to ask you another question when Rory and Amy came back with blankets.

The Doctor woke up in a walk-in fridge at the butchers. The alien-pensioners kept banging on the solid, metal door. Somehow, he had to get out of there without turning into a pile of dirt. There had to a way…

He lifted his gaze and suddenly froze in place. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the temperature that rendered him immobile but something else stuck in the cold prison.

Someone else.

“Why are you here?” he asked. Seeing his dead lover drove him insane as did having to guess which world is the real one. But the late lover appearing in both realities? That could surely get him committed to some intergalactic hospital.

“I could ask you the same thing,” you answered. “A walk-in fridge is hardly a nice spot for a break.” A grimace entered your face as you looked around the room only to see various cuts of raw meat.

The Doctor quickly scrambled to his feet. Whether it was conscious or not, he fixed his hair and bowtie. Old habits die hard, as they say. Paradoxically, the strange situation emboldened him. The man crossed the room in strides. The last time he stood barely centimetres away from you was long ago. A lifetime ago, like he said earlier.

“Aside from me, Amy and Rory, you’re the only thing that appears both here and in the TARDIS,” he stated. His eyes bore into yours, continuously searching for something, a piece of information that would make this weird dream reality start making sense. “But you’re not real,” he said slightly quieter, as though more to himself than you. “So how does that work? What’s your purpose?”

The word ‘purpose’ fell from his lips like a spat of venom. He suspected that you played a sinister part in Dream Lord’s even more evil plan; like the creature in front of him could never be more than a dirty ruse.

“Remember your question about being the Dream Lord’s creation?” you asked. Although he continued staring at you, the Doctor gave you no indication of an answer. “He needs an idea, a dream, that he can base the alternate reality on. That’s what he meant when he said he can see right through you. He looked and saw me.”

Heavy banging on the door startled both of you. Even if you’re something of a fever dream, you did exactly the same gasp he’d heard you do over a thousand times. The accuracy was nothing short of maddening.

"But why are you here?” The Doctor gestured to the less-than-hospitable room you were standing in. “Why would he put you in both places? What's the trick?"

A sad, pitiful smile entered your face. Normally, he’d dismiss such a reaction from anyone. He didn’t want others’ pity. But some part of him craved it when it came from you. The grief she had shoved as deep as he possibly could suddenly came up to the surface. It begged to be seen, acknowledged; it pleaded for you to see your face in itself. It wanted you to see how much love remained that the Doctor could no longer give you.

"There's no trick,” you explained in a soft, low voice. “I was supposed to only be a distraction, an estranged lover found in some English village but you just couldn't help yourself, could you?"

"Me?” he said under his breath. The welled-up tears in his eyes threatened to spill at any moment. They slightly quivered along with the rest of his body. He looked sick. “What do you mean?"

"I'm in both realities because I’m in both hearts.” You poked his chest playfully. "I guess the Dream Lord underestimated just how much of me there is inside that pretty little head of yours. My image is seeping through.” Then, you started laughing at something. “You're dreaming a little dream of me,” you said between giggles.

Your skin felt surprisingly warm against his hand as the Doctor gently brushed your cheek. It was wrong in a sense - you had been long gone and dead people weren’t warm to the touch, they didn’t radiate life. Despite his age, experience and nature, he was only a man. A man with a broken heart at that. So there was no power in this universe or the next, that could stop him when the one he had been longing for was painfully close.

His throat tightened. “It’s my favourite dream,” he managed to croak out. The Doctor took a deep, slow breath. The loud banging grounded him slightly, reminding him of the current peril. He grabbed your shoulders in a firm yet loving hold. “But I still don’t understand how you can be here and in TARDIS,” he continued in a more-or-less normal tone. He managed to swallow his woe. For now. “One of them is real and if you are a dream brought to life, how can you exist outside of it?”

“Because I’m a memory,” you explained. It all seemed so obvious when you said it. “Rory’s dream is only a fantasy but I’m not. Dream Lord made me appear but you made me stay.” You tightly held the lapels of his jacket to accentuate your point. “I’m more vivid than a dream should be, so whatever he’s using to control you is not working properly. It can’t tell if I’m real or not.”

A vivid memory… was that really all you were? Could he be haunted not by a ghost but by the afterimage of a phantom? As rejoiced as his grieving heart was to see you, the truth about your appearance made the reunion all the more painful. In no way, shape or form were you standing there, holding onto him. He was simply imagining it. Of course you were a perfect copy of the way he remembered you, down to the moles and stray strands of hair.

Maybe one day he would realize the poeticness of the truth. At first, you were a dream brought to life to torment him. But then it was his love for you, his live memory, that made you something more - that made you almost human. And one day, perhaps the Doctor would realize that you had done the same to him, although not as literally.

"If you are Dream Lord’s creation,” he started thinking out loud, “you know what is real and what isn’t.” His warm, ever-gentle, trembling hands cupped your face once more. “Tell me, please,” he whispered. “Somewhere out there, Amy and Rory are about to die and I need to do something."

There was that look of pity again. Staring fondly at your lover, you carefully took his hands in yours and lowered them. For a moment, the time stood still. The metal banging sounded far away, nearly unreal; like a commotion heard in a dream.

"You know the answer already, dear,” you told him. The sincerity in your voice and in your eyes only worked as proof. “I told you."

He looked at you, eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

The lullaby-like melody filled the fridge as you quietly hummed the old song. If the Doctor closed his eyes, he’d be able to see the scene like it was yesterday: you and him, a jazz club in Chicago, sometime in the 1950s. But his eyes remained open. He did not want to invite a dream of the past - not when it could be used against him.

"Stars shining bright above you," he whispered the lyrics. His voice suddenly broke and the Doctor frantically shook his head. "No, I can’t. If I get this right, you will be gone."

Was he actually considering that? Now he may earn that ‘madman’ title he had been after for so long.

Your arms wrapped around him in a tender embrace. The Doctor’s desperation and heartache seeped from his very soul as he held you tighter than he ever did. His hands clawed at the fabric of your lilac dress. It felt just as he remembered. Hot tears began rolling down your neck and shoulder. His entire body trembled as he fought for each shallow breath. The most feared man in the universe, undone by a smiling girl wearing a pastel slip dress.

"It's just a dream," you calmly reminded him. In a soothing gesture, you petted his head."It is real until the sunbeams find you and then it'll slip away like a speck of dust on a wind. You'll forget this. And when you fall asleep again, I'll be right here as if nothing had ever happened."

As much as you could, you leaned away from the Doctor. His fearful, teary eyes searched your face for any sign of trouble or a goodbye. He knew it was bound to happen but that didn’t comfort him, quite the contrary. The Time Lord was terrified of running out of time.

“You’re even more beautiful than the day I lost you,” he whispered.

Feeling your hands against his face, he allowed himself to close his eyes; to pretend for a moment. You tried to wipe away his tears but it was in vain. The longer he felt your presence, the more it broke his heart that it was just a memory. You weren’t really there, he was just an old, lovesick fool remembering what it felt like to be loved.

“But you didn’t really lose me, did you?” you asked. The question made the Doctor open his eyes. He looked at you, confused. “I’m burned into your memory. Forever laughing at your silly jokes, comforting you when you’re feeling down, giving hope when the world seems bleak. Always waiting for you to find me.”

Gently holding the sides of his head, you kissed his forehead.

"Don't go," he begged quietly but the ghost of you was already gone. He knew what he had to do. Somehow, the Doctor also had to find a way to convince Rory and Amy that the world in which they live a small-town happy life isn't real. Despite that, those two weren't the most difficult to convince: most of all, he had to convince himself to choose life over plummeting to his death by your side.

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a/n: tbh I just went for finishing a half-done WIP to get the gears going and as it turned out I made this WIP in 2022, so a time-travel theme feels appropriate lmao. In other news, this is me trying to get back to fanfic writing. We'll see how it goes!

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intuitive-revelations · 1 year ago

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Theory: Something serious is up with the TARDIS

I had been wondering about this all series, but after Rogue today, it's finally been confirmed that something's going on with the TARDIS (on top of all the other arc threads going on!).

The moment I picked it up was in The Devil's Chord, where the TARDIS makes a strange groan and creaks after landing back in 1963. Ruby thinks it's from Maestro, but the Doctor says it's "something else". As of today it's happened again, twice! Once in the episode itself, once in the next time trailer. The exact same sound effect!

Someone on reddit pointed out a few weeks ago that this sound appeared even earlier too, in Wild Blue Yonder (notably also when we first saw Susan Twist, had gravity changed to mavity, and welcomed the Pantheon into the universe). Each time, it's also had attention drawn to it. Here's a video of each scene, followed by a direct comparison of each sound:

(I did have a quick glance to see if it appeared elsewhere, maybe even during Flux. As far as I can tell however, Wild Blue Yonder seems to be the only non-S14 appearance.)

What's more, going back to that Reddit thread, someone pointed out what the Wild Blue Yonder script says about this moment:

And then the TARDIS seems to moan. The Doctor fascinated. DONNA: Is it working? THE DOCTOR: I think so. Strange. He reaches out, touches the TARDIS, wondering. And that 'strange' will come back to haunt him, one day. But now...

(Suddenly the TARDIS freaking out over Donna's spill might make a bit more sense...)

So what the hell's going on?

Well, between a trailer scene and some news that just came out a few hours ago as of writing this, I think I may have an idea. Given it's based on trailer footage uploaded and then removed from YouTube, I'll put it below beneath a read more:

In a removed Disney+ teaser trailer we get two frames of the Doctor screaming out into space (with Mel behind him). Except it's not from "his" TARDIS:

It's the f*cking memory TARDIS!

And here's the thing. Not only was this trailer scrubbed from the Disney+ and BBC channels, but in the other trailers, this clip is entirely different! Not only is Mel gone, but the TARDIS interior is now Fifteen's own, and the TARDIS is in a different, generic region of space.

Just before this, we also see a similar nebulous region of space matching the unmanipulated clip.

But why on Earth is this such a big deal, that the BBC/Disney would go full MCU and give us a deliberately altered clip? The only previous time I remember Doctor Who doing this was for Series 10, hiding the plot point of the Doctor's blindness. It's not because of Mel, who literally appears in the released trailer. It's also seemingly not because of the background, despite it also being altered (unless the two moons are a clue with the planet being Gallifrey or something - the thought had occurred to me - but that's such a tiny detail, and we also only see one sun). Instead, it must be the Memory TARDIS. But why?

In-universe, I have no idea. On one hand I'd be delighted to get some answers as to its nature. Assuming it's connected to the groans we've been hearing, then it could be the TARDIS undergoes some sort of metamorphosis into this state? But we've seen the TARDIS change all the time, whether for safety, to recover or whatever. I also can't imagine general audiences are falling over themselves to find out the in-universe explanation for a Classic Who re-release framing device. Not to mention, apparently the sound will go on to "haunt" the Doctor...

...maybe the TARDIS straight up is taken out of commission in some way? And the Memory TARDIS isn't the same ship, but the Doctor's way of saving the day without her? Maybe even remembered into existence Fitz/Amy style?

Out of universe however, it's just been announced yesterday that we're getting more Tales of the TARDIS.

And not just more omnibus stories with past characters returning for in-universe commentary... but with Fifteen and Ruby! What's more, it's apparently a one-off, right before the finale (but, note, after the first part next week).

Which means it's important. Possibly extremely so, given the edited trailer scene. It might even serve as an interquel, given Fifteen and Ruby are somehow in it.

I've seen two common theories. Either a) it will be Pyramids of Mars, and we're getting Sutekh in the finale (presumably with Fifteen and Ruby partially because of bringing back Elizabeth Sladen obviously not being an available option - and even if you thought up another character, eg. Luke, I doubt Tom would be interested, at that point anyway), or b) it will be something tying into Susan returning.

Honestly between the remaining trailer clips (eg. sandstorms and dusty planets), a tease RTD supposedly gave in DWM, and an old interview with him where he supposedly floated the idea of bringing back a Classic Who for a finale and airing the original serial on BBC3 beforehand, I'm kinda leaning towards the prior, even though it wasn't at all on my radar.

However, this still doesn't actually answer what's up with the TARDIS.

It could quite literally be anything. However, here's a few ideas, some reasonable some weird, that I have come up with:

Old age / stress. This is a weird one, but oddly enough something I had thought of once in the past, and I just saw someone else come to the same idea on Reddit. The idea is that while the Doctor has a new regeneration cycle and now a good few years, if not decades or more, of rest and recovery, the TARDIS may struggling in it's own right (especially if it is somehow old enough to have once been the Fugitive Doctor's). However, while this could be something interesting to explore, and I think isn't entirely mutually exclusive with other options, I can't imagine going anywhere near a storyline of the TARDIS itself 'wearing thin'. Besides, if we did, I like to imagine it would have been foreshadowed with size leakage, as per Name of the Doctor.

Relating to the above, could it be something linked to the TARDIS splitting in The Giggle? However, the sound starts before then (not that that means much to the TARDIS, but still).

Laws of rationality breaking down. This one makes the most sense in a lot of ways, between the expanded universe (particularly Christmas on a Rational Planet) and Flux, we've seen the TARDIS cannot survive in an irrational universe. While time has stabilised for now, we're still seeing magic and other Old Time forces encroaching in on the Web of Time. I'm a bit torn with this one however, as while it works from a lore and writing perspective, plus matches with this starting in Wild Blue Yonder (right after the Mavity incident... interestingly), it seems odd it's not more connected with what happened in Flux? Why are the sounds and effects on the TARDIS completely different?

Something to do with the Doctor's fobwatch. In Rogue, the Doctor blames the sound on indigestion. We know we're getting more Timeless Child related stuff - could this somehow be linked to Thirteen dropping the Division biodata module deep into the TARDIS? Would be a weird time to pick this up though, and I'm not sure exactly how that would have had such an effect.

The most actually likely, but least possible to theorise about: it's something time-wimey to do with Ruby, the villain(s) of the story, and/or Susan Twist, especially given this started after her first appearance.

Regardless, I'm just excited to see what's up with the Memory / "Remembered" TARDIS, because it's seems we're about to learn something...

#Doctor Who #DW Spoilers #Fifteenth Doctor #Fourteenth Doctor #Wild Blue Yonder #The Devil's Chord #Rogue #The Legend of Ruby Sunday #Tales of the TARDIS #DW Theory #DW Meta #Doctor Who Spoilers

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god-i-hope-so · 1 year ago

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Every time I read an anti-Bucktommy take it's like they don't understand what they're watching. Like, no understanding of how fiction works at all and a criminal lack of media literacy. And also unable to follow a simple story.

A tv show like 911 will never be like their favorite friends to lovers fics where everything they want to see on-screen is made into words, every little thought, every gesture is described in a flowery way, every single line is doctored to fit the fandom's expectations, using very specific tropes. This is fanwork, this is our business, we love it, we cherish it but this is our stuff.

911 is a tv show. It'll use many types of tv writing techniques to get to the point while having to deal with budgetary constraints, marketing needs, political restrictions and more. Could they have done a better job with reintroducing Tommy? Absolutely. Does it work as it is? Of course, if we're actually looking at what and how they tell on-screen.

A (long) BuckTommy timeline.

🚁 7x03 - Tommy and Buck meet on the day of the rescue, even before we see Buck, Chim and Eddie in the chopper. They first meet off-screen. We don't know what happened then, we don't know how they looked at each other, if they smiled at each other, if they even talked directly to each other. But they met before we see them in the chopper.

We know by what happens later that Tommy makes a strong impression on Buck (who is already in the middle of a real life crisis). We can also assume that Tommy is attracted to Buck based on his looks (and probably also affinity, they do the same job, never underestimate the homoerotic power of male camaraderie), something we also understand later, so it works (but also, the way he looks at Buck at the end of this episode is a subtle hint.) Don't forget that writers know in advance things we don't, that's why we can go back and find the breadcrumbs we didn't notice before or couldn't make a connection with yet.

🔥 Buck wants to know more about Tommy and his work. This is where you, as the audience, should fill the gap based on what we saw before and what comes next. This is where you should be able to do that instead of wanting everything on-screen the same way you put everything in a fanfic. This gap you fill because you're supposed to understand how average tv storytelling works leads to the following point.

🚁 7x04 - Buck contacts Tommy, he gets to visit Harbor. At this point, we can clearly see Tommy is acting flirty in a very subtle and respectful way, because he doesn't really know what's the deal with Buck, but remember the way he looked at Buck in 7x03? Then there's Buck acting... weird. What's his real purpose here? And this was before he even knew Tommy and Eddie were BFF, so Buck was already attracted to Tommy whatever his connection with the 118 crew, even if the real reason was blurry even to Buck himself.

🔥 7x04 - Tommy is now someone they interact with regularly. Tommy is now slowly working his way (back) into the 118 group. He finds a good friend in Eddy (strangely I don't see anyone questioning that. How is that easier than having a simple, passive crush?), apparently spends a lot of time with him, and knows Christopher because he went to Eddie's house 3 times. Eddie definitely knows more about Tommy than Buck at this point.

🚁 7x04 - Buck is clearly troubled by Tommy. Then there's this whole jealousy circus going on, Buck is a mess, his insecurities are breaking the roof and he's more troubled than ever. Is he jealous of Eddy or Tommy? Or both? (it's both) He wants to be the center of the attention. If he feels he's losing this, people will discard him. So he does some stupid shit. And you can see his feelings are also all over the place. But there's more than just fighting for attention, and that's probably why he's slowly starting to be angry. Because what he feels is different and he can't put his finger on it.

The discussion with Maddie clearly shows how he's chewing on his own heart. He didn't want what he had to change and he acted like a kid with big feelings and little control of himself.

🔥 7x04 - Tommy, who's having a passive crush on Buck, takes the matter in hands and kisses him. Tommy having a crush is not less normal than Buck flirting with basically any cute girl showing interest in him. Being more mature, he meets Buck to set things straight, after having talked about it with Eddie. It's not out of nowhere. Eddie and Tommy are not stupid, and Eddie knows Buck. He saw something was wrong. Tommy, being the new addition to their dynamic, thought it was his fault (I think Eddie and Tommy really felt guilty about going to Vegas and leaving Buck just like that lmao That was so bad for Buck's confidence, I felt it in my bones). Excuses turn to clearing the air turn to let's go for it.

Tommy really took a gamble there. If Buck wasn't what he thought he was, it could have been so bad. So, so bad for Tommy and his job. Imagine Buck accusing Tommy of assault? But he took the risk of kissing him because he has more experience and knows how to read the signs. He's not 15, he has experience with men, and closeted men for sure.

And you know, this is a beautiful scene for Buck as a character. The way he realizes why he did all that, what it means about him, for him. I mean, he knew, in a way, but he didn't know. And Tommy was suddenly everywhere in his life, overwhelming while doing nothing. You have to understand that everything is happening in Buck's head and he needed just a little push to open his eyes.

Buck's queer path: unlocked.

🚁 7x05 - First date, first mess but also first lesson. At this point, you can't even doubt about Tommy's intentions anymore. Buck might still be in a blurry phase but Tommy is not sending mixed signals at all (not with that choice of shirt, let me tell you this. My man was set to hit that night). Buck panicked, Tommy even tried to keep him on tracks for the evening, but between meeting Eddie and what it made Buck say... I mean, Tommy could have had a stronger reaction. Why accept the date if you can't deal with it?

But Tommy knows why, he's been there. Buck liked the idea of the date, but once you're there, everything becomes real. So once again, a little push: Tommy is honest and prefers to part ways, but not without saying why. He's not even mad. At this point, Buck really needs to take another step. It's difficult to drag someone else into your own fog. He has all the rights to be troubled, to doubt, to be scared, but you don't drag someone else in this with you. Tommy protected himself from that, also protected Buck from doing something he'd regret, and he did it with guidance.

🔥 7x05 - Buck talks with Maddie about his date and comes out to her, but more importantly: Buck comes out to Eddie. Look. This is canon, and I know we can choose to ignore canon but both scenes are great. And it's still canon. Maddie is obviously accepting and happy for Buck, and we expected no less from her.

With Eddie, I honestly expected at least some discussion like are you sure? or something like that but I think that at this point, everyone at the 118 knows that there's more to Buck than meets the eye. I'd have loved this scene to be longer with more exchange between Eddie and Buck but it is what it is, and Eddie is supportive of his best friend (yes, sorry, their canon relationship is best friends and I love their friendship, even more now that Buck is out).

And yes, this is even more important to show not only a strong friendship between a supposedly cishet man and a bisexual man but also, and we'll see that later, Eddie still trusts Buck around Chris. Nothing changed. So many people associate queer people with predators, we need to see queer people, and especially queer men, being trusted around children, and being safe. This is the right representation.

I know bvddies are trying to find any reason to make this storyline choice look like shit, because they want their ship to sail (and I completely understand wanting that), but accusing the people who like Buck and Tommy together of being homophobes because they cherish the canon beautiful friendship between Buck and Eddie?? We're not talking about headcanons here, about reading between the lines, or being "coded" a certain way (sorry, for me Eddie is not gay-coded. He's a-spec for sure, and I'm going for being demi, but gay? I don't see it anymore at this point of the show). It's about the canon. You know, at this point, things are already moving into place, even if you don't like Buck and Tommy together. This is where canon is at, this is the story. It's not a personal attack against anyone in the fandom.

🚁 7x05 - Buck wants to apologize to Tommy for the failed date, and for his behavior. Oh, accountability, my beloved. We love to see Buck working on himself. This is the real start of whatever will happen from now on between Buck and Tommy. Buck knows he's ready to embrace this new part of himself and he feels like Tommy is the right person to do that with.

Tommy being Tommy, he makes sure Buck knows what all this means. Buck is not a teenager, Tommy treats him as an equal but he also knows how it feels to be in Buck's shoes.

🔥 7x06 - Tommy, a responsible adult, makes time for Buck (and Chim!) even when he clearly could, and maybe should, just decline. This part was used way too often against Tommy by BoBs. Tommy is a fire pilot on call the night of the bachelor party. A FIRE PILOT ON CALL. Do you think his main goal that night is to have fun? Or is it to be a responsible adult who could well be saving lives (while risking his) the same night? Do you know what it means to be on call? You're basically working without being at work, the second your job needs you, you have to be 100% ready. Again, he's a fire pilot (even if he's also sent on ground work that night). His first job would be to pilot a freaking helicopter and accomplish tasks that requires skills, precision and to not be half asleep. You don't play with that responsibility.

So Tommy showing up is indeed huge. He does it for Buck, and for Chim, but definitely for Buck in the first place. He could have stayed home to get some sleep while waiting. Instead of that, not only he doesn't sleep but he ends up fighting a fire for hours. And the first thing people used against him was that he didn't follow the dress code?! No, you guys need to grow up and live a bit more of real life.

And then we have The Kiss (please someone draw them as The Kiss by Klimt, every fandom needs its Kiss fanart). And once again, it's Tommy making time for Buck, and Chim, when he could be home, take a good shower and be in his cozy bed after working on a fire for more than what, 14 hours? This is a man who knows his priorities. And responsible men are sexy as hell, even when it means they can't have fun like everyone else.

Now, if after all this, and mind you, this is all canon, you still think Tommy is a fraud in this storyline, that his budding romance with Buck has no foundation or that he doesn't care about Buck? And don't even get me started on the "but he was a racist and a misogynist before". Yes, he was. And yes, he changed. Like I said: learn to know his character, but also trust Hen. The fact is that at this point of the story, Tommy is great for Buck. He's kind, he's safe, he's trying even when there's no expectations. Be happy for great representation.

Oh, and don't use your hate against the ship or Tommy to be a nasty little shit with the actors and writers. Decency is free.

#911 #911 abc #bucktommy #tommy kinard #evan buckley #did i miss anything?#pushing tumblr's limits with this post #i'm tired and not in a good place recently so don't get me started with your ship war and your bs behavior with actors and writers #i just can't with bullies

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rawrmoona · 16 days ago

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YAPPATRON ALERT!!!

I have too many comics to share with yall about my take on the lore, and I'll probably be using the tag #my take on dandys world or #my take on dw so yall know when it's a serious post or not.

Just be sure to know that it's my take since the official lore still has nothing but hints.

Now, lemme me introduce Delilah, Arthur and the handler's design with the lore ;)

Delilah and Arthur have a childhood friendship, though they drifted apart as they grew older. However, a joint project brought them back together.

Delilah’s career path was challenging due to the time period she lived in. She dedicated her life to studying biology, specifically focusing on the study of living organisms (becoming a doctor). As a hobby, she created comic strips featuring the original characters she invented in her childhood. These comics eventually gained popularity and laid the foundation for what would become Dandy’s World something she never imagined would grow into a major success.

Arthur worked in marketing and started small, managing stores and products. Even as a child, he recognized Delilah’s immense creative potential and wanted to help her explore it further. Since Delilah had grown bored with her current life and the direction of her career, she agreed to take a chance with her creations.

With the investment they had (from Delilah’s previous work and Arthur product sales), the Garden View Educational Center was established sometime in the 1970s. It initially operated as a small recreational center based on Delilah’s comics, far smaller than what it would eventually become. Garden View was built on an old, timeworn plot of land that had been forgotten. However, it was cheap, making it the perfect choice for the two creators, who were still in the early stages of their business.

A few months after opening, Delilah made an unexpected discovery: a strange substance deep beneath the ground. She immediately called Arthur and a few trusted contacts to determine whether it was toxic or, perhaps, valuable. Arthur speculated that it could be oil, though its consistency resembled ink.

After extensive study and experimentation, Delilah made a groundbreaking realization: the ink she discovered could be used to create life. Her first attempt was a failure producing a being that could not sustain itself and displayed aggressive and erratic behavior. However, her second attempt was a remarkable success, giving birth to the first living toon: M1-001 (Pebble).

After persuading Arthur, Delilah used her newfound discovery to create the other main characters of her cartoon. Strangely, each toon was “born” in an infant-like state, requiring specialized care as if they were actual newborns.

This led both creators to realize that they wouldn’t be able to care for the toons full-time. Although Delilah took a special liking to L-001 (Dandy) and didn’t mind looking after him, they ultimately hired caretakers after Dandy and the other mains reached the age of 5. The handlers they chose were the most affordable options at the time: young interns, who had barely reached adulthood, suddenly burdened with the responsibility of raising these non-human infants.

Delilah considered the results a success, though Arthur didn’t share her enthusiasm. However, his doubts didn’t significantly impact their business.

Over time, Dandy’s World grew in popularity, attracting more investments and evolving into a cultural phenomenon. The first episode aired in 1988, introducing more characters over time, not only in Delilah’s stories but also through her experiments as she continued creating new toons to expand the show.

The only guideline both she and Arthur consistently followed when creating new toons was ensuring they were either close to or older than the main toons in age, to avoid too much cost and any possible childhood trauma. And so, the side character toons started to bring even more life to Garden-View's halls.

However, around the year 2000, Delilah had to step away from the creative process, allegedly due to health reasons. Her sudden absence left the toons confused, especially Dandy, since Arthur refused to provide any clear answers about her whereabouts.

Things spiraled further out of control in 2002 when a horrific accident involving Pebble occurred, tarnishing the reputation of the Garden View Educational Center. Under immense pressure, Arthur had no choice but to shut the facility down and, beyond that… abandon their creations entirely.

Which led to the toons to deal with their own survival in Garden View by themselves, and also, fix the damage caused by Pebble, who had turned twisted and was turning other toons into twisteds as well.

Now, the Handlers.

Now things get more interesting.

But before anything else!!

it's important to mention that many of the handlers were still teenagers when they accepted the job — so keep that in mind!

Veronica Harley had been having a hard time finding a part-time job. She wanted to save up money to eventually pay for college when she finishes her school.

Always passionate about technology, she nearly lived out a childhood dream when she was assigned Vee to be under her care. After all, she always loved the idea of having her own robot (or creating one).

Vee herself was never much trouble when it came to caretaking. Since she was essentially a robot, she didn’t have as many needs as the other toons. Veronica just had to do the occasional maintenance to help guide Vee through her growth process.

However, Veronica struggled more with Vee’s social development. Vee was naturally talkative and charismatic, easily finding things to chat about. But at the same time, she had no filter and little understanding of social nuance — which often led her to say insensitive things without realizing it.

Even with Veronica’s help in trying to improve how the toon expressed herself, it was a tough process, and Vee still frequently ended up saying things she shouldn’t.

Lot of times Veronica thought it could be because Vee didn't really respected her social advice. She had social anxiety after all and it always felt like she had an easier time talking to the toons instead of her coworkers, which got better over time, but she still looked like she had social anxiety.

That said, Veronica was very supportive throughout Vee’s growth and was always in the backstage helping her with her Game Show. Despite their vastly different personalities, Vee always saw Veronica as the only person she knew would never misunderstood her.

There hasn’t been a day since that Veronica didn’t feel guilty for not being able to say a proper goodbye to Vee, due to the urgency of the evacuation that day.

Austin Russo is a hardworking and responsible young man. Like Veronica, he decided to apply for an internship at Garden View in hopes of saving enough money to eventually pay for college. He had always been fascinated by astrology — one of the reasons he and Astro were the perfect match.

Astro and Austin had an incredible connection. They understood each other easily, learned and developed at the same pace, which made Austin be one of the handlers to have the best reports Arthur received (just not being better than Shanon's reports).

As an only child, Austin came to see Astro almost like a little brother. He was protective of him and always made an effort to create the best possible environment for the toon.

However, their bond was put to the test when Austin accidentally came into contact with the pure essence of what toons are truly made of. In an unfortunate incident, Astro's moon mask slipped off and Austin caught a glimpse of his real face. That brief look was enough to trigger a breakdown.

He had known that Astro, like Dandy, was a very special type of toon — but even a fleeting glance at what he truly was filled Austin with fear.

He developed a kind of fear that ended up deeply hurting Astro. But being the endlessly understanding toon that he was, Astro quietly took the blame upon himself.

Even though Austin still felt a lingering guilt for pulling away from their friendship, he began to treat the internship like just another job... something he would later regret deeply on the day of the incident.

If he had known he would never see Astro again, he would have tried to face that fear. He would’ve tried to have at least one more of those nerdy conversations they both used to love so much.

Shanon Mendez was, among all the handlers, the only one driven purely by passion. A lifelong fan of the Dandy's World comics, she saw the opportunity as a perfect way to visit the educational center without feeling embarrassed for still loving comics at nearly nineteen. The paycheck was of course a bonus.

As the oldest sibling in a large family, taking care of a little toon didn’t feel too different from looking after her younger brothers and sisters. Still, Shelly came with her own quirks—being a living cartoon made everything more unpredictable. Shelly wasn’t Shanon’s favorite character from the stories she used to read, but over time, the toon grew on her in a special way.

Shelly loved talking about her interests—especially fossils and dinosaurs. Sometimes, it was hard for Shanon to keep up with their talks, but she made an effort to research and learn more, just to show Shelly she was interested. Honestly, most of what she knows about dinosaurs came directly from Shelly's rants.

As the years passed, Shanon began to notice how often Shelly was overlooked, mostly by toons outside of the main cast (even though it was often. Shelly felt it too, even if she rarely said it out loud. Shanon did her best to make Shelly feel seen and appreciated, though it wasn’t always easy. Still, Shelly knew her handler would always be there for her.

In many ways, Shanon became a maternal figure for Shelly—a steady, comforting presence. It’s thanks to her that Shelly developed such a warm and positive personality, even while being fully aware she wasn’t the favorite among most kids. Shelly knew how to work with what she had.

Among all the handlers, Shanon was the only one who didn’t witness how horrifying the incident truly was. She only learned the full extent much later. Still, she was the one who found the courage to leave Shelly a final message before leaving. And to this day, she holds onto the hope that they’ll meet again someday.

She is positive about it, even if now, it's been over 20 years since the last time she saw Shelly's face.

Sam Mc’Laughing was perhaps the most reserved of all the handlers. They didn’t talk much about their personal life, and most of their peers only knew fragments of their history, Veronica for example is the one that knew that Sam had escaped an abusive household and started to live in their car, picking up odd jobs to get by. The internship at Garden View seemed like a rare opportunity to improve their financial situation, especially since Arthur and Delilah were surprisingly generous with the pay.

Sam assumed the job would be simple—some kind of animal caretaking, maybe. But they were caught off guard when Arthur introduced them to a nervous, wide-eyed toon named Sprout. From the start, things didn’t go well.

Sam didn’t like children. And Sprout, true to his original cartoon, was perhaps the most emotionally driven toon of the bunch. Their personalities clashed often. Sprout never really saw Sam as a comforting presence—quite the opposite. Their relationship was full of friction and blame-shifting, with Sam often putting the responsibility for their failures squarely on Sprout’s shoulders.

“You won’t be wanted if you don’t meet expectations,” Sam would say—a phrase that stuck with Sprout and began to reshape how he saw himself. Over time, Sprout stopped crying in front of Sam. He learned to hold everything in, building emotional walls just to cope. Deep down, this created a nearly irreversible fracture in his sense of self-worth. He began to believe his feelings were invalid and developed a dangerous dependency on the approval of others.

Sam’s neglect wasn’t just emotional. While other main toons had handlers who actively participated in their learning and growth, Sprout was often left to figure things out on his own.

Things improved somewhat when Cosmo was created (by that time, Sprout was already freshly in his 20's). Cosmo’s presence healed some of the emotional wounds caused by Sam. But even so, the damage Sam caused during Sprout’s formative years couldn’t be completely healed.

In a way, Sam believed that Sprout had almost become like them. And don’t get it wrong—they knew that wasn’t a good thing. But at the same time, they never really saw it as their problem. Neither Arthur nor Delilah ever fired them over it. Sprout was still, after all, Sprout—a caring toon, even if that meant he never truly took himself into account.

The only reason Sam would ever come back to Garden View would be for money. They don't have any emotional ties towards the toons.

Now... Big lore drops ahead!!!

Devan Reed was one of the first Handlers to have direct contact with the toons, thanks to his mother, Delilah, who often brought him to work. If there was anyone Dandy saw as an older brother, it was undoubtedly Devan. But despite the label, the only thing Devan truly felt for Dandy was envy.

Dandy's development was mostly handled by Delilah, with young Devan occasionally observing. He was sixteen when he first met five-year-old Dandy. Though Delilah never exactly asked him to participate in the process, Devan found it interesting to watch how naturally social Dandy was, even around older kids.

Over time, Devan began to feel that Dandy was taking up most of his mother’s attention—attention that had already been scarce in his life due to a messy divorce and Delilah’s general disinterest in playing the role of a mother. To him, Dandy felt more like her real child than he ever did.

The irony, of course, is that Delilah only saw Dandy as a creature to be studied. But that didn’t matter—what mattered was that she seemed to approve Dandy, something Devan could never earn. Dandy was effortlessly talented in everything he did. He didn’t even try to stand out, and yet he picked things up with near-perfect precision, while Devan had never excelled at anything.

He tried to make himself useful to his mother, even asked to join the internship program in hopes of proving how hardworking he was. But nothing ever seemed to catch Delilah’s attention. Dandy remained her top priority—always.

Devan mainly looked after Pebble. The only times he ever had to deal with Dandy directly were because the two toons were nearly inseparable. Dandy would even go as far as insisting to Arthur that he and Devan should spend more time together. After all, Dandy saw Devan as his brother, even if the feeling was far from mutual.

Then one day, overwhelmed by stress, during a scheduled check-up for Pebble—which was supposed to be supervised by Arthur following Delilah’s instructions—Devan decided to do things his own way.

Delilah had often used Ichor to treat sick toons or stabilize their forms. Toons didn’t respond to human medicine, as their biology was fundamentally different. For minor ailments like headaches or colds, Ichor was a miracle fix. Pebble, being the first successful living toon ever created, wasn’t perfect. He couldn’t communicate with humans like he could with other toons, and to Devan, he came across as little more than a “dumb dog.”

So Devan started to wonder… what if he could improve Pebble? If Ichor could fix broken toons, then maybe—just maybe—a carefully administered dose could enhance one too. If he could pull it off, maybe he’d finally earn the approval he’d always craved.

Of course… it went horribly wrong.

Devan wasn’t a scientist. He had never studied Ichor. Arthur relied on Delilah’s instructions for a reason.

Pebble experienced severe side effects from an overdose of Ichor. He transformed into something monstrous—an abomination.

The Garden View Educational Center was shut down. Its reputation ruined. All because of one terrible mistake Devan made.

And the worst part? He didn’t even feel guilty for what happened to the toons. What truly haunted him… was the crushing realization that he had failed to be someone his mom could be proud of.

And this is all for now!!! I hope yall enjoyed this big yap session about the humans from Dandy's World lore!

Reminding this is all my takes and it's not canon at all to the actual game!

I might try doing more lore posts eventually! And now that I explained context, I can finally post some lore related comics I never shared because of lack of context, yayyy >:]

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skyfullofpods · 2 years ago

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Hello fans of Re: Dracula who were introduced to fiction podcasts through the updates from our good friend Jonathan Harker! Now that the story's over (sob!), would you like some recommendations for some other audio dramas that you might enjoy, made by some of the folks who worked on the podcast?

Jonathan Sims, who played our local phonograph enthusiast, is the writer of the hugely popular horror podcast, The Magnus Archives. The Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute records statements made by members of the public, detailing strange encounters with the supernatural. What soon becomes clear is that these statements do not describe separate and unrelated events, and a bigger and horrific picture begins to emerge. Also appearing as recurring characters in this series are both Sasha Sienna and Alasdair Stuart.

Karim Kronfli is a prolific voice actor, and while he might be best known for his roles in both Re: Dracula and The Magnus Archives, he has voiced a wide range of characters in many different fiction podcasts. Out of all the ones he's appeared in, I would personally recommend urban fantasy anthology series, Unseen. The unseen world exists alongside ours, but only a few humans can see it. It's a world where magic and magical creatures exists, and Karim's character tells his story in episode 7, titled We Ourselves.

Beth Eyre and Felix Trench played twins Antigone and Rudyard Funn in Wooden Overcoats, a British sitcom set on the tiny fictional island of Piffling, in the English Channel. The twins run a funeral parlor together, the only one on the island, until a newcomer arrives. Eric Chapman (played by Tom Crowley) sets up a much more successful funeral parlor, and the story is narrated by the Funns' house mouse, Madeline.

Alan Burgon plays the Interviewer in The Amelia Project. The Amelia Project is a secret organisation, and clients come to them looking for their help in faking their deaths. The Interviewer listens to each client's story, before concocting unique and often elaborate ways in which they will stage their deaths, before being reborn into a new identity.

David Ault is also a very recognisable voice to anyone who spends a considerate amount of time listening to fiction podcasts, and The Kingmaker Histories feels like an appropriate choice here. A weird steampunk series set in the Valorian Socialist Republic in 1911 , this story involves found family, its own intriguing magic system, and being gay and doing crime.

Our favourite cowboy, Giancarlo Herrera, plays one of the protagonists in sci-fi action/thriller, Primordial Deep. Spinner is part of a team which is sent deep beneath the sea to investigate the resurgence of creatures thought to be long-extinct. There's plenty of horror to be had here, as something ancient is stirring in the depths of the ocean.

As for the crew? Tal Minear works on so many podcasts, and if you like fantasy stories, I would recommend the delightfully lighthearted Sidequesting, which follows new adventurer Rion, as they help people on their travels. If you would like some more horror, there's their spoiler-driven anthology series, Someone Dies in This Elevator.

Hannah Wright's Inn Between is a fantasy series based on D&D. Each episode follows a party as they meet in the Goblin's Inn, in between adventures, as the tavern follows them around wherever they go.

Stephen Indrisano's upcoming docu-horror Shelterwood promises to be a series which explores the horror of suburbia, as it follows one man's quest to find his missing sister. Until this is released, I would recommend Do You Copy, in which Stephen plays one of the protagonists. This found footage horror series follows the events which unfold after the closure of Red Tail National Park, and the people who were left inside the park, after its mysterious closure.

Ella Watts is regarded as a walking encyclopedia of all things audio fiction, and has worked on several high-profile projects, including directing both Doctor Who: Redacted and Marvel Move. Her upcoming Camlann is a post-apocalyptic series due to be released next year, inspired by Arthurian legends and British folklore. She is also the executive producer of Tin Can Audio's (who are also producing Camlann) beautiful experimental series, The Tower. The protagonist of this story, Kiri, leaves her life behind to climb an impossibly high tower, making phonecalls along the way.

Newt Schottelkotte's Where The Stars Fell is a supernatural fantasy set in the town of Jerusalem, Oregon. Cryptozoologist Dr Edison Tucker arrives in the town to carry out some research, and meets her roommate, author Lucille Kensington. There's so much more to this strange town than first meets the eye, with a huge revelation at the end of season one.

If you're new to fiction podcasts, welcome! I hope this short (ish!) and very much non-comprehensive list gave you some ideas of what to listen to next!

#Re: Dracula #audio fiction #audio drama #podcasts #podcast recommendations #podcast recs #the mortifying ordeal of being known WELP #me yeeting this list into the void and then disappearing for the forseeable future

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I just don’t get how they built such a beautiful connection between Viktor and Sky (or HexcoreSky, whatever you want to call her) in Acts 1 and 2, only to destroy it all in Episode 8 with a super rushed goodbye, and then give us a Viktor without humanity for just one episode (or half, really). And then, his "best friend" suddenly accepts him as he is when Sky had done that all along?

Like, if they were going to do that, they should’ve just written Sky out way earlier and let us have this no-humanity Viktor on screen for way longer. And don’t even get me started on the fandom. They don’t get that it was Ekko who saved Viktor, not Jayce. Ekko was the one stepping out of Viktor’s equation, not Jayce. Plus, in Season 1, the mage that gave Jayce the rune design was based on Ryze, so that whole Viktor Doctor Strange time-travel vibe in Episode 9 just felt... so bland. I’m over the whole time-travel trope—it’s so overused that it’s boring. I always knew Ekko would be the one to do it because that’s his whole character, but Viktor? Ugh, it felt like they were trying to wrap everything up way too quickly in the last episode, so they just threw in time-rewinding to make it all fit. Honestly, I rolled my eyes so hard when Viktor started his speech to Jayce about the different timelines. I was like, "Oh no, here we go."

Honestly, I get why League of Legends fans didn’t like Viktor’s rework. Mechanical Herald Viktor was way more tied to the social inequality conflict between Zaun and Piltover, something I was really hoping they’d explore in more depth. The new Viktor is much more connected to the arcane and magic, which is fine—I like cult-leader Viktor—but it loses that important conflict we saw in Season 1.

We were all excited to see Viktor’s final evolution, which lasted… half an episode? Why? Like I said, they could’ve written Sky out way earlier, given that her ending was so lackluster, and spent more time exploring this emotionless being. Maybe he was just too OP and they couldn’t keep his superpowers on-screen for too long without completely wrecking the world. I get that. Machine Viktor could’ve lasted longer because he wasn’t tied to those arcane powers.

I get it, the show is called Arcane, but the conflict between Zaun and Piltover made it feel so much more relatable. As someone from Latin America, watching how northern hemisphere countries pollute my country, dump their waste here, and have companies that destroy our environment (it's not like we don't do it to ourselves but it's still a form of oppression)—it’s a form of first-world oppression that I saw reflected in Season 1 of Arcane. But Season 2? It felt so distant. Magic isn’t real in real life, and yet Season 1 balanced magic so well that it still resonated with issues like social, economic, educational, and environmental oppression. Season 2, though, started to drift away from that. Sure, at first, you see more of that Zaun/Piltover conflict, especially with Caitlyn and the oppressive martial law (because yes, that’s literally a dictatorship). But then Jayce swoops in like, “Hey, we’ve got a bigger enemy, let’s team up,” and boom—Marvel finale.

Anyway, these are just some fever-induced thoughts I’ve been having. My ideal ending? Viktor slowly becoming Singed, like they hinted in Season 1 with that “I understand now” line. Viktor as the Herald, tucked away in a corner of Zaun like Singed, secretly helping people—not driven by feelings or morality, but by a greater good: helping those in need. Meanwhile, his humanity (Sky) tries to find him somewhere deep in his mind, ultimately leading to the creation of Blitzcrank. That’s what I thought we were getting. Instead, we got astral destruction and a bromance. Oh well, it is what it is.

#don't mind me that much im just angry and sick #but i said what i said #my happy ending was a bad ending #and wth about Jayce's redemption arc?#that's another story #arcane #viktor #arcane viktor #viktor arcane #arcane netflix #arcane sky #arcane season 2 #arcane spoilers

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arrow-guy · 2 months ago

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Within the Ashes (5/??)

Summary: You’ve spent your life working for someone else. You watch their back, you protect them, but you’re left feeling empty and unfulfilled at the end of the day. What happens when a freak accident transports you to a different dimension, very nearly identical to your own?

A/N: Ding dong, we’re back with another episode of “hey, that’s some fucked up interdimensonal travel.” Reader is making new friends this chapter! Lots of fun banter, a little seriousness, and Peter and Johnny make another appearance! A good time all around. Please enjoy!

Page dividers by @carryonmyswansong

Pairing: StevexReader, background Spideytorch

Word Count: 2.2k

Warnings: Mild anxiety

Part 4

“You know I can feel you watching me, right?” (Y/N) stares down the empty hallway. She’s met with silence. “I’m not talking about the A.I., either.”

She stands her ground, hands in her pockets, and waits. She knows that, whoever’s watching her, they have to be one of the Avengers. If they wanted to hurt her, they would’ve done it by now. So she just waits for them to make their move. It's not like she has anywhere to be.

(Y/N) waits long enough that the timer on the hall lights runs out and she begins to suspect she’s standing alone in the dark. Several minutes after the lights go out, there's a flicker of movement towards the end of the hallway and she relaxes.

"Well that's certainly not the reaction I was expecting." The lights blink back on, revealing Natasha Romanoff standing about ten feet away. "Most people don't relax when they see me."

(Y/N) shrugs. "Honestly, I'm just glad I wasn't talking to thin air. Not that it’d be the first time it’s happened, but still." Natasha doesn’t react and (Y/N) awkwardly clears her throat. “Anyway, what can I do for you?”

“I’d like to get to know you better.”

“Huh.”

“What?”

“Nothing. Just seems very un-Black Widow of you.”

“And you’re making this judgment based on… what, exactly?”

“It’s nothing to do with you, specifically. I’m sure it’s entirely different here, considering the dimension hopping. But back home, I’m way too low on the totem pole to matter to someone as important as you.”

“Well, around here, you’re a hot topic.”

“Somehow that sounds worse than being invisible.”

“We won’t know until Strange gets back to us.”

“Ah, so the jury’s still out on whether or not I’m a threat.”

“In the strictest sense, you are a threat. With your healing ability and strength, you’re a very real threat.” Natasha smiles at the sight of (Y/N)’s discomfort. “But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”

“I don’t know how threatening I can be. I can barely throw a punch.”

“Do you want to learn?”

(Y/N) shrugs. “Maybe a little.”

“I’m sure something could be arranged.”

(Y/N) gasps. "Really?"

Natasha seems amused by (Y/N)'s enthusiasm, and she's not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Natasha simply nods and says, "I don't see why not. Might as well give you something productive to do."

"I was just thinking about how bored I am."

“Well we’d hate for you to be bored.”

“I appreciate the consideration.”

Natasha chuckles and (Y/N) tries not to treat that as a victory. “Strange should be dropping in some time in the next few days. One of us will come get you when he arrives.”

“Okay, sounds good.”

Natasha nods and walks off down the hall. (Y/N) watches her disappear around the corner and shoves her hands in her pockets before she starts the trek back to her room. She’s met her reality’s Doctor Strange, but only in passing. He seemed nice. Not especially personable, but she can’t really attest as to whether or not he’s actually like that. He’s only visited the Fantastic Four during working hours, so he’d always been in a hurry. He was nice enough to say a quick hello before portaling back to the Sanctum. Will this Strange be more standoffish, or will he be more cheerful? Maybe he wasn’t a surgeon in this reality. Maybe he was a pediatrician. Pediatricians have to be nice, right?

She turns the corner and, startled by Steve’s sudden appearance, stumbles back with her hand pressed to her chest.

“Jesus Christ!” she hisses.

Steve chuckles. “Sorry.”

(Y/N) sighs and leans against the wall. “How are you so quiet?”

“Years and years of practice.”

She takes a deep breath and calms herself. “What’s up?”

“Oh, uh… I just wanted to check on you and see how you’re doing.”

“Oh! I’m fine. I just talked with Natasha. She said she wanted to get to know me better.”

“Really?”

“You seem surprised.”

“Not exactly. I figured she might stalk you for a little longer.”

“Huh. Am I prey to her?”

“Maybe a little. But I think most people are.”

“Somehow that’s not entirely surprising.” (Y/N) cocks her head. “But is it still stalking if you know someone’s following you?”

“You knew?”

“Not that it was her, no, but it felt like someone was watching me. Also, definitely didn’t know if she’d cop to it. There’s also the possibility that she wasn’t even there to begin with, so I could’ve very well been talking to an empty hallway.”

“That happen often?” Steve jokes.

(Y/N) shrugs. “More often than I’d like. But it’s not like I can just stop talking to myself, right? I’m my best collaborator, after all.”

“Well, it’s hard to argue with that logic.”

They both chuckle and (Y/N) sighs when the laughter peeters out.

“Oh!” She snaps once and Steve’s attention jerks back to her. “Natasha offered to teach me how to fight.”

“She did?”

“Yeah, I joked that I wasn’t a threat because I can’t throw a punch and she offered to fix that.”

“That’s pretty superhero adjacent,” Steve says.

“I know, but lots of people learn to fight without becoming vigilantes.” She smiles. “You remembered.”

“Of course I remembered.”

“But that was last week.”

“Conversations with you are memorable, (Y/N),” he looks her directly in the eye, “You’re memorable.” She stares at him, lips parted, unsure of what to say. It takes a moment for Steve to realize what he's said and he awkwardly clears his throat. "Sorry, that was a little intense."

(Y/N) shakes her head. "No, it's fine. You just, um…" she laughs, "you kind of used your Captain America voice on me."

"Isn't that just my voice?"

"No, there's a difference between your normal, conversational voice and Captain America. Like there's a distinct tonal shift when you're either serious, or trying to get a point across."

"Oh."

"Yeah, I didn't realize that wasn't just how you talked until you brought me lunch that first time."

"Huh."

"No one's ever mentioned it?"

"Not without making it a joke, no."

"Mm, makes sense." Steve's phone chimes. "I probably shouldn't keep you much longer."

Steve frowns and checks the message. "I'm sorry, it's Tony."

"No, no worries. You're Captain America, after all."

"Still." He sighs. "Would you want to meet up for dinner?"

"Name the time and place. I'll be there."

The corner of his mouth ticks up. "I'll let F.R.I.D.A.Y. know as soon as I'm free."

“Reed says he might’ve tracked (Y/N) down,” Johnny says.

Peter shifts on the couch as Johnny plops down beside him. “Really?”

“Well, not exactly. But he picked up on an energy signature similar to his first interdimensional transport.”

“Well that sounds promising, right? I mean, it’s a start, at the very least.”

“Yeah, assuming it gets him anywhere.”

“If he can pinpoint where the energy landed, he should be able to work from there and maybe break through to wherever (Y/N) landed.”

“You really think he could ?”

“I don’t know. But I hope he can.”

Johnny sighs. “I feel like this is all we talk about anymore.”

“I know. But it hasn't even been two weeks.”

"That's almost two weeks without progress on Reed's part."

"Look, my semester is over in a week. After that, I can devote all my free time to helping Reed in the lab. Maybe that'll make things go faster."

"Maybe."

"We're all worried about her, johnny. But worrying and freaking out isn't going to bring her back."

"I know… but maybe a little?"

Peter sighs, but smiles. "Maybe a little."

"Anxious energy is still energy."

“We shouldn’t rely on it, though. You’ll wear yourself out before you get anything done.”

Johnny pouts. “Since when are you so logical?”

“I’m always logical.”

“No, you’re a book of dad jokes wrapped up in a very, very pretty package.”

“I can be more than one thing at a time.” Johnny chuckles, but the sound trails off with a sigh. Peter grabs his hand and squeezes. "Look, we're doing everything we can. We shouldn't give up on her yet, okay?"

Johnny nods. "Yeah."

"Yeah?"

"Mhm."

"Good."

A light knock at the door pulls (Y/N) away from her book. She sets it to the side and barely has one leg swung over the edge of the mattress before someone literally floats through the door. She simply sits and stares as the Vision materializes in her room.

"Uh… hi," she says. "Vision, right?"

"Correct."

"Huh, okay. What can I do for you?"

He opens his mouth to answer, but is cut off by another knock at the door. This person waits for an answer. (Y/N) calls for them to come in and the door opens to reveal Steve, hair tousled, cheeks flushed.

"We've been over this," Steve says, eyes trained on Vision. "You can't just phase through people's doors!"

"I knocked."

"Did you wait for an answer?"

"Well, no."

"Then you don't go in."

(Y/N) watches with amusement as the two go back and forth. She chuckles when Steve turns his exasperation towards her. “Does this happen regularly?”

He sighs. “Unfortunately.”

“Incredible. That’s hilarious.” Steve bites back his smile and rolls his eyes. “What’s up?”

“Strange is here.”

“Oh! Okay,” she jumps up from the bed and moves to the dresser- “gimme a sec to put on some real pants and I’ll be right out.”

Steve nods and ushers Vision out of the room. As the door is closing, (Y/N) can hear Vision say, “I don’t see anything wrong with the clothing she is currently wearing.”

“Doesn’t matter,” Steve says.

The door closes and (Y/N) quickly strips out of her sweatpants and replaces them with jeans. She shoves her feet into a pair of shoes and heads out into the hallway to find Steve leaning on the wall across from her door.

“Did Vision leave?” she asks.

He nods. “Floated back up through the floors right after I closed your door.”

“Alrighty.” Steve gestures up the hallway and (Y/N) follows along beside him. “So he just floats through walls?”

“Yeah, sorry about that. I’m sure you already know, he’s not exactly human. Boundaries aren’t really something he gets yet.”

“That’s fair. He’s a little more robotic, where I come from. This version is far more interesting than the one I already know.”

“Robotic how?”

“More interested in facts than anything else, really. This Vision seems far more willing to ask questions and learn than rely on whatever information banks he has access to.”

“Hm, interesting.”

“Exactly.”

“It sounds like you’re used to being around people who are very black and white.”

“Mm, maybe. Or maybe that’s just how they seem to me because I’m so far removed from them. Kind of like how you might view a celebrity.”

"That makes sense."

"What's Strange like?"

"Interesting guy. Not sure he had the best bedside manner Not sure he had the best bedside manner when he was still practicing, though."

"What kind of doctor is he?"

"A surgeon, as far as I know."

"Okay, very similar to my reality so far. Can't really speak to his bedside manner though. Haven't spoken to any of his old patients."

“I’d be worried if you even tried tracking them down.”

(Y/N) laughs. “Pretty sure there are more than enough forums online dedicated to reviewing him that I wouldn’t even have to bother.”

“People really do that?”

“Oh absolutely. The number of subreddits dedicated to the Fantastic Four is still crazy to me. I’m sure it’d be pretty easy to find at least twenty dedicated to you.”

“You mean the me from your reality?”

“No. You. Like the you in front of me right now.”

“Seriously?”

“Hate to break it to you, but you’re handsome, strong, and a public figure. People are going to fixate on you.”

The corner of Steve’s mouth quirks up. “You think I’m handsome?”

“I mean, it’s less of an opinion than an objective fact, but yeah.”

Satisfied with her answer, Steve stops just outside the doorway and gestures for (Y/N) to go first. She hesitates momentarily, takes a deep breath, and walks through with Steve right behind her. She’s greeted by Natasha, Tony, Clint, and someone who looks strikingly like the Stephen Strange she’s already acquainted with. He turns his attention to her and looks her over, face void of any discernible emotion.

“You must be Doctor Strange,” she says. She offers her hand and he’s slow to shake it. “I feel like I already know you.”

“Is that supposed to be a joke?” he asks, one eyebrow raised.

“Uh…” she glances at Tony, who just shrugs. “Yeah. Guess it didn’t land.”

“No, it was hilarious. I suppose.”

“Mm, no need to lie to me. I know not everyone’s my target audience. Steve pity laughs at enough of my jokes for everyone.”

“Hey, I laugh,” Steve says.

“Sure you do.”

Strange clears his throat, immediately drawing everyone’s attention back to him. “As entertaining as this is, I’d appreciate it if everyone could remember why we’re here.”

(Y/N) presses her lips together and nods. “Of course.”

Strange sighs. “Shall we begin?”

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Part 6

Sorry to leave off on a bit of a cliffhanger, it felt appropriate given we’re finally getting the Sorcerer Supreme lmao. Reader and Steve are getting closer! What a wonderful friendship, I literally cannot get enough of writing their dynamic.

As always, I’d love to know what you thought of this chapter! Do you think Natasha will be a good teacher? How would you feel if you were in Johnny and Peter’s position? Would you react the same towards Vision suddenly appearing in your room, or do you think you’d be far more startled? Be sure to reblog, comment, and/or shoot me an ask and tell me all about it!

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gugapuppy · 7 months ago

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Abortion - Part 3 (A!Ghost x O!Soap)

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8

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A little confort today, but the next part one will hurt a little. Be advised.

CW: Implied abortion

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Soap was sitting in a coffee shop sipping an espresso, far from the base and the memories there. Looking out of the window, Soap could see various people passing by and going about their lives, street animals wanting food and affection, and happy children holding hands with their parents. It made Soap's breath shake.

He'd texted Gaz to meet him at the café, he trusted the beta to help him, knowing that Kyle wouldn't abandon him, or at least he hoped he wouldn't abandon him.

After a while of waiting and his espresso running out, Gaz finally arrived to greet him, the two exchanged a few words and random topics such as games he was playing, upcoming missions, series coming out, until finally a small silence hung over them both.

"So, what's been bothering you Tav? Ghost and you..." -Kyle began.

Looking out of the window, observing the scenery, Soap decided to be direct instead of winding things up. "I'm pregnant, Kyle."

Soap notices Gaz opening and closing his mouth out of the corner of his eye. "Oh...congra-"

"I want to abort."

This time, the silence is longer, and Soap comes round after a while to face Kyle, who is wide-eyed and has his hand over his mouth.

"Oh..." -Gaz says, taking his hand away from his mouth and closing it on the table. "Does Ghost know about this?"

Soap swallows dryly, his eyes starting to water with each blink, but he keeps a straight face. "He knows."

Gaz looks between his hands quickly before getting up from the side of the table he was on and sitting down next to Soap, putting his arms around him as he shakes him slowly from side to side. "That's why you were acting strange..."

Soap nods and leans into Gaz's warm touch, purring his first way through weeks of tears and stress. "I don't want to do this alone, help me, please?"

"I'm not leaving you alone John, does anyone else know about this?"

"No, they can't know." -Soap tightens his grip on Gaz, holding on tight. "Price and Laswell will try to stop me or tell me to wait for Simon to come back... I can't wait for Kyle."

"Okay... let's go to my place, from there I'll call Price to give me and you a week off."

Soap looks at Gaz, a sad smile on his face. "Thanks bro."

The two then leave the café and take a taxi to Kyle's flat. As they go, night falls over them and the city, only streetlamps and buildings with LED signs illuminate the surroundings.

And as Kyle said, Kyle did. Calling Price, he asked for a week off and the captain quickly gave them both three weeks off, probably realising that Soap needed it after the weeks he noticed the sergeant had experienced.

Afterwards, they both ordered pizza for dinner, a purr echoing from Johnny at receiving one of his favourite foods. Gaz always knew how to please him.

Over dinner, Gaz told him that his sister was a doctor and there had been cases where she'd had to help with abortion operations, so he offered to call her, something that Soap accepted with certainty.

Some time after dinner had finished and Gaz had called his sister, Gaz sat down on the sofa and told Soap that Kyle's sister had made an appointment at the clinic for the following day.

On hearing this, Soap felt anxious and began to tremble. Gaz hugged him as he stroked the omega's back.

Soap lay on top of Gaz until his panic subsided and the few tears that fell dried up. "Can we watch something?"

"Of course, anything specific?" -Gaz asked as he searched for Netflix.

"The second season of a series I like just came out..." -Soap said as he found a comfortable position for his head on Gaz's chest.

As soon as Gaz put the series on, it wasn't long before they were both asleep before the second episode had even started.

And for the first time in weeks, Soap felt that someone cared about him.

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Now, the angst begins, and idk how much will hurt...

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gunsandspaceships · 1 year ago

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Tony’s behavior: Teenager/Young Adult (21 years old)

In previous episodes (Kid, 16 years old, 17-18 years old) we watched as Tony, from a calm and quiet boy who obeyed his father, began to behave in an atypical manner. But this behavior only appeared after the age of 16. It is not known what the reason was, but I have some ideas which I will share later in another post.

In this post, we take a look at 21-year-old Tony before his parents died.

Captain America: Civil War

It's Christmas time, Tony is back home for winter break after studying abroad (for his PhD). His parents are going on a short vacation to the Bahamas.

Tony just returned home from another country a few hours ago and is now sleeping on the couch in the living room of his parents' mansion. I bet some people thought he was partying and drinking, having a fun night with a girl (as Howard sarcastically suggested). He actually has jet lag, not a hangover. He looks fine and healthy here.

For some reason he is sleeping on the couch in the living room, instead of the bed in his bedroom. Btw, this couch looks like the worst place to sleep. But this is Tony, that's normal. His preferences for comfort are a little unusual.

He is still busy studying. He completed his bachelor's degree, master's degree and is now pursuing his doctorate. This means that he did not waste his life drinking and partying. He was engaged in what we all (usually) consider good and useful - education and science. And his father was still dissatisfied. Why is that?

Here Howard demonstrates his attitude towards Tony. Calling him "homeless person", assuming without evidence that he had a sexual relationship with a girl, telling him that he's wasting his potential. From the "16 Years" post, we know that Tony was interested in robotics and not so much, to put it mildly, in weapons. By "potential" did Howard mean "creating weapons, not robots"? Let's see if we have any other clues here...

This behavior looks strange, doesn't it? Tony doesn't seem to approve "quick stop at the Pentagon". Why? Maybe because he doesn't approve of Howard's business? That's something new! Some would say. But remember what he did in high school - he hacked the Pentagon's firewall. All the evidence suggests that he was not a great fan of the military at the time. Who knows, maybe this was one of the stumbling blocks in their relationship?

Listening to their argument, Maria looks indifferent. She seems to be used to it. So this has been going on for some time. Some years.

Tony definitely had a better relationship with his mother than with his father. Although Tony and Maria are a little awkward around each other. And we know why - they rarely spent time together during these 21 years.

Speaking of interaction, both sides - Tony and his parents - tried to avoid each other. Howard and Maria are heading to the Bahamas without taking their son with them. Tony comes back home just before they leave. Everything tells us that it wasn’t just like that that time, that’s how it usually happened. What was going on? They sent him to boarding school when he was too young, and he lived on campuses for 14 years, moving only from school to MIT to another college overseas. And even when he was back at home for a few days, they went somewhere and he was home alone. And he was not a big fan of their presence too, enjoying being alone, home, but sleeping on the couch. Something was completely f*cked up there.

Maria said Howard misses Tony when he is not there. This comment and the avoidant behavior give me the feeling that Howard was afraid of Tony's presence around. We know he never told Tony what he was really working on - S.H.I.E.L.D., Tesseract-based energy, and the new super soldier serum. Was he afraid that Tony would find out? If so, why? Because of the danger?

Tony's joke about the Pentagon's Christmas menu made me think he was familiar with it. Had Howard taken him to the Pentagon for the holidays before? And only him, without Maria. Maybe it was because there was no one at home to keep Tony company? Unlikely. There were other people around - Jarvis, his wife, nanny, or Maria (As a last resort. Weird, I know). Was this an attempt to introduce Tony to the military then? Sounds even weirder that it happened during holidays. Why would you bring your kid to the Pentagon for the holidays, Howard? He should be at home with his family. Gosh...

#marvel #mcu #tony stark #iron man #captain america civil war #howard stark #maria stark

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trekmupf · 11 months ago

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Trapped in a Car With Someone You Don’t Want to Be Trapped in a Car With

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Kirk being torn between his "duties" in the military structure of Starfleet and the duty to his crew / his friends

McCoy waking up and immediately doctoring

The way McCoy sits in the chair; Once again I'm stating the obvious: McCoy is very beautiful in this episode and his winged eyeliner is everything

We're getting to know Spock better: his problems connecting with the human crew and understanding them (something he learns later on, which is great character development), a new side to his logic, the fact that he's not driven by power (getting command)

Also the fact that the McCoy / Spock dynamic this early on the show is different from later on: the disagreements are less friendly banter and more actual fights, McCoy doesn't know Spock that well (thinking he's interested in power / command is wrong) and they don't work together as well, which is a great way to mark their development in later episodes

there's also a clear separation between Spock and the others, Spock's alone and doesn't have someone to confide in; later on Spock and McCoy are a duo

especially the scene where they're fighting over the funeral service highlights why McCoy, Spock and Kirk work best together and what can happen when one of them isn't around to balance them out

Spock is genuinely so irritated by his logic not working, he's so visibly annoyed several times

"Strange. Step by step I have made the the correct and logical decisions, and yet two men have died"

Spock's failures as a commander also highlights what makes Kirk such a great captain, as he manages to use logic and command while also balancing the human and empathetic side of it

Spock learning so much and growing during this, technically a great leader but he learns his own limits

Scotty best repair boy, the way he crouches and crawls into spaces to repair the shuttle and then engineer magic!

Also Scotty's attitude in the face of death is so great and telling about him. He realizes first what's going to happen and accepts it calmly, smiles and compliments Spock, having an air of comfort and peace around him

@ Kirk and McCoy in the last scene, how close do you guys need to be to have a conversation?

Kirk pointing out that Spock's action was based on hope and was therefore human and Spock trying to explain it away as a non emotional and therefore Vulcan action and the others just like him so much while he does so; it's not mean spirited but just lovely and such a great contrast to the tension earlier in the episode

So many of the shots inside the shuttle are accidently funny due to the camera angles they had use because of the tight space

Direct and straightforward episode set up: We have limited time (medicine needs to be brought to another planet) and the shuttle with two of our main characters gets lost in a phenomenon

Kirks desperation rising during his scenes the longer his crew is lost

great tension by the double plot: the immediate threat on the planet and the time pressure on the ship

I absolutely prefer the original special effects over the CGI remake. Look at how good the shuttle craft looks in comparison – taken from this youtube video which I recommend

Con

even for Trek the monsters are sort of shit

very minor but I'm annoyed at the uniform inconsistency, its yellow shirts not red shirt dying, the travesty

I know the commissioner is there to remind us of the time frame but his constant repeating starts to be annoying. I'm Kirk, just done with this guy (even though yes, he's right)

everyone but the yellow shirts who die have shit to do and opinions to have except the women who is just scared and doesn't wanna die

Counter: none

Quote "Did I? I may have been mistaken" - Spock "Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that" - McCoy

Moment: When the group sits in the doomed transporter together, knowing they're about to die but they seem collected

Free Bones because you can see his great make up in this one

Summary: Not quite bottle episode (even though it feels like it) that focusses on Spock and his struggles as a (half-) vulcan working with humans and his disconnect with them using a gripping and tense narrative; Over the course of the episode Spock learns a lot about humans, his connection to them and himself and he and his companions gather more respect for each other Previous Episode - Next Episode - All TOS Reviews

#star trek tos #star trek #star trek the original series #the galileo seven #wewatchtos #wewatchstartrek

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badninken · 6 months ago

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um, first of all, good luck with the next 100 or something episodes without zoro or law, but chopper is there to provide you emergency support! 🦌

now for the ask, I'm curious about what it's like knowing a character from fic. did the characters, like law, meet your expectations, is there any part of canon story, or law's character, that surprised you? is there something you didn't expect would be canon but it ended up being canon?

That sounds like something to have on in the background while I tackle my mounting pile of art obligations...

Good questions! I barely had any expectations on the series in general so I'll focus on Law.

Law met my expectations but not in the way I expected him to, if that makes sense. The first big difference is that he's much softer than I imagined, which isn't strange considering the dark and gritty nature of the type of fanfic I tend to read. I knew he'd be good and kind deep down but I thought it would be way deeper down and covered by a much harsher surface. I'm actually surprised he wasn't played up as more of a creepy villainous figure when first introduced, considering the potential of The Surgeon of Death thing. This brief crazy-eyed look as he's about to do surgery on Luffy is pretty much as far as that went,

because that handover of hearts did not make him look intimidating at all. He's just a little guy with a yellow submarine and a fluffy fur hat and A BOX FULL OF BEATING HEARTS.

Trafalgar Law has HOPE! Big surprise. Maybe it's because he's always stuck in really awful situations when I read about him but I didn't expect him to be a character with any sort of hope for a better future. In the actual series he comes in strong with his goal to stand up against and ultimately destroy the established systems of oppressive power and he's already got plans! For all the reluctance he has when it comes to blending in with the Straw Hats, he sure seems to admire them a lot and he puts so much faith in them. The way he time and time again risks his life to make sure they can get away safe from the botched plans of Dressrosa is kind of heartbreaking to watch because I don't think they ever realize the extent of that (and he would never let them know)

HE IS POWERFUL AS FUCK!

This is one of the sexiest thing I've seen a fav character do. I never pick my favorites based on their "power level" (I don't pick them at all they just attach themselves to my mind) but I want them to be skilled and confident and able to fight. I knew he was all that, but I knew very little about his abilities and had no idea he could do THAT. What a rush to see.

Law's childhood was a mystery I was trying to crack the entire time while watching. I only had re-imagined modern AU glimpses of it + fan art to go on. I knew his parents were doctors and that he had a younger sister and that they were all dead in some tragedy that involved a disease. I was certain that he came from a snowy place considering how much of the fan art of him as a kid is set in winter environments. A piece of fan art that I really really love (please help me find the artist) has little Law reading a book with "Drum Island" on it so when the Straw Hats came to Drum Island and they started talking about doctors and stuff I was certain there would be a Law connection there. I was fooled!

And I was not prepared for the horrors of Flevance.

I still don't know how to comment on this so I won't.

I wasn't prepared for the beginning of Cora and Law's relationship either. I'm glad I accidentally read a comment somewhere mentioning that Cora hit the kids or I would have been shocked and horrified. I love that he's introduced as a villain though because he really looks good as one, and then he turns out to be the absolute best.

Finally getting to see their story unfold in the correct order felt so good even though it hurt the entire time. I knew how Cora would die but I didn't know when.

Just from fan art I couldn't be sure if Law was with Cora before going to Doflamingo or if it was the other way around. I had many theories and versions in my head of how things fit together and for a while I thought this scene might be Cora helping Law escape whatever tragedy befell his family and that Law ended up with the Donquixote pirates after.

Having a bunch of puzzle pieces of spoilers didn't help me figure out what the whole picture would look like until I saw it for myself and it was a very rewarding experience. I haven't been disappointed in anything, except that I'll always want more than I get.

Okay time to take care of those art obligations baaaiiii.....

#trafalgar law #one piece #long post #too long why am I like this

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randomitemdrop · 1 year ago

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Trick or trivia

Happy Halloween! I do enjoy trivia of many types, but one of my favorite genres is what I call the Berenstein Timeline: unmade shows and movies, versions of classic movies where studios and producers made different decisions, some better, some much worse. All of these are real projects that were, on some level, considered (there are some recurring names)

"Heat Vision & Jack", a 90s pastiche of 70s-80s action shows starring Jack Black as an astronaut on the run from the law and Owen Wilson as his talking motorcycle

"Jurassic Park" directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp as Alan Grant, Jim Carrey as Ian Malcolm, and Vincent Price as John Hammond

the 90s "Batman" directed by Ivan Reitman; Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy were going to star but couldn't decide which of them would be Batman and which would be Robin

Back in the 1970s the American network was getting good numbers showing heavily-edited reruns of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", so they tried to sell the Pythons on the next logical step: an animated Saturday morning cartoon

"Edward Scissorhands" still directed by Burton but starring Tom Cruise or maybe Michael Jackson

"Return of the Jedi" directed by David Lynch; Harrison Ford was considering not coming back for the third movie and so when he came out of the carbonite there was a chance he would have been Christopher Walken

Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness". Also "the Hobbit" and lots of other things, he seems to have a lot of unmade projects

the 2010s "Star Trek" movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, where the edgy reboot crew visits the Gangster Planet from that one stupid episode of the original series

Everybody knows about the unmade "Superman Lives" starring Nicolas Cage in the title role, but did you know it was going to be directed by Tim Burton and include Christopher Walken as Brainiac, who would have been a green head on spider legs

Harold Ramis didn't particularly want to act on camera, so when they were casting "Ghostbusters" Egon could have been Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, or John Lithgow. Supposedly the movie was originally intended to be a relatively serious exploration of Dan Akroyd's very real interest in paranormal investigation, although this clashes a bit with the fact that Peter Venkman was originally going to be played by John Belushi and Winston Zeddmore was written for Eddie Murphy who backed out when the character's backstory and most of his lines were cut

John Waters' animated series "Uncle John" on 90s MTV

the original version of "Bill & Ted's Time Van" starring Pauly Shore and Sean Penn

"Red Dragon" (the original Hannibal Lecter novel) directed by David Lynch starring John Lithgow as Hannibal Lecter and Mel Gibson as Will Graham

the 1970s "Dr. Strange" TV series

the 1990s Disney animated "John Carter of Mars"

the 1990s Warner Bros animated "King Tut" musical with songs by Prince

the serious horror version of "Beetlejuice"

Drew Barrymore's 2000s remake of "Barbarella"

the Dungeons & Dragons movie James Cameron was going to make until TSR left the table over merchandising disputes, forcing Cameron to go work on some dumb movie about the Titanic

American "Doctor Who" movie starring Michael Jackson

Canadian "Doctor Who" cartoon by Nelvana starring a Doctor based intensely off of either Jeff Goldblum or Christopher Lloyd

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" directed by Terry Gilliam

"Good Omens" directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Robin Williams

"The Black Cauldron" using character and background designs by Nightmare-era Tim Burton

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myfandomrambles · 2 months ago

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Rating Doctors’ Introduction Stories

Trying to do this based on how they set up the doctor's era, not so much how much I like it

18) The Twin Dilemma (6): This episode doesn't set up 6 very well, at least not in a way that will make fans really give him a chance. It goes really hard on this post-re-gen psychosis in a way that will make people hate him. It does set up his haughtiness and such, but it doesn't set up how much he still cares about Peri and is actually still The Doctor in the core. I think to write 6 like this was like writing malpractice for creating a new Doctor.

17) Castrovalva (5): You get no vibes about how 5 is going to be for good or for worse. You come out with a bit of a blah vibe about how 5 is going to be going forward.

16) Day of The Doctor (War!Doctor): He’s sharing his story with an established Doctor, and it’s more of 11’s story than his. It does set up who The War Doctor is for the most part, but I think you do have a harder edge to him in some of the EU material then the more friendly type you get in this story. As a story, it does play out a lot of his important arc here in a satisfying way, which does engage people in his story to want to see how we get into this place which I think is a positive. But the biggest problem with it being an introductory episode here is that it is his final story so it’s both his first and his last story, making it have to be the end of an arc, which is the intention and written well, but not making it good as an introduction.

15) The TV Movie (8): I think it is an okay introduction story. If you get into 8 content, you are going to get a darker Doctor, whether you start with the EDA novels or Storm Warning. The Wilderness Years loved some deeply disturbing stories and Big Finish loved to put him through it, and of course, later on with the Time War. I think this story has brought a lot of people in and even with its failures, I find this movie to not be a terrible way to get into 8. It captures his whimsical outward vibe as well as his tendency to end up in strange, messed-up mental states. I do think however most people who get into more 8-content do so because of other drives like hearing about them versus being entranced by the movie itself. (though this might be that getting your hands on the movie is very hard)

14) Fugitive of the Judon (Fugitive!Doctor): Even if you ended up hating the TC, people were really intrigued by this Doctor. She kicked ass and had a flare and style. Like we wanted more and had questions! This episode, while it did make her share her screen with 13 you still got the idea that she could hold her own and have her own plots to carry on. It’s generally strong, even with her having to share time in making her someone people wanted to see more of. But still struggles with being tied down to plot lines that are not really about her doctor but about other doctors, and we see most of the fallout brought to 13’s emotional arc. Meaning her story feels very disjointed.

13) The Star Beast (14): Listen, I'm a certified 14 trilogy hater, but I have to say this is a good story for making him likeable and setting up a tone for this Doctor and actually the new Davies era in general. You get the emotional connection between 14 and his companion. It does lean hard on you having to understand plot lines from 15 years ago, but it still gives you a good view of what this doctor is feeling about these situations and how he’s going to react to hardships. It's a good episode, removed from my personal issues, and a good start. No matter how much I dislike it, it does serve its purpose decently.

12) Time and The Rani (7): I don’t feel any particular way towards this episode as an introduction. It shows 7 generally in a way that will show who he is going to be, though it doesn’t give a totally rounded point of view. Lacking some of the darker elements. However, that can’t be expected or needed for every first story totally, and I don't think makes it a total failure. Generally decent watch, and I think it does a good job of making you feel like watching more of 7 could be fun! I like that we had some regen hijinks, but that they didn’t last too long and we got to still see 7 and his companion interact and see how they will interact with each other, which ques us into a lot of who 7 will be.

11) Power of The Daleks (2): Quite good at setting up the ~vibes~ of the Second Doctor and seeing him up against an enemy who we know and appreciate giving us someone for him to play off. Love that they give us an enemy and companions in a way that helps us engage with them easily. We get a lot of his personality here, which is great! He gets some regeneration goofiness, but as this was the first regeneration, we don’t have an extreme reaction, which I enjoy. Love that we got to see a lot of 2 in action.

9) Deep Breath (12): You get some really good stuff here, and it sets up some important arcs for 12. When you see him kill the clockwork man, you go oof. The way it sets up the season and the era is really quite good. It put a lot of people off 12, which I'm not entirely sure why? It does a lot to set up his relationship with Clara as well. We get some regeneration wonkiness that isn’t my favorite, but I think it’s not too extreme for it to mean we don’t get to learn nothing about 12 and how he acts. We get this interesting arc of the Paternoster gang helping Clara learn that 12 is The Doctor, something I think might be helping the fans along as well, with the style of Doctor changing. This is one of my favourite episodes on this list so there might be a bit of bias leaking in here.

8) Robot (4); You get all the 4 vibes here. I think he gets to be himself pretty quickly and is engaging. It brings in an audience without watering him down. And his relationships with his companions are set up really well. I don’t have all that much to say here other than you watch it, and like you get what you’re seeing here and I think that makes it a pretty good introduction episode for that fact. I also like that it sets up his companions well and has the Brigadier see how he plays off another Doctor, as he has seen two before, which makes him feel like “The Doctor” because we see others acknowledge him as being The Doctor.

7) The Church on Ruby Road (15): This story is quite good at giving us a lot of who 15 is going to be. His adventurous side of wanting to get involved, his determination in saving baby Ruby and Carla, his cleverness in learning the vocabulary of wood and thinking on his feet by singing to the goblins. His relationship to Ruby is set up well here which is really important to his story. We get references to his sadness at being alone and how he feels like he may be the bad luck. His dedication to helping Ruby is there as well. We also see him talk his way past the cop in a very Doctor way, which is great at cementing him as “Doctor” material, if not quite strong enough to count as an ‘I am The Doctor’ moment. It’s great to see him get to own the stage here all on his own as he deserves as since he was forced to share his regeneration moment with the third iteration of David Tennant and play therapist to him.

6) The Woman Who Fell To Earth (13): A well-done introduction to 13 overall. Her relationship with her companions gets off to a good start (whatever you think of how well it plays out over time), having a death at the start of her run is very good and sets the sad undertone for her vibe overall. Her “I am the doctor” moment is decent as well! It’s not as good as 11’s or 10’s, but it’s good. I think you get some funny stuff, which is pretty stable in how 13 behaves. Her being willing to set off DNA bombs while getting mad about kicking the baddie off the ledge is Very 13 as well. In general I think it introduces 13 in a way that is engaging and also generally sets up some core aspects.

5) The Unearthly Child (1): I think it introduces 1 fairly well while also introducing his companions. His vibe is given well here. I don’t put it higher as the story drags a bit and isn't super engaging on its own but it’s still a decent introduction to 1 as a character, his flaws and some of the mystery about him. The way he interacts with people really does carry forward, so you do get what you were shown here; if you watch it, you get it going forward, which I believe makes it a great introduction.

4) Christmas Invasion (10): While this story is heavily Rose-based, Ten's intro at the end is amazing and gives us a star-level "-I am The Doctor-” moment that gives us a good basis into who 10 is going to be. It sets the tone for series two very well while hinting at the darker elements 10 can have, like killing the Sycorax and bringing down Harriet Jones’ government. We get a long period of regeneration sleep which does mean The Doctor is out for most of the episode, but his “I am The Doctor” moment is one of the strongest in the series, and he owns the stage in a way that sets up his character well. Just sucks that we have so little of 10.

3) Spearhead from Space (3): Idk man I just think this is a great era tone-setter. I think this gives off the perfect vibes for letting you know what you're getting into and who you're dealing with 3 and UNIT. I think it tells you who 3 is about to be and gets you wanting to know more and enjoy more! I watched it, and while not my favourite ever Doctor Who story,y I deeply wanted more 3 and The Brigadier. The Doctor does sleep for a while, and he does act a bit off from the regeneration, but he doesn’t get as messed up in the mind from regeneration once he wakes us as others, which I appreciate.

2) Rose (9): His turning of the Earth speech sets up The Doctor as a character for the entirety of New Who Man. I love it. Can you ask for more? The pain in his voice, when he’s begging with the Nestene, hurts me every time he really wants to not have to hurt them, and because it’s related to the war, omg it hurts. How he doesn’t want to drag Rose in but also wants her to be with him at the end, wants a friend! It’s perfect for 9! Everything about this episode sets up The Doctor for this era well. It's bad special effects might set some people off but I don’t think it’s at all enough to say it’s not near perfect as a story to set up who The Doctor is and the emotionality you're in for. It also sets Rose up really well. Jackie and Mickey for their character arcs as well.

1) The Eleventh Hour (11): It sets up everything about The Doctor’s God Complex in this era perfectly, with him calling the Atraxi back and his fairy tale aspects with the raggedy Doctor. And how much these ideas are both reality and made and how the cross between these things actually existing and being built in The Doctor’s mind is going to be a larger issue. This episode also sets up his relationship with his two main companions for the first two and a half seasons. It sets up his goofy side as well. The way the Moffat era is going to feel in general is set up here. Of course, his “Hello, I’m The Doctor, basically run” is like an amazing “I am The Doctor” moment, and I think it sets up his Doctor amazingly. Even if you hate 11, I think this sets up who 11 is like perfectly. I also appreciate that there are regeneration effects, but we don't get regeneration psychosis aspects and that he’s not knocked out for a large portion of the story.

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