#but still relatively not healthy

[cosmicheartz]

Can’t let the hoes know I kinda fuck with foxlamb

[transmasc-rose]

I'm thinking about the horror of the Doctor from the perspective of non-companions again, especially as it relates to people those companions know.

Rose? "Ran away" (not wrong) for "a year" (a week) with a "man" (alien) "twice her age" (approximately 50 times her age but yeah, he is Time Lord middle aged), and then gives absolutely no explanation for how or why that happened, except that she was "travelling".

Then when her mum does get an explanation (which, frankly, is only comforting because of the unfamiliarity of the alternative given. The devil you know.), Rose barely checks back in.

She almost dies for him. When she thinks he's dead, she's changed in a way her family doesn't know how to handle. Then she's gone for who knows how long and comes back with the Doctor wearing a new face.

When her original tenure as a companion ends, and Rose lives in Pete's World, she works for Torchwood/UNIT (they become the same organization). She volunteers for the Dimension Cannon. She explains to the alternate earth how to rig up a time machine.

She's changed in ways that no one else can really understand.

Amy? There's everything with River Song of course (though I'm still not there in my viewing), him running away with Amy the night before her and Rory's wedding, and also the connection between the Doctor and the Time Crack being the reason all of Amy's family's dead. Obvious stuff.

However he's also the strange man who broke into this child's house and made a mess of her life that she never got over, that promised to take her away from here, that she wrote about and drew and carved and made her friends dress up as.

And they sent her to psychiatrist after psychiatrist without any help. In their perspective, to work through what she imagined. In her perspective, to tell her that her reality wasn't real.

And then he comes back.

And to some extent, later, when he shows himself to everyone, isn't that more frightening? That the story your child told you, of the strange man she met as a child, of time travel, of nearly being stolen away, hadn't been a lie, or a misinterpretation, or an imagining?

And so he shows up at her wedding. And steals her away again.

Donna I feel like has the least horror until her final episode. I think exploring the in between section of her meeting the Doctor and finding him again would be interesting, but not exactly horror. More an exploration of how obsessive the companions can get about him, how it eats their whole lives with even one encounter, even as it makes them better people.

And then, obviously, the horror of having your mind altered and erased against your will by someone you trusted. For your own good, of course. Because he knows best. How could you know better than him? He's ancient. He's practically all knowing.

Shouldn't you be grateful?

(And he's forgiven.)

[lunamond]

The disproportionate hate show!Criston gets is so bizarre. No argument I’ve seen his haters make sofar has made any sense to me.

He is outside of Mysaria the only siginficant lowborn character we meet. He rises up from the son of a steward of a minor house to the position of King‘s Guard thanks to Rhaenyra, who then pressures him into having sex with her, sth that could get him executed. Afterwards she not just rejects his proposal, but laughs in his face.

And when as a result of this experience Criston is shown to be emotional distraught and bitter, people call him an incel? (I assume that they refer to his ideology and not his actual status as a celibate, because not being celibate is literally what started this mess)

It really rubs me the wrong way, when people remove all context from this situation. A lower class person getting a well-off position from a person with authority, who they then end up having sex with is ALWAYS a relationship with a power imbalance (Obviously there are irl relationships like this, who work out and manage to be relatively healthy, but that doesn‘t remove the imbalance of power and the increased likelyhood of abuse).

We see Criston‘s reluctance when Rhaenyra makes her move. It does not matter if Criston was attracted to her or not. The simple fact that he is in a vunerable position makes him denying her a risk. It also does not matter that Rhaenyra had no malicious intentions, the simple fact that she ignores Criston‘s refusal and continues pressuring make this whole scene super uncomfortable. Her ignorance and naivety does not erase the impact of her actions.

Criston growing to hate her afterwards is perfectly justified.

As a man who grew up in Westerosi society, he inevitably holds misogynist beliefs, which is reflected in the insults he uses after this. But compared to the acts of every single character on this show, singling out his character is pretty ludicrous, when we have plenty of male (and female) characters who have done worse:

Like commiting SA (Viserys, Aegon), grooming young girls (Viserys again! I really hate this man, Daemon, Otto, Corlys and Rhaenys because telling your daughter she has to sleep with a grown man when she is 14 is pretty much the same thing Otto does to Alicent) and the only major crime Criston is guilty of sofar: murder (Daemon killed his wife and the servant in Driftmark, also he did large scale police violence which people love to forget about, Rhaenys killed potentially hundreds of smallfolk at the coronation)

Obviously, anybody is allowed to dislike whatever character they want, but a lot of people flatten Criston into just a misogynistic bitter incel who is just mad that Rhaenyra has sex, ignoring every bit of context we get for his behaviour.

This becomes escpecially weird, when those same people have no problem stanning Daemon, who calls his 1st wife a „bitch“, „uglier than sheep“ and then murders her, because he sees her as inferior as a none-valyrian. But Criston calling Rhaenyra, a person he feels personally wronged by, a „spoiled cunt“ is apparently a too far.

It is just really frustating when the character with the canonically lowest social standing gets afforded the least amount of nuance by the fandom (the writers are obvs not excempt from this criticism either).

[carlestin]

no unfunny caption. theyre in love

[cbmagus49]

STANUARY WEEK 3: FEAR

I decided to start with something nice and easy to get back into the swing of drawing, so Week 3’s piece is a simple little screenshot redraw ^^ I was originally going to do something more angsty for this prompt, but quite frankly I’ve had a hell of a time these past few weeks and I just needed to draw my lil’ boys being cute and goofy, so Grappling Hook Ford and Tiny Stan Scared Of Heights it is!!

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Not to be one of those adults but it's so funny how grown up things eventually start happening to you whether you think you're ready or not

I'm a gremlin, I wfh in my sweat pants, I think about anime in all my spare time. I had chicken nuggets for lunch today and I'm behind on my laundry. I tend to get overstimulated in the cereal aisle. But because I get on my computer every day and answer messages, my work doesn't know what to do without me and keeps giving me more money. 🤨 I didn't know I was capable of having a stable job for years but here I am?? They don't know how I live and don't care as long as I come to work and answer emails?? 🤨 How did this happen hahaha

[asmodeusamaryllis]

MARIA HAS A SISTER?!??

[orange-dreamzer]

Just a quick reminder (especially if you're a teenager) because my friends recently have started "diets" which sound pretty harmful actually: especially as a teenager or child you are Expected to eat lots of carbohydrates and also likely fats and glucose and gain calories so that your body can properly build itself!!! Please don't do harmful diets no matter how skinny or pretty you want to be!!! Being pretty means NOTHING if you're not healthy!

[roomba-mangga]

evilest decision i didn't realize i was making while writing thistle: he never refers to delgal as his brother, not even once. it's always just his king or his lord

[youling-the-ghost]

"I will never justify a villain's actions because of their childhood."

*Sees Tenko Shimura*

"Poor kid did nothing wrong. He has been nothing but a victim, also fuck All For One."

[bibuckleykinard]

how many times do we need to learn as people that irony and hyperbole can be harmful because 'jokes' aren't easily distinguished from genuine thoughts and feelings until we stop rewarding people for speaking or posting about violence

like even if you're joking/don't actually believe that/think whoever you are insulting is bad/immoral/fictional therefore deserves it - ad hominem attacks always do more harm to the people who share those characteristic then the individual you intend to cause harm to or discredit

[aropride]

my shirt that says "i don't have an eating disorder" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[thereissomethingunderthestairs]

Sending my old man out with his favorite meal.. i’ll see you again pete ❤️

[llycaons]

I don't really get into the top/bottom discussions anymore since I think they're kind of silly (tho not fake performative, I can guarantee almost everyone involved is DEAD serious on both sides) but this argument is one I haven't seen before and like. okay point. I see it. a lot of fics where lwj bottoms make him ooc in ways that also play into stereotypes too...like even if you're coming at it purely from a cql characterization there's fics where I'm like hm. he wouldn't do that. and in concept I do rly like the sexual dynamic of lwj taking care of wwx and I think that suits their characters and their romance really well (however that manifests). like I like to see them switching and wwx topping but I also don't think lwj being a top is like, bad or offensive either

I didnt rb this post bc the rest of it goes on to make arguments like 'mxy and therefore wwx is more feminine because he was the son of a pretty 16 yr old' which like ???? I didn't know the younger the mom, the prettier the son... also watsonian vs. doyleist explanations etc. etc. I do think RELATIVELY speaking the novel really isn't so bad with the crazy top/bottom stereotypes and that's not where my criticisms of it lie anyway, honestly the adaptations and fandom run with it way more than the actual book did...when I was reading it I was surprised that wwx-as-mxy was literally less than an inch shorter than lwj. fanart rly exaggerates it

[puddingcatbeans]

djksjfjslkf today is a A Day!!!

so one of our performers got this rash ?? no idea what is going on, but it's literally day 0 for our event so we are all stuck at the office packing, but it got bad enough that we decided she should just go to ER, and unfortunately i was the only one relatively free and bilingual enough to go, except i don't drive so i took the train to the hotel and then took a cab to the hospital and then lost 4 hours of my life just waiting in line.

thankfully the performer is nice and patient and we chatted a bit, but i am NOT fluent enough to translate medical jargon, and nowhere near bold enough to demand answers from the staff. i know they are all doing their best so we waited quietly but man. i didn't even have dinner yet 😭

anyway an adultier adult showed up so now i am in an ub3r home but what started me on this rant is that i have horrible anxiety so i don't know the social conventions for called cars like this, i'll take the bus any day

[true-bean]

I hate how hard it is for skinny people to understand that weight is genetic. Like of course you can be fat in a skinny family or skinny in a fat family but it takes a lot. Like my family, extended and all, tends to be overweight. My fiancés family on the other hand tend to be skinny. It all just depends on your ancestors and your metabolism