#clara rants

[clara-licht]

I am SO READY to scream and cry my heart out

[clara-licht]

I think my most popular works are The Meaning of Roses (TCF, AlCale) and Just Out of Touch (MCU, Peter Parker x Stark!Reader)? JOOT more than TMOR bcs of the bigger fandom, of course. Although back then A World Without You (BTS, xReader) was somewhat out there but that was dropped.

Are they my best work? Hm.... they are some of my best works for sure, but I felt most inspired and creative while writing my Alberu x Reader x Cale series and my WMMAP fic. ESPECIALLY that one WMMAP fic where I tormented Claude for a bit (lol).

[discombulatedwaffles]

Was bitching about this to a friend but uh I think more people need to hear this so your body needs sugar to function, your brain needs sugar to function

There is no such thing as a sugar addiction and anyone who says differently is trying to sell you something, usually an unhealthy and unsustainable diet and or life style

Can the case be made that natural sugars are better than artificial sugars? Yeah sure but like you still need sugar and it's better to have some "unhealthy" sugar than no "healthy" sugar and donkey kick anyone who says otherwise

[nightmistt]

twitter stopped working so i'll use tumblr to talk about the nintendo direct

bare with me

WHY DID THEY MAKE A GAME W SAMBA AND THE MAIN CHARACTER IS A MONKEY...

edit 1: omg police simulator?

edit 2: bayonetta ure perfect

edit 3: splatoon oomfies are you winning

edit 4: CHROBIN DUO UNIT IM GOINNA KMS THIS IS PERFECT I'LL HAVE TO BUY THIS MF GAME JUST FOR THEM

[karkod]

Warning: Mairimashita! Iruma-kun chapter 352 spoilers (manga)

Can we talk about this? There's so many things going on:

Iruma is given a "special item that can only be used once and can summon whatever you want". From other shounen manga you kinda assume that this item will be saved for later for the arc climax when the MC is in a tight spot, but no, he uses immediatly

Which bring us to the second thing and that is Iruma is becoming more a demon by the day. He is becoming greedy, impatient, while still being a cinnamon roll which is awesome since we see him change but at the same time stay his self which is a hard thing to write IMO

And the most wholesome thing, what does iruma summon??? AZZ and CLARIN askfjsjkasdhjkasdf. Do you see Iruma's face when he says "There's something I really, really want" and on the next panel you see Clara and Alice beaming I can't- My heart-

There's also the world building going on in this chapter with the many ears race and the previous conversation with Bachiko but then i'll never be done yapping

I can't stress enough how good this manga is

(Tho it plays with my feelings since it makes me thing it'll go on the trio rute but that's just wishful thinking... anyways let's not dampen the mood....)

[transk0vsky]

Got possessed by the demons again

[dandelionjack]

the main mistake that people who dislike s8 and put it low in their series rankings make is the belief that, like any other series (apart from s9), it’s a collection of standalone stories tied together by some vague throughline i.e. missy’s ‘heaven’. “oh, this episode’s mid, that episode’s bad” meanwhile it’s not about individual episodes at all. i firmly believe that it should be viewed as a singular long serial.

so grateful that i was extremely late to the party and binged it all in a week instead of watching every episode as they were airing, because sometimes the plots barely matter at all. do you remember what the skovox blitzer actually looks like or what it wanted with coal hill in the first place? hardly. i had to google its name. but what you do remember from the caretaker is twelve acting like an antagonistic prick towards danny, and that’s what matters. almost every villainous entity is some kind of soldier, the contempt twelve shows to everybody but clara becomes the source of their toxicity… in the forest of the night is pretty obviously rubbish scifi, but it demonstrates danny’s fundamental incompatibility with clara, as well as the scene in which clara is ready to sacrifice herself and her students for the doctor’s sake, foreshadowing their reckless, almost suicidal codependency.

point is, but it really does work best as a tightly woven tapestry. sure, some episodes succeed individually, but most of the individual plots are mildly exciting only in a ‘this is fun to watch for kids’ way… UNLESS you approach them from the overarching perspective. i.e. mummy on the orient express has wonderful style, a thrilling mystery, creative concepts and interesting side characters, but its story appeal hinges on the twelveclara failed breakup. listen is frightening enough, but its entire story appeal hinges on just how much clara affects the doctor’s values past and present, and whether or not she has a future with danny (she doesn’t).

what i’m saying is, the narrative in s8 is a non-negotiable package deal. buy one, get them all. and it has no skips. i hate the idiotic pro-life message in kill the moon as much as the next sensible person, but what the episode does well is really hammer home how much of a sanctimonious asshole twelve initially is, which is crucial to his future character evolution.

tldr; the correct way to watch series 8 is all in one go. series 8 is great. more love for series 8

[tblsomedoodles]

Meeting Clara (but happy and cannon)

i had full intentions of coloring this. but that would take forever and i reached my limit as far as this comic goes a while ago. i have no idea what it was, but this comic fought me every step of the way. It didn't matter if i was having a good art day or not, as soon as i opened this document, i'd struggle.

But it's done now. so there's that

[yourdeepestfathoms]

as hyped as i am for P3, i’m so scared that the fandom will sideline and ignore Clara even more than she already has been

[concrete-3ater]

if I had a nickel for every time I was in a fandom and a child character had a breakdown and did something that accidentally hurt another character, and then the fandom all turned on the character and vilified them because they [the fandom] can’t understand that sometimes 14 year olds make mistakes when they’re going through something traumatic, I would have 2 nickels

not a lot but it really is weird it happened twice

[citrusbugz]

Rereading the manga. And I love how Clara is allowed to be weird and silly, while still being able to develop her magic and get stronger.

I am more used to western animation then anime nowadays, which is definetly where wacky concepts but serious characters thrive (like 90% of Once Piece characters), so I forgot how it feels to let silly characters be silly for this long. A lot of media keeps sending them to the edgy route if they want to develop the plot... Not awful, but they loose this chard of themselves.

It's nice that Raim worked with Clara on what she got, and not on what she didn't, during pre-harvest. That the effort went on building upon her bloodline magic and the appeal of childhood and playfulness (im not talking dirty shit, this is about the Toy Box spell, the please God don't get it twisted) instead of going on a sensual route that would be very off and forced on her character.

It's nice that other characters, and the world itself, acknowledge that she's not all dumb, she has a weird logic. And that logic is just as valid as any other, like how we see in the Heartbreak arc. She didn't fail because her logic was nonsense, because her plan worked, but because Stolas had the high ground against her. (she quite reminds me of Maddie from EAH in this way, iykwim.). You can also see that in a great display during the Music Festival arc, where there's this 1 chapter about Clara and Azz learning each other ways as to work better together, and how after that Azz is more understanding of how she thinks and, and how some of the weird things she says makes full sense in context.

I'm all here for a Clara centric plotline at anytime soon, I think is well over at this point. I want to see her have more relevance to the overall story. Or a deeper character exploration that's beyond 2 chapter length. Anyways, we love Clara in this blog.

[clara-licht]

OH NO HE'S HOT

*faints*

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

Obsessing over this shot from heaven sent and I haven’t seen anyone talk about it and it’s reflection of the doctors grief. In front of him is this window, this light and these flowers, all these reflections of life and beauty right in front of him. This light is shining on the doctors face yet his face is also shrouded in darkness. There’s the contrast of light and dark on his face, the beauty of the world at the palm of his fingers but it’s tainted by loss, suffering, grief. Clara’s portrait in the background, he’s unable to look at it but the darkness is on the same side. The doctor is unable to look, unable to accept her death and he’ll spend four and a half billions years suffering to save her, he’ll burn worlds and universes in his denial to accept her death. Clara’s portrait itself has light shining upon it, reflecting all the happiness and joy she brought the doctor, the optimism she represents yet the tragedy is in their separation, a dark shadow separating them. The light and joy brought by Clara inaccessible to the doctor, he can’t bear to look. One of the only times he smiles in Heaven sent is looking at her portrait, a moment of forgotten grief. In his pain and torture chamber it is the image and memory of her that brings him joy, but as the paint flakes away so will she, the memories he loved so much to be forgotten in his desperate attempts to save her. This silly little sci-fi show can really break your heart.

[doverstar]

could write an entire essay about how Clara (who I like) is the Doctor's kryptonite and is bad for him not for any of the reasons you're thinking but because the Doctor lost three versions of her in a row after losing people he loved again and then he decided to project onto this one girl all of the guilt and regret he felt about losing literally any of his previous companions. it turned him into a crazy person and it got her killed. but I won't expand unless provoked

[clara-licht]

must we be doing today is the question here

I'm back besties how are we doing today

[faeleven]

7B - which had good ideas but suffered because Moff was too busy with the anniversary to edit - managed the revelation that the companion the Doctor believed was supernatural was actually an ordinary woman much much better, because the narrative was constantly pointing out that the Doctor’s fixation was both incorrect and unfair to Clara.

This was more like if Neville was revealed at the end to be the chosen one after following Harry Potter for seven books. You can’t lead the viewers to a conclusion, pull the rug from under them and then laugh at them for not getting it when they were never provided the dots to join.

happened to see this ask right after rewatching the bells of st john but yes exactly! 7b wasn't moffat's best work but he clearly had the conclusion planned out from the start and that was reflected in how the narrative treated clara and the doctor, whereas rtd was setting up something totally different from what he ended up doing. with clara, the doctor (and the audience to an extent) go in thinking she's some crazy, weird, impossible thing, but in 7b itself all the signs continually point to her being an ordinary human and the doctor just ignores that because of his fixation on her "mystery". the exact opposite of s14 where no one thought ruby was anything but human until RTD started surrounding her with weirdness and specifically drawing attention to it. the message he's sending to fans is "don't try to analyze my writing or predict* where I'm going with things, because I don't care about thematic consistency and will just pull plot points out of thin air"

*caveat that I don't necessarily think a twist should be predictable, but I do think that looking back after everything is revealed, you should be able to feel that it was done with intention and not by spinning a wheel.

it's hard to have any real analysis of this series because it doesn't have that sense of being crafted intentionally. some episodes in it were good, but as a whole it's incoherent. any discussion of its themes or ruby's character is necessarily either extremely shallow or driven by fan theories that have taken what little the writing gave us and run with it.

RTD says he wants to provoke reactions, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but I do think he's going about it all wrong. if he made something that had genuine depth and was thought-provoking, fan discussion would naturally follow AND would keep going for a long time. instead he's chosen to chase after moment-to-moment shock value and soundbite reactions, and as a result I don't see this new version of doctor who having much lasting popularity.