#davis what are you doing

[dandelionjack]

> new series release (space babies) coincided with the uk seeing the northern lights for the first time in years

> the devil’s chord coincided with paul mccartney’s long-missing hofner bass guitar being found, by a doctor who fan no less

> boom coincided with an actual meteor crash

> 73 yards is coinciding with a rise in bizarre supposedly-occult animal sacrifice rituals in britain (the folk horror part) and rishi sunak finally calling a general election (the political drama part)

> hypothesis: russell t davies has somehow managed to tune in to the universe’s divine frequency ??

> conclusion: messing with the forces of fate, cause&effect and coincidence, even if it’s for the pop culture franchise you’re showrunning, actually turns it into an egregore, but only if it’s been going for long enough (sixty fucking years to the dot) and watched by enough people (tens of millions). which it has

> ergo, postscriptum: television magick is real and is being unintentionally performed by the creators + audience of the world’s silliest science fiction show

> /jk. unless?

[pandadrake]

Protector of the Arachno-Humanoid Poly-Multiverse vs. the Daddest Dad to ever Dad. (Having one meaningful conversation with Jeff would probably kill him irl.)

[megalomari]

so that third movie huh

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

I heart Until Dawn and it's collection of comically stupid characters. and I do mean all of them. and I do mean it affectionately. I just. god. the reason that anything can happen to these people At All is because, somehow, Every Single One Of Them decided that it was a good idea to accept an invite to the World's Most Suspicious Event at the World's Most Suspicious Place. "hmm!! I'm sure nothing strange or horrific is going to happen to us up on our rich friend's isolated mountain lodge; why would it?? I mean, sure, we Are going to be up there on the exact same date that we inadvertently triggered the events of his sisters' disappearance, but surely he's not upset with us about that or anything. let's go!!" seven separate people. nobody thought anything of it. it's incredible. impressive, even. I mean, I don't know. me personallyyyyy?? I probably would've received that invitation and thought, "oh, he's For Sure gonna do something to us up there, and he For Sure has the means to get away with it; I'm Not Gonna Go." but. hey. that's just me.

[corneredcopia]

New ship just dropped

Goodnight tumblr I made this in 5 min I’m lazy

[acamble]

WHAT???? WHAT DO YOU WANT????

[thatropoenthusaist]

so many,,, so many thoughts about today's episodes.

in particular when Sun started cycling through the names like. fuck man. he remembers all the names of the children that were there.

Dazzle apologizing :(( them saying it hurt but only worried about Sun?? gosh. AND HER REASSURING HIM? head in hands. i'm going to crumple to the floor.

"PB and J. Extra nuts and no jelly. I still remember her stupid sandwich." AH??? I'M GOING TO???

Moon asking Sun to tell him about the kids to let him reminisce. owch.

"You do a really good job raising these kids." "I really tried." OH. HM. I had to pause. I'm so.

[devilsskettle]

The X trilogy + "psycho-biddy" influences

[beemovieerotica]

[runs in full speed] DAVY JONES HAS A MOUTH ON HIS HAND THIS IS NOT A DRILL

THANK YOU @skymagpie FOR THIS INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY

[chiropteracupola]

granby + iskierka + keynes

[tiredmoonslut]

Seeing people say on the clock app that seeing the fallout of the Hex on the Westview residents is making them change their opinions on Wanda is so crazy bc like

Did you not know it was bad for them when they begged to just die instead of going to sleep dreaming her nightmares

Did you not know it was bad when the children were trapped in their bedrooms until Wanda's sitcom had need for them

Did you not know it was bad when the citizens delegated to B-roll footage were just left repeating the same actions over and over until the episode was finished

Are yall new here???

[dalesramblingsblog]

I know we've been commenting since The Star Beast on the irony of Russell T. Davies taking Disney money and using it to say trans/gay rights as part of one of the biggest British television events of 2023/2024, but I think Dot and Bubble fully opened my eyes to something I've been quietly contemplating since at least the time of The Giggle.

I am genuinely convinced, knowing everything I know about Davies' comments on the state of the BBC and the kinds of art he's been making of late, that Series 14 is a brilliant and purposeful piece of artistic subversion that has taken Disney's money to not just say trans rights, but to actively comment upon the cold, empty yawning abyss that is modern MCU franchisecrafting.

Time and time again, the show has returned to the idea that that sort of "artistry" is completely anathema in a cosmic horror sense to the very fabric of Doctor Who. The Toymaker is an arbiter of rules and continuity, who threatens to turn Doctor Who into a knock-off of The Avengers before everything collapses back into a game of catch with the Doctor in his underwear.

73 Yards is quite explicitly about the loneliness, emptiness and futility that accompanies human beings trying to impose rational, ordered frameworks and narratives on a fundamentally chaotic and strange universe. The very fact that the episode exists in a media ecosystem where hackish YouTubers will be falling over themselves to make "Ending Explained" videos for it *is part of the point*.

And then we have Dot and Bubble, where the modern glut of franchisal/social media (and the two are often close to interchangeable, as proven by this very blog post) is explicitly shown to have an anaesthetising effect that insulates people from real-world suffering. But it's more than that, because that same anaesthesia ties into expressions of actual, direct racism that are so baked into the foundations of that media and who it tends to uplift (white, conventionally attractive and implicitly straight people) that they become indistinguishable from said suffering.

After years of Doctor Who trying its hand at being a generic MCU-esque property and fans creating mockups of Phase-esque release timelines with a million spin-offs focusing on the Wacky Adventures of Miss Evangelista or whatever other bullshit fandom constantly clamours for, here is an era that puts its foot down and says "Actually, the foundational elements of that brand of media consumption are materially connected to the constant racist or sexist backlash you see against the casting of Ncuti Gatwa or Jodie Whittaker or Kelly Marie Tran."

And it is absolutely, positively, 100% correct.

How, then, does Doctor Who resist the creeping power of this monolithic cultural entity? In a world where studios seriously try to argue for the artistic worth of tripe like Morbius or Madame Web or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, what is the appropriate response?

The same response that it's always had, the thing that it's been doing for sixty years. Getting people to learn how to run down corridors from hokey aliens, hoping against hope that those people don't turn out to be massive fucking racists and telling them exactly where they can shove it if they are, and instilling the children of the world with a healthy dose of fear and light-hearted humour.

Welcome back, Doctor Who. God, I have missed you.

[creakysocks]

So youve heard of uncle aaron survives and becomes miles sidekick au, and youve heard of the spot becomes miles sidekick au, now may i present....

both combined

[kacievvbbbb]

Every single Captain and their first mate in one piece, Even the evil ones too. it’s actually kind of concerning.

The only possible exceptions to this I can think of are Blackbeard and Shiryu of the rain. And who ever was the first mate of the Rocks Crew. Both crews that were just a slapdash of strong people. Their captains are essentially Pokémon catchers that value nothing but strength and destruction.

My favorite Captain and First mates tho are;

- Luffy & Zoro

- Shanks & Beckman

- Roger & Rayleigh

- Law & Bepo

And honorable mention to a non captain and first mate duo that still give the same vibes

- Sengoku & Garp.

But yeah just the never ending devotion of a loner and the extrovert they swore to follow to the ends of the world for the rest of their lives and probably after

[brown-spider]

Btw what was her problem

"Struggling immigrant family" about two citizens with stable careers and their kid attending a private school

Why did we let her get away with that 🤨

[strangelittlelad]

Whoa chat... Ponyo's parents are like if Davy Jones and Calypso from Pirates of the Carribean were healthy