#doctor woozi

[dykebeckett]

I’m certain I’ve talked about this before but it bears 🐻 repeating. I think time lords need to be fragile. I think they should be frail and have weak little bird bones and do poorly in the cold and be more susceptible to stuff. I think they certainly would bleed out faster.

[canisalbus]

What?? Why on Earth would they bloodlet Machete when he's already anemic?

Anemia wasn't discovered until 1852, so his physicians have no idea. He's just moody and achy and visibly unwell and bloodletting happens to be the cure-for-all fix at the time.

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it was one of the most used treatments in western medicine from ancient Greece to 19th century (and even earlier than that in Egypt, for example). There weren't many ailments that a little bit of breathing a vein wouldn't alleviate, supposedly. This whole concept is based on humoral theory which is a fascinating cornerstone of medical history and also completely unfounded nonsense, look it up if you haven't, it's interesting. People believed that blood didn't circulate through the body, it was created, used up and then the bad blood would stagnate in the extremities. Having too much blood would disturb your humoral balance and create illnesses so removing it was beneficial to your wellbeing. Even completely healthy people would sometimes go get themselves bled a bit just to be sure.

You kind of need blood for your body to function so this treatment was completely pointless at best and life threatening at worst. If you were sick to begin with it would only weaken you further (and expose you to potential infections, which in the absence of antibiotics, wasn't great). The only viable use for it would have to be rare blood disorders where your body produces too many red blood cells, like polycythemia vera, essentially the polar opposite of anemia.

[unspuncreature]

i have my colposcopy this afternoon and brother. i’m scaredt

[sirwow]

woe another doodle dump

iv just been making some more hypothetical fun ideas just for art n writing fun

[deanpinterester]

(this poll is trans inclusive)

[ourceliumnetwork]

yeah guys idk I'm just thinking maybe the lightheadedness and desire to sit down about halfway through putting away groceries my whole life might not have just been a reaction to the way my parents were when i was a kid and the accompanying anxiety and sudden flurry of movement, but also possibly maybe i have a Health Thing about this...

[whimper-network]

nothing quite like undergoing painful medical procedures to light a fire under my usually-dormant masochist side

[gxtzeizm]

okay that's a lot of plot twists and surprises for this gose episode tho i'm still can't even brain it rn 🤯🤯

[live-laugh-lenney]

absolute waffle going on in the tags.

ignore (or read if you're that interested).

i just wanna speak but have no one to speak too so my tumblr tags are basically just nothing but my internal thoughts needing to come out.

sorry.

love to you all. x

[undead-merman]

I'm out of blood pressure meds, and you want to wait weeks before seeing me? I hope you like hospital food bitch.

[halinski]

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[sinkableruby]

being proud of myself for my accomplishments ❌

being proud of myself for not feeling woozy at all after getting my blood taken ⭕

[zoboey]

tylenol 3s make me feel horrible. why was my mom addicted to these

[carolinanadeau]

god I'm so sick of practically every game I play making my eyes strained... what am I supposed to do :(

[reticent-fate]

everyone always talks about conflicting needs with disability when it's like, two different bodies having conflicting needs

my body heard that and said "i have conflicting needs"

(aka: fibro and unclaimed fatigue symptom fight over whether we do hot or cold showers--- hot showers because they soothe our fibro pain rather than make it worse like cold showers, or cold showers because i don't end up having to rest like i just threw hands afterwards)

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[robocracker]

watching classic who: the daleks

i've seen some of this serial before. not sure how much, and i don't even remember seeing the daleks themselves. but then, i was nine years old and didn't realize doctor who was about to become one of my favourite shows in the whole world, so who can blame me for forgetting a few bits and pieces?

"don't you ever think he deserves to have something happen to him?" holy shit barbara... and now i yearn for a nuwho companion who also feels this way about the doctor...

no but i really can't get enough of the fact that ian and barbara are literal hostages, begging to go home every other scene. the sheer sadness on their faces when they find out they're on an alien planet?? this is hysterical

something very important to me about barbara telling susan "i believe you"

give me more bacon and eggs in the tardis!! now!!

60s daleks i love you!!!!

considering what nearly happened to clara when she hid inside a dalek shell, i'm glad ian is having more fun with it

"they won't be suspicious at all" doctor i adore your confidence

what in the fucked up dalek hand-

i get that there's greater threat now in daleks being able to fly, but i don't care. give me shots of the tardis team running for their lives, interspersed with cuts to a dalek slowly ascending in an elevator. i need it.

ian looking directly at the camera then rolling his eyes over the thals not wanting to fight the daleks...

god help me i'm in tears these fucking dalek screams

i do love this little set up they've got for the view of the dalek city though, it's a gorgeous piece of work

oh no, not antodus! ...anyway...

barbara better be getting an alien boytoy of the week from now on because i'm so here for it

hurray! more dramatic falling over in the tardis!

yeah, this was definitely a stronger serial, and i'm excited to see how the edited, colourised version compares when it airs next week!!

though, i was expecting a little more moral conflict over killing all the daleks. there's something weird but also surprisingly refreshing in the doctor simply saying "even if i wanted to help, i don't know how".

i'm curious to see at which point we switch from the doctor simply being part of the team, only really leader insomuch as he runs the tardis controls... to taking on a more significantly heroic role, since that's what i'm more familiar with, and i'm interested to see how the show develops to reach that point.