#doctors for white marks

[goryhorroor]

“horror movies were reborn in the 1930s. sound revolutionized cinema across the board and had a huge impact on the horror genre— and not just in the form of dialogue. sound effects added an extra dimension to terror, from creaking doors to echoing footsteps to the rumbling of castle thunder. music cues built suspense or signaled the presence of a threat. as screen storytelling moved away from symbolism towards realism, the dreamlike wraiths of silent cinema were replaced by monsters that grunted, groaned and howled.”

[seaweedstarshine]

Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.

There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:

“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”

And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).

I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)

To quote RTD:

“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”

This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)

—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?

How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?

And this just keeps happening.

And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.

The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.

[ultimateanna]

[ungoliantschilde]

more Mark Brooks

[shironezuninja]

Who wished the Ioan Mr. Fantastic actor should’ve gotten spaghettified in the 2nd Dr. Strange movie? Show Hands.✋🏻

[evasleveragefanshit]

Is Mark Sheppard just- in everything?

I genuinely cannot tell if he's made so much stuff in so many places that I'm just bound to keep seeing him, or if it's just that he has a niche in the type of media I gravitate towards?

[splooosh]

“Patriots who symbolized our heroic ideal”

Alan Davis - Mark Farmer

[junkyardbluebox]

Enlightenment Episode 4 Screencaps, Part 16

[baylardian-1]

ive been wanting to rework this old OC idea i'd had of an apprentice for juneau and i finally got arount to at least dabbling in the concept :'V (for my headworld Tenebres which is like magic and monsters)

Agnes is a young mage in a prestigious magic school, top of her class, snooty, bit of a perfectionist etc. everyone knows she's destined for greatness. until she finds out she's a familiar during one of her big exams when she begins to sprout long white ears and turns into a rabbit in front of her professors and peers. she's humiliated and gets expelled because of her condition (familiars arent allowed to pursue advanced magic). in her determination to rise back up to the top and prove herself worthy, she tries seeking out anyone that would take a familiar under their wing to train; she finds this to be rather difficult.

somehow or another juneau and agnes stumble upon each other, juneau was once a professor at the school agnes was attending. juneau's reputation was tarnished because she'd experiment by casting curses on herself, one of those curses turns into a ravenous beast sometimes lol idiot which is not only unsafe for students, but her unconventional methods are kinda embarrassing and cringe and the school didnt want to be associated with her no more. she now lives in hiding with another professor, ethel (need to overhaul redesign her lol) who's also turned permanently into a monster due to an accident with brewing a cauldron. anywayyyyy juneau works as a plague doctor (considered to be "janitorial work" for magefolk), doing what she loves which is magic removal. juneau and ethel agree to take on agnes as a student (mostly because they both miss teaching).

[eblood303]

If u fw this beat check out my other stuff

[garbagequeer]

only a minute and a half into the new riverdale this is already the most beautiful television ive ever seen

[musicmags]

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

I rewatched this serial on 23 March 2023. It first appeared on the BBC in September 1978. Season sixteen is the first time Doctor Who developed one overarching story arc to link the various serials in the season. Six, in this season, which corresponds to the number of separated segments to the key to time. It's almost like they planned it and got away with the plan! (The 1970s were full of industrial action that greatly affected many TV shows, including Doctor Who.)

We begin in the TARDIS with the Doctor chatting to the new K9 about a seaside holiday but of course things go haywire. The White Guardian yanks the Doctor to him for a special mission. Romana is in the TARDIS — she’s the third woman from Gallifrey that we’ve met! She’s academically bright but sheltered and ignorant about the real world universe.

Our heroes have stepped into a white European fantasy and a caper to steal the crown jewels (or not... there are plots and counter-plots, and fraud). The key to time segment is one of the said jewels, or isn't, so there’s a caper within a caper within a caper — what fun! There’s also space empire stuff and dodgy deals. In fact, Garron’s plot is akin to NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, that got popular a few years ago.

[ungoliantschilde]

some Chris Bachalo in black and white.

[mitjalovse]

To be quite honest, I have noticed that many players who had their share of these fluke successes actually persevere more often than one would have possibly assumed. Spin Doctors, for instance, also shock me by still going on. I mean, look, every musician that had some surprising hits can still sell some venues. Of course, they cannot get those they had during their successes, yet they can get smaller ones. However, they also need to show they continue to record. However, one thing must be mentioned – the platters of those with fluke hits in their pasts rarely hit an acclaim they could've deserved. I mean, the consequent by Spin Doctors might not reach their heyday, though they're fine. Then again, how many of those who dismiss them followed their career after their chartclimbers?