#dw tag

[tacroyy]

chefs kiss tags from @lancrewizzard: #groans as i remember the pain of explaining to cis people that cheery littlebottom is textually transgender#sadly many people just struggle to understand what words mean. especially when there are several of them together to make a sentence#and when several sentences are combined to make a story then there's just no chance

Discussions of what "counts" as "canon" queer representation fall apart the second you start talking about media older than about five years or so. If your only metric for "canon queerness" is a character looking directly into the camera and explaining their identity in specific, modern, US-American-English terminology, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like. If your barometer for what counts as "canon" requires two characters of the same gender to kiss on-screen, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like.

Dr. Septimus Pretorius (portrayed by Ernest Thesiger in 1935's Bride of Frankenstein) was never going to look directly into the camera and explain his sexuality in 2024 terms, but he remains an icon in queer media history. You cannot look at that character (blatantly queer-coded in the manner of the time, played by a queer man in a film directed by another queer man) and tell me that he isn't a part of queer media history.

To be honest, even when discussing modern queer media, I would argue that the popular idea of what "counts" as "canon" is very narrow and flawed. I've seen multiple posts in the past few days that say the Nimona movie is "implied" trans representation, and I just...no, y'all, it's not "implied," it's an allegory. The entire damn movie is about transgender struggle, and the original comic is deeply tied into N.D. Stevenson's own queer journey. It isn't subtle. You cannot look at that movie and pretend that it isn't about trans struggle. It's blatant, and to say that Nimona "isn't canonically trans" is a take that misses the story's entire message, and the blatant queerphobia that almost kept the movie from happening. (I wrote a five thousand word essay about the topic.)

Queer themes, queer coding, queer exploration, and queer representation can all exist in a piece of media that doesn't seem to have "canon queer characters" on the surface. Most queer characters are never going to be able to explicitly state their specific identity labels, be it due to censorship or just due to the fact that scenes like that don't fit in some narratives. Some stories aren't conducive to a big "so what's your identity?" scene.

Explicit, undeniable, "this is my identity in no uncertain terms" scenes are very important and radical, and I'm not saying they shouldn't ever exist. I am saying that you can't consider those scenes the only way for queerness in a piece of media to be "canon."

[sponge-eating-goblin]

if you told 13 year old me in 2016 (hamilton phase) that the doctor was kissing Jonathan Groff I might have died. I would have been so annoying about it.

[lesbiankoby]

okay watching the latest DW episode: super military UNIT where we arent even discussing that it exists like that is lame why are we still doing this

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 5 Poll S

(Roses and tamarind)

[bonezaw]

Waugh you may have gotten me back into watching Doctor Who (<has had a Dalek wallet for 4 years)

HEHEHEHE GET DOCTOR WHO'ED FOOL!!

(In all seriousness, though, that's awesome!! Doctor who's my biggest comfort show, I'm always glad to subject people to the silly aliens :) )

[triset]

pratchett is so obsessed with putting vimes in situations where he's fighting for his life while naked

[upon-the-snow]

I can’t believe it took me this long to draw her!

[heyitsspaceace]

“doctor who is too silly now!”

oh you mean the doctor who that has flattened human skin as a character? the doctor who that has the episode love and monsters? the doctor who that says that the english royal family is werewolves? the doctor who that has james corden in it? the doctor who that in the same episode that james corden is in not only does the doctor speak baby, but the baby wants to be named Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All, AND the doctor can also play soccer very well.

doctor who has always been silly

[nipuni]

Some Ten and Martha hugs 🥰

[torisprlng]

Rose & Ruby are besties

DOCTOR WHO | 1.07: THE LEGEND OF RUBY SUNDAY

[northernfireart]

i can't find the original post of this idea but im obsessed completely with Sam Reich! Master

upd: The original idea was by @ace-whovian-neuroscientist!!!

[sponge-eating-goblin]

Apologies to my followers for how many posts I’m reblogging about the whole Mavity Thing so much happened in that episode and yet all I can think about rn is Mavity

[lesbiankoby]

i hate rory williams more then like. literally any other character in doctor who.

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 4 Poll X

(Rose and ivies)

[walnutcookie]

rodger can be a little silly as a treat

[triset]

VETINARI GOT THE NICKNAME DOG-BOTHERER AS A BABY?