#especially adding tags

[prince-peachie]

The way it’s just fandom culture to fixate and ship two characters who show up for two seconds in a book

[basslinegrave]

pin-up

b&w originals

[dungeonrabbits]

"chilchucks a real hater"-wrong! chilchucks a lover!!

[redysetdare]

I don't think a lot of people realize that lot of their advice to disabled people often boils down to "Get over it." they are trying to be helpful but their idea of helpful is "Just do the thing" because that's what they do. for them they just do things. It comes naturally to just do it.

They don't know how to bridge the gap between you and the task. For them the bridge is already pre-built and stable. For disabled people the bridge is run down, not well kept, it feels unsteady and is hard to get across without being slow and cautious - hell for some people there is no bridge and we need to build it ourselves but we don't have the bridge building tools and no one gives them to us.

"Just cross the bridge." They say before walking over their pre-built bridge. They never gave you the tools to build a bridge to cross.

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Thank you so much for like, welcoming me and like, showing me around and just– this has been super fun.

Pac: No, it was amazing! Thank you and Bad for- for making part of this and joining us for today, you know? It was a really special event and people love it! Really really appreciate it, Bad and Fit, thank you so much. [He goes to hug them]

Fit: Oh yes, thank you, thank you, it was– [Laughs] Thank you, obrigado. Thank you.

Bad: Aww...

Pac: Maybe we- we can all see in future, who knows? It's never a goodbye, it's only a... "See–" I don't know...

Fit: "See you later," that's right. Yeah. No goodbyes, "See you later," that's right.

Bad: Exactly, exactly.

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Fit: It is time for me to head out, sadly.

Pac: Oh... No, it's all good, it's all good, Fit! It's all good.

Fit: But no, I just... Thank you so much for like, welcoming me and like, showing me around and just– this has been super fun.

Pac: No, it was amazing! Thank you and Bad for- for making part of this and joining us for today, you know? It was a really special event and people love it! Really really appreciate it, Bad and Fit, thank you so much. [He goes to hug them]

Fit: Oh yes, thank you, thank you, it was– [Laughs]

Bad: Aww...

Fit: Thank you, obrigado. Thank you.

Pac: Maybe we- we can all see in future, who knows?

Bad: Yeah!

Fit: Yeah, who knows? Who knows.

Pac: Yeah, it's never a goodbye, it's only a... "See–" I don't know...

Fit: "See you later," that's right. Yeah.

Pac: Yeah!

Fit: No goodbyes, "See you later," that's right.

Bad: Exactly, exactly.

Fit: Thank you so much. Boa noite, boa noite.

Pac: [And everyone else] Boa noite, Fit! That was amazing, boa noite!

Fit: Tchau tchau. Tchau tchau.

Pac: Tchau tchau! Bye bye.

[apparently-artless]

•❃° SOUSOU NO FRIEREN ❀ FRIEREN & HIMMEL °❃•

Anime: Sousou no Frieren Characters: Frieren & Himmel Song Lyrics: Visiting Hours by Ed Sheeran

[fennthetalkingdog]

This is a neopronoun/xenopronoun positivity post! If you see this, tell me what your neos are!! >:3

I mostly just go by he/they but I also go by xe/xem/xyr and other canine-themed neos!

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

This has most definitely been said before, but we were robbed of the core four quarantining on-screen together at Buck’s place. ROBBED I say

[fluffypotatey]

Blorbo Poll

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

tagged by @0hheytherebigbadwolf <3

man the last two were hard 😭

tagging: @thiamsxbitch @botanicallyinclinednerd @rowdyknives @shana-rosee @mythicalmagical-monkeyman

[trans-androgyne]

A lot of what I’m seeing held up as the “transmasc” side of trans community discourse posits that transmascs are claiming transfems have “male socialization” and somehow have an amount of social power as a result. Who is saying that? Sincerely who? Because that’s fucked and not what transandrophobia/antitransmasculinity/however you call it is about at all.

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!

[verstappen100]

also F1 TV having this graphic for the pre-sprint show ‼️

[sukibenders]

Hear me out: you can ship JayVik without falling into or using rhetoric that fits the disposable black girlfriend trope. You can ship JayVik without using Mel as some conceived ploy or antagonistic plot device that makes her out of character. You can ship JayVik without falling into misogynistic rhetoric (eg. viewing female characters as disposable or stepping tools, amongst other things). You can ship JayVik without erasing the impact Mel has had on Jayce and their relationship because, whether you shipped it or not or even gave it the time of day, Mel and Jayce did care for each other, and to deny that or say Viktor held more importance/impact than her in Jayce's life to where she's viewed as "unnecessary" just to further your ship is so wrong and, whether you intended for it or not, does carry undertones where black characters, especially black female characters, emotional impact on others is ignored or downplayed even though there's context to support just how important it is/they are. Lastly, you can ship JayVik without using anti-black and misogynoir type rhetoric because the amount that has flooded this fandom, but especially from some fans of this ship, is atrocious. Ship what you like, but be respectful and careful with certain things you say, is all I'm saying.

[marlynnofmany]

Sometimes it's a stretch to see your own life from an outsider's perspective, revisualizing normal things as exotic and strange.

Other times you look over at the plate of giant crab legs that someone is eating next to you, and it's not hard at all.

~

Me: "I'll bet there are people from a lot of cultures that would consider that a horrifying thing to see at the dinner table."

Him: "They must not be from the coast!" *happily sprinkles on a mix of crab seasoning that includes salt, pepper, and mace*

[thirdeyeblue]

“Nine would have treated Martha better than Ten did”

I need to talk about this argument that never seems to stop circulating.

Note: Not a venomous/anti post. There’s more than enough of that across fandom spaces as is, and this is supposed to be a place for ✨sweet, blissful escapism✨

When making this argument, people seem to envision a scenario in which Nine never met Rose.

While I can appreciate a good hypothetical, recognizing Rose's significance to the Doctor (Nine and Ten) is essential to understanding why things with Martha played out the way they did in the first place.

In the third series, the Doctor is grieving. This grief is deliberately threaded into nearly every script, whether spoken aloud or not (and these are just a few examples):

He's burning in Rose’s wake the entire time Martha travels with him, which is why it’s so frequently called upon: It’s 100% deliberate in framing his grief. He grieved as Nine too, of course— having been fresh on the heels of the Time War — but then he met Rose, which changed everything.

Back then, he was still a rude, traumatized pain in the ass, but we watch Rose soften more of those jagged edges with every episode as they grow closer; as he lets his guard down and forms a deep connection with her.

He falls in love (against his better judgment) and it's game over.

And yes: provided S1E1 had been titled 'Martha', one can realistically assume things might have unfolded similarly to how they did with Rose. However, it wouldn’t have been that way just because the Doctor was Nine and “Nine was different” — it would be because he wasn’t already in love with someone else. The same can't be said for the start of S3.

Think of it like this: if Rose AND Martha had been in that cellar — if Nine had taken both of them along with him in S1 — we’d eventually be looking at the most melodramatic love triangle ever, what with him living in close quarters with two brilliant, gorgeous, compassionate young women... But Doctor Who is plenty “soap opera” as is with just one woman in the TARDIS.

(I certainly wouldn’t object to reading that fic, though)

Now, regarding the unrequited elephant in the room…

His inability to be romantic with Martha isn’t because he thinks her lesser, nor is it for lack of compatibility. It isn't because Rose is any better than her. It certainly isn’t just because he’s Ten.

It’s really only for one reason, which can't be denied — and now I’m a broken record:

He is still in love with Rose.

(cut from a tenrosedaily gif)

Nine is Ten, and Ten is only such a mess in S3 because he’s just lost the love of his life. Martha merely got caught in the crosshairs of a volatile Time Lord in mourning, and yes — it sucks. Absolutely.

But it also feels dismissive to chalk Ten and Martha’s relationship up to little more than some sort of mindless dance of pining, jealousy, and toxicity.

Ten trusted Martha with his life over and over again — and hers, with him. He constantly praised her brilliance, happily carting her around time and space with no intention of letting her go. In the BBC’s extended universe of novels/comics/cartoons/etc, there’s so much depth to their relationship: love and trust and trauma and sacrifice. They had their own special bond as mates, their own complexities — so it’s a bummer that it's forever overshadowed by the other things.

I’m not denying that there was a lot of stuff that sucked/was for sure toxic about Ten's S3 behavior, but so many of the things I've seen him catching flak for can be directly attributed to being A Clueless Fucking Alien Idiot (not a trait that’s unique to Ten) — as well as his flat-out obliviousness to Martha’s feelings.

So yes, I agree: if Rose never existed, he would have treated Martha differently as Nine. He also would have treated her differently as Ten. Certainly.

But Rose did exist, and when discussing canon, it matters.

“He tells me that he absolutely, 100% loves Rose... He tells me how my daughter; my wonderful, beautiful, clever little girl saved him from himself before… And he says that’s all because of me! I made her into the Rose Tyler that saved him.”

-Jackie Tyler, Flight Into Hull!

Martha got the short end of the stick in S3. She came round at the wrong place and time, but that doesn't mean it was all bad. It doesn't mean the Doctor didn’t adore her. It certainly doesn't mean the time they spent together was wasted or worthless. They were brilliant!

Sure, he could be a twat, but let it be known that he was a twat with Rose as well, both as Nine and Ten. I’m sure Tentoo can be plenty infuriating, too. So while I'll defend Ten (and Tentoo) into the ground forever and ever and ever, I'll concede that he's fucked up.

The Doctor is a certified Pain In The Ass. It’s one of the things I love so much about this character — dynamics.

But never forget that Martha was goddamn tough as nails and overcame every bit of it. She moved on with her life, and the Doctor moved on with his. One can only pray that, when they inevitably drag her back onto the show (which feels inevitable if I'm honest), we see at once that she's been living her best life for all these years.

[syn4k]

to be, or not to be (romanticization of the inevitable)