#im tryna get better

[catgrandpa]

Is there a newer version of Tim’s origin canon? I’m reading A Lonely Place of Dying rn and it seems so different than what I’ve seen in fandom.

Y’all led me to believe he tracked Dick down to Blüdhaven, said ‘pls sir, Batman needs you! 🥺’ and was promptly shoo’d away.

My mans broke into his apartment when he wasn’t there, went through his personal shit, stole a family photo, and tracked his ass to Haly’s Circus. He then took out a bad guy, and somehow convinced Dick to take him back to the manor where he scared the shit out of Alfred. And then he said ‘pls sir, Batman needs you! 🥺’

God he takes after Bruce so much, no respect for personal boundaries and was a manipulative little shit from the very beginning.

[aerequets]

i wish there was a way to draw twiyor without drawing twilight because omfg this man is a PAIN IN THE ASS

[eggwishing]

messing around with lineart

[kinstein-art]

some practice with black outlines, trying to find a quicker way to do my coloured scribbles 😅

[comraderoscoes]

. 👨‍❤️‍👨

[opikiquu]

i will only draw happy things because 2.1 destroyed me

[reineydraws]

watched dead boy detectives and spent so much of it picturing young mihawk in charles's outfit so i made it happen and threw in an edwin!shanks bc ofc i did :')

if u like teen supernatural shows and ghosts and stuff, or worlds created by neil gaiman, i encourage u to check out the show! it's in the same 'verse as the sandman.

[tuxalfredo]

if the quality is rough, it's tumblrs fault :/

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

not me immediately getting jude from this

who did you guys get? 👀

[random-ikea-art]

my offerings to the les mis tumblr today are:

a DIGITAL R!!!!

silly enjolras

a man in desperate need for some bread :((

[askkonbart]

Hey!! Wanted to know, what's your favorite place to go on a date?

Dates and stuff

[princess-kittyxoxo]

A progression

CashApp | Venmo | Ko-fi

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

god the satisfaction of watching the homophobes seethe over agatha and rio 🙏 seethe and cope, it’s just gonna get a whole lot gayer!

[nothots-headempty]

Erik and his yapper husband <3

Yes, I'm rewatching First Class, why do you ask?

[lethesbeastie]

Revenge attack on Adviennequepourra!!!

[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.