#it's davy time!

[clowns0cks]

Gary Russell I will find you and destroy you

[medusas-daughter]

I'm so here for fantasy shows starring middle aged or older women who get offended when you think they're young ("you don't look a day under 450" Lilia I love you so much) I'm here for fantasy shows where the youngest woman is in her late thirties (Jennifer and Rio my beloveds) I'm here for fantasy shows where the prophecy doesn't kick in until she's 28 (Emma Swan you will always be famous) I'm here for fantasy shows made for women I'm here for fantasy shows that don't worship youth and demonize aging I'm here for fantasy shows where women aren't jealous of each other's looks or competing for the crusty male main character's interest I'm here for fantasy shows where women are allowed to be unhinged (Agatha and Regina I will always defend your wrongs my queens) give me more please please please

[bold-embrace]

We better get a much needed morales family hug at the end of the next movie OR ELSE (btw read this fic. bless)

Bonus messy doodle below but it’s got major spider verse spoilers!‼️‼️‼️

Earth 42 miles better get a hug and a kiss from his mom too

[biancml]

Short trip to Mexico

Avery and Alexander enjoying a walk through the beautiful streets of Mexico and discovering more about the place, after spending days away from each other because of work.

[ollierachnid]

[covered in blood] dont worry sam is in her 4 hour bath

[xrk-art]

The Missing scene after the hospital 🫶

[cozylittleartblog]

nisha street clothes!! the contrast between her personal fashion and her work uniforms is crazy, She Has The Range

+ she's got some shit in her hair so she can change the colors of the "dyed" parts however she wants. don't ask me how. scifi reasons <3

[isagrimorie]

Agatha All Along 1x04 - If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You

"Hmm... I didn't think you had it in you."

Agatha noticed something here and the show will return to this moment. Agatha is intelligent and, when she's not distracted, very observant. She is also knowledgeable about witchcraft and (spelled as it is in the show) magick.

She is (was?) a Big Bad. She knows how things work and a possible trap will bite back.

[khruschevshoe]

How Behind-the Scenes Issues Affected the Writing of Doctor Who (Both Good and Bad)

Doctor Who is such a fascinating show to look at from a Watsonian v. Doylist perspective. Like, entirely just from an episode writing point of view:

Twice Upon A Time feels so slow and meandering and even boring in places because Chris Chibnall didn't want to start his run as showrunner and Steven Moffat didn't want the show to lose the coveted Christmas timeslot (ironic, I know) so he bumped the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration from the end of The Doctor Falls (where it makes sense) to the end of the Christmas special

Boom Town (my beloved) only exists because originally there was going to be an episode in its spot explaining that Rose had been molded to be the Doctor's perfect companion (by the Doctor, gross) and the writer didn't have the time to commit to the show

The ending of Last Christmas feels like one inside-a-dream too many because originally Jenna Coleman was questioning whether she was going to leave the show or not and the ending was rewritten after the first readthrough when she decided she wanted to stay for another season

The first five episodes of Season 7 feel like each one takes place in a different genre because that's literally how Steven Moffat pitched it to the writers; for example, A Town Called Mercy was literally pitched as "Doctor Who does a Western"

Not so much a weird one but one I find cool: Eleven's first words and Thirteen's first words were literally written by Moffat and Chibnall respectively, as they were brought in to write the first words of the first Doctors of their runs so as to make it cohesive

The reason why Fourteen isn't wearing Thirteen's clothes when he regenerates is because Jodie Whittaker is much shorter than David Tennant and Russell T. Davies didn't want it to look like he was making fun of the genderfluidity of the Doctor (still think he made the wrong decision, but eh)

Wilfred Mott isn't in the Runaway Bride and Donna's father isn't in Partners in Crime because the actor who played Donna's father, Howard Attfield, died after filming several scenes for Partners In Crime, leading to the character of "Stan Mott" from Voyage of the Damned being written into Partners In Crime as Donna's grandfather

Astrid Peth doesn't die in the original drafts of Voyage of the Damned, but Russell T. Davies wrote what is generally considered one of the most emotional deaths in Doctor Who just because he wanted Kylie Minogue to be able to focus on her music career

Originally Oxygen was written as a prequel to Mummy on the Orient Express, where a corporate representative appeared on a monitor. Said representative was fired for his fumbling of the station and would later live on as the company computer, Gus

During Season 11, Chris Chibnall had to do some major rewrites for many of the one-off episodes, therefore The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos ended up being a first draft that made it to screen. He later admitted it was his least favorite episode of the series

And this is only a fraction of what I found in terms of major behind-the-scenes writing reasons. Though I am still totally willing to critique the product that made it to our screens, finding out the reasons behind some of the more badly written episodes of the show really made me feel sympathy for every showrunner of the show as well as appreciate a lot of the good episodes that ended up here despite the short production schedule/unexpected problems (once again, Boom Town my beloved AND everyone's favorite companion Wilfred Mott only exist because of unforseen problems). Absolutely bonkers, isn't it?

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

“You have a touch of destiny about you,” Tia Dalma says the second she lays eyes on Will, who is outlined in her tentacle-patterned doorframe

[amoebeau]

I don’t know what to do with these so here have them all at once 

[ducktracy]

it is my sworn duty to give the public what they are indubitably clamoring for. i give you: the Little Black Duck compendium

[abyranss]

She felt a momentary sadness.  She tapped her pinky with her thumb twice, and the embedded magnets noted the signal.  She’d recorded her own brain activity and movements when contemplating the Bonesaw clones, and it was this that she drew on, manipulating her own body much as she had manipulated Blasto’s. Her body language wasn’t her own.  Her smile, the way she walked, the gestures, all were fine tuned to match the Bonesaw of before.

Great tragedy of Riley that when she first came to comprehend that she's a bad person, or perhaps not even wholly in control of herself at all, when she found herself unable to act cheerfully the way she used to towards her atrocities, she didn't have anywhere to go or any idea of how to live in a way that isn't Bonesaw. She's been Bonesaw for so much of her life after all. So she reprogrammed her body to act that way for her and she halted her aging so she'd never be able to stop being Bonesaw, not in her actions, and not in the way she's viewed by others. Forever.

[lisamarie-vee]

[dandelionjack]

so we all agree that the finetimers are extremely puritanical as a culture, right? no way are these people fucking. apart from the ‘never been hugged before’ scene (space babies parallel, i’ll come back to that) and the fact that they seem initially opposed to any kind of in-person interaction, there’s not much textual evidence that points towards it, but it’s quite easy to extrapolate. an isolationist, white-supremacist colony of post-humans thousands of years into the future, genetically engineered to have blue blood (a symbol of aristocracy) running through their veins — it’s not exactly a stretch to suggest that a culture such as theirs would view sex + sexual reproduction as something uncouth, “uncivilised”, taboo, base and “primitive”.

as for babymaking? these people definitely make use of ‘parthenogenesis machines’ as seen in space babies. in fact, they’re 100% ardent supporters of eugenics and probably pre-select the most “desirable” traits for their infants to develop.

the parallels between finetime and gallifrey have been pointed out before (i’ll tag the post in the comments if anyone asks), but here’s another one. i’m quite certain that the residents of finetime, and finetime’s homeworld, create their children with looms looms i’m trying to type something else but it keeps correcting to “looms” those fetus tanks from space babies. you know. another penny in the “ruby was artificially created” theory jar, more doctor/ruby parallels, and a snazzy bit of worldbuilding

[ghostfrog81]

Happy monkee monday!! Here's a redraw of one of my favourite photos of them