#it's the hypocrisy honestly

[nero-neptune]

thinking about the vulture gaiman article again and like. yes, sure, "reputable sources" or whatever, but i can't stop looking back at how fucking fast and eager So Many people were to 1) dismiss the original tortoise piece outright and 2) spin a web of nonsense politically-motivated election conspiracy horseshit bc their fav would Never, right? i just keep circling back to that. anything to defend a man ig

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

When a Jedi takes in a child, it's kidnapping. But when a Mandalorian does it, it's a foundling.

[scudevils]

SUE THEIR ASSES

[catofoldstones]

i don’t get it, why is the general fandom so irritated w jonsas “overthinking things” and/or “jumping to conclusions”? isn’t that the whole point of reading these books? to find meaning in dirt? like how is it my fault that jon shares the same anti parallels w joffrey that he does with the og lannister suitor of the ashford tourney

[casavanse]

Okay so if there's something that gets to me every fucking time is that to pro-pals, if Bad People™ support Israel, then it just shows how bad Israel, right? It's proof that they're on The Right Side, that Israel is wrong.

But if said Bad People support Palestine? Ohhhh nooo, you get it wrong!!! You see, even the Bad People understand how bad Israel is, even they have more (((conscience))) than Israel, that's why they're supporting us! Absolutely no other reason!!!

Cut the bullshit. It's fucking disgusting.

[yashley]

Say something true!

[warningsine]

GIRLS5EVA • Summer Dutkowsky

[purpleblackbear]

I think one of the keys to the remaining group surviving the road has to deal with them all trusting each other, aka trusting Agatha, and I think we're ve lost the two that did already and they gained that trust in the context of what they were looking for from the road.

Alice tried to save her in the sleepover trial, because of all of the witches, she understands the complex emotions of having a mother whose expectations you don't quite meet. But where Alice was still loved by her mother, who said you don't understand now but I hope you will in the future why I did this for you, she sees that Agatha has received none of that support, has a mother that openly disdains her. She trusted Agatha and tried to save her from her mother's ghost, but failed without the support of the rest of the coven. (I honestly think Agatha can't control the power sucking once it starts but that's beside the point. If the whole coven had trusted her, they would have helped her and Alice wouldn't have had to try and blast the ghost out of her.)

I think Lilia comes to trust Agatha at the end of her own trial because if there's one thing Lilia believes in, it's her skill in divination. She's reading her own tarot, she sees Agatha representing in the card for sorrow and grief. She's going to believe what the cards tell her. Teen actively refuses believe the cards. When he pulls the card for deceit and deception reversed, he understands the correct meaning, but he doesn't trust what the cards are telling him and actively says it's wrong. And if I remember correctly, the trial gets a little worse for them.

I think Jen will trust Agatha if others do, so really all that's left is to convince Teen, what you think will happen because in one of the trailers you hear Teen ask Agatha why she lets people believe those things about her if they're not true, and she says because the truth is sometimes worse (probably something to do with losing her son because she wasn't powerful or because she made a mistake that she didn't anticipate).

[unsiredtribrid]

imagine this is ur opp

[mysticmilks]

[alleyskywalker]

*brief mention in books that Daniel leaves Marius to go live with Armand at Trinity Gate for an unspecified time period*

Fandom: See!1! They're EnDgAmE! They're the love of each other's life!!!

*Louis lives with Armand at Trinity Gate*

Fandom: Pff, means nothing. Not important to them or their relationship. Def not romantic. They barely care about each other. Why would the show ever bother to bring them back together?

Be serious.

[tryingto-survivethis]

Genuinely cannot believe that murder=bad has become a controversial opinion in leftist spaces.

[scuderia-hamilton]

it’s so funny to see Verstappen fans complaining about how he might retire at the end of the season, because the fia is supposedly sabotaging him and his championship fight and how it’s unfair and so on… (also him saying he might leave the sport, because suddenly things don’t go his way, brother don’t threaten me with a good time). y’all would not survive a week as a Lewis Hamilton fan. you’re out there having a breakdown about a few so called questionable choices the fia made that affect Max, when Lewis got a championship stolen from him to benefit your driver’s ass and you were silent. all i say is cry more.

[shallowseeker]

My fave thing about Jack on rewatch was realizing how internally unlike Sam he is, despite the symbolic, structural blocks of being a “gifted kid.” Emotionally? Nah.

Not if you’re paying attention.

I feel like @dawg-motif really helped me puzzle that out re: Jack’s valuation of blunt honesty and need for space and processing. And after that, it’s like Jack’s entire arc clicked into place for my brain.

There is such a temptation in fandom to assume he’s a copy-pasta of Sam because of his “doomed child” motif, or that he’s like Cas because of his literal-mindedness and sass. But emotionally? Not even close.

Or worse, there can be as assumption that his “performing!Jack” is how how he actually feels about things... Falling for Jack’s sunshiney ditzy act is like falling for Dean’s mythical Marlboro man act.

[utilitycaster]

Something I really like about how Laura plays Imogen is that her idea of what's appropriate to say around people she likes is completely warped by her powers. I think Imogen feels it's better to voice your honest thoughts, even if they're somewhat tactless or lack the niceties one would expect, which makes sense because what most frustrates her is people who think one thing and say the other. However, that's not the standard for hypocrisy among people who aren't psychic, which is why she often comes off the way she does.

[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.