#making amy suffer

[batsyvie]

14 staying on Earth has SO many opportunities for angst. He needs to visit the companion support group! He needs to reunite with them all! Making amends with Martha and Mickey, his old face returning to Jack, apologising to Rory’s father for failing to bring the Ponds back, meeting Yaz again and telling her that yes, he still loves her, and he’s sorry that it’s not enough.

I need him to find the families of those he couldn’t save and to give them closure! i need him to wake up in a cold sweat and let thousands of years worth of hurt spill out so that he can be looked after!

i need him to look at Rose Temple-Noble and be haunted by how her smile and enthusiasm is all too similar to Rose Tyler. For him to look at Donna and mistake her for another red-headed best friend he once had. For him to feel a gaping hole where Clara Oswald had once made herself at home during his past lives whenever he passes a brunette. To see a puddle of water and be unable to restrain himself from peering in and praying he sees a glimpse of Bill in there. 14 visiting a museum and remembering there was a time where he would just point and laugh at archaeologists. now he just hurts.

[casiavium]

I got a comment that Shadow was like a broke college student in my boom coffee shop AU lol

[acetheta]

constantly thinking abt the implications of the yowzah kiss at end of day of the moon.

[chaotic-average-child]

ik i keep saying this but i really wanna make a miitopia au comic

[myymi]

unpopular opinion but like. i kind of don't want amy to be in the third movie

it's not because i think she shouldn't be. she's my second favorite character in the franchise and i love her to death. she should've been introduced before shadow, honestly.

however. with the third film being marketed as shadow's movie, i don't trust paramount to be able to give amy the focus and development she deserves. they couldn't even manage a half decent balance between knuckles and tails debuting in the same movie which would be a million times easier than balancing shadow and amy.

we got to watch knuckles' growth play out. we got to see a glimpse of his past, we got to watch him learn to trust sonic, we got to watch him finally fulfill his destiny to guard the master emerald.

we didn't get to see anything with tails. sure, he helped sonic learn a bit more responsibility, but any character could've been used for that role. tails is just there. despite the marketing for the second movie being more tailored towards him, he doesn't have any sort of huge impact on the story. sure, minor details would've changed if he wasn't there, but there's no reason the second sonic character to ever exist should only change minor details. he deserves better than that.

if amy is introduced alongside shadow, she's 100% going to get sidelined and i don't want that for her. it sucks to see a major character get cast aside because a different one is the fan favorite.

if they really want to bring in more game characters they need to stop the movies at a trilogy and move to a full tv show. there's only so much time to share between a cast in a movie, and with their obvious bias towards human characters there's not much left to give to sonic and co.

[atopvisenyashill]

do love how this is an asoiaf blog but i did not put either show in my top 10 this is the world we live in

[marigoldbaker]

so the thing i am noticing as i continue to watch the river eps is that the problem i have with the melody pond plotline is not necessarily its fantastical improbability/ridiculousness, because doctor who has always been a show about making the fantastically improbable and ridiculous feel charming and wonderful, and also i am soooo biased i love melody pond soooo much That's Amy And Rory's Baby To Me! if anything, the fact that this is a series of absurd coincidences endear me to the notion more. but the thing is, with the information we're given about river pre-reveal, there is absolutely no way that anyone could possibly guess river's true identity.

prefacing that statement -- i did a cursory google search & moffat did seem to intimate in some interviews that he had the river stuff locked and loaded as early as s5! i do think that clocks, because river makes lots of references to killing the doctor, amy and river are absolutely a lot alike from the get-go, and the amelia pond -> river song thing is also a clear hint, but the foreshadowing outside of that is literally nothing, in what seems to be a preventative measure. that is not enough info to figure out that river is melody.

i feel like this is most clearly shown in let's kill hitler -- they handwave mels not being present at the wedding or mentioned in any prior episode, when we absolutely should have met her! honestly, mels should have been a character that we see in the eleventh hour (maybe even someone who either helps out here and there or refuses to), to the point where when amy and rory name melody, we know that it's for mels. we need her to feel like amy and rory's best friend from the moment that we meet amy and rory, rather than being introduced in the River Backstory Episode. mels could turn down traveling with the doctor for some unspecified reason, but she needs to be either someone he knows or someone that we have seen make an effort to make herself invisible. her showing up only when she has Narrative Relevance, when she should have been the clearest hint to who river is, was not a good plan, and it makes me upset, because 1) we miss out on mels, a wonderful and adorable and slightly murderous incarnation of river who i'd have loved to see more of, and 2) mels not being there means figuring out who melody is becomes that much more difficult, which really does support my theory that the focus was on Creating A Shocking Timey-Wimey Moment rather than a long-term investment in river's character :( and that, for me, is a bummer.

at the same time, tho, i'm kinda like -- so much of river's character really is defined by being a Woman Of Mystery! the hints can't come from her, obvs, because i think she would lose so much of what makes her her if she's at any point able to be deciphered by the doctor or the narrative. and i do think it's very on brand for river (who is made of masks) to absolutely shut all of her feelings down when interacting with younger versions of her parents. but we really, really, really needed more time with river. i think that's what i'm getting at. we needed more time with river within the show, very possibly through mels, for this to work effectively.

[thatoneerin]

Alex Kralie to the song Talia from Ride the Cyclone, but Talia is Amy

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[thecrenellations]

He spoke each poem through to the end, and beside Jerott, Marthe’s lips moved, following. Sometimes the hard-pressed voice, uplifted, made no sense of the words it spoke. Then when the violence died would come relief, and the voice would pick its way again. (Pawn in Frankincense)

have some slapdash Volos!

without poetry:

[soulofamy]

currently thinking about how if zwei truly did die in sc5 and if the theory that raphael in sc5 is actually a ghost is true then amy/viola is left with absolutely nothing and how her whole life was just her suffering

[transmasc-rose]

I wrote 2000 words about Amy Pond again instead of sleeping which is probably a sign that 1. I should be asleep So Badly and 2. I really need to just write that Amy Pond essay I have been meaning to do since s5.

[victoriadallonfan]

Ward au where Victoria gets bleed through from the vicotine patch ... I meant this to be creepy but honestly if she was getting bleed through dreams where she was warm and it was quiet she would wake up like oh that was pretty refreshing (and then get creeped out when she figured out what was up)

"I'll take, 'Things I Never Want to Think About' for $600, Alex."

[seilon]

just had a simultaneously horrifying and relieving thought. thank god jonghyun was not a western artist. because you just know that if he was, there would be a shitty distasteful melodramatic hollywood biopic about him in about five years, give or take

[sirenofshadow]

So I got bored and decided to log every single Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Metal Tails, Metal Knuckles, Tails Doll, etc. variant in one place. Take a look why don’t you? :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JL8h9ma4_MNEiPwEeIuay_KabfGA_u5V2v6Dy1m6o0Q/edit?usp=sharing

[quietwingsinthesky]

Leaving the safety of Sam tumblr and seeing the worst takes possible is sooooooo… just…

(Dean Stan on TikTok called the Sam and dean fight about Amy in 7.06 dean “finally standing up for himself”)

That’s so funny.

Bro, he killed a lady. And then lied about it.

Like, there’s a lot of times where I’ll go, fine, Dean’s being morally ambiguous and he thinks he’s making the right call, sure, sure. This was not one of those times.

(Secret good spn in my head where this and the Benny situation combine in Sam’s mind in such a way that once Jack comes around, that why he becomes so invested in Dean seeing Jack as family. Because he knows that if he doesn’t? If all he can offer is that he would spare Jack, that he thinks Jack isn’t a monster? Dean has disregarded that before. But if Dean can come to that conclusion on his own, strip the title of monster away because he’s become personally invested, that might protect Jack.)

[gideonisms]

I do think superstore should have waited another season on the Amy/Jonah plotline the tension is just so much more fun when they're both seeing someone else