#sarah liveblogs her life

[queenerdloser]

i have such a visceral reaction to using "female" when referring to women in fiction that it actually draws me way out of the narrative when it's done. like. stop that.

[kanerallels]

Saville: This Cinnan guy seems cool. I'd probably like him under different circumstances

Saville: Unfortunately now I must ruin his life

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

My Fanfiction

Gallifrey One-Shots

I am President of Gallifrey - Romana's experiences on Etra Prime

Torture of the Daleks - more Etra Prime

Recovery, Expedited - Romana dealing with the aftermath of Pandora

Sleep That Never Comes - Romana and Leela sharing their trauma

The Worst Timeline - Romana is traumatized (on the axis)

It's Midnight Somewhere - Romana is disabled (on the axis)

Easy Way Out - Romana dies (on the axis)

Twenty Years - Romana finally feels at home (on the axis)

What's Left of Me - Leela is lonely (on alt!Gallifrey)

Touch Telepathy - Romana is disabled (psychically)

5 Times Romana Didn’t Regenerate and The 1 Time She Finally Did - Romana is disabled (in every body)

Gallifrey Multi-Chapter

Halfway to Anywhere - AU where the Doctor rescues Romana from Etra Prime (3/?? chapters)

Inhuman Nature - AU where Romana fobwatches herself on Earth post-Etra Prime and misses the whole Time War (1/?? chapters)

Brittle - Romana and Narvin are both disabled (on alt!Gallifrey) (2/?? chapters)

Doctor Who

Doctor Who? - The show but if Romana left Gallifrey on her own and then lived her version of the Doctor’s life (3/38 chapters)

500-Year Diary - A series that is just various Doctors' diary entries

The Mechanisms

Can You Be Real - pre-tbi Sigyn leads a mission to stop the completion of the train and discovers Loki, broken and incoherent, in need of rescuing (2/?? chapters)

Xena

The Long and Winding Journey - sort of a fix-it that lets them have a family, and sort of just playing with the timeline because I'm autistic like that (2/?? chapters)

Liveblogs

One: The Time Meddler, The Ark, The War Machines

Two: The Curse of the Cybermen, The Enemy of the World

Three (and Liz): The Ambassadors.........of DEATH

Three (and Jo): The Daemons, Day of the Daleks, The Sea Devils, The Mutants, The Green Death

Three (and Sarah Jane): The Time Warrior, Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Four (and Sarah Jane): The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin

Four (and Leela): The Invisible Enemy, Image of the Fendahl, The Underworld, The Invasion of Time

Four (and Romana I): The Ribos Operation

Four (and Romana II): Destiny of the Daleks, City of Death, The Horns of Nimon, Full Circle

Five: Four to Doomsday

Gallifrey Audios: Weapon of Choice, Square One, Renaissance

[thelibraryofalexandriastillburns]

The Power of the Doctor Liveblog: Part 2

the only time 13 is able to actually pick up on the social cues being when she’s an AI hologram is actually terrible (and by terrible i mean hilarious)

Kate being in the 50th, BBC Centenary and 60th specials is iconic of her, also i love seeing her in general, give us more Kate Stewart

YES YAZ FLY THAT TARDIS GIRLL

what i need to know is why the Master needs Yaz’s approval so badly like he’s practically begging her to accept him

YESSS TEGAN AND FIVE

yes yes we get it 5 is old now let’s move on

do we really have the time for these heartfelt holo-conversations in the middle of a cyberman invasion?

BRAVE HEART TEGAN!!

Sylvester McCoy is so old i love him and i’m going to miss him

OMG ITS GRAHAM

This Cyberman theme slaps so hard

“They make much better companions than you” took my breath away because I misunderstood it I thought he was saying that Yaz was the worst companion the Doctor has had and everyone else was better like dude there’s no need to be so personal

“I’m the Doctor, mate. Who the hell are you?” AHHHHHH FUGITIVE DOCTOR MY LOVE WHY ARE YOU SO BADASS AND AWESOME?

rip UNIT building, gone too soon

Oh no not the big laser again

not Yaz dropping them in Croydon 😁 Sarah Jane would have been proud of her, even if it’s still not where they’re supposed to be

13 gripping Yaz for dear life as she realises she’s regenerating is so crazy for people who have touched like max 3 times

yay the companions get together!

the empty seat beside Jo is for Sarah Jane, i was told this personally

excluding The Five Doctors or whatever, i think the companion that met the most doctors onscreen was Sarah Jane with 4 but the character in general to meet the most doctors is Kate Stewart with 5. once again, Kate Stewart supremacy

i thought the Doctor would give a bigger speech that was anticlimactic

she really could have regenerated with Yaz there, that would have been hilarious though. imagine Yaz bracing for the worst only to be greeted with the rat man king himself

i don’t know why it pisses me off so much that David Tennant is there, it’s probably like cuteness aggression or something but i’m just like get out of my doctor who, rat man, what are you doing here? it’s even funnier because i watched and loved the 60th specials but I’m still randomly shocked and surprised to see him

So about a week to the new series and i’m finally caught up. This was definitely a very big episode and literally forgot the Doctor was supposed to regenerate during it so… i guess it was alright

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

Hey! I feel like Ive been at this for a goddamn eternity so in an attempt to speed things up I shall read 3 chapters today, how exciting. Im motivating myself by telling me that Im gonna get to watch the 2007 Takarazuka Snow Troupe Production of Elisabeth when Im done, specifically my favorite song because. okay so, when I talk about watching any Takarazuka production of Elisabeth what I actually mean is, I have pretty much all the proshots and a bunch of english subtitle files, but theres not a subtitle file for every existing proshot, so for example, theres a subtitle file for the 1996 Star Troupe Production but not the 1996 Snow Troupe Production which isnt a big deal since the diaogue and lyrics are all the same, but you cant just put the Star subtitle file over the Snow video because itll be completely out of sync, so what I do is, I put the Star subtitles into my subtitle editor with the Snow video and I manually re-sync every line to create Snow subtitles, and while I do that Im effectively just watching my favorite musical over and over again except very slowly. So yeah, in case you were wondering what your favorite acotar complainer does for fun, now you know

Anyway, enough of my life, now its time for my liveblog, last time Feyre and Rhysand got ambushed by some of Hyberns soldiers and Rhys got shot atleast 7 times and kidnapped and tortured, but Feyre was fine and she saved him and she pulled all the arrows out of him and now hes probably gonna be perfectly fine. I know this isnt gonna affect him in any meaningful way, like his wings are gonna bd fine and his back isnt gonna hurt, but I do hope that he atleast suffers for the duration of the 3 chapters im gonna read because otherwise whats the point

Chapter 50

Rhysands wounds are only healing very slowly and hes got a fever, we're off to a good start

idk why but I really hate Feyre kissing him on the forehead. the narrative has not earned such a tender gesture

THE SURIEL 🎉🎉

Oh, i hadnt noticed this before but I like the alliteration we get with the german translation of Feyre Cursebreaker, Feyre Fluchbrecher. 10/10 very fun to say

its been ONE year since Feyre first came to Prythian, Sarah im begging you, please stop pointing out the passage of time youre activel making it harder for me to get invested in this stupid romange

They translate 'Mate' as 'Seelengefährte' ['Soulmate'] and oh, you have no idea how happy I am about that, this and the fact that they dont say male and female but just man and woman/masculine and feminine makes this series about a million times better, once again, thank you Alexandra Ernst

I dont understand why Feyre being Rhysands mate is such a big deal anyway, she didnt grow up in this culture, and pretty much all she has at this point is Tamlin's vague explanation of it being a bond that goes beyond marriage and the fact that his and Rhysand's parents, both infamously horrible couples, were mates

'"He is the most powerful High Lord to have ever walked the earth. You are... new. You were created by all seven High Lords. Different than anything that existed before you. Does that not make you the same? Equal?"' ewww i hate that. If this is supposed to be romantic somehow why would you make it all about power, why wouldnt the Suriel say smth like "You both suffered in the same ways. He is the is the only one to ever truly understand you"

But also. Rhysand and Feyre are not even the same though ? Like yeah, Rhys is powerful, but wasnt Feyre special because shes capital-m Made, which he is not? If the logic behind mates is the two people being 'the same' in some way, then Feyre should really be Amren's mate methinks

Im not gonna lie, Feyre angrily forcing Rhys to drink her blood is pretty hot

'Deep down I hated myself for speaking to him like this.' No girl dont hate yourself, this is the first time in over 600 pages Ive found the feysand dynamic even remotely compelling

'I stared at him, this Illyrian half-blood whose soul was bound to mine.' what the hell? Top Ten Feyre Archeron Racist Moments

This mf really told his cousin and his weird freaky eldritch creatures whose apartment he pays for that he and Feyre are mates before he told Feyre

I just zoned out thinking about a version of Feysand where Feyre is basically constantly telling Rhys stuff like 'youre just a burden' or whatever she said during that one argument because shes starting to figure out his weak spots the more time she spends with him and she wants to like, break him emotionally as revenge for UTM and Rhysand doesnt do anything about it because he just represses all his emotions and he cant just stop spending time with her because theyre mates and he feels like he needs to be close to her all the time. Idk, abusive relationships have been my favorite angst fanfic premise lately

Its so wild how Feyre is super angry with Rhys for keeping the mating bond from her when literally everyone else already knew and not only is he gonna do the exact same thing with the baby in acosf, Feyre is just gonna be fine with it then even though its arguably much much worse

Chapter 51

Okay so I guess Cassian, Azriel and Mor have just been hanging out in Rhysand's warcamp house, do they not have anything better to do

god i wish being all pathetic laying in the dirt was Rhysand's default state instead of him always being the manliest man to ever man

Oh, so I guess Mor used to get locked up in this cabin in the middle of nowhere whenever she 'misbehaved'. you would think she'd have more sympathy for Nesta in acosf but from everything ive seen.....

this chapter was extremely short

I completely forgot that this book was split into parts, i guess its The House of Mist time now

Chapter 52

god the anachronistic clothing in this series is gonna be the death of me, why is feyre always wearing leggings and a cremecolored swester istg

Full offense, but if the mating bond is soooooo much stronger than marriage, Rhysand should not have been earnestly worried about Feylin getting married

This part where Feyre is relieved because it turned out that her relationship with Tamlin was always doomed to fail because she had a soulmate is pretty interesting, but it also feels like complete bullshit for reasons that Im struggling to articulate

I would just like to reiterate that I am so relieved that they just call it soulmates in the german version, I cannot imagine how insufferable this must be to read in english

Feyre started painting again hoorayyyyyyy. i feel like this wouldve been more impactful if she wasnt constantly thinking about wanting to paint whatever she sees, but hey

I actually think this part where Mor comes in and just goes around complimenting all the stuff Feyre painted everywhere is quite nice, I think i would enjoy it more if this whole story wasnt pissing me off rn

waiiiiiit ive never seen people talk about Mor's mother even though shes apparently alive and well, whats their relationship? Whats her role at the CoN if Mor is supposed to be the queen of the Hewn City??

Mor being like "Rhysand gave me his permission to kill my abusers but I dont do it even though I have pretty much no reason not to, but Cassian and Azriel really want to do it and would do it without hesitation so maybe I'll let them do it" is somehow a perfect summary of SJM's shallow wannabe feminism

Feyre still barely understands the relationships between individual members of the inner circle but sure, theyre the family she never had

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 42

s8 ep7 kill the moon

- i already know what happens in this episode because i’ve seen the sarah z video essay about it (i love watching analysis of shows i haven’t seen) but i’m going to watch it anyway for the experience

- terrible cgi spider

- tumblr mention?! truly a different time

- i knew it was coming but the moon’s an egg is an insane premise for an episode

- oh i am seeing the pro life themes, this is weird as hell

- it would be nice if he killed hitler

- women have to do everything huh 😒😒

- he is being a bit of a prat

- this light system thing doesn’t seem like the best idea, what about the side of the earth they can’t see from the moon? do they not get a say? also street lights are controlled by councils not individuals, whatever whatever i don’t even care

- wait are they not going listen to the people?

- hello dragon

- they’re leaving her on the beach wtf???

- i’m so incredibly confused

- sarah z was right, this whole episode felt really patronising in a way i can’t quite put my finger on

s8 ep8 mummy on the orient express

- train episode woo

- space train

- 20s clara!!

- are they gonna discuss last episode??

- oh jazz queen

- oh they’re discussing

- the doctor vs feelings

- this is why he needs companions, he can’t keep talking to himself

- i want clara’s pyjamas, they looks so comfy

- jelly babies in a cigarette case 😭😭

- at a certain point you’ve got to just break down the door

- uh oh mummy

- bubble wrap mummy?!

- ohhh it’s all an elaborate escape room

- it can sense psychological issues, oh id be dead

- oh clara

- they can’t resist the “are you my mummy?” jokes

- ohh clara

s8 ep9 flatline

- aww tiny tardis door

- aww tiny tardis

- why don’t both the doors open, that would be helpful

- awww tiny tiny tardis

- id love a tiny tardis with a big peter capaldi instead

- DOCTOR OSWALD

- ohh evil wall creatures

- ohhh the murals are the people

- ok forgot to liveblog bc i was crocheting but yeah that was crazy

[ashe-fics]

Liveblogging the doccy whom finale

So is this all being broadcast live?

A small child with machine guns, that seems reckless

How many times does "shoot the problem" actually help in UNIT anyway? Never? Don't they have any other ideas?

Noooo not the Vlinx!

Wow did we just watch that child turn to dust? That's dark.

So Kate is dead now too... I will be surprised if this isn't undone by the end.

Yeah definitely now that everyone is dying

Hello Mrs Flood. Whatcha doing. Okay. I don't think she's a good guy. Meddling Monk maybe since she mentioned prayer? 🤔 Well she's dust now but when this is undone she'll be back to harass Cherry again

Thanos be like...

And we have memory TARDIS

Sup Sutekh... How's things?

Sarah Jane jumpscare

He's been on the TARDIS for HOW long?

So is that what turned his eyes from green to red or...

The Finetime Susan doesn't have much work to do to kill everyone...

"Why is the god of death not killing me" is it because he's the god of life? Is that the culmination of the timeless child stuff? Hmm

Well that's lucky. They got a third free TARDIS.

Melanie B... That's a Spice Girl innit

Oh yeah you maybe should tell Ruby that everybody she knows is dead

Perception filter field of 73 yards.....??? Whattt

Oop the dust hit the east coast of Australia. I guess that makes me dead now.

"Nothing I can do" well there must be something bro because we won't have a show

He mentioned 1066, Monk reference?? Mrs Flood Monk confirmed 😝

He used a switch to close the doors, haven't seen that in a while

So Sutekh has been creating Susans everywhere the Doctor goes, ever since Pyramids of Mars? Sheesh. That's a lot of Susan Twists

Literally screaming into the void

Okay so Ruby has something to do with the Doctor's survival?

Who's this lady? I thought everybody died?

Oh don't tell me this random baby is Ruby

Okay the baby is dead. nm

13's TARDIS interior is like a little campfire aww

Ruby's mother is so mysterious that even Sutekh needs the answer? lmao

Oh heya mad jack

Chekhov's whistle? Okie dokie. We'll be hearing you later I guess

Poor Mel

Aww. Ruby's taking Sutekh for walkies

Whistle TARDIS controls? Okay sure why not

Come on boy, time to go to the v-e-t

Undo button. Ummm okay I don't get it but this was bound to happen somehow

Dead baby is alive again. Good good

Can god create a rope even he can't break? Apparently yes

Who'd have thought a god could be defeated by a leash

Yeah he's the god of life. Basically.

Okay but what's to stop him from grabbing the TARDIS again some time? 🤔

Susan Triad is still there lol!

So after all that, Sutekh kept them alive to find out Ruby's mother was some random nurse LOL

Doctor just let her meet her mother jeez. Wouldn't you want to meet yours

Okay but none of this explains the 4th wall breaking

Well that was fun. But having something happen at the beginning that you know is going to get undone does kind of take the wind out of its sails. Still, I liked it.

[il3x]

callbringers ch14 (dropped today!!) spoilers

@thesternest liveblog rambles! i'm pretty much just saying this to you, might make separate posts out of the analysis points when the other readers catch up to them.

ASHELYN DISSOCIATION WINNN

Or loss, if you're Ashelyn.

ooh [kicking feet] i'm gonna have to picrew Ashe with her white hair streak soon!!

i love how she describes him jyhtsdfgyhjk. gonna start calling him "that terrible king"

ashelyn's nobility training coming back to prop up her masking :3 that's a neat detail, and it's gonna make her Losing Herself To The Mask/dissociation moments soooo much worse hehe. worm tangent, I suspect Lisa Wilbourn went through a similar thing with learning to school her expression as Sarah Livsey...

ASHEEEEEE😭😭😭 disconnect between emotions and body/actions, speedrun! magrias really is handcrafting her Issues as well as his own huh

oh magrias is SO fucking slimy. horrible bastard. terrible king indeed. god, that speech...

ough. can't say I'm surprised though

[me who's been daydreaming about an Ashelyn Gets Mind-Controlled Into Killing fic for a while] hmm...

YOU WERE RIGHT I DO LIKE THIS CHICK :DD < me when people are mean to my blorbos in compelling ways

also i would not be surprised if luan was experiencing taylor-esque passive suicidality, ngl. she's certainly Gone The Fuck Through It. anyways i respect the determination [tips hat]

back to ashe - I think the epithets she gives magrias in her inner monologue ("that tyrant", "that terrible king") are a way of reminding herself who he is and what he's done. staying focused on him as an enemy, while everything around her tries to convince her he's her leader. she needs this to centre herself and vent her anger, when she can't express her emotions or have her perceptions validated externally.

Oh, shit, wait - what was that Magnie song you sent me ages ago? Character prediction, the other Scholars working with Magrias will catalyse a crisis of faith for Magnie. I think she'll either leave the Scholars, or drastically change/reform them.

OUUUGGHH I LOVETHE ATTENDANTS PLAYS. loveeeee this. ashelyn channeling her (Reversed) Manipulation <33

"this was a much bigger picture than a few attendants and she could not let them burden her if she wanted to free her country" hm. storing this line. i don't think she's wrong for it but it could be the start of something.

you SLANDER my daughter??? you tell LIES and MISINTERPRETATIONS?? can't really blame you. but damn how did that one happen

Ohhh I Like This Girl

luan<3 storing for future analysis reference

I'M SORRY I-

OUGH FUCK THIS MUST HAVE STRUCK CHORDS WITH ASHE'S UPBRINGING. hold on imma grab the relevant quotes

ashelyn on "what it's like to be a noble":

GOD. FUCK. GOD. THIS IS WHY SHE'S SO COMPELLING. BEING MAGRIAS' PUPPET QUEEN IS THIS TURNED UP TO 200. ashelyn really is worm-esque in that she has the worst day of her life and it makes all the problems that lead up to it infinitely worse... anyways, yeah, bet she hates Aiven extra for that one.

[rubbing hands] is this the bastard we discussed? :3333

KILLING HIM KILLING HIM KILLING HIM

luckily, if he IS the bastard in question, I might have the honour of having (indirectly) orchestrated his demise already >:)

i love how you've done him BTW. there are already some juicy characterisation snippets which may lend themselves to analysis once I've seen more of him. like he totally fits the description of Bastard but you took that and elevated it and [chef's kiss].

[mermaidsirennikita]

This is a kinf of odd request but... could you recommend books where the hero has been accused/rumored/said to have killed someone? It doesn't matter if he actually did or not

Not an odd request at all! I love it. "It doesn't matter if he actually did or not" lmao love

The Devil in Her Bed by Lorraine Heath has the heroine approach the hero precisely because he's a suspected murder (not that he'll face consequences Because Earl) and she wants someone taken out lmao

I have not yet read On a Wild Night by Stephanie Laurens (I'm getting through the series to do so) but I know that the hero is suspected of killing someone

and because the heroine is certifiable she's like 👁 👄 👁 what about it. A friend of mine whose opinion I totally trust read and liveblogged it to me, it sounds amazing and I can't wait to read it.

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean has the hero kinda framed for murder by the heroine lmao? She faked her death and everyone thought he did it, and when he finds her he's PISSED.

The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt eventually has the hero accused of murder, I think.

Ravished by Amanda Quick has a hero that people think killed someone lol.

Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale has an assassin hero who has killed people and does kill more people on the page. Without remorse. It's amazing. TW: noncon in the first encounter.

The Duke Who Knew Too Much by Grace Callaway has a hero who is accused of murder after a) his first wife died and it looked kinda bad and b) his mistress dies after the heroine overhears them discussing some CNC stuff. So after the mistress dies he has to take heroine to a club and be like "LOOK I'M JUST A LITTLE FREAKY". M is for Marquess in that series has a spy hero who has killed people in the past. The hero of Glory and The Master of Shadows has killed and will kill again lol. It's part of his big vengeance plot.

Accidentally Compromising the Duke by Stacy Reid has a hero who I believe was rumored to have killed his first wife.

The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden has a hero who has in fact killed someone in a duel (and it was the brother of the hero of the previous book, I think, which is why the families have beef). He did it like he did everything else--efficiently. (Hot.) Confessions of a Dangerous Lord has a spy hero who's killed people before, I believe.

All of the heroes in Monica McCarty's Highland Guard series have killed and will kill again because they're a part of Robert the Bruce's ELITE HIGHLAND WARRIORS. Special shoutout to The Viper, where I think people believe the hero killed his first wife.

Jennifer Ashley does this. Like, every MacKenzie brother (except Mac, I think) is accused of murder at some point, especially in The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie, where Ian (the hero) and his older brother Hart (future hero, love of my life) are both accused of murder and Ian is like "I didn't do it but I'm not going to say anything to clear my name because Hart... maybe did it" and Hart is like "LMAO WHAT ABOUT IT. WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO. FOR REAL. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO OFFICER." which. God. In The Many Sins of Lord Cameron MacKenzie the hero is rumored to have killed his first wife, a classic.

In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti has another hero who's suspected of murder and he's like "no... I just have... things I like to do........"

The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long has a hero who's been accused of murder and is literally about to swing from the gallows when the heroine saves his life, not because she believes in him but because she's been paid to. Then they go on the run and it's a romcom!

Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt has an absolutely loony tunes bonkers hero who has killed and will kill again, LOVES a murder.

In The Duke Gets Desperate by Diana Quincy, the hero is kind of suspected of murder for inheritance. And the hero brings it up and he's like "hurtful" lmao.

For more contemporary things, every. single. hero in Mila Finelli's Kings of Italy series has killed, will kill, and does kill on the page. With relish.

King's Captive by Amber Bardan has a hero who does murder in front of the heroine in like. The prologue. He kills her dad lmao.

[sylvies-chen]

ok i was gonna liveblog every episode but then i just got so caught up that i watched from episodes 4-9 without posting anything so rip to my plans 😭

THOUGHTS!

anyway this has been a wild ride so far, I am so over the writers forcing sarah back into topperland every time she feels a little confused and john b was real nice to take her back after that ngl. i love sarah but the writers just insist on making poor choices when it comes to her :(

john b and big john’s storyline was an interesting study in examples in tv where something that is so important to the plot can still be made *boring*

oh and while I’m here lemme just add that these episodes are such a good reminder that pope is honestly the soul of this show. it’s more than just the g game to him, it’s personal he has a connection to the cross and to the treasure, and a rightful claim to it, more than anyone else in their group. rafe having melted the cross down still makes my blood BOIL. colonizers are gonna colonize, yeah, but it’s still so baffling that he was so dumb. pope showed tremendous restraint by not killing rafe right then and there, and I’m just glad cleo’s been such a constant for him this season which make cleope so easy to love as a ship 🥺

as for jiara, ooooof man! they’ve been having some rough moments. even through the tremendous chemistry they have and how obvious kiara is making it that she loves jj, that scene at the anniversary party was still hard to watch. jj is just one of those guys that’s been told his entire life that he’s been nothing and so falls victim to the self-fulfilling prophecy. obviously stealing the money clip was a bad move and he should regret that but kiara seeing through his obvious ploys to push her away is EVERYTHINGGGGG!!! he’s slowly realizing he is worthy of being with her, that this thing they have is real and beautiful, and it’s… yeah. Jiara. 😭

[depresseddepot]

I didn't think i would need to liveblog the last of us but holy shit

The fucking scene of sarah dying. Christ. It makes me cry like a baby every time and im always so stressed out during it even tho i know whats going to happen

Also id hope that in the event of an actual fungal parasite that the world doesn't fall THIS fast. Like what kind of incubation period does this thing have to develop symptoms THAT quickly

PULEASE TELL ME THEY ARE NOT BURNING THE BODIES INFECTED BY THE FUNGUS???????????????????????????GIRL WHAT ABOUT THE AIRBORNE SPORES????????????????????????

Wait why did they kill the kid im confused i thought they were negative

Btw i watched someone play the game but its been a LONG time so i dont remember much

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS?????GIRL WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE GOVERNMENT LOL

at first i was very hesitant abt this whole remake but the casting and acting so far is top tier. Sarah's actress was incredible and pedro pascal was made to play joel the same way troy baker was made to play joel lol

ohhhh bella plays SUCH a good ellie

Im very good at at suspending my disbelief for things like this BUT i do like to nitpick. 20 YEARS after this sort of mass infection and somehow they are still living in areas with corpses of the fungal parasite. like that thing in the subway is just. Out in the open lol like if this sort of shit happened (murder virus) there would be absolutely no question about sanitation

I want a zombie thing where its the scientists in charge bc yes guns kill the zombies but u know what also stops zombies? Proper quarantine procedures and absolutely zero fucking around

Also ellie imprinting on every strong woman in her life in rapid succession only to then be left with an old man who doesn't want here there is really funny and sad

OHHHHH the scanner was red to indicate bad news not red as in negative

ajvsjsjJABSJJSS ellie after watching this old man beat up a soldier "yeah okay maybe ill imprint on him too"

Oh im so excited for this show lol

[pitbullwithaship]

DOCTOR WHO LIVEBLOG S2 E3

Okay, now that I'm done my fanfic fueled day of mourning, we can watch some more!!!

Ooh they're in a school now

PHYSICS fun fact I hate physics

I don't know I like correctamundo

Ooh super nerd kid, he has found a kindred spirit

Aw poor Rose, she gets to be a lunch lady

Okay so super nerd kid is not a good sign then

Okay weird things going on, poor Milo

Ooh Mickey gets to help yay

TORCHWOOD

Ooh suspicious

Ya, she sounds alright definitely

Okay creepy creepy mind control shit

Ah the creepy alien headmaster dude

SARAH-JANE

I love him, I love him do you understand he's adorable

Oof creepy sounds

Ooh that's an icky alien

I love Sarah-Jane

Liminal space Rose, always very odd

Ooh more creepy sounds

Awww Doctor

Omg the jealousy

Ew rats

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE THEYRE HILARIOUS

The missus and the ex, MICKEY

Ooh bat aliens

K9!!!!

MICKEY DON'T BE MEAN

Oh dear awkward conversations

Aww poor doctor

Aw poor Mickey

No don't fight, you're my parents please

Awwww he loves her

"YOU CAN LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH ME BUT I CAN'T SPEND THE REST OF MINE WITH YOU" HE'S SO TRAGIC

Dramatic face off

Okay the pool is an amazing setting for a face off

YOU GET ONE WARNING, THAT WAS IT AAAHH

Awww girl bonding time

That's hilarious I love them

Oh no the teachers

Ooh the kid is suspicious now good for him

WHAT CAN'T BE?!

MANIPULATION

"Everything has it's time and everything ends" I love her

SUGGEST YOU ENGAGE RUNNING MODE I LOVE K9

Love how he just yells to command them

I love that kid

Awww poor K9 awwwww

GOOD DOG AAAAAHHHHHH

AFFIRMATIVE I LOVE HIM

Aw the girls

Awww

Tough act to follow, I love them

AAAAHHH I LOVE THEM I LOVE HIM I LOVE SARAH-JANE

YAY K9

[denimbex1986]

'Has it really been more than a year since we bid Jodie Whittaker farewell in a special episode laden with old-Who references that had to be liveblogged because we weren’t sure if we were going to get David Tennant or Ncuti Gatwa at the end of it?

It really has. But after a fourth-wall busting “new viewers start here” sequence, Russell T Davies, Tennant and Catherine Tate wasted no time in getting on with a whole new era of Who, now being made by Bad Wolf Studios and distributed by Disney globally, and with a visibly big hike in the budget.

We’ve been promised a big bold reimagining of the show for this second Davies era, and while this wasn’t quite that, it felt like a more-than-solid “holiday” special. Davies said at the launch he wanted it to be like a Pixar movie, with laughs as well as scares that the whole family could watch together. It successfully bolted a Sarah Jane Adventures-ish monster story involving kids on to an emotional reintroduction to Tennant and Tate.

Miriam Margolyes’s voice coupled with the Meep’s appearance was adorable, and the “Most High” of the Meeps remained a cutie even when they turned bloodthirsty. Another highlight was having Jacqueline King back as Sylvia Noble. During his initial turn as showrunner, Davies created memorable but somewhat abrasive mothers for the Doctor’s Earth companions, but King got a chance here to show a greater range and more sympathy for her daughter’s plight.

Yasmin Finney as Rose was a bright and kindly presence. The bores who thought the Whittaker era was too “woke” – whatever that means in the context of a science fantasy show that has always pushed stories with progressive values – will be choking on the scene where the Doctor is chastised by her for assuming the Meep’s pronouns.

Does the bigger budget show up on screen? You bet. The producers of Doctor Who in the 70s would have bitten your arm off to stage the kind of drone-shot street battle scene we saw here. The centrepiece, though, was the relationship between the Doctor and Donna, and it was genuinely lovely watching Tennant and Tate rebuild that spark.

Sum it up in one sentence? The Meep steals the show as the 14th Doctor crashes back into the life of Donna Noble and her entertaining family.

Life aboard the Tardis We didn’t get much inside the Tardis, but we did get a new Tardis inside, and wow, what a beauty. It is packed full of “the round things” and harks back to the classic era more than any Tardis interior since the 2005 revival. It was, apparently, Tennant’s own idea to do all the running round on the ramps, an idea that Davies said seemed less fun for the actor by the eighth take.

Fear factor The Star Beast was based on a comic book, and these were very much comic-book villains. There weren’t really any frightening moments, unless you truly feared that Donna might die – despite knowing that Tate is in the next two specials. And you definitely couldn’t fear the Wrarth Warriors after they opened their mouths to reveal plummy voices that would have happily featured in Doctor Who in 1963.

Mysteries and questions We still don’t know why that face for the 14th Doctor, we don’t know how Unit has reconfigured itself since being disbanded in Resolution and then time-manipulated during Flux, we don’t know where the Tardis is heading next and we don’t know who the boss is that the Meep alluded to. Well, OK, we probably do, as we know Neil Patrick Harris is in the third special as the Toymaker, and the three specials probably tie together.

Deeper into the vortex The Star Beast is based on a 1980 comic strip in Doctor Who magazine that originally featured the fourth Doctor, Beep the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors. It was written by Pat Mills who created 2000AD and John Wagner, the co-creator of Judge Dredd, and was beautifully drawn by Dave Gibbons, who is probably best known for his work with Alan Moore on Watchmen. It has long been considered a classic by the DW fanbase, and the plot of children discovering a crash-landed alien and hiding it pre-dates Steven Spielberg’s ET by a couple of years. But unlike Beep the Meep, ET didn’t want to drink anybody’s blood.

We heard about Wilf being in sheltered accommodation, and we know the late Bernard Cribbins filmed scenes last year, but he didn’t appear in this. Tennant said in April they weren’t able to film as much with Cribbins as had been intended. Hopefully we will get to see the wonderful old storyteller’s final appearance in the Whoniverse in the next couple of weeks – after all, Cribbins first stepped into the Tardis in the 1966 Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 AD movie, and it would be a lovely 60th anniversary treat and tribute to see him one last time.

If you are wondering why Tennant had a new sonic screwdriver since Power of the Doctor was broadcast, Doctor Who magazine has been publishing a 14th Doctor comic story – Liberation of the Daleks – which picked up directly from the regeneration scene and led in to last week’s Skaro-based Children in Need skit, and has seen Jodie Whittaker’s sonic screwdriver design come a cropper. Twice. All the people who hate the sonic being waved around so much in modern Who are probably not going to like the new features it had in this episode.

Next time At the time of writing there hadn’t been a standalone trailer for Wild Blue Yonder, and so, dear reader, you might already know more than the Guardian. Davies has said the episode is “weird” and really stretched the design team to realise what was on the page. Tennant has said it is “unlike any Doctor Who episode ever”, and the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine redacted the guest cast. So who knows. See you next week – allons-y!'

[crystallineirises]

Succession 4.3: Connor’s Wedding Liveblog

I’ve never done one of these before AYE

I turned my phone OFF for this. Not silent, OFF

HERE WE GO

“dramatic music playing” no shit you know what show this is

KERRY LOOKS FLY

yeah he likes you *eyebrow raise*

Those letters are pretty cool 

NO THE GERRI SLANDER OH SHIT

SO WILL YOU GIVE HER THE HEADS UP

NICER 

“you were close” WELP is that what the kids are calling it

GIVE. HER THE WORD. TODAY.

*lively music*

Shiv in black is a mood

Tom is Joan Rivers this season i’m living

GREGGING

GREGLETS

GREGGIES

Willaaaaaaa a princess hoe is life ugh love her

I can’t believe the Togan girlies are winning i’m so thrilled for them

OH SHIT CYD TOO

Karolina watch your ass 

DAMN Karolina said fuck my work wife

THEME SONG

my comment about Gerri blowing these fools away with hat!pistol really would be justified 

DAMN I’m glad I switched to the Ted Lasso side as far as romantic ships for this season cause we ain’t winning over here

GOLF CART RICH BITCH

Omg is that Laurie

babygurl is STRESSED

TOM LOOKIN SINISTER

MARTYN

GERRI KNOWS

SHE CANT GO TO EUROPE RUDE

WHY

DICPICGATE

SHE IS FUMING

I’M GOOD

The I’M GOOD heard around the WORLD

OH NO THE TEARS 

OOOOOOH this was bruuuutaaaallll

This poor wedding planner lol that’s gonna be me in two weeks

BEING CUNTY

ARE YOU BEING A CUNT

Kendall looking sharp AF go bitch go

Sup Julie you’re an icon too 

Every assistant level person on this show is an icon

Gerri’s like let me get wasted it’s about go down go DOWN 

Roman why’s your hair so fucked lol i know we’ve talked about it but like wow

What if that was Gerri texting him pictures of her pussy lol

This bitch ain’t sick stop lol

Wait

Wut

OH 

OH FUCK

guess it’s not 9/11 part 2 guess it’s just an old man being an old man lol

Oh it’s Grey’s Anatomy all of a sudden

ON THE GROUND

ON THE FLOOR

TONIGHT WE GON GET IT ON THE FLOOR

his poor sad voice BABYGIRL

YOU DID A GOOD JOB

my heart feels all PANICKED

wow no one thought to start looking for Shiv Jess would never let this happen

SHIVY HONEY

this camera work is beautiful 

I CAN’T HAVE THAT

Sarah Snook’s shaking hands just won her an Emmy

Not to be rude but does this mean Gerri is saved

lovely good plane people

JESS my other baby girl

KEN GO INSIDE WE DON’T LIKE KEN BY WATER

OH wow pilots saying no 

“he’s flying the plane, son” LOL

we were really thinking we’d have to wait around all season for this NO BITCH THIS iS LIVE

Damn

*pours one out*

I just literally poured seltzer water on my carpet

Damn Kerry I sure hope you got that baby though 

GASP

CONNOR

the framing of this shot is gorgeous 

HENEVEREVENLIKEDMEEEEEEEEEEEE

i never got the CHANCE to make him proud of ME

Weddings are just really not good for these people

i wonder how fuckin rich they just got dude lol

oh Roman is the babiest babygirl bad day for Roman all around

And Gerri can’t even comfort him or NOTHIN 

SQUAD

Karolina is that bitch and i’m so about it put her high up in the Kerry/Jess administration

okay $100 bucks says Kerry murdered him

KAROLINA SAID GET OUT LEAVE RIGHT NOW 

Gerri > POTUS as it should be 

DELETE THE LOGISTICS

oh TOM I LOST MY PROTECTOR Togan was real AF for these three episodes

GASP Gerri 

Oh Karolina tryna make up now I don’t know about that 

“are you just with me for money” you...but...like...

Reagan’s with tweaks lol

How do they know already wow did Greg fuck that up 

THAT THE DANCE YOU LIKE SHIV STAY SWINGING

ooook oooooh they’re alone in a room 

Just kidding Roman’s outside now 

CONTROLLL TO GET WHAT I WANT 

GANG IS BACK 

OH HE WANTED HER TO HOLD HIM SO BADLY DAMN us Roman/Gerri babies is suffering 

These strings are going crazy hell yeah scoring

lol everyone with their handshakes

PRESS PRESS PRESS PRESS PRESS LOGANS DONT NEED MORE PRESS

WE INTEND TO BE THERE BAM

Roman said yeaaaah i know it’s stupid, i just gotta SEEEE it for MYSELFFF

[7deadlycinderellas]

So just in time for Valentine's Day, and just in time to avoid watching the Super Bowl...

A few weeks ago, I finally got around to actually watching Titanic. This is unusual, because 1. I was eight when it came out and was at the height of it's popularity 2. I love history, and definitely read and watched a number of things involving the wreck over the years 3. I am an absolute romantic sap 4. I moderately enjoy James Cameron- as much as we clown on him for Avatar, he made my absolute favorite movie of all time. by which, I mean the Terminator.

That last bit is what this post is mostly about. Because it has been noted over the years that the Terminator was unexpectedly popular among women and Titanic likely became prime mocking material because of it's popularity among teenage girls. But when you look at some of the bits from the two next to each other? It sort of makes sense.

It's been noted before how much of the romance in Titanic is really there to act as a catalyst to Rose's development, in much the same way the whole plot of the Terminator is about Sarah coming into her own. And is it really so strange that women might enjoy this- especially since it's rather uncommon in blockbuster style epic films?

And for that matter- that women would enjoy a star-crossed lovers, love at first sight story that is 100% reciprocal with minimal "chasing"? And for that matter, that despite the short timeline, that Jack and Rose spend quite a bit of those two days together just talking about things? (a concept perfected by Before Sunrise, which is another movie which is an A+++ romantic film). Or a romance where the woman is far more confident in terms of the physical part of their relationship? (notably this part didn't make it into the cultural zeitgeist- having seen so many parodies over the years, I would have assumed that Jack was depicted as the flirty womanizer type, which he isn't).

For that matter, I do actually subscribe to the theory that Rose had probably already had sex with Cal (helping explain some of his more possessive behavior), but that Jack was more than likely a virgin (boy was SHAKING after they had sex). This both because of bits in the text, but honestly far moreso because it's very similar to the dynamic between Sarah and Kyle (though it is more explicit there)- notably in the Terminator, it's the part of the movie where Sarah takes the lead for the first time, and that afterward they are depicted very much as equal partners.

When I first watched the movie, I almost commented "man James Cameron has a thing for 'girl with unhappy life falls in love with guy who gives her a new outlook and then he dies'". Though if you want to add on the tragedy, even though Sarah's new outlook is much more dark and paranoid, she does have John, whereas as Rose points out, she doesn't even have a picture of Jack.

I think for Valentine's day proper, I'm going to do a psuedo liveblog of the fan-created extended cut, with what my opinions are on what should or shouldn't have been cut- because if there's one thing I love doing, it's talking about how I would change things that I love.

[iridescentoracle]

and then the immediate mood whiplash. 10/10, quality stuff