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[khruschevshoe]

We do NOT give Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith their props for their character growth in the Parting of the Ways. Rose is absolutely amazing, an absolute ferocious beacon of hope and stubbornness and bravery in the finale, the absolute reason why the Doctor lives and the world is saved and an equal hero to Nine, but she has a moment of doubt. A moment of hesitancy.

And Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler step in and help her save the day. Both Mickey and Jackie give up on their idea of Rose and their hatred of the Doctor and help her pull open the TARDIS. Even within this one episode we see them struggle with their feelings and decide to put them aside and help do this because Rose is right- this is a better way of living your life.

Doctor Who is about ordinary people making extraordinary decisions and making themselves extraordinary and this doesn't just apply to official companions (who I love with all my might)- it applies to the people they love, too. We see it over and over again in Davies' era, with Jackie and Mickey and Sylvia and Tish and Wilfred and Francine and Harriet Jones and every one-off character as well, from Lynda-with-a-Y to Jabe to Gwyneth to Novice Hame to McDonnell to Sally to Chantho to Nancy to all the rest.

Doctor Who is at its strongest when the story is focused on the strength of the bleeding, beating heart of humanity (and character in general, in its non-humans), when the characters drive the story, when at the end of the day you understand why, for all of the world's flaws, the Doctor comes back over and over again because of people like this- not just his companions, but the Jackies and Mickeys and all the rest of the world.

[ejbarnes]

This Thursday through Saturday, I'll have a table at the CAC Holiday Art Market at the Smith Center on the Harvard campus, at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue near the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Dunster Street in Harvard Square. It's FREE to the public 11 AM -- 6 PM.

[long-lost-mcguffin]

praying. PRAYING we get more insight into nya’s grief of losing her brother in the next season/part because holy shit i cannot take their sibling dynamic being shoved aside again by other relationships.

[thequeencity]

MIKA ZIBANEJAD & REILLY SMITH ( ft. Chris Kreider ) ( NYR @ DET. 11.09.2024. )

[bu99erfly]

WILLOW WAIT A MINUTE!, at COACHELLA 2023

[lionofchaeronea]

Still Life of Bread, Butter, and Cheese, George Smith, ca. 1754

[jonasiegenthaler]

nyr@njd | 22.03.22

[oldguardleatherdog]

The Anniversary: Once More, With Feeling

This year's reflection on the 23rd Anniversary of September 11, 2001.

Now it's the 11th, the 23rd Anniversary of that day.

Each year, I approach this day with caution: I never know how it's going to affect me or in what manner it will manifest, and some years have been brutal, but the past two have seen more blessings come my way than brickbats. The passage of time has helped, as have my ongoing PTSD therapy sessions provided by the World Trade Center Health Program.

This time, I feel as if I'm controlling the event far more than it's controlling me, and I think that's due in large part to the performance art collaboration with the guys in Berlin (the queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, who are now in Finland north of the Arctic Circle making amazing art and performance on the Finnish government's dime) that's been going on for more than a year, including a three-month research intensive called "Finding Animal" (https://www.oncewewereislands.com/Finding-Animal) over the winter.

Last summer, after they extended the offer of collaboration, they proposed that our work together should focus on how I returned to life and art after losing my Lower Manhattan home that day, along with my entire performance archive and any record of it - it was as if Animal J. Smith had never existed, no record that I had done or been anything at all. I was shocked at their proposal, to be honest, but their idea for collaboration was persuasive: that my story was bigger than just me, that it had resonance in a larger way about the survival and meaning of queer art and artists, about whether it's possible to recover from the worst thing in the world. So, as our work continues, I think that my being compelled to examine my long road back as both participant and observer through a performative/creative lens has synthesized much of what I had left unexamined, forgotten, buried, denied, absorbed, leading to clarity about who I am today, how it affected, shaped, changed me, and whether I have in fact "recovered" from this giant detour, this dinosaur-extinction-level meteor that got dropped on my life plan.

I don't have an answer yet, I'm still writing and making art about it, but as I mark 23 years today, I can say that sticking it out all these years has been the right thing to do, that I intend to continue waking up each day and engaging with life.

I am alive, and I am fine.

[podartists]

The Isabella Quagga | Charles Hamilton Smith | Yale Center for British Art | rawpixel

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey had fun with the Ultimate Improv Show crew for his guest monologist appearance!

[plumbus-central]

i love imagining scenarios where morty and summer meet rick and minnie when they were their age, whether through time travel, parallel universe, age regression, or some other sci fi nonsense.

god bless him mortys trying hard to relate to his teenage grandmother from the late 70s

[boyentity]

moodboard for when you remember lawrence sees adam('s corpse) every time he closes his eyes

[teamsilenthills]

Name a fictional character who would pay for Twitter Blue.

[leonardalphachurch]

it’s kind of insane to me that dr. grey and 479er are literally the only female characters who dont feature a man as a central part of their character/story

[mechieonu]

FROM THE START self-love and acceptance has been one of the major themes of the series and if ANYONE could benefit from that tigress is RIGHT THERE

[disneytva]

Disney Streaming Services Sets "Journey To The Center Of The Internet" From Jon Eidson and Nick Smith and 20th Television Animation For Hulu And Disney+.

Adult animation is among the best performing programs on Hulu and Disney+ with shows like Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers, and the streamer has been looking to expand its original offerings with series like Solar Opposites and the Futurama revival.

There is a new hopeful in the field, Journey to the Center of the Internet. Disney Streaming Services has given a presentation order to the adult animated comedy, from creators and writers Jon Eidson and Nick Smith and 20th Television Animation for Hulu and Disney+.

 Journey to the Center of the Internet is about two brothers with the ability to warp inside the internet, where the magnificent hellscape of cyberspace has come to life.

 Eidson and Smith years ago developed a comedy with animated elements for FX with Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon.