#talky talky talky

[snailsandpuppy-dogtails]

It's 5am and you've been trying to go back to sleep since 3:30, what do you do? Take a Benadryl and start the 8th chapter of Cash for Cake of course.

[skunkes]

[morningsaidthemoon]

streamer au ??????? video game au ???

[byooregard]

after reading interview with the vampire I cannot express enough how much old man daniel was a stroke of absolute genius for the show like not only does he facilitate the narrative layers by being a much better journalist on both a doylist and watsonian level who can pick through the unreliable narration but he's also a great character in his own right AND. it's fucking hilarious that every so often we cut out of the main story for some guy to go wait, hold on, you BOTH fucked lestat????

[i-like-media]

I was wondering when they were going to play with the fact the Doctor is black now. 13 being faced with how people think of women was one of my favourite things in her era, so I was curious how they were going to treat his skin colour this season, if at all.

And honestly, Dot And Bubble exceeded all my expectations on the matter!

What a lot of episodes about racism and bigotry do is coddle the viewer. They make clear early on "this is an episode about RACISM and why it's WRONG!" As if you've never heard of the concept before and don't know it's bad. The episode will often portray racism in an extreme sense and show the viewer the main characters are above that.

What Dot And Bubble did, for the entire episode, was letting the viewer figure it out on their own. There was no coddling, only racism as it silently existed. A perfectly pastel and white community with not a single person of colour and the only visible outlier being a goth white kid. And in this world, the first thing the character we follow did, was to block a black guy with a face of disgust.

The title screen rolls and you're left to rationalise it. Surely it was because he was not in her contact list/saying all kinds of mind blowing stuff... Right? Except when Ruby enters her feed and talks about it, she actually replies back... With an eye roll, but she replies... and keeps talking... and listening.

The episode continues, still not a single POC besides the Doctor. They reveal this is an exclusive place for rich people, and eventually the character in question even admits she thought the Doctor was a different person because "I thought you looked the same".

What this episode also does well, is portraying a character we wish to see change and find a better life behind that change. We see Lindy struggle to navigate the world without her bubble, calling herself stupid, and we genuinely hope she DOES learn to be better, even as you slowly pick up on what's been going on sofar. You are left to hope she'll thank him and realise the error of her ways, and maybe find a new drive to think for herself.

And then she doesn't.

She stays in her bubble, doubling down on how she feels about the Doctor, how they're excited to be like their settler ancestors, and finally CLEARLY revealing to the viewers what's been off this whole time... and the scene asks: did YOU notice the signs? Did you see what went wrong along the way, or did you only notice just now when it's explicitly shown to you? And why do you think that is?

It challenges the perspective of the viewer and tells you to reflect on why you didn't see it coming, and that is so so powerful.

The Doctor's reaction to this scene..... 👌👌👌👌

His mouth is ajar, stunned beyond belief that after all he's done and all he can offer, the offer to literally save their lives, he is reduced to someone who's nothing more than the hue of his skin. He yells at them, telling them he doesn't care what they think of him because he's still the same doctor he's always been, and to still get rejected with a dirty look... Which hits extra hard when you remember how much the Doctor loves being himself. He LOVES being the Doctor again! And he walks with such a pep in his step, celebrating his existence and sharing it with all he meets... and then he tries to save some rich white kids from certain death.

His performance in that moment was literally phenomenal. It's a narrative that's so powerful and so creative in its execution, my jaw was still on the floor throughout the credits.

This episode is definitely up there as one of my favourites sofar

[cyancherub]

irl tumblr meetup with the mutual circle but no one says what their url is so u have to guess who is who

[mbohjeezart]

Hermit a Day May: Day 20, Gem, Personification of Luck!

And here's her full portrait without the text and background:

[sportsandlaughs]

[droolfang]

community pet

[bandiiey]

Gay ships that get so popular they become heterosexual

[inthedarktrees]

“Living Doll” | The Twilight Zone

[skunkes]

Cant stop thinking about this comment under a video about stardew valley rabbits foot drops

[tidalpooles]

I love how geometric your art looks. I feel like I can sort them like legos

Legos...hmm... ...That's this guy!

He likes bugs I also like bugs

[byooregard]

ohhhh myyyyy GOD 🤯😱 .... IT'S BIGGER!! 🤯 on the inside..... than it is.... on the outside??? myyyy entire understanding of physical space 🌌🏠 has been TRANSFORMED!🔁 three3️⃣ dimensional euclydian geometry🔴🟥🔺📐 has been TORN UP! thrown in the air!☁️☁️ and snogged to death! 💋💋💀 my grasp of the universal constants of physical reality have been CHANGED 🤯🔁🤯😱 ........ ✨forever✨

[i-like-media]

If you ever look into the mirror and wonder why your trans swag is a bit less swaggy today, it's because this side character from Doctor Who S20 E1 took it all

[fishfingersandscarves]

s3 lestat causing a COVID superspreader event with his concert we've never been more back babey