#thasmin in all episodes

[evviejo]

thirteen x yaz in the power of the doctor

i have loved being with you, yaz.

[t0o-m4ny-f4nd0ms]

cheeky little teaser for my thasmin baddies don’t think I’ve forgotten about the lomls (and by that I mean loves of my life but I guess funnily or sadly also the losses of my life)

[kate-apologist]

someone tell me why yaz is so much gayer in 13s books than she is in season 11. maybe it's hindsight but girl is always attached to the doctor's hip. her entire internal monologue is just the doctor's so cool and amazing and clever and she's such a good friend- completely obliviously, definitely not freaking out when 13 hugs her (also 13 gives so many more hugs in the books, we were robbed of a hugging 13 before the gallifrey reveal, ugh)

[mwagneto]

like obviously it's always sad when the doctor regenerates but 13 makes me feel such a specific kind of misery and sorrow at how she was treated (and by extension how we, the handful of fans left standing, were treated) during her era like obviously her casting was always gonna be controversial but the sheer level of vitriol directed at her was so exhausting... and then on the other side the absolutely insane decline in interest even from the fandom itself like i remember how excited the entirety of tumblr was when she was announced it was literally unavoidable even when i wasn't on the dw side of tumblr. and then like everyone just gave up on her which yeah ppl are gonna lose interest if the plot is bad which don't get me wrong it is but when is it not? ppl survived 6 seasons of moffat but gave up after like less than a season of this? and that's the other thing it's just so fucking frustrating how all the horrifically bad writing somehow gets blamed on HER? like somehow casting a woman made the WRITING BAD??? THE WRITING DONE BY A MAN?? not to mention a man who's been writing for this show for decades now😭 and she's literally just a character but somehow the entire responsibility of just how shit her era is falls on her shoulders despite her being a made up woman on a screen which every shitty person still uses as a gotcha as to why the doctor should never have been a woman. and ofc there's the ppl who specifically disliked her personality coz she was too cold or too mean etc all of which are things ppl easily forgive or ignore or outright love abt any doctor played by a man and let's not even get INTO thasmin. like sorry this is so incoherent but im so endlessly sad about how the joy and hype of finally getting a woman doctor turned into everyone abandoning the show, including the people that were initially rly excited and hopeful like yeah i get why ppl hate the plot i hate it too but i have such a deep sense of loyalty to 13 idk I'll always cling to her with all my claws she deserved so much better both writing-wise and fan-reception wise😭 anyway...

[strawburrymeadows]

yaz & thirteen are so alice & alfred coded from the musical alice by heart.

[regenderate]

actually the biggest bit of chibnall era foreshadowing is when they established that yaz was good at high-gravity circus arts in e1 of flux (implying absolutely incredible strength) and then showed her scooping up the doctor like it was nothing like a year later

[ivereadthemanual]

There is one thing that really irks me about the episode and I'm just going to say it to get it out of my system:

Why was Yaz not mentioned. The regeneration into Fourteen was how long ago in-universe? Some days? Weeks maybe??

Fifteen mentioning Rose, River Song and how much he loved his companions and no Yaz :(

Thirteen even called her companions fam. It would have been fitting to tie in Thirteens desire to have a family with Fourteen staying with Donna. And honestly, Donna being Donna would have been enough for me to bridge the gap from Thirteen not being able to be with Yaz because she has to keep going and Fourteen deciding to settle down.

I know RTD said he is going to ignore a lot of stuff, but common :(

[z-tomaz]

I can't articulate this properly right now but there's something about yaz falling for the doctor and travelling the stars with her loving her so deeply and so intensely and ultimately having to let her go in such a devastating way - but then immediately being given this support system when she gets back home

just. yes graham set this up for himself and for all of them but yaz is someone we've seen so lost without the doctor and she keeps things so locked away whilst also wearing her heart on her sleeve and she needs this

and graham's given it to her

[khruschevshoe]

Being a true galaxy-brained Doctor Who fan is hitting the epiphany that every showrunner had their strengths and their weaknesses and their own interpretations of the Doctor and you can like or dislike any aspect of any showrunner and acknowledge their genuine mistakes/bad choices/yikes decisions (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, questionable undertones, lack of agency for female characters, etc.) and it is COMPLETELY VALID to have that turn you off of a Doctor/showrunner but also acknowledge that some of the things that people have considered bad writing over the years are often personal preference (valid opinion, not always valid fact) and that just as there are clunkers in every season, there's something to appreciate about every showrunner and every Doctor.

After all, "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

laura heard "when is a monster not a monster? oh when you love it" and took that a little too literally

[smallfrenchcar28]

Thanks for the Extended Edition of Queerbaiting Chibs xo

[timetravelbypen]

Power of the Doctor ramble

So I’m of two minds about the lack of Thasmin kiss. I’ve hopefully figured out a way to watch this with my best friend who doesn’t have cable tomorrow, so once I’ve seen it again and can more fully appreciate what we DID get without my hopes of what we COULD get in the way, I might be able to solidify this a bit more, but. Because on the one hand, what we DID get was incredible! Overall I really really loved the episode! Their scenes together were all so good, there was so much care and respect built into every single line, and Yaz’ Doctorification arc was TRULY incredible. And it builds from and respects the Doctor’s choice in the previous episode, that this is something she just can’t give. And as a very ace person, a story treating platonic love as literally the most important thing in the universe is amazing, actually. And also this is a story of “it matters that the love was there. It didn’t save everyone, but it saved a lot of people, and it matters even if it wasn’t everything we wanted, because the love really was there” story. And I love those stories. But I work in corporate IP media. And I know, all too well, just how hard it is to get queer things greenlit. I have been there. I have spent so much time crying in office bathrooms trying and failing to get something through for characters *much* less brand significant, in much less high-profile formats, than the Doctor. And so I don’t really know if this was what Chibnall (and I don’t pin the “blame” for this on him at all) felt was best for his characters, or if some exec somewhere who hadn’t even read the scripts said “you can go this far and no further. Here is the line. These are the Rules.” I suspect, from my experience, that it’s the latter, although because of my experiences I might be reading into it too much. I have no way of knowing for sure. And I have to admit, it hurts that I thought maybe, just maybe, we might win this one.

Also, being a professional editor means sometimes it’s hard to turn off Editor Brain, and for the most part this episode did (which is high praise!), but I wanted 1-3 more lines in their final scene together. We’ll see if watching it without a GODDAMN COMMERCIAL BREAK in between “let’s not say goodbye” and Yaz being dropped off (seriously BBC America you’re the worst) changes my mind about this, but I think I just needed a tiny little bit more to get that Yaz “I’m with you, whatever happens” Khan would willingly walk away so easily. And I loved her arc and I’m SO RELIEVED she’s alive and I think she’s been left in a great place, and overall I think Chibs is pretty spare with his writing and that’s what I like about it? He doesn’t belabor the point, but this one, this needed just a tiny bit more, I think. It needed a “I think I have to do this next bit alone” / “Are you sure?” / “I promised I would get you home, Yasmin Khan. And I will.” / “Let’s not say goodbye.” Just that last little bit felt like it was missing, just one last little bit. Also I hope Yaz gets to have a good cry somewhere because she’s dropped straight from “my not-quite-girlfriend/best friend died” to “former companion support group” with nothing in between and OOF what whiplash.

Also also I knew that was exactly what returning-DT would say. I KNEW IT. *sighs forever* (10 brought me into this show I love 10 I will always love 10 but - again, less for the-actual-show-itself reasons and more for external fears that RTD will just pretend 13′s era didn’t exist reasons - I am not excited to see him back in this precise way, but we shall see.)

[lesbicosmos]

doctor who potd...holy fucking shit...im shaking

only this show could have me screaming crying out of sadness then switching to screaming crying out of excitement in a split second

spoilers in tags!!

[cosmicallyavg]

friend who is catching up on dw has finally gotten to face the raven 😈

[backtothebog]

I would have to lie that I'm not slightly disappointed there wasn't even more thasmin but seriously, this is doctor who

the show is notoriously known for the doctor being in a will-they-won't-they state with almost every young woman companion ever while never actually acting on it

this is more on brand than a thasmin make-out session could ever be

[regenderate]

like my url was lesbianacemcshane for weeks i think anyone reblogging posts from me on the regular is. well aware of how i feel.