#the satan pit one

[kaisollisto]

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Ava glares at the juts of Lilith’s cheekbones. She can tell from the sharp stoniness of them Lilith’s not listening to a word she’s saying. It’s this back and forth that usually ends in hours of petty silence away from each other. Ava will say no, Lilith will tower over her and insist. Lilith will grit her jaw and rip her argument to shreds and Ava will find it begrudgingly hot. 

It’s the only thing they talk about between keeping the space station afloat with life. It’s easy to get lost in the labor of doing the work of what would be fit for a team of 5 but Ava knows they cannot shake the hole that stares back. 

It’s the strange case that drew them here first, a distress signal pinging repeatedly from the bottomless pit and an old recording of 2 fuzzy figures lurking on the other end. There are records of people before them in the current station just adjacent to the pit but never any more evidence of what lies below. There is an elevator that connects to what Ava hopes is the other station but can only be accessed from inside the station they’re in. It looks well used enough to convince her it’s sturdy enough to survive at least two trips. 

Lilith steps closer, close enough to touch her and Ava isn’t ready for that. “I’m not going down there Lil, you’ve seen the reports, people who come here don’t come back and I’m starting to get why.” 

Lilith’s eyes flash with a sliver of something volatile before Ava can take it back, the mistake digs in her throat but she stands up, turning around to look at the old recording once again. The screen has a crack in it that distorts part of the footage but it's clear that there's proof that life has made it down there. It's a jumbled 6 second clip that jumps around, almost unreadable but Ava has a feeling she cannot keep running away. 

Ava can't take her eyes off the clip, replaying it frantically over and over in her mind as a feeling she doesn't want to name wells up inside her. Even if they did go down, Ava would have to go alone because of the Halo. Its faint glow would be more beneficial than risking any energy input for light. 

Lilith is burning behind her no doubt a couple sentences away from strangling her. Ava knows her fingers are twitching. That’s just who Lilith is, she looks out for Ava in an angry way. 

“Ava,” She puffs, Ava can see it in her head, Lilith loosening the lock in her jaw with a wisp of breath snaking between her teeth. She thinks if Lilith wasn’t always knocking her around she’d pick up smoking. But she supposes smoking would detract from the heated sex they always find themselves in. 

There’s a shuffle behind her but Ava is too cowardly to turn around, not quite ready for another argument or maybe something worse. Ava wonders if today’s the day where one of them crosses the line. 

“We don’t know anything, people have accidents or get lost. There's nothing more to it.” Lilith slows down her syllables sounding like a stranger, “We have an ancient artifact that enhances your physicality, there's nothing to be afraid of.” 

Ava doesn’t like it, how dejected Lilith sounds, it’s wrong. It makes her feel wild, she pushes, falling into what they know best, “Maybe for your physique,” Ava swallows heavily the words tumbling out of her mouth searing, “but I'm the crippled one here remember? The Halo gets me to what you would consider your peak physique." She can feel tears of frustrations lining her eyes and she squints angrily at the footage. She brings her knees up to her chest hoping she hadn’t bled too raw for Lilith to notice. 

She knows she hasn’t succeeded, the Halo’s always been a sore spot for both of them. It’s a coin toss, the Halo which gives her strength but is ultimately unstable. The power output is too random and unreliable. It's not sustainable for her in the long run. She is nothing if not at the mercy of a crusty old metal that decides if she can move her fingers or bench five times Lilith’s weight. 

She sulks hoping Lilith will do what they do best. It’s quiet behind her and in her embarrassed tear stricken haze she’s sure that Lilith has fled, parallel to the line that they both don’t dare to cross. 

Ava tucks her head into her arms, her shoulders peeking over her ears and she’s resigned to accepting this endless back and forth for forever. 

She’s musing the list of chores she can do to avoid Lilith when her chair is swiveled backwards to face her. Lilith’s fingers stray far from any part of Ava but she bends to her height kneeling against the cold tiled floor. From this angle her cheekbones are soft, a tangible thing that Ava can’t look at. There’s a vulnerability that clings to Lilith; it feels wrong to look at her so bare that Ava swallows. But no matter how far she’s strayed from her she always ends up at the beginning. 

Lilith watches her, before grabbing the arm of the chair stilling Ava’s squirming. Even in the hard lines of her eyebrows, (the ones that knit together at Ava’s insistence to look anywhere but her,) there’s a softness in her pupils, the deepest part of her eyes that Ava has to really look to find. 

Lilith doesn’t grab any part of her and Ava thinks her body would be less aware of it if Lilith just fucking touched her like a normal fucking person. 

“Ava,” Lilith swallows, she looks crumpled, “We cannot keep running. Eventually there will be nowhere else to go, and then what? I just watch you wither away for the rest of my life? Watch you waste away and think 'well we did the best we could'?” It squeezes out of Lilith like a dirty secret, a shame that has festered inside of her. 

It almost makes her feel wrong but Ava can feel the chair shaking, Ava can feel Lilith is shaking. Somewhere along the way Lilith has grazed her knee but Ava doesn’t register it the way it kills Lilith to confess. 

 “I need you.” 

tagging @aromarianne @tragedylure @desognthinking

[billpottsismygf]

Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit / The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[sygzie]

once again the satan pit is wild bc they hear the actual devil tell them with confidence that rose is going to die in battle which is quite honestly something they could have seen coming for a while now but the doctor looks her in the eyes and is like No you won’t because i love you and she's like You're right because i love you. ????? what are they doing they need to be locked up

[27spoons]

EVERYTHING BEFORE THE TITLE CREDITS. oh my god bro how did the ep tank so fast 😭 smile literally left my face the longer it went on. what HAPPENED in the writers room for half of this shit to pass 😭😭

like i loved how campy it was but the hunt scene was literally so fucking bad with framing and pacing...

also i'm gonna say it that antler queen reveal was NOT worth the wait 😭 they completely took away everything sinister about the aq from the pilot ??? shauna looks silly as hell in her little costume. maybe that was the intention but idk.

on the bright side i loved nat's get-up though. my fav lil raccoon

this season was such a rollercoaster in terms of quality 😭😭😭 I just wasn't expecting the finale to take such a nosedive in terms of quality???? like the first five minutes prepared me for something that never came and I just felt like.... I was being really poorly edged 😭

I get that the whole aq thing was meant to be like...... symbolism of the group's descent into chaos, but idk man...... shit was tacky as hell jejddbshsjsk they could have ended the episode after the title credits and I would have accepted that more than whatever the rest of the episode was 😃🔫

I also don't like how ambiguously they ended the season... cus... this is the perfect ending for it they want to not renew the show for S4, and if they do renew..... they have material to build off of, too.

oshauna bin laden need to sit her ass down goddamn!! bitch in the adult tl talking about "I was a warrior" bitch you were a dictator!!!! 😭😭😭 WHAT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I thought you were writing a suicide note, not fucking journalling AGAIN 😭

anyways! racoon!natalie 🫶🏻🫶🏻 natalie being the reason for rescue 🫶🏻🫶🏻 natalie 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[voidisverytired]

"Not a big believer in Satan."

hundreds of years and the Doctor is still in denial that she literally met Satan, lmao

[aq2003]

You've said before how ten is ooc in "girl in the fireplace", but imo it goes even further than him. At the end of "school reunion" rose mouths "no" at the doctor when mickey asks to come, so you'd expect that conflict to come up in the next episode, right? But no, suddenly rose and mickey get along perfectly fine and the doctor goes "i let you keep mickey" as if he didn't just let mickey come with against her wishes. It's baffling to me how whoever was responsible for keeping continuity in check let that slide

i think moffat's episodes in rtd1 were left pretty much untouched by anyone else in terms of the writing side of it and it sometimes shows pretty bad lmao

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

quick appreciation for martha's theme - god i love it so much. it's so brassy, and echo-y and it *sounds* so much like martha (serene and beautifully tranquil, but also deeply longing for emotional release underneath. a slow cascade progressing to rapture).

[liljakonvalj]

Dorabella kan inte ljuga. Loser. Henne litar jag på.

- Mara i avsnitt 12

[zentrodada]

the bbc should be killed for the way they release doctor who on dvds. trying to get all of nuwho on dvd we're up to season 9 and we have at least 6 different styles of dvd packaging. big ass box set with 1 season. regular dvd case with 1 season. wider dvd case with 1 season. plastic cover sleeve. cardboard cover sleeve. no cover sleeve. season 6 part one and season 6 part two sold separately. metallic effects see-through effects 3d effects no effects. christmas specials included oops not that one though. separate dvd with like 4 christmas specials bc one of them isnt in the regular season box set. logo changes every three years. you would never guess that these are supposed to be different seasons of the same tv show if you saw them on my shelf together. dont even get me started on how expensive these things get even second-hand once you get to the later seasons

[littldoctor]

Doctor who - S2E9 - The Satan pit

[limelocked]

Bless dr who season 2 episode 9, the episode the world forgot

Moffat really looked at that thing and went hey I can do better here’s blink

[moonfurthetemmie]

New way to say someone is down bad/fell for someone else

“They fell so hard they broke their neck”

typing this out I feel like I’ve actually heard that somewhere and didn’t just make it up. But either way you can thank supernova for it today, whether they made the thought from nothing or pulled it out of the deep recesses of my memory

[starrymindedlil]

It was a hug-the-emotional-support-doctor-who-merch-under-the-desk type of day at work boys

And all my friends are The Big Sad™️ atm so I’m having to kinda work through it myself and hoooo it’s been a doozy

Think it’s a comfort ep type of night

[tenrose-s]

But if I kill you, I kill her. Except that implies in this big grand scheme of Gods and Devils that she’s just a victim. But I’ve seen a lot of this universe. I’ve seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods, and out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing, just one thing, I believe in her

Doctor Who | The Tenth Doctor in 2x09: The Satan Pit (Remake of this post)

[devildomwriter]

Dating Advice From Everyone #1

*Please don’t take anyone’s advice except for the angels, and if you wanna be petty Thirteen’s*

If he doesn’t treat you right you should ?

Lucifer — “Poison them. Make sure to use ground peach pit, it won’t show in any reports and it stops the heart almost immediately. No one will ever know.”

Mammon — “Steal their credit card information.”

Leviathan — “Expose them online and dox them.”

Satan — “Curse them.”

Asmodeus — “Chop their dick off.”

Beelzebub — “Eat them. Or feed them to someone else, humans taste like pork.”

Belphegor — “Set them up for something and send them to jail.”

Solomon — “Make them disappear. I’ll help. Look up cities where people go missing most often—“ *long tangent*

Thirteen — “Take all the buttons, batteries, zippers, lightbulbs, and one shoe from every pair from the home.” :)

Simeon — “Write how you feel into a letter asking for help then read it as if it were someone else and do what you’d advise them.”

Raphael — “Pray on it, the answer will come to you. Trust your instincts. If that doesn’t work ask a friend for help if you think you’re in danger. I’ll lend you my spear should you need it.”

Luke — “Talk with them about it and try to correct the situation, if you already tried or it’s too much then break up! You’re worth more than you know so don’t waste time with someone who doesn’t value you.”

Mephistopheles — “Pay someone to deal with them. If you’re worried about jail just pay off the cops, easy”

Barbatos — “Get them drunk and conveniently make your way towards any staircase you can find.”

Diavolo — “Easy. Summon a demon, just don’t trade your soul, trade theirs. Now you’re done with your problem and you get a nice deal.”

[aq2003]

i say this 100% unironically and as someone who very recently watched rtd1 era twice over; if you think the writing quality of the 60th specials is any worse than the episodes from rtd1 era you either a) need to rewatch all of rtd1 (yes all of it, not just cherry-picked clips), b) are unable to recognize you have outgrown the show and lost your sense of whimsy, or c) are a conservative offended that the progressive sci-fi show is progressive and looking for any reason to hate it. or some combination of these 3 things