#the star beast

[davidtennan-t]

THE STAR BEAST REWATCH/TWEETALONG

Official trailer by @AndrewOnSeeAIR (X) ❤️❤️➕🔷

November 25th - 6:30PM

#MeepMeep

[makeawishandskimit]

Like I've got some criticisms of a few bits of how Rose Noble's transness is handled in The Star Beast if we wanna really get into it but god damn my overwhelming feeling about that episode is just how happy I am to see an explicitly transfem character in a large role in my favorite show being positively portrayed and loved and supported by characters who I've loved for half my life and those couple issues are not gonna take that away and they're never gonna make me not love the episode for that

I've decided I'm not going to complain about generally positive representations of transness in media. Like, yeah, okay, I do find characters like Adira and Gray Tal from Discovery and Dreamer from Supergirl and even Rose Noble from Doctor Who to be unrelatably wholesome little lollipops; but it doesn't matter anymore. Fascists are in power and I've decided that forcing The Trans Agenda down people's throats like a kettle of boiling water is Good, Actually.

[cynical-canidae]

The TARDIS was like yeah this hyperactive bitch needs space for the zoomies. AND SHE WAS RIGHT!!!!

[stevenrogered]

It’s not just Rose. It’s nine million people.

[tickle-me-dalek]

Still Donna Noble

The End of Time || The Star Beast

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+ Bonus

#Yep that's my Donna

[twilight-zoned-out]

Learning about the Doctor Who specials' expanded budget: oh no, what if they overuse CGI to look more 'professional' and high-budget?

The first scene of the Doctor Who Special:

[death-by-sc0tland]

me when i

[mochabonesblog]

I'm not sure people realise just how important this second of television is.

Showing a person in a wheelchair crossing her legs. Using her legs.

After what rtd said about davros and rose in the unleashed episodes, this was 100 percent done on purpose.

When I go out in a wheelchair I am terrified to make it noticeable that I can use my legs. Because ... well we all know why and I'm not really articulate enough to go into everything.

But this. This right here. I doubt anyone who uses a wheelchair didn't have a doubletake. A glimmer. A KNOWING about just how important this tiny, insignificant action was.

And I'm fucking here for it

[carlotocotta]

— Oh, for the love of God, none of this is real! — Hey, hey. Dad's home.

[whoosh-whoosh-tardis-noises]

The meep going “my pronouns are ‘the’” and the Doctor going “oh yeah, me too” amazing

[this-simplefeeling]

something something ten was rarely wearing less than three layers representing his being very closed off and scared of vulnerability, while fourteen sheds his coat early on and has rolled up sleeves most of the time to parallel his being far more comfortable with his emotions and the vulnerability that comes with it or something idk

[metamorphicrocky]

doctor who coming back in the year of 2023 when terfism and biological essentialism and transphobia are on the rise and making one of THE most hyped up episodes by bringing back fan favorites david tennant and catherine tate. all about being trans

showing rose being bullied and her grandma struggling to get it right but still being supportive. and shaun and donna being the greatest parents by being ready to burn the world down to protect their daughter. the doctor asking for the meep's pronouns AND IT'S NORMAL???

and all of that is brilliant to see rose as a trans character and it is important to the narrative. BUT THEN. ROSE BEING TRANS SAVES DONNA'S LIFE BY TAKING HALF OF THE METACRISIS. BECAUSE THE DOCTOR IS MALE AND FEMALE AND NEITHER AND MORE. AND THAT IS INTEGRAL TO DOCTOR WHO AS A WHOLE. and it saved donna's life

to see doctor who be so BLATANTLY trans and nonbinary at the core of the series. the multiple references to the fact that before fourteen, thirteen was a woman. so to see this? trans people stay winning. thank you doctor who for doubling down on the importance of the doctor being trans because oh my god I am so emotional about this

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

rose noble is so funny because she literally IS thee fanfic mary sue 'oh I was just a normal everyday outcast girl who felt like she didn't belong until one day as a teenager I found out I'm related to the doctor' like even down to the cutesy dresses paired with sneakers and saving the world when the doctor thought all hope was lost. except her mom is donna and that is 100% cooler than anything the alien dna can offer her lmao

[stevenrogered]

Oh, I know some roads even taxi drivers don’t. Trust me. 

[shewolfofvilnius]

Doctor Who since the 2023, specials

(Edit: Note i posted this originally before the finale)

[davidtennan-t]

let me tell you I DIED