#what is less than noble?

[transmasc-rose]

I'm thinking about the horror of the Doctor from the perspective of non-companions again, especially as it relates to people those companions know.

Rose? "Ran away" (not wrong) for "a year" (a week) with a "man" (alien) "twice her age" (approximately 50 times her age but yeah, he is Time Lord middle aged), and then gives absolutely no explanation for how or why that happened, except that she was "travelling".

Then when her mum does get an explanation (which, frankly, is only comforting because of the unfamiliarity of the alternative given. The devil you know.), Rose barely checks back in.

She almost dies for him. When she thinks he's dead, she's changed in a way her family doesn't know how to handle. Then she's gone for who knows how long and comes back with the Doctor wearing a new face.

When her original tenure as a companion ends, and Rose lives in Pete's World, she works for Torchwood/UNIT (they become the same organization). She volunteers for the Dimension Cannon. She explains to the alternate earth how to rig up a time machine.

She's changed in ways that no one else can really understand.

Amy? There's everything with River Song of course (though I'm still not there in my viewing), him running away with Amy the night before her and Rory's wedding, and also the connection between the Doctor and the Time Crack being the reason all of Amy's family's dead. Obvious stuff.

However he's also the strange man who broke into this child's house and made a mess of her life that she never got over, that promised to take her away from here, that she wrote about and drew and carved and made her friends dress up as.

And they sent her to psychiatrist after psychiatrist without any help. In their perspective, to work through what she imagined. In her perspective, to tell her that her reality wasn't real.

And then he comes back.

And to some extent, later, when he shows himself to everyone, isn't that more frightening? That the story your child told you, of the strange man she met as a child, of time travel, of nearly being stolen away, hadn't been a lie, or a misinterpretation, or an imagining?

And so he shows up at her wedding. And steals her away again.

Donna I feel like has the least horror until her final episode. I think exploring the in between section of her meeting the Doctor and finding him again would be interesting, but not exactly horror. More an exploration of how obsessive the companions can get about him, how it eats their whole lives with even one encounter, even as it makes them better people.

And then, obviously, the horror of having your mind altered and erased against your will by someone you trusted. For your own good, of course. Because he knows best. How could you know better than him? He's ancient. He's practically all knowing.

Shouldn't you be grateful?

(And he's forgiven.)

[aliciavance4228]

Ah, yes! The Camp for Homeless Demigods of Ancient Greece...

[memesthatonlycatertome]

My brain coming up with ideas / theories / scenarios after the new Zaros audio:

What if... (Sorry for my english, i hope this makes sense...)

The Earis didn't steal Zaros idea and the corrupt judge changes their answer, so the Earis had to improvise.

Didn't Zaros say in one of the audios, that Earis was dreaming of doing something else (Part 3?). The Earis wanted to travel/see the world, maybe study science, be a painter or dancer, etc.... What if the Earis had originally - once they grew up - accepted their responsibilities, sacrificed their life to learn and live up to the expectations. But now they see a tiny chance to break out of their "golden cage". They see that Zaros really wants to help the people and that he would do what is best for the dominion. That he would be a good enough eminence. But the Earis can't tell anyone that deep down they wanted to leave their life at court behind because they don't want to disappoint their mother or anyone else. They also feel bad for dreaming of a life outside the palace and being "irresponsible" to what is expected of them. They know some nobles / judges try to manipulate the trials in their favor and wouldn't want Zaros as the new eminence. So the Earis plays the game. They try to upset Zaros, so he pettily puts in more effort to win in the trials. The Earis is intelligent and actually likes Zaros. They think Zaros likes them back but the Earis wants their freedom, so they try to make Zaros dislike them in order for him to try to be better at everything and to get him to win the Contention. The Earis knows he will win, that is their way out. They have their bags packed and after it is announced that Zaros is the new eminence, they quietly leave without anyone noticing. They are finally free to do what they want for the first time in their life as an adult. In the end Zaros sees the Earis happy to leave quietly with all their things already packed and realizes:

Rereading this, i realize i may have watched the old Barbie movies one too many times as a child:

Anyway... me waiting for the next part of the noble trials:

[thegreatyin]

y'know in hindsight it is funny that the scoundrel holds their own nobility in such (relatively) high regard when it's like. my brother in christ you're a baroness at most. your noble title ain't shit. who gave you the right to have that much attitude about it (himself. he gave himself the right)

[something-about-sunflowers]

'Please don't tag me, I'm a minor/I'm broke/I would love to help but I can't'

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[Edit]

Nothing brought this edit on other than the realization I should have said it in the post initially: This blog unequivocally supports a free Palestine. This blog also believes that the nation of Israel and those who support it's actions and ideologies in relation to Palestine and it's people should be held to account for them.

I think these bots are abhorrent BECAUSE I support a free Palestine and it's disgusting to me that the people who make these bots are trying to profit off of a genocide.

[liesonthefloordramatically]

unfortunate side effects of Buddhism fic that I am feeling literal years later: every time I see the Four Noble Truths mentioned I immediately think of Buddhism fic instead of, you know, the thousands of pages I had to read about Buddhism for my quals

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

watching fandaniel go is wild because he is just [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] and yeah man that's a mood

[bowtiesarecool11]

[britneyshakespeare]

The gaslighting Duke of Vienna

[theworstcreature]

CHALICE OF THE GODS COMES OUT FUCKING TOMORROW OMG MY YOUNGER SELF IS CLIMBING UP THE FUCKING WALLS RIGHR MOW GIRLIE LIVED AND BREATHED EVERYTHING RICK RIORDAN WROTE I CANT WAIT TO READ IT AIFJSKSK PERCY JACKSON COME BACK TO ME

[bittersweetblasphemy]

well. the upside of having a snake who breaks the peaceful quiet of a spring afternoon with shits louder than a grown man in intestinal in the middle of my living room is that i always know when to spot clean her tank.

[swordmaid]

the fact that you can know recruit minthara via grove raid defence means that she can finally be a companion in shri’iia’s playthrough …!!!!

[televinita]

Me: Off I go! To Christmas-shop and buy all the presents for people who are NOT me and who mostly do not want books!

Me coming home 5 hours later with a stack of twelve books in my arms: now how did this happen

[that-one-fandom-girl]

To me, it’s absolutely M’Lady, no questions asked. I think it’s the most grammatically correct way to spell it.

Milady is an alright second; I believe that’s the Old English way of spelling it. My Lady (though a pretty way of saying it, depending on the tone and inflection) is used for if he’s referring to her as his lady, not as a pet-name (though it means the same effect, it’s different grammatically). And Malady is a sickness, if I remember the definition correctly.

And my Mom had a really good point; ‘My Lady’ is like referring to his wife after long, long years of marriage and he’s kinda tired of her, like “that’s my old lady”; whereas ‘M’Lady’ is a form of respect, a pet-name, a level of closeness-you generally feel much more connected to that girl with that spelling than with saying the dragged-out version, ‘My Lady’.

[freedomscall]

@sainthekla | a starter that is shippy if you squint

❝ I found out earlier that one of the girls I'm friends with disappeared last night. ❞ Worry mars the teen's face, the mask of lackadaisical visage removed in private as he peers at the older apprentice from his place on the floor. ❝ That's the third this week, that I've heard of at least. ❞

This is something Anders visibly has concerns about, a hand reaching for the ladder of the bunkbed Karl was assigned to. Gangly body begins to climb, with the obvious intention of making his way into the other's bunk as he continues to speak.

❝ Everyone's saying she must've got taken for her Harrowing, with how old she was getting. ❞ Something lingers though, in how amber eyes look at the brunet. He's hesitating, while continuing to cling to ladder. ❝ She was… about your age, I think. ❞

' Does the idea scare you as much as it scares me? '

[sheliesshattered]

sewing the first ~5' long over-bust seam to attach the new center front panel to the existing dress: smooth, stress-free, perfect result, required a mildly obnoxious number of pins but otherwise a dream

re-sewing the ~1/2" I accidentally unpicked between one of the center back panels and a side back panel: I have given up after trying to sew it no less than five times, after the fabric managed to misbehave in at least five completely different ways