#yaz is confused but supportive

[throneofrayllum]

Camp fam headcannons: Religion edition

Darius: attends church on Christmas and Easter. He goes to a little church his family has been apart of for a long time. His dad was very active in it, so even though he doesn't attend much the members still adore him. His mom goes every Sunday still, and sometimes he'll join her but that's rare. It's a very inclusive and loving space.

Kenji: Was never religious at all because his father wasn't involved with religion. His mom had been Catholic and had asked Daniel to introduce Kenji to the religion when he grew older and let him decide if he wanted to practice Catholicism, but Daniel didn't deem it important enough to follow through after she died (fuck you daniel). Kenji went to Church every once and awhile with Darius and his mom, but him and Brandon usually slept in too late to make it to service. He doesn't really care about labels. He just isn't religious and that's what he tells people when they ask.

Brooklynn: Her dad Ash is from Tennessee and grew up in a strict Baptist family. He cut ties with his family and deconstructed from his faith, but later began going to an Episcopalian church with his boyfriend (now husband), and found peace with religion. Even though Brooklynn's dad Trevor is technically Episcopalian, he's also very spiritual. Brooklynn is very fluid about religion. She doesn't affiliate herself with a certain religion, but she does believe in a God of some sort and goes to church during Christmas. She's also pretty spiritual like her dad Trevor.

Ben: Jewish. It just makes sense. His mom is super involved but his dad is more laid back. He grew up attending Shabbat services every Saturday and his mom tried to get him involved with the youth groups but he wasn't interested. Now he just attends services with his parents for the important holidays.

Yaz: Never has been religious and grew up considering herself an Atheist, but when she got older she began leaning more towards an Agnostic worldview. The first time she attended a church service with Sammy during a Christmas they spent together, Yaz was flabbergasted by like...everything going on. It was hilarious.

Sammy: Grew up in a small Catholic Church with lots of judgmental and closed minded people. Before Nublar, even though many if the church members said harmful things and she felt unwelcome despite not being out at the time, she still participated. She really did love going to Mass, and her favorite Sunday's were the one's where she got to help out with the cooking for the post-service breakfast. Post Nublar, sadly the Church members and congregation were openly unaccepting and she ended up almost deconstructing from Catholicism. Eventually, with the help of her older sister, she discovered a youth group for lgbtq+ Christians who were looking to connect with their religion in an affirming and safe space. She stopped going to church but started practicing her religion again once she realized there were Christians who did love and accept her as she was.

(When her and Yaz get married and have kids they find a welcoming and inclusive church and actually become very active church members. Yaz doesn't convert but she does support her wife and is very enthusiastic about getting their daughters involved in church and eventually youth groups.)

Yaz and Sammy also baptize both their daughters when they're babies and it's a whole thing. Yaz' mom and Sammy's sister attend, Camp fam attends, the woman Sammy met at mommy and me yoga attends, and the farrier for their horses attends. Sammy's crying, Yaz is just happy to experience the moment with her wife and daughter(s), Ben is really fucking confused even though he's the godfather, Kenji is trying not to laugh at how ridiculous the baby looks in the long ass dress, Brooklynn's taking pictures, and Darius is the only one who's used to baptism's besides Sammy.

When the girl's get older Sammy and Yaz sit them down and talk to them about how religion is a personal choice and they will support them if they want to pursue a different faith or if they don't want to be religious at all.

[msp9]

ONE-SHOT

I can't keep waiting for the trailer.

To be clear I have not seen the ep. or anything, This is simply my idea of what could happen based on the info we got from comic con and people who saw the first episode and reviewed it. So keep in mind this contains slight spoilers.

+ some hints of Benrius that i added.

If you want to avoid spoiler do not read this.

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“it's been days. We don’t even know where we’re going.” Yaz said frustrated.

“Wherever were going it can’t be too far away now.” Darius said trying to bring some sense into everyone.

Sammy, who sat on the on the bed they had assembled from debris, joined the conversation,

“Darius, I know you’re probably right this time… But you have been saying that for days now.”

“I know but we can do this, we’ll just… Kenji I think it’s your turn to bring some food in.” He noted, changing the topic.

“If by ‘food’ you mean lettuce the herbivores eat then sure.” Yaz sarcastically pointed out.

“I don’t find it that bad.” Ben answered, trying to support Darius. Yaz wasn’t impressed, she crossed her arms “no one believed that dude.”

Sammy interrupted “It reminds me of the salads me and my siblings… used to prepare.” her face dropped.

Meanwhile, Darius took a glance towards Kenji’s direction; he sat on wooden box they had stolen from another container nearby, staring down on the floor.

The mood started getting tense as they kept arguing behind Darius.

“Guys, Kenji will just find some food then we’ll figure something out, Right Kenji?” Darius said.

“Kenji? You there?” Ben asks.

Kenji abruptly stood up “What- Yes!” He quickly responded.

Everyone stared at him in confusion.

“Okay…” Ben muttered.

“Alright.. and whilst you’re at it me and Ben can go fill our water bottles.” Darius suggested, giving Ben a soft glance, as if to say ‘right Ben?’.

He received a warm smile in return.

“Okay! So, I’ll go do that… now.” Kenji awkwardly said already backing out of the container.

“Wait!- Maybe bring Yaz with you?” Darius said in a loud-but-not-too-loud-voice in hope Kenji would hear him. But to no avail, he was too far gone.

On the contrary, Yasmina had clearly heard Darius idea and was giving him a not so welcoming stare, she wasn’t a fan of the idea. After all these events, she didn’t want to leave Sammy’s side.

“Safety in numbers” Darius smiled awkwardly raising both his hands to shoulder level, palms facing outward.

Sammy nudged her girlfriend on the arm, Yaz looked at her, then back at Darius again.

“Fine, I’ll go.”

“Great, Sammy you can keep an eye out for guards.”

The cowgirl nodded in response.

“Okay, let’s go” Ben said putting a hand on Darius back.

“Be careful,” Sammy said to her girlfriend.

“I would be more concerned about the others.” Yaz joked.

“Yes I will.” she added.

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As Yaz made her way around the containers avoiding getting caught, she finally spotted Kenji on the left side of the ship,

He was picking up some lettuce from an herbivore’s container.

Before she ran towards him, she checked both sides in case any security member was around, then looked back at Kenji, and stopped herself.

He stood at the edge of the ship. With the lettuce in his hand. Staring down at the water. Then in a swift motion threw all the greens in the water.

Wtf

“Kenji what are you doing?” She asked in a low voice, while running towards him.

Kenji seemed more shocked than relieved that she was there.

“Why are you following me?” he whispered, a tone of anger in his voice.

“I wasn’t, Darius asked me to help you out- And why did you throw our food in the ocean anyways?” Yaz asked upset.

Kenji rubbed his head.

“I was just… Feeding the fish.”

Yaz eyelids fell halfway.

“Really dude, feeding the fish?” she mocked.

Kenjis expression changed.

“Yeah, what if I was? Do they not deserve that?” he said sharply.

“And what were you planning on saying to the others, when you returned emptyhanded?” Yaz questioned.

“I don’t understand what your problem is. I’m fine.” He declared walking away.

Normally Yaz would have gotten angry, but this time she felt concerned for some reason.

His whole behavior was weird.

Now that she thought about it, he had been acting weird this whole time on the ship.

On her way back Yaz picked up some more food. She was in a hurry thought beacuse her mind was still stuck on those last words Kenji had said.

She may not be certified yet but she knew a thing or two about body language and way of speech.

He was obviously not fine. Kenji was hiding smth.

Yaz finally got back to their temporary shelter and from what she saw; Ben and Darius had already returned from their mission.

They and Sammy were sitting around the box Kenji was using as a chair earlier.

They were playing the ‘Guess the dinosaur’ game, That Darius came up with for entertaining reasons.

And like always, Darius was winning.

Yaz enjoyed seeing them laugh and chuckle with every unrealistic answer either Ben or Sammy gave.

But soon her mind went on Kenji again, she wanted to find him and possibly figure out what’s bothering him.

“Hey, has Kenji returned yet?” she asked looking around the container.

“No, wasn’t he with you?” Darius asked, confused.

“We kind of… got separated”

“Separated?” Ben asked.

“Yeah.. Have you not seen him?”

“No, Is he okay?” Sammy asked worried.

“It’s okay nevermind, he’s probably just late.” Yaz said, trying to avoid further questions.

“Anyways, I brought food.”

“Good, I’m so starving.” Sammy said, Yaz smiled and handed over the lettuce in her hand.

"I think i left some more outiside" Yaz noted.

"Me and Ben saw some pretty datk clouds in the distance." Darius noted.

“I'll be quick, be back soon.” Yaz added going back ouside to find Kenji.

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Hope you enjoyed that :)

Ik it was a bit rushed but oh well. I needed to do smthing instead of waiting around for the trailer so i wrote this at 3am.

(If you watched the spoiler ep. review than you probably know what Kenjis up to hehe🥪)

[little-alien-duck]

I wish harry sullivan were still around in dw media like hanging out with the companion support group or whatever bc genuinely there would be no one funnier to see interacting with new companions. he would be condescendingly concerned about everybody's well-being despite the number of times sarah jane threatened to break his nose for that behavior 40 years and two knee replacements ago. he's going "well that seems a little far fetched doesn't it old boy" when someone else recounts some tale involving an alien and some else from unit has to go "weren't you once impersonated by some aliens during the same incident where you met the Loch Ness fucking monster????" and he yet still only half-believes aliens are real. every day he asks yaz some question like "sorry old girl, but how many genders are there again?" and then gives a very confused "jolly good" when she patiently explains bc he's way more than a little confused but he's got the spirit

[weirdlyfitting]

aight so i finally want to give my thots abt s3 so here we go..

don't get me wrong i like it but i couldn't enjoy it as much as i did with the previous seasons :/ let me explain tho

it all happened to have something to deal with BEN. during the majority of s2 he was in a lot of pressure because he's the only one that found out about brooklynn's existence, as the season ended the rest of n5 finally knew the truth and even had the chance to reunited with brooklynn again! (even for such a short period of time)

i love how the first ep showed direct/indirect consequences of brooklynn's existence to n5. and that went for ben too as he didn't tell the others from the start, kenji's obviously still mad at him cuz not only that he's goin through a lot of grief and depression, but because he has trusted and had some bonding moments with ben during s2. darius already understood ben and focusing on brooklynn instead. and i feel it's understandable because in his' case, he literally carried GUILT over brooklynn's death, he loved her and it was her death that haunts him with regret. sammy decided to isolate herself from the others and would try to stop any further convo about brooklynn because she has been left by a lot of important people within her life (in a way when she needed them the most), i really feel her feelings of being betrayed and hurt :( yaz and ben (yes ben, even after kenji or the rest of n5's response to his action) were the ones that without a doubt, wanting to reach out for brooklynn and make sure that she's okay. i personally kinda confused on why yaz didn't even want to doubt brooklynn's actions like darius, i mean it's really heartwarming to see her support on brooklynn but it ended up making her not being able to see nor consider sammy's perspective :(

anw going to ben, i feel like what he'd gone through before just VANISHED right after he got with gia, and no, NO! i DO NOT hate gia, if any of y'all come at me and talk shit about her imma block you asap >:( i feel like ben DESERVED to be angry towards brooklynn this season. and if not, i want to see him AT LEAST pouring his feelings and thoughts out about the whole situation (with gia nor anyone he's able to talk to at sum point, a genuine heart to heart talk like darius-kenji and yaz-sammy), the second ep really showed that to n5 except for ben?? like OKAY i get it, ben's got gia now and but that ain't ALL of ben's story, it's like many chemistry between ben-gia were poorly placed, neither with the absent of ben's opportunity to have a heart to heart talk abt brooklynn or the harsh cut from their cute moments into yasammy breakup, i love em but i'm sorry it's really hard to swallow :(

(if anyone who reads this sees any misinterpretation of ben's characterization please let me know!! as my writing comes off from a biased standpoint towards s2 akdjsllksd)

[my-ghost-monument]

I love Dan. He's so supportive of both Yaz and 13's feelings. Like Yaz asks him if he's said anything; he's just excited because can't she see? He's so open and just wants them both happy with each other, and it's so lovely to see. I can't believe at one point I thought Dan would be a barrier to thasmin.

Also I do love that scene. It's Yaz, confused. It's Dan, knowing he has in fact talked to both of them about this. It's 13, about to come in and burst Yaz's world open.

[all-the-fun-of-the-cirkus]

okay, i didn't like the star beast, but thank fuck it was a one-off, i really liked wild blue yonder

cons: it still looks bad. the cgi's cheesy and obvious, which i don't mind too much, but what i do mind is the editing. it wasn't quite legend of the sea devils bad, but it was awkward, frenetic and difficult to follow, just like last week. which kind of worked for the first duplicates scene, given it was supposed to be confusing, but enh.

in all honesty, the episode i kept coming back to was smile, which also does the "just let the main two wander alone for half the ep" thing. both sort of move more on strength of personality and vibe more than anything else, although i'd say this had more interesting vibes than smile. but in both cases, that chemistry is doing some extremely heavy lifting, and i imagine i'd find this much less interesting with, idk, 6 and peri, or 13 and yaz, or something

music was less irritating (like the synths, loved the bit where the music drops out as he presses on the glass but they didn't time it quite right) but still ott

it feels like the star beast was the "mission statement" episode and this was the "just make a good episode" one, which is okay, i liked this more, as i said, but it means that this felt a bit shallower. like it didn't really have much to say. which again, isn't a dealbreaker, but it means it's never gonna be an all-timer

pros: whew. scary! funny! mysterious! compelling! the atmosphere at the start in particular, before they showed up was exquisite. loved the imagery of a battered robot slowly walking down an empty hallway forever, very ominous, although nothing else quite lived up to that.

fucking hell it's so nice to have two main characters who actually like each other again. who understand and respect each other. it's lovely to see the doctor and donna bantering, joking, arguing, supporting each other, i've missed that so much.

not said much about the plot, bc it was just kinda nice. spooky, barely explained cosmic horror is my jam so i basically couldn't dislike it lmao

also, keeping up the "casually questioning pronouns" thing and making the doc explicitly gay is cool too. i prefer my ace headcanon, as always, but i appreciate rtd's confrontantional stance on this stuff

also also, as much as i disliked chibnall's run i do appreciate the "yes, and" approach rather than just ignoring it. i doubt it'll be too intricately woven but it's nice that he's considering and incorporating elements from both his predecessors

but yeah. enjoyed very much. good show

[lord-radish]

I think the closest media I've seen that approaches my preferred style of writing is a Swedish movie called Kiss Me.

The sort of stuff I want to write is very heady, personal conversations about really personal and intrinsic feelings about love. That's why to this day, five years after writing it, that Doctor Who fanfic I wrote about Thirteen and Yaz is still such a home run.

In Kiss Me, the part that captures that sort of style is actually a minor subplot about the father of the lead character coming to terms with her homosexuality. You see a big Hollywood film or like a queer drama that really wants to hammer home the difficulties of being queer, and it'll have a parent or loved one start screaming or telegraphing very clearly that they don't approve and they hate gay people etc. etc. - and what Kiss Me does differently is that while it does show someone undergo a process of acceptance, it's done behind closed doors with another loved one and that baggage isn't foisted onto the queer character.

It's a minor subplot with two scenes, where the first one is the dad admitting that he's out of sorts about it and he doesn't know what to think. His wife - who's the mother of the other girl, the lead couple are adult step-siblings after their parents get married later in life - is totally fine with it. Her daughter has been out for years, and she tries to talk the guy through it all. The guy still loves his daughter and wants her to be happy, and he wants to be supportive - but it's a lot to take in.

The next scene in this subplot is another conversation between the two where he has come around to his daughter being gay. Before, as much as he loved her, it was a surprise and he didn't know how to take it. It didn't diminish his love for her, but it wasn't something he knew how to feel about. In this later scene, he's thought it over and come to terms with it. He's overcome whatever was going on, and in both scenes he clearly walks through how he feels and is able to explain himself and accept the input and help of another person to help him get a grip.

The scenes are very communicative between the characters, and it's in service of a greater understanding. It's not some soap opera moment where he goes "I Have No Daughter!!!", it's a process of being confused and a little adrift to eventually getting his bearings and being there for his daughter. And at no point does he let that spill out into his relationship with his daughter. He gets there by talking and thinking and working things out.

[rupphiremoyo]

Yaz: Sammy? What's wrong?

Sammy, taking a long sip from her Capri Sun: When I mooed at Bessie she didn't moo back.

[nikethestatue]

I followed Yazbookish on IG for a long time and enjoyed her blogs. I was almost convinced that Gwyn x Az were an endgame. A blogger like Yaz and other big accounts invested so much money and time commissioning fan art of g x Az and so-called research posts. It was constantly posted throughout the year that I thought to be dumb for missing out the connection between Az and G. When I read the bonus chapter- I didn’t see what they saw. So I came on here listening to your side. Everything makes sense without an effort. And I didn’t feel dumb anymore. I wasn’t alone on this. My other friends felt misled by these bloggers. I’m saying I hope people like you would keep up with what you have been doing regardless how tiring it is. I’ve shared many of your blogs to my confused friends, it really helps. I hope you and many other elriels will stay in this fandom. 🙏😔 -New Elriel

Yah, theorizing should not be so tortured. Like here is the hypothesis, there is proof in canon--done and done. You shouldn't need to invent whole new plots, which aren't canon based, just to support your theories. There's never been any discussion of an Illyrian plot, especially when it comes to Azriel. Never been any indication that he would be going to Illyria, and in some manner would be assisted by Gwyn?? Like, why? All the future plots were outlined in the books--there is no need to invent more plots, so you can make Gwyn shine.

Whatever the reason for the Gwyn obsession is--that's fine, whatever--but I do hate it when whack theories are presented as undeniable facts. When people are just blatantly lying about 'Azriel getting his own book'--never did SJM say anything about it, ever. Yet, it's treated as fact now.

It would be totally fine if they said 'we know Gwynriel is a crackship, but we like it. We recognize it's a crackship, but hey, what if it happens!" - that would be perfectly acceptable. Yet, they treat Elriel like it's a crackship, where as SJM literally confirmed attraction, desire and need from both parties. And then the gaslighting begins, and it never stops. 'Elriel are brother and sister!' 'he wants her for sex!' 'she wants him for sex!' 'Gwynriel are mates!' Like.....what?

I've never interacted with Yaz--she blocked me after my very first Elriel post, all those years ago. LOL. But I am vaguely aware of her very robust output of endless 'theories' and fanarts. I mean, more power to her, but it doesn't matter how many times she calls Gwynriel mates, they still aren't.

"What if the Cauldron was wrong?" was not put in there for the Cauldron to be right.

[cosmicallyavg]

I read this post and couldn't scroll past it without giving my 2 cents so apologies in advance because I'm going to have to disagree. And this 100% isn't me trying to start an argument or anything!!! I just like friendly discussion about things and I have a lot to say about this one so let's get into it.

I think a lot of queer stories, and Yaz’s story included, are meant to be a bit ambiguous to allow viewers to relate to it in whatever way they would prefer to fill in the blanks. So for me, I personally do see her story as a coming out one, and the fact that so many other people do as well should be indicative of perhaps how the story was intended to be received. Stories are meant to be an introspection of ourselves, we relate our own experiences to whatever characters we like, that's honestly just human nature. So if queer people see their own coming out stories in and relate theirs to Yaz's then I don't think that's necessarily something to critique.

I've always interpreted Najia's comment in Arachnids to be something more along the lines of -- I'm pretty sure my kid is queer but they haven't explicitly told me so I'm going to be supportive where I can. ?? If that makes sense?? The way she asks, to me, reads as "Is there something you would like to tell me?" The tone of voice, the body language. Yaz’s immediate denial of it. Her annoyance when she responds -- because why would her mum just straight up ask something like that in a room full of other people. Even before we got confirmation of Yaz actually being queer, I felt like her mum's question was her testing the waters to see if her suspicions were true.

And when it comes to Yaz’s story arc overall, I honestly can't see it as anything but a confused queer teen who got bullied in school for her sexuality. (And the mental health issues that came with it) Every fic/analysis I've written regarding Yaz’s experience has toed around that idea and I refuse to write it any other way. (So perhaps I just have a special attachment to this expansion of her character but I have seen others interpret it similarlyso it isn't just me, I swear.) Only some of that is explicitly stated in canon, we do know that she has battled with depression, possibly anxiety, and it's implied that she was contemplating taking her own life when she ran away, but when I do the math, it's the only way I can piece together the information we've been given. And thats not to say her coming out is the whole arc she has, because it certainly isn't. Obviously theres a whole other main arc she has that is supported by the coming out arc, but that's not what this post is about so I'll refrain from infodumping about that. But I digress. Back to the main idea.

The Conversation(tm) in EotD is mainly what sells the coming out idea to me, if it weren't for that scene and you just told me Yaz was queer the whole time and that was it, okay cool I believe she's been out already and we move on. But Dan confronting her about her crush on the Doctor in this way just cannot compute in my head as anything but coming out. Her initial deflection, the body language, "I don't know what to do, Dan" and "I've never told anyone. Not even myself" sounds exactly like someone who is having a proper gay crush for the first time and doesn't know how to process the feelings. So much so that she can't even admit it to herself. Heck, even before Dan came along, we see glimpses of this in RotD when Jack confronts her. She denies it. "I just missed her." And that sounds like someone who's denying the fact that they're having a gay crush for the first time. The scenes actually have a lot of similarities if you look at them side by side, there was a gifset someone made of it when I made a post talking about the similarities. The dialogue, the body language, the CLOTHES and hair are even almost the same. So putting those two scenes as direct parallels like that??? It tells the story of her coming to terms with what she tried to deny for so long. Because she isn't just coming out to Dan in EotD, she's coming out to herself as well.

This whole time she's been infatuated with this weird alien woman and she didn't understand why. When she thought she was walking off to her death she was obsessed with trying to find her for months where she ignored her friends and family. When she saw her again she shoved her because she couldn't cope with the confused feelings she felt. And then once they were alone long enough tensions became high and then some random Scouse came along and thought "hey... maybe you two like each other a bit" and it flipped her entire world upside down because it suddenly all made sense and she didn't know how to handle it. That is ultimately how I view her queer experience as seen on screen.

Also this is just me being silly but part of it for me that really sells it that I made a post about a few months back --- and I'm just going to ss it because I don't feel like typing it out again:

(but this is merely my own interpretation of the events as I can relate to them and it's also me just having fun so take this with a grain of salt)

Like once we get to Flux, this is genuinely how I view their relationship. They argue a lot, there's a sort of codependency between them, those sorts of things. And like we obviously have in-universe reasons -- the actual Flux itself, the Timeless Child, etc. etc. --- for them to be at each other's throats like that but tbh??? I just think it's fun to compare their treatment of each other to this because it's almost a rite of passage for every closeted queer/wlw person and so Yaz must therefore also experience it (and she has!!). It is a canon event and I cannot interfere.

I also would like to point out how Yaz's story compares to other queer characters on the show as a whole, not just talking about her/Thirteen's/Chibnall's era. (At least, comparing her to nuWho, I can't speak for Classic Who) We've seen many-a queer character on DW who are very secure in their sexuality and speak openly about it: the Doctor on occasion, Jack, Bill, Clara, lots of side characters who had one whole line of dialogue --- so to have a queer character who is unsure of their sexuality and who is still figuring things out is refreshing. Not everyone's queer experience is loud and bold, not everyone knows how to navigate it; and the fact that we get to experience it along with her is really special. I think it's written so beautifully and it's just a perfect portrayal of what it's like to go through such a thing. It's very real to me. It hits home.

Ultimately at the end of the day, I do think Yaz's story is a coming out one. Always have and always will think that. The conversations you want to expand on the specifics of her character maybe didn't happen on-screen, but we are having them all the time on here. The nature of the Chibnall era of DW is unfortunately fill-in-the-blank a lot of times, especially with the bits that were produced during the pandemic where a lot had to be cut so no one got sick and died. So, as far as I'm aware, we as fans have come to this general consensus when we filled in the blanks. I can see you saying that you just in general don't agree with it, but to say that it baffles you... well, that baffles me. The puzzle pieces fit together so well I just cannot fathom any other interpretation. And also I get not wanting to credit a story for something it isn't explicitly what fans give it credit for (especially for LGBTQ+ stories it's a tough thing to navigate) but I don't want that to discredit the fact that the story exists at all because there are still so many aspects of it that are worth giving credit to it for.

Endlessly baffled by Yaz being treated definitively as a coming out story by fandom. We don't know if she was out or not. If anything, if we're to take Arachnids as retroactive setup, her mum knows already. And the dialogue in Eve while familiar to the coming out experience could just be referring to her crush on the Doctor. I don't want to give credit for a specific variety of queer story being told unless it's told.

Conversations expanding on the specifics of her experience are the sort of thing I feel like her story desperately needed and never got.

[sapphic-fandom-posts]

Ok I said I was gonna talk about Yaz and Sammy in season 5 because the writers did so many things right with them so here it is (major spoilers ahead!):

First off, Yaz is immediately accepted by Ben when she tells him about her crush on Sammy. Plus he’s super encouraging and supportive the entire time she’s sorting things out and trying to get the courage to talk to Sammy about it

Yaz is concerned about her self identity because she’s realizing she’s different than she thought, which is confusing for her, but then she accepts that as ok, even positive. Her worry isn’t “is liking girls ok?”, but instead it’s about how she’s different than she thought she was and her learning to accept that

Yaz talks about her attraction to Sammy fully and unapologetically. The writers didn’t pull punches to make the cishet audience more comfortable and it turned out beautifully

The way she acts around Sammy after she tells Ben about her crush (being physically close to Sammy, the way she looks at her, her reactions when she comes in physical contact with Sammy, etc.)

Yaz’s first confession to Sammy. The wording was exactly how an awkward teenage confession would go and it was so cute (plus Ben being supportive in the corner was adorable)

Yaz’s second confession to Sammy (plus Sammy saying she waiting for this confirming that she liked Yaz for a while already too) and their kiss scene is one for the history books tbh. It’s something that little sapphics will see and realize that’s possible and there’s nothing wrong with wanting it or having it

Their friends accepting their relationship immediately and cheering when they first kiss and generally being super supportive

Them being excited to call each other “girlfriend”

Casual kisses and hand holding

Protecting each other more obviously during the dino attacks

And lastly, Yaz and Sammy’s families accepting them immediately, not an ounce of homophobia in sight, meaning homophobia appeared absolutely zero times in the show, which is iconic

[lexslowdown]

With all the negativity flying around this fandom I wanna make a list of all the good things that Kenjlynn gives us.

- Yasammy is more likely because Yaz didn’t end up with Kenji.

- Benrius is more likely because Darius didn’t end up with Brooklynn.

- We have an awesome (bi) couple in the show that the campers all support and are being accepting of

- We got to see Yaz as a wingman which was something I never knew I needed until s4

- We got that hilarious scene where Ben thinks Yaz likes him and you see two gays try to understand wtf is happening

- Kenji and Yaz can brag about their gfs to each other now. Double date? 👀

- Darius and Brooklynn can brag about their bfs to each other now… double double date? 👀

- POSITIVE MASCULINITY when Darius fully accepted Kenji’s relationship without throwing a fit or showing jealousy, shooting down the overused trope in shows that guys always fight over girls

- We got to see more of Kenji’s character development as he tried to navigate his feelings. S4 definitely brought the viewers a lot closer to Kenji

- Normalised an atypical relationship where the female is more dominant and the male is less dominant personality wise (this is one of my favourite things about their relationship)

- Encouraged healthy communication when Kenji and Brooklynn discussed who would tell who about their relationship and discussed things in a mature way

- Yaz and Brooklynn got closer as friends because Yaz was there to support Brooklynn when she was confused about her feelings for Kenji

- We got the scene where Brooklynn said she has two dads because of the conversation she had with Kenji about feeling out of place among their peers and more accepted with adults

- We got to see the couples (Yasammy, Benrius, Kenjlynn) all raise baby dinos with each other which was pretty adorable. I love Angel, Rebel, and Firecracker to pieces.

- One relationship paves the way for more yet again making Yasammy and Benrius more likely than before there was canon romance

[itsabouttime-thasmin]

Representation is important. There was something about this conversation that really hit home for me in an unexpected way. Life isn't always easy and it doesn't come wrapped up nicely with a bow on top. It's messy, beautiful, confusing, full of love, curious, and so much more.

Seeing these expressions and hearing the mutual respect, watching hurt that comes with understanding and support was everything for me.

Of course, there are lots of historical and institutional issues that come with portraying diversity on screen. And I would have been thrilled to see a Thasmin kiss and/or a bold declaration of love. But this felt SO. REAL. It was powerful to see these huge emotions portrayed in tiny moments. Thirteen closing her eyes before speaking or Yaz swallowing before remembering to breathe - they were perfect for me.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i wonder what would have happened if we had more time for yaz to come to terms with being queer and the doctor's response to that. bc like i do think a lot happened in the time between sea devils and potd but imagine if we could have seen that

bc now what happened was yaz came out to herself, to her you know companion i guess in the dw way but also just kind of the classical way, sort of was outed or at least i think experienced it that way a little bit to the person she loved, in the space of a day WHILE saving the entire world WHILE trying to navigate who knows what exactly and what are they thinking about me about it. thats a lot. thats really not ideal circumstances to come out in i'd say. and im just now realising being at the bottom of the fucking ocean is a nifty metaphor for the pressure theyre probably both feeling at that moment nice

anyway, thats not ideal. and they had some time to like come to terms with The Thing Between Us, but i dont think they talked about it really. at least not in any more specifics or depth than the conversation the beach. 13 did a pretty good job being like "im cool with the gays! all of my wives are bisexual!" but i dont know if she, in all her anxiously attached Please Dont Talk To Me About Feelings glory, would be able to offer a whole lot in terms of integrating freshly realised queer feelings into your overall identity. i dont think yaz would be able to accept it if she could offer, seeing her own disposition, right? like, dan might try to offer to help, but i dont think yaz would accept a lot

so while they seem to at least somewhat come to terms with the non-relationship, im not sure yaz in potd would have processed all that much in terms of the sense of "im queer" you know what i mean? like im not expecting her to walk back home like Im Gay Actually. like no. im not even sure how much of that she even could start to integrate into a sense of self until shes processed all the grief

but then like imagine if there was another series between flux and potd. so that everything that happened basically in just eotd and sea devils could be done more gradually over the course of 10 episodes. i think it would be super interesting to see how like, that would play out

the friendship between yaz and dan, the elaboration of the supportive sentiment of "including my wife!" spread out across episodes. yaz wrestling with "why not?!" + "not even myself" + "can we just live in the present" + "if it was going to be anyone, it'd be you" over the course of episodes. the frustration and the grief and the fear and the hope and the confusion. we could really see the effect 5(?) years of "i cant fix myself to anyone" has had on yaz and more importantly the doctor would see it. and dan already knows but he'd be there to see the doctor realise it too which i think could lead to some really good scenes too

we could see yaz wrestle with sort of the spectre of home behind the spectre of the doctor dying bc she Knows somethings up. it'd be like that motif that rtd put in his seasons where like life with the doctor is like an analogy for queer life in that you might die but you have to choose it. like you cant not, if youre a companion. after the doctor dies (which is this a whole terrifying prospect in itself but even after youve sort of managed to come to terms with that) she will have to go back home. and theres a closet there she fled. you know what i mean?

yazs story is this incredibly multifaceted complex coming of age thing where you can really feel how much like the transition from adolescence to young adulthood is less like finishing school and starting work and more like,,,,,,,im trying to think of a metaphor but i cant come up with anything that rings as true as yazs story does so *gestures at it*. just survival i think is what it is. it's a fight for survival. like every day. every day there might be a dalek and The Doctor WIll Not Save You. thats yazs story but we barely skim the surface of it because chibnalls era is mainly about the doctor. theres just sooo much more story left in her character i feel like

i feel so bad for yaz in sea devils. poor girl didnt deserve that

[cosmicallyavg]

okay okay i didnt want to fully hijack someone else’s post but i saw this ask 

and these tags in a reblog of the ask from @inlovewithanathemadevice 

and imagined up something really heartbreaking so im gonna write it for you all to see 🥲

so all i can think is how it can be like a direct parallel to when ten carried donna to her doorstep and just the sad "help me" when wilf opened the door?? okay hear me out  

like the doctor gets hurt somehow and knows shes dying so she tells yaz to get away so she can find somewhere safe since theyre away from the tardis.

(maybe dan is there as well? but i kinda imagine this whole scenario to be with no dan?? idk he can be there too if he wants its not that big of a deal i just dont want to have to juggle more characters if i dont have to) (like idk if he’d really do much other than support yaz through the aftermath but i digress)

yaz absolutely will not leave the doctor and will not have any of her nonsense and drags her back to her family's flat because they're close by despite the doctor’s protests - she hopes no one is home because how would she explain what's going on, she hardly even knows what's going on

she's fumbling with the key trying to get the door open but najia hears the commotion and opens the door to yaz sobbing and the doctor looking in a bad way. theres a beat where she just stands in silence, unsure what to do.

yaz is confused, upset, panicking. she’s maybe a bit more harsh with her mum than she normally would be

“either help me or get out of the way, mum”

obviously najia lets them in but she hasn't seen yaz in a year or so and wants to demand explanation but also her daughter’s weird friend probably needs medical attention. yaz insists she not call an ambulance and that everything will be okay but clearly not because the woman looks like she's dying

they guide the doctor to the sofa, neither of them know what to do. but the doctor is trying to explain everything, how she is actively dying and is going to change. how it’s very dangerous and destructive and she shouldnt be in their flat, but more importantly that neither of them should be this close when the regeneration actually happens.

yaz’s mum doesn’t even know the doctor is an alien, all of this information just sounds like a bunch of nonsense, but yaz insists she will explain when everything is over, but right now isn’t a good time obviously

the doctor gives her best attempt at a speech, thanking yaz for everything she's done and how she's helped her grow etc etc. she tells najia she raised a wonderful woman who is smart and brave etc etc. in which she still doesn't get any explanation on who the doctor is/what she is/how yaz knows her/what their relationship is like. 

the doctor knows its coming, she tells everyone to back away and yaz of course refuses, but i think a callback to arachnids where yaz tells her mum that she "owes the doctor her life a few times over" would be super heartbreaking so im going to include it

"yaz you don't owe me your life, you don't owe me anything but please don't make me push you away again. please just get away."

people want their first and only kiss to be during the doctors regeneration so that would fit here!!! obv i would love for them to kiss before this but either way you could fit a kiss in here okay.... like the doctor has admitted her admiration for yaz and its a heat of the moment thing where yaz is going to lose her so she just goes in for it??? its short and desperate and everything is bathed in a golden light (it could have similar visuals to nine’s regen 👀) and its beautiful and sad and painful. yaz has to force herself to back away just in time for the regeneration to happen

also if they kiss like right in front of najia it would be fun bc she clocked them back in series 11 and yaz denied it so hard. jfhsjfh esp if dan is there because he would literally cheer them on fsjdfjjkj

okay okay so the regeneration has happened... 

yaz didnt know what to expect but there’s literally a different person sitting in the spot the doctor was just in. she can put two and two together but that doesnt make her any less confused. new doctor says funny introduction line like always. yaz and her mum share a confused look. end of episode.

next episode we start back on the sofa, maybe some of the flat is a little destroyed but its fine, everythings fine. new doctor is high on regeneration energy, yaz and mum still super confused. new doctor starts walking around, being clumsy, etc. we get the usual hijinks where the doctor doesnt know who they are, doesnt know who their companion is, and just needs to sleep. 

yaz of course i think would react similarly to rose where she kinda doesnt believe its the doctor, but more than anything is like.. hurt and confused that this doctor is not the same as her doctor. her mum has SO MANY questions, naturally. her first of course being “did you just kiss the doctor? so i was right you ARE seeing each other.”

while the doctor sleeps somewhere, yaz and najia sit down and have a long conversation about the doctor and who she was/who they are now, why they changed, where yaz has been this whole time, etc., if we imagine dan in this scenario she would DEFINITELY ask about him.. like last time you brought your friends around there was a different old man what is this about.

like her mum deserves an explanation after so long without yaz around and why she ruined her prospects with the police for some alien who just died on their couch????? 

i really dont know how to end this but thats really only as far as im planning this in my head bc otherwise ill write a whole episode

idk just..... i am so vividly imagining this and i needed everyone to hear my thoughts. i just know the regeneration is going to be super painful regardless so i might as well make my own sad rendition. 

okay thank you for listening bye

[northforwinter]

Currently SOBBING cus kids are gonna watch Camp Cretaceous and see the diverse representation of the cast and amazing build up of Sammy and Yaz, and they'll see Yaz questioning her sexuality and having it unconditionally supported and encouraged by the others, and they'll see that the first real kiss is between a WLW couple of colour and they're going to see more representation than I ever did and I am so. Fucking. Happy. For them. I didn't even know being Bisexual was a thing until high school. I thought I was evil and going to hell for years and I was so fucking confused about how I could feel the same about boys as I did about girls. But kids are going to see this and know what it is and that it's okay and that means a fucking lot to me.