Magic & Mayhem

• Em • Wear confidence like River Song, grow like Regina Mills, and imagine like Alice Jones

[chaesong-hwa]

(if I'm gonna lose you either way)

[didanagy]

Favorite Viscountess Bridgerton costumes

BRIDGERTON (2020-)

[twelfthdoctorwho]

what’s your favorite era of nuwho?

rtd1

moffat

chibnall

rtd2

(see results)

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[4pondsinabox]

So where do I send the notebook with my Doctor Who 5 season plan that I wrote in high school

[s0apboxtao]

The older I get the more I go ‘while undeniably a flawed white man, Moffat isn’t a misogynistic person inherently he’s a feminist with blind spots who made efforts to improve and acknowledges his flaws and fixes them while lowkey RTD absolutely is kind of misogynistic but got away with it because we were all children because what do you mean Martha, Donna AND Belinda all got hit with tropes that make me uncomfortable (Martha with the racism, Belinda with the essentialism of being a mother against her will and Donna with ageism). He seems to only really care for his blonde nineteen year old companions and even Ruby got disrespected by the end by Fifteen and spent emotional labor trying to make her awful ex a good person. Meanwhile Moffat’s worst sin is some raunchy skirt jokes (the worst not being him) and a legitimately bad scene between Amy and Eleven he apologized for ages ago. Amy, Clara, River, Missy and Bill get a bad rap but I think they’re all really well realized and inherently feminist stories. Amy in particular is underrated to me, a neurodivergent woman who sees myself in her.’

ANON WE ARE HOLDING HANDS AND FROLICKING THROUGH A FIELD RN HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE MOST CORRECT PERSON ON EARTH !!!!!!

literally that's the biggest problem for me - the fact that rtd's writing has just stayed so Stagnant? i could talk about my poor bel forever but the main thing is that the way she was treated was so distressingly similar to martha's treatment speaks VOLUMES imo. these two characters were written nearly 20 years apart. any good writer would pick up on how they've upset their audience and try and rectify that going forward... but the issues between rtd1 and rtd2 are practically completely the same. his writing and his values have not changed whatsoever, and if they have it is not apparent to me at all...

amy, clara, river, missy, bill... i feel a lot of people's judgement of their stories is based on the fact that moffat's writing seems misogynistic, therefore the female characters he's written Must Be Bad! and like. i'm not here to sing anyone's praises all i know about this show's writing is what i've experienced myself... but!!! moffat's female characters for the most part are not as terrible as a lot of people seem to think!!! my biggest personal ick with the show is the eleven and amy scene you mentioned it really turned me off amy as a character... but! if moffat has apologised for it then at least that's a step in the right direction?? (also!! if you'd happen to have a source for that would you mind sending that over?? i hadn't actually heard that moffat had spoken about it...)

not really much else i can say without repeating what you've already said but oughhhhh anon i am shaking your hand so hard rn you're so right!!!!!!! i agree with you one william percent yesyes :))

[dw-opinions-you-wont-like]

Agreed, I love Moffat's female characters in doctor who and I definitely think people exaggerate how misogynistic the writing is. Also, here's a source:

Doctor Who: Steven Moffat on the Amy Pond moment he’d change

Outgoing Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has been conducting a Q&A session on the BBC America Twitter feed, and he’s admitted something

He says here the idea for the scene in which Amy, because of the traumatic experience she just went through seeks comfort in the doctor and tries to kiss him is a good idea, but he played it for laughs when he shouldn't have.

[bandaalarga]

Whatever, man...

[geekgirl750]

Now that RTD is gone I think Ncuti should get a do over season

[lucentcosmos]

Somewhere in Mayfair…

[clairesbeauchamp]

i'm trying to dance with you but i don't know this song i'm trying to sway with you but my timings all wrong

2026 COLOR CHALLENGE: june + rainbow

FRANCHAELA WEEK 2026 ♡ day 2: music

[wibblyrlin]

DOCTOR WHO | 7.05 “The Angels Take Manhattan”

[4pondsinabox]

The initial thrill of seeing a spectacular art piece of your favorite characters vs the crushing disappointment at realizing it’s AI

[my-ny]

Doctor Who text posts: River edition – 21/?

[4pondsinabox]

Returned to my Legends of Tomorrow rewatch recently and am midway through season 3 so I can officially say the end of Crisis on Earth - X hurts just as much as the first time around 😭

[rustedpipe]

annoying little brother forever

[4pondsinabox]

Me? Writing Esperastra fic in the year 2026? More likely than you think

[nblizzieforbes]

Spooner Cruz in Legends of Tomorrow

[legendsluvr67]

i have big fat crush on her