dead poet’s serenity

Don’t mind me. I’m just here to daydream and romanticize. 🪐

[antidisneyinc]

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit

[modelsof-color]

Anok Yai at The 2026 Met Gala

[antennafarm]

Visit Original Link

[sillyguy-supreme]

the most astonishing thing to me about the emily gwen situation is that people on tumblr took her word for it for eight years straight but verified fundraisers from gazans begging for their lives were (AND STILL ARE) constantly accused of being scammers by the same people who had no problem donating to emily gwen and having to reverify themselves hundreds of times

[stolen-stardust]

not to start discourse but every time emily gwen has another viral twitter post abt needing money/being homeless you can literally go through their ko-fi and see that there are dozens of people donating a MINIMUM of $5 australian dollars EVERY HOUR and they still comes on two weeks later like “hey guys unemployment isn’t paying for everything :^(( im -$15 in the bank rn and im the creator of the lesbian flag pls support me“. im not fucking joking go look on their linked ko-fo and individually count the donations made in the past day alone. there are HUNDREDS. with the minimum amount being $5.

even accounting for fees from ko-fi and payment services. genuinely what the fresh fuck are they doing with all that money. why not make a fucking $20k go-fund-me with the express goal of using those funds to secure housing for X amount of months so everyone can see the total amount raised. i genuinely think they’re just scamming ppl out of money lol. i know they’re disabled and have been job hunting since (checks) 2019 with no luck (???) but oh my god where is all the donation money going. they’re not in any debt that they’ve mentioned?? they’re receiving government assistance?? what is going On

* edit $5 isn’t the minimum, that’s just the suggested amt that comes up when you tip, but you can enter in as low as $1. still, statistically there is more than $1 on average being donated per tip.

[stolen-stardust]

well today has been Something. idk what to think honestly i think mostly it’s hilarious that her downfall has come from a heated rivalry tweet.

re: emily being her supposed friend all this time, i don’t fully believe this and won’t unless we get like, video evidence suggesting otherwise. ppl talking abt how they’ve nuked their twitter as a sign of guilt isn’t something i think proves anything. but it IS highly suspicious that the ‘friend’ has a super duper DUPER rich friend in the area whose dad lives in dubai and who Owns (not rents, owns) a whole ass townhouse while emily reports to have needed to couch-surf n shit. so either that’s a really shitty friend or emily’s refusing to live with her for some reason despite her whole ass paypal being linked to her friend’s bank account. idk man.

(i can’t stress enough how fucking funny it is that this imploded on her due to a heated rivalry tweet)

[skawdia]

This could have been Wyll and Ansur but Larian's playing.

[an-excellent-choice]

you guys have no idea how pissed i was when Ansur was just another emperor backstory. I was so excited for some Wyll then the emperor just hijacks the whole fucking questline and no fucking dragon by the end

[auranxia]

I wish ansur deemed the emperor unworthy and directly addresses Wyll as the champion of Baldurs Gate. That would’ve been huge

[auranxia]

Rip Jack Harkness you would’ve loved Baldur’s Gate 3 Romance options

[auranxia]

Shonda Rhimes should’ve written season 3 of doctor who. We would’ve been fed

[leikeliscomet]

“But We Love Martha Jones!” - The Doctor Who Fandom’s Selective Memory of Racism

Be aware that this article contains explicit examples of anti-black racism and misogynoir.

Chapter 2 - Utopia-ish

The constant nitpicking of Martha Jones for reasons white female companions could get away with was blatant anti-black racism. Let’s get that bit clear first and foremost. As a Black person in fandom, watching Black characters get torn apart while never being given the grace of their non-Black castmates is an experience that’s too common. Microaggressions are more subtle so the easiest way to shut down any mentions of racism is to accuse Black fans of making things up or telling us “Well it’s not like REAL racism”. Luckily Doctor Who Tumblr birthed the Martha Jones affirmative action and Aunt Jemima “memes” so I can cross both covert and overt racism off the list. As mentioned in extensive detail in the previous chapter, plus the various Martha Jones articles written before me, the treatment Martha experienced was racist. I don’t care if you personally didn’t like her. I don’t care that you missed Rose. I don’t care that Ten is your smol bean. Martha’s treatment was racist. Freema Agyeman’s treatment was racist. It might not have been everyone. It might not have been you personally. But it was there. The fandom can never be a safe space for POC, specifically Black people if this elephant in the room can’t be addressed over a decade after it arrived.

On paper, you’d assume Martha’s rep was good because “at least she wasn’t a Black stereotype”. Some fans praised her for having a present father, not speaking MLE and not being from the ends. This goes into respectability politics but the fandom’s weirdness about Black Brits and class is not the point of this article. The point is the revisionist history of how Martha was really treated and to do that it helps to know what Black tropes are. The Mammy trope is a Black woman whose main purpose is to serve her white counterparts and during slavery, she mainly cared for the slave owners' children. She is usually fat, dark skin and asexual, not as a representation of those things but as a statement of how if she isn’t used for sexual exploitation like the Jezebel (the promiscuous, reckless, sexualised Black woman), she has no sexual value at all. Her value is serving the needs of others only. Martha doesn’t fit this trope in theory but in practice, she fulfils the sub-categories of this trope both in show and fandom: the disposable Black (girl)friend trope. She is used as Ten’s emotional punching bag before he’s ready for Donna and then Rose again. She had to endure edgy moody S3 Ten so no one else had to. She’s the excuse people use to deflect any critical analysis of how race was handled in RTD1. She’s the fandom’s excuse to deflect from their own racial biases. Racism? No way! Everybody loves Martha Jones! What do you mean?

Some parts of the fandom have tried to mend things by suggesting Martha be paired with other doctors or romantically shipping her with other characters a bit better than Mickey Smith. But does this hold up? As much as I’m a big fan NineMartha as a concept and as someone who honestly saw one-off characters like Riley Vashtee from 42 or Tallulah from Daleks in Manhattan having way more romantic chemistry with Martha than Mickey ever did, simply re-shipping Martha isn’t enough. Doctor Who’s racism isn't exclusive to one doctor, one series or one era and new Martha pairings suggest the issue was “right person, wrong doctor” instead of what the issue actually was: racism. Moffat and Chibnall’s eras weren’t full of golden Black representation either so I doubt the Martha issue would’ve magically disappeared under those two. From Nine’s hostility to Mickey, to Twelve’s hostility to Danny Pink to Thirteen handing a South Asian Spymaster to the Nazis and Eleven only travelling with POC in comics most fans haven’t heard of and being besties with Churchill, simply putting Martha with another Doctor isn’t the serve fans think it is. Even RoseMartha seems like putting a bandaid on a bullet hole. If it's not enough for Martha to be compared to Rose, put down in favour of Rose, told she isn’t Rose and told she's worse than Rose in fandom and in show over and over and over, she has to be shipped with Rose too. Martha’s a great character… as long as you can tie her to Rose… again. Even in my own article I have to talk about Rose because Rose is centred in what was supposed to be Martha’s story. A doctor-to-be Black girl from London with a hectic family meets a Time Lord and gets abducted by space rhino police at work in one day. Her main conflict isn’t balancing work and time traveller life, or fighting to get her family back together, or seeing what’s out there in the universe - it's that she isn’t “Rose” enough. The Mammy and her sons’ main thing in common is simple; how well they serve and centre the white characters. In attempts to mend Martha’s treatment she is still only valued in relation to white characters. She should’ve been with Eleven because he would’ve fucked a Black woman. Or maybe Dilfy Twelve. Or a sapphic romance with another female companion who she saw twice or doesn’t actually know. Or maybe Ten in an alternate universe where he supports #nubianqueens. None of this is done to explore sexuality or romance with Black women and is definitely not to centre Black lesbianism and bisexuality. It’s Mammy with a dash of Jezebel. It's adding romantic and sexual value on top of physical and emotional value like a crappy meal deal.

I’m tired of Black women being treated as extensions of white women both in media and in real life. I’m tired of our value being determined by how well we serve white people emotionally, physically, platonically and sexually. And I'm even more tired of white feminism especially in this fandom. It would be so easy to label this article as anti-Rose, anti-Ten or anti-Tenrose to invalidate my whole racial analysis because it's the easy way out. I’ll admit I like both characters individually but not the ship but this isn’t something I decided on since birth - it's my conclusion as a Black fan in a predominantly white fandom, watching a predominantly white show, watching the first companion of my race be told she isn’t good enough compared to the white characters, and that the hatred of her is justified for the greater good of its popular white ship. Black fans can never have this conversation without being told we’re “pitting women against each other” and that Martha and Rose hugged once in S4 so everything's hunky dory. Martha’s happy that Ten found Rose again so what’s the problem? It sends a clear message that Black women’s pain will never matter a much as white women’s feelings. “Rose is amazing! Martha’s amazing! Stop pitting women against women!” but who was pit against who in the first place? These faux girl power posts fail to acknowledge the overlap of race and gender which separates the treatment of Black and white women. It fails to acknowledge Martha’s hate was rooted in anti-black racism. It fails to acknowledge the anti-Rose pushback was in response to how the show and fandom convinced us Rose was the untouchable bar this Black woman failed to meet. It fails to acknowledge Freema Agyeman the actress was targeted not just her character. It fails because the female empowerment rhetoric that leaves the Black ones at the bottom of the pile only “empowers” women of a certain demographic.

The harassment Martha experienced was swept under the rug of “stan wars” but it was so much deeper than that. I’m not saying Martha stans are angels but there was no “Great Stan War” because the sides were never even. At the end of the day no amount of “Martha’s better than Rose” tweets will ever compare to the fact that Martha hate was rooted in misogynoir. Rose was and still is considered the greatest companion of nuwho, whilst Martha is constantly erased and undervalued. Rose’s video views and hashtags have always been bigger than Martha’s. Amy and Clara came after Martha but still surpassed her in popularity and got plenty of fan edits of “The Girl Who Waited” and “The Impossible Girl” whilst Martha was conveniently skipped in the companion lineup. The fandom’s bias still shines clearly in favour of Rose over Martha. Rose’s jealousy towards other women is justifiable and just the ups and downs of a 19-year-old whilst Martha’s is entitled bitterness. Rose’s flaws are compelling character moments and depth, Martha’s are “holding her back from being a good companion”. Hell, even Donna calling out Ten’s BS was entertaining accountability whilst Martha was just the angry Black woman. Fans will weaponise Rose’s working-class roots to imply a pro-Martha bias, failing to acknowledge the working-class to poor background of the average Black Brit, the anti-blackness middle-class Black people are not spared from, the many working-class Black characters of the show like Mickey, Bill, Rigsy and Ryan or how most fans don’t consider Martha middle class because she doesn’t fit the white British cultural stereotypes. You can't be the most loved and hated at the same time. The hard truth is Billie Piper wasn’t racially abused by Martha stans but Freema was absolutely racially abused by Rose’s and the effects of this are still around. Go into Martha Jones tags today and you’ll see snarky posts of how Ten could never love another companion like Rose. Even when Freema bravely shared her experiences of literal racism, fans were quick to yell “But I wanted Ten and Rose though” as a justification for years of misogynoir. Again, we need to address the elephant in the room instead of covering our eyes and ears to act like it’s not there. A Black character and actress was collateral damage in order for a popular white ship to rise and whilst I’m not an anti, I as a Black Doctor Who fan, I’ll never be a supporter. At the end of the day, only one of these actresses is still carrying the burden of misogynoir over 10 years since RTD1 ended. A lonely walk across the Earth yet again.

<- Chapter 1 Chapter 3 ->

[auranxia]

I’m not gonna pretend that RTD isn’t a good writer, but he cannot be trusted with black characters at all

[auranxia]

William Afton never kidnapped another black child after Jeremy gave him the right hook of ‘83

[auranxia]

[auranxia]

These two are literally the same

[pink-braids]

Teens on Tiktok are saying that Katniss was the chosen one and President Snow knew she was going to be a threat prior before the reaping…

We gotta bring back media literacy

[auranxia]

the :) way :) people :) continue:) to :) misinterpret :) the :) hunger :) games :) to :) this :) day :) makes :) me :) so :) mad :)

[mintytrifecta]

[mauvesockss]

[ID: The classy Bugs Bunny meme. Bugs is dressed in a suit. OP has edited a festive mask and ratchet noisemaker onto him. Text to the left reads, "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant Purim". End ID.]

[unclefather]

[keeperofseeds]

[allerod]

[recuperationdisliker]

what the fuck is going on with this post

[betadunsparce]

this post is blocking the next post from having access to the tumblr blue sea

[piteousgate]

hey everyone i’m swimming lol

[pancakeke]

for mobile users

[tgttos]

cat who hacksd the no fly list literally my hero

[tgttos]

this is her website tht links to her wikipedia page which states that in 2021 the U.S government issued an international arrest & extradition warrant for her irt previous hacks. :3

[tgttos]

?yah shes got nothing to fear from the feds because shes swiss and cant be extradited to the U.S against her will 🦆

[tgttos]

it is under active investigation by congress + is almost definitely facing targeted harassment from violent transphobes and u are worried about its stance on dumb shit irrelevant label discourse. Like this is embarassing sorry

[queerautism]

You motherfuckers are so silly!!! We're never going to destroy the government if you keep hyper focusing on policing other people's labels this much holy shit

[gengarpng]

When u meet the egg quota but there's only one player left with less than 10 seconds left on the clock

[popipeko]