I've got a pen and an idea.

Oliver, aka Douglas Leon Michael (he/him/his). I'm a writer on Fictionpress.com and Fanfiction.net and Ao3 (sometimes) under the username is DougieM. This is just a bunch of unrelated stuff I like.

[polarity-disturbed]

There's something uniquely haunting about the Midnight Entity whispering the Doctor’s name, taunting them, reminding them that it was in their head, that it had stolen more than just their voice.

[sugar-pink-poison]

Hello everyone, I have just watched The Well and came up with a theory that torments me so now I'm going to torment you.

(Spoilers for Doctor Who Season 2 episode 3 under the cut).

So, we finally get the return of the Midnight Creature and what a return it was.

Now, during the episode, Doctor drops a lot of choice wording about this thing:

•It torments people

•It likes to play games

•It's vile

•It's a murderer

And this is just FACTS. This thing is truly evil.

Eventually Doctor manages to talk to it, and finally, after so many years, he sees what it looks like.

And he cries.

But before that, we hear it whispering. In a woman's voice.

The last time it saw him, it was possessing Sky.

My theory is simple:

The moment it let him see it, it deliberately chose to look like Sky.

Why would he only react to it saying it knew his name? Other, arguably scarier and more vicious, foes and enemies know his name, have said it to him. And he didn't cry.

But Sky. The woman he (in his view) failed all those years ago on the same planet against the same creature?

I think that would be the cruelest thing it could do to him, and it knew it.

[v0id-of-thought]

uhh he's right behind me isn't he 😒

[polarity-disturbed]

One thing’s for certain, the last 12 months or so have been one of the most eventful periods in Doctor Who fandom in quite a while.

We got a remaster of the original TV movie. Missing episodes were found. Missing episodes people never expected to be found because, as far as anyone knew, there wasn't even supposed to be a copy out there to find. The next War Room for Gallifrey finally got a release date after the last set released in 2023. Lungbarrow, the 29-year-old Doctor Who novel capable of making EU fans materialize from thin air at the mere mention of its name, got a sequel. We got Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper back together for new Ninth Doctor and Rose audios. A Christmas special got announced and then cancelled.

It's been a weird year. A stressful year. An occasionally bewildering year.

The kind of year where every few weeks somebody walks into the room carrying a completely unexpected piece of Doctor Who news and everyone collectively responds with, "I'm sorry, what?"

But it has certainly not been a boring one.

[neptuenery]

i only got into the doctor who fandom like 2 months ago, and i don’t know it too well yet. but what i DO know is we didn’t start the fire. I’ve had the words memorized for three years. so if anyone can provide me a complete list of all dw news from the last 12 months that would be excellent

[polarity-disturbed]

Here's a rough timeline as best as I could piece together. I probably missed a thing or two, because frankly the last year felt like shaking a snow globe of Doctor Who news announcements.

2025

July 2025

Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures are removed from HBO Max in the United States.

Jodie Whittaker's first Thirteenth Doctor Big Finish productions are released.

Online Doctor Who UNIT ARG (Alternate Reality Game) launches

BBC Studios debuts a new official Doctor Who online shop

August 2025

Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper reunited for a new series of Ninth Doctor and Rose audio dramas from Big Finish.

October 2025

The Disney/BBC partnership for Doctor Who is announced to be ending.

Christmas Special Announced

10 November 2025

Tom Baker received an MBE.

December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea premiered in the UK. Despite being advertised as a simultaneous global release, the series was not released on Disney+ internationally, and that release has still not occurred.

2026

February 2026

Big Finish announced it had secured Doctor Who audio production rights through the end of 2035.

The remastered version of the Doctor Who TV movie was announced.

March 2026

Christopher Eccleston cancels an appearance at a Birmingham convention after not being paid.

Thasmin kiss in The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures

April 2026

Missing episodes from The Daleks' Master Plan are recovered and released.

Lungbarrow by Loomlight, a sequel to the 1997 novel Lungbarrow, is released.

Gallifrey: War Room 3 finally receives a release date after the previous set released in 2023.

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker is announced, a massive multimedia event starring the Fugitive Doctor and Petronella Osgood spanning Titan Comics, Doctor Who Magazine, BBC Audiobooks, East Side Games, Puffin, BBC Books, and Big Finish.

May 2026

AMC+ announced that it had acquired US streaming rights for Doctor Who, giving the program a new American streaming home.

25 June 2026

The Doctor Who TV Movie remaster is released.

The Christmas Special is cancelled.

Gallifrey: War Room 3 is finally released (later this month)

[bincliff]

hey do you remember that really embarrassing “rebranding” of doctor who where they split off the new new doctor who from new doctor who (2005-2022), intending it to be a whole new era of doctor who?

people are going to look back on this and ask, why were there only 21 episodes before an indefinite hiatus?

and we’ll know. we’ll know.

[dangerouscakes]

[mlobsters]

via channel 4 on tt

[skrunksthatwunk]

i've always loved how much of a sucker for kids all the yakuza protags are. like they're always like yeah i'll hang out with you i'll help you i'll protect you. i remember feeling that small, that lonely, that fragile. it's okay. it's very cute honestly, especially from such supposedly rugged, dangerous criminals

[skrunksthatwunk]

"average prominent yakuza character harms 3 children a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average prominent yakuza character harms 0 children per year. Bulldozers Mine,

[sofiabird123]

Rosalie is not the villain!!!

Rosalie Hale is one of the most misunderstood characters in Twilight, largely because Bella is the protagonist and narrator in twilight and Edward is the narrator in Midnight Sun. We never really get an unbiased view of Rosalie. Through Bella's perspective, she often comes across as cold, shallow, or even cruel, but there's a lot more going on beneath the surface.

At first, Rosalie's dislike of Bella stems from two main things. The first is jealousy though not in the way people usually think. Rosalie was used to being admired for her beauty. As a human, her appearance was treated as her greatest asset because she grew up in a time when her parents viewed her beauty as a means to improve the family's social and economic status through marriage. Over time, Rosalie internalized the belief that her beauty made her valuable. So when Edward showed absolutely no romantic interest in her, despite showing interest in Bella, she took it as an insult to something she had always been taught defined her worth. It wasn't because she wanted Edward; it was because she couldn't understand why he didn't want her.

The second reason is much more practical: Bella genuinely posed a risk to the Cullens. She was a human who knew their secret, which endangered the entire family. If anything had happened to Bella or if one of them had lost control they would have been forced to leave. Rosalie's concerns weren't entirely unfounded. The Cullens eventually did have to leave because of Bella's involvement in their lives.

Then Bella decides she wants to become a vampire, which is where Rosalie's resentment deepens. For Rosalie, this is almost incomprehensible. She would give anything to be human again. Bella has the opportunity to grow old, change, experience new stages of life, have children, and build a future. Rosalie lost all of that the moment she became a vampire. So when Bella willingly throws that future away, Rosalie sees it as a tragic mistake. To her, Bella is a teenager making an irreversible decision without understanding what she might want in five years let alone five hundred.

Another criticism Rosalie receives is her behavior during Bella's pregnancy. Many people argue that Rosalie only cared about the baby and not Bella's wellbeing. But that's exactly why Bella turned to her in the first place. Bella knew Rosalie would prioritize the baby above everything else, even Bella's own safety. Bella wasn't shocked by that, nor did she feel betrayed by it. She specifically chose Rosalie because she knew where Rosalie's loyalties would lie. Rosalie gave Bella exactly what Bella wanted someone who would fight for the baby's survival no matter what.

Honestly, Rosalie is a deeply tragic character. A lot of her actions make more sense when you view them through the lens of someone who lost the life she desperately wanted and has spent decades mourning it. You don't have to agree with her choices, but reducing her to "the mean blonde vampire" misses a lot of what makes her interesting.

And while we're at it, I can't help noticing that Stephanie Meyer seemed to have a habit of making her blonde female characters the antagonistic or "mean girl" types.

[notahorseindisguise]

imagine six thousand people read your journal every single day . thank fuck only like 10 of you max interact with me

[sweeetestcurse]

Scenery in Ghost of Tsushima 30/??

[doc-notreally-salas]

If Remedy doesn't make FadenPope canon in Resonant, I hope at least they make their relationship vague enough for me and the fandom to fill it with the Gay™

[doc-notreally-salas]

there is nothing straight or platonic about the way Emily says "Jesse" in the Paranatural Manhattan trailer btw

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature

[fluffyplushiesworld]

Happy Pride Month Tumblr ✨