it will rise in perfect light.

✨hồng hương | 30 | sf ✨

[assassin-artist]

"Let us go together, my dear Consort eternal."

[baremueran]

[nat-20s]

Doctor Who season 4 is so delightful because you can tell that The Doctor, on occasion, straight up forgets that he's sad and burned because he's busy being in a sci-fi buddy comedy. And then something will remind him and he'll be like oh! I'm sad and burdened! And Donnas almost always there to be like 'hi sad and burdened. I'm Donna' and he has a completely proportional reaction like 'i would die a thousand deaths for you'.

[homoquartz]

i think there should be an episode of doctor who where the doctor returns to a time when police boxes were common and then forgets where he fucking parked

[thericeballofcamelot]

The year is 2056. The 30th doctor is David Tennant. He took over from David Tennant. His companion is played by David Tennant. The villain is David Tennant as David Tennant. The showrunner is David Tennant. You hear a knock on the door. It's David Tennant. He gives you a pocket watch. You open it and remember who you are. You were David Tennant all along.

[welli-moon]

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

[fallinel]

not enough of a spotlight is shown on Ratthi and Gurathin in Fugitive Telemetry. SecUnit isn't allowed to hack government security systems so it invites its Two Best Guy Friends to come watch it break into a transport ship, AND BOTH OF THEM ARE LIKE "sure thing, sounds fun" ?? They put up the weakest "are you sure this is a good idea?" argument but otherwise just do what SecUnit needs (which is stand in front of security cameras and act as character witnesses). SecUnit's narration also implies that it would have just let its Two Best Guy Friends tag along for the rest of its murder investigation, for funsies, except the cops said no (booooo).

later THE SAME DAY, SecUnit (famously allergic to asking for help) messages their group chat "I need help" with ZERO context, which gives Ratthi and Gurathin such a shock they almost knock their table over. then it facetimes them from the NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM to ask which of these Preserved Artifacts works best for jetting out into space? and Ratthi and Gurathin are like, "that one with the red tags, but ummm why?"

"don't worry about it," it says, "I'll tell you later."

then it HANGS UP and they don't hear from it for the rest of the day.

just a day in the life.

[normally-blue]

The Emperor's Reason

[stellathetumbler]

You ever run into a book so good you suddenly regain your entire attention span, read the whole series twice, reinstall tumblr on your phone after like six years away from it, face your mildly embarrassing username, go through the whole "oh god i might be perceived" rigamarole that originally kept you from posting for all these years, realize you have no idea what 2025 tumblr etiquette is, and decide to overcome all that just so you can yell about the book you just read?

[beguilingcorpse]

john gaius’s proven inability to die kind of makes me hope that alecto the ninth has a running gag in which he is killed once a chapter every chapter in increasingly more lunatic and unlikely ways. like a looney tunes episode or a very good timeloop movie. damn fucker just keeps coming back. time to try the ol hanging anvil

[ikeaheaux]

i’ve had an idea for a green yuri-inspired griddlehark fic for sooo long but i’m probably never gonna write it, so i’m just gonna vom words into the void

gideon and harrow both work for john, gideon as the nepo-hire head of security and harrow as a researcher. for cross contamination reasons (or whatever i was an eng and arts major — the fuck do i know about labs) harrow keeps the makeup to the bare minimum. from 6 pm to 8 am, however, harrow is in full goth mode. gideon, the himbo she is, has major makeup blindness.

blah blah blah, they have a testy relationship with harrow resenting gideon’s perceived boost to the top (she’s genuinely good at her job, but she probably would be head of anything at 32 if her sperm donor didn’t control the entire operation) and with gideon resenting harrow’s rigidity and hyper-seriousness.

everyone once in a while, gideon goes to the craft store to pick up materials to make clothes for her nendo dolls. (her mom’s on-again-off-again gf has survivalist tendencies and taught her the basics of mending. youtube taught everything else.) without fail, there’s always one item she just can’t find. it never bothers her, tho, because that just means she gets to ask the hot goth store associate for help.

the hot goth store associate is (of course) harrow in full goth make up. also, she doesn’t work at the craft store. she’s just always there to pick up materials to make and repair clothes. (her mother was a tradwife catholic who resented the “profanity” of modern clothing. harrow has nothing against modern clothes, really, she’s just so in the habit of making her own clothes that it never occurs to her to just go buy them instead.)

harrow KNOWS it’s gideon, her colleague, but even after a year of this stupid misunderstanding, gideon hasn’t figured out that 1) she doesn’t work there and 2) she works in the same building as gideon and they have lunch around the same time every day. (of course it’s not on purpose on either end…) harrow has the social skills of an evil ai tho and just… never finds a way to tell gideon.

campal also work with them, doing something or the other. gideon tells cam ALL about her crush on the hot goth store associate and she’s not an imbecile so she’s already connected the dots. campal and harrow just exist with the knowledge that gideon has a huge crush on harrow.

anyways, it all comes to a head at an industry conference dinner which both members of griddlehark usually skip. harrow can’t skip this time she’s receiving an award with palamedes and gideon can’t skip because i dunno reasons related to john and his general disregard for boundaries.

campal convince harrow that the dinner is the perfect time to let gideon know that she likes her too, by showing up with more makeup than usual. (she wanted the full face, but she’s getting photographed and john said the full face creeped him out too much.) they see each other. gideon goes, “YOU!” there’s a scene involving a courtyard fountain and forgiveness. then they live happily ever after.

[halloawhatisthis]

I was dying, and no one could see it but you. You saved my life, Joan.

[claudia-kishi]

As the discoverer of the species, the privilege of naming the creatures falls to me.

[takiki16]

The thing that’s so wonderful about Elementary is that it *does* the whole “Sherlock Holmes, rude misanthropic genius” schtick, but it DOESN’T STOP THERE. Sherlock IS a rude misanthropic genius, but he IS also capable of deep love, and he WORKS HARD to express it for the people he loves! It is incredibly endearing to watch Sherlock cook lasagna for Watson, advise her of the optimal temperature to eat it, and then sit stiffly next to her prepared to lockjaw his way silently through an entire Knicks game bc he WANTS TO BE GOOD TO HER. He takes pains to precisely and clearly communicate his support for her choices, even if she chooses to be away from him!

And IT JUST MAKES ME SO WARM about Sherlock, because despite how Sherlock claims that he is ONLY soft for Watson, Sherlock is genuinely *becoming a better person* as the show progresses by forming relationships with Captain Gregson, with Marcus, with Alfredo, with Kitty! “Misanthropy was so easy,” Sherlock mourns once, and I LOVE THAT LINE bc yes! It IS easier to just make Sherlock a rude ass misanthropist and nothing more! It’s HARD for him to open up! But he makes the fucking effort, because it is worth it and the show continually reinforces that.

[stellaseveride]

ELEMENTARY | 2.19 The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville

[ikeaheaux]

yanno, maybe the campal being second cousins thing doesn’t phase me at all bc of how fucked up my own family tree is…