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Jodie Whittaker in Frauds (2025-)

Right now, I’m a stranger to myself. There’s echoes of who I was and a sort of… Call towards who I am. And I have to hold my nerve and trust all these new instincts. Shape myself towards them. I’ll be fine. In the end. Hopefully. Well, I have to be, because you guys need help. And if there’s one thing I’m certain of… When people need help, I never refuse. DOCTOR WHO – The Woman Who Fell To Earth (S11E01) ››› Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor

flygoing

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

chastittie

i trusted you

flygoing

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

four-leafed-queer-gal-deactivat

THE ORIGINAL?!?!?!?!?!

foxyconnie

ssaalexblake

13th Doctor & The Onion Headlines

dialogic

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

apricops

“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”

nashnhash

maxbytes

the trope of taking off someone's glasses and suddenly they're hot is a huge fucking lie. glasses make people hotter.

animate-mush

#makover scene that involves going from little rimless glasses to big chunky glasses that suit their face better

capricorn-0mnikorn

Please note: "Glasses = Ugly (Undesirable Mate)" is eugenicist propaganda from 100 years ago, when it was believed that weak vision means weak genes.

[a quick bit of Ducking around on the Internet isn't pulling up the reference I want, right now. But I remember my mother* telling me that when she was a teenager, a common saying was: "Boys don't make passes at Girls who wear glasses."]

*b. 1936. d. 1991

fuxdeiflswued

Mary Ann Doane's essay "Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator" makes an interesting point about the glasses thing, based off of Laura Mulvey's Gaze Theory (originiated in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema). Doane writes about how in movies, glasses mean the woman has appropriated the gaze, which is meant to belong to the male protagonist. By taking the glasses off/having them taken off, she once again becomes something to be looked at instead of someone who actively looks herself. She becomes attractive because she once again connotes, as Mulvey puts it, "to-be-looked-at-ness".

(Gaze Theory is a very interesting field. I always recommend having a look at bell hooks' writing about the Oppositional Gaze as well, since it also takes race into account, which Mulvey's original writing didn't)

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ashleysjohnson

MOIRAINE channeling in "What Was Meant to Be"

lady-starkiller

going wild on a saturday night

*glass of bourbon*

*wikipedia page for 'photon'*

#funny

moon-meerkat

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

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