"We're 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 the polarity."

[ID: Header is the Twelfth Doctor with his hand on an orange crystal wall, overlaid with a post reading, “I have been in this gay ass room for ten thousand years.” Profile pic is the Twelfth Doctor with the panromantic and demisexual flags behind him and the words “Polarity Disturbed.” /end ID] Aspiring time traveler powered by tea, sci-fi, and existential dread—mostly found screaming about Doctor Who. Anti AI. Anti TERF. Pro Palestine.

[polarity-disturbed]

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Header is the Twelfth Doctor with his hand on an orange crystal wall, overlaid with a post reading, “I have been in this gay ass room for ten thousand years.”

Profile pic is the Twelfth Doctor with the panromantic and demisexual flags behind him and the words “Polarity Disturbed.”

Hi! I’m Polarity (they/them).

🛸 What’s This Blog About?

I originally made it as a Doctor Who blog, and that’s still the gravitational center, but it’s since spiraled out into a wider orbit of British TV, sci-fi in general, and any media that’s narratively weird, emotionally devastating, or aesthetically feral. Sometimes all three.

📎 Some of Favorite Posts by Me:

📄 Useful Doctor Who Links

💡 Lighting Design in Belinda’s Bedroom Scene Analysis

🎙️ Why Conrad Clark Is Hilariously Bad at Podcasting

♻️ Doctor Who Logos Ranked by Logo-ness

📚 Why You Should Support Your Local Library

🎵 Delia Derbyshire is my “Roman Empire”

🃏 Mana Typing of the Doctors From the Magic the Gathering X Doctor Who Collaboration and What They Mean

📺 Doctor Who and PBS

🕳️The Shovel Post

🍪The Carpet Post

🔤Doctor Who Title Analyses:

🔤The Four Most Common Words in Classic Who Titles

🔤The Four Most Common Words in New Who Titles

🔤The Four Most Common Words Across New and Classic Who

🔤Most Common Words Across the Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDA) Titles

I also run 👾 Doctor Who Monster of the Week and 🎡Classic Who Episode of the Week

📍 Find Me Elsewhere:

✍️ AO3: PolarityDisturbed

🚀 TARDIS.guide

🎥 Letterboxd

📺 MyAnimeList

🦋 Bluesky

📷 Instagram

🧵 threads

🤮 twitter

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#polarity fics/poetry

"We can always choose to be kind, and that will always matter." (banner is a meme from this post)

[rachelbethhines]

Do you ever think about the fact that had the Doctor not lied about the fluid links and left Sakro when everyone else wanted to leave, then the Daleks never would have discovered the Tardis or reverse engineer their own time machine.

Meaning had the Doctor not been curious and selfish that one time, then the Time War never would have happened. He never would have lost Susan. He never would be the last of his kind; forever alone and doomed to live forever with the regret of his choices.

Do you think he even knows that it's all his own fault or does he refuse to recognize the connection for otherwise it would break him utterly?

[official-imperatrix]

The danger of being a little hee hoo ha man.

[polarity-disturbed]

Vic is never actually trying to win Game Changer.

Vic is playing an entirely different game that happens to be taking place on the same set.

The rules are known only to Vic. The victory conditions are known only to Vic. Half the time I'm not convinced Vic knows them until midway through the episode.

Everyone else is trying to figure out the game Sam has designed.

Vic is trying to discover what happens if you introduce a completely different game into the room.

[polarity-disturbed]

#the dunkin bit in kangaroo court… vic you simply didn’t need to say all of that.

YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT EXACTLY INSPIRED THIS POST

[aquilacalvitium]

When someone asks if they're valid if they don't fit a stereotype or if they're allowed to block someone even if said person didn't do anything wrong or if they're allowed to dislike something that's popular or like something that isn't...

I want to smack them across the head.

Stop looking for validation from total fucking strangers.

Stop it.

Fucking stop.

Yes you're valid yes you can block them yes you can like/dislike the thing oh my god.

The internet has made us all so dependant on validation and numbers that people are forgetting how to be individuals, I swear.

[cursedmurphrolls]

I think I need Matt Mercer in an episode of Make Some Noise but only with Liam there just sitting by Sam and being awed by Matt's noises.

[willowandlily]

sketches :)

[clockworkouroboros]

straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups be like: *president of gallifrey and all her dominions* *her bodyguard* *robot dog* *obsequious politician with a mustache* *robot dog* *annoying ineffectual spy* *explosives expert*

[64mpg]

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

[a-real-hum4n]

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

[storekn1fe]

yso bonus round 4 fill for team horror animanga (prompt was 1850s) @yuriolympics

[measured-robshearfan]

[daughterofheartshaven]

HOLY SHIT ITS HER MY FAVORITE SCHEMING BASTARD

[polarity-disturbed]

Vic is never actually trying to win Game Changer.

Vic is playing an entirely different game that happens to be taking place on the same set.

The rules are known only to Vic. The victory conditions are known only to Vic. Half the time I'm not convinced Vic knows them until midway through the episode.

Everyone else is trying to figure out the game Sam has designed.

Vic is trying to discover what happens if you introduce a completely different game into the room.

[polarity-disturbed]

flexing in voice chat by knowing about the entwives

[galacticsabc]

Here's some unserious comics and hastily drawn doodles

[supertrouperrr]

Something I really like about The X-files is its doomed but still hopeful romanticism. Mulder and Scully are alone against people with unimaginable power who can kill them both or one of them (which probably would be worse for the one who stayed alive), they are basically defenseless against them. No one knows the struggle they are going through, and if people knew, they wouldn't believe them. They both lost their loved ones because of the stuff they are involved into and they basically don't have an opportunity to live a normal life anymore. But they are still trying to know the truth, to find out what is being hidden, even if it will cost them everything. If the truth is out there, it can be found. And even if they gonna lose, they are still fighting and not falling in complete despair, even though they have all the reasons to, because you know, 'I want to believe'.

It seems like the only reasonable approach to the life full of horrors.

[tradelouisemark]

I woke up and was assaulted by a TikTok reminding me of “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” and I’m still gobsmacked that this was not in fact a shadow daddy in a novel or some big bad mafia boss but in fact the twelfth fucking doctor

[sgt-cookie-2]

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

[axei]

and if i said the twelth doctor?