Hate is always foolish and love is always wise

Grumpy old hag hyperfixating on fictional men doing it as a distraction technique to stave off the horror of existing in a world on the brink of total collapse. Hopefully I can be sort of funny about it sometimes. 30+ Read my stuff it's over there -> ao3

[rainbowconvection]

The Doctor Who news just got me 5am thinking about how it probably sucks to be a kid right now, TVwise, and that it's no wonder they're all watching cocomelon or whatever instead. You're tryna watch your cool sci-fi show about scary monsters and aliens, and then the season ends on 'WHAHEW. The Doctor regenerated into SOME LADY, aren't you EXCITED!?' and you don't have a clue who Rose Tyler is because you're like, 7. Idk, Sarah Jane's return was a massive thing, but the show had the grace to remember that a chunk of the fanbase simply wasn't born when she was last on, and bothered explaining who she was and why we should care, and made an actually story about that. Why was a kid who wasn't born when Rose was last on meant to care about this?

S'like, Gen-Xers reminiscing about Star Wars was a biiig thing when I was growing up, but it'd be in the form of characters with their own stories you were invested in liking it, or random parodies in shows that were still ... shows? You could still enjoy without knowing or caring about Star Wars. Kids now are growing up with adults reminiscing about Star Wars being the only thing available to watch, the poor little bastards.

[spilledparchment]

I am so upset. They're going to blame the show for going "woke" instead of the fact that under Chibnall the show (primarily) catered to the idea that fans needed to be spoonfed marvel-style slop for the second screen with no central thesis on who the Doctor was or what the show was for. And then we transitioned to RTD2 and the show decided to chase Social Media Moment after Social Media Moment in sacrifice of good stories - throwing out interesting threads to generate discourse with no plan to tie it up. Both eras had their good moments and sometimes had interesting ideas but they betrayed the show and they betrayed the audience and they often betrayed their own ethos (Nazi!Dhawan!Master and Belinda's storyline as examples) and they betrayed the hope and talent of both Whittaker and Gatwa. I am so upset and disappointed that it has ended like this. And it didn't have to. All they had to do was remember to tell a good story.

[silverfoxstole]

I've personally always hated the idea of a 'showrunner' as it puts too much power in one person's hands. Now would be a good time to return to having a producer who is not head writer, or even a writer at all, and a script editor capable of reigning in ridiculous excesses. There needs to be someone who can say no.

[elizabethshaw]

have to say i think the funniest outcome of this announcement so far for me has to be the noticeable increase on comments on the "doctor in distress" music video in the last hour or so

[rainbowconvection]

Years back, I did drunkposting on facebook, and someone I went to school with messaged me, and we started chatting back and forth, catching up like. It was fine for a bit. Then during one convo, she goes 'Yanno, just because we were friends then, doesnt mean we are now'. And I'm - idk where the invisible line in my head is, but once you cross it, that's that forever, and that just got my back up. So I've never answered a single message from her since, like, I guess I don't need to reply to you since we're not friends. But she tried me again today, and it haaaas been like 2 years of her trying, and maybe I am being a tad childish and just didn't read it right or something, lol. Idk. Who even uses Facebook anymore?

[alphacentaurinebula]

The destruction of the entire universe and every soul in it is a truly depressing ending. Just because God replaced it with another universe that looked similar doesn't change anything - this is Job and his children all over again. Job doesn't want new children, and neither do I.

[gleafer]

Nice ending you got there.

Shame if someone ruined it.

Real.

Shame.

*GOOD OMEN MOVIE SPOILER*

Stop your eyeballs right here if you haven’t watched it yet.

[mysharona1987]

Legitimately these two could have won Eurovision.

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Do you know this Musical Song? #195

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onMay 7

[therecoveryquotes]

The goal isn't to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don't need to drink.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’re doing better than your inner critics insist you are

[twtuwuowo]

Girl how isn't it common knowledge that george orwell was a socialist "he wrote animal farm about communism 😡😡😡😡😠" actually no he wrote animal farm about stalin and if u read even 10 pages of the body of work he produced you'd realise he spent his life fighting for it get off tiktok and open like ... Wikipedia at the very least

[rainbowconvection]

I actually talked! \o/ God I'm shaking like a leaf

[rainbowconvection]

We're doing breathing exercises in therapy. And I don't think I'm rly the person for this, bc focusing on that just makes me go 'god damn. I need a cigarette'

[rainbowconvection]

Not two seconds after I posted this, she goes 'it's normal to feel a lil agitated when ur new to this', no lady, I'm special, I'M SPECIAL get out my head

[rainbowconvection]

We're doing breathing exercises in therapy. And I don't think I'm rly the person for this, bc focusing on that just makes me go 'god damn. I need a cigarette'

[rainbowconvection]

Thank fuck, at least they paid me for last week, ughh.