A Fledgling Author

I don't know how much use this will be, but I have quite a few friends here that I have made while being annomymous. So I want to change that. I may make a seperate account for other things, but for now, this account will be here for the purpose of giving a face to an anon with a bountiful mind.Top art by Verzinsnsfwblog on Tumblr. Icon art by markolios on DeviantART. 

[looneyslounge]

I've seen people solely blame Disney for the state of Doctor Who, but if I knew I only had a certain amount of episodes and two seasons, I would personally not write mystery box after mystery box, but that is just me.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

RTD posting and promoting AI of the late William Hartnell...get this man out of Doctor Who now, holy fucking shit.

[beanlightbibblekeepflickbeanboss]

Did they forget how impactful this scene was? How much it meant that not only was Belinda a great fucking nurse but she actively did the most to care for her patients. She was an amazing fucking nurse she went out of her way to make sure her patients got what they needed even at the expense of her own plans. She cared so much about the people she worked wit.

To not even have her mention nursing once in the reality war sucks.

It really feels like they just said being a mother is more important than a job where you’re literally saving lives and helping people. I also hate that we never get told if she’s working anymore, the episode seems to infer she’s a fulltime mother.

What an insult.

(Btw no hate to full time mothers and ppl who do give up their lives for their kids, you are valued and amazing. This is just such a piss take bc Belinda showed no signs of wanting kids)

[chekhovs-guns]

so, this finale literally gave us 1. the most horrible mistreatment of poc companion since martha jones, 2. mistreatment of first male queer black doctor who was also possibly fired bc of his political views, 3. mistreatment of classic who characters like omega and the rani who's in some way essential to lore, 4. misogynistic pro-life propaganda, 5. piss and shit instead of plot. but most of you forgot about it because you got your fucking white woman back for nostalgia points. as if you wouldn't have cancelled chibnall in the first second for same shit.

[dw-opinions-you-wont-like]

Here's a simple writing fix for Belinda: never make her like the doctor. Take that distrust and fear that was established in the first episode and just continually make it worse.

First it would make her character more believable, since during the episodes we saw the doctor didn't exactly prove himself as being the wonderful man who will protect her. In the well she was shot and almost died because he failed, in story and the engine he didn't warn her to not come to the barbershop and was glad she came to be in danger with him, and in interstellar song contest she saw him needlessly torture a guy.

It would also create a lot of chances for interesting conflict - they could've had her meeting Ruby who has full faith in the doctor and have them argue about it.

Finally you can use this to improve the finale - her being married to the doctor would have been a scarier and darker experience and make her ratting the doctor out make a lot more sense. Also, you could have her being the one to remember Poppy and finally snap at the doctor - blow up at him for how he wasn't able to keep her safe this entire time and now he can't even save her daughter. Have that be his motivation for sacrificing himself. Then it wouldn't come off as just for Poppy, a copy of a real person they met who wasn't even real before, but for Belinda, to make it up to her for all the pain he's caused. It would also give Belinda agency in that choice of becoming a mother.

Then her arc could end with her seeing the doctor's sacrifice and realizing he's a good guy who tries his best, even if sometimes his best isn't enough. She would finally forgive him and he would regenerate satisfied and grateful for Belinda and the lessons she's taught him.

[leikeliscomet]

He's actually unhinged.

I don't give a single FUCK about hurting the feelings of white Rose Tyler fans. This girl has consistently been used to overshadow Black characters & her fans since 2007 have actively taken part in & enjoyed the antiblackness in her name bc it rewards them. She needs to stay gone.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

in addition to subjects that other people have already covered thoroughly and much better than i ever could (the handling of race, the antiblackness of rtd's writing, the misogyny, the weirdly bioessentialist handling of gender, etc.) i just want to step in and say that rtd's treatment of adoption is also fucking vile. what do you mean that ruby spends an entire season searching for her "real" mom as if adopted parents aren't real parents. what do you mean that carla abandons ruby in three separate timelines. (i can't even make the "if i had a nickel" joke because it's happened three separate times.) why did rtd elevate the mythic biological white mother at the expense of a black woman and decades of her love and choices and agency. the timeless child arc was literally described by chibnall as him grappling with his own feelings of being adopted (which, as someone who is adopted myself, are complicated and messy, i'm aware). why did you take the found family show about the doctor's extended "fam" and adoption and choosing a family and then babytrap a woman who didn't want kids and then constantly denigrate the woman who decided to adopt a child, one of the most powerful choices that someone can make. what the actual fuck rusty

[fastlikealambo]

“ncuti wanted to go it’s not Russell’s fault”

okay, so he wanted to leave and end his run, that’s not the fucking point. the point is instead of giving the first black queer doctor in history a monumental final arc to match the monumental performance you center white characters, white storylines, and blow a kiss to the side of the fandom that didn’t want ncuti in the first place.

you tucked your racist fans into bed with a story about a white boy getting everything he ever wanted and a nice rose colored glass of nostalgia in case they get thirsty. they don’t have to worry, there’s no black man hiding under the bed, he’s gone, they’re finally safe.

so no, it doesn’t matter if ncuti told rtd he was leaving two minutes after they wrapped, he deserved dignity and respect and that was not present.

[tharizt]

making the (black) adopted mother of ruby be "evil" in three alternate realities AND spending the entire of ruby's season about finding her "real" (white) biological mother russell why do you do this

[jae-writes-stuff]

Ruby Sunday: watches the man who traumatized her get a happy ending while being gaslit and abandoned by her best friend, but it's all okay in the end because she has a baby brother to take care of.

Belinda Chandra: starts off strong-willed, ready to challenge the Doctor on his bullshit, but completely loses it over the course of the series to the point where she barely blinks an eye at the man she said was "dangerous" torturing a man, then ends up locked in a box for most of the finale and eventually has her entire life rewritten to become a single mother.

The Rani: entire plan revolves around the fact that she's mad that Time Lords can't have babies anymore.

Anita: shows up six months pregnant because she was so broken-hearted by finding the Doctor with someone else that she hooked up with the first guy she met.

Kate Stewart: nearly loses her goddamn mind because her boyfriend that randomly spawned into existence died.

And people actually think that RTD would do a better job writing the 13th Doctor than Chibnall did?

[idkcoven]

it’s really wild how rtd learned nothing from martha. made the doctor cut Belinda off when discussing segregation, had her be barely a character by the end of the story then completely overshadowed by ruby.

don’t get me started on ncutis doctor being overshadowed twice for nostalgia bait :/

[depsidase]

[orbitingrook]

[flowersforthemachines]

one thing I wish people understood about tumblr posts is that they are not confession booths. if you see a post calling attention to the fact some behaviour patterns may actually be racist or misogynistic or transphobic or anything else you don't actually have to go into op's replies or tags to tell them You Personally have this patterns for detailed unproblematic reasons. I can't speak for the op of every post obviously but the point is likely to make people look at themselves critically and think about why they do the things they do. and if you're capable of introspection and understand that a post does not apply to you, the correct thing is to move on. you are just not its target audience

[fromthemouthofkings]

look, if you want to play the priest you shouldn't be surprised when people respond in kind

[flowersforthemachines]

it's actually incredible how you can write a post about a specific type of person and then they show right on your doorstep to annoyingly remind you why you wrote the post in the first place

[pinkvbay]

[felysha]

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

[felysha]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[blxnc]

there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.

i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”