#caterposter

[quietwingsinthesky]

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[quietwingsinthesky]

imagine there is one semi-redeemed dalek who works at the space dmv. they hired it because it makes lines go quicker. someone forgets their papers and instead of arguing about it, they hear a dalek start yelling PAPERWORK. PAPERWORK. and they apologize profusely and leave.

[quietwingsinthesky]

aromantic characters who treat being told ‘i love you’ like it’s a threat, my beloved

[quietwingsinthesky]

hear me out: doctor regeneration that leaves them looking like a human teenager.

[quietwingsinthesky]

supernatural deciding to never even attempt to break down the codependency between sam and dean was the best shit ever. the final saving grace of the show: those brothers remained Fucking Weird about each other for all of time and after death. they’re siblings, they’re married, it’s abusive, it’s love so powerful it saves the world multiple times, everyone around them is destroyed by being in their orbit, they raise (and fuck up!) a kid together, there were so many points at which they could have either chosen to leave and get better, they never did or even really tried that hard, every single romantic relationship they ever had is broken up so they can get back together. they had it all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

we need to invent that fucking elf bread from lotr this is becoming untenable. i shouldnt have to eat every few hours just to not feel like im going to pass out. i should have one single jellybean a day and be fine.

[quietwingsinthesky]

like. that’s rare, right? no other media i’ve encountered is immune to it. everything else eventually gets mocking and cynical of its own concept. fucking disney can’t make a princess movie without pointing out how stupid true love is. star trek had a whole reboot movie trilogy about rejecting the slower, philosophical roots of the show for cooler, edgy action movies (<- im allowed to say this because i like the aos movies but they Are a different beast from the rest of trek.) and yet doctor who keeps trucking along, whimsical as ever, looking you in the eyes and saying, there is an alien in a blue police box who comes to save the day and for the next forty minutes, you’re gonna believe that. it’s not that the show hasn’t changed or adapted with the times, it’s that the change builds on what’s there rather than looking at it disdainfully, oh how stupid those old things were, how great we are now in comparison. it’s refreshing!

[quietwingsinthesky]

actually maybe that’s my greatest bit of gender advice i can give: if you’re ever uncomfortable with the gender you’ve got, just leave. just go. don’t need to know where you’re going or if you’re even going anywhere, you can leave. you don’t have to stay there. if it’s killing you, if you keep stubbing your toe on it, or if you’re just curious what’s out that door. you can just leave. it’s not going anywhere, if you’re scared, it’s not going to disappear. you can go back. but you can always leave. as many times as you need to. as long as you want. forever, if you’d like.