#eighthdoctor

[inallbutname]

Happy New Year! I hope you are drezzed for the occasion, 2025: the year of the Dr Who zine :^)

[thenugking]

shadowheart/lae'zel for the ship meme?

I don't think they'd like me to call them sweet but I can't just not circle "oh the devotion" when lae'zel's romance arc is like that!!! I mean every version of shadowzel is incredible and thematically delicious and at least in my head, they're always in some form of relationship. But Shadowheart-romancing-Lae'zel is the version of this ship I actually played a hundred and something hours of and oh my god the devotion....

[anghraine]

A couple of the replies to my response about modern US American AU Darcy were specifically about my tags, so I’m copy-pasting those for context:

#if i were going to run with it i'd make darcy a rich lesbian with a house in. like #seattle #she is slightly baffled by why queer people in idaho don't just move to washington #elizabeth's family is actually doing okay but she's from west virginia and kind of wants to murder her in her sleep

#alt!lady catherine: if I'D gone into politics i'd have solved all of this by now actually #(she has yet to grasp what the three branches of government are)

eighthdoctor replied:

i personally KNOW several rich lesbians with a house in seattle who fit this (some of them have expanded their horizons. some of them have Not.)

Darcy is definitely one who expands her horizons! But yeah, I think this type of queer person whose politics are generally progressive but untethered from class consciousness is really familiar in the US and esp in expensive coastal areas—obviously there are cultural and local differences along the coasts, but she could easily come from Portland or San Francisco or wherever. The Seattle freeze stereotype does seem particularly apropos for the character, though. (I grew up in NW Washington, however, so not unbiased!)

brambleberrycottage replied:

“She has yet to grasp what the three branches of the government are”🤣

;)

I do honestly feel like Lady Catherine is interesting in the novel because of her likely alignment with Whig aristocracy and also because of her actual stated opinions beyond, uhh, scolding the poor and such, and that this corresponds better to a sort of shallow elitist US liberalism than, well, some Ann Coulter type or whatnot.

In the book, Lady Catherine is like... I see no reason for entailing estates away from women, the de Bourghs didn’t pull that kind of shit, which isn’t wrong, but she only cares because it could affect her personally. She casually talks about how men don’t care about their daughters, but is not only somewhat wrong in the context of the conversation about Mr Bennet (who doesn’t care much about all his daughters but... well, some two of them, in his way) but only brings it up because she either wants Elizabeth’s company for longer or wants the opportunity of graciously condescending to send her home in style (without actually thinking through all the practical considerations of doing so) or some combination of both.

Lady Catherine only seems able to understand injustice insofar as it could theoretically affect her, and I think the point of the critique is not that she’s wrong about entailment or about fathers often being callous towards their daughters or even about “helping” those further down the social ladder, but that her motives are transparently selfish and egocentric, her execution is short-sighted at best, she’s frankly not that bright, and she’s also super classist.

So for me, the most natural US political analogue to all this is like ... a particularly empty, elitist, and self-interested form of liberal feminism more than openly conservative bullshit. She is exactly the kind of liberal to announce “if I’d gone into politics, I would simply destroy patriarchy with the bully pulpit” while 100% convinced that the branches of government are the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

[raineszramski]

Playing in my sketchbook: Time War and Peace.

[danmcdaid]

The Eighth Doctor, alias Paul McGann. Really feel like I caught him here #doctorwho #eighthdoctor #paulmcgann https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU2SROs8kR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[reecypontiff]

[alexkablob]

birthday. maybe emerald will defect today.

FIVE YEARS

[hypokeimena]

return question: dios apate y/n?

i mean - this is not a fic that is interested in just doing the plot beats translated into a different environment, so, like. not in the specifics. but this IS a fic that is interested in the same evil vibes. so, like... it’s also not a no no.