#verdant rambles

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Reminder that fanfic authors write the stories you like

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I just keep thinking about how when Scott was hanging out in town with everyone around him in a circle, the Doctor seemed to be about to crawl out of his damn skin. He knows this is the sort of things that's likely to be a distraction. & everyone is just chatting it up with Scott, like that's fine & normal really, but Doc also knows Scott is bad news. This guy is the real threat here, despite how he presents himself. He can't just leave them all there chatting with Scott.

So instead he's moving around, his head's on a swivel. He's keeping an eye on what he can without losing line of sight on Scott for too long. He's checking the beacon. He's trying to catch Avid's eye & signal with a water bottle. He's fidgety & shifting around & jumping on fences & walls & he is SO intensely agitated the whole time they're talking with Scott.

But when Owen showed up the next night? Totally different story.

First off, when Owen interjects into the circle conversation, everyone else* moves around a bit, looking in different directions for him. The Doctor doesn't move or look around; he doesn't have to. There is a beat & then he slowly, intentionally looks up at Owen on the roof.

Once Owen starts monologing, Doc moves as little as possible, & he doesn't take his eyes off Owen, with only three exceptions. He looks away while significantly repositioning/moving twice & looks at Martyn when he says "this is not the right time" at which point Owen bats out. These three moments are each about a second long. Otherwise, Owen is dead center in the Doctor's sight.**

The Doctor doesn't check the beacon or keep an eye on the rest of the town, because he's not thinking about those things. He doesn't fidget or pace to cope with his focus being split in more directions than he can cover.

For 2 minutes 27 seconds, all of his attention is on Owen.

*except Pearl with her amazing hearing & totally cracked perception stat

**Okay, one more exception, & that's him violently shaking his head when Sausage asks who the secret vampires are, during which Owen occupies the center third of the image. Owen is immediately perfectly centered again, though, as Doc walks forward to cut off that line of inquiry.

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I am LIVING for Avid telling chat they're v!Avid apologists & that guy actually was not a good guy. Like he started the episode excited about killing all the humans & a minute before his death he was talking about turning the Doc so he's forced to live eternity with the guilt of what he's done. & he is not a precious, innocent little guy just 'cause other villains killed him.

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Uhhh....

Cam...

Cam, quick question bud.

Why....

Why are you literally just Prince Edward Tremaine of Andalasia from Enchanted (2007)???

(He has confirmed this btw:)

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I NEED TO JOIN A THERAPY CALL IN FIVE MINUTES BUT I CANT STOP LAUFHING AT THIS ABSOLUTE NUGGET

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I often see the conflict between the Doctor & Owen framed as being a disagreement on the nature of vampirism: “this is a curse/malady” vs “this is a gift/cure.”

Setting aside the Doctor not viewing vampirism as a whole as being a curse or malady (he’s explicitly said as such multiple times), their conflict doesn’t actually revolve around their views of vampires.

It revolves around their views of humans.

“All humans are wretched beasts, completely irredeemable (except you, only you).”

vs

“Doing good rather than harm is a choice that can be made at any time, so anyone can be redeemed (except me, I am a wretched beast, completely beyond redemption).”

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Guy running the Vampires SMP Shipping Showdown continues to be fucking hilarious.

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Hey VSMP fandom, someone unrelated to the fandom is having a whole, uh, well seems like they’re having a bad time, to put it lightly, in #bloodletting, & have been making a high volume of posts for the last five hours. Many of these post contain things that have high potential to be triggering for people.

This is something I’ve actually been worrying about for a while, since I’ve seen similar post crop up there occasionally. & this kinda makes a very not great space to be fandoming.

I am again suggesting we move to #vsmp bloodletting for anything we want to tag as specifically the ship (vs using #cure duo as a duo tag).

Bloodletting is a term with general language uses & implications that mean graphic or otherwise upsetting posts are more likely to pop up there. Putting “vsmp” at the start of the tag would pretty much eliminate those sorts of posts showing up.

Let’s keep our fandom space as safe as possible & reduce the chances of running into triggers beyond what’s expected for/relevant to the series.

(Please reblog to signal boost this. I’d like to get the warning out as much as possible before people go to the tag & have a really bad time.)