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she/her, sad nerd, fandom old 18+ readers only pls AO3: teh_nos

[evrikka]

[ozmaanodyne]

Goodbye RTD, you will be remembered as the showrunner who sandwiched the first ever black doctor in between two nostalgia bait fan favourites to overshadow both his entrance and exit, having the doctor torturing a genocide victim in an episode serving as thinly veiled allegory to an actual ongoing genocide, literally shoving a companion into a box for half a finale then brainwash her character into being a mother to care for a random baby, and introducing trans and disabled characters to be set dressings with barely any dialogue just so you can pat yourself on the back for inclusivity.

Oh and discount shape of water with the worst fucking name for a tv series ever conceived.

Thanks for nothing.

[timemachinebastard]

me and my wife (doctor who) separated, not on speaking terms for months & i just heard from a friend of a friend shes been shot

[teh-nos]

[wulfhalls]

THERE ARE IMAGES IN MY PHONE THAT ARE TRYING TO HURT ME PHYSICALLY AND THEY ARE SUCCEEDING

[just-barrow]

🧸🌲 61/∞

[history-of-fashion]

1573 Adriaen Thomasz Key - Portrait of a man & Portrait of a woman

(Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts)

[perlikequeer]

WHAT INSANEEEEEE

[teh-nos]

the ao3 bot comments accusing fics of being ai are probably just someone who posts ai fics spending a few minutes to set up a bot to muddy the waters when ai fics are called out. because then we, not knowing we got bot-spammed, will say "well i was accused of ai writing and i know mine isn't so that must be what's happened here as well."

[crazy-brazilian]

[demigardess]

[i-exist-solely-for-fandom]

so we all agree she was asking her out here right?

[darkcomedies]

a lot of rpf can be explained by the fact that actors are all like that with each other constantly but i never want to say that on here because it feels like telling a 7-year-old santa isn’t real

[darkcomedies]

actors hanging off of each other constantly isn’t a sign that they’re fucking it’s a sign that they were once in a BFA program and never relearned normal boundaries. when actors are fucking and it’s complicated they won’t even stand in the same room with each other.

[ianthewife]

free my girl she did all that and should’ve fucking done even more

[ririsasy]

[goatedgreen]

i love this image because not only is it accurate but also every time i see it i subconsciously scan the image to make sure its not somewhere i know. because everywhere in england looks like this. could be literally anywhere.

[xacarilla]

ok i actually want to get my thoughts down on tnm1 before i get much further into tnm2 and whatever awaits me there i guess. like, okay, it is pretty transparently a criticism of the violent lengths england will go to in order to maintain the illusion of itself as still a nation at the core of power and by extension of the way it clings to the memory of empire. the quote tobias menzies gives to angela in ep5, "there is a whole system that keeps our country where we want it, amongst the elites, punching above our weight. well, it's a state of being, an ontology if you will, and it has to be maintained" is, i think, really clear-eyed in describing this.

the fascinating problem with tnm1 is that even though it is trying to make this point, the writing itself, the structure of the story, has not fully shaken itself loose of the british imperial mindset. and so you have a story that takes place in britain's former imperial territories that is played out exclusively between brits and us-americans and where the middle eastern characters serve only as plot devices to further their arcs. the tobias menzies quote has its mirror in this one from angela, "i always thought those kids could do with more protection, so that's what's happening now. me and jonathan, we're protecting them. not the ones you've already killed, obviously, but the next ones", that implies that britain should still be involved in the middle east, if not as a direct authority, then as a sort of paternalistic guardian angel. in this sense, in the world of tnm1, the middle east is still the battleground between two competing british influences.

then there's the kind of wild stereotyping it engages in, roper is textually and explicitly racist against his middle eastern associates as a final revelation of his evil, but then his arc culminates in the implication that he will be subjected to brutal violence at their hands as karmic punishment partly for his racism (!) and you as the audience member are just supposed to hold these two pieces of audiovisual information in your head as if they don't directly contradict each other.

this might go all the way back to john le carré, i don't know, i haven't read the novel and i'm not familiar with his work in general, but the fact that it was never examined at any point in the process of adaptation attests to that gigantic blind spot. and, like, i guess that makes tnm1 "problematic" but i've always been fascinated with internal contradictions in media and incomplete acts of self-examination, and being from latin america i've been exposed to a lot of postcolonial narratives and discourses from the perspective of the formerly colonized with their own contradictions and blind spots, and i'm very interested in how former colonizers express the postcolonial experience in media.

[ririsasy]

Incredibly hilarious to me the way Tom keep trying to blame the weather as the reason why Teddypine turned out the way that it’s far from their first intention for their dynamic lmao

(It’s okay to admit your hot co star make you acting unwise and improvised for it to be that ambiguously gay 😭 the way colombian weather has to take the blame for this is diabolical 🤣)

[ballardian-nightmare]

I don't think the dance scene was improvised. It was too choreographed and the source was just that one random article that was like "Trust me, bro." But lmao, if he's trying to "no homo" it, it somehow sounds gayer than if he'd just said that Teddy and Pine are unambiguously gay for each other because now it sounds like there was something really between the two actors with his very weird wording lmao. And now knowing that Pine was the straightest male protagonist JLC ever wrote, bringing up said sort of relationship between men JLC writes in his books sounds quite gay.