DOCTOR WHO (and other things)

“Rose, I’m trying to resonate concrete.” | Classic + new Who nerd | studies maths | 21 | ace | whichever pronouns you fancy

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did you spot THIS cameo in The Power of the Doctor?

[doccywhomst]

eve of the daleks opportunity i'm almost CERTAIN they're going to miss: every time the Doctor gets exterminated, she regenerates into a different person, and then the time loop resets. have several famous guest stars be the Doctor for a couple of minutes. bring back "the curse of fatal death"-esque shenanigans, chris

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Ohhh this absolutely won’t happen, it won’t even be an opportunity they *could* have taken this time round because the whole episode (and indeed the whole series) is designed around covid filming precautions - and swapping out your lead actor loads of times would not be feasible in that situation. But I’d have love to have seen it!

[theabigailthorn]

calling it now - in the next couple of years we’re gonna see some prominent british TERFs try and walk it back. As the trans rights movement and the hardcore exterminatory transphobia both ramp up and they see who they’re standing with, and it becomes more and more obvious that equal rights and self-ID actually pose no problem to cis people at all, some of them are gonna start trying to walk it all back. And when we do get self-ID in Britain their position is gonna be, “I support this AND I’m glad that my Concerns™ were listened to AND this is a victory for the sensible trans people who I said all along should be allowed to live with dignity not like those dangerous activists” - fukin calling it now, watch them weasel out of this and then pretend they were never transphobic.

the reason I think this is that a lot of British TERFism is really cowardly in its doublespeak. A lot of it is, “Hey, I respect everybody’s gender identity, including trans people’s! I just think that sex is the thing that society should be built around (and I define sex in a ludicrous, antiscientific, and trans-exclusionary way).” They try and have it both ways. And as more of them realise their more hardcore colleagues don’t want it both ways and actually just want us totally gone, they’re gonna start walking it back so they can keep their prominent jobs. This will irritate everybody and it will be very funny to see.

[cool-stuffandthings]

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“average male Doctor Who fan commits more crimes when the doctor is a woman” factoid actually just statistical error. the average male Doctor Who fan commits 0 crimes. Captain Jack Harkness, who heard a rumour the doctor was in jail and committed a lot of crimes to spring her out, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[elizabethshaw]

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interacting with the allo’s be like

[mysharona1987]

[stupid-dyke]

I’m gonna keep repeating myself that I really think the entire pro life movement exists so that American conservatives can have one single issue that lets them assume a moral high ground, to distract from the fact that their entire ideology is completely hostile to human life.

[mrs-misty-eyed]

she really read "i ignore infant mortality rates in the poorest states" and agreed.

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.

“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”

“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”

(Source)

Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen…

[quadraxic-expression-deactivate]

This is not great, but it’s likely because people are fucking stupid and will screw around with it if it’s not locked up.

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]

You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.

I think not.

But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with. 

The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Disability rights are civil rights.

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

You want to know exactly how this went down? Let me tell you a tale.

I was visiting the museum with friends. They went on around the corner while I finished looking at the previous exhibit. I then followed them around the corner only to find I couldn’t get up to the exhibit because the museum AS PART OF THEIR POLICY had illegally locked the lift. My friends didn’t know the lift was locked (why would the lift be locked?) and had no idea that I couldn’t get to them.

Now I, the disabled person, am forced to travel halfway around the building to the front desk to find someone to unlock the lift for me, wait for them to finish what they’re doing, and then travel all the way back to the lift. This was bad enough in a wheelchair. Who else uses lifts? Oh yes. People who struggle to walk. Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit? You wouldn’t do it. You’d skip the exhibit. You’ve just been completely denied access.

So finally the museum employee unlocks the lift and then operates it (because yes, they’ve made it so I can’t operate it myself, which is also illegal). I finally get to the top probably ten minutes later, only to find that my friends have finished looking at the exhibit and are heading down again, wondering what has happened to me. 

After I’ve gone to all the trouble to get up there, fuck it if I’m not going to look at the damn exhibit. So I look at it, then head back to the lift to go back down, only to find they’ve locked the lift with me at the top and gone back to the front desk.

If one of my friends hadn’t stayed up there with me, I’d probably still be up there. As it was, my friend had to go down the stairs, back around to the front, find an employee, and get them to come back and let me down. Leaving me sitting up there. Alone. For another five minutes.

Now imagine if I had gone to the the museum by myself. Or what if there had been an emergency? You think if there was a fire some museum employee who couldn’t be assed to leave the damn lift unlocked until I had come back down would really have run back into the building to unlock the lift so I could get down? I think not.

Locking an accessibility feature is never the right solution. It is denying access to an entire class of people. Which is ILLEGAL and a CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION.

Disability law is civil rights law.

[likethecastle]

doctor who + leaning on the fourth wall

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gay🛫irl

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Nobody:

Doctor Who companions:

[lucydacusgirl]

You assign university work to the university student? You assign university work to the university student at university? Jail for professors! Jail for professors for one thousand years!

[notyoujamie]

He’ll get us out of here. The difficult part is not killing him before he can. Also, there’s the puns.

[sharkselfies]

killing eve / twilight / supernatural

[virginalbehemoth-moved-deactiva]

Doctor Who

[slayerbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[consultingfujoshi]

What We Do in the Shadows

[bookhobbit]

this is sort of vague because I'm not sure if I can make it make sense but I wish more 101 nonbinary activist materials focused less on just "gender isn't binary" and more on "the fact that gender is a social construct means it is constructed differently in different cultures and is in a constant state of change like everything else about a culture"

like...it's not just about updating the gender system to recognize non-binary genders but also about recognizing that the social construction of gender is extremely responsive to time/place and this is true even for "man" and "woman" which means that there's no reason to invalidate anyone's expression or feelings about their gender, no matter what gender it is or how familiar it is to you

[bookhobbit]

a further thought: this is also why I don't think gender abolition is a useful goal, because, as Rikki Anne Wilchins put it, gender is primarily a system for creating meanings, and if you actually tried to totally erase the concept of any gender at all from the world, that would involve erasing a huge amount of cultural meaning, probably without actually fixing inequality tbh

on the other hand, if you acknowledge that there are as many gender systems as there are cultures, and that there are probably as many variations on even the normative genders as there are people in that culture who belong to them, then gender essentialism loses the vast majority of its power because if the meaning of gender changes across cultures (even across relatively small cultural shifts), then that means they're not inherent moral truths of the universe, they're ways of performing particular cultural meanings

and this makes non-binary genders, and nonnormative gender expressions, no less concrete than binary genders with normative expressions, not by saying "actually a non-binary gender is a concrete object with xyz characteristics" but by saying "all genders are arbitrary", which creates room for essentially infinite space and self-determination

I have no idea if any of this makes sense, I just visualize, like, a garden

[oodlyenough]

reading all the posts about how "rtd better not write a romance again!! it's not what the show needs!!" are very funny to me bc objectively the audience loves that shit

[oodlyenough]

similarly, i do not actually want or need rose back, but then i read all these posts like "UGH this better not mean MORE ROSE 🙄" and i'm like do it rtd. cast billie piper as fourteen i don't give a fuck

[oodlyenough]

someone reblogged this to tell me they didn't like rose so now i want billie piper as fourteen and her companion rose tyler also played by billie piper

[catgirlnailpolish]

wait wait no shut up. billie piper as fourteen and david tennant as rose

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The 10/Rose story wasn’t my cup of tea and I’m not sure that a “greatest hits of RTD era 1” is the right way to go or the way RTD will want to go but if Rose comes back and kisses the female 14th or 15th Doctor I would 1000% be very pleased with that

[cadaverkeys]

you will live to see man made genders beyond your comprehension

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