[sstrawbearri]

there aren't enough of us left.

[cxrvidteeth]

auribus teneo lupum

[danidoesathing]

lots of good discussions on the themes in Iron Lung but i haven't seen much talk about Ava and dehumanization.

the way she subtle ways mentally separates "people" and "prisoners", only ever referring to them as "convict". they never even record their names. they're criminals. they're bad people who've done bad things so whatever happens is their own fault. COI tells their story of what happened to the station and that the Convict was at fault for it, so she believes it without questioning his side (something to be said here about the bias perspective told by governments to further their own goals, to have more prisoners to "rehabilitate" by risking their lives for their future, but thats a whole other thing). he's proving himself to be a person, that he deserves to live by being willing to die for the sake of the COI humanity. how the idea of the potential and a better future outweighs a human life.

And she’s so deep in denial about it. She sounds genuinely confused when Simon makes her say that they won’t kill/abandon him repeatedly. She’s insisting it's not a death sentence or a punishment but they’ve left people down there to die when they became “unrecoverable”. The constant lying to Simon about the situation even when there isn’t any reason to do so. Burying herself so deep in the idea that everything they do is for the betterment of humanity that the convicts stop being people and become unfortunate but necessary casualties. whats a criminal's life when humanity is at sake?

She wants so badly to believe she’s just a captain doing what’s best for everyone but there's conditions on who counts in "everyone." she’s an executioner. A guillotine or a sub – it’s all the same outcome in the end. And as the movie goes on she starts to understand that too.

the guilt in her voice when she tells Simon they aren't coming for him, because it just proves every time he questioned her promises about his survival was right. He was right not to trust them, they’re no more reliable or noble than Eden because they still abandoned those that placed their faith in them. She sent them to die and she never even learned their names. They weren't even on record. They're nameless disposable bodies to these people and now when directly confronted with it she can't ignore it anymore.

at the end she's finally willing to push back against the COI (even then it's only with the promise of the other ship's data, but it is something). promising Simon his freedom instead of just his return. finally willing to challenge her own rigid ideas of personhood and put herself at risk for the greater good, the great discovery, the thing that could save them all.

but it all comes too late and with too many bodies to count. it just has her's and simon's added to the pile. another sacrifice for humanity's better future. hopefully.

[crosseyedprayer]

im just thinking abt how weird the time of angels/flesh and stone must have been from rivers perspective. like, shes spent a long time as mels and as river seeing amy treat the doctor in a sort of bossy, teasing, headstrong manner, has seen amy as this weird, confident, fearless woman/girl and has just come from the pandorica storyline where amy brings the doctor back into existence by sheer force of will and now shes witnessing amy at the beginning of it all. at her most scared, at her most uncertain. river likely learnt her 'heel boy' attitude towards the doctor partly from amy, and now shes seeing her without it.

especially in the scene where river saves amy from the angels in the forest and amy is playing with rivers sleeve like a scared kid, rubbing the camo fabric between her fingers to make sure its real, and river looks a little broken, like she doesn't quite know what to do with herself and like shes scared out of her mind for amy. she knows amy is her mum and this is probably the most unsure and scared shes ever seen her, because in later episodes, even in fear, amy is cocky and snarky and very much the girl who bit therapists again (like she was as a kid) because shes found her footing and knows what travelling with the doctor is like at its worst, so ofc river looks at her like that. ofc she is treating amy with such gentleness. ofc she is.

i always wonder if alex kingston knew about her characters origins in this scene/episode bc the acting really seems like she does and it fucks me up in the best way

[whowolf06]

The Silence || There's a man in the woods

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[whowolf06]

The Silence || Aura

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[my-ny]

River + The Doctor + text posts pt. 40/?

[spiderlegsmusic]

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[nothoughtsjustwritingandstuff]

kicking off the new year with THE GIRLS!!! THE GIRLSSSSSS!!!

[gallifreyanposting]

Aroace

As I've said... I'm totally not picking favourites

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[my-ny]

Doctor Who text posts: River edition – 21/?

[holy-mary-mother-of-joseph]

Headcanon that Barbossa's sword skills are genuinely frightening to other pirates.

In CotBP, his crew hesitates to take him on in the cave, despite all of them being undead and him being alone.

In AWE, Sao Feng, a Pirate Lord, surrounds him and Elizabeth in his bathhouse, outnumbering them by a long shot, but the second Barbossa suddenly gains a weapon out of nowhere, he resorts to taking a hostage.

I'm convinced Barbossa has genuinely come out of a 1 v XY completely unscathed at some point during his career and everybody feared him ever since.

[my-ny]

River + The Doctor + text posts pt. 39/?

[ratwithagunn]

(AUDIO WARNING) hey owl people

SONG: wizard by Oliver hinkle

Love my strange sons

[battleclawed]

canon soren and kludd dynamic

[battleclawed]