auroras & sad prose

[winter-dusk]

After listening to the latest TMAGP episode, I went to the Stedelijk Museum and saw this 👁

[numberonegirlkisser]

“And now, racked with sobs, I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”

Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

[saydontgo]

'Cause it was never mine

[winter-dusk]

my august show slipped away cause it was never mine....

i was waiting for today for over a year and honestly, quite often this was the only thing that kept me alive... i am glad and thankful that nothing bad happened but i am just heartbroken that i could not experience seeing her live

[buildoblivion]

[radicalgraff]

"Fuck your profits, housing for all"

Sticker seen in Maine, USA

[luxaofhesperides]

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

miri + leah

[cripplywobblytimeywimey]

Ok but Ruby having to use her white privilege to get information and get Lindy to listen to the Doctor. Lindy thinking black people all look the same to the point that she didn't question the Doctor popping up a second time until later on. Her being so shocked at him and Ruby being in the same room. Ruby and the Doctor saying things in the same tone and similar language but the Doctor is the one that gets called condescending and horrible.

Face to face contact with the Doctor being considered unacceptable and akin to contamination. Hoochie Pie calling the TARDIS voodoo. Lindy saying that it was the Doctor's duty to save her, but he "isn't like them" so they refuse to travel with him. Lindy's friends talking about taming and owning the wilderness like their ancestors did.

The episode wasn't themed around "boohoo social media". It's about how racist and colonialist structures permeate all of society and are damaging to everyone, and that the comments that people make are the tip of the iceberg that is their active bias and prejudice. I don't get how people don't understand that.

[innocet]

Never thought I’d see this kind of awareness and intentionality regarding race from RTD. never in a million years

[doctorhomo]

“old man writes about gen z on their damn phones” ?????? no?????? old man writes about the dangers of staying in your own bubble and prejudice and privilege to the point where you’d rather die than let a black man save you????? old man writes about useless influencer-types who are so dependent on their bubble that they dont know when they need a piss???????? old man writes about white people desperately trying to make their own aryan society and staying in their racist BUBBLE ????????

[whoosh-whoosh-tardis-noises]

I think 73 yards is such an interesting metaphor for death.

Like from a very young age we are presented with it, it follows us but it’s blurry, unfocused, overwhelmingly present and yet always in the background. We ponder it on birthdays, during drawn out relationships.

Approaching it is terrifying, senseless, we want to escape but there is no where to go. Violence even to others becomes less desirable when reminded of your own mortality.

Eventually it will approach us, walking backwards, and become us all.

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

"where did the 15th Doctor GO when he broke the fairy circle!!!1!" he was LITERALLY in barbieland fighting for men's rights. that took precedence over ruby's nuclear war mommy issues thing. sorry.

[stormlightarchivist]

[moonlightmagical]

let’s talk about celia ripely.

celia ripley who has the same name and va as a celia from tma.

celia ripley who is the first person in this universe to mention something about the fears.

celia ripley who seems to know jon's voice after 'chester' reads a case file.

celia ripely what the fuck are you doing.

[macabresymphonies]

I've seen a lot of theories about how "TMAGP is not about fears it's about desires", but post episode 5 I'll do you one better, they are not about desires, they are specifically about passions.

You see TMA was specifically and objectively about fears. Yes sometimes your passion for skydiving made you a prime victim for a smiling, dried geriatric dude with a cane, but there were also a lot of them where you were simply tormented by doors for your whole life for no reason or stuck in a slaughterhouse job you didn't like, so the one connecting factor for them was FEAR of something.

TMAGP incidents are obviousily different, the are not specifically about characters being afraid - quite the contrary, some of them are sedated into a paranormal-like serenity. The one connecting factor this time wasn't fear, but weirdly enough they all do speak or hint at things they or other characters are very passionate about:

I love my husband (Harriet Winstead)

I love urban exploration (RedCanary)

I love art (Daria)

I love gardening (Maggie Webber)

I love being a doctor (Dr Samuel Webber)

I love playing violin (Unnamed Virtuoso)

I love horror films (Tom)

You may contend me on Samuel Webber loving his work as a doctor, but it has been hinted on in the incident he's very passionate or at least absorbed in it:

He's on the run and still thinks of his patients, regrets working so long, but it's implied it's his fault he stayed at the hospital too long. These lines from the writing perspective would normally be there to make his character more sympathetic, but I doubt that was the case with a guy who may-or-may-not have killed his wife over unconfirmed affair, instead they seem like a framing device for us to see how passionate Samuel is about his work.

All this talk about love made me think back to what Gerry said back in MAG 111:

Maybe now we know why, because they were present in different universe, but suddelny in some space-time warp incident (wonder what that could be /s) they were met with primodial gods of fear and those corrupted them. Now these fallen gods corrupt and warp people, twisting their passions into obsessions and weapons. Still feeding on love, but they take it by any means necessary.

[rylandsgrace]

DOCTOR WHO (2005) - The Star Beast

[rylandsgrace]

#Iconic!!!!

[nonagethimus]

russell t davies coming back to doctor who just to tell everyone that trans people can and will save the world. by making stuffed animals and selling them on etsy