jane 🗝️
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20 . they/them . autistic . lit undergrad . horror is my preferred mode in fiction . internally conflicted ancom . lapsed doctor who fan . liberation for all!
the world’s fair
Joined March 2024
since i misread the room completely and that guy wasn’t making fun of me but was actually agreeing, i’m putting the meme back up. here they are, longstosee-jak #doctorwho
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Zuckerberg orders removal of tampons from men's bathrooms at Meta offices — NYT.
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seeing records like this from weimar germany always fills me with apprehensive dread because i remember what came less than a decade afterwards. this is a cartoon that could have easily been published in 2016. we need to prevent history from repeating.
From German magazine "Lustige Blätter", 1932;.Person on the left; "Careful, I'm not a man!".Person on the right; "That's okay, I'm not a woman."
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gender essentialism in hobbies (“weird girl music” “men don’t get fiona apple” “female rage cinema”) has been a disaster for cultural criticism. one of the purposes of art is to allow us to empathise with perspectives alien to our own. hate it so much.
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this would be so funny to show out of context to a non fan.
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david lynch was def autistic btw. just a very well adjusted autistic person who was praised for his eccentricities rather than shunned; because he was sociable and kind enough to seem approachable rather than awkward. and an artist of the highest calibre. that usually helps.
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we are never beating the “the uk has 10 actors” allegations.
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people often say diane morgan as cunk dresses like doctor who but this is the most doctor thing she’s ever said.
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@gendermarxism they hate independent cinema, they hate horror, and most of all they hate indie horror. and they hate trans people who make their own art about their own experiences.
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i appreciate that she told harry potter fans to grow up but keeps working with doctor who. shows that her issue is with the transphobia not with the fact that adults are into middle grade media.
Miriam Margolyes is returning to the Whoniverse. as a Lupari?!. Here's what's occurring:
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donna noble is not a chav she is a middle class londoner from a relatively well-off family. rose is a chav.
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the people that were the prototypes of pictures like this ended up dying of starvation and typhoid in concentration camps. i used to think it was fearmongering, but with the direction the world’s headed now, i’m convinced we may be in for another round of fascism.
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that’s a cyberman, right? that is categorically and absolutely a cyberman. look at its head handles
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THE COMPLETE EMPIRE OF DEATH ANALYSIS THREAD, PASTED FROM MY TUMBLR. i.e. why i thought the episode was GOOD and COHESIVE. read 2 the end before arguing
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thinking every day about how genius russell would have been if he had written the “de-generation” into 10 to be a fluke orchestrated by the toymaker as meta-commentary on the way that big franchises keep looking to the past instead of introducing new ideas . but instead he….
thinking about how much better 13's regeneration scene works without her just becoming david tennant again. it's perfect. wish we'd had this instead
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the problem isn’t that he wasn’t 10 because he obviously wasn’t. the problem was giving him a number. he’s a fluke doctor, like War and Fugitive, an inbetweenie. should have been known as the Returned Doctor, and Ncuti would have been 14 as deserved.
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the only ever funny case of “it’s right behind me isn’t it”.
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the only funny example of this meme everyone else go home.
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since jeje watched the empty child/the doctor dances today and that means everyone’s talking about it, let me take the opportunity to opine: Jack Harkness was a revolutionary character for his time, well written, funny and tragic, and Barrowman’s actions should not reflect on.
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the bbc will never cancel it as long as they exist, we’re not in ‘89, everyone understands its cultural value. disney pulling out on the other hand is a positive. they never should have taken it up. disney are fundamentally american, dw is british to the core, it’s not compatible.
I do not believe Doctor Who will be cancelled. But I do think now Disney will sadly pull out. Obviously something has went wrong as Russell was so confident before and now look. It's very uncertain but I am confident it won't be cancelled. It's too big to lose.
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three doctors were running around london 1963 at once and two of them were scottish.
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someone in the comments said it too but this just reaffirms my theory that the TARDIS herself, existing on a non-linear timeline, picks and chooses potential adventure settings based on the best doctor-companion team to suit each setting. i.e. she.
It is WILD that an all white TARDIS team would've rocked up at Finetime, saved Lindy Pepper Bean and her racist friends, handed them a new place to re-establish their Aryan fascist utopia and then fucked off back into time and space all proud of themselves 😬😬.
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you could have commissioned an artist to draw this. failing that, you could have photoshopped it.
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my favourite light hearted theory is that the second wife in question is none other than the thirteenth doctor.
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what’s with the whistle. why are they dressed like PE teachers.
Genuinely confused how this fits into the story considering their different outfits but I’m very intrigued . #DoctorWho
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the way the “just let it go” scene in the star beast could have been fixed in one simple step by replacing “women” with “humans”. humans can let trauma go because their memories are shorter, time lords will keep hold of it. none of that “male presenting” bs.
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i was about to say there should be a doctor who story about the shard being some kind of evil lair and then remembered the bells of st john.
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still can’t believe tegan jovanka became a meme.
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how people are suddenly saying murray gold needs to get fired or he’s forgotten how to write music just because twist at the end was cringy when he can write something like *this* is BEYOND me. you can clearly tell this is the man who wrote clara’s theme, shepherd’s boy, etc.
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look at the likes! tegan jovanka reaction gif you will always be famous.
Trying to find a movie the whole family is willing to watch that doesn’t suck
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love fourteen’s sonic so much why didn’t they just let 15 keep that one.
Coming 31st January 2025 - pre-order now!. Doctor Who: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctor 11" x 14” Art Prints. First two in a upcoming series of prints of the Doctors.
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okay but this was one of the few cases in his era where the tears were actually earned. he spent a year with her and had to say goodbye knowing once he’d returned to his typical life of crazy paving he probably wouldn’t see her again for a long time.
Does anybody else think it's really unflattering on the actor and the story when the tears are unearned?. The total, repetitive waterworks and booming Murray Gold just make it really obvious that they're flubbing beats
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commits the worst sin a doctor who story can: it’s dull.
today marks 6 years since the ghost monument. what's your opinion on this story?
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not seen enough people mention how an ambulance killing people because their long term treatment is deemed cost-inefficient and life is cheap is a scathing critique of the current state of the nhs.
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we must also be careful because this conversation is also quick to spiral into “never trust a man if he’s sensitive, quirky or an artist, because he’s hiding his evil nature, only trust beefy stupid himbos”. i am exaggerating but i’ve seen similar sentiments.
We do need to have a conversation about “nice feminist men” and how their feminism often serves to conceal a predatory nature. A certain type of man has always used the prevailing ideology to win the trust of women. Today he may wear the mantle of progressivism.
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sending my utmost sympathies from somebody stuck in the same predicament with s11-14 of doctor who.
Disliking TLJ but for reasons that aren't "because of woke" is really living in the worst of both worlds.
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love love LOVE the anti-colonial message conveyed here! way to recontextualise a 70s story that was initially replete with orientalist imagery
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look i understand you people love hyperbole but this is a simply insulting take to have when coleman/capaldi; tennant/agyeman; eccleston/piper; and smith/gillan/darvill existed. gatwa & gibson are decent enough actors but unfortunately they don’t reach the level of the above.
Gatwa-Gibson are maybe the best Doctor-Companion actors to have ever done it because this is truly astonishing
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you are a worthless, worthless worthless child.
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moffat writing boom: blind faith is bad, idolisation of figures you don’t know in general leads to conflict confusion and disappointment . all of us, collectively: steven moffat is a doctor who GOD and should create 1000000 more episodes right now.
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how many years of “heaven sent good hell bent bad” did we have to suffer before people began to rightfully recognise that the episodes only work as a complementary pair (+ face the raven).
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once again (no shade to you) people think twelve’s supposed cluelessness about social mores and phrasing is genuine rather than a painstakingly calculated persona. of COURSE he knows what ‘go to hell’ means non-figuratively. he’s toying with her.
I find it hilarious how he’s confused at how saying ‘go to hell’ out of the blue could be taken personally
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i always think it was genius of sarah dollard to have *rigsy* be the returning side character from s8 in face the raven. because he was *Doctor Oswald’s companion*. so when clara faces her fate for becoming too doctor-esque, it’s *her companion* that sets the events in motion.
This week we're celebrating The Doctor (aka. Clara Oswald!) as we rewatch 'Flatline' 🖼️ What are your thoughts on this episode? 🤔
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nuwho doctor+companion duos that would have worked best in 15+Ruby’s place in Boom (apart from them, obv). 1. 9+Rose.2. Twelve+Clara.3. Ten+Martha. Nobody else.
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i haven’t rewatched this scene in ages because i was of the opinion that ROTC/AOS was wholly mid. and it just FLOORED me how good it is, the writing and the acting and the production design.
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as a conclusion to the thread. you know what’s emblematic of literally everything that’s wrong with the new era, summed up with one building? . this.
i’m patriotic about very few things but doctor who is one of them. rtd2 is an attempt to make it attractive to “international” audiences (read: notice me usa pretty please!!!) and well it’s uh. not quite working out now is it.
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i say this all the time but i wish 15 was written as more autistic. feel like the doctor’s lost that trait entirely. 11 12 and 13 have it in spades, 10 less so because russell is too neurotypical of a writer probably lol — 9 is, but more because of his war ptsd.
One of my favourite aspects of 13s character is her total lack of understanding for social norms. This is a common trait in many Doctors but no one captures it quite as well as Jodie does!
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@MOuerthi yes, we. the point the article makes is actually pretty coherent — each and every one of us has authoritarian/groupthink tendencies that can be exploited by populist politicians. it’s why critical thinking is so vital, and you’re not displaying any of it.
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@missh8ter i need to get off this app because it makes me so mad that people who don’t have elementary reading comprehension and understanding of different forms of text have proclaimed themselves the arbiters of taste and quality in writing.
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a stroke of genius hitting RTD in 2005: our han solo needs to be bisexual and immortal.
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you know what hasn’t been done before (in nuwho, tell me if i’m wrong about classic)? a companion who had a partner and children BEFORE they meet the doctor.
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the fact that the doors at the time hotel look like the tardis confirms my suspicions
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@deviouslez it takes years to write books worth reading. it takes years to write GOOD books.
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@thonlything remember when radfems on here got really mad at people who were laughing at the movie as if it’s not a horror-comedy, because apparently that means we don’t take “women’s suffering” seriously (the woman in question: monstro elisasue).
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first ever jeje miss. the doctor dancing is integral to the episode because it embodies all of the themes of that story if you see it as a soft euphemism, which it is. not “random” — the point is that love & sexual liberation is the antithesis to war and violence.
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people’s perceptions of the character. i see way too many folks hating Jack for no reason, which, okay, whatever, like what you like, but it feels unfair because it really ignores the impact and instant iconicity this guy had.
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@mollywidstrom this is a horror story why is op presenting it as some kind of wholesomeness.
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wait. just realised that missy’s catchphrase “say something nice” is yet another example of her personality existing as a foil for the twelfth doctor. missy is nice, but not kind. twelve is kind, but not nice.
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@Ste_McDermott remember that tweet that said “the whole world is just the willy wonka experience now”.
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nonbinary people are weird art doll creatures then. i’m this
If Trans women are dolls, logically trans masc people are action figures.
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i love that rtd2!UNIT has been receiving so much scorn on this app today. it’s refreshing.
Nobody:.The secondary UNIT characters when they get fatally disintegrated:.🧍🧍♀️🧍🧍
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imagine being such a standout side character that you get your own spinoff. sarah jane was the only other companion to get that honour. put some respect on the man’s name.
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saw that a bunch of 2-d monsters were getting up to no dimensional good in Bristol and decided that was a job for Twelve & Clara. she saw that the ood were enslaved and decided Donna’s fierce sense of doing right would do the job. and for her these are points on a.
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one of the best defining traits of doctor who as a whole is the amount of older women in active roles who go on adventures. in a lot of scifi/fantasy the cutoff age for being a prominent female character is 25 unless you’re an aging queen. everyone’s a teenager somehow.
"She's absolute royalty. And what I really loved is writing Susan at the age that Carole Ann is now. Who says that older women can't have adventures? Susan absolutely can.”
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plane not dots on a line, she sees all of time at once. “best” doesn’t equal “easiest” either — sometimes “best” means “character building”. i.e. the only Doctor/companion team that would doom the finetimers to death like they deserve instead of saving them is Fifteen+Ruby.
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i need rtd to stop talking. i need him to shut up. oh my goodness the disrespect.
Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and Russell T Davies agree Matt Smith would be a great former Doctor to bring into the newest iteration of #DoctorWho. | Variety Studio presented by Google TV @madebygoogle
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couldn’t let go of his obsession with the show’s 2008 heyday and his pet favourite actor; couldn’t write 14 to be anything but a positive, some quack miracle cure for the doctor’s trauma that never had any effect anyway.
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@TinthDoctor married to a black man? loves her transgender daughter? helped free an entire species from slavery? yep, reform voter right there lmao.
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russell t davies: mad about a six month time skip? fuck you. fuck you all. sixty-five year time skip be upon ye.
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i know i’ve been hating on his creative decisions recently, but he’s really got a knack for being a bit of a bitchy diva (compliment). this is why i think he should step back and be in charge of marketing/pr and let someone else write the show while he drops witty little comments.
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this is the funniest thing to happen on dwtwt today. don’t go around spreading misinformation, the moffster is always lurking.
@11_12TheRaven I don't know where this stuff is coming from but NOT TRUE.
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if i were writing the 60th specials, i’d keep the toymaker, 14 and all. but the toymaker wouldn’t be a racist weirdo with no clear motivations — his being the god of “play” would make him the god of ENTERTAINMENT, representing the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.
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excuse me, she worked on doctor who with PETER CAPALDI. the star beast is an afterthought in the talalay ouevre. as for the actual news: well, best news of the day that’s for sure. in a world that’s going to shit at least we have good omens directed by rachel talalay.
We officially have a director for Good Omens 3. Can I hear a wahoo for Rachel Talalay? 😇😈. For those who don’t know who she is, she worked on Doctor Who with David Tennant. @GoodOmensPrime @rtalalay #GoodOmens #GoodOmens3 . 🔗:
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you can only examine the inherent absurdity of ordinary life like that if at one point you were on the outside of it . and look maybe it’s all a social construct and what we call autism was once called a “peculiar personality” will be in the future called something else.
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@TinthDoctor seconding what somebody said below about the Doctor and Master being retconned as brothers. it would ruin the dynamic of their relationship entirely and make it impossible to ship thoschei.
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like… being sassy and unemployed doesn’t make you a chav. i’m sassy and unemployed. i’m middle class . “chav” (which is kind of a slur? correct me if i’m wrong) culture has very specific attributes which donna’s family doesn’t fit under. just look at the tylers instead.
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@hausofdecline this was the best surreal horror comic i’ve ever read. was sitting in a dark room and, not an exaggeration, it sent a chill up my spine. i almost expected to turn around and see a shadow mirror me.
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a leash — the doctor defeats him because he finally recognises that he is the bringer of Life, that he must use Death against itself to destroy it, and THAT’S what ends Sutekh. the leash is just a visualisation. it’s meant to be read metaphorically!!.
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what’s remarkable about this shot is that missy’s face is the illuminated one and the doctor’s is shadowed in darkness. the symbolism of the lighting directly underlines the false hero/villain dichotomy these two DO NOT fit into. yin and yang. the friend inside the enemy.
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story than him — the doctor sheds this false face to find ncuti underneath it . or something better written but this took me 5 minutes and i’m not russell television davies.
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friend of dorothy is out friend of glinda is in.
“Wonderfully slaying friend of Glinda” girl at this point just say the slur
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an entertainment industry which is obsessed with churning out familiar content instead of innovative art, because it shivers at the idea that the public will stop watching. the public needs to be sedated with more of the same.
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follows essentially the same pattern: they should not be viewed as independent entities, they should be interpreted as constructs which represent the very concept of Music, or Play, or Death. that’s why, for all their power, they are so easily bested — all you need is faith.
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is that they’re trying to engage in “powerscaling” (“how can a God of Death be defeated with a leash?!”) . but the narrative wants you to approach it like you would a myth or a fairytale. an allegory. the Doctor doesn’t defeat Sutekh with.
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@hamishsteele maybe not THE (i’d say that’s “pain. pain. pain.” in WEAT), but surely up there. psychologically terrifying in a way that’s far more typical of “adult” sci-fi.
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