#family don't end in blood

[sam-is-my-safe-word]

'So when he sees me at DC con he needs to give me a hug from you' - @talltalesandbedtimestories 'Friend hugs via the medium of Jared Padalecki. He can cross the ocean easier than we can' - Yours truly

Man my friends are out for my heart & soul today (affectionate)

I'm surrounded by the best possible people who love me in ways that make sense to me, who accept my ways of love without question or comment on weirdness.

They rev me up when I'm startin' to stall & when I'm speeding down the highway. They let me help them when they need it (that's really fucking important, being allowed to help) and cheer them down the highway too.

#friends #friendship #found family #family don't end in blood #supernatural #spn #jared padalecki #liverpool comic con #spn dc con #hugs #transit of properties #stealthy Meatloaf reference

[peacewhendone]

No angst this time! Just (mostly) fuzzy feelings FTW! Go me!

@spnpoetryrenaissance Prompt Day 04: Family (Honorific) | Read on A03

#my fics #fic: the winchester gospels - metatron's poems #sam winchester #dean winchester #baby (impala) #bobby singer #castiel #charlie bradbury #kevin tran #crowley #rowena macleod #jody mills #donna hanscum #claire novak #jack kline #miracle the dog #spn poetry #spnpoetryrenaissance #spn poetry month #family don't end in blood

[scripted-downfall]

Okay, this is totally random and I have no freaking clue if it makes any sense, but I have a tendency to hear a phrase and then interpret it in a completely wild, usually absurd way.  (Little single-digit me used to hear the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” and think it was a song about finance since he kept singing about getting someone a loan.)  And, while I’m aware what Bobby meant by “Family don’t end in blood,” my head is trying to kill me because… literally speaking, that’s got so much meaning.

The literal interpretation of the phrase is more like “family don’t end bloody,” and that pains me because, in the end, each and every relationship the characters ever have did end in blood, both literally and in a more figurative sense.  

Azazel’s motivation for stalking their family was, after all, to feed Sam his blood.  (Literal)

Mary died.  (Literal: the image of blood spattering on Sam’s forehead is a continual motif)

Jess died.  (Literal: see parenthetical about Mary)

John died.  (More figurative, since he died, but it did occur after a) Azazel yanked an unfortunate quantity of blood out of Dean and b) the season finale/car crash that ended with copious amounts of blood drenching all three.)

Ash died.  (Figurative)

Jo and Ellen died.  (Literal: the main reason Jo couldn’t move is because she was bleeding out, after all.)

Bobby died.  (Pretty literal, but definitely at least figurative)

Kevin died.  (Mostly figurative, mainly because I can’t recall if smiting leaves the eyes bloody or just burned.)

Charlie died.  (Too literal.  I hate that scene.)

Crowley died.  (Figurative, I think.)

And the few relationships that manage to survive beyond death (Sam, Dean, and Cas themselves, mainly, with some additions) are veritably drenched in blood and mostly still have their final departures be through death.

Cas’ infamous departure was mostly figurative, but it’s also literal because he leaves behind a bloody parallel to the Perdition Handprint.

Dean + rebar; need I say more?  (Literal.)

And Sam’s a different case because, for some unknown reason, he’s an exception.  I won’t dwell here.

I don’t know if this makes any sense, but I saw the phrase again recently and, for some godforsaken reason, read it the literal way, so I decided to share the pain.

#supernatural #spn #bobby singer #dean winchester #sam winchester #miscellaneous spn characters #family don't end in blood #legitimately #i don't know why my head went here #but it hurt #and you know what they say #misery loves company

[shallowseeker]

Ben Braden is a cheeky red herring

A Taunt from Chuck to Dean.

He's literally named Ben/"son," and while he is a son in the ways that matter, but he's not Dean's biological son.

The biggest clue that he's not blood-related to Dean is not that the angels would have chosen him instead as vessel but that the angels would have used Ben Braeden to make Dean Winchester say yes to Michael.

Dean was to be Ben's Bobby. Period. Full stop.

Ben's calling card in later seasons would be, "Family don't end in blood."

#I don’t make the rules #Emma is dean’s blood relation but ben isn't #he was supposed to be ben’s bobby and that could have been beautiful #ben braden #lisa braden #ben & dean #family don't end in blood #emma & dean #shal meta #dean is ben's bobby

[adeathsentence]

All of Hayley's kids are showing up today and she's just 😌

#sounds like a bad reality show: ooc #YES EVEN IF SHE DIDN'T BIRTH THOSE LITTLE BITCHES #THEY'RE HERS NOW #FAMILY DON'T END IN BLOOD

[adiarose]

Bobby’s First Appearance

On May fourth, 2006, Supernatural’s season one episode twenty-two “Devils Trap” was released. It’s also known as the first appearance of beer-drinking, baseball-cap wearing, “Idjit” muttering Bobby Singer. A surrogate father to the Winchester boys, he’s known them most of their lives and cared for them while John was away on hunts or when they needed assistance themselves. This gruff but lovable character played by Jim Beaver was supposed to be a one-off. Just a one-episode character to help out the brothers and give a little nod to SPN executive producer Robert Singer. But the character would go on to appear in more than seventy episodes, even reappearing after his tragic season seven death as a ghost and then coming in again in season twelve as “alternate reality Bobby” from the apocalypse world. He even got an episode titled after him, “Weekend at Bobbys”, which was directed by Jensen, and is actually in my opinion one of the most enjoyable episodes to watch. It’s entertaining and is Supernatural without without making you break down in tears.  One of the hands down best SPN characters, main or reoccurring, I can’t imagine the show without Bobby Singer. And if anyone deserved to return for the show’s finale, (besides Cas) it was him.

“Family don’t end in blood boy.”                               -Bobby Singer

#Supernatural #SPN #Bobby Singer #Jim Beaver #Devils Trap #Robert Singer #Family don't end in blood #Idjit

[nelkcats]

Mafia kid

You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble a fugitive Halfa can get into; one of those problems was that while he was on the run from the G.I.W he ended up right in front of an illegal gun sale.

Danny tried to ignore the situation and promise not to say anything if they let him hide, the mobsters looked at each other suspiciously, but as soon as they heard the federal agents they hid the boy.

Said agents seemed pretty corrupt, because instead of investigating the situation they just kept yelling at each other about catching the monster and walked out of the place.

Danny thanked the family for his kindness, promising not to say anything about the operation, but when they saw the state the boy was in and how he was running away; they adopted him, not legally but he was definitely part of the family now.

In general they didn't force him to do anything illegal, they just took care of him, let him study and protected him from the government, who would have thought Gotham's criminal families had more heart than his own parents?

So it's understandable why he wasn't saying anything to Jim Gordon when he was caught in one of the raids after helping his family escape, Danny could see Batman and his birds waiting behind the tinted glass, but he wasn't going to help, he was not a traitor.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #danny fenton #dc x dp #He was on the run #And ended being a Mafia kid #Look this is something that could happen to him #jim gordon #Jim is annoyed #Maybe the mafia family was the Malone's before Batman took it #or maybe is totally random #Danny is loyal to his new family #He is actually happy in Gotham #They don't judge him #and Clocky assured they were good people #if you exclude the blood and assassination #But they were not going to obligate him to unite #You can be part of the family without doing illegal acts #Danny is the mafia emotional support kid #He escaped from Amity but ended up with a family

[dotthings]

Some thoughts about Jensen Ackles, from the pov of a Dean/Jensen fan who is also a Cas/Misha fan and a Destiel shipper, TFW fan, and fan of found family on SPN. How he gets his arms pulled off between different aisles of the fandom, on multiple things, and how Jensen loves SPN.

One side has some people who accuse him of being phobic, while they ignore all his allyship, his support, and times he’s supported their view of the characters and the show, while another side has some people who…also accuse him of being phobic but pretend they aren’t, while they blame the other side and spew rhetoric about a false sense of disgust and hatred they invented and assigned to Jensen. His own lane even has some people who deploy biphobic rhetoric, claiming it’s to defend Jensen’s honor. They don’t seem to care that has little connection to the actual full breadth and depth of his viewpoints on the subject.

One side resents him if he speaks about his love of the brothers and touchstones that as the center of the show, while another side resents him if he shows any support for found family. Particularly if it’s Cas, then it’s accusations of “pandering.”

Jensen loves the brothers, Jensen also loves found family. Jensen put “family don’t end with blood” on his charity auction shirt revival-themed doodles. Not “Sam and Dean nobody else.”

And it’s always one lane or the other going “Jensen better do this” and “Jensen better do that.” Dance, monkey. Dance.

One side will rip him to pieces if he shows too much support for bi Dean and Destiel, another side will rip him to pieces if he doesn’t show enough support. Jensen’s whole-hearted support for queer Cas gets completely lost in all this noise.

Jensen walks a tightrope over a moat of razor wire and crocodiles, unable to speak clearly, while he tries to show in every way he can that he supports people who see bi Dean and who see Destiel. He pads his warm words about Dean and Cas’s relationship with prevarications and disclaimers, and that doesn’t mean what some people think. If you pay close attention to his words, it’s not a shutdown or an expression of his own dislike or aversion. He may in part be reconciling his own long-standing and sincere appreciation of the kindred spirits, brother-like, best friends dynamic of Dean and Cas, a relationship he is fond of and he played for 12 seasons, mixed with his own supportiveness about the concept of Dean being bi and mutually acknowledged canon Destiel. But he doesn’t want to say anything until the deal’s done and he can stand on top of it free and clear. He’s signaling as much support as he can, as much warmth as he can, without tipping his hand all the way.

Jensen held Misha’s cape for the love confession. He was openly enthusiastic about the episode and that scene. Jensen is not “against” anything, except maybe the hate. Including hate that denigrated and erased Jensen’s own superb performance and diminished and erased Dean’s pov and feelings and roiling and strong emotions, including Dean sobbing on the floor.

Jensen, who stuck up for everyone at SPN, fellow cast members, crew. Jensen who shows his interest in and love and respect for other characters and various relationships. Jensen who very clearly thinks holistically about the story and the show.

He sticks up for everyone, yet didn’t have room to breathe at the end of spn’s run to stick up for Dean. He had to fight with an EP for the right to even have Dean die standing on his feet, couldn’t get more than that, and was told “take or leave it” in the writers’ room about the ending. Which he had misgivings on. But reconciled with it eventually. Also before it was filmed, for a while, he thought it would be much better than it turned out to be after production shutdowns in March 2020 allowed for corporate to come in and derail the original full plans for the ending.

Jensen’s disappointment about Dean is self-evident, it’s also self-evident he’s not just disappointed about that. Dean, Cas, found family, all matter to him, not “just the brothers.”

Maybe Jensen didn’t want conflict and confrontation as the show came to an end. He loves SPN a lot. So he didn’t push the issue hard on Dean’s behalf. Maybe Jensen decided it was better to bide his time rather than confront.

And after all, before the series finale was even wrapped, he was already making his own plans, forming his own production company and contemplating SPN revival and spinoffs, and then Jensen wound up as THEE producer of the SPN universe—prequels, revivals, spinoffs and all.

For the prequel, he worked with creatives to find a way to start repairing the damage done in Dean’s ending, and opened up the story to hope, to possibilities, to start repairing damage done on other things as well. And he got hate from some in the lane that was supposed to love and respect both J’s the most, he got blamed for caring, for having agency, for caring about Dean, for caring about the SPN universe, for caring about the story. He got blamed for making a TV show and got blamed for asserting himself about Dean in the way he’d decided was best for him, the way he preferred to deal with it.

Jensen cares in a very wide way. Like Dean, his heart is very big. He doesn’t hate the way certain antis keep claiming he hates. He’s also empathetic, open-minded, curious, intelligent, he listens, and his pov evolves, which is true of fans too. (It’s not any kind of an insult to point out that he’s capable of understanding and learning and growing—it’s nothing I don’t apply for myself, and don’t try to do myself—and Jensen himself has talked about the importance of these things. It’s how many people do, it’s how it should be.)

Jensen ushered in a prequel that was about found family as well as tying back to the brothers and their family, but very much linked to Dean’s pov and Dean’s story. At no point did he abandon his love for the brothers. It’s that this isn’t the only thing that matters to him. He’s going to usher in a revival that is about Sam and Dean and their family. And maybe get some more healing for himself (and for fans who care about Dean) on Dean’s story, as well as some other things.

“I love this character, I love the story of these two brothers and I love what it stands for and I love the world that they live in and the family that they have acquired through their years. There’s so much love and attachment to that show. There’s a reason that it went 15 years.” —Jensen Ackles on the Inside of you podcast, January 18, 2022

#Jensen Ackles #Dean Winchester #family don't end with blood

[bloodsalted]

give these people some love! and here have mine!

// man i have so many awesome people on my dash on the daily. like. i can't believe how awesome it is to have the friendships i've made since i wandered back to the supernatural fandom and attempted this dork. today all the comments in the tags as people reblogged that promo legit choked me up more than once and just brightened my day! plus the words of encouragement i get from so many of you and the amazing writing and partnerships and the love?? is EVERYTHING! so here! have some people who deserve the world and make mine better for being part of it!

i'm gonna do these more often. cause y'all deserve the bestest. and hello new people! my weekends can get kinda wonky but i' hope we can do stuff and get to know each other! hi! again!

@qapsiel , @ruinedmyself , @murderdeals , @singersalvaged , @snnynatural , @hostiae , @ghstfacr (and so many other bloggos!) , @imundus , @fireheld , @awkwardcourage , @misfitpuzzlepieces (and their lil spiderweb of blogs!), @sookiestackhcuse , @sheldoney , @huntrcsss , @loyaltyfallen , @loyaltyguided , @loyaltylanced , @legacywritten , @crookedredemption , @lcstinfantasy , && so so fraeking many more. i could go on forever. but i'll save some for later. just thanks for being so supportive and letting me be lucky enough to be in the same orbit as ya. xoxo

#love youuuuuuuu all. mwa mwa! #my heart is warm #i am an emotional bean tonight. #it happens. :X #a wise man once told me. family don't end in blood. (promo) #ooc; one from the salt circle

[rotisseries]

the anger and hatred i feel for the "robin wouldn't date nancy cause of steve" rhetoric is literally unmatched by any other force on planet earth

#I will murder each and every one of you with a chainsaw this isn't even about shipping this is about the way you guys talk about shit #I will fucking have your head I will grow a garden of violets and lavender and use your mashed up bones as fertilizer #I will drown you in a pool of your own blood #I will carpet bomb your house I will visit a rage upon you so horrendous it will make the rapture look like a nice family vacation #I want you people to eat shit #<-that. is all copypasted from discord bitching #but anyway. steve has moved the fuck on and if he hasn't he should it's been like 2 years #and while there's obviously a statute of limitations on dating friend's exes st*ncy ending has exceeded that #now we're at the point where it would only matter if it was a shitty ex which nancy is NOT. #“she broke steve's heart🥺” this literally ain't about him idc quit making robin's dating life about steve #also you guys just don't get lesbians if anyone is gonna date a friend's ex it IS a lesbian #you literally don't have to like ronance but I am so tired of people talking about it like this situation would be wrong somehow #they're literally already friends dating isn't even that much of a jump #also you guys have no sense of fun I like messy shit you could make that messy if you wanted #stranger things #ronance #anyway. tis the misogyny hydra again I think

[angelsdean]

ALSO. i will say. when dean talks about family, cas is absolutely part of that. always has been.

#people coming out here with the worst takes just bc they wanna hate on jackles and the prequel bc the ending didn't go their way #like OF COURSE cas is implied in 'family' like how many times do we gotta say family don't end in blood ??? #vic.txt #spnwin #spnwin spoilers

[reallyhardy]

Sorry what’s up w the Ethan slater stuff? I know him only from your posts / SpongeBob stuff

HI HELLO please buckle in

yep -- the same guy from the spongebob musical, and my posts abut the spongebob musical.

he blew up completely and now the general public knows him as 'ariana grande's new boyfriend' - their relationship seems to have started off the back of co-starring in the upcoming wicked musical film adaptation.

it's just been like. a monkey's paw curling sort of a way for him to get catapulted to fame, as i had always really enjoyed him as a performer (as spongebob, yes, but also in the other roles i'd seen him in,) and my biggest hope back around 2017 was that he would continue in and be really successful in theatre, get a lot of broadway roles, maybe take on some existing parts i thought he'd really suit, like seymour in little shop or ogie in waitress.......... but instead he booked the role of boq from wicked in a massive hollywood film production instead, where he met ariana grande. THE ariana grande.

and then yeah. at some point, he and grande broke up with their respective partners, (slater leaving both his wife AND newborn son) jumped into a new relationship, and now the whole wider internet knows who he is but certainly not for the right reasons.

there's been speculation regarding whether or not grande and slater had cheated on their previous partners before their relationship began with various sources coming out of the woodwork saying "yes they did" and others saying "no they didn't" -- humans are all perfectly capable of making stuff up, the media especially, so i simply don't know who to trust and i admit it had completely shattered my whole good impression of him - PLUS it gave the wider internet an absolutely awful first impression of him, resulting in, yeah, the (frankly, unflattering, sometimes downright cruel) memes of him popping up on twitter and, as i discovered yesterday, in non-theatre youtubers' videos who would literally never have heard of him if not for the slater-grande romance 🥲

FULL COVERAGE of the situation as it was happening can all be found on the lovely @notasimpleslater's blog under the tag 'ozgate' if you want to delve deeper!

#loren talks #ethan slater #months later let's call this my actual full response/reaction lol #i think at the time this was going down at the end of 2023 i was sort of just Freaking Out like my blood was boiling lol #i was parasocially furious with both of them #ofc now i do realise i'd put him on something of a pedestal #having seen his cute posts about his then wife an former childhood sweetheart plus posts welcoming his new son #AND having watched a youtube mini-series he'd made with his then-brother-in-law. i was SO invested and then. #i was like OH. he really DESTROYED his family huh. #but ofc! every situation is nuanced. we don't know what went on behind the scenes #wrg to his relationship. or what grande's was like with her ex-husband #since everything came to light there's been articles stating that slater wants to work with his ex-wife to share custody of their child #and that he's been spotted backstage WITH his son at spamalot on broadway (his current production) #so it sugggests he's not trying to be an Absent Father #which tracks with some of his own artwork as he and nick blaemire DID write a whole musical about the strained relationship between #a father and son and i just feel like. that suggests something about his personal character. and makes me HOPE he'd want to #be a present and loving parent regardless of circumstance. #anyways. #it's simply not my business BUT. seeing his face #popping up every now and again #it does just. feel extremely weird haha #there's a part of me that's like oh but that's musical spongebob my bestie what's he doing here #as for ariana i really have never had a strong opinion of her #but i have to say hearing her songs out and about these days...... :') i could do without it

[allthoseotherworlds]

It's honestly pretty frustrating sometimes how I feel like so many people say they love Martha, but mostly what I actually see people saying about Martha is how much she probably does/should hate the Doctor for not returning her crush, or sometimes how much people hate Blink/Family of Blood/Last of the Time Lords because they were hard for her.

And like, the former of those is frustrating because a) Nobody is obligated to return someone's romantic feelings, b) Being oblivious to someone having a crush on you might suck for the other person but is not actually a moral failing and c) Martha was sad about it but like. She didn't leave because she was furious at the Doctor for not returning her crush? She left because she knew her crush wasn't reciprocated and wasn't going to be, but couldn't get over it on her end while travelling with the Doctor. And also because the past year had been pretty traumatizing for everyone, including her and also the Doctor and also everyone else who was on that ship thing.

Anyways

I just wanted to talk for a bit about the things I like about Martha, or that are interesting, that are unrelated to those points above.

I think she's the first companion in New Who to join Unit, and I think still the only one to be a medical doctor with a strong scientific backing. Which is cool!

I think it's interesting that in the first episode she appears in, her family is shown to be kind of messy and kind of frustrating, and it feels like that's something she's a little glad to be getting away from for a bit when she travels with the Doctor (though it's not the reason she travels with them). And then, at the end of the season when her family is in danger she prioritizes their wellbeing enough to snap at the Doctor about it. If I remember correctly their phones were tapped or something and it wound up making things a bit worse, but I appreciate the nuances of her relationship with them and how important they are to her despite the messiness.

Despite all the ado made about her crush on the Doctor, I really loved how she really seemed to get the point of travelling with the Doctor. I think that she nailed both the joy and excitement of the unknown, and the compassion and sense of care that motivates the Doctor's travels, and which I think is vital to all of my favourite companions.

It also contrasts in interesting ways with how her personality shifts after she stops travelling with the Doctor - she still cares about people's wellbeing and seems to value the things she learned while travelling, but working with Unit and Torchwood does make her more military, and then of course doing freelance alien fighting (? or something?) in the End of Time.

I think Martha and the Doctor are an interesting duo because they contrast each other in interesting ways. They're both compassionate, hopeful but practical, and good at what they do, but they reflect those qualities in ways that almost, but don't quite, fit together nicely. They don't conflict, really, but they're not quite sustainable either.

They work well together and care about each other, but they're too similar in some ways and too different in others to ever quite see eye to eye, which is why they end up going in different directions. And I think that's not anyone's fault, or indicative of any deep flaws in either of them. Or even really a tragedy, because Martha seems to be doing new and interesting things every time we see her, with plenty of options available and a decent rapport with the Doctor whenever they show up.

Anyway this got way longer than I meant it to. Tldr: There are so many more interesting things to say about Martha than just "She must hate the Doctor". Here are some of them.

#Also I didn't have room here but. I understand hating the family of blood stuff but. John Smith is not the Doctor. That's the whole point #John Smith is absolutely rude to Martha and I dislike him as a person. But he is also not the Doctor #And I absolutely do not believe that the Doctor handpicked the persona and went “Yeah. Making him rude and racist and like guns” #I think they just got out the chameleon arch and said #“Here's the time and location that gives us the best shot at avoiding the family of blood. Give me and Martha random identities. Thanks” #That said it's actually not an episode I particularly like so I don't know why I'm rambling about it here #I get anxious about things where characters are Not Themselves and being rude and mean in ways they aren't #And also found the ending a little Too Much personally #Anyways I'm just monologuing now #Doctor Who #Doctor Who Meta #Martha Jones #I am talking #I am just some guy (gender neutral) #This post brought to you by another person joking about how Martha is so strong for putting up with the Doctor because of the crush stuff #And me as an aromantic not enjoying the implication that I am something to put up with and that the most interesting thing anyone can say #about a dynamic between two people is how much it sucks that one of them didn't know the other had a crush and 'led them on' #or whatever. But just ranting about that again didn't feel constructive so I tried to say more interesting things instead

[boysbeloving]

KinnPorsche the Series: family

for KinnPorsche Week 2022 (October 2nd: Day 7: Main or Minor family)

#kpweek2022 #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche la forte #kpts #it's just.....family #i couldn't choose....it's them....all of them <3 #today was...quite a day personally.... i'm in my family feels #family don't end with blood #userspicy #becauseigtf

[sage-nebula]

Martha didn't get a Tennant Doctor because she didn't want a Tennant Doctor. Martha was the only one of RTD's companions who left the Doctor of her own volition, and only ever called him back on her own terms, when she had need of him.

Rose didn't leave the Doctor willingly. Rose was trapped in an alternate universe because it was either that or be stuck in a void with Daleks and Cybermen for the rest of time. And when she returned (primarily to warn the Doctor about the oncoming darkness caused by Davros but also because she wanted to be with him), she left with the Metacrisis Tenth Doctor and their own TARDIS because that was the only way to give her a satisfying ending from the viewpoint of the audience. (And even then, there are some fans who will tell you that nothing short of her being with the Time Lord Doctor in the prime reality is satisfying, but that just couldn't happen for reasons outside the narrative story.)

Donna didn't leave the Doctor willingly. Donna absorbed all of the intelligence of a Time Lord into her human brain, and this was going to kill her. She had to have her memory erased and be kept away from anything alien for presumably forever or else the knowledge would return and literally kill her. Donna begged the Doctor not to wipe her memory anyway, because she would rather have died than give up that life. Just like Rose, Donna had planned on staying with the Doctor for the rest of her life.

This was not the case for Martha. Setting aside the fact that Martha was treated like garbage for the duration of her season from a writing standpoint, by the end of season three Martha has realized two things: 1.) that she is goddamn brilliant and never deserved to feel like she was second best, and 2.) that she doesn't want the Doctor anymore. Unlike Rose, Donna, and Captain Jack, Martha leaves the TARDIS of her own free will, to pursue her own life and career outside the Doctor. Even Sarah-Jane says in "School Reunion" that she waited for the Doctor to come back for her; she didn't want to leave, not permanently! But Martha did. She chose to step away. The only other companion to have done this during RTD's run is Mickey, so I guess Martha wasn't the only one; still, she's the only one of the primary companions, the three women, to want to leave. She made that choice herself.

Now, does that mean everything about Martha's ending was perfect? No. As much as the "Smith and Jones" wordplay of her ending with Mickey is amusing (get it, like her first episode), it makes no sense when you consider that she was engaged when she returned in season four, and yet we never hear of that fiance again. I mean, I guess it's fine since it's not like we ever saw him? But what happened there? Why was no thought given to Martha's story there? What was she doing with Mickey in an active war zone? Why no mention of her in these three specials even though, last we heard of her, she was working with UNIT in a really important position? I like Mel well enough, but why couldn't Martha have been there instead? Especially since Martha and Donna had a preexisting friendship, and would have been delighted to see each other again?

With that said though, she doesn't need a Tennant Doctor. She didn't want a Tennant Doctor. Frankly, Tennant's Doctor doesn't deserve her with the way he acted ("Rose would know" right to her face, like -- dude, I get it, you're grieving, but that's fucking rude and Rose would NOT approve you using her memory to make another woman feel bad about herself). Martha's character arc was about recognizing her own brilliance and her own worth; standing on her own two feet as a PROPER doctor, Doctor Martha Jones, walking the earth and saving the world without a TARDIS or Torchwood or a Time Lord brain. Just her own fucking determination and brilliance.

Rose and Donna got Tennant Doctors because that was the way to make their final send-offs satisfying. Rose and a Tennant Doctor got to be in love and happy together in a parallel world, which is fitting considering that they were in love and never wanted to leave each other. Donna and a Tennant Doctor get to be besties and happy together in this reality, so that RTD has a convenient excuse to pull Tennant back into a story if he ever wants to again (since it'd be hard to explain why Tentoo came over, versus having Fourteen right there) . . . but also because, like Rose, Donna never wanted to leave the Doctor, she wanted to be with him forever.

But Martha didn't want that. Martha left on her own accord. She left with a smile on her face and her cell phone on the TARDIS console, so that when she said "here boy!" the Doctor would listen. She left on her terms, with him at her call, only there when she has use for him.

And honestly? Good for her.

#like it was a fucking waste that we didn't see Martha at all in these specials #or even get a mention of her but like #she wouldn't WANT a Tennant Doctor. she was the only one of the 3 who left willingly! #(and honestly who can blame her like fr . . . the shit she put up with bc of him) #(the shit in the Family of Blood episodes gave her just cause to beat his ass into next week honestly) #(she hugs him at the end but honestly she should have beat his ass. just started swinging) #(how dare he do that to her? honestly?? i'm not talking about the love plot bit bc while that was ugh it's like #small potatoes to making her as a Black woman have to WORK IN SERVITUDE TO WHITE PEOPLE #and like the scene where he grabs her arm and throws her from the room? BITCH????? #GOD i'm mad again just THINKING about it #she should have beat his ass so hard he regenerated right then and there. AGH. #ANYWAY #Martha Jones deserved better but getting a Tennant Doctor is not better #not for her. it would be like a punishment honestly #she walked away from him and then you put his sad boy ass back on her doorstep?? hello??? no thank you #doctor who #martha jones #dw spoilers #this probably sounds like I hate Tennant's Doctor but I don't #I just hate how a lot of season 3 was written wrt how Martha was treated #like Martha having very legitimate concerns in the Shakespeare episode about being a Black woman in that time period #and Ten mocks her for being concerned like ??? #ARGGGHGHHGHGHGHG #ABOUT TO FLING MYSELF INTO THE TV TO BEAT HIS ASS MYSELF ISTFG #A N Y W A Y

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lyney's character story about his vision revealing arlecchino didn't allow him to use a delusion and was genuinely angry that he would do something lynette wouldn't want for him, encouraging him to find other solutions... the way she was also sad lyney didn't feel comfortable relying on her during the quest... she really cares about the kids. her smile while speaking to furina also looked sincere. even though one can debate if this is all an act to make them trust and be loyal to her (as said by her, "good actors hone their craft to mesmerise the whole crowd") or acknowledge the fact she's using the kids by making them part of the fatui, she genuinely seems to cherish them. at least she goes through lengths that aren't really necessary for her not to care. the way she reformed the orphanage, the way she helped freminet get closure on his mother's fate... i just think it goes to show and confirm once more how biased everything/everyone in the game is. sometimes bordering unreliable, really. scara and childe's lines about her paint her in a certain light, which i'm not saying isn't true quite the opposite, but that persona seems to coexists with the version the kids from the house of the hearth know.

#her friendly proposal to the traveler also seemed genuine even if she has other interests in mind #maybe we will be surprised in the future i don't know but her vibe is really different from someone like dottore #she is cordial and diplomatic which automatically means she's cunning and probably good at manipulating people but she also seems genuine #and empathetic and her debate with furina only comes to show how smart she is... she seemed righteous?! #i'm really curious to find out more about her motivations why she became an harbinger and so on #she seems extremely loyal to the tsaritsa #the tsaritsa also seems so cool i loved that she was described in such a regal way for some reason #shnezenaya is gonna be such a cool area #anyways daily arlecchino rant because obsessed with her #on another note lyney's story was very emotional him and lynette really went through a lot #knowing they probably wouldn't be 'here' if only the gods hadn't blessed lyney is so :') #they really would go to the end of the world for each other #also for freminet despite not being blood related they really are each others family #sobbing i love them #lyneys voice lines always make me sad he just wants to be seen and accepted #i want to hug him 😭