#anyway of fucking course

[glompcat]

2 and 6 for the ☆ dw asks ☆ ?

2. what’s your favorite moment with your least-favorite doctor?

This took a whole lot of thought, but I am going to go with eating Fish Fingers and Custard with young Amelia.

6. favorite motif or reoccurring theme in the show?

That the Time Lords are the absolute worst, and life on Gallifrey is a repressive and abusive nightmare.

Part of why Romana is my favorite Classic companion is because her stories always have great inroads to explore how over the top awful Gallifrey is, especially in the EU.

It is an evil empire that sees itself as better than the rest of the universe, when truly literally every single resident of that miserable planet - regardless of privilege - lives in absolute abject misery. No one NO ONE AT ALL benefits from their horrifically backwards way of doing things, and yet they claim to be be the most civilized and advanced society in existence, perfect to the point where making any change at all is considered wrong.

Even after Rassilon returns and any and all veneer of anything else drops away and they fully embrace being a fascist state where the schools teach nothing but weapons making and battle strategy and the entire universe is divided into "planets that have pledged their fealty to us and we can do whatever we want to their populations" and "planets that refuse to say they are our slaves, and therefore should be wiped out of the timeline" nothing has really changed, they just are openly acting externally again for the first time in epochs.

They are THE WORST, the absolute worst, in every conceivable way. From friendship being frowned upon and almost seen as a dirty word in their society to how they steal literally everything they claim as their own cultural achievements (it is so telling, when in the audios they visit a Gallifrey were interstellar travel has not been attempted since Rassilon's time, they have no scientific curiosity or talent, just endless cruelty and an entrenched system where members of the upper classes can loose all status and become slaves either to earn their houses extra money or as punishment for stepping a foot out of line).

From the moment we see them in War Games, everything about the Time Lords is self righteous bullshit and dolling out punishment to those who refuse to conform to their endless endless laws, positioning themselves as the arbiters of justice in the universe while simultaneously being anything but. Just a place where every last resident is miserable and the founders were monsters beyond measure who set up a society so ass backwards basic psychological needs like enjoying life - taking stock of the daisiest daisy - are totally alien to their way of life. And yet, despite creating a horrible place where no one is ever happy - they are revered as Gods, as creators of the perfect ideal, above all critique or questioning.

#Doctor Who #sorry for the delay between getting this and answering it #sleep and all that #also yes I am aware that may have meant music #but IDGAF #anyway of fucking course #the torture and abuse of a small child is a core part of their society #everything about them #is just endless misery

[crplpunkklavier]

hey after kristoph gavin planted atroquinine in a kid's favorite nailpolish, while he was spending seven long agonizing years waiting for the kid to actually poison herself, how badly do you think he pissed his dumb little blue pants when 6 years in his brother presumably out of nowhere published a song titled "atroquinine my love" and made the whole world sing it for a little while

#what a funny coincidence. #an even funnier headcanon of course is that klavier knew but just couldnt prove it so he was just like #well lets fuck with this asshole a little bit #oh youre watching everyone? im watching you. and you need to change your pants #anyway #ace attorney

[knifearo]

being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

#aromantic people are just sexy i'm not making the decisions here it's just facts #course ur hot as fuck. it came free with the aromanticism #being sexy is just default settings for aromantic people 👍 #hope this all helps. anyway i'm on my 'i hope i die alone <3 i can't wait to die alone <3' kick rn #i think the existential fear that people have of Not Partnering specifically is so. well. #obviously that shit is strong and it is SO awesome to be free of it. #realizing you're aro and you don't Want a partner can be such a hit to the solar plexus #cause society says that's the only thing that'll make you happy. so either you go without that thing or you force yourself #into doing something you don't want which would make you unhappy anyway. #so you think it's a lose lose situation and you have to come to terms with what amatonormativity presents as the worst possible situation #but then! whoa! turns out personhood is inherently valuable in and of itself and romantic partnering is just a construct! #and that nightmare is now your life to do with as you please... define as you will... structure as you want... #best case scenario. is what i'm saying. #every day i wake up ready to spit all that amatonormative rhetoric back in life's teeth by being alone and being happy #and it's so fucking satisfying. every day. #fucking JUBILANT being by myself. and i love being a living breathing 'fuck you' to the romantic system #you need a partner to be happy? oh that's sooo fucking crazy guess i'll go be miserable then. in my perfect fucking dream life lmao #yeah obviously it's the worst possible outcome on earth to die without a partner. so terrible. can't wait for it :) #aromantic #aromanticism #aro positivity #aroace #arospec #sorry to bitches who are sad about not having a partner. i could not give a fuck though get better soon #you couldn't EVER pay me enough to go back to a mindset in which my inherent value wasn't enough by myself. #FUCK that shit. absolutely miserable and a bad life outlook in general. like genuinely do the work w/ amatonormativity and get better #life is something that can be so fulfilling whether someone wants to kiss you or whatever or not #i'm on antidepressants and i have people i care deeply about. what the fuck would i need a partner for lmao

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

#like of course not everyone knows I'm not the kind of asshole who gets mad about someone not having heard about an unrecorded con panel #not knowing is one thing #erasing or ignoring that aspect of her is something completely different #like yeah she's incredibly relateable in that way #and I know how comforting it can be to project your own dx onto someone and go 'wow shes just like me fr' #but I really feel like doing that re: Harrow's schizophrenia is a huge lost opportunity for growth #and I hate that the takeaway for so many people is 'Harrow is autistic' #and not 'oh cool didn't know autism and schizophrenia had so much overlap in experience' #relate to psychotic people without flinching challenge #anyway. tl;dr: #if you didn't already know then I have the coolest new fun fact about Harrow to share with you!! #if you do already know but have elicted to ignore it then a little bit fuck you actually #but I will ALWAYS assume someone didn't know before assuming they're being a dick #the locked tomb #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth

[2009phan]

okay you know what my roman empire is?

the fact that teen dan howell became a fan of/fell in love with phil when he was posting the most deranged unhinged videos on the internet. like this was pre mainstream youtube. this was before "hello guys smash that like button" youtube. teen dan howell saw this

and was like "i need to wait until i turn 18 to message this guy and stalk him". like broooo

the way people say it is like "yeah, phil was a youtuber and dan was a fan" and it makes you think that phil was like a modern day sponsor-friendly youtuber with an instagram following and a brand. but that is so detached from the truth. like youtube itself was an obscure website and like dan saw this unhinged weirdo's videos and fell in love with him. like.. ahhhhhh i am not okay

#and the fact that people are shocked that they're into catboys or whatever #like know your roots okay #they've always been deranged #especially dan okay #bc phil is the way he is neurodivergent king okay we stan #but dan fell in love with that shit #ofc he's a catboy freak of fucking course #anyway yeah #roman empire #dan and phil #dnp #phan

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

"You know, I could hunker down at your place. Slither over and watch you eat cake." ⁠ —Crowley to Aziraphale in the Good Omens Lockdown special

#I'm HARDLY the only one who picked up on it in s1 of course I just love how it got made SUPER obvious now lmao #Good Omens Season 2 #Good Omens TV #Good Omens #ineffable husbands #also I'm STILL never over that line from the Lockdown audio like what the fuck. truly what the fuck. sicko thing to say. #hang on where's the post I made abt it #Crowziraphale #starky's original posts #anyways not to be obnoxious but it's so funny that this also happens to be a garashir thing. what were the odds.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[janetsnakehole02]

This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).

Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”

This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.

edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.

#that being said #my thoughts are also w the middle and working classes of the uk who will now unfortunately have to bear the brunt of the aftermath of this #of course they’d force a ‘period of mourning’ on everyone 🙃 #anyway #ding dong the bitch is dead #queen elizabeth #elizabeth ii #george v #anti british #british royal family #british raj #british colonialism #fuck the british #fuck colonialism #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi tag #indian #india #indian independence movement #hyderabad #telangana #telugu #south india

[shirojikimattari]

PSA: Beware offers of free meal

Only make the baby jealous after dinner, perhaps?

#shadowheart #shadowtav #Was the free meal worth it #no #of course not #i would rather starve to death than upset my baby #but would i starbe if shadowheart is the whole 5 course meal #anyway tags #baldurs gate shadowheart #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3art #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 shadowheart #baldurs gate tav #jealous shadowheart #isnso fucking cute #shadowheart bg3

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

#love how they manipulated people into spreading that post by making it seem like a cishet vs gay thing #when the real message is OP thinks trying to sell your writing is cringe and 'weird' and 'normal people' with jobs would never #which would of course never have flown on the fandom website #so they played into the queer shipping is purer than cishet shipping puriteen thing #and it worked! #because my god people are gullible #this is the direct pipeline that leads to AI thievery #''normal' people write for the joy of it anyway so why do you need pay? you are just greedy and 'weird'!' #'oh no this isn't about who we get to call cringe and who gets to profit from art it's about um... #(quick what's a hated m/f ship?).. oh uh 'shitty' REYLO #and not our super pure uh... (spirk is still popular right? lets throw in that avengers one too to make it seem timely) stucky!' #I'm sorry if I have no sense of humor about this but the year is 2024 and people are still way too ready to sneer #about writers trying to earn a fucking living in the shittiest timeline #and i need you to look deep into yourself and ask you why it's so important to you to tell yourself that only people writing what you like #are 'normal' with real jobs and to vilify everyone else as 'weird' and 'shitty' #for trying to make an income during a financial fucking crisis #i would say sorry for ranting about this but I'm not sorry because wtf #write whatever you want #publish whatever you want #there is no moral fucking purity in what the content is #and one thing certainly doesn't make you more 'weird' or 'normal' than the other #like there is soooo much shitty mlm that started as fanfic??? #that post is 100% OP made up some guys to get mad about and called them relyos for the clicks #writing #publishing #writblr #writeblr #i wasn't going to tag this anything but you know what fuck it I'm mad #i had like 5 more tags but tumblr cut me off which is fair 😅 #fan fiction

[marisatomay]

“you don’t owe anyone anything” actually you owe everyone everything!!! you OWE your table server and your coworkers and the elderly person you pass on the street and the dog on its walk and the child toddling along in the park and the driver trying to merge next to you and the pregnant person standing on public transport KINDNESS in return for theirs!! the connections we build are what give life meaning!!!

#a buddy of mine is a server and is getting ROASTED on twitter for complaining about #how often nowadays people will just completely ignore her when she greets them and asks how they are and what can she get them started with #and when they DO finally acknowledge that she Exists they’re rude about it all #and how demoralizing and dehumanizing it is #and of course people have taken this and decided that being told it’s rude to ignore that your server exists is actually ableist #like jesus fucking christ you people can’t do anything huh #like i’m serious i’m ND and have terrible days where i go mute sometimes and you know what i do? #do my best to not go out places that require social interaction but if i Must then i’m not a prick to the people i come across #because my issues aren’t their fault. and i owe it to them to not make their lives harder. #anyway i’m so angry for bailey people are so awful grow up and have some fucking AGENCY

[shima-draws]

I’ve watched FMAB a thousand times but Greed’s death STILL gets me every fucking time. 1. Him realizing that Ling is going to get hurt and possibly killed by Father if Greed doesn’t leave his body, 2. Greed coming to terms with the fact that he’s definitely going to get killed by Father but he’s willing to make the sacrifice for Ling, and 3. Greed discovering that what he wanted was what he had the entire time, and that was true friends who would stick with him through thick and thin, who would share the same experiences and failures and triumphs and still love him despite his homunculus status. I’m so.

Also I’m SO pissed at the fact that Pride got to live but Greed didn’t. In my brain I kept saying “Well yeah I guess it makes sense for all of the homunculi to die bc they came from Father and HE has to die” but then I remembered that Pride LIVES and that makes me so salty. Out of all the homunculi Greed deserved to live the MOST AND I JUST. FUCKIGN.

#It’s been years and I’m STILL in denial #I’m living in my fantasy Soulmate GreedLingEd AU. Don’t fucking talk to me about canon #Anyway we finally finished FMAB today. My roommate absolutely LOVED it lol #But of course he would it is The anime of all time after all ;) #Shima speaks #FMA #FMAB #Fullmetal Alchemist #Greed #Ling Yao #Also it fucks me up EVERY time that Ed and Ling are the Last People Greed sees before he dies #The last people he looks at #The two people he cared about the MOST #AND. Greed’s death is what gave Ed the final push to defeat Father #Both he and Ling were DEVASTATED at Greed’s death and I’m. SO fucking normal about it #GODDD. God. G o d

[blueskittlesart]

finally started my character design final and it's a 3-phase video game boss and protagonist so of course i had to go BATSHIT FUCKING INSANE. here's my first pass stay tuned for more bc this is like a 5 week assignment

#im going to crit on these sketches in 3 hours and i just checked the class google drive and NO ONE went this hard im about to look so crazy #anyways :) the prompt i was given was 'demonic swamp' so this is a fishing sim in which you have to fish demon fish out of the demon swamp #and the final boss is of course the swamp demon. who used to be a regular human woman #but she girlbossed too close to the sun and got possessed and then subsequently possessed the entire swamp. lmfao #ANYWAY. wish me luck i think my prof is gonna be like why the fuck did you do this much on week 1 #skribbles

[wanderingdream]

"you need not have come to my defense" except dream LOVES it because in that moment Hob is a knight protecting his king and Dream hasn't had anyone fight on his behalf before because he doesn't wage wars, he doesn't reap he creates but to have someone stand up and fight for him even though HE DOES NOT NEED IT makes him smile that little smile and realize that he loves seeing someone fight for him, seeing HOB fight for him, defending him in a way no one has before even though he need not come to his defense. he need not!! but he does. in this essay i will

#dreamling #hob gadling x dream #GOING FERAL OVER THAT TBH #might write a fic about dream wanting to roleplay hob fighting wars for him #and of course roleplay for dream is in the dreaming where an ACTUAL war is staged and he's like 'go my knight' and hob is like dream ily but #the fuck #anyway #the sandman

[digitalsymbiote]

Really wanna make a VN about mechs and AI copilots and plurality and dysphoria and humanity and identity and the experience of inhabiting a body that is not your own and sharing that body with someone who knows every facet of your being and you know every facet of their being and you both love each other for and despite it and you help each other break out of the shackles of a future capitalist militaristic dystopia with your shared metal and flesh body

#i wanna write thiiiisssss #but i need the spoons to actually write it #but anyway i think it would be cool and neat and a fun passion project to work on #visual novel #empty spaces #cybernetic dreams #mecha #robots #and of course itd be queer and transhumanist as fuck #cus im queer and transhumanist as fuck

[kitamars]

high school joui 4 shenanigans

#deep breaths takasugi #the worst friend group you will ever know #only ones who can somehow tolerate each other #gintoki’s one worst quality is that he cannot shut the fuck up #i couldn’t stop thinking of them after watching daily lives of highschool boys and they’d get up to so much dumb shit actually #can you tell i kind of miss my high school days #i sound so old when i say that wtf im 19 #painting has been a lot of fun lately i will not lie #but also college starts like. day after tomorrow im so cooked #GINTAMA OBSESSION PLEASE GET ME THROUGH ANOTHER TERM 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 #i might draw some ginhiji stuff to accompany this later bc of course i will #i am nothing if not predictable to my audience #anyways #sakata gintoki #katsura kotarou #sakamoto tatsuma #takasugi shinsuke #joui 4 #gintama #ok bye