#borrowing from the past

[notyoujamie]

borrowing from the past: — Third Doctor

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #cwedit #doctor who #modern who #classic who #my gif #** #*dw #borrowing from the past #parallel #third doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #spearhead from space #the giggle #the claws of axos #last christmas #the daemons #the day of the doctor #the mutants #the impossible planet #the time monster #the lodger #the three doctors #spyfall part 2 #the curse of peladon

[r-aindr0p]

That last chapter of Glorious masquerade was crazy.

#twisted wonderland #glorious masquerade #idia shroud #azul ashengrotto #malleus draconia #rollo flamme #twst shitpost #(fire) clown to (fire) clown communication #clutching my fists and punching walls thinking abt rollos backstory #When his outfit and fireplace were craftable I lost it aswell #breathing his uniform like its an oxygen supply #I past the point of no return concerning bell rat guy #see you next year to get back your uniform Mr Rollo #The note says ’sorry hottie I’m borrowing this from you’ #Although ’BG’ here is a french abreviation it would totally work with ’Beautiful Guy’ which means the same thing

[coquelicoq]

crashes ur board meeting n drags u out by the collar but its fine bc youre the one always saying shit like "im looking for people i can use" ok lol. get used idiot

#just tracing like. the sequence of events that had to take place in order for this to come to pass #1. natori and his shiki are skulking around homura stalking ban. possibly it's just his shiki and natori is elsewhere. #either way 2. natsume shows up and natori learns about it either bc he witnesses it or a shiki comes to tell him #3. natori gets in his little richard scarry apple car (this is my mental image for some reason) & fucking. BOOKS IT to the matoba compound #4. goes inside. presumably matoba lackeys try to stop him bc their boss is in an important meeting but somehow he gets past them #(possibilities here are v fun to think about. maybe natori does this all the time and they're used to it. maybe he's never done it before #but they're all on orders to let natori in if he ever shows up. maybe natori convinces them he's supposed to be IN the meeting #which is great because it sounds like some important clan thing so what is he in the clan now??) #5. interrupts matoba's meeting like 'i need you' and matoba's like 'bye everyone whatever this is is more important' #6. they get in natori's comical apple car (again the apple car is not canon don't worry about it) #& natori drives like a bat out of hell back to homura. (SOURCE: matoba is so scarred he refuses natori's offer for a ride later) #i wonder what they talk about on the way there? because they don't talk about why natori is stalking ban until much later #so they must be busy talking about something else. but what?? #that or they're both too distracted by all the near-death experiences from natori's crazed driving lol #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #homura cats arc #horrible exorcists #my posts #sidenote i feel like that page at the end where both matoba and sensei refuse natori's offers of a ride is really funny because #sensei's reason is that it will take too long. but sensei did you know natori drives like a speed demon? think it thru... #also like. how long did it take him to decide to involve matoba? was that his backup plan all along? #also it's pretty lucky that he found matoba at all considering he could be anywhere...the matoba have like 15 houses... #he has matoba's schedule memorized lol #natori sparkling to the assorted clan members in the meeting: sorry ladies and gentlemen i just need to borrow this~ #*throws matoba over his shoulder and fireman-carries him to the parking lot*

[presumenothing]

@ lianhua novel anon: just fyi that i saw your ask and yes would love to talk on it when the braincells permit!! (+ probably also when i finish watching, we're on ep36 rn)

…though i did just have unfortunate and highly cursed but not inaccurate thought that at least some of the plot/coherency issue may be familiar from acd holmes to bbclock adaptation issues, i.e. the addition of Big Backstory Plot followed by the shoehorning of said plot into what were mostly standalone cases in the original writing with varying degrees of success

#catch me eating popcorn @ seeing the 极乐塔 arc getting adapted onscreen (i have to caveat that i AM a mystery nerd at core) #also trivia: this is the case where novel!llh acquires hulijing actually #anyway to summarise the key difference is novel!llh truly gets to be Just A Lil Guy (annoying too-smart gremlin) like 90% of the time #whereas drama!llh is just here like. tortured greek hero on main. can't catch a break from angst the poor man #to borrow a succinct take from lofter: to novel!llh lxy is just a 黑历史. maybe a little cringe in retrospect but he's moved on #but for drama!llh lxy is an entire Painful Past To Atone and so any carryover themes/dialogue on letting go etc kinda rings a little hollow #no one in this show has moved on not even the monk. amituofo help yall man #mysterious lotus casebook #ramble tag

[clowningaroundmars]

hey. hey did yall notice smthn interesting about the kane dogs in the show and the mechanical hounds in fahrenheit 451? :)

especially the energy boosted kane dog? especially especially bc it grew an extra set of legs?

ya wanna know what else is interesting?

:)

#motorcity #mine #isnt that just fascinating #ofc im not pointing out anything new wrt mike and his past #we already know kane used him to... enforce deluxes interests on motorcity #and the writers even hinted that mike leading the demo crew That Fateful Day wasnt the only time he'd ever been down in mc #we could get into what mike did in mc exactly that has him feelin so guilty. we could speculate for hours even #however this post is about dystopias and dystopian media borrowing themes from each other #in order to teach each generation about dystopian fascist topics #and to see this in a kids show too :') wow #the writers did a fantastic job of weaving this particular character into this show #bc i deadass did not pick up on this until a yt vid i was watching one day mentioned mechanical hounds i think #idk but since bradburys novel is kinda trending again lately im sure it was smthn that brought it up to my attention #but yeah wow #high fives @ the writers for this thread being woven into a kids show about racing cars and beating dictators #from a novel in the 1950s nonetheless LOL

[crimeronan]

i used to not relate at all to the existential dread that's sorta ubiquitous for a lot people my age, which is mostly bc i've been dying for three-ish years, so i had fully made my peace with my life being over soon. like i was in a mindset a lot of people enter in hospice care where my body was winding down and i was just getting as comfortable as possible and being content with the life i'd already lived.

however.

now. that it looks like i could not only have, but also Enjoy... another 50 or 60 years on this earth.....

......HOOOOOOOOOOO BOY.

#GOOD GOD A LOT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITHIN THE NEXT 60 YEARS. #I KNOW NOT TO BORROW GRIEF FROM THE FUTURE BUT LIKE #I DIDNT EXPECT TO DEAL WITH ANY OF IT AT ALL. I WAS NOT GONNA *BE HERE* #literally every night for the past week i've lain awake with my heartbeat in my throat just thinking #I Am Going To Be Here . For So Much Shit #Oh God. Oh God . So Much #and i CAN'T SLEEP #this post brought to you by an hour and a half of me trying to sleep and now being exhausted and still So Anxious #like. CHILL. GIRL. IT'S FINE #YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!! PROBLEM FOR FUTURE YOU!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! OH ! MY ! GOD !!!! #autoimmune tag

[psqqa]

i'm having a lot of fun with duolingo italian because it's like word that is basically latin but italianly, french but to the left, oh hey greek! you love to see it, absolute bottom of the false friend option list but sure i guess, WILDEST LEFT FIELD SHIT YOU'VE EVER SEEN, back to latin,

#you'd think #given just how much english has borrowed from italian #that i would have osmosised more actual italian #but my main takeaway from the past couple of weeks #is that i could not in fact have osmosised *less* italian #the sum total of the italian i have osmosised is jack fucking shit #as it turns out #anyway #this post brought to you by 'gli uccelli' #which ultimately unsurprisingly does of course come from latin #just in a way that's not quite phonologically transparent enough for me #(and both my extremely limited memory of my extremely limited latin and my highly vibes-based sense of latin > italian sound changes) #to connect to anything that would point me even vaguely in the right direction #it does have a step up on 'colazione' and 'ciotola' though #in that the latin > italian journey didn't *also* involve a fairly significant amount of semantic drift #'absolute bottom of the false friend option list but sure i guess' is 'negozio' btw #like yeah okay 'shop' doesn't NOT track but no fucking way would i have ever landed there myself

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

#kelsey rambles #I’m as guilty of it as anyone. #just thinking about Johnny Storm and like. bisexual ass character. deeply bi guy. but. #what IF he’s just heterosexual. what then. wouldn’t that almost be…more interesting #if he’s Like That and not closeted? what twisty gnarled psychological torments would a good comic have to explain him #and on the other hand. that one post I saw about how miles/hobie totally misses the point that their relationship is about solidarity #spider-punk and spider-byte’s alliance with miles are the same thing and to read it as romantic erases the important part #and on a third hand. when speaking of miles’ story. the stupid fucked Bendis running joke/subtext with Ganke #to have Miles be gay would possibly take away from the messy and interesting part of his character that is being a person with nothing #to hide. a totally honest genuine straightforward kid who is forced to start a double life by an outside actor #but at the same time it’s dumb and a cop-out to throw in that much bait and that much of a genuinely charged tense friendship #and then go ‘lol jk. nothing to see here’ #the other thing is the semi joke in atsv about ‘coming out’ as spider-man #the most important thing about Miles having to hide is his relatively precarious position as a black kid. he’s not afforded the leniency #that Peter Parker would expect if he got unmasked. Miles is more cautious because he is in more danger because he’s Black #so to paint that struggle with the gay brush is to disregard the character’s raison d’être. while also #using that sort of language and structure deliberately puts a gay lens over that character and ignoring that or kicking it to the side #feels a bit cheap. to borrow the look and not the substance #way too many tags and it’s past my bedtime. thesis statement is: #miles morales is a character whose history is fraught with plenty of real gay subtext and whose character struggles are entirely divorced #from any sense of gender performance. he’s subtextually bi but that’s got so little to do with his story that it feels almost wrong to read #that into him because there is so much other interesting stuff going on with him

[catilinas]

realising how insanely lucky i was to find the exact two volumes of ad atticum i needed in the second hand bookshop in 2022 for like £20 total. why are cambridge classical texts and commentaries such a nightmare to get hold of :(

#technically the one i need is at a library i can borrow it from via dubious means #but i dont want them to notice that ive had the epistulae ad familiares commentary out for the past two years #anyway. i have a pdf. but i would prefer a physical copy :( #epistulaeposting #beeps

[voluptuarian]

I made an actual graphic to represent the process behind the greatest thought I've ever produced in my life, prompted by the theoretical question, how to cast a Muppet Dracula?

#the natural expectation is bunsen and beaker as Van Helsing equivalent #with past casting decisions/the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy already have roles then Mina and Jonathan should probably be human actors #so the follow up question to this is of course #dracula casting: a. a human actor #b. one of the existing regular muppets #c. an original muppet dracula #d. borrow The Count from sesame street #e. literally any of options a-c but put The Count in as a vampire supplementary to and entirely separate from dracula #but serioulsy I would pay good fucking money for gonzo/seward rizzo/renfield ok #muppets #dracula

[notyoujamie]

borrowing from the past: — Fifth Doctor

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #cwedit #doctor who #classic who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #borrowing from the past #parallel #fifth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #four to doomsday #kinda #the black orchid #earthshock #the five doctors #the caves of androzani #silence in the library #flesh and stone #turn left #the impossible astronaut #the time of angels #cold blood

[uncanny-tranny]

Hi 💛 I wanted to ask you something, it's been bothering me lately: I've always known that I'm attracted to people regardless of gender. At 15 I called it bisexual. At 17 I started using the label pansexual. Came out as a trans man at 23. I'm now 26 and I'm not sure if bi or pan work for me anymore. I know that I'm still attracted to people regardless of gender, but my experiences as a man in society have made the label gay resonate a lot more with me. Is that okay? What does this mean? Confused

It means whatever you want it to mean. People all across the queer community have used "gay" as shorthand for decades now (maybe including queer people you love). If you just don't vibe with bi/pan on their own, then you don't have to have them on their own. There's nothing wrong with being bi or pan, but there's also nothing wrong with feeling like that doesn't quite encapsulate your relationship with your queerness.

Basically:

#ask #anon #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #described images #image description in alt #reminds me of freddie mercury saying he's gay as a daffodil when an interviewer asked if he was gay #and how i saw people offended he said that when he was ~really bisexual and not gay~ and it's like... #...does it truly harm people saying they're gay as a daffodil because that's just iconic #queer people have been borrowing and using terms from each other for as long as we've been a community #and while there are certain words that are very specific to a specific type of queer person/group that doesn't mean every word is like that #or that every queer word has a neat and tidy little wall around it that includes everybody but you specifically #if you take your feelings and run with 'i just label my experiences as gay/queer' then that's fine #like the label serves you and if it stops serving you then you don't need to keep it #i call myself gay and bisexual because i have a very complex experience due to being trans + a bit of my past #and that's as much as i think people '~need~' to know (though i don't owe even that to others) #and i get the whole 'do what you want forever 🤗' can feel unhelpful... #...the point isn't to wave off how you feel or discount it. the point is to remind you that... #...ultimately your desires and comfort MATTER and essentially 'if it's shit hit the bricks' #you aren't obligated to live for everybody ELSE'S contentment. is that even living when you are only alive at the behest of everybody else? #to deny the self and to deny yourself the chance to have actual complex experiences can be the bane of life itself if that makes sense

[estellaestella]

This might be the most sister-wife outfit anyone has ever worn to promote a film. As much as i want to make fun of this, wearing olden day clothing that has religious associations might actually be a stroke of genius for DUNE promo 🤔

#total opposite direction of Zendaya's future fashion #but then again if Zendaya was to borrow from the past she'd be wading into America's atrocious history #dune #dune 2 #florence pugh #flo #flossie #yelena belova

[modern-inheritance]

*passing out blankies to the Trauma Twins, Brom, Eragon, Saphira, Murtagh, Thorn, Nasuada, and heck even Angela*

I've not done anything to them today. Just figured they'd be a bit cold.

#im now imagining everyone sitting together like 'where'd these come from' 'do not care they are warm and fuzzy unlike my past' #'who invited the angst bois' 'eragon did.' #'brom's gonna tell spooky stories.' 'Arya stop using glen's arm as a tent pole' #saphira is quite happy to become the new tent pole #she's got the blankie over her snout. purposeful fire hazard. #angela has torn hers up and began knitting a whole new one from the shreds #glen's teaching Murtagh and Thorn breathing techniques. it's actually going well. #eragon purposefully misplaces his blankie and asks if Arya will share. because its her duty as a bodyguard to keep him safe and warm. #she rolls her eyes but still lets him in because he's a dork but he's her dork when saphira lets her borrow him. #i donno these nerds needed a break. #eragon #inheritance cycle #the cyclists #the world of eragon #the inheritance cycle #modern inheritance #ket's modern inheritance cycle

[chiropteracupola]

no, they'll never catch me! no, they cannot catch me now!

[collaboration with @dxppercxdxver again again again]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #this was. not the thing I was planning to draw next. #but I did that thing again where I got very very sad via 'the bagman's gambit' by the decemberists and I had to make an image that fit #it's the sort of song that'll give you all manner of feelings about deserters and turncoats and spies #so here is a bit of samuel backstory! for he has also had rather a case of the Interesting Past #this isn't my best likeness of him but it's a good Snarl so I'm well satisfied! #got a little aesthetic help from watching sharpe's rifles when it came to the powder burn and the queue movement I'll admit... #took this drawing out to the scifi society which is always fun because I can borrow people's eyes to see what I should fix in the coloring #and on account of this I am extra extra pleased with how it turned out!

[tasteofyourblood]

bookpilled readmaxxing grind

#post ive been wanting to make for weeks bcuz of the sheer magnitude of how much ive been taking out of the library these past 3 weeks!!!! #4 of these are from thr library. 3 are recent thrift buys. 2 are borrowed from a friend. and only 2 are actual fresh copies #RAAAAAAUUGGHHH I LOVE BOOOOOOOOKSSSSSSSS