I've mentioned before I have zero chill about Heaven Sent and do not want to hear anyone's objectively wrong negative opinions about it, but I honestly have to stay in the Whouffaldi bubble even as far as analysis and praise. At least people have to be accepting of the idea or possibility of the ship, not dismissive of it. Not because I need everyone to ship it, but because not realising the love story exists inevitably creates terrible takes on S9 and those people usually shit on Hell Bent and say it ruins the three parter.
The ship is canon and it's woven extremely deeply into the fabric of the story, so much so that if you're oblivious to the romance you will erroneously conclude that the story wasn't coherent. I constantly see people say Hell Bent undoes everything from Face the Raven and Heaven Sent or renders them pointless. And that's because they don't understand what was actually happening. There's still a disturbingly large number of people who say we never found out what the Hybrid was.
It's the single most consistent thing about people being unfair to Hell Bent, even more so than the ones who are just angry it isn't a story about Gallifrey. They're mad because they thought Heaven Sent was about getting over Clara's death and moving on, therefore Hell Bent was a big narrative backtrack. A lot of people say this, totally unwilling to consider that maybe it's not that this one episode radically departs from the thematic impetus of the entire series and is randomly exempt from the heavy, heavy foreshadowing in every other episode, maybe- actually- they missed something.
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is ANYBODY going to lay down quiet next to me while the world peels away around us like old paint on rotten wood because we can’t change anything but at least we are falling backwards into it together (proof clasped warm between aftershock palms) and even though all you can hear is rushing water roar behind your ears i still whisper love into the antimatter and pray that we jolt awake when the ground splits open like a wound, or am i just going to have to finish this research paper
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Umbrella
“Well.” The villain huffed, putting their hands on their hips. “This just ruins it!”
The hero had to inch closer to hear the villain over the pouring rain.
“I can see how this is going to go.” The villain glared at the hero who was now face to face with them. “You and your stupid water powers will obviously take the win here.”
The hero didn’t respond, and instead looked down at their utility belt, pulling out a compacted umbrella.
“What are you doing, dumbass? You control water, you don’t need that.”
Silently, the hero opened the umbrella, and handed it to the villain. The hero themself merely held up a hand, and the raindrops above them seemed to stop.
“I know it still might not be dry enough for your fire,” The hero finally spoke. “but if it can even the playing field–”
“Why?” The villain asked, knuckles gripping the handle of the umbrella far too tight. “Is there a weapon in here? Does it dampen powers? There’s absolutely no reason for you to have an umbrella with you.”
The hero only gave a one armed shrug. “Not everyone can control water. Would you rather reschedule to a clearer day?”
The villain’s immediate response was going to be to mock them, ‘oh please, nobody is that righteous’.
But clearly somebody was.
“No.” The villain spoke slowly. “No, this should be enough.”
It wasn’t really. Even with the umbrella, they couldn’t send out any long range attacks because the rain would immediately put out their fire, they would have to do hand to hand all the while holding an umbrella.
The villain shut their eyes. They weren’t going to let the hero win this fight just because of some stupidly kind action. They were going to try their best given the circumstance, give the hero a run for their righteous money, and throw the umbrella back at them.
That wasn’t at all how it happened.
There were opportunities, opportunities to burn the hero when they got close enough, opportunities to run away, opportunities to at least call a stalemate.
But the villain had ended up in a puddle, umbrella fallen next to them, the hero smiling apologetically above them before they disappeared.
They snatched the umbrella back as they stood, guarding themself from the rain.
It wasn’t something the villain could wrap their head around, why the hero didn’t just use some heavy sheet of water to knock the villain back and unconscious, especially when so much of it was readily at the hero’s disposal, why they let the villain have their pathetic wisps of smoke and their meager fight.
Why they didn’t take their umbrella back.
The villain huffed again, already plotting their next meeting, how, without rain, the villain would beat them with more than just opportunities, and then they would throw the umbrella right back to the hero.
But until then, they would hold onto the umbrella, and they would be shielded from the rain.
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daily reminder that there is literally a part in the goldfinch. where theo is reflecting on how he misses boris. and talks about how boris kissed his bloody knuckles with bloody lips because theo had punched him in the face and both had broken skin. and. boris. kissed. his knuckles.
stop they own my heart i crumpled the first time i read that
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reading through the book normally, Van Helsing’s whole “yeah I have a wife that’s severely mentally ill and a dead son” kinda. breezed by me, what with the whole “oh god Lucy” stuff going on around it. but now that we’re just sitting with this information, I have to wonder about some things.
is Mrs Van Helsing one of the people Bram is constantly going back to Amsterdam to see? does he talk to her, sometimes, even though she doesn’t really know him anymore? does he tell her about the young man that looks so much like their son, and how he wants to do everything he can to protect him?
did Jack know about any of this beforehand? he’s known Van Helsing for quite a while. did whatever malady that affected Mrs Van Helsing begin setting in during Jack’s time as a student? was he told outright, or did he just catch bits and pieces and try to piece them together himself? was what happened to Mrs Van Helsing and her current state what inspired him to work at an asylum with such dedication that he’s able to rise to running it at such a young age? did seeing his mentor’s suffering, and hearing about the suffering of his wife, make Jack want to try and help other such people? (as much as you can call the treatments of the mentally ill “helping” at the time, that is)
I just wonder
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