#so many war memorials!

[wayward-wren]

I think my favourite part about Tales of the TARDIS is that we get to see companions who have grown old, who are allowed to grow old.

Because in NuWho its become a trend for companions to leave in violent and brutal ways, only leaving because theyre ripped away. But Tales of the TARDIS let us see companions who grew old, lived lives after the Doctor. They get the soft ending of growing old.

Jamie gets to have daughters and grandchildren. Peri becomes a warrior queen. Vicki gets to live with her love. Tegan gets to chase her own adventures. Jo lives a life with her husband.

They get the opportunity to grow old. Leaving the Doctor isn't the end of them, rather it's the start of a different, maybe even better adventure. These shorts hold then companions and say 'it isn't a tragedy' and it's refreshing after the tragic exits of modern companions.

#Wren rambles #Doctor who #Classic Doctor who #Because so many of their stories could have ended in tragedy #Jamie was dumped back into a war zone with no memories #Vicki knew nothing about living in ancient Greece #Many just left on random scattered planets or space stations #And we had no idea if they had a happy ending or not #No idea if they were right to leave #And they WERE. #It makes me very happy

[greenforestflowers]

You know, I feel like Kratos forgetting Calliope’s song was a wee bit harsh on the part of the writers.

I think his explanation of how he would’ve given up everything for a few moments more with his daughter, but when he met Faye, found the world worth living in again, would’ve been enough. Imo that illustrates his journey well in of itself.

To add onto that that when he found his new family, he could no longer recall Calliope’s song (played on the flute he made for her)…I dunno, it doesn’t make me think, ‘oh look at Kratos’s growth and development’ as I’m sure the writers intended. I understand the symbolism they were aiming for, but honestly it just made me sad

It’d be different if he was struggling to remember just due to the passing of time, but the fact he says he forgets it specifically after meeting Faye changes the meaning imo.

Kratos could remember his daughter’s song - presumably her favourite, that she played often, if it stuck in his memory - just because he loves her. To remember doesn’t intrinsically mean he’s haunted by it. memories of, and a love for, his Grecian family isn’t inherently negative, or something that has to be ‘let go of’ for him to progress as a character.

#like she’s his *daughter*???? #I just feel he could remember the song and the message still works fine #he can reach a better place mentally. it doesn’t meant he has to give up or forget the vestiges of his Grecian family #he can still love them #their memories don’t have to be inherently a burden #and tbh i feel like it’s sometimes assumed he loves Faye and Atreus more. but like. can’t it be equal? does it have to be competitive? #all four of them are wonderful! #but anyway #in my headcannon he still remembers the song!!! #he loves that little girl so so much! I’ll die on this hill! #Kratos #god of war #he also loved Lysandra very much. as seen in the books and the game #‘No matter how many women I find. they all remind me of her’ #… crying in the club rn #:( #god of war dlc #god of war ragnarok #calliope #god of war valhalla #Lysandra #god of war lysandra #god of war Ragnarök #god of war calliope

[bolithesenate]

everyone's least favorite Temple Guard, Ranatward Missalek, also known as 'Nat' or 'that absolute menace'

#*slaps xem* this bitch can fit so many broken regulation in xem #also dont come at me i drew that uniform entirely from memory so its probably less tan accurate #lets just say its n older model #jedi oc #art for my fic #my art #star wars #random boli thoughts #im just on an art roll today apparently which is fun #jedi temple guard

[mariocki]

Michael Craze pops up as Vince Kelly, a teenage runaway from a borstal centre, in Gideon's Way: Boy With Gun (1.23, ITC, 1966)

#fave spotting #michael craze #ben jackson #doctor who #gideon's way #1966 #boy with gun #itc #a relatively rare fave spotting! outside of his DW work‚ Mike didn't make a huge amount of appearances in cult tv‚ at least not many that #survive or are easily seen; he'd previously starred in Target Luna‚ a completely lost serial‚ but didn't return when the show carried on as #Pathfinders in Space (oddly‚ perhaps because of a change of director‚ every single returning character was recast) and beyond #there were also episodes of Dixon pf Dock Green and Armchair Theatre but these are also in all likelihood lost tv; others‚ like an ep of #Hammer's sci fi anthology Journey to the Unknown‚ are frustratingly unavailable to the average viewer (I was really hoping Network would #do something with JttU after they announced an agreement with Hammer but alas it wasn't to be) #mike would have been about 22 when filming this ep (around May '65) but was still largely playing juvenile parts as here #(his age isn't given but as a borstal runaway he's clearly intended to be a teen); this aired in feb or march '66 in most regions‚ by which #time he had presumably been cast in DW (or very near to it; he'd debut in The War Machines in June of that year) #DW would act as a sort of transition for Craze from youth parts into adult roles (i mean Ben's own age is debatable but I'd say he's surely #meant to be at least 18?). there'd be some more guest spots and a few horror films to come (he was a regular collaborator with Norman #J. Warren) but he doesn't pop up with the regularity of many other Who companions so this was a lovely little surprise (zero memory of him #being in it from when i first watched years ago)

[classic-toxic-medicine]

[RELUCTANT ALLIES] a starter where our muses, who do not get along (or are enemies), are forced to team up

He let out a soft growl as he peaked around the corner only for a bullet to bounce off his helmet. They really didn't make them like this anymore, not like the material that was practically paper mache that they used now.

"Fuck me..."he hissed under his breath, feeling peeved. He'd give his left tit for a goddamn shotgun, hell even a god damn pistol, instead of this useless little whatever the fuck, syringe gun?? and a piece of shit saw, he was stuck with. His class had become such a fucking joke. The medigun was probably the best thing that came from it all.

The medic had his teeth bared in annoyance.

"Fucking mechanical pieces of shit."

Where the hell was the rest of his team?

#here have some robots lol #[shrugs] because idk #lol in the robot wars he's gonna have so many gaps in his memory

[the--highlanders]

actually I am going to talk about jamie not being able to shoot the zombie in the age of ambition like. he's holding a gun. he's faced with something which is human-shaped but no longer a human, which is actively posing a threat to him and his friends. and he just freezes. he can't do anything.

and we never see jamie shying away from combat with non-human/non-humanoid enemies. he's happy enough to destroy the quarks, for instance. and he'll get into fights with humans/humanoid beings if it's non-lethal. but he actively turns down weapons when he gets into a fight with one of the gonds. the most we ever see him do is swordfight with trask at the end of the highlanders. and even there, he doesn't actively /kill/ - he pushes trask overboard. clearly that's not a death sentence, seeing as ben had already survived the same swim back to shore. and if trask does end up dying? jamie won't necessarily know about it. he's not directly responsible.

so I just think. jamie, who never killed anyone in the war. jamie, who's a piper, who's a musician rather than a soldier. he's not unable to fight, because he duels trask, and he's not afraid to threaten people, because he holds two and ben and polly at knifepoint. he's not naive, because he stands at the window and watches alexander die. but he's never killed anyone himself. jamie, who's consumed with survivor's guilt, always wondering if he should have done more, if his cowardice ever condemned someone else to death - but also always knowing that he could never have done it, being sickened by the part of him that feels guilty for having no blood on his hands.

jamie, who looks into the eyes of something that's not even human anymore, and can't look away, and can't pull the trigger.

and what does that do to him, then? months, maybe a year after he's left his war behind? he stands there with a weapon in his hands and he can't bring himself to defend two of the people he loves most in the world. victoria has to grab the gun out of his hands and do it for him. this young girl who he's fiercely protective of has to shoot someone, all because he can't. there's blood on her hands, now, and none on his. he wishes he could have been the one to take that shot, to carry that burden for her, and even then he can't help but hate himself for wishing. he's trapped there forever. the feeling goes round and round in circles and it never ever goes away.

#second doctor #hi i'm so normal about him <3 #you could definitely also swing it as jamie having killed people in the war & being unable to stomach doing it again! #this is just my interpretation #i'm also aware much of this is down to. this is a family show we can't kill humanoid characters ahfjshfjd #however. have you considered i love to overthink about james robert mccrimmon <3 #anyway i genuinely think jamie has a massive influence on the doctor's morality and desire to avoid killing #throughout all their lives really #because one and two are so much more. relaxed about that ig. than later doctors. #whereas jamie is. this. #like that whole bit in the novelisation of the abominable snowmen #where he talks the monks down from killing songsen by saying there's been enough bloodshed #that's something that the doctor could have done. will do so many times over. #i just think that every time a later doctor does something like that. there's a little bit of jamie in there. #a little bit of someone very traumatised who they loved very much #& like jamie's refusal to shoot in the age of ambition. the doctor's pacifism can sometimes veer into unhelpful extremes #especially later. maybe when their memory of jamie gets more warped and distant idk. #does this even make sense idk it's 1:30am and i don't have my glasses on

[whereismyhat5678]

Thinking…..

It hurts to think……Why does it hurt to do anything?………It just hurts………

#Pizza Tower #Tw: Blood #just a tiny bit tho #Tw: Smoking #Peppino #War Veteran #Peppino still thinks about how much it used to hurt #It still hurts but not as much #He hates to think about it to much #It brings back to many bad memories… #A war vet can go through so much #seriously….I respect any war vet….they’ve been through so so much….

[twilit-tragedy]

Still watching the credits roll, but: She fought for them. She saw it all beforehand, saw her part through, but refused to let theirs end as foretold. Because she loved them. Her memory - physical and not - lead them all the way to the discovery of their own fate. And she committed her boys' story to stone and wood.

And after that, she left her love his own story. How it started and how it will go on. She painted him in her colour. He is worshipped. He is loved. He will know what that kind of love feels like. He has a role - one he never imagined, but one he will take. He has a reason to live.

To grieve deeply is to have loved fully. Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me and you will find every reason to keep living in it.

He has a path. Both of her boys do.

#all her lines are amazing #and I'm still reeling #she knows. she knows exactly how much time is left. how much they don't know. how much they'll suffer #she leaves them words she hopes will serve them and does all she can to keep them safe after she's gone #her palm on a wall in Jotunheim. the way her breath shakes as she marks the last tree. #how hard it must be to accept her own fate without her loved ones and yet the determination in avoiding theirs #god. #the way he's relunctant to give her a pyre and would have entombed close to him. the way he never considers disrespecting her wish. #how preciously he holds her memories. how seriously he trusted her words even if he didn't understand them at the time. #i have just. so many feelings about them. the devs could not have gone better about honoring her memory in this game than they did #i am overcome #the knives. the axe. the bow. the sachet which held her ashes. the pieces of her they carry with them. memory and protection. #fuck I'm going to cry again #god of war spoilers #god of war #gow spoilers #twilit posts #''you prepare for a distant future. there is much time ahead of us.'' #her silence #''i wish to *better* a future... that will exist without me whenever that day comes'' #godddddd she says it with all the letters in it but they'll only find out so much later how much she meant them!!! #sony santa monica you've outdone yourselves #update from the next day: i just realized he might not be fond of the idea of cremating her because he has literal ashes on him #not a good reminder to his past mistakes :( #and also i forgot to mention here that when I was watching kratos looking at the mural i was bawling my eyes out- #repeating ''he is worshipped. he is loved'' over and over #god that scene will stay with me

[visenyaism]

i think massachusetts is cool. we got a...we got chowder i guess i dunno i dont eat that really.

i was born in boston and went to there for spring break last year i saw a turkey in the street in cambridge and someone was like yea that’s normal. no it’s not

#i lived in a all red brick city in the south for years though i’m sick of all the columns #not gonna lie i remeber being so surprised by how many good civil war memorials there are in the streets. like wow those exist huh

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

'Your country needs you', she told them. 'Wars don't fight themselves.'

#Michelle Gomez #Laura De Mille #Madame Rouge #Doom Patrol #Doom Patrol Spoilers #Set 1 of 2 #At first I wanted to put the Regrets ideas in one set but then this one needed too many gifs #So the other one which has a matching colouration comes next #Aaaaanyway my heart is breaking #MG is unrelenting but I'd have it no other way #I cut out all the 'no matches found' nonsense from the set because it's obvious what she's doing #Do you like the bloody Stamp and Bloody Lips combo? #I hoped it would give that sense of ruthlessness to Laura's own memory of herself #That she chooses to remember herself as even worse than she was #Probably thinking 'Yes I didn't want to do it... but if I really didn't want to do it... then wouldn't I have fought harder against it?' #gah the way she's doing those fast little shakes of the head as she realises everyone she sent to war is dead #or almost certainly dead #except for the Sisterhood #wherever they've gone to #She's -- as usual -- having an immensely private and silent breakdown #(How very unusual for an MG character I'm sure you'll agree) #Unrelated but also related note: god these were both such excellent looks #The present day one celebrating her curls and a patterned blazer is everything #style icon Laura De Mille honestly #(I'm really upset about some of the dithering in one of these gifs #I tried everything I could to keep the contrast yet reduce the highest bits becoming noticeable #but the tech is against me #No matter what I do in Vegas the final quality is largely out of my hands #I apologise to your eyes I swear I tried to do better #Using the other type of gif conversion fixed that issue but made everything muddy imo)

[mt-gr8]

I'm so sorry for the person I'm becoming with my new rewatch

#i found an old fanfiction notes/layout #oh boy i still want to write it #happy knows the fic because her comments are all over it #i think after the rewatch i may try writing again #idk who i told but if you know the War fic i wanted to write #its that one lol #the ANGST I WANTED TO WRITE #my therapist thinks its a good idea for me to try writing again too it might be a good outlet #but do i go back to fanfiction or do i migrate to ao3 #also it's just bringing back so many good memories im feeling all fuzzy

[forter-from-meteos]

i still have a lot of thoughts about meteos

#let it be known: i love slapping wings and halos on things #in fact i have a few more things like this in the works #consistency? don't know her. post whatever whenever #hrngh... meteos #thinkin' 'bout the mission mode endings in wars #repeatedly throwing yourself at the thing that is killing literally everything #do we get a timeframe? need to check the Meteos Book i have horrible memory #did it take eons or no time at all? either way so many things fucking died. #like surely getting pummeled by meteos kills stuff even without total annihilation #wild but not unexpected from an existential threat #and this is happening to such Little Guys™! you gave them such fun designs i don't want them to die!!!! #it is literally just a match-3 game but damn!!! what high stakes for a match-3 game #anyways. photopea stroke effect my beloved makes things look so much better than just a blank black background #geolyte #digital art #meteos #id in alt text

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

he’s sooo tactless lmao. hey baby girl it’s not always about you </3 can you let these people mourn their freshly killed family and friends without being shitty and whiny for a sec? thanks

#also the irony??? johnny YOU are comparing YOURSELF to rinder #and even so that’s not true!! there is the memorial for the towers!! #people talk about their grandpas that suffered and perished during the time of the red!!! #johnny baby girl you literally committed a war crime! sooo many people died! #and mostly it was the downtrodden who couldn’t escape the city and the nomads who did the clean up!! #this gig drives me innnnsaaaaannneee rrrgghhhggrrr the LAYERS to it #the way it fits w johnny but also my v so perfectly i ahfsdbjfsbdfhs #phantom liberty #phantom liberty spoilers #cp 2077

[elliebartlets]

me listening to the great war: katniss and peeta katniss and peeta katniss and peeta katniss and peeta

#the great war #taylor swift #thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #katniss x peeta #everlark #I think that’s their ship name lol #when I tell you I screamed at the “plant a memory garden” line #cause I just finished rereading mockingjay and peeta came back to district 12 and planted primroses in honor of prim 😩 #and now I have no more books to read ☹️ #want to read the sequel but there’s so many holds on it at my library

[amndmirk]

UNDERTALE DISCORD SERVER. I WANT AN UNDERTALE DISCORD. NOT WITH AU STUFF BUT LIKE UNDERTALE UNDERTALE. ALLLLLL SERVERS I FIND ARE AU CENTRIC AND I DONT CARE ABOUT THOSE. I WANT TO RAMBLE ABOUT IDEAS WITH OTHER UT APPRECIATORS IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK

UPDATE;

HI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELLO

#I WANNA DISCUSS CONCEQUENCES RESETS HAVE ON FRISK #MAYBE HOW SO MANY MEMORIES COULD GIVE THEM SENSORY OVERLOAD. MAYBE THEIR PARENTS #HOW CHARACORE PERSEPHONE IN THE GARDEN IS #DISCUSS THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH UNDYNE AND HOW THEYRE A HUGE NERD #OR MAYBE HOW THEY REINCARNATED SIX TIMES TRYING TO FREE THEIR KIND!!!! #FLOWEYCORE AND SURVIVORS GUILT #WANT MORE OF HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH PAPYRUS. WITH HIM GRIEVING #TORIEL SANS ALPHYS BEING THE LOCKDOWN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TRIO #GERSON BEING FUCKING SKETCHY #TORIEL AND BLOOKY HANGING OUT #UNDYNE LEARNING TO PLAY PIANO ANIME OPENINGS. HER STRYGGLES AS THE EMPRESS #ALPHYS ENDING. SHE CALLLS YOU SPECIFICALLY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU FUCKED UP. #HER AND METTATON PERIOD #PRE WAR ASGORE IN HIS TEENAGE YEARS. HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH UNDERTALE RUDY AND HIS KIDS #fYCKING S U Z Y #undertale #CLASSIC undertale #seriously i am so done with au stuff having itself tagged as ut because. its not buddy. #anyone who wants to see aus just goes to ut au tag. thats it #get outta here please. u are not what you claim to be and i do not respect that #(we also should stop tagging stuff with characters its not revolving around but thats for another rant) #(imma just hope there is an ut discord out there you can share) #pleadss

[emdotcom]

If i was the twin towers, I woulda just dodged.

#em.txt #9/11 ment #hey. I'm not actually sorry because this is funny to me #& now you get to hear why. #9/11 had way fewer fucking casualties than so many wars & i get that shit was traumatic & to those who were around & especially young for it #I'm sure it was a scary uncertain time. but i was not around for it. i was a fucking infant with ZERO memories. & they tried for years #to drill into my head that it was the saddest most horrible tragedy in human history. but i didn't see it #& what have i seen? larger tragedies go ignored because we can't use them to inspire patriotism #& because they are happening to dark skinned people &/or are being done by the government #the casualties for 9/11? just under 3k. the casualties to covid? 7 million & rising. #while government officials do NOTHING because it would cost money #but I'm supposed to give a shit about the plane crash that happened Before I Was Even Sentient? #this event has been used to bully & harass & justify racist shit SO MUCH for decades now #it's stupid & you fucking know it. anyways. i woulda just leaned out of the way of the plane if i was that tower