#they're minor spoilers at best because there isn't context

[fuckyeahgoodomensfanfic]

Good Omens Fic Rec: Old Vines

A.Z. Fell, one of the most respected names in wine and food blogging, has been sent on assignment with his assistant Warlock Dowling to spend six months in California Wine Country. Under direction (by his boss, Gabriel) to use this experience to double his blog followers and write a novel, Aziraphale is both excited and anxious about the opportunity. Anthony J. Crowley is the owner and viticulturalist of Ecdyses, a winery that unexpectedly fell into his lap eleven years ago when he hit rock bottom. He may be in debt, yeah, but he’s paying off his loans — and despite pressure from his lenders and their team of inspectors, Crowley has found a kind of contentment tending his little corner of terroir and producing extraordinary wine. Crowley’s old vines are the heart of his vineyard, and he’s never let anyone in. Crowley finds Aziraphale intriguing; Aziraphale finds Crowley enthralling. Turns out a famous wine expert and an experienced viticulturalist can still learn things from each other. The summer of 2019 unfolds.

Length: 189,706 words

AO3 Rating: Explicit / Spice Level 🔥🔥

Best for: Mostly Safe in Public, Human AU, Romance

Triggers: None

Read it here, fic by sevdrag (seventhe)

*Minor Spoilers* Now this is one well researched AU! This is wine blogger/winery owner human AU. As someone who knows absolutely nothing about wine (nor likes the taste sorry), I was blown away over the amount of detail in this story. The author clearly knows what they're talking about, and uses this knowledge to actually direct the plot not just as neat side info. This level of detail is a feature of this story and stands on it's own outside of the Good Omens backdrop. This story also has an excellent grasp on who Aziraphale and Crowley truly are, what makes them tick, what their insecurities and motivations are. It understands that what makes them so compatible is the way they push and surprise each other. They fall in love not just because they're surface level compatible, it's that they keep each other on their toes. This story also has a line that I booked marked for myself, describing Crowley as, "arrogant and yet somehow pleading for feedback," that's definitely Crowley to me.

Every 6 chapters we get a perspective flight tasting. It brings a small sampling of what everyone else in this story is thinking. I loved these chapters. There's only 3 of them so it never stops the plot, and doesn't take over the flow. It's just small interludes that are pleasant to read but also add a lot of context. We have Warlock, Adam and The Them, Anathema, Newt, and Gabriel as reoccurring main characters. I liked their inclusion a lot, particularly Adam and Warlock. Their plot line was very unexpected in a good way. It really takes a village to keep the winery running and they make a very believable sort of family.

Safe for public I'd say, there is sex in it but it's not very graphic and they're pretty short scenes. They are a part of the story, but not the highlight. This is something very casual to read, something where are you want romance but nothing heavy. I highly recommend the pinterest board the author put together for this. It really helped me set the stage and understand the wine stuff better. If you don't like jargon heavy AUs this isn't for you, but I personally found it fascinating. Who knows, maybe I'll give wine another shot after this!

Read it here, fic by sevdrag (seventhe)

#good omens #good omens fanfiction #good omens fanfic #fanfic rec #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens fic rec #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable idiots #extra long #human au #winery au #romance #two flames #mostly safe in public #food au #books au #taking breaks #faves of the blog #fandom famous #Old Vines #sevdrag #writer au

[starburstfloat]

TNC: Temptation album analysis (spoilers, it's all about sex!)

okay wait the more I'm looking at the lyrics and the narrative structure of the album, the more I'm moved by how creatively and thoughtfully they managed to express one's loss of innocence and the emotional journey that that is...wow

minors maybe don't interact 😵‍💫

also tw: devil by the window has some pretty strong language that can be read as sexual coercion/rapey (if we're assuming the devil is an actual being here and not an inner monologue) so...tread lightly w that one cause there's no doubt in my mind this entire album (hello it's called temptation) is about sex

so anyway!

we start with devil by the window, which alternates point of view between the tempter (the devil, perhaps also interpreted here as one's inner monologue), and the tempted (txt/our protagonists).

the devil (or their inner voice as I'll refer to it now aka voice of temptation) tries to convince them to "come out to play":

it's coaxing them to lean into desire and "give up, don't you put up a fight", meaning they should stop resisting and just follow the temptation

evidently our protagonists, after some initial resistance, follow through, as we can tell from the way they describe themselves drifting higher and higher, "weightless without a worry into the night"

@impuritywrites mentioned there seems to be hints about masturbation and listen...this doesn't seem like a stretch at all if we look further at the context. devil by the window really does seem to be a song about our protagonists who are finally allowing themselves to masturbate

It makes sense cause then we start the next song on the album, sugar rush ride, which is them navigating how much they should lean into this newfound temptation and them discovering very quickly once they allow themselves to experience it that it is in fact the best feeling ever:

And if the sexual theme wasn't obvious enough, track 3 moves into happy fools, which is basically them riding out this new high they're feeling:

"I'll just enjoy the skewed path that I've hopped on"

also:

This song has such good vibes my god???

Anyhow then we jump into Tinnitus which tbh I'm having a hard time interpreting cause the beat is so addictive I just want to get up and dance and forget all about the lyrics. Lyrically it makes the least sense to me but it's giving me sad drunk who is coming off his high and feels like a loser but doesn't want the party to end:

But what really wraps this all together so beautifully, this journey of our protagonists losing their innocence and having to grapple with the fact that nothing will ever be the same to them again, is the closing song on this album: Farewell, Neverland.

This song merely reinforces the sexual theme of sugar rush ride.

Neverland is metaphorically associated with eternal childhood.

And yet by the end, our protagonists decide to depart from this safe haven. They speak of Neverland fondly, almost wistfully, like their heart is heavy but leaving is the right choice:

In sugar rush ride, they say "Oh my, I see the stars", which is pretty suggestive for an orgasm/climax. And then here in Farewell, Neverland, they reference this again, but more metaphorically:

I found this part so beautiful because...they are pretty much saying "I love it here but I've outgrown this place. It isn't even as grand as I once knew it."

They know what they actually want now - not a life of endless pleasure, as they realize in Tinnitus is no fun - but instead a life where they have the choice of balance, where they can pursue sexual pleasures if they want. Neverland doesn't give them this freedom. It merely soaks them in the sun and sure, it's nice and warm, but what about the beauty of the night sky? What about seeing the stars? I love this metaphor so much ugh my heart

So there we have it, my interpretation of The Name Chapter: Temptation!

I think it's a lovely depiction of characters grappling with innocence and temptation. I won't try and milk this as something totally-unique-never-done-before, but I have to admit, considering how taboo the topic of sex is in the kpop industry (like overtly obvious sex stuff) this album has grounds to be pretty revolutionary. What's not to love? It sonically, visually, and lyrically captures their journey through pleasure and desire so well.

Let me know your thoughts!!! :D

#tomorrow x tomorrow #txt sugar rush ride #txt temptation #txtnetwork #txt moa #moasource #yeonjun #soobin #beomgyu #taehyun #heuningkai #txt comeback #sugar rush ridin #lyrics analysis #music video analysis #txt lyrics #txt analysis #media analysis

[vitruvianmanbara]

what makes steel ball run your favorite jjba part? <3

HIIIII GOOD JOJO MORNING and thank you for giving me a question to ponder over my toast this morning hehe 💏☕️

I've said it before but the main reason I love jojo in general has more to do with how fun it is to watch araki evolve his approach to storytelling and his art style from part to part...like jojo is silly and fun and by no means a perfectly executed story, but I think araki is uniquely radical in his creative approach in a way that's thrilling to watch! a big part of my enjoyment of sbr stems from the fact you can tell it's the product of 20 years of araki experimenting with his approach to major & minor character writing, fight construction, pacing, weaving in & delivering on themes, working with setting & his chosen genre in an engaging way, using paneling & art style to create atmosphere, etc. and he's able to deliver on nearly every front. it's by no means a perfect story (beginning is painfully slow, the zombie horse & magic thread that appeared exactly once, final fight happening AFTER the story's emotional climax, etc.), but when considered within the context of parts 1-7, it's his most well-rounded & complex work by far imo - that's played a huge role in my enjoyment of it!

and then of course there's specific aspects to steel ball run that are kind of like catnip to me personally!

johnny not being an easily likeable protagonist, and who has a character arc more complex than "selfish guy learns about the meaning of friendship" - too much to go into for this ask, but I particularly love how at the start of sbr johnny's perspective on his life and purpose is coming from a place of deep pain & a feeling of helplessness over his ability to exert control over his life...there's no short, clear path to fixing the psychological impact of his cold upbringing, the guilt & sense of responsibility he felt for his brother's death, the way the artificial sense of self-worth he obtained through celebrity backfired horribly on him, the abuse and abandonment he experienced after he was paralyzed. his arc isn't about trying to leave all this behind and transforming him into a perfect, fixed person - it's a bumpy road!! even as he grows, throughout sbr we see him continue to be selfish, irresponsible, lacking in confidence, overly reliant on others, even violent. and of course he has to grapple with obtaining and losing the corpse parts over & over again, and what that implies for his internal sense of meaning. I think the conflict he has about valentine's offer in their final fight (trying to avoid spoilers about specifics but AUGH) is one of my favorite character moments in all of jojo because it perfectly illustrates how despite all the growth he's experienced with gyro during the race, there is still a part of him that will have to fight against the impulse to let his pain, guilt, and perceived lack of agency drive his actions. by the end of sbr he's become a person who is more at peace with himself, someone with a quiet confidence and sense of purpose and agency he's had to build from scratch - he's taken the long way, but the shortest road is the detour. best jojo forever TO MEEEE

johnny & gyro as co-protagonists as opposed to primary and secondary characters. they are hands down the best written jojo & jobro duo, one really could not carry the story without the other. the way gyro's lessons and how they're delivered (and to an extent, tusk's evolution as well) represent key points in the growth of johnny and gyro together and as individuals....crying wailing gnashing my teeth because there's a million things I could say about this but I'd like to direct everyone to this wiki entry because whoever wrote it composed an entire essay that says it better than I ever could

the sbr race as a west to east affair instead of an east to west affair, it turns the western genre on its head a bit in a way I find really satisfying. steel ball run masquerades as a story about adventure, but its emotional core is about the characters taking the long way back home to themselves - to do this, they have to go far away from their physical roots (both east of the race's starting point) and must take a long time to return. it adds an even more bittersweet element to johnny's final action of delivering gyro's body back to his family in naples. beyond being the decent thing to do, it's an act that honors the work gyro did to figure out how the ability and duty that's been placed on his shoulders can be used in a way that doesn't require him to abandon the compassion, optimism, and even the struggles that make him who he is - this is the emotional weight & character significance the act of returning home holds in sbr's story

the side characters are genuinely interesting, they have their own fleshed out reasons for being in the race that are actually relevant to the story. they're not all perfectly executed (justice for soundman -_-) but it makes for a much more dynamic feeling cast and a more engaging read!

the mid-to-late sbr art style is my favorite by far. it feels so cinematic and adds a sense of drama that's so fitting for the setting and genre! the real turning point for me was gyro's fight with ringo roadagain, where araki starts using more close up, highly detailed "shots" and adds dialogue only sparingly to create a palpable sense of tension appropriate for a shootout. it's spectacular

once you get past the first like 30 chapters (ouch) almost every fight has a sense of relevance and purpose to the larger story. sbr's fights might not be the most bombastic in concept compared with other jojo parts, but I much prefer a fight where the stakes can really be felt to a fight that seems to be stuck in there so araki can explore some fun stand idea. sbr gets bonus points in my book for having some incredible fights where the emotional stakes are especially high - sugar mountain arc's shootout with the eleven men, civil war, johnny vs valentine to name a few!

ARGH I could go on and on but these are just some of the big reasons sorry for the essay ily 💕💋

#when I say don't get me started... #sbr #jjba #(also disclaimer for everyone that I'm excluding part 8 when I compare sbr to other jojo parts bc I haven't finished it yet)

[nefariousrat]

chainsaw man deep dive chapter 3: arrival in tokyo

warning: this will contain spoilers for the entirety of the chainsaw man manga as this is a re-read and analysis

this chapter can be divided into three acts: the first act, leading up until the alleyway scene. the second act, which is the alleyway scene. and the third act, which is what comes after.

the first act

high off of makima's charm, denji arrives in tokyo in a daze. before we know it he's dressed in the uniform of the public safety officers and ready to meet his new partner, 3 year veteran aki hayakawa.

aki is everything denji isn't: put together, disciplined, focused, and motivated. this sets up his character in an antagonistic position against denji. how are the two going to get along together when they're so different?

well, they aren't.

as they're patrolling the streets, denji attempts to make locker room chat with aki, much to aki's annoyance. this is framed really nicely because the two dont know each other at all and grossly misunderstand each other from the moment they met. denji views aki as some random polite society working man and aki views denji as a teenage brat looking to get in on dangerous business for no real reason. we'll later learn that aki's sense of purpose is central to his character and explains why he chose to act so extremely towards denji.

having had enough of denji, aki takes him into an alleyway and begins to beat him up. knowing denji's backstory, the audience is inclined to further sympathize with him and dislikes aki, or at least view him in a more negative light. but to denji's credit, he gets up and gives aki a taste of his own medicine in the best way.

before i go on, i think its important to backtrack a bit and carefully examine the events leading up to this point.

deeper dive into the first and aecond acts of ch.3

leading up until the alley scene, it is important to note that what ticks aki off the most is denji's comments regarding makima. we learn quickly as an audience that devotion, and even blatant affection, towards makima is not an uncommon thing. aki brawling with denji further implies that his respect for makima may be more intimate than he's admitting.

while we learn after the alley scene that aki was recently put in charge of a special squad, he was not made aware of denji's role or his abilities. i suppose makima assumed they would just feel each other out before the big devil hybrid reveal. up until the alleyway, aki believes denji is a standard new recruit, one he's seen come and go (see: die) many times before. he takes denji for his word when he says this:

we all already deduced this but i think its still worth mentioning: denji is not a reliable narrator and he does not have a clear understanding of the situation he's in. maybe it was his coping mechanism, growing up under blatant and constant threat of the yakuza ending his life early that he decided the way to stay sane was to pretend the threats were not as true as they were. denji's feelings towards makima, strange and contradictory considering how similarly she treats him to his old handler (and that's what she is; a handler. a dog handler). makima threatened him with execution at the gas station. but once he submitted to her after the muscle devil's trick, did he make himself forget? i think he must have. i think denji is very, very good at choosing his own narrative. and because this self deception coexists with denji's knowledge of his own mortality, he can accept his death if makima is the embodiment of his dreams.

on a much smaller note, i think aki is a bit too shocked at the whole situation to process the information that denji is giving him; that he was wildly disadvantaged and lured into all this by makima. in the context of denji's words, it isn't very hard to come up with the conclusion that he may have been coerced into being a public devil hunter. this is significant because denji's a teenager, a minor, and chained to a government organization. and aki isn't stupid.

this is quite a harsh jab from aki considering denji just all but stated he came from a really bad situation.

even so, denji hauls the collapsed aki back to headquarters, which is actually as surprisingly nice as it is funny.

back at headquarters, denji and aki are drawn leaning on each other despite their feelings towards each other. it's safe to say they're not quite friends yet but they've managed to reach a sort of unspoken understanding from their fight.

makima now drops the big reveal; denji is a member of the new special squad aki was tasked with leading. aki discovers that denji is a human-devil hybrid, a practically mythological concept.

i think denji's reaction further proves what i said earlier about him choosing his reality. this should not be shocking to him. makima already treated him like a dog and threatened him with death. did he really think she would let him go?

denji's mind is at war with what makima is promising him and the contradictory treatment. she isn't actually hiding anything. she's truthful about what she'll give him, for the most part. it just doesn't mesh with the death threats and ownership stuff. i don't think denji is STUPID, i just think he's scrambling to hold onto his dreams in an increasingly unfamiliar and dangerous environment.

the third act

denji and aki go back onto patrol. meanwhile, denji is still struggling with his affection towards makima and what she just told him. he asks aki if makima is a good person. and aki, similarly to denji, has a hard time dissociating makima's angelicism with her ruthlessness. aki chooses to rationalize this by focusing on denji's status as part devil. interestingly, aki chooses to see makima as a good person despite all of this. that kind of goes to show what chainsaw man is all about; flawed people who oftentimes have to do bad things for the larger good. and that larger good varies from personal freedom to saving the world.

more makima observations

to end this off, i want to talk a little more about makima. i think it's easy for me to say she's one of my favorite csm characters. i love her duality and how she's shrouded in mystery. she's eerie and feminine, and an overall unique character.

makima doesn't make an effort to hide her nature. that's why the reveal that she's a devil hits so hard; it was right there and she doesn't care if you choose to acknowledge it or not. either way, she's in control. she dishes out sweetness, false as it is, in a futile effort to not only achieve her ends but to form relationships. obviously her relationships are not true. there is a big difference between admiration and understanding, as aizen sosuke (bleach) put it best. but it's the only way she knows how to reach out. this is more relevant for the later events of csm though, since she's not interested in denji in any real way.

i just think it's neat that makima knows how to navigate and manipulate the people around her not only to achieve her ends but to garner love and affection, as fake as it may be. she exudes the confidence only a person comfortable in their knowledge that they will always be adored does.

thanks for reading.

#csm deep dive #chainsaw man part 2 #chainsaw man #csm manga #csm #chainsaw man manga #chainsaw man theory #csm spoilers #chainsaw man spoilers #makima #aki hayakawa #denji #denji chainsaw man #i wrote two versions of this because i didnt realize tumblr didnt actually delete the post #wtf tumblr

[lemonade-sky]

[image description: black text that says “you have to find the true monado”. below it is that image of the lady going “the WHAT” but... well, I put Shulk’s face over it and made it transparent, but it looks awful and vaguely terrifying. also I threw the (not true) monado on there]

[image description: the meme with that guy in the yellow vest reading that blue book with the middle panel that shows what’s on the book cut out and dickson’s face on the guy. the first panel is dickson holding the book, the title reading “subtle foreshadowing for dummies”. the second is a closeup on the guy’s face (which i put dickson over) and white text saying “can’t say I feel so good about deceiving those kids”]

#xenoblade spoilers #xbc1 spoilers #xenoblade #they're minor spoilers at best because there isn't context #and that line of dickson's comes up really early #but i figured i'll tag it anyway especially with xbde coming out #that's why i made this a separate post from the one of otharon i just did #im done with xeno memes..... for now #im awful at writing image descriptions im sorryu #xenoblade 1 #my epic swag adventures

[muffinlance]

while I love tts, and it makes sense for zuko to hold the position, i really dislike the whole "the colonies have been part of the fire nation too long, it doesn't make sense to give them back, they're basically fire nation". as a citizen of a country that was a colony (debated word, under English control is more accurate) for over 200 years this can be very much untrue.

Once again it makes total sense zuko believes so esp in the context of the story, it just seems other people seem to have taken it as fact and put it into their fics. It annoys me a lot.

This isn't meant to be confrontational nor do i think you should change it in the story. have a nice day :)

No this is a SUPER good point, and one of the things that make me wish I could write so much faster, because yeah stuff from my works does tend to spread and "keep the colonies" is very much the starting point of that particular arc. AKA the point to grow from. AKA realistic for a winning side to do, but what's even the point of fantasy if it can't be better than the real world.

This is why I was requesting decolonisation resources awhile back; I wanted to make sure I had time to study before we got to that point of the story.

Minor spoilers for Towards the Sun politics: Book Two is going to be government-building in the colonies. It'll start out Fire Nation led, but change to more of a governing council with multiple sides represented as time goes on, and address colonization and its affects on land management and local culture and why native voices are really important both from ethical and practical standpoints. Like, you're having a famine? Have you considered talking to the people who developed their land management strategies in this biome instead of somewhere across the sea?

I tend to loosely base the Earth Kingdom on China, so my head canon is that the Earth Kingdom is comprised of many different ethic groups, but the main government says There Is Only Cultural Uniformity In Ba Sing Se The Earth Kingdom and so we've got several cultural groups in the same area, with the Fire Nation just being the latest on top of that. So that's going to be a fun mess to try and handle.

If anyone knows of stories that handle decolonization well, do please let me know, I absorb info best in story form. Otherwise I'm working from decolonization wish-list docs written by various groups, plus trying to find historical examples that A) don't suck for the colonized peoples, and B) are somewhat translatable into the political context of Avatar.

I am absolutely going to screw this up, but I'm going to go down trying. Hopefully successive fics can build something good out of the ashes of my shame and humiliation.

#if the people with the actual research budget couldn't do this well #then one lone fanficer ain't going to be perfect #but I'd like to believe we live in a world where we can build on each other's works until we've got something actually good #towards the sun

[amuseoffire-upon-ravelry-blog]

Doctor Who and the story of Rosa Parks

I love tv knitting, and it's very hard to find stuff that makes for good tv knitting. It has to be something where watching and seeing what's happening isn't necessarily important, because I only look up occasionally from what I'm doing.

I'm loving the new season of Doctor Who, which is NOT tv knitting. Jodie Whitaker is an absolute treasure. And the episode from this past week is a fun return to one of my favorite kind of episodes: the historical episodes, centered around specific events and people from history. And the setting of the episode this week is Montgomery, Alabama and the bus boycotts of the Civil Rights Movement, with Rosa Parks as one of the main characters of the episode.

Spoilers. You've been warned.

Overall, I loved the episode. It was a powerful, modern representation of one of the most important moments not just in so-called "Black history," but in human history. And because the Civil Rights movement is so important, how it's represented matters deeply to our human narrative. The episode, unlike other historical episodes of Doctor Who, doesn't play with the historical events surrounding Rosa Parks and turn them into fodder for light-hearted sci-fi elements. Queen Victoria as the founder of Torchwood, Shakespeare's Globe theatre as the site of a hostile alien invasion via a lost play, and mistaking Queen Elizabeth I as an alien in disguise are really good examples of how Doctor Who has done this in the past.

This approach would not have been appropriate in this case, for reasons the episode makes perfectly clear: racism is a current battle ground that many people still fight on, and historical revisionism is a dangerous tool in that fight. Taking control of someone else's history, especially when they're a disenfranchised minority group, is dangerous. Doctor Who wanted no part of this, and the entire premise of the episode was to restore historical events surrounding Rosa Parks to their original state because a racist white guy has decided to enact violence upon an entire group of people by changing their history.

Anyone who saw the episode and is at least nominally familiar with Rosa Parks is probably with me so far. And with that premise of historical revisionism = bad, let's explore another story the episode doesn't mention. This one IS from my tv knitting: Drunk History (on Hulu and Comedy Central)

Rosa Parks and her actions were one of many, MANY important catalysts in the Civil Rights movement. She didn't act alone. She wasn't even the first black person to refuse to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama. Rosa Parks got the idea from Claudette Colvin, a 15-year old girl who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person earlier that same year. Rosa Parks found out about it as the secretary of the NAACP in Montgomery. She and Claudette Colvin knew each other, and Rosa Parks was her mentor and very close friend.

Rosa Parks did not spontaneously refuse to give up her seat on the bus. She volunteered and chose to do so, as planned by the local chapter of the NAACP in Montgomery. It was a premeditated protest, directly inspired by the actions of Claudette Colvin. To leave Claudette out of the story was a choice that was originally made by the NAACP in crafting the narrative of Rosa Parks. That decision galvanised white support for the bus boycott. Consequently, Claudette Colvin is not nearly as well-known as Rosa Parks—even though she took the same calculated risk, and did it first without the prompting or support of anyone.

This episode of Doctor Who is powerful. It's one of the best I've ever seen because of the positive, inclusive message it tries to send. I truly loved it and found it inspirational. But there is a real disconnect between what its stated ambition is, and what it actually accomplishes because of how it chooses to portray Rosa Parks within the context of her own life. The "one person can make a huge difference" message is valuable, and when you view Rosa Parks in isolation that may be what you take away from her experience. But a better, more historically accurate message would have been "none of us can truly inspire change alone," because Rosa Parks would be the first to tell you that's not what she was trying to do. Change happens when we work together for it, because none of us exist in isolation. Nothing ever happened or made a difference in the Civil Rights movement when people acted alone. People who act alone are easy to forget. We can only affect lasting change when we work together. That's the difference between Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. That's why we remember one and not the other. Rosa Parks had an entire movement of organized people behind her that were committed to remembering her and telling her story. But there would be no Rosa Parks without the courageous acts of unknown people who have largely been forgotten, like Claudette Colvin.

So how could the episode have incorporated this larger historical context differently? I think a red herring where the Doctor and her companions think they're supposed to be helping Rosa Parks, but they really need to find and help Claudette Colvin would have been even more interesting. It would have accomplished their stated purpose of protecting and defending history from revisionism even better. It would not have been as straightforward and easily digested by many audiences because not many (let's be honest, white) people know who Claudette Colvin is. But that would have been part of the appeal to people who prefer plots with a little less transparency from the start.

That the writers at Doctor Who even went here is a testament to what they hope to accomplish with their storytelling, which I'm a huge fan of. And I have always loved the episodes where they play with history because I'm such a history nerd. I'm hoping they continue to explore this balance between historical accuracy and compelling fictional storytelling. And I hope I don't have to wait so long for another episode like this to come around.

(Oh Moffat. How I DON'T miss you.)

#doctor who #rosa #rosa parks #tv knitting #drunk history #civil rights #history #black history #civil rights movement #claudette colvin #herstory #jodie whitaker #nerdy knitting #dr who #dr who series 11 #freedom riders #freedom rides #bus boycott