witnesses of the end of the world
#it’s the difference in their Doctors; it’s the difference in their arcs #everyone says that Clara looks like a mirror image of Rose #and perhaps in a lot of ways she is - but it’s a horror story #the Doctor leaves her alone in these nightmares time and time again #she sees the end of the world and she is horrified at his - lack #his cheery apathy #towards the deaths of the ghosts that live around him #For Rose and Nine though #the end of the world is melancholic - yes #but it’s also full of life and joy #the knowledge that mankind will go on; has stretched across the stars #and ultimately they watch the world end together #they make it a beginning #a personal intimate moment #strangely beautiful #about the endlessness of the universe and how very very small yet so so important humans are to its stars #it’s the start of healing and love #Clara and the Doctor have nothing like that #because while Nine was damaged - Nine was present #fully #and Eleven is just slipping away behind his impossible girls and his love stories hidden in a ghost mansion #he’s about the puzzles and the hidden things#never the emotions #never the people #Clara is already beginning to suffer for it #she realizes that though she said it - ‘I don’t want to be compared to a ghost’ - there’s not much else people can be to this Doctor #just fun spicy diversions he pops off to see in his little blue box (neverfeedthesarcophagi)
ALL OF THAT.
And that is such a huge part of my problem with where they’ve taken Eleven’s characterisation, because I am just not capable of believing that Moffat is going somewhere with it, you know? Like I just can’t make myself believe that he’s actually trying to say something about the Doctor having gone too far or become too damaged; I think Moffat is just incapable of writing the Doctor in a way that enables him to actually emotionally connect with anyone. It’s not like anyone is really calling him on it. Clara has told him she won’t compete with a ghost but has he really paid attention to that? I don’t think he has at all. Everyone remains a shiny puzzle to him, a toy. Say what you will about the things Nine and Ten put their companions through, but Rose and Martha and Donna were never toys or puzzles or playthings.
And also I don’t think a Doctor who can’t emotionally connect with anyone is true to the spirit of the show. For fifty years this show has been about how much the Doctor has loved humanity (/other humanoid species) and how he has expressed that love by genuinely connecting to individual human beings (/members of other humanoid species), and now that’s just… not what it’s about.
Then again, I think if there’s anything Moffat’s recent comments about the 50th Anniversary have shown us, it’s that he neither understands nor respects the history and story he’s been entrusted with, so. There’s that.
oh wow. oh wow. can i give u award. because you just voiced to me the one thing that’s been nagging me throughout the whole show. the doctor’s been all about special effects. lofty ideals~. and grandeur as of late. i can’t remember the last time he’s humbled himself to the wonderful ordinariness of humanity. to the remarkableness of clara outside of her dead dopplegangers. because it’s not the mystery that should make her awesome. it’s the simple things.like how rose’s upbringing said nothing to how brave and caring she can be. or how much courage and self-respect it can take for someone like martha to leave. or how a simple temp can just in all probability be the most important woman in the universe. to me what makes clara great is her open-mindedness. how deep her knowledge is of herself. how she kept a leaf to remind her of what matters no matter how scared or lost she might get. and it’s such a shame that eleven can’t put that over her intrigue. because really. the only mystery that he should concern himself with is the same one he’s been asking and loving all this time. humanity: and all the wonderful incongruencies and contradictions that come with it. how people can really be ‘so much bigger on the inside’. and i think he’s forgotten a bit of that. because no matter how quirky or broken or ancient and childish you can be. the doctor is never truly the doctor without knowing that that should come first above everything. (via prustens)
This is the kind of shit that just really gets to me and pisses me off. How can you support the gay and lesbian community but then not us? It’s not that difficult to go educate yourself on bisexuality and what it means, and it is really not that difficult to understand. This is not some crazy kinky thing that people choose to do. We’re not some crazy attention whores who are confused and don’t know what we want. Are there some people out there who are confused? Sure. Are there some annoying immature girls out there who just want attention? Sure. Are there bisexual people out there who are promiscuous and jump from one to the other constantly? There are. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to generalize and stereotype all bisexuals as one. You are pegging an entire community of people as something bad, and something not to be taken seriously or even considered “real”, based upon the few who give us a bad reputation.
Generalizing entire communities of people is wrong. Don’t sit there and think you know what kind of person I am because you once witnessed a couple 13 year old girls that claimed to be bi and made out with one another at a party. Those aren’t the faces of bisexuality and that kind of behavior certainly does not represent me or what it means to be bisexual. This is a STEREOTYPE. And it’s WRONG and should NEVER be used as some kind of evidence against why you do not support or accept an entire group/community of people.
Just admit that you are a close-minded and ignorant bigot.
This needs more notes.
I’m bisexual, I am not an attention whore, I’ve never been promiscuous, I have never contracted an STD in my life and I was always committed and monogamous with the person I was with/dating at the time. We just don’t freaking care what gender the person is that we love. Gender is always irrelevant, we fall in love with people for who they are, not what skin they are wearing.
AnonymousYes. I’ve just been so swamped with my studies I’ve had no creative time at all. I have every intention of finishing that story the MOMENT I get some “ME” time. I’ve had that ending stuck in my head forever. I promise it’s not dead just delayed unfortunately. Thank you for being so patient with me I know it must be maddening.
Pugs
A great family friend and John, pretty much LIFE LONG psychologist (been seeing him since he was 5) owns a pug and is a therapy dog for the kids she sees to help them open up. He always cuddles his fat ass on my lap when we go for John’s sessions. (makes my legs go to sleep!) ”Cuddles” is his name, I call him “Rump Roast”. He’s about 13 years old, snores and slobbers all over me leaving me covered in Pug fur. I love that fat ass dog. Pugs are just full of personality.
When people say “it’s not classy for a lady to curse”
BITCH THIS LADY IS THE EPITOME OF CLASS
LOOK AT HER CURSE. LOOK AT IT.
Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a Greek god statue.
I wrote some sci-fi books in a series a long time ago, (about a decade actually), and THIS was totally my character Beau in the books. I just saw a person that completely matches the description I made of a character (and my mental images) I wrote when this guy was probably a very young teenager if that (if he doesn’t have a totally deceptive baby face and if so, damn you got great genes!). Holy crap. Mr. Beau Shannon come to life indeed. (This kid is a musician too… Yup, my Androgynous, Immortal, Bardic-Beau incarnate!) Wow.
My favorite part about seeing Marvel movies in the theater is when the credits come on and the majority of people just get up and leave and it’s like YES THE WEAK ONES HAVE BEEN WEEDED OUT NOW BRING ON THE EXTRA SCENE
Mommy & Me
05/24/2008
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: DO NOT GO ONTO ANY DOCTOR WHO RELATED PAGES ON WIKIPEDIA. PEOPLE ARE HACKING RANDOM ONES AND PUTTING SPOILERS FOR “THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR” SO UNLESS YOU WANT THE ENTIRE EPISODE SPOILED DO NOT GO ONTO ANY DOCTOR WHO RELATED WIKI PAGES!!!!! SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE SO NOBODY GETS DISAPPOINTED!
*um if you’ve been a long time fan, and have read novels from the BBC we already know the answer unless they change cannon.
Favorite Instagram pictures of John Barrowman.