Three-eyed Raven

me re-scrolling thru older convos w/ my friends becuase i remember how much i enjoyed talking to them about the subject

On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

shout out seventeen year old Jaime Lannister for after undergoing the most traumatic incident of his adolescent life, breaking his Kingsguard oath to murder the evil king he was sworn to protect and also 3 other people because they were about to nuke the city, deciding that the most reasonable course of action afterwards was to sit on the iron throne and hang out for a bit.

> be me

> 16m German

> have a hot girlfriend who loves me (?)

> walk in forest at night

> at bridge

> car pulls up, weird old priest inside

> he tells me he can predict my future if I get in his car

> I do not get in the car

> he says ok fine I knew that would happen. bring a friend. but he will stand you up

> I come back next week

> friend stands me up

> he’s fucking my girl

> i get in the priest’s car

> priest doesn’t actually molest me (?)

> priest tells me my friend is fucking my girl, will continue fucking my girl, and that my mom will get cancer. on the bright side the homewrecker will vanish one day

> I don’t believe him

> I get cucked again

> mom gets cancer

> homewrecking ex bestie disappears

> mfw I met a time traveler and he ruined my life

reposting my own Tweet (from 3 days ago) here 💖 enjoy

the whole severance process and its subsequent success being manufactured from and built upon the labour and suffering of two women. one a child who designed severance to cope with the reality of the world she was forced into, and one being a woman of colour who was kidnapped and turned into a toy to be used at the whims of a white man. and you all wanted to know why ms huang is a child. well here is your answer. a teenage girl of colour currently under the same scholarship as cobel happily and matter-of-factly carrying out the subjugation of people who only exist because of what lumon exploited out of people like her. lumon having entire institutions dedicated to the continued indoctrination of vulnerable children. lumon systematically ensuring any amount of class or race consciousness or solidarity between their subjects is impossible by having them carry out each other's exploitation on their behalf. the innies just being a new rung at the bottom of the ladder whom the disenfranchised and marginalised can feel empowerment in stepping over. and ms huang is just the next in a long, long line of victims

I love the idea that the 15th Doctor is one of the incarnations totally willing to manipulate his friends and companions, but he does it THROUGH laughs and smiles and charm, so much so that he barely even registers that that’s what he’s doing. Upbeat darkness.

Of course, “silly Doctor hiding a manipulative streak” is hardly new, but there’s a specific difference between, say, 7 using silliness to trick enemies but manipulating Ace more overtly, and 15 trying to manipulate Belinda, his potential new companion, USING his charm. It’s a (relatively) new angle on the Doctor’s manipulative behavior. I’m not gonna say it’s NEVER been done before (thousands of stories across several mediums over 60 years, I’m sure it’s cropped up), but this is the most overt example of the Doc using this specific manipulation tactic to my mind.

Belinda, having been the victim of a (clumsy) attempt at manipulation by Alan in the past, recognizes it right away and calls the Doc out, and he still doesn’t let the smile drop until he recognizes he isn’t gonna charm his way out of the situation.

And he KNOWS she’s right. But it almost makes him mad that she recognizes it too. You can see it on his face. He wants to argue back. But he knows she’s right, so he doesn’t.

Again from rereading Sherlock Holmes stories, I need to know who dramatized and adapted the Granada series so I can give them a little kiss on the forehead for expanding on the themes so well. There are times I think they even improved the source material. The Dying Detective is the best example imo but Greek Interpreter might be second. Wisteria Lodge is also an improvement but that was a coincidence

Can 15 stop saying he’s the last of the time lords. Girl your ex is in a tooth as you speak

this doodle is for me and the people who believe in he/she/it gerry keay supremacy only