pieces in a whole

Gleefully imagining rassilon dying in a glue trap

avengers doomsday trailer is so fucking embarrassing bro it's like watching an aging celebrity try to relive their greatest hits

it's so rote now... ooooh here's 72 actors you recognize making shocked faces at a greenscreen. ominous narration to let you know that this is definitely the scariest thing we've ever had to fight. we wheeled Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan out of the retirement home to fag it up again. are you entertained. are you reaching for your wallets yet.

I've never seen anything more soulless in my life tbh. I've never wanted to see a movie crash and burn more. let it be dead so marvel studios can get on with being a spirit halloween already.

people tagging this with Russo brother hate as if any other director(s) wouldn't have gotten the same brief for the exact same big budget cgi disaster movie crossover schlock are so funny. there's no world where this was a boundary-pushing art film babes I'm sorry. you're ordering milkshakes at the hardware store

can we all just collectively agree to not watch it. not even hate watch. i am sick and tired of Micky Mouse Diarrhea Shitting all over what remains of storytelling in this world

A grill worth fighting for

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It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

unit is so funny to me. oh youre a secret organisation? ok cool. is that why you have a PUBLIC phone number available to THE PUBLIC that anypony can use, and then when they call you up the first thing you say is 'hello, UNIT public communication department speaking', letting them know that this secret organisation exists? is that why your mandatory uniforms have 'unit' on the shoulder with unit badges on the lapels and berets, and unit members still have to wear these while outside in public? is that why unit jeeps have a big unit logo on them? is that why the most recent nuwho unit has a massive building in london that looks like a ps5? is that why there is usually a big sign that says 'UNIT HQ' with the biggest text size (occasionally with the brig's name) right outside HQ? just so we are clear, thats all because unit is a secret organisation, right?

People will see an underwritten woman or black character and act like it's the character's fault

Yes! 😊

I've already talked at length about the legacy of Gallifrey some (and heck I wrote an entire fic based on it) but I think the most compelling thing about it, besides the fact that it's obviously a fiction meant for propaganda, is the version of Rassilon's first regeneration it presents, which is that Rassilon is sick and dying of magic radiation poisoning and the Council conspires to take advantage of his weakness by forcing him into retirement, effectively institutionalizing him, and seizing his research, so Rassilon destroys his work in a rage and promptly collapses and dies. Imagine you're Rassilon and by this point you know what it's like to be a disadvantaged agitator and have an angry goddess-queen broadcasting her hatred directly into your mind, 24/7 for a year, and then when you're at your weakest your paranoias are proven right: everyone IS out to get you, they ARE waiting for the slightest hint of blood in the water, you CANNOT be at the bottom of the food chain ever again. Rassilon being Rassilon his response to this is "Ah! I thought so! Naturally I have to cut down all who oppose me and become God."

Remember to turn out for your elections, people!

i've put a lot more thought into why it bothers me that a lot of people don't ever seem to write bigots and abusers with any sympathetic qualities or redeemable traits. like sure, there's the fact that i think writing everyone as the cardboard cutout perfect leftist is boring and lame, but it's a little deeper than that. i think it speaks to quite a shallow understanding of bigotry and abuse, moreso than a desire to be morally correct. i think it's easy to write abusers as one note cartoon villains rather than think of them as whole people. i think it's easy to boil someone down to their bigotry. i think it speaks to the fact that people seem not to want to fathom that people may be nice, may be kind, may even be good, and still can hold some shitty fucking views. the man who spends 20 hours a week working at the food pantry as a volunteer and helping his community may have voted against gay marriage and against abortion, and may sometimes yell at his wife so hard she cries, but he's also the shoulder than people cry on at work because he's reliable and helpful and warm and brings homemade casserole when you're going through a hard time. cause then, well, the world isn't so black and white and it's harder to say who's a good person and well nuance isn't what fanfic is for.

hot take i think this is also something that makes it a lot harder to go "oh my perfectly nice lovely friend has just said some racist bullshit" because well. your friend is perfectly nice and lovely which Of Course given that they're not One Note Villain Vincent means that they can't be a bigot.