hate is always foolish, love is always wise

Grace: I’m her carer.

“Stratt.”

“Why do you call me that?”

“What? Stratt?”

“Just Stratt. Not Director Stratt. Not Ms. Stratt. Not…” 

“...Madam Stratt?”

“I hope not.”

“I’ve always called you Stratt. Why do you call me Dr. Grace?”

“It’s the appropriate title. You have a PhD.” 

“Carl calls me Grace, and I think it's nice. We’re friends. We’re like friends, too, aren’t we? You and I?”

lounging in an ouch position?

haven't taken a deep breath lately?

hungry? thirsty?

need to use the toilet?

too much sensory input?

zombies which look like the default player character. this has no lore implicatjons

skeletons. inexplicably they carry bows.

spiders that are two metres wide and hiss like snakes (imagine how fucking terrifying this would be in real life)

walking bush that wants nothing more than to explode while standin next to you. also theyre afraid of cats

three metre tall guy with social anxiety so bad they try to kill you if you look at them. also they can teleport

really sad ghost

zombies 2: underwater edition

spiders again but now they poison you

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

1. Is this the image of the axolotl plushie with the fire behind it?

NO! that is a different, more well known axolotl image that does not delete your blog.

2. Can I see the image?

for obvious reasons i'm not reblogging it to this post. however, since so many people asked, i put it safely in a google doc for you. go nuts.

3. hey, i remember this! it was over a year ago. does this still delete your blog?

someone in my askbox has informed me, under certain circumstances, yes. and that image is live, so be careful with it.

4. have you figured out what causes it?

same person in my askbox said this

which was my first theory before i went down the source code rabbit hole, although there must be a certain threshold for editing it since in the past people have posted censored versions where it still deletes your blog.

5. can i use it as my icon/can i send it to someone in dms/can i upload it if it's not in a post/can i post an edited version of the picture?

back when this first happened if you did any of the above it deleted your blog, unless it was pretty heavily edited (someone in my discord put him behind bars - you know like he was caged - and i think when we uploaded that it didn't delete the person's blog? i could be wrong though). see the above ask for the most recent information. someone in the notes earlier (don't remember who, sorry) also said that you can upload the original via mobile and it kills your blog, but if you try to post it on desktop it blocks it from being uploaded, so that's also another route you could go if you want to experiment.

6. why have i never heard about this before?

spnblr is more complex and layered than you can possibly imagine it's not my fault you can't see it for the majesty it is.

7. this still sounds fake.

hey man, weird thing to lie about. but the picture and all the information you need to test it out is right here. post it to your blog. go on. prove me wrong. 🙂

8. didn't people try to remotely delete neil gaiman's blog by submitting that image to him?

when i saw the final scene for the first time my first thought was "those are crowley and aziraphale's colours in that sky"

Like he abandons Clara, lets her think he's changed, lets her think he's left her for dead, all on the assumption that she'll figure their captors out and successfully out-boss a room full of murderous clockwork cyborgs into giving her answers.

And he's completely right.

Fuck, it's such a deliciously messed up thing for him to do.

Because like ten minutes earlier, they're finally starting to fall back into a rhythm together. They're investigating the restaurant, piecing clues together, working the mystery. He slips the sonic out of his pocket, she kicks it up to him, they're bouncing observations off each other, making deductions together. You can actively see Clara beginning to settle into this new version of the Doctor.

Not fully trusting him yet.

But getting there.

Getting comfortable.

And then the Doctor takes the exact thing she's struggling with, her uncertainty, her fear that he's different now, that maybe she doesn't know him anymore, and turns it into part of the plan.

He weaponizes her doubt against both her and the clockwork cyborgs.

He looks her in the eye, tells her that at least one of them has to live, and leaves.

And my god, Jenna Coleman absolutely destroys me in the scenes that follow. Clara trying so hard not to breathe, but having to try even harder not to cry, and failing at both. Walking away while desperately trying to hold herself together. The panic, the oxygen deprivation, the heartbreak of genuinely believing the Doctor abandoned her.

It's brutal.

Because from Clara's perspective this is confirmation of every fear she's been carrying since the regeneration. The Doctor is different now. Maybe this face doesn't care about her. Maybe she really has been left behind.

But from the Doctor's perspective, the reason he can do this at all is because he trusts her completely.

He knows she'll start asking questions.

He knows she'll push back.

He knows she'll get to the truth because that's who Clara is.

So he leaves her there and trusts that she'll do exactly what he would do in the same situation while he runs off to throw together a disguise.

It's one of those moments that feels incredibly Doctor-ish and incredibly unfair at the same time.

Because buried underneath it is a weirdly profound compliment.

He's effectively saying, "I trust you to handle this."

But the way he chooses to communicate that is by emotionally throwing her into a nest of killer robots and hoping she figures it out.

Which she does.

Because unfortunately for Clara, he knows her almost as well as she knows him.