love, and do what you will

im going to die and its almost entirely because of money.

gabrielle viewing lestat as not-her-son but rather as a mirror of herself, herself if she were a man (man here being an absolute synonym of human)... child neglect resulting in unintentional grooming... it being all the more insidious for it: gabrielle doesn't even have to initiate the sexual relationship and, look, she's not even that interested in him, she didn't push him in that direction, she grew bored of him so fast and it's actually lestat who's obsessed with his mother! evil shit. I wonder what the show will make of it

The best part about Gabistat is that Gabrielle lowkey isn't even like that into it, she's just kind of ambivalent, which means Lestat is still being emotionally neglected by his mother that he is literally in an incestuous relationship with.

if i could give advice to me as a teenager i would say be 25

i would say theres honestly nothing you can do

remember when rtd wrote in lines about christopher eccleston’s body with the knowledge he was suffering from an eating disorder and continued to hire john barrowman despite the fact that he was sexually harassing his coworkers. remember when rtd has eccleston blacklisted from the bbc.

remember when rtd had davidtennant3 regenerate into a suit despite the fact that that wasn’t what thirteen was wearing? because she was a woman? and remember when he wrote a trans character only to have her relate to some bioessentialist femininity that the doctor couldn’t relate to because he’s a man? remember how rtd treated adoption? remember how the first black doctor was sidelined in TWO episodes of his first season? remember how belinda chandra was locked in a box for an entire episode and then lobotomized? remember how ruby sunday sympathized with the fascist? remember how he created an entire regeneration concept just so a white actor could overshadow a person of color? remember how racist, sexist, and transphobic that man is?

REMEMBER when there were rumors of millie gibson being so unpleasant to work with that she was fired from doctor who and no member of rtds team or the bbc put in any effort to defend her while her reputation was being ruined?

remember when he sandwiched the first black, queer doctor’s era between david tennant and billie piper?

remember fucking martha jones. remember mickey smith

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

"character doing a c+ job of breaking the cycle of abuse" is such a crunchy dynamic forever. what if i'm giving my all to give you a better life than i had and i'm succeeding but "better" just isn't quite enough. what if my blind spots and deeply ingrained trauma and inexperience mean that you will be indelibly scarred by me despite my best efforts. what if my abuser's influence still bleeds through at times because i know nothing else. what if i go so far in the opposite direction to avoid it that i hurt you in ways i couldn't have anticipated. what if my undeniable love and unforgivable shortcomings came part and parcel with each other. what if your love and gratitude and resentment and pain came part and parcel too. what if we both knew you deserved better but i was all you had. what if we had to move forward and reckon with that. what then

It's wild how "women are reading frivolous and immoral novels that are rotting their brains" is such an evergreen moral panic. You'd think we'd have figured this one out by now.

its not even shipping its just posting what they did