Hic Est Baculum Meum

problematic rage gap. one partner tries to bring nuance and understanding to a tough situation. the other wants to blow up the earth about it.

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Idk people misunderstand "Do I have the right" a lot. They think it's a question of "Does the Doctor have the right to nip a fascist uprising in the bud before it begins", so they think the answer is "yes of course, it is always morally correct to save the universe through one ruthless act" but that isn't the point. Genesis of the Daleks shows us a 1000 year war of attrition where the Kaleds are eugenists paralleled with the Nazis and the Thals use slave labor, hell bent on annihilating each other, but the only reason the Doctor is even on Skaro in the first place is because the Time Lords sent him there to do their dirty work enforcing their will upon the universe again. EVERYONE in Genesis of the Daleks are the fascists. So no, the Doctor isn't agonizing over whether he has the right to commit a genocide because he doesn't want to get blood on his hands doing the right thing, it's because he doesn't want to be USED. He doesn't want to be a weapon for the Time Lords to use to decide who gets to live or die in their universe.

You ever think about how the fourth doctor never really chose his own friends (Sarah: stuck with him after he died. Leela: inserted herself into his life to run away. Romana: given to him by the White Guardian. Adric: stowed away.) And how he inevitably always ended up pushing them away because of his unresolved pain about Gallifrey (Sarah: abandoned out of fear of Gallifrey. Leela: left to make her own life on Gallifrey. Romana: left because he was going to give her up to Gallifrey) doesn't that just stick with you

I'm so fucking normal that regular expressions are just expressions to me

I just call them vectors

reblog to do this w your mutuals

Like yeah they probably weren't the single primary cause of the bronze age collapse. Nothing in history is ever caused by just one thing. But it's my understanding that the Sea Peoples were very much real.

My uncle is really into warhammer and would win every miniature painting competition he was in. I have not very steady hands and he saw me messing up my nail polish for prom. He sat with me and carefully painted my nails and that moment meant so much to me all these years later.