Hic Est Baculum Meum

it’s my digital artiversary! here’s the paintings ft. jodie whittaker mostly as the thirteenth doctor from over the past year💛

Because while we may have opinions?

Friends/followers know where we're coming from. Whereas different fandom circles have different modes of communicating. Some fans don't want to have to filter their raw reactions, blunt opinions, or even unashamed gushing/enthusiasm to avoid Disk Horse.

Others want to avoid what feels like too much negativity, or (conversely) what feels like forced positivity that's intolerant of disagreement or nuanced critique.

TL; DR: avoiding tagging is a form of passive crowd control.

Not gatekeeping How to Fan (nor should there be, imo), but self-selecting for people who approach fandom in similar ways.

Thirteen my beloved

And based on that sun tipoff, the crew were getting word around may that the special was getting "delayed to easter"

And that "there's a statement winding its way through the bbc" comment was...I think like a week ago?

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

I [insert name] fully understand that Russell T Davies will quite literally be sued by the BBC if he says absolutely anything that would be seen as having “Jeopardised the formation of a deal between the BBC and future contractors”, which is why his post is deliberately over-the-top :DDDD and you have to look at real world actions like Bad Wolf Productions pulling out to understand his position on the matter (as well as using your own common sense).

TV Writing Jesus himself couldn’t have kept this show going, and that nobody brings up this guy at all is proof no-one here understands how anything actually works in the real world. You’re an 8 year old yelling at your dad for getting fired and you having to move house because you can’t yet conceive of him having a boss evil enough to just fire him for being gay. Doctor Who was cancelled because It’s Woke™. That’s it. It’s the same as everything else. Nobody even cares about the money anymore. Everything is just the Scooby-Doo mask pulling-off scene to find Regressive Authoritarianism underneath forever. The Big Bad is always the same, and it’s not the quite literally loudest pro-trans voice in UK media creation. Russell is the one person who ever tries to use his power to change anything for the better and instead we’re ignoring the people actually trying to kill us, just becoming the people we hate in politics because it’s easier than facing the reality that we can play the best game of chess in our life but never defeat The Machine.

The current BBC is staffed by this man and his cronies, and all they wanted to do was kill off Doctor Who without getting backlash. That was their goal, their singular Goal. Not money. Killing it. Because at the end of the day they’re right, Doctor Who is inherently Woke Content and under our current Regressive Authoritarian governments that has not, and will not be allowed to stand.

1) Had a plan for the Billie Piper thing, didn't get around to writing a full script but has an idea scrawled on a post-it note that he'll hand to the next showrunner, or

2) Still hasn't decided what Billie was doing there; is hoping the next person comes up with something cool

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because otherwise it gets kind of visually confusing to parse, which is annoying to some folks, including me

GRANTED not everybody uses the same theme or even the same update. you might have noticed my version of tumblr is earlier than yours (I don't like the new button setup)

but still, it's just about being polite