listen I was never super invested in 11 or river song or most of those plotlines but ...... thematically they kinda went off with the whole "two timelines moving in opposite directions" thing like. she's been dead since the beginning. every moment I have with you is stolen. the pain of falling in love with someone, and knowing that every time you see them, they know you a little less. the clock is ticking and you know how it ends. she has been haunting this narrative since season 4. the first time is the last time. time moves in a circle but can only be experienced in a straight line. all tragedies are familiar.

i feel like we ignore the fact that canonically scully flirts by talking about weird and rare medical conditions that may have been suffered by deceased individuals. like the woman is morbid and weird and i think we do not emphasize enough how not-at-all-normal she is. if at any point she’s acting like a normal girl she’s probably just faking it because she’s learned to disguise how weird and morbid she is with most of the world in order to fit in

They’d lose the children

i mean…isn’t that what they did in canon?

Asdfghjkl her perfectly straight face and even tone throughout should win an AWARD

My favourite translator said that when she was an ambassador for Hungary she took all these Japanese politicians on a tour and she was trying to circumtranslate ‘merry go round’ cause she didn’t know the Japanese word for it by calling it a ‘horse tornado for children’ and they had no blessed idea what she was saying and she finally started running in circles going up and down and they go ‘ohhhhh, in Japan we call those ‘merry-go-rounds’”

image: tweet. "lowkey nosy as fuck about ppls dynamics. like what do u guys mean to each other...? lol". end ID.

it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter