#About me 2k24

[blackbird-brewster]

Highlights from Catherine Tate's Q&A Panel at Armageddon Expo 2024 (NZ) :

[I took notes best I could during the panel but some may be paraphrased]

Q: What's your favourite Doctor Who alien?

CT: The wonderful Ood!

Q: Who's your favourite Doctor? (Crowd gasps in anticipation)

CT: Well, I get asked this a lot, and obviously it's David (Tennant). I don't know what number he is, he keeps coming back. But definitely, David. Although, someone recently pointed out that I was technically the first ever female Doctor. So you know what? Me, I'm my favourite Doctor.

Q: What's your favourite episode you were in of Doctor Who?

CT:The Runaway Bride, because that's where it all began.

Q: What's a favourite memory of working with David Tennant on Doctor Who?

CT: The scene in 'Partners in Crime', the one with the Adipose, there's the scene where Donna and the Doctor see each other from across a room. But they're both behind glass and they have the whole mime scene with the windows. Well, I remember it was about 3am when we were filming that - - Russel really likes to film at night if the story is taking place at night - so it was 3am, and I said to the director 'Uh, right here it just says Donna Mimes' and he said 'Yeah do whatever'.

So that whole scene was ad-lib during shooting and David and I were so in sync with it, we did that first take and the director said cut and print!

Q: How emotional were you filming your final scene in Journey's End?

CT: So, we didn't always film in order. And I'm not really a sentimental person, but I will say I thought Donna's ending was absolutely perfect. When she meets the Doctor she was always yelling at the world, and she was so different than what she was by the end, she had so much growth with the Doctor and she changed so much in her time with him, but then, she forgets the him and all those memories. And that final scene, what really got me was how he says 'Donna, I'm off' and she's just, I think she's on the phone, and she just waves dismissively. She doesn't know him anymore. Russell, the way he ties things together, he's brilliant, that man.

Q: What was it like working with Bernard (Cribbins)?

CT: Oh, Bernard. God, I love him. He was so funny and talented. He always had stories and voices and sound effects. He loved making people laugh. But we had a gag where every single time I called him I'd say (Donna Voice) 'GRANDAD!'

He'd say, "Who is this?"

"It's Catherine."

"Catherine who?"

"Catherine Tate"

"Never heard of her."

We did this every time I called him and I loved it.

Q: Is there anything annoying about working with David Tennant?

CT: No, absolutely not. He's perfect. He's the best person to work with. I will say though, I was annoying him a lot. When we did the 60th Anniversary specials, our trailers looked exactly the same and I never knew where my trailer was. I'd walk into his all the time!

Sometimes I'd walk in and see his shoes in the trailer and instead of thinking 'Oops, wrong trailer', my brain went 'What's he gone and left his shoes in my trailer for?'

It got so bad, sometimes I'd walk up the stairs and from inside I'd hear 'NO.'

Q: Was it weird coming back to play Donna after all these years? Especially when it was along side David Tennant?

CT: It was a bit weird, more in the 'Oh I hope i still know how to do this' way than anything. But I did think it would be hilarious if David and I arrived on set and every take we just did completely wrong voices. Just thought it'd be hilarious for him to go (in an airy upper-crust British accent) 'Ohhhh, hellloooo. I'm the Doctor'

Q: If you could take any prop from set, what would you take?

CT: Ohhhh, I'd have very large pockets and see what I could fit. But mostly I think it'd be a sonic screwdriver. It's gotta be a sonic screwdriver, doesn't it? It's small and mobile... Easy to steal. Plus, it'd fetch a great price on Ebay!

Q: Best show you've ever worked on?

CT: The Office, they paid me tons of money.

Q: My mum loves David Tennant, is there something you can say to dissuade her?

CT: Hm, something to convince her he's not.... Oh, he doesn't believe in astrology! I'll say 'It's Mercury Retrograde' and he'll say 'NO, NO, NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT'.

Other Highlights:

As soon as she came out, she saw the stage had no steps to the audience, so she stayed on mic and went the long way round to go into the audience and interview people, trying to find who had traveled the furthest to be here. She was sorely disappointed everyone was just from Aotearoa 🤣

Donna Lines She Performed:

"Oi Spaceman! You're not mating with me sunshine!" (Crowd went wild for that)

"Binary. Binary. Binary." (🥺)

She did some of her characters: Lauren Cooper mostly, but also wished someone Happy birthday as Nan

#Catherine Tate #Donna Noble #Doctor who #Lauren Cooper #Catherine Tate show #About me 2k24 #The great cate tate adventure #dw 60th #David Tennant #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

[justsasuke]

Team Taka is such a good example of people going through awful things but still managing to find those little moments of pure humanity where life is beautiful.

Karin loves perfume and collecting perfume.

Suigetsu loves yogurt desserts.

Juugo loves birds and nature and peaceful moments in the forest.

All three of them have suffered and seen and experienced horrible things and yet they still have these little pocket of Normal Things that they enjoy and that just makes me so emotional

#team Taka #I just love them #juugo #suigetsu #karin #random #feeling feral about Taka today #also I couldn’t think of one for Sasuke that we’ve actually seen #and that makes me sad 😢 #we need Sasuke self care 2k24

[redpasserines]

I am real tired of the constant girl bossification of Cassandra Cain, who deserves to be a genuine character in her own right with hopes and dreams and FLAWS instead of “the best” which is all yall seem to be able to see her as. Her character traits are: Bruce’s favorite child because she’s perfect! Everyone’s favorite sibling because she’s sensible! The best fighter ever, so much better than all of these could take on all of them at the same time and crush them! That’s it!

edit: this is mostly about fanon Cass, and also the fight thing isn’t denying she’s the best out of all of them. It’s that it’s over exaggerated to a point that’s so wildly unrealistic it makes everything frankly boring.

#let female characters have flaws 2k24 #it’s genuinely so annoyinggggg to me #I kinda feel the same way about dick but at least fanon lets dick have friends and stuff #fanon brings up cass solely so she can beat sense into “these idiots” and destroy the villain of the month #cassandra cain #batfam #dc comics #black bat #batgirl

[electric-plants]

focalors: i’m going to kill an archon

neuvillette: oh sick which one

focalors: me

neuvillette: :(

#he’d prefer she didn’t actually #genshin impact #genshin incorrect quotes #focalors #neuvillette #fontaine spoilers #genshin fontaine spoilers #genshin spoilers #focalors really went: this plan is going to kill me and severely traumatize people i care about but it’s also going to be SO sick #literally cannot get over how pumped she sounded to trick celestia #like girl PLEASE this is TRAUMATIC #give furina and neuvillette shock blankets 2k24 #suicide mention #cw suicide mention #tw suicide mention

[lesbiancarat]

the new weverse magazine article mentioning the interconnected storyline in pu songs but failing to mention that the storyline in question is about wanting to have a steamy romance with an alien on the moon... cowards

#let pu be alien fuckers 2k24! #also i know i keep posting about this fun fact but it will never not be funny to me lmao #melia.txt

[deus-ex-mona]

what i expected: pre-reincarnation romance

what i got: HISTORICAL ROMANCE FANTASY

#y ou dont get it guys i’ve been living and breathing rofan for the past few months i still cant get over this #hauauausuauuajzjwjznaj as though meoto couldn’t get better… #i wanna write a clichéd as heck meoto au… but i have no time and no skills s o b s #maybe i’ll churn out a horrible isekai fic then… now to decide between regression and typical isekai… hmmmmmmmmmm #(anyways pls scream about otome isekai with me aaaaaaaaaaa) #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

All the clans are clearly mentally ill, that’s the trade off to being hereditary aristocracy clinging to antiquated power, you get the brain demons. The cursed techniques come with curses. But whereas the Kamo keep their embarrassments locked down tight (curse wombs secured, possessed old patriarchs symbolically folded back into the family tree, illegitimate children assimilated) and the Zen’in have the sort of of simmering rot-in-the-walls, sprawling gothic horror disease that only rears its head once every few generations, I think the Gojo have been having public breakdowns since the Meiji era. It would go a long way to explaining why everyone reacts the way they do to Satoru, and why his family is so invisible in the narrative. Oh, a Gojo having manic episodes, saying unsettling things, making vague grandiose threats, and exhibiting eccentric behavior? A likely thing for him to do.

#jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #it’s a shame the godhead rests in a family tree prone to completely losing it! #nobody think too hard about why what might be the case #listen to me listen to me #that is a man who has multiple family members on benzodiazapines #rich and very very unwell like a family of 1920s railroad tycoons #which in turn makes them a little underrepresented in leadership #even if they still get their credit as one of the leading clans on historical merit and raw power #the expectation in jujutsu society is that you’ll handle your literal hereditary curses quietly #and the Gojo (who have the most powerful techniques) can’t keep their issues gracefully silent #it’s about the literal and figurative curses #it’s about failure to conform and social embarrassment and ths advantages of being an easily dismissed eccentric #even if you’re the strongest you’re still a flighty little oddball whose threats no one really takes seriously #it just makes sense! #Give Gojo Satoru’s Mom Canonical Xanax 2k24

[aflamethatneverdies]

i do rly love dungeon meshi so far and i do see that the mangaka is trying to rehabilitate the dnd tropes and make them more thoughtful and less racist and this is not so much a judgement, more an observation, but the dnd tropes originally are so racist that i kinda wish that the mangaka was completely inventing her own worldbuilding instead of building off of them. like maybe at some point we should as a society move away from and throw away dnd tropes in the trashcan where they belong, just a thought you know.

#the fact that many fantasy based stuff builds off of dnd tropes without doing much is not great #do we need to keep concept of races in fantasy? can we just not be like these people have long ears because of the climate and food etc #and same for orcs could be like they live in the mountains and are rugged and all #it just makes me so uncomfortable bcz there's all these inbuilt assumptions about orcs and elves etc that viewers will bring with them #most of the orcs in dunmeshi so far are darkskinned and it seems like a holdover from dnd which is obv visibly borrowed from tolkien #they tried to explain in the anime how orcs had no choice but to loot and plunder but still it just feels unsatisfactory #also the creepy af elf being dark skinned like hmmm darkskinned elves being evil is also a trope from dnd #tbf i still need to read the manga so maybe the elf thing is explained there #i am currently only watching the anime #but yeah this is 2k24 can we pls not do race science in the background of any fantasy adventure i am le tired

[tundrakatiebean]

I subluxated my scrolling thumb yesterday. It was very brief and I was able to get everything sorted quickly because I realized what was happening but it is SORE and hard to scroll the tumblrs 😔 suffering

#Katie is rambling 2k24 #really great timing for me to go into book club today and talk about #how the hypermobility in this book we read is bad rep #lol great example wish it didn’t hurt

[neon-in-the-night-time]

if rick is, in fact, going the route of using this tv adaptation to rewrite the entirety of his books, can we get a version of the apphrodite cabin that isn't dripping with misogynistic writing?

#inspired by my little sister (who hasn't read the books) #texting me 'what percy jackson cabin do you think i'd be in? i know when we all made pins during book week i chose aphrodite but seeing... #...the tiktoks people are making about them makes me think i don't want to be in that cabin' #let the aphrodite cabin be complex and dynamic and still be feminine 2k24 #rambles #percy jackson

[goodplace-janet]

i've decided that my New Year's resolution will be to visit every museum in my city. there are so many that i've been meaning to get to

#it might take me more than a year lol #i'll work on composing a list over the next couple of days #my school year resolution #of studying in a list of local cafes #was pretty successful #i might do a write up about it idk #talk tag #several museums are on campus #so that's convenient lol #new years 2k24

[blackbird-brewster]

"Well, this is the world we live in and these (trans) stories deserve to be told just as much as any other . It was such an honour to be part of that. I'm so happy with how many people resonated with this episode and the incredible way Russell seamlessly wove Rose (Noble-Temple) into it"

- Catherine Tate, in reply to my comment on how important it was for me to see trans representation in the 60th Anniversary Specials.

#Catherine Tate #Donna Noble #Doctor who #russell t davies #doctor who 60th anniversary #Dw 60th #yasmin finney #rose noble #About me 2k24 #trans representation #The great cate tate adventure

[serjaimelannister]

did the bojack horseman "it gets easier. every day it gets a little easier. but you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. but it does get easier." jogging but actually #thejourney too scene actually happen or did we all just mass hallucinate that

#srry ik it's 2k24 but. excuse me?? #actually i sort of have this question about the depression horse show in general

[everythingroyalty]

Are any wales or kate stans actually pointing out how gross it is to blame Kate for the photo?

More often than not, the Venn diagram of Wales stans (the way that I'm a Mary stan ✌️) and people who immediately outed themselves as rampantly racist the moment Meghan entered the picture is a circle, so I have to say, I don't follow a lot of actual Wales stans and as such I wouldn't know 🫣

#but i..... doubt it? #they dont strike me as people who are capable of being rational about their favs #or acknowledging their favs mistakes #so.... #inquiring minds #anonymous #as we grow out the bangs 2k24

[leahthedreamer]

The way Saltburn has amassed this cult following is fascinating considering it’s a terrible movie but y’all will bat for your white boy of the month I guess

#emerald fennell needs to never touch a pen again in her life #stop directors from thinking they can be writers 2K24 #I wish yall could just like the movie without trying to convince the rest of us that it’s good #there’s good eroticia and other Quote on Quote dark and twisted Films I promise you #don’t even let me begin to talk about people falling to pieces over Jacob Elordi please get a grip #That man is just tall that’s literally it and carries around a purse 😭 #saltburn #yes this is a hater post and idc

[deus-ex-mona]

thinking about meoto l i k e

#g. getting this nonsense out here so that i can act normally in front of others pls stand by #iT’S NOT EVEN OUT YET WHY CANT I STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AYAUAYAUAUAUAUAUAUAAAAAAAAA #I MEAN!!!! CONGRATS ON GETTING MARRIED LXL BUT!!!! AAUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAA #GOING INS A N E OVER A SOMG THAT ISNT EVEN OUT YET HAS TO BE A NEW LOW FOR ME LMAO #B UT HERE I AM. STILL GRINNING STUPIDLY AND UNABLE TO FOCUS ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN ‘HURR DURRRRR LXL MARRIED’ #MANAGED TO RECOVER FOR. LIKE. 30 SECONDS AN D T H E N I SEE A BUNCH OF TWTS SPECULATING THAT MEOTO’S LXL’S PAST LIFE AND. AUAAAAAAAAAAA #I W A N T TO B ELIE V E #AAAAAAA M V PLS I NEED TO SEE THIS VISUALISED #IM BEGGINGGGGGGGGGGGGG PLS I WANNA SEE MARRIED LXL #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa ok i think it’s all out of my system sorry guys back to business #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24