#Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

My piece for @rainbowcrate’s June book box.

Saundra Mitchell’s Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder.

#Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder #saundra mitchell #rainbow crate #commission #artists on tumblr #LGBT books #booklr #my art

[qualitymoonsuit]

I just finished reading Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder, by Saundra Mitchell.

#birthday present #Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder #saundra mitchell #queer

[tardis-stowaway]

The Doctor: He [Isaac Newton] was, wasn't he? He was so hot. Oh, is that who I am now?

So what personality trait of his new regeneration is the Doctor mildly surprised by here? He doesn't sound shocked, but it seems to be enough of a difference to mention out loud. A lot of people seem to be interpreting the that as referring to being into guys. To be fair, I think that's how Donna understands it in her next line.

My understanding of the line is slightly different. Feeling attraction to men (along with other genders) is nothing new to the Doctor. Nine and Captain Jack Harkness kissed full on the lips onscreen! Look at any interactions between Ten and the Master. Consider that changing gender presentation is something that any Time Lord might do at any regeneration, so treating gender as a limiting factor in attraction wouldn't make sense for the Doctor.

No, what has changed is that Fourteen is the sort of person who will directly admit when he finds someone hot while gossiping with his BFF. Not brilliant, or fascinating, or even beautiful, but hot. That's what's new.

#doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #wild blue yonder #doctor who #of course from a doylist perspective that line does point out to the audience #that the doctor is going to be SUPER QUEER henceforth #absolutely no more deniability #but from a watsonian perspective on what the Doctor means #i think they're just not used to being able to admit to these sort of feelings so easily and casually #i have found a new hill and i will die on it #tardis-stowaway's writing & stuff #fourteenth doctor

[sysig]

Went absolutely feral on WOY again recently (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Specifically about Peepers #Commander Peepers #Wander #Lord Hater #Fist Fighter #Emperor Awesome #Sylvia #The quality's gonna be scuffed for the next little bit 'cause it was too scribbly to work with lol #I had fun drawing! I just was not feeling particularly careful or clean #Also I decided to try out a new challenge and editing would've eaten up too much of my time - give and take! #Hhhh even after all this time Peepers is still my fave of the cast <3 The Most queer-coded villain (minion) how could I resist! #I'm simply too gay for evil that's just how it goes lol #Plus he is So fun to draw - like all of the WOY cast is they're all so bouncy and squishy! Very fun shapes! #But Peepers is the perfect mix of elements to me - effectively an objecthead with a rounded triangle torso and so expressive! #I love himst #Immediately going in on the shipping lol - yes I do genuinely ship him with everyone featured here #The Fist Fighter is new! But everyone else has precedent lol #He's my favourite so I love all of his dynamics! Or did he Become my favourite Because of his interesting dynamics? Who can say ♪ #The most obvious ships like Wandering Eye and Death Glare are probably my favourites but hhghggg he's too interesting to leave alone! #I like him with Awesome because of a specific fic but I even besides that I think they could bounce off each other well! #And with Sylvia it's their begrudging comradery of being the Keepers of their fools <3 They have a lot in common especially their passions #As before I did not expect the Fist Fighter but I recently realized how cute they are and it turned into a rival/friendship/crush thing lol #They're arguably more competent than the Watchdogs - I think C.Peeps could grow to recognize and appreciate their prowess lol #For now it's all one-sided tho haha - still cute! #Anyway let Peepers say ''fuck'' even just once he deserves it

[stardustandrockets]

What's a book that makes you feel seen?

It's only within the last few years that I've seen myself and my experiences regarding my sexuality in books. One of those books is The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun.

Charlie's experience with discovering his demisexuality, along with his anxiety, really spoke to me. Not that I was on a dating show to rehabilitate my image or anything. I was in college trying to survive the hardest year of my degree plan. This book was the first time I'd seen demisexuality written from a discovery standpoint. Most other ace rep I'd read up til this point was about characters who already knew they were ace or their sexuality wasn't even a point of the book. Even though this is an achillean book with gay main characters, much of what Charlie goes through spoke to me. Especially when I didn't find my own queerness until I was an adult.

Since then, I've added a few more books to the list that make me feel seen: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky and Loveless by Alice Oseman.

Remember: whether you are out or not, know you are greatly loved and my account is a safe space. 🌈 Bigots can't and won't win.

#the charm offensive #alison cochrun #the dead romantics #ashley poston #out there into the queer new yonder #saundra mitchell #a beautifully foolish endeavor #hank green #rainbow books #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer reads #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #ace books i've read #stardust book recs #stardustandrockets #backlog from june #june 9

[todaywasafairytaletv]

Alright I read this really cool story today - it was about this little transmasc guy who joins the army, and gets injected with a special serum that makes him a Really Strong Guy. He doesn't ever really get to fight, though, he's used as a sort of campaign to bolster support for the army.

This guy also had a buddy in the army with him (who he liked as more than just a friend) who went missing and was presumed dead (said friend was also a Really Strong Guy).

But it turns out, the friend is alive!! And he's actually a bad guy (but not really).

Stuff happens and the two end up together riding off into the sunset.

Ironically, this was not, in fact, Stucky fanfiction, but a story published in an anthology lmao.

#it was legitimately a good story though! #it's in the anthology 'out there: into the queer new yonder' which is all queer sci-fi stories (and so far it's pretty good) #jamie talks

[publishedtoday]

Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder -  Saundra Mitchell, Kayla Ancrum, K. Ancrum, Kalynn Bayron, Z Brewer, Mason Deaver, Alechia Dow, Z.R. Ellor, Leah Johnson, Naomi Kanakia, Claire Kann, Rahul Kanakia, Alex London, Jim McCarthy, Abdi Nazemian, Emma K. Ohland, Adam Sass, Nita Tyndall

To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaimed All Out and Out Now, Out There features seventeen original short stories set in the future from fantastic queer YA authors. Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars…an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels…two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station…people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet…only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future…everyone in the world vanishes except for two teen girls who are in love.

tw (varies by short): anxiety, cheating, climate disaster, classism, death, domestic abuse, dysphoria, end of the world, homophobia, medical content, misgendering, murder, outing, physical abuse, racism, religious bigotry, themes of colonization, sexism, stalking, transphobia, violence For a breakdown by short, several reviewers have broken down each short by rep and cw/tw.

#out there #out there into the queer new yonder #june 7 2022 #inkyard press #lgbtq #aromantic #demisexual #gay #intersex #nonbinary #pansexual #sapphic #trans #poc #black #colombian #indian #iranian #native

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I don’t know why some people find it weird that Donna makes sure to mention different pronouns about the Captain in Wild Blue Yonder lmao

She literally has a trans child so has spent a lot of Rose’s life since she came out and started transitioning educating herself on correct pronouns so it’s probably natural to Donna to immediately switch to make sure she’s including other pronouns. Since she’s so supportive and protective of Rose I’d find it strange if she didn’t correct herself on pronouns.

Also Doctor Who has always been Queer I don’t know if you have been living under a rock but it’s not just a random new thing that started happening this year or have we all forgotten Jack as a character in 2005??

#people getting really mad and offended and then calling us the snowflakes is actually hilarious #and trying to deny queer characters #because how can you be so confidently wrong about things it’s almost impressive if it wasn’t completely stupid #doctor who #dw #wild blue yonder #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #rose temple noble #jack harkness #captain jack harkness

[aro-who-reads]

Anthologies including aro stories

(that I have read recently)

I know most people probably aren't going to read an anthology because it has one aro story in it (well, I would. And have done so!) But here's a little list in case any of these interest anyone generally, or people have access to them and would like to check out the aro stories.

1. Everything Under the Moon (Ed. Michael Earp). Aro story is Seeing Colour by Jes Layton.

I've already talked about this one, I think it's my favourite on the list (the story itself and the anthology as a whole). The anthology is full of queer fairytale retellings, and Seeing Colour is about a young aro person getting to know an older single person.

2. An Unexpected Party (Ed. Seth Malacari). Aro story is The Graveyard Shift by Jes Layton.

I also enjoyed this one, it's an Australian queer YA spec fic anthology with a deliberate focus on less common queer rep (lots of trans, nonbinary rep) and emerging writers. Being aro isn't really a focus of the story but it does use the phrase "alloromantic bullshit". There was another story with an ace character who might have been meant to be aro as well?

3. This is Our Rainbow (Ed. Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby). Aro story is Girl's Best Friend by Lisa Jenn Bigelow.

A queer middle grade anthology. While not explicitly an aroace story, it does explicitly talk about having a squish on someone, who the MC attempts to befriend by turning into a dog. (I also believe the author is aroace?)

4. Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder (Ed. Saundra Mitchell). Aro story is The Undeniable Price of Everything by Z Brewer.

YA queer futuristic anthology. Unfortunately I found the aro story in this one of the weaker stories in the anthology, as it was a bit confusing. I also just didn't like the anthology as much as a whole either, but that might just be because it was more romance focused and I wasn't as interested.

#aro #aromantic #aro books #It's still sort of aro week right... #I'm partway through a couple of actual novels I thought I might write about but I got distracted reading other stuff #Tbh I found all three of the all out/out now/put there anthologies disappointing #Especially in regard to representing a broad range of queer identities

[platonic-pals-punchout]

Wander Over Yonder (tv show) | Ace Attorney (video game series & anime)

Wander & Sylvia:

These two pals travel the galaxy together, exploring and having adventures! If their friendship can defeat the evil Lord Hater, it can defeat a bunch of other friends too!

Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright:

1. Quite frankly I don’t think they will win. They are constantly being tormented and experiencing the horrors and this poll would be no different. 2. they literally cannot die no matter what hell canon puts them through. fall off that bridge n cliff to a deathly boy! get kidnapped like 4 times girl! when she gets kidnapped like the first time, they had to make a new sprite for Phoenix coz he didn’t look devasted and depressed enough. Power of friendship though! and she is OKI! :) 3. The most iconic attorney and assistant pair in the series. Phoenix canonically ran onto a burning bridge to try to save Maya when she was in danger. His call with her got cut off once and he left the country to go make sure she was safe. She’s been kidnapped twice to be used as leverage against him and both times she was more worried about him than herself. She once jumped in front of a taser to try to protect him. He’s also defended her from murder accusations like four times. Their relationship defines the original game trilogy even more than the Wright-Edgeworth relationship does. Other Ace Attorney games wish they could replicate this dynamic. They got added to a fighting game as a single unit where they work together to fight. They both think they’re the reasonable one in this friendship, despite neither of them actually deserving that title.

Note: This blog is run & followed by aromantics. Insisting any pairs are ~actually romantic~ will not only cause you to be blocked on the spot, but you’ll be outed as someone not safe to be queer around. No one wants to hear how stupid you look with those shipping goggles on.

#part 1 #round 4 #platonic pals punchout #character tournament #team tournament #fandom poll #ace attorney #nickandmaya #wander over yonder #again so sorry for the mixup!!

[galiifreyrose]

god I am just having such a great fucking time I've missed being an active part of the DW fandom I really have

rambling flailing-my-arms thoughts for anyone who wants them about Wild Blue Yonder below

HIGH. BUDGET. MIDNIGHT. WHAT THE FUCk. OH MY GOD I LOVE WHEN DOCTOR WHO DOES FUCKED UP COSMIC HORROR.

I forgot how terrifying the Miss Evangelista Face Warp Effect could truly be

I FUCKING LOVE EPISODES THAT JUST. GIVE REALLY GREAT ACTORS SOME REALLY GREAT CHARACTER WORK I AM ETERNALLY A SUCKER FOR THE "IM PLAYING TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME BODY AT THE SAME TIME" SHIT IT'S SUCH. GOOD. TV. JADFLKSDLFKJSDFLASDKFLSD;JF

They have got to fucking explain what's going on with Mavity, they wouldn't just. Write that whole sequence with Newton and Gravity being named something different. It's gotta Mean Something.

To be meta about some of the writing, it's soooooo smart to have Everyone's Fave David Tennant up there doing all the Queer Shit like acknowledging Newton is hot bc it's suchhhh a good way to grease the skids for what is, inevitably, going to be SUCH a queer era of DW with Ncuti. And by putting this all up front, it really does weed out the bad earlier than later so it can't be pinned on Fifteen specifically. Bc I really don't want to see that happen

CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW TEN DONNA WAS IN THE SEQUENCE WHERE THEY GOT UPSET WITH EACH OTHER. The way she chastised the DOCTOR for wandering off. And the little Sniff of Indignation. It's SO FUckinG fascinating to see Post-Metacrisis Donna bc her character is Inevitably Somewhat Changed and it's SOOOO COOOL

THE PRACTICAL. FUCKING. EFFECTS. I CANNOT GET OVER IT. THE BEHIND THE SCENES WAS SO COOL I HATE THOSE FUCKING ARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think one post really recapped it well, I'll have to reblog it - it just makes my blood boil all over again for Jodie is that like. I got more emotional catharsis out of Fourteen working through the Flux conversation with Not Donna than I did out of the end of Jodie's run. I'm realizing it's not even that I didn't like a lot of Chibnall's ideas - I DO! It's the lack of emotional follow through! LET THIRTEEN EMOTE AND EMOTE HEAVILY.

Tennant really is still the actor ever, you can so easily see 11, 12, 13 and a touch of something new in all of his performance and it's FABULOUS it's so obviously Not Ten and I know everyone is saying it but it's so reassuring (this take stolen from @peanutbutter-nutella bc of course we were flail-texting <3)

WHAT ABOUT THE SALT SUPERSTITION WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH THIS

God. God. Anyway. So far, RTD2 is really forcing me to reckon with my own biases and hypocrisies too, because I find myself going "fuck yeah more of THAT" and then realizing it's functionally the same as something from (gestures at everything from Eleven to Thirteen). And frankly it's making me fall back in love with more of the show all over again. And appreciating each piece for what it is, and where it falls short, and how that can still... be okay. I just really, REALLY love this silly show

#rini rambles #dw opinions #dw spoilers #dw #dw60 #wild blue yonder

[qualitymoonsuit]

Back cover of Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder, by Saundra Mitchell.

#currently reading #birthday present #out there: into the queer new yonder #saundra mitchell #queer

[clockworkouroboros]

Now that the 60th anniversary specials are all out, I guess I'm gonna share my thoughts about them all, because it's the internet or whatever. Overall, I do think there's a lot of good in these specials. The fan service is absolutely there, but it's been done in a different way than some of the past special episodes, and it really acknowledges I think the many different kinds of Doctor Who fans, from the people who just watch the revived series (or even just bits and pieces of the revived series) to fans of Classic Who and even those of us crazy enough to get into the extended universe. I mean, featuring Beep the Meep and the Toymaker as your two Big Villains is both ridiculous and speaks to the nature of Doctor Who fans that we were all so excited for them. So. A lot of really nice things about these specials all around.

In The Star Beast, we got a really nice blend of nostalgia for the original Tennant era with new, interesting characters and a healthy amount of fan service towards Beep the Meep's half a dozen fans. Between those three things and RTD's obvious love letter to and heartfelt (if perhaps a little clunky) support of queer (and especially trans) people, it's easy to look past the episode's flaws; namely, that it's very light on the plot, and the handwavey bullshit that retcons Donna losing her memories completely undercuts the emotional heavy hitting of Donna losing her memories. You mean it was *always* that easy? Fuck right off.

Wild Blue Yonder really brought in, for me, more than a hint of Wilderness Years Who. The bottle episode slightly claustrophobic feel, the terrifying unexplainable Not-Things, the goddamn salt—I thought this story was the strongest in the set. I think RTD, like many writers, has a tendency to try and make things bigger and bigger and bigger, when really, his best stories tend to be like this. Consider Midnight as another example—brilliant, terrifying, and also very similar to some of the more experimental stories of the wilderness years. If I had a complaint about this story, it's that I would want it to play into more of the sense of sensory deprivation that stories like Midnight and Scherzo did. But honestly, that's a nitpick. It infuriates me a little bit—RTD likes to go in for some spectacle, as seen in The Star Beast and especially in The Giggle (and also the s3 and s4 finales, and also DT's regeneration story, and also and also and also)—but some of his best work is done when he doesn't allow himself the spectacle and instead really pares everything down to the barest of bare bones.

And, honestly? The Giggle was a bit of a letdown. There are so many ways you could bring the Toymaker into Who again, and he ended up sort of being an afterthought. Neil Patrick Harris was obviously having a grand old time in the role, which is great—so why not give him a little more to chew on? I thought there was a lot that was great—Donna and the Doctor in the Toymaker's domain, as an example. I think, building off of Wild Blue Yonder, coming back again and again to just how much the Doctor has been through and how that has affected them, was also a really nice thing to include, and something that I wish had been brought up more during Thirteen's run, because she really went through it.

But that also brings me to my biggest issue with The Giggle, and that is the way David Tennant's Doctor (Fourteen? TenThree? TenTeen?) has been written in a way that still is overshadowing Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor. This was honestly one of my biggest concerns as soon as Tennant's return was announced, and one of RTD's past issues in Who has been his chronic overshadowing of characters of color in favor of a white fan favorite. (Martha and Mickey both get this treatment.) The regeneration scene pissed me off in a way that I didn't think Doctor Who could piss me off—generally speaking, I'm pretty level-headed about most Doctor Who things because this show is ridiculous enough that you sort of have to just roll with it. I already adore Ncuti's Doctor (from his extremely limited amount of screentime), but I can't help but feel that he's been cheated out of a proper introduction because he had to share his limited screentime with David Tennant, the most popular Doctor to ever exist in the show's 60-year history. Likewise, because of this ridiculous Journey's End 2: This Time It's Stupider nonsense, I'm genuinely concerned RTD will randomly bring DT back for some fun multi-Doctor fanwanks, and sort of write all over the first Doctor of color's era with David Tennant. Not that that will happen (I certainly hope not, anyway), but the fact that he's leaving it open as an option already has me worried.

So. Yeah. Maybe I'm being harsher on RTD than I would otherwise be, because the nostalgia for having him back is so ridiculously high that it's driving me a little insane, or maybe these are genuine issues. I'm not upset that he's back, but these specials—and especially The Giggle—left me extremely wary that we're going to get the same exact issues that he brought to Who in his first run. Overall it'll be fine, and again, I did get a lot of enjoyment out of these specials! There's a lot about RTD's writing that is objectively both good and consistent. That doesn't mean I'm not holding my breath going forward.

#dw spoilers #the star beast #wild blue yonder #the giggle #russel t davies #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #sorry for the wall of text #and a reminder to everyone that you do NOT have to agree with anything that i say even a little! #i genuinely am not trying to shit on rtd i'm just concerned #so. yeah.

[denimbex1986]

"It feels different this time," said David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor as his skin turned regeneration luminescent in 'The Giggle'. Asking his two former companions to pull at his arms like he had been hoisted up onto a makeshift rack, out popped Ncuti Gatwa's head like a handsome Hydra.

So goes the first ever bi-generation, a duplicating version of the well-worn regeneration, which we were told has always been something of Time Lord myth. Maybe the chief reason the Whoniverse only just introduced the concept of bi-generation is that trying to render it on the pre-Disney budget would have been a tougher feat.

Yet what it inadvertently does is leave open the door to David Tennant coming back for a third helping as the Doctor, thus putting Gatwa in the curious and unique position of being the first ever 'pretty much but not exclusively The Doctor' Doctor.

While fans could now be left clamouring for Tennant to come back, after the rip-roaring ride of these three 60th anniversary specials, we've not had any indication he's lacing up his Converses for good.

Yet the possibility that he one day could rev up his duplicate TARDIS and whizz back onto our screens leaves Tennant slightly hovering over the Fifteenth Doctor's shoulder.

It poses the question of whether Gatwa, who is the first Black and openly queer man to play the Time Lord, should have been left to go forth as the one and only Doctor in his own right.

While it's a legitimate issue to raise, the scenes afforded by the bi-generation between Gatwa and Tennant are ingenious because they build a deliberate bridge between this new era and one of the most successful periods of the show's modern incarnation.

Giving Gatwa such a solid jumping-off point with, arguably, the most popular modern Doctor of the lot feels even more significant given that he's coming into proceedings in the wake of a rather fallow period.

After the TARDIS skirted off into the ether in 'Wild Blue Yonder', the Doctor delivered a monologue on the majesty of his blue box. He painted a picture for imposter Donna of a civilisation's ebb and flow around the TARDIS and how it could live on through it all.

The moment appeared to be a metaphor for Doctor Who as a whole and the similar wax and wane of reverence for the show. Russell T Davies has said how unpopular a move it was to reboot the sci-fi classic in 2005 and he's now been parachuted back in to juice up the BBC staple.

Seeing Gatwa and Tennant interact together in the final act of 'The Giggle' allowed for a more concrete passing of the baton, which the instant body-swap of classic regenerations never really have.

It was also then we learned another nugget of lore to give Ncuti's Fifteenth Doctor some primacy over Tennant's Fourteenth, as Donna tells him he's the "older", and implicitly wiser, Time Lord of the two. Even in their brief scenes together, the Fifteenth Doctor has a calm assurance in the face of the Fourteenth's wobbles.

While the bi-generation might seem like a diminishing of Gatwa's role as the Doctor when viewed in its simplest terms, now that we've finally seen him in the role, it's impossible to think of him as anything less than the Doctor. He's so cooly comfortable – even on a helipad in his underpants – that it doesn't seem his star can be dimmed by the existence of other Doctors out there somewhere.

Ultimately, this major change of the bi-generation is why there is a 60th anniversary to be had in the first place – because Doctor Who is not a show that's against reinventing itself and changing the rules to keep us guessing.'

#Doctor Who #60th Anniversary #David Tennant #Ncuti Gatwa #Bi-generation #Donna Noble #Catherine Tate #The Giggle #Wild Blue Yonder #Russell T. Davies

[disneytva]

Disney Legends Pete Docter And Craig McCracken Awarded With Winsor McCay Award Achievement At 50th Edition Of Annie Awards.

ASIFA-Hollywood has just released nominations for its 50th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

This year, the ceremony is scheduled to be held live, in-person on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Juried Awards will be presented during the ceremony, honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. The Winsor McCay Award in recognition of lifetime or career contributions are being presented to three recipients:

Pete Docter - Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios

Docter is American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor mostly know for Directing the Academy Award & Annie Award winning films Monsters Inc,Up,Inside Out & Soul and being the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios since 2018, Docter has lead the future Director of Storytelling at Pixar and bringing diversity with more POC,Queer and Female voices to direct their own shorts and films at the studio with upcoming talent like Aphton Corbin, Brian Fee, Kristen Lester, and Rosana Sullivan who have been working on their respective untitled feature films

Additionaly Docter has provided creative consultant on Monsters At Work from Disney Television Animation and got a special thanks credit on Walt Disney Animation Studios Frozen II and was going to helm the production of the canceled Pixar film Newt to step down to make Inside Out.

Craig McCracken - Creator And Animator Disney Television Animation 2011-2018

Craig McCracken is an American animator, writer, producer, director, storyboard artist, and designer known for creating The Powerpuff Girls,Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends at Cartoon Network Studios,Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and Kid Cosmic for Netflix Animation, McCracken has been credited as "a staple of American modern animated television" on 2021.

Besides working on his most notable works McCracken has pivoted character desings,art direction and storyboarding for other projects at CN like Two Stupid Dogs, Dexter’s Laboratory, Dumb And Dumber,Chowder additionaly he helped on CN Development with the pilots of Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic Rover and Enter Mode 5 and was Executive Producer for the pilot of Regular Show from J.G Quintel.

Currently McCracken is in development for a Powerpuff Girls Reboot for Cartoon Network and WarnerMax and a preschool reboot of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends for Cartoonito and WarnerMax with Hanna Barbera Studios Europe.

Despite leaving Disney on 2018, McCracken on late 2022 revealed on Twitter that he didn’t felt burn with Disney and would like to make more original shows for them, given the chance with the new Disney Channel’s Worldwide CEO Ayo Davis

#Pete Docter #Craig McCracken #Monsters Inc #Up #Pixar Up #Inside Out #Soul #Pixar Soul #The Powerpuff Girls #PPG #Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends #FHFIF #Wander Over Yonder #WOY #Kid Cosmic #The Powerpuff Girls Reboot #Pixar #Pixar Animation Studios #Cartoon Network #Cartoon Network Studios #Hanna Barbera Studios Europe #Annie Awards #Annie Awards 2023

[vergess]

So, have you watched the new Doctor Who episodes? What do you think of them if yes?

Yes

I LOVED IT ALL SO MUCH

Hugely relieved that the nostalgia tour is now over; I don't think my neurons could tolerate much more of it

I think my favourite is still The Star Beast because I enjoy when Doctor Who gets all hamfisted about social issues. I'm a sucker for that!!

But oh man, oh man, the Giggles!!! The music sequence! The ending!!! AHHHHH

And then the fucking. The direction on Wild Blue Yonder, fuuuuck. Like, I expected the actors to be amazing; it's Tennant and Tate. To describe them as "good actors" does not capture the skill that they have specifically in working together.

But I was blown away by how well it was directed!! The fucking scenes where you as an audience member are realizing "wait, that's not how the Doctor talks to Donna normally.... WAIT THAT'S NOT THE DOCTOR AT ALL" just. Delicious. Perfectly done. Which is extra wild to me when looking at the dirctero's other credits which are ummm. Not that good, shall we say.

And THEN you find out that the torso-and-head framing of each camera shot was So On Purpose and it just!!!

It was all so good.

Oh man, I know I'm the specific target demographic being pandered to (queer millennials who loved Eccleston, obsessed over Tennant, enjoyed Smith, wandered off during Capaldi, and bounced off Whittaker).

I was always going to love it. It's designed to make me love it!

it's designed to bait with nostalgia. I know that. I recognize it.

But the thing is? Oh my god, the thing is, instead of a nasty little trap, the bait was just to get you SO HYPE for Gatwa.

And it worked. I'm so much more excited for his run than I was beforehand. Like. WAY more hype.

I was excited enough for him that I knew I would watch his Christmas special and probably the first 1-3 episodes of his run.

Now? Just from the little sample we got of the way Gatwa will be carrying this role, in the context of the more child-friendly* approach that earmarks Davies as a Doctor Who showrunner?

I'm SO fucking COMMITTED. I wanna see where they take him. I have always preferred the... the times when DW is like... Cringe? But earnestly cringe? Hamfisted social messages. Monsters that sound absurd until you see then. Monsters that stay absurd even as you're hooked. AMVs as threats.

All that shit is MADE to please me specifically.

AND BUDDY!!!!!!!!!! I AM PLEASED!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot WAIT to see the Situations they're going to put Gatwa's doctor in and watch him get out of them. He has the perfect level of charismatic charm and genuine emotion.

Normally I need to see the Doctor and his Companion interact before I can get a sense of the pathos the actor will bring to the role and how they work off the writing and direction.

But shiiiiiiit, Gatwa came out swinging and I already have SUCH high hopes.

And this hasn't even gotten to how fuckin' diverse the backgrounders were in these specials. They really said, "okay, we have filled these scenes out with too many unmarked people, we need to dial that down." And I know, I know, packing your background with diverse actors (race, gender, ability, etc) while you foreground two white, abled actors that were brought in specifically to be nostalgia bait is, like, on paper it's a bad look.

But they gave those backgrounders each a lot more charm and character in their writing than I was expecting. Everything from Sgt Singh's suspicion loosening to military obedience and Shirley saying "don't make me the problem just go" to Rose reframing her mother's tic into a statement of her own independent power.

(Yes I know Davies has a thing about how he writes moms but listen I'm going to let him have that one)

And fuuuuuuck meeeeee, but they just KEEP saying trans rights, even after The Star Beast ended.

I just really, really enjoyed all 3 so much.

*Child-friendly isn't the right term, but I've gotten through the whole post and I can't figure out better phrasing. What I mean is, under Moffat and Chibnall, Doctor Who was not for children. The show didn't go out of its way to exclude them, but it certainly didn't try to provide education, entertainment or even engagement for them.

Doctor Who is not "a kids show" but critically, it shouldn't be "an adult show" either. It functions at its best as a family show. Something you can watch with your parents and your kids both on the same couch, and everyone enjoy it. This is an absurdly difficult line to walk. It's why Disney had so many years of failure before the renaissance.

And one of the ways people fail to walk that line is by treating children as an afterthought (Chibnall), or not at all (Moffat). Meanwhile, Davies's previous stint as Showrunner did a phenomenal job of bringing up The Horrors in ways that would put adults on edge while letting Children also enjoy the ride.

And the same is true of these 3 episodes.

I think "can kids get really into it too" is an extremely important benchmark for this type of scifi (and, I think it's part of why many modern Star Trek properties are so fucking tedious).

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