it's a pet peeve of mine when ppl frame Andrew as hating Aaron and being needlessly cruel to him... bc while yes, their relationship is fractured and strained, Andrew genuinely cares about his brother and wants the best for him, he just doesn't know how to show that in a normal way.
like he might not know how to express it in a healthy manner but Andrew LOVES Aaron, like he truly just wants Aaron to be healthy and safe. It's like, his whole Thing. Aaron is one of the most important people in his life. Andrew wants him around. He'd do anything to protect him.
I guarantee Andrew wants to be emotionally close to Aaron too, he just doesn't have the tools to do that and the thought of letting someone in terrifies him. He also has no concept of what a healthy sibling relationship looks like, so he has no frame of reference to work from.
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i will never get over how perfect the Doctor and Rose's ending is. Rose, who made her choice a long time ago and promised to stay with the Doctor forever, who always found a way to return to him no matter how impossible it was, because she loves him and she needs him almost as much as he needs her. Rose, who was willing to sacrifice everything to be with the Doctor so he wouldn't be alone, so he would always have her, and in the end, it was the Doctor who made the sacrifice, who left immortality and his universe behind, who stayed with her in a parallel universe, who chose her to spend his human life with.
the Doctor, who had lost so much and so many people in his life, who often dreamed of having a normal life and growing old with someone, who yearned to have that kind of life with Rose, because he loves her and he needs her, because she's everything he believes in and his hope in his darkest moments, and in the end he finally gets his wish in Tentoo.
it's a perfect ending because they both get their wish, they both get their happy ending and they get to spend the rest of their lives together, and it's also a bittersweet ending because it's a sort of paradox where the Doctor has to go on with and without Rose at the same time. the Doctor and Tentoo are the same man in two different journeys: in one he gets to have the life he's always dreamed of with Rose, and in the other he has to live on without her, but carrying her forever in his hearts and in his memory, and with the comforting knowledge that he is and will always be with her
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this was made especially for those of us who cut ties with our shitty families, huh
i cried so much this whole episode. i know that i can't be in that house and be who i am at the same time, but the guilt and shame never really go away. i love that this episode said, wholeheartedly: fuck what society says, you should be wherever allows you to be happiest
anyway! you always hear that family estrangement is rare in asian communities, but i did it! and you can do it, too! dump your shitty family! i believe in you~
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