#he has been for past decades)

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

#squiggposting #and like dont get me wrong barber wasnt trying to make cybertronians the bad guys or whatever #it's just a problem with his writing where like. he has A Message he wants to send #and so he uses the entire story literally just for The Message even if it involves bullshit plotlines #or familiar characters ppl were reading about for the past decade being shit on by OCs made up to fill a new roster #like barber's writing tends to lean way too much on a sort of lecturing tone #without giving proper care towards including moments where characters get to like. fucking express themselves and share their side #sort of like how barber couldnt be bothered to write pyra magna and optimus actually talking to each other during exrid #and instead during OP ongoing pyra is suddenly screaming about how OP is unteachable #even tho she never even tried to teach him bc she and OP never interacted bc i guess barber couldnt be bothered #he just needed someone to lecture OP so fuck making the story make sense or like letting OP get to say anything in defense #this is the infuriating part of barber's writing bc i think he has incredible IDEAS and was in charge of the lore i was most interested in #but most of the time his execution sucks and he's basically just mid with a few brilliant moments occasionally #or like he has a message about the cycle of violence he wants to convey #but his narrative choices trying to convey that theme made his story come off as super unsympathetic to the ppl who suffered #to the point where barber actively kneecapped some scenes that couldve been super fucking intense and emotional #in favor of the characters lecturing each other or some stupid plot to criticize OP #that time in unicron where windblade screamed about how this is their fault and then arcee replied that her planet is build on coloniation #shouldve happened more often than literally the last series of the ocntinuity. like goddamn stfu about your moral superiority #when your own sins are right fhere lol

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Today I woke up and chose silliness!

(yes, the mood of my posts is all over the place but this is what you signed up for, it's literally in the name x'D)

This is another contribution to the silly rabbit au (by @cuubism ) featuring @magnusbae 's Dream in a hoodie.

#silly rabbit au #dreamling #well hob did say that he can fake is own death if needed but how many times will he have to do that? xD #at some point hob starts to attend his own funeral as a guest. and if anybody asks questions he's all like: no sadly i am no robert gadling #(/or whatever name he's been using) and i will miss that man dearly #(and he's speaking the truth because he's practically burying a life that he has built up. he's burying the person #he has been for past decades) #it's a slow process but hob starts to sprinkle the small but outrageous truths in conversation and let's others take it however they want t #he very inconspicuously adopts Dream's attitude and starts to play along with Dream's misleading truths #and then he starts to spin the tales in different directions - derailing Dream's stories #and THAT'S when the chaos really starts xD #why make dream's storytelling easier when he can twist it and basically fight fire with fire right? :DD #also. don't listen to me im just shitposting here

[kafkaguy]

character wrapped 2023 💥

tagged by @davidtennantpussytulpa ^-^ i didn't know how many to do so i copied tara and did top 10. i know the severance guys are Four Of Them but i can't separate them theyre all equally important to me

will graham (hannibal), em haywood (nope), aziraphale (good omens), mark & dylan & helly & irving (severance), hawkeye pierce (mash), martha jones (doctor who), ivan karamazov (the brothers karamazov), kim kitsuragi (disco elysium), stewy hosseini (succession), ruescott melshi (andor/rogue one)

i will tag... @fagician @britomart @libraryfag @roadwhores @majorbaby @globuspolski @hadleyfraserfaggot @tenderscience if u want to ^-^

#and now i will explain them all in detail #cos i started watching hannibal back in like. january or february and will immediately set up camp in my head and started to settle there #*I* pay rent to *HIM*. he lives there permanently. sweating and monologuing constantly #em was not only the character of 2022 but also of 2023 and of 2024 and the rest of the decade and all decades to come #she had such an impact on me keke palmer's performance will live with me forever and i love nope so fucking much #i almost didnt include her because nope was more of a last year obsession. but she lives on #aziraphale.........no comment #severance.......i love them all so much and at first i wanted just irving and then just helly and then i realise i cried over mark this week #and then i realised i couldnt possibly leave out dylan when hes probably my favourite character. so then i settled for all of them #hawkeye is my fucking wife. enough said #martha... well i knew i had to have a doctor who character. i thought maybe the doctor but then i thought their companions mean more to me #sometimes at least. i did have a fourteen icon for a while but then i was like but Donna..... and then i thought. well #these past few months at least martha jones has been eating away at my heart. i go batshit insane when i think about her #her impact. her grace. her power. so she had to go on the list.it was a toss up between her and donna for sure though #then i figured i had to include a karamazov since reading that book took up half of my year. and ivan was my favourite of the 3. so <3 #kim goes without saying. literally nothing to be said hes the character Of All Time. to me #stewy also goes without saying ive had so many Stewy Save Me moments since the beginning of season 4 all the way to the end of the year #i miss him every day. he is the moment. i wish there was more of him all the time #and the last one is a bit of a wildcard cos all my insanity abt melshi has been on my andor sideblog. #but rest assured ive been thoroughly Not Normal about him. he literally side appears in 4 episodes and has 11 total minutes onscreen #but i love him. so much. and hes occupied most of my thoughts since september. once again his impact his power his grace. his homosexuality #enough said. that's all. thanks for reading. this was a great year for autism and madness #tag game #🍪

[unforth]

The last couple hundred years have seen society, especially wealthy, western societies, increasingly distancing themselves from the visceral, immediate experience of death. Death is to be hidden and shunned, grief to be pushed aside and made brief. This has been made possibly by improvements in health care, but also by the ever-growing emphasis on the nuclear family and the greater space between people and the sources of their food.

On a smaller scale, as we've had more space to store belongings - as homes have grown and the number of people living within them have decreased - it has been easier for people to acquire and retain belongings over long periods of time. This has led to phenomenon where people buy things they absolutely adore...and then do not use them, as they have the space to store them and they've grown afraid of the damage that will be done to their things if they use them.

Though the second is of course on a smaller scale, the lose of a beloved object still involves a grieving process, and therefore is a less severe analogy for the loss of a loved one.

I posit that the two phenomena are in fact that same phenomenon: that a fear of loss of all kinds, the limiting of space for experiencing loss in our lives, and a dissipation of the skills that enable one to grieve loss in a healthy way, have resulted in our current culture where it is safer to ignore death, and safer to preserve our favorite objects unused, than it is to risk loss.

In this essay, I will...

#unforth rambles #idk my wife's favorite pair of slippers died this morning #and i mentioned i was still mourning my favorite pair of boots that i wore out about a decade ago #and my son was like ??? so I explained and he was like oh that's sad #and I thought about katherine who died earlier this month and how weird grieving for her has been #and how little experience i truly have with grieving #and idk i just ended up here because i'd rather use a thing then grieve when it's gone #then just not use it #but i know a lot of people struggle with that #and it got me thinking that in a way those small grievings help me better know how to process #the bigger grievings from the loss of a loved one #idk maybe this will help someone #more likely it'll get five notes and then disappear into my blog past lmao

[heyheydidjaknow]

Ihaveneverbeenlatetoanythingever Alright so I apparently completely glossed over in my head the fact that day two’s prompt was “ear cleaning”. Is ear cleaning romantic? Do they mean cleaning behind the ears or just sticking a cotton swab right into your ear G-spot? I don’t know and as interested as I am to find out what other people write I’m just going to take this opportunity to talk about a thing I’ve been thinking about passively for a while now.

Day 2: Oh To Know Nagito Komaeda

In chapter four of Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair, Nagito Komaeda became a person for exactly one chapter. Before this point in the story Nagito Komaeda was not a person. Nagito was a metaphor. Nagito was a vessel. Nagito was an object whose only reason for existing was to justify all the suffering and all the misfortune which clung to him like a sickness, like a plague, like a parasite. And when he was in the presence of a force greater than himself, physical embodiments the object of his obsession, he was constantly reminded of his position as this subhuman creature meant to serve the best interests of his betters. It’s no surprise, then, that when this acolyte was put face to face with his masters that he felt the need to encourage their growth even at the cost of his own life and safety. Their lives mattered more than his. Their lives meant more than his. They were superior creatures. Then Nagito found out that these fuck ups caused the end of the world, the illusion was shattered, and he became person. He was no longer Nagito the sole, lonely insect, but instead the only ant actually aware of his place as such and, was, for five minutes, a person amongst equals. The Nagito in that trial, therefore— the critical, confident, self assured leader he became— is, presumably, what he is like when he is not constantly being reminded of his inadequacy. We do not see that version of him for the rest of the series; in every other instance he is around superiors and acts as such.

Nagito with a normal, non ultimate S/O would be good for him I think. Imagine a Nagito Komaeda who isn’t constantly surrounded by reminders of his inadequacy and fundamental disadvantage. Imagine a Nagito Komaeda who has a chance to catch his breath and interact with a person he can’t categorically prove he is less than. Imagine Nagito Komaeda with a person just as inconsequential and practically unextraordinary as he is and how much less pressure that would put on a person. That would make a fun fanfiction, I think.

#nagito komaeda #danganronpa nagito #sdr2 nagito #servant nagito #nagito x reader #dr nagito #sdr2 komaeda #servant komaeda #komaeda x reader #danganronpa komaeda #yes I have been thinking about this for over half a decade #i have been so busy #danganronpa #Nagito Komaeda has just been hanging out for the past long while #he just sits in the background of my head waiting for an opportunity to strike #like a snake. or a disease. #I’m not tagging this one Kinktober because I did not do the prompt

[derpinette]

english used to be the normie filter & how you could tell someone was a Trve Internethead but after the DAMNED 2020 quarantine for obvious reasons EveryBody & They Momma is acceptably fluent so now i have to learn swedish or something. -_-

#already been spending time this past year & a half i only need someone to actually speak it with IRL for maximum efficiency #technically i want to say 2019 people were already turning to english at least in my city. 7 year old me would be so happy but #ARRRRRRGHHHHHHH #YOU ARE POSERS I HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH YOU & I NEVER WILL. has me feeling so ♯DECEIVED #native english speakers will probably never understand this feel #speaking english now is just as cringe as i thought being francophone was a decade ago Yes even as a child i was against normies #i was forcibly taught.by my millennial older brother i had no choice but to abide by that line of thought & so here i am today #well he was right. not anymore he ain't but he used to be #but technically you can say this new wave of self taught anglophones are going against the current & remnants of colonialism so well #it is a good thing objectively i just miss the ease of recognizing Real back in the day TT_TT like you just KNEW they shared your interests #& weirdness they knew your references it said something about what their social status likely was too ETC ETC. But not anymore... #i enjoyed it tho i had a bestfriend whom i mostly spoke english with & we were known for it we were outcasts #i distinctly remember this fag who got so mad at us & harassed us for it during middle school recess. like fluency was a bad thing #we were not even gossiping about him Altho we should have been. & that was the best part is that it was a barrier #so you could talk about anything out loud & nobody would be able to understand you & at the time it was just us & our older siblings #+their friends

[songtwo]

oh that poor billionaire white woman :(

#not a fan of the weeknd but 1) he was probably the biggest breakout act of the past decade #2) has had some of the hugest hits probably of all time #3) that being said everyone has listened to at least blinding lights like it makes sense hes the most streamed artist #4) his shows are pretty good too he has a lot of production just like her #5) yes hes a man however he is a black man. shes a billionaire white woman that has always been wealthy im sure shes fine

[dankovskaya]

this is going back a bit in the riboflava blog convo lol but Jason retcons are really batman writing at some of its evilest like every single time it’s just “how can we further villainize a deeply traumatized child so these adults don’t look so shitty thereby in the process continuing to make these adults look incredibly shitty” like yay no one wins i hate everyone involved you’re all horrible writers i hope dc explodes!

Yeahhh its funny because you can See the gears turning and the exact thought process/reasoning behind it from the very beginning but without the self-awareness of how it actually looks from the outside I guess. Like Jason's an evil bad guy murderer now so perhaps he was a little bit destined for evil all along... Which they think is good and reasonable retroactive foreshadowing but which really actually comes off as cruelly unsympathetic at best (even under the assumption that Jason was "mean" and "angry" and "dark" as he was retconned into being, what the fuck kind of adult looks at a suffering child with multiple unaddressed traumas and thinks "man this is kinda scary. hope he doesn't kill people one day.") and just plain classist at worst 😭 Like if Jason was fucked up all along on account of being poor having a rough childhood? Or whatever the idea is? Then it's his failure for succumbing to his apparent destiny and Bruce/whoever else beating him to a pulp or treating him like any other "criminal scum" (which is another conversation in itself) is a tragic necessity. Rather than. Well. An oddly detached and impersonal way to deal with a wayward son who literally returned from the grave and whose death affected Bruce so severely that it was a turning point of the entire mythos. So yeah waiting patiently here for DC to explode.

#Like he was killing a lot of people that did not deserve to be killed at all (some did though. some did. LMAO) so it makes sense that #Bruce reacts with anger and aggression when it comes to stopping him but also this is a superhero comic book and not #a device for teaching you Murder is Bad 101 and Bruce (even taking recent traumas into account) is supposed to #be prioritizing reformation and compassion above everything so the fact that Winick wrote the story as though Jason himself wasn't even #deserving of a genuine emotional appeal and outstretched hand from his ACTUAL FATHER #who has been personally deeply affected by his death for the past 2 decades of batman history #because of an apparent 'mean streak' or 'danger' he has 'always' possessed is WEIRD AS HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Sorry for going. Off the rails. It will happen again #ask #dc

[docholligay]

Full review tomorrow or maybe Friday but

Short: I wanted to like this book more than I think I actually liked it (I kept checking my phone through the last quarter, which is unusual for me) and I need to think a bit on why. Horrible Garbage Traitor Petty Bitch Ouyang forever tho.

#he's THE WORST #on every level #but he gives me.... michiru vibes??? sort of??? i need to think of this at more length but yes #i don't want to get spoilery here but yes he makes me scream what an asshole #me: so you're gonna burn up every good thing in your life and everyone who has been good to you for the past 2 decades #for people you don't remember and a culture you don't know #ouyang *leans into microphone*: #yes #me: oh okay then! #its a whole 'we choose what defines us' thing and okay i need to stop I'm just writing the review now

[indelicateink]

this 10yo 100K-note post articulates more clearly than I ever could why i love the idea of lestat being 34 and not 21.

guy doesn't get to go on his big hero's journey for another 13 years. whether he's stuck in Auvergne or doing the starving artist thing in Paris (I like to think the former; how relatable), I want to know that story

#always dig when the molly grue post comes around #this time i was like oh hey thank god this says everything i've been wanting to say in a whole ass other fandom #iwtv #rotting in Auvergne for another dozen years can you imagine the angst #doomed to gabrielle's same fate (only without the asshole husband and childbirth and misogyny) #you can possibly-suicidally go after a wolf pack in your thirties as well as you can in your 20s but in his 30s-- #*slaps roof* this baby can fit so much more despair inside #just don't marry him off rolin #i want him bitter and running his family's estate for a decade and occasionally trying to escape as he has in the past and #always being thwarted as in the past #never giving up. not quite yet. it's not in his character. but coming close #THEN the wolves come #and set everything in motion #how much more poignant and unexpected to find your beginning at 34

[formulaonedirection]

Max on racing: “I don’t know, I definitely want to try and get back into it. It’s a tough thing to get the ball rolling again, if you really know motorsports well. It’s a brutal world. But yeah, I definitely want to do that again because as time goes on I’m definitely missing it more, like for sure. Like the biggest thing adjusting from the racing was having that purpose. Because it was the only thing I ever knew what to do, you know. Like since I was 9 years old, I was racing every month and I felt like that was my purpose in life you know, to race. That was what I did. So like when I stopped it was like a big shock to the system. Okay, I was really happy to not race because it was a really tough year and I was just like “I need to get out of this space for a bit” but now I miss it again.”

#don't mind me i'm just talking to myself but watch the video! #I've literally been chewing on this video for the past week #like it was sad the first time i watched this time but i just thought about it again last week and tracked it down #and it made me sad AGAIN #just thinking about losing that ONE thing you've been doing for decades and you're still young you know you're 21 #but it feels like you've already failed #and then you're 22 and then you're 23 and you're still not racing but you still haven't really found your thing and it- it has to be a lot #and you're back home with your parents and it's lovely because your parents like you SO much and you like them too #and you keep telling yourself that leaving when you did was the best choice. it was the best and bravest thing you could do for yourself #and realistically you know this is true but that's not how insecurity and doubt work #what i'm saying is that I think my boy is immensely brave for making that decision #and putting himself out there still knowing it might not work out #max is a realist but he's also a little bit of a romantic #anyway! #just doing some character study for as yet untitled football au #max fewtrell #*maxvid

[sophieswundergarten]

It has always bothered me that we don't get to know very much about Milligan's secret agent work. I mean, I know that the series is about the kids, but I have so many questions!

Like, how did he get reinstated? Did they have to perform psych evals and talk to Mr. Benedict and everything once his memory came back, or did he just show up at the office to see how things were going and they all went "Oh, thank goodness Wetherall is back after dropping off the map for nearly ten years. We've been falling apart without you, please help"

#and obviously i am loving all of the details included in “Time a Half” #which is a fantastic fic by @mvshortcut!!! #(that i have yet to finish but am doggedly working on because i really like it) #but i want to know about how the government looked at this guy who presumably appeared on their radar after a whole decade #as a past amnesiac and obviously changed man #who is now associated with the guy everyone laughed off as a crazy paranoid scientist and his team of oddballs and children #(because in the books at least the government supposedly knows) #and. with all that going on. decided to hire him back #i'm split between wanting it to be because milligan is just super skilled and already has a good handle on the curtain/ten men situation #and wanting it to be because he's also the glue holding his department together and everything's been going up in flames since he left #the mysterious benedict society #mbs #milligan #milligan wetherall

[sigilmint]

Donation Page Here!

Hi all~ My cousin needs help. His home environment was and continues to be hostile, so he's been on his own since turning 18. Please share! He's such a wonderful person and deserves stability.

#mutual aid #please please share #when I learned about what's been happening to hi over the past decade with no contact I fucking saw red #no wonder that aunt/uncle has never once tried to contact me even though I've been living close to them since 2016 #they're so hateful and abusive and I can't believe that he's just been alone all this fucking time #please help him #I have nothing but I have writing and graphic making skills

[bi-demon-ium]

do you ever wonder, even with how fucked up it already is, if milligan sanitized his story for the kids

#on one hand show curtain seems a lot more.... #less the type to straight up torture? like his reaction to the straitjackets and all #he's the more type to convince himself he's doing them a kindness #even as what he's doing is actually arguably worse #but its like. you know. mental manipulation/brainwashing. #ANYWAY but like on the other hand #a) whatever the case unless milligan is lying/exaggerating which seems very unlikely to me #milligan WAS tied up and interrogated--could be like hildegarde billingsley not too alarming right?--BUT #he was also hit/beaten #and 'what do you remember? what do you remember?' while being hit is pretty different than the interrogation of hildegarde who was all #loopy. and plus their techniques have probably developed and smoothed out over the past decade #b) i have this little idea in my head that i havent properly developed into a fully rounded thing #maybe once curtain DID have more vicious henchmen #like mccracken. and maybe it went too far and he learned his lesson #or maybe it just made him a little uncomfortable and he ended up phasing them out (or making them helpers which. actually constitutes some #worrying issues now that all the helpers have been freed/remember everything) #and now he has people like jeepers #ANYWAYwhatever the case #milligan describes something already pretty horrifying #waking up with a metal contraption on his head. strapped in #being hit and interrogated and chained and jailed #escaping . running. falling off a cliff into the ocean #barely getting to shore alive #living off moss and nature #being treated like garbage on the streets--shunned and unbelieved #do you ever think it might have gotten worse than he said? things he wouldn't have told a group of kids? #he still told them most of it didnt sanitize it entirely bc he wanted them to understand the danger & not treat them like idiots #but like. what if. what if #milligan wetherall #the mysterious benedict society

[tautittology]

i do not understand the hype around directors like Nolan Cameron or even Scorsese they are the most mid directors in existence, just because they're not complete dogshit we have to suck them dry every time they put out what looks like the most boring movie you've seen 8637 times already with no creative use of the form zero novel ideas and the least inventive use of the medium like....i feel like im being gaslit there's nothing to eat there

#cameron is the biggest offender here like i cannot begin to articulate how boring blue guys saga is in every way possible #and i struggle to even remember a single interesting movie by him #but same for nolan??? why would you even expect oppenheimer to be remotely interesting when the man hasn't done a single original thing #since like memento (2000) #it's been 23 YEARS THE MAN MAKES ONLY BORING MOVIES WAKE UP #and scorsese has been consistently okay for most of his career with a very real and serious dip in the past decade or so #but even then he was nothing to be over enthused about like we can have some standards here he's okay #calling any of these the greatest director of his time is telling more about the state of the industry than anything else #christopher nolan #james cameron #martin scorsese

[whogirl42]

So I like... I really don't know how I feel about the whole bi-regeneration thing.

Something that sours it for me is like... I was so upset that we were only gonna get the 3 eps with 14 and Donna - ideally for me we would have had a whole season or even a half-season to do them justice. It made me sad that I'd have to say goodbye to them so soon. Tho I did take comfort in that there'd basically be an open invitation for Donna cameos in the future, in a similar way to the Kate Stewart and Unit ones.

HOWEVER. Now??? As much as I fucking adore Donna and David Tennant as the Doctor... I kinda never wanna see them on screen again??? Cause I feel like it sorta cheapens the concept of the 15th Doctor and all the other future adventures he'll have. It was one thing with Tentoo cause he was banished to another universe and was limited to a mortal's lifespan. But having two fully fledged Doctors??? Both with Tardises??? In the same universe???

It doesn't just cheapen the 15 Doctor and all future Doctors, imo it also cheapens David Tennant himself. Because there's a bittersweet beauty in letting go. In saying goodbye. Of accepting the next phase in life. The bi-regeneration doesn't do that. There's no closure. There's no faint loss accompanying the joyous rebirth. It's just.

It just feels very emotionally hollow.

#And it's so so annoying cause I was LOVING the episode till the bi-regeneration thing #But that moment really took me out of the episode #Suddenly I was watching some sort of parody or Red Nose Day segment #Fun maybe but ultimately hollow #And it honestly soured the episode for me #Imo the bi-regeneration never should've happened #Also - it was a beautiful way to say goodbye to 14! A gorgeous moment! And juxtapositioning 'I don't want to go' with 'Alonsy'? *chefs kiss* #We could have had Ncuti finish the episode #Secure to go on adventuring in the Tardis knowing he has his extended family waiting for him on earth for holidays and brunches and whenever #It could have been a beautiful homage #Honouring the past and carrying it with while continuing on to the future #THAT'S how the episode should have ended #Not this cheap parody badly written fanfiction #AND ANOTHER THING - as much as I fucking adore Donna the Doctor HAS slowed down before and had family #He had it with the Ponds he had 900+ years on Trenzalore he had it 24 years on Darillium with River #he had it for decades while at the University guarding Missy #THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THE DOCTOR HAS DONE THIS #And to act like this is the First Time™ or the Only Time That Matters™ cheapens the Doctor's journey and all past relationships #It ignores and belittles everything that came after 10 regenerated and in doing so Donna herself is cheapened #Because it puts her on this shiny pedestal above all others that kind of makes me resent her a little even tho I fucking adore her #Like she's my gd profile pic for gods sake but this Golden Child™ treatment really rubs the wrong way #doctor who #dw spoilers #Dw #David Tennant #biregeneration #14th doctor #ncuti gatwa #15th doctor #doctor who 60th anniversary