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#seriously I love THORS with all my heart but y'all canNOT just keep taking everything at face value
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look I'm sorry, I really am. but if you watch The Husbands of River Song and interpret that as being a definitive picture of what River is like as a person... you're wrong. and you've missed the point.
#*yeets this post at tumblr and then runs away fast before an DiscourseTM can start*
#seriously I love THORS with all my heart but y'all canNOT just keep taking everything at face value
#and assuming that just because a character claims something as though it's true then it must be true
#River says the Doctor doesn't love her and Hydroflax scans her and says it's not a lie and it's not!!! it really isn't a lie!!!
#it's not a lie because RIVER believes it in that moment!!!
#River is acting out in that story she is trying SO hard to distract herself from the pain and loss she's just experienced
#ie Manhattan!! she's just lost both of her parents!! all the family she's ever known!!
#and she didn't even get to KNOW them the way a child should know their parents!! her childhood was stolen
#and now her parents have been too!!
#and given the implication that she and the Doctor have a sort of falling out because of the events of Manhattan
#she probably thinks that on some level she's lost him too!!
#and that's why it's TWELVE who gets to be there with her in the midst of that adventure
#because THIS is a Doctor who she doesn't have to be strong for!!!!!
#River almost always had to be the strong one for Eleven
#she was the one who had to keep looking at the angel when he broke down she had to break her own hand because he left her to do it
#she was always the one pointing him towards the person he must become
#she taught him how to love so that he could in turn teach HER!!
#but Twelve! Twelve can stand beside her at his full height and look her in the eyes and not back away
#he can see her full darkness and her unkindness and when it's over he is still there beside her holding her hand
#he is allowed to see the most imperfect and un-River-ish version of River because he is the one who can see it and love her more for it
#and I do think THORS is an aspect of River! it's her darker uglier afraid and alone and just desperately trying to distract herself side!!
#but it's not like. The Definite River. River As She Truly Is (Without The Doctor There To Perform For).
#and I'm slightly tired of seeing that position seemingly taken by a lot of people writing for the character lately
#not to gripe about this again but like--a lot of the most recent BF stories featuring River make her feel so shallow??
#she's basically just the most flattened version of Captain Jack. but female. and without the immortality angst that makes him so interestin
#ok I'm done yelling into the void now sfdkhdfkh
#I have kicked at a (small but potentially feisty) hornets' nest and now I am going to sleep sdkjfkjhsdsf
#gurt says stuff
#river song
#doctor who
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