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enbyeighthdoctor · 5 months

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arostormblessed · 8 months

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Don’t talk to me about doctor who the magicians apprentice/witch’s familiar dont you fucking EVER talk to me about it. You have one weakness and it’s your compassion for your loved ones. There is a little boy on a battlefield and you tell him you’re going to save his life because that’s what you do, you save people. Your oldest enemy who is responsible for the slaughter of your people calls out to you to tell you that he’s dying. Your oldest enemy who has known you for centuries, who is one of the only people left who has known you that long, sits down with you and talks to you and for just a moment it feels like you’re friends. Like there is something redeemable in him. It’s a trick, you’ve known it’s been a trick the whole time, and he’s going to kill you. There is a little boy on a battlefield and you know what he will become and you run away, you let him die, because what’s the alternative? Your enemy tricked you into coming here, he lied to you, but it doesn’t matter because there is always mercy. You save the little boy because he’s a little boy, even when you know what he grows up to be, and hundreds of years later the manufactured race that slaughtered your own knows what mercy is. Your enemy does not kill you because your greatest weakness, your loved ones, come to save you. I didn’t come here because I’m ashamed, a bit of shame never hurt anyone, I came because you’re sick and you asked. And sometimes on a good day, if I try very hard, I’m not some old time lord who ran away, I’m the doctor. Compassion, then. ALWAYS. It grows strong and fierce in you, like a cancer. I hope so. It will kill you in the end. I WOULDN’T DIE OF ANYTHING ELSE.

MERCY. ALWAYS MERCY. You walk the little boy home.

#doctor who #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #CAN YOU TELL. HOW INSANE I AM ABOUT TWELVE.#CSN YOU FUCKING. TELL??????#I HAVE THAT CONVERSATION FUCKING MEMORIZED #THESE EPISODES ARE THE THESIS STATEMENT OF THE DOCTOR!!!!!!! OF WHO HE IS!#ITS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT COMPASSION ITS ALWAYS BEEN ABOJT MERCY #‘I DO WHAT I DO BECAUSE ITS RIGJT BECAUSE ITS DECENT AND MOST OF ALL ITS KIND. JUST THAT. JUST KIND’#that’s from the finale but it’s the SAME POINT #ITS ABOUT KINDNESS!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK #I! WOULDNT! DIE! OF! ANYTHING! ELSE!

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eightdoctor · 4 months

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the thing about the edas. and i feel this also applies to most if not all of doctor who. but the thing about the edas is so many silly and totally batshit moments happen but whenever i try to describe them to an audience that is unaware of the context i feel like i should be permanently exiled from polite society. like do you guys remember when an intradimensional being disguised as an elder thing psychically tricked fitz’s mind into seeing them as a Hot Babe and then they flirtatiously offered him a cigarette (which he naturally accepted) only for him to belatedly find that the woman he’d been talking to had been a lovecraftian horror the whole time and the cigarette he’d been smoking was actually its tentacle

#best part was though compassion saw this and was not even phased #she was like yeah. yeah that’s something he’d do i think #doctor who #edas #fitz kreiner

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riverspond · 4 months

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peter capaldi is THE doctor like no one has ever doctered like him and no one will again

#i’m sorry but i truly mean this #the entire twelve/davros scene in the witch’s familiar about compassion has me SHAKING #‘it grows strong and fierce in you. like a cancer’#‘i hope so’#i am literally screaming what a fucking piece of dialogue #‘it will kill you in the end’#‘i wouldn’t die of anything else’#LIKE THAT IS THE DOCTOR!#oh pcap i miss you #do people like the magician’s apprentice/the witch’s familiar?#idk i love it #doctor who #the doctor #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi

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paranoir-antares · 2 months

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whistleblowers leak a bunch of documents demonstrating that doctors are consciously and intentionally taking advantage of trans people, consciously and intentionally pushing experimental expensive treatments without proven benefits, consciously and intentionally sacrificing their trans patients' health and wellbeing for profit

immediately, stupid people:

"somehow, jkr is to blame"

#wpath files #jk rowling #it would seem that jkr shows a lot more empathy and compassion for trans people than other trans people do #and somehow only the gender critical crowd is angry at the doctors who are Actively Taking Advantage of Their Trans Patients #GEE I WONDER WHY

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the-worms-in-your-bones · 7 months

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Not platonic or romantic, but a secret, much more fuck up, third thing

#back at it again with doctor who posts that aren’t explicitly doctor who posts #but like #this applies to multiple compassion doctor relationships #mostly referencing two of them here though #twelveclara #eightcharley #charleight #doctor who #eighth doctor #charley pollard #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #thoschei #they deserve to be here as well

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melbush · 11 days

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average eight, fitz & compassion interactions

#doctor who #eighth doctor adventures #memes #fitz kreiner #eighth doctor #compassion

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dreadfuldevotee · 5 months

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kinda fucking haunted abt how in village of angels 13 discovers the secret tunnel to "a lovers meeting point" for her to come face to face with Yaz like....and then the angels leaving her and the others to witness The Doctors capture, after using her love of humanity against her...and thus making the woman 13 cared about the most helplessly watch her be turned into one of the angels...

#im always a bit obsessed with weaponizing the heros love and compassion against them #especially when they get the lovers invooolved #doctor who #thasmin #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #char.txt

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ten-simm · 6 months

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"I wonder what I'd be without you"

#just wanted to emphasize the Master's expressions here #the biggest 'his gaze softened' to have ever 'his gaze softened'-ed #you can see him going from confused to the moment when he's finally touched with realization by ten's word with the eyebrow raise #and how he's visibly holding back the tears and simply can't contain a smile that only grows bigger #and the way he looks at then by the end really has a mix of emotions but for me it screams longing #because with the way he says “yeah” and his thoughtful expression at the beginning he very likely was reminiscing their memories together #and he comes to realization that yeah. what were they without each other.#or you can say that he just finally felt touched that ten isn't willing to let go of the 2 of them together after everything the master did #considering this was the first time we saw him in a moment of vulnerability. he was scared even #he opened himself very briefly for the first time and ten still showed compassion towards him #okay this got way longer that I thought but I think a LOT was spoken here even with no words #a big applause to john simm's facial acting here of course #thoschei #tensimm #best enemies #doctor who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #simm!master

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who-do-i-know-this-man · 1 year

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⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

#ultimate obscure blorbo #polls #Compassion (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures)#Conan (Detective Conan)#round 1

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dontbelasagne · 2 months

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thinking about spending four and a half billion years on someone you cant remember. how it must make you terrified of approaching love again, in fear of invoking such immense passion that leads you to chaos. how the vastness of such time spent on nameless memories must have haunted each new chance at companionship. how it gives reason to being tired in your capacity to exist again and again...

...it is scary what The Doctor could have chosen if they weren't given their memory of Clara back.

#thinking of the doctor leading themselves to ruin #time and time again #out of unbearable compassion #and an attachment to living on every perilous edge #but always...always needing others with them too #doctor who #dw #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #12th doctor #heaven sent

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seaweedstarshine · 1 month

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Thinking about River affectionately calling the Doctor her “madman in a box” only after he's called her his “bespoke psychopath,” and vice versa. They each were called these words by the other before ever using them to describe the other.

Thinking about the way they defy reality for each other. How modern psychiatry elevates objective reality to gatekeep full participation in society, yet they shatter objective reality with love — “I can’t let you die without knowing that you are loved.” and “You are always here to me and I always listen and I can always see you.”

Thinking about “What's the mad fool talking about now?” and how Gallifrey ostracizes those labelled mad, going so far as to see it as failure in children. Thinking about “A child is not a weapon!” “Give us time.” and how Kovarian equates psychopath with weapon as a tool of dehumanization and control.

Thinking about the way the psychiatric-industrial complex inflicts violence upon those who deviate from psychosocial norms. How their relationship was born in violence, but of madness — not madness in a post-Enlightenment framework of opposition to Reason, but madness as radical compassion that doesn’t demand so-called rationality — “Every time you've asked, I have been there.”

Thinking about how neither of them chose “psychopath” or “madman,” but they both own those words as instruments in their own agency.

#words by seaweed #(eleventh) doctor is neurodivergent tag #river song #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #antipsychiatry #madpunk #yowzah #doctor who #bc I've seen the discourse on whether river is ‘actually’ a psychopath heres your regular reminder that psychopath is NOT a medical term #it's madman but with a lack-of-empathy slant.#saneism #ableism #reclaimed language #mental health #neuropunk #mad liberation #disclaimer: not a philsopher. can u tell I was a graphic design major w an incidental personal investment in psychotic ppl rights #anyway when I say ‘madness as radical compassion’ I don’t mean that madness creates compassion; but that this position #where participation in modern personhood is violently denied+ autonomy stripped due to weaponizing mental health interests (my river song)#elicits a different framework of compassion— one doesn't have to make sense or ‘fit’ into a convenient Narrative for compassion #the fact that they passing laws to make conservatorships easier to acquire in several states makes me shriek when I think sometimes #so uh tune in next time for me drowning my sorrows in my canon psychotic eleventh doctor evidence posts

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exuberantocean · 5 months

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Maybe it's just me being a huge hurt/comfort fan but there's something about Donna saying the Doctor's grounded until he feels better that does something to me.

Like...the doctor's been hurting for how long? And it's never something he'd openly acknowledge and rarely something his companions would either. And here not only is it acknowledge, but it's accepted by the whole group here. His mental health struggles aren't something to hide anymore and certainly not something to be ashamed of. And getting better is a priority and treated as such. And even though the Doctor is happy and content in this scene, he's still not better because progress isn't linear and because people suffering from a mental illness can still sometimes feel happy and even content in a moment but still be working through shit.

Heck, the whole three episodes but especially The Giggle were like mental illness something that can happen to all of us and we all should treat ourselves with compassion and prioritize taking care of our mental health when we can, especially if we've been through some trauma. And I just love this.

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #meta #mental illness #trauma #donna noble #listen doctor who can take self-compassion pretty literally

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eightdoctor · 7 months

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you ever think about how. about how the tardis is literally fitz’s mother. like she Made him! and she cares. for him like she literalyyyy calmed him down when he was having nightmares about his original mom

fitz has 2 moms and one of them is a dimensionally transcendental blue box

#this also does mean that fitz and compassion are siblings . also #doctor who #edas #fitz kreiner

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extraordinarilyextreme · 4 months

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queer rep in 《鸣龙少年》 The Hope (2023)

i just finished bingeing all 30 episodes last night and i thought i was over this, but i'm really not.

Yu Yang (禹洋) is a shy senior in Class 11 with a stammer. in ep. 5, we learn that due to health issues, he took an extended leave from school and thus had to repeat his second year, so he's a year older than his peers. his mother is well-meaning but overbearing, and he was made the target of quite egregious bullying before he joined Lei Ming's (雷鸣) class. throughout the show, we see him become more and more willing to voice his own opinions and set boundaries, esp. with his mother.

(a side point, but i absolutely adore how the show did not pathologize his stammer as a bad thing he had to be "cured" of; it's through unconditional acceptance and encouragement from the adults in his life and his friends that we see him naturally come out of his shell.)

unlike his four friends in Class 11, he doesn't seem to be embroiled in any of their tangled 感情线 / "love" lines, nor does he seem to have one at all—until ep. 21.

on new year's day, the Class 11 CPs are a mess. Jiang Qinglang (江晴朗) confesses to Cheng Yushan (程雨杉), leaving poor Bian Xiaoxiao (边晓晓) who likes JQL and Li Ran (李燃) who likes CYS behind.

so when the fireworks go off, JQL and CYS are togther, whereas BXX and LR are together—contrary to how the show has been pairing them thus far.

then we cut to YY, who is watching the fireworks alone, but about to text someone.

that's a name we haven't seen before! Wu Fan (吴凡), i wonder who that is?

importantly, we see him delete the "I" and instead wish this person "happy new year."

the entirety of ep. 21 was about confessions, crushes, dating/breaking up/moving on, and the innocent and pure feelings we experience in our 青春 / youth.

so it's truly not that big of a stretch for me to think that what YY may originally have been intending to write was “我喜欢你” / "I like you."

then, in ep. 24, Lei Ming takes his class on a trip to Qingbei University in Beijing. and it's there we finally learn who the mysterious WF is.

four years ago in 2015, an older student once stood up for the bullied YY and ended up with quite a nasty beating.

as YY quietly cleans his savior's injuries, they have a brief exchange:

Yu Yang: I'm sorry. Wu Fan: You haven't done anything wrong. What are you apologizing for? In the future, raise your voice when you speak and build up your muscles; I guarantee no one will dare to mistreat you. If that really doesn't work, let's enroll in the same university later on. In the future, I'll continue to protect you.

in the present (2019), YY is waiting outside WF's university. originally overjoyed to see WF, YY's expression drops when he sees his xuezhang with a girlfriend. nevertheless, this might be one of the only times in this entire show we see YY don such a sweet open-mouthed smile.

they grab milk tea together and catch up, reminiscing about their earlier years. unfortunately, whereas YY has never forgotten their first meeting, WF remarks that he would've forgotten about it entirely if not for YY mentioning it now.

then YY asks what will happen after WF graduates.

the camera cuts to a shot of the milk tea brand: 心意 / the intentions of my heart.

this milk tea shop is a recurring setting throughout this drama. it's where one of the main CPs (Li Ran & Yu Chengshan) had one of their earliest interactions in ep. 3, and it has consistently been romantically coded (e.g., a boy treating his crush to a cup of milk tea).

so, effectively, as WF tosses away his empty cup, that is also signaling the short lifespan of his current relationship.

finally, WF encourages YY. only...

Wu Fan: I promised my mom I'll return home to take the civil service exam. After I graduate next year, I'll immediately go back to Xingzhou.

and then, once again, as YY sadly watches WF walk away, the camera cuts to the milk tea cup in his own hands.

in the end, Yu Yang never got to express his 心意 for his xuezhang, and he can only keep it to himself.

but as their Chinese teacher Tan Xiaozhou (谭小舟) remarked earlier in ep. 21 during their class on love poems:

Love is not only in the present tense or future tense, but also in the past tense. Having loved before doesn't mean that the current love isn't real. Loving now doesn't mean you won't love again in the future. If you didn't obtain it, or you broke up—without longing, without resentment—silently remembering the beautiful parts—bidding "Take care" in a cool demeanor: this, also, is love. [...] To me, the most important thing about love is that I can respect your independent nature, protect your lonely soul, and defend your right not to love me.

and so concludes our Class 11 xuezhang's 感情线. for a gaokao-prep cdrama that aired on CCTV8, i honestly cannot believe we got any of this.

here are two more small instances of queer acknowledgment:

in ep. 13, school psychologist Sang Xia (桑夏) leads a lecture on sexual harassment: what it looks like, how to prevent it, how to keep yourself safe. right from the start, she emphasizes that boys can be victims as well—and also that harassment can occur between same-sex individuals.

in ep. 21, when the school runs amok with dating rumors among the teachers, Sang Xia questions why everyone defaults to thinking that it must be a male teacher confessing to a female teacher.

overall, i seriously cannot recommend this show enough. it tackles so many themes (e.g., the premature grief of losing a loved one to Alzheimer's; the importance of destigmatizing depression and mental health overall; the hugely significant role that family/home life has on students' ability to perform well in school; that parents are not infallible and can be controlling/manipulative/abusive, even if unintentionally; that SES so greatly impacts the trajectory of a student's life; how damaging bullying/cyberbullying can be; and that though society is rife with inequity and injustice, it is the responsibility of adults—as best as they can—to create a more just and safer world for all children), and in both a realistic and gently heartwarming way.

#the hope #鸣龙少年 #cdrama ramblings #the episodes on depression also hit especially hard for me #esp as someone who is training to be a psychologist #rly like how Sang Xia put it: psychologists are both teachers and doctors #this show really humanized these students and god i wish such compassion and empathy could always be extended to people with depression

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thefiresofpompeii · 4 months

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holy fuck he's dark. sir you're scaring me i like it a lot

this episode feels like a spiritual successor to series 1's dalek. when a dalek "turns good" and the doctor shows ruthlessness, what gives?

#deadpan sarcastic uncle. but it unnerves me how casually he made this choice #and journey blue's brother? just a complete lack of compassion despite rescuing her #twelfth doctor #into the dalek #twelve #peter capaldi #dw #jamie catches up #jamie.txt #doctor who

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