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ssaalexblake · 11 hours
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13 is an utter awful rat to Graham in It Takes You Away, she treats him horrifically as she loses her patience and therefore temper with him and never bothers to apologise for it, but nobody notices because she didn't raise her voice and it wasn't in a situation where she'd be expected to mother him, so it sailed over peoples heads. She lost her temper and she got Mean. She didn't get shouty, she got mean. She's not a yeller when she lets her anger loose, she's sharp and cruel and so very deliberate. And that doesn't track with peoples stereotypes of women, does it? Women are shouty and Shrill when they're angry, apparently.
She does it to the master in the timeless children, she's sharp and mean and cruel and never once raises her voice when she does it (she actually lowers her voice when she's being really mean btw). This did Not happen when you're thinking it did. Not in the matrix room. She had no idea she was scoring a hit against him there because she didn't understand what he was thinking (because he'd deliberately mislead her). It was in another part of the episode. She scores a hit and almost makes him cry and nobody cares or notices because it's not in a situation where she's supposed to be mothering him while he's all sad. He was being a jerk, she hit out deliberately below the belt and won that round, the end.
It's no that I think 13 isn't at times objectively shitty as a person, because she IS, she certainly was to Graham in the moment above. It's just that instead of looking at the Actual moments on screen when she sucks and dragging her for being shitty person, people have to resort to making up things to accuse her of that are Very gendered (as in, things women are going to get slammed for in society based upon sexist ideology) that never even happen, simply because they didn't pay enough attention to notice her being a crappy Person to drag her for that/they don't actually care if she's in general a lousy person at all.
Because they don't Want her to be a crappy person, that doesn't achieve anything.
They want her to be a crappy Woman.
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hi-i-reblog · 1 year
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13thdoctorposts · 1 year
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It really feels like as each day goes by and we get further and further away from 13 era Doctor Who and Chris Chibnall being showrunner we are also moving further and further away from Women being an integral part of the show or it’s extended universe, in and behind the media. I guess it’s fine for women to just go back to being companions written by men. Cool cool, it’s only 2023 lots of time for progress in the future 🙄
I don’t think we really appreciated how good we had it during 13 era Doctor Who with Chibbs leading it.
The fandom was already a hostile place for women and lgbtqia+ people and really all minorities but now it’s like it’s actively becoming a place we’re kicked out of.
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sirwillow · 1 year
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13docwriting · 4 months
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I'M GONNA BE THAT PERSON... Because it's been bugging me since I saw it and I can't contain it. And by all rights, I'm a human and I can make mistakes, this post may be one of them. I am so, so happy the Doctor is confirmed as nonbinary. I've already considered them nongender conforming so to have it said so plainly is just so beautiful. But... BUT... We pick RIGHT AFTER A FEMALE PRESENTING DOCTOR TO MAKE THIS POINT? I wanna bite my own arm off. I've cried big tears upon learning they chose a woman to play the Doctor. I cried even more upon realizing how much I related to a character like her. She changed my life because she understands my experiences. And to have the episode RIGHT AFTER JODIE'S EXIT be this whole revelation that gender has never mattered? That the Doctor's gender has never mattered? I've fought too damn hard for the thirteenth's Doctor's story to have my struggles be erased. I'm also reasonable. I am more than happy to step to the side and have a big cry over the Doctor being nonbinary. Really, what an amazing and beautiful win. I'll never get over it. THANK YOU RTD.
But, shit, why do I have to put aside my own struggles as a woman and how important it was to have the Doctor be a woman upon the first episode of RTD's new era? I'm fully aware that I should shut the fuck up. Seriously. I know that already. But I don't often post opinions like this and I'm looking for others that feel like this. There may not be many but I'm here!
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undead-red-head · 1 year
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This is just a history overview but my dumbass just realized why I vibe so hard with this damn show.
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ssaalexblake · 2 months
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I'm past wanting to smack my own head against a wall when I see an idiot take that 13 is one dimensional in s11. Now I wish somebody would smack the heads of people saying it against a wall.
I love how we suddenly lose our ability to see a character putting on a front and to analyse their actions when they're played by a woman. Truly. It's so much Fun. It's not like she's trying to live up to what 12 tasked the next doctor to be I.e. laughing and kind and happy. It's not like she's clearly not spending half her time getting bad guys alone to be a threatening terror of a being where the humans don't see bc apparently doesn't count if nobody sees her doing it. It's not that she's clearly only holding onto her temper by a thread multiple times. It's not like that, when she no longer has the emotional bandwidth to lie through her teeth about her virtuous nature, she became a grumpy, reclusive git who annoyed her companions to the point they wanted to bash Her head against a wall.
Gosh it's almost as if they expected the audience to waste a shred of thought on, god forbid, a Woman.
The audacity.
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ssaalexblake · 2 months
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I also don't think it gets said enough that a bunch of people reacted with a visceral kneejerk reaction against 13 and co, or just with total apathy, actively because they were presented with a woman in her mid to late 30's in an outfit that wouldn't be out of place at a pride parade (or maybe in the toddler clothes section) that was in no way sexy (unless you're gay), a south east asian muslim woman, also dressed in outfits that do not show skin, a black man, and an older white guy that people aren't gonna be fantasising about because he's slightly Too old for that one even if fandoms Think they like the old guys. They don't. They mean 30 year olds and Walsh is twice that.
There are So many fandoms out there that have an absurd cult level following where, if you look, the Show/movie itself doesn't have that fandom, the young white men in the cast do and people ignore literally everything else even when other characters are there.
Like, as with all things, there will be people who just don't like it. But these sort of patterns repeat and repeat and repeat in different fandoms, and you get the odd exception to the rule, but they're still exceptions.
13's era does not Have a white man of the right demographic that wasn't just a one episode guest star. Like, at all. The recurring men are Dhawan, that guy who played that obnoxious american who was too old, and Anderson playing Vinder. And Karvanista if we want to be accurate. But he played a dog.
That is Absolutely a thing that effects fan reactions. I don't like it, but it is.
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ssaalexblake · 4 months
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Why is 13's regen abt a white dude and why is 15's regen abt a white dude when do we get rid of that white man that just Cannot let other people have their own moments I swear this is so old, like really, it's a tale as old as time where white dudes are the center of the narrative and universe and everyone caters to them, and I'm so bored of it being celebrated. It's not innovative, it's not new, it's not brave.
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ssaalexblake · 3 months
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the absolute disgust that Yaz (from Sheffield) and Dan (from Liverpool) feel about unexpectedly finding themselves in Manchester is filling me with such joy like their Faces
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ssaalexblake · 3 months
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one of my favourite things about Jodie's performance as the doctor is that she is always Moving. She's always using big, overt stage gestures. Always fiddling or shifting. Movement is such a huge part of her portrayal of the character to the point that it's So constant that you barely notice she's always moving after a while.
Of course, this is brilliant because it throws such Stark contrast on those few moments where she is still. Where she is a statue. Where you can feel the fury radiate off of her, judgemental and terrifying.
The physical acting is just *chef's kiss*
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ssaalexblake · 3 months
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dan's reaction to the universe's most lethal killing machine vs yaz's reaction to 13 threatening the universe's most lethal killing machine
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yaz: consumed with lust
dan: i'd rather Not die thanks so can we just leave???
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ssaalexblake · 3 months
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grief and it's effects on us was a Major theme in chibnall dw and why are some people acting like that is bad? Is it not cutesy enough? Not heart warming enough? Do you think children do not know grief? Do not know death? Do not deserve a fictional hand to hold them through?
the grief and hope themes in the era are deeply intertwined and this is a Feature, and it certainly is not grim or uncaring.
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ssaalexblake · 6 months
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rip to the thirteenth doctor who spent so long trying to hide her violent scary side from Yaz only to threaten a dalek in front of her and for yaz to be like, openly horny abt it all.
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ssaalexblake · 2 months
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That people don't get that the alien chose the form of a little kid, a little black girl, mind, as the thing the doctor would be the most likely to protect because the doctor is broken up and horrified that once upon a time Tecteun found a little black girl and did horrifying things to her instead of loving and/or saving her is one hell of a thing.
That thing in flux where 13 proclaims that she'll never get to know what her life could have been if not for Tecteun and she is horrified and distraught, it's clear as day on her face. That's what's at the root of her horror. The realisation of all abuse victims that you will Never get to find out what you'd be if it had never happened. Grief.
She apologised to the creature for what the master did to it and she wasn't even guilty! All she did was save her! That's so brutally Wrenching.
The story is about the cycle of abuse. 13 basically died breaking the cycle of abuse. Literally I see people complaining that thirteen didn't react to the timeless child information at all like the whole of Flux isn't her almost ruining her relationship with Yaz bc she's obsessed with it, like the universe didn't almost die bc she got too distracted to notice it imploding. Like in the end, the thing she is most hardwired to Save isn't a little girl just like the one she once was.
This is YA the TV show, come on.
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ssaalexblake · 3 months
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sometimes i feel sorry for Thirteen for getting the rep in the thasmin ship that she's the only emotionally closed off one and the one unwilling to share herself with the other, bc okay, 13's life is more of a disaster and no she doesn't ever want to talk about it, but Yaz knows more about Thirteen than Thirteen knows about Yaz, and she could have done a little opening up as well with the deep dark secrets.
They share the Same fatal flaw. They're the same person symbolically. They are both equally guilty here, it's just Yaz is less ostentatious and the doctor doesn't question her.
They are the same, Yaz is just better at it. Arguably this isn't a competition that you want to win, but had 13's life not been such an unmitigated traumatic disaster then I assume she'd have been able to hide this all better to avoid questioning on a lot of things, so maybe Yaz is just lucky that nothing pushed her to utter breaking point.
They're mirrors though, Yaz did not offer an exchange, and i'm not saying her doing so would have worked (i doubt it would have) but... She didn't exactly consider it, either, did she? It was even 13 who approached her about their relationship, and if the Doctor is being more forward, direct and honest about That then this says something about the other person.
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