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tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

i like that the pink and turquoise made their way back into the rainbow pride flag :)

the original rainbow pride flag created by Gilbert Baker, featuring stripes in the colours hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and purple

the progress pride flag, consisting of the rainbow flag (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple), along with chevrons in black and brown (representing people of colour), baby blue, pink, and white (representing trans people), and yellow with a purple ring (representing intersex people)

June 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

some good posts from tumblr re: the reality war

tumblr post by valley dean. transcribed: my whole thing is just that like. there was no point to any of it.

there was no point in bringing back the rani, a character that many people wanted back for decades, we had this whole build up with ms flood for two whole ass seasons for the rani's plan to be inconsequential to anything that happens and brushed aside in the first 30 mins. there was also no point to her bigenerating if the "real" rani just gets... eaten?

there was no point to the doctor letting the rani bring out the omega, a character steeped in the mythos of doctor who, only to make him a giant skeleton who gets shoved back into his little jail after 30 seconds

there was no point to being like "time lord are sterile and that's why poppy is so important" only to make her not the doctor's daughter in the end

there was no point in putting bel into a box the whole episode so they could focus on ruby instead for some reason. and there was no point in shoehorning her into a mother role when her character is predicated on not giving into gender norms andddd after she specifically said she wanted to travel with the doctor now (they did her so dirty all season. she could have been a super memorable companion but they just did not give her a chance and then LITERALLY shoved her into a box)

there was no point in the doctor being able to heal himself with bigeneration energy only to have to regenerate instead of using that instead

there was no point in thirteen coming back for 2 seconds

there was no point in susan popping up (another character we've waiting a longgggg time to see again)

there was no point in ruby's memories

there was no point in rose noble (story of her life)

and now they got rid of a very charismatic and wonderful actor in their titular role for a gimmick

russell... stop wasting my time.

tumblr post by mulder scully. transcribed: okay. i need people to understand the main issue here. ncuti gatwa is the first (full time) black doctor. his entrance was overshadowed by david tennant. his entire run has been the least watched run, many of you admit you did not watch his era. now, after only 16 episodes and a few specials he has regenerated and all people are talking about is billie piper. do you really not see the issue at all? and don't even get me started on what they did to belinda! i'm so BOGGLED by the amount of disrespect thrown at fifteen. he barely got to BE HIS OWN CHARACTER. we barely know him and he's gone. unreal.

tumblr post by kirian the divorce. transcribed: Episode one Belinda: breaks up with her boyfriend because he's a controlling misogynistic prick who wants her to conform to the role of wife and mother, when he later kidnaps her to force her to marry him she calls him an incel and explodes him

Episode eight Belinda: I can't help you with the battle I'm no use at saving the world, the best thing I can do is stand in this box with my daughter and be a mother, I love being a mother, please rewrite my entire timeline so that I have a daughter, I'm so glad this right wing incel fascist rewrote reality so that women are wives and mothers because that means I am a mother to my daughter

tumblr post from morgana's pendragons. transcribed: so we had:

an indian woman talking to another indian women about blood purity

the indian rani being a dictator and then getting killed for no reason while the white rani survives

the indian companion being randomly shoved into the role of mother and then getting sidelined in favour of the white companion from the previous series

the black, openly queer doctor regenerating into a white woman from a previous series

russell t davies back to his old tricks i see

June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

RIP belinda chandra from the robot revolution. i miss you so much angel.

GIF of belinda chandra, played by varada sethu, saying "you're dangerous"

June 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

BBC sherlock is the only one of superwholock to not have a scene in the finale in which the main character's male love interest says "i love you," dies in hell, and is never mentioned again. awesome #doctorwho

screencap of a mario game, with the caption "luigi wins by doing nothing" and an image of luigi from the mario games

June 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

May 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

i'm so sorry but the facial expressions... the doctor is fucking that cartoon #doctorwho

Photo of the Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and Mr Ring-a-Ding, a cartoon man. Mr Ring-a-Ding is standing behind the Doctor and adjusting his bow-tie with a big smile on his face while the Doctor looks at Mr Ring-a-Ding with lidded eyes and a slight smirk.

April 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

mutuals, if any of you plan to see born with teeth please let me know... i'm seeing it on the 20th of september

April 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

new hyperfixation unlocked

April 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

as i was fact-checking this post i learned about the absolutely wonderful alice sluckin. i cannot believe i hadn't known about her before. this article is worth a read: www.gu.se/en/gnc/from-...

Alice Sluckin. She is an elderly, pale-skinned woman with white hair and glasses, sitting in a chair and wearing a blue cardigan.

February 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

are you my mummy?

a child in a gas mask, from the Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child"

February 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

shit im missing a trick here

screenshot of a tumblr post by official-boob-posts. contains a screenshot of information about a school quiz, including a typo: "the quiz is open-boob," underlined. the post caption says: you know what this means chat. reblogged by ethereal space jelly, who adds: "the quiz:" and a screencap of a star trek character with a cut in his shirt which reveals his chest

February 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM

tristan

@triii-staaan.bsky.social

i already had emotions about the fact that hayley williams ended up divorced from the man she wrote "the only exception" and "still into you" about. but realising that like half the songs on paramore's first 2 albums are about how her parents' divorce made her grow up cynical about love