relatable
I wonder sometimes how truthful Missy was being in “The Magician’s Apprentice” about friendship and romance, and what love means to Time Lords.
Because I can’t help but remember Rose, and Martha, and Amy, and Clara, and now (possibly) Yaz, who all look at this mad glorious alien and fall in love and want the Doctor to love them back. I wonder if they know, at first, how much the Doctor loves them—a love that comes with so much weight because it’s so old, has so much history. I wonder if Bill knew, at first, that the Doctor would give up his sight for her without a second thought. I wonder if Clara looked at a stranger in Victorian London and knew he would burn for four and a half billion years for her.
I wonder—do Graham, Ryan & Yaz know the Doctor has given her body to them already? That she would break her own hand, throw herself into the fire, give her life for any of them?
I just—wonder sometimes, how big the love of this alien is, with the force of two thousand/four billion years of memories behind it, how deep the wellspring must be that can look at a small human and see behind them all those others. All those bright and shining companions.
And, God, Yaz and Ryan and Graham are loved so much already, with all the emotion in two very old hearts. It won’t save them. But it’ll be worth it.
The weapons and equipment of British warriors down the ages, from top to bottom;
Huscarl, 1066
Crusader knight, 1244
Longbowman, 1415
Yorkist Man-at-Arms, 1485
New Model Army musketeer 1645
Private, 1709
Corporal, 1815
Sergeant, 1916
Lance Corporal, 1944
Private, 2014
Holy crap that’s a lot to carry!
The point of voting blue in 2018 isn’t to make the US perfect. We cannot accomplish that in one fell swoop. There’s gerrymandering, voter apathy, voter suppression, and generations of older party-line fucks we have to deal with.
Voting blue in 2018 is to make it less immediately threatening for PoC, LGBT+ people, the disabled, and any other marginalized demographic. It’s a stopgap against Republicans who are aligned with Nazis, white supremacists, and sexual abusers.
Correcting politics in the United States is going to take decades of new voters staying on top of politics and not falling prey to apathy, like our predecessors.
People telling you not to waste a vote on 3rd Party this midterm aren’t saying “never vote 3rd party.” Republicans have united behind one utterly heinous front. We need to unite behind Democrats, for the time being.
Repeating this key sentence:
“Voting blue in 2018 is to make it less immediately threatening for PoC, LGBT+ people, the disabled, and any other marginalized demographic [WOMEN]. It’s a stopgap against Republicans who are aligned with Nazis, white supremacists, and sexual abusers.”
Reblogging in the memory of everyone who said to me, 2 years ago, “how much damage can he do?” and “it’s like choosing the lesser of two evils” and “you’re overreacting” and “he won’t get elected it’ll never happen”.