mom: complains about they/them pronouns being SO HARD to remember
me, barely refraining from telling her about the existence of neopronouns:
I felt like drawing swirly hair.
ID: a black and white digital painting of the Eighth Doctor with his hair swirling upward behind him full of stars, against a dark purple background. end ID.
Now THIS is art. 😍
lady-sanctuary
“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27
I wish for nothing more than that that little boy could see this and know that he was remembered.
obsessed with my partners cishet friend because he is literally only friends with transmascs. don't call yourself a cis ally unless 90% of your circle is trans
fellas you are never going to believe what happened to her
Girl you need to get out of bed faster than this
I'm giving it all she's got boss
On the discussion of book accurate depictions of Sherlock Holmes, one thing I really want is accurate Mycroft. In the books Sherlock is very… autistically coded. At least to me, an autistic person. And Sherlock basically states that Mycroft has more “severe” autism. Sherlock says his brother is more brilliant than he is but absolutely cannot function in society and hates social interaction so much he founded a society for the purpose of minimizing it as much as possible. In addition it’s implied he becomes overstimulated so easily he has to curate his environment to be devoid of disturbance and noise.
Give me the autistic brothers but one has it much much worse
Enough of this Mycroft as the more sociable of the two who is a powerful politician. This man would have a meltdown if he had to be that social!!!
#maybe i just havent gotten there yet but also is there a reason why he and sherlock always despise each other#in adaptions. does their autism clash. i understand if it does#i also think though that sherlock is just Saying That about him being more brilliant#maybe mycroft is but i don't think he'd be able to apply it as well as sherlock does
So I made this post because I was in the moment re-reading the story where Mycroft is introduced and I can say with some confidence that this is another mischaracterization. Sherlock regularly consults Mycroft and the only criticism Sherlock has for Mycroft is that it's unfortunate that Mycroft is so anti-social that he cannot apply his brilliance to better society. So you are correct, he cannot apply it as well as sherlock.
And yet this anti-social Mycroft was extremely well spoken and carried a normal conversation with Sherlock* and while the writing makes a lot of interactions in Sherlock Holmes stories a little dry, their interactions are completely in synch. Their autism has a synergy, it does not clash in the least. It's frankly adorable. If I had to say, Mycroft ADORES Sherlock and actively wants to have his brother in his company. His first statement to sherlock was "By the way, Sherlock, I expected to see you around last week, to consult me over that Manor House case, I thought you might be a little out of your depth."
Now perhaps that is one of the lines people transform into their adversarial relationship, as Mycroft gives a minute insult to sherlock's talent. But to me it reads that Mycroft was looking forward to seeing his brother and help him with a case! He just phrased it in a very Autistic Manner (TM). They go on to have a very Autism to Autism moment observing people playing billiards, an interaction that felt like an epitome of enjoyment for them both. This perhaps is another spot where the adversarial nature is adapted from, because perhaps it seems like they were trying to one-up each other. I say nay, they were having fun. In fact the conclusion of this moment is Sherlock turning to Watson to smile at him to convey 'look at how amazing my brother is!'
Also the reason adaptations make Mycroft this powerful government agent is because... OG autistic Mycroft is one of those brilliant mathematician autistics. He loves nothing more than to be a budget/financial auditor/consultant for the government. He gets books and files and folders of figures and takes them to his apartment and just does his thing with no one to bother him. And the government pays him a shit ton of money to do this. He is living his best fucking life.
Also Mycroft smiles when he sees his brother :D
*I want to note that speech patterns in the books arent the best way to interpret the autistic traits since pretty much everyone speaks really eloquently in these books. Mycroft was not awkward in conversation with Watson in the slightest, but I don't think Doyle imagined that aspect of autism in the brothers. I think modern adaptations (and I dont mean they adaptations need to be in modern times... just. give me awkward shut-in mycroft who craves company of just a few choice people including his brother who he LOVES) should work that angle into it, to enhance it!
TL:DR the Holmes brothers fucking adore each other, enjoy each other's company, and regularly work together to great effect.
dr carmilla? call that a mechromancer
[ID: series of 4 images from the last Bionicle comic featuring the Mata Nui and Makuta giant robots. Mata Nui says "So sad that Steve Jobs died of ligma" and Makuta replies "who's Steve Jobs?" Mata Nui says "ligma balls" and Makuta gets his head smashed in by Aqua Magna. End ID.]
I wish I had a good reason for this existing
Doctor Who Theme: Round 2
"Three new arrangements were made for the Doctor Who Unbound range. The first, unofficially referred to as "Unbound A", was used for Auld Mortality and Full Fathom Five."
"A new "Unbound" theme was composed by Blair Mowat for The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield range from the boxsets The Unbound Universe to Blood & Steel."
"Big Finish began their War Doctor series with a new theme arrangement, also composed by [Howard] Carter, which was used for The War Doctor and The Eighth Doctor: Time War."
While I'm here, I may as well share my issues with how Bliss was handled.
She works fine in Eight's Time War Volume One as the one-off companion she was originally intended to be. I'm glad they kept her on, but after that she really needed a strong character focus or story arc, and she didn't get it.
Volume Two and Volume Three each dedicate one episode to her backstory, but neither does it well. Volume Two's episode (The Lords of Terror) edits her into a story about the loss of a planet by making it her homeworld, but edits her in so badly that she doesn't seem to care about the fact that it's her homeworld getting destroyed in half the scenes, and we don't really learn anything new about her. The episodes immediately afterward had her acting totally fine and not addressing the loss of her planet at all.
Volume Three's Bliss episode (State of Bliss) attempts to address her multiple timelines, but does so in a way that's confusing, badly explained, and again doesn't end up saying or provoking much about her as a character. Both of Bliss' backstory episodes end by proposing things to do with her character moving forward (grieving her home planet in the first, and helping others affected by the Time War as a form of coping in the second) but no other episodes really pick up those threads in an explicit or meaningful way.
Despite not dedicating an episode to her, I think Volume Four gives some of the most interesting characterisation and story arc fodder for Bliss. Namely, she butts heads with the Doctor a lot more thanks to their slight philosophical differences: they both want to help people affected by the Time War, but Bliss is more willing than the Doctor to go near battlegrounds, to use violence in her own and others' defence, and to work with the Time Lords. What could be a better arc for a companion of Time War-era Eight than her friendship with him gradually fracturing as she gets irritated by his desire to not interfere with the War, even when he could help others. The fact that these ideas are only really hinted at makes me wonder if any of it was intentional narrative hooks and development, but the hints were spread throughout the set, so who knows.
Then Rakhee Thakrar got too busy to keep playing Bliss, and good for her. Big Finish should've given her meatier stuff while they had her. I had honestly hoped that they'd write her off in Volume Five by saying she had left the Doctor on bad terms to work with other Time Lords. But instead she was simply erased from the timeline, which honestly feels very disrespectful if they never bring her back.
So on a whim (and in an ungodly short amount of time) I relistened to all of the Eighth Doctor Time War series, because I missed the companion, Bliss. I don't think she gets anywhere near as much focus and development as she deserves by the writers, and I'd probably find her pretty dull if she wasn't played by Rakhee Thakrar, who somehow makes her every line terribly engaging and full of life.
I decided to take notes on Bliss as I listened to her just so I could have a strong grasp of her if I write fic with her in future (I really want a whole series of adventures with her travelling with the Doctor and the Twelve). Then, when I started linking ideas in those notes, I turned them into paragraphs, and pretty soon I'd accidentally written a whole wiki entry about her character, with episodes cited as sources 😂 I thought I'd share it here, because what else am I going to do with it?
Spoilers for the Eighth Doctor Time War series under the cut.
BRIGADIER HOMOPHOBE MOMENTS🎉🎉🎉
next of my doctor who portraits! onto the classic docs, starting with eight :D
