Not With A Bang But A Whimper

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So, sometimes I think about Doctor Who and the sort of companions I’d actually want to see him...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:51 -0400

So, sometimes I think about Doctor Who and the sort of companions I’d actually want to see him have and well

I want him to find an impoverished, lonely child, and take him or her around the world and then some, showing him the wonders the world has to offer, showing her that just because our stories start off in the gutters, we can often climb to breathe amongst the stars

and I want him to be with an expecting couple. And I want them to maybe switch it up on adventures- sometimes the pregnant mother, sometimes the soon-to-be father, and I want the Doctor to show them wonderful people who raised children that weren’t their own to be heroes, and I want him to show them horrible parents who cannot diminish the sheer value of the precious lives they brought, but did not nurture, into this world

and I want a teenager who doesn’t give a shit about anything, a total douche maybe, and I want the Doctor to be patient and firm and laughable, and I want him to be unconditionally kind until he or she finally opens up about the bullying and the neglect at home and I want the Doctor to take him or her on adventures and show them that being fat or having blemished skin or being anything and everything but mainstream beautiful doesn’t diminish who they are and what they’re worth, and I want the Doctor to discover this teenager’s dreams, and bring him/her back home, and tell them he’ll always keep an eye open for the best whatever they choose to be

I don’t want people coming back from the dead because human life is precious only because it is measured and frail, and I think there’s a very big, heartbreaking threat in the fact that we only die once and it is ultimate and it is real. And I want companions of color, and people with disabilities- the TARDIS is big enough for a wheelchair, and planets can be beautiful under the investigative hand of a blind person, and I want middle aged women who’ve just been divorced, and I want mothers with sons who the Doctor picks up out of a battered woman’s shelter, and I want old men who don’t know what to do with themselves now that their families have just moved on, and I want people from the past and the future and I want the disadvantaged and the downtrodden because, yes, Clara is the impossible girl and yes, Amy Pond is the first face 11’s face saw, but I want a different sort of show for myself and for my children and for those who follow, and I want a show for the people. All the people. Not just the beautiful. Not just the inhumanely mysterious. Give me the nobodies and the average because that’s what a whole lot of us feel like we are. A lot of us can’t offer great people unsolvable things, we can only offer ourselves and our weakness and our human glories,

and I want that very much

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:50:41 -0400

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via mkroggasch)

“Are there any rules you’ll place when you come to rule the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:48:56 -0400

“Are there any rules you’ll place when you come to rule the earth?” (x)

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For blue, blue skies,I forgive you.

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For blue, blue skies,
I forgive you.

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:27 -0400

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune.

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evelynlosthermindforhannibal: #fab #fabulous #death #blood...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:31 -0400

evelynlosthermindforhannibal:

#fab #fabulous #death #blood #girl #police #crime #horror #dead #violence #me #nomakeup

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:35:54 -0400

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:31:13 -0400

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

The Story of a Boy Who Fell in Love with a Wolf

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:51 -0400

The Story of a Boy Who Fell in Love with a Wolf

redwoodcollective: (by coolhandluke)

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:45 -0400

redwoodcollective:

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Being a hunter is a part of who you are.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:59:20 -0400

Being a hunter is a part of who you are.

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How do I stop?

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How do I stop?