made some color studies of the latest episode of @doctorwho (10×2 “smile”)
it was so aesthetically pleasing **
bill potts
Beyond the specific context, and the specific threat, can I just say how much it hit me in the heart for the Doctor to be saying to a canonically gay woc companion “You’re safe in here. You’re safe in here, and you always will be.” It felt like that reassuring hand on the shoulder that we so rarely get irl. Sometimes I forget how not-safe I feel every day, that what feels like the norm should never be, that we deserve better.
I can’t find the right words, but that framing of that huge interior space as a place where Bill would always be safe just really resonated with me. I hope so very much that it wasn’t some sort of ironic foreshadowing, that the writers will hold true to it, because I know I am not the only one who that is going to resonate with, and I particularly want the kids watching to have that. Especially right now. Needed.
Rose Tyler/Bill Potts parallels
# lmao # no wonder so many people love bill already # cause they are basically following the same narrative they had for rose # which is fine because why not just go with something that worked already right ? # so i still don’t understand why these same people who love bill now # still say rose is the worst # like you do guys not have eyes or something ? # or you just don’t want to see # i’m dying # 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 # rose tyler # bill potts # they even have the same number of letters in their names # yooooooooooooo # omfg # i’m crying # lol (taggy goodness via @tinyconfusion)
rose didn’t know the doctor for months before travelling with him. random linese aren’t a narrative
I have the same number of letters in my name as Rose and Bill, I wouldn’t say that makes me similar to either of them.
There’s more than one working class person in London. Several of them I’m reliably informed enjoy eating chips, the most common food to be found on most British high streets.
Rose was not a lesbian, nor was she a physics whizz, nor did she live with a foster parent.
But yes, surely, surely no-one liked the Black lesbian on her own merits. They all must have actually been thinking about the straight white girl.
Bill started an essay on quantum physics by quoting the Bible and the Doctor gave her 92%.
Poetry, physics: same thing.
Bill: my problematic fave who doesn’t quote sandwich and worse, starts academic essays off with quotes.
Oh gosh I love this detail.
THE COSMIC FAR ULTRAVIOLET BACKGROUND is nicked from this website, the ‘Blazar’ section:
Blazars are members of the family of active galactic nuclei and quasars, defined specifically by their strong optical Polarization and variability. These unique defining properties seemed mysterious and even paradoxical in the 1960s and 1970s, but now there is a growing consensus that their behaviour and their role among quasars is qualitatively understood. Many of the modern ideas started to emerge during an important meeting in 1978 (the Pittsburg Confernce on BL Lac Objects). This is a good place to pick up the historical thread.
BL Lac objects have historically been defined as point-like sources of optical radiation that show little or no line emission, and strong and variable brightness and polarization. Pittsburgh meeting participants made it clear that some nearby objects exhibit all of these properties, along with narrow emission lines of considerable strength. Because they did not seem fundamentally different from the original BL Lacs, they were generally accepted as members of the class.
Since she got 97%, we’ll assume that the plagiarism is not diegetic.
QUANTUM STATISTICS OF LIGHT comes from here:
Just over 100 years ago, physicists exploring the newly discovered atom found that the atomic world of electrons and protons is not just smaller than our familiar world of trees, balls, and automobiles, it is also fundamentally different in character. Objects in the atomic world obey different rules from those obeyed by a tossed ball or an orbiting planet. These atomic rules are so different from the familiar rules of everyday physics, so counterintuitive and unexpected, that it took more than 25 years of intense research to uncover them.
I appreciate that they put in some effort to make them realish things she could’ve been learning, though not too much effort.
and she knows some serious quantum astrophysics now, like maybe not the maths stuff but the concepts. take note.