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YAY I HELPED
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I trust you to you’re so talented and cool and good brained I just hurt for my girl
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I need to make you draw happy Cadence as a treat at some point
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Hey can you lighten up on her please?? I don’t need this brick through my window omg (love it but shh I can’t say that or she’ll think I want her to suffer)
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Cadence my love 🥺
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I like his dialogue a lot but then I’ve always been into screwball comedies so, down to preference. And he does have blind spots yeah, he’s a straight white man. I think he has his heart in the right place and has a good capacity to grow. (Lowkey more than RTD did - *looks at Martha and Belinda*)
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Press Gang more than anything shows me that even if he gets it wrong, he does care about writing complex, nuanced women. Lynda Day is an outstanding character to me and he would get angry on her behalf thinking about her.
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Eh, I know him from Doctor Who and Press Gang so hardly anything would change my esteem of his. And yeah he put his name on it but for large chunks he was still working on Doctor Who (esp the anniversary year) so I feel pretty comfortable assuming it was both their faults, not just his.
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In fact it wouldn’t exist without Karen because she really wanted to act with his script. So idk I feel it’s weird to even take that quote (which is again out of context) and then use it as why he hired her when clearly he appreciates her talent and she appreciates his writing.
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He thought she was wee (short and small) and she stood up and was tall and he felt stupid. That’s it. And either way, they are friends, she appreciates his writing of women because it was complex and gave her a lot to work with and she acted for him in Douglas is Cancelled and championed the series.
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Moffat notably apologized for the tone of the Amy scene and I maintain it was an in-character decision that got played tonally wrong and he recognizes that. Also that out of context quote still being used bugs me.
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just because we know who wrote certain episodes doesn’t mean we know who was steering the ship and I prefer to focus on stuff like Press Gang, Coupling or Douglas is Cancelled with regard to Moffat.
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Also I tend to think those two working together bring out their worst impulses at times and that is a flaw, that’s why working with your friends needs a buffer to balance out all the ‘yes, and’ing’ but I also don’t really care about Sherlock in relation to a Moffat solo show because -
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Well (I still haven’t seen all of Sherlock tbf. I have seen all of some of his other shows) Gatiss is also there and I think for my money he deserves more of the blame esp. in the seasons where Moff was clearly working on Doctor Who as the priority show on his books.
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Short for you. I like him because he tries to self improve and course correct, though I think Moffat women are pretty dope if not without flaws any male writer would have. I never got why he was patient zero for these critiques tbh.
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I’m a bit confused about what you mean there cause I don’t really think the Doctor treats Amy as out of the ordinary beyond the fact that eventually he finds out the TARDIS is set to explode on her wedding day. And if anything Bill should prove he took criticisms in hand to
Improve, even if it was -
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And I found the mystery of them fairly obvious and not at all incomprehensible but hey different strokes for different folks. I cannot argue to you that they’re not incomprehensible any more than you can convince me they were so I’m not touching that one lol
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Bill also wasn’t a mystery herself. So that’s Clara - for one half-season of her two and a half seasons and River. But I don’t think they’re mysteries because they’re women.
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Amy and Bill weren’t mysteries though, the crack affecting her life was but Amy herself was normal, it was basically a coincidence. No more making her a mystery than the fact that Donna was marrying a villain.
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They establish the Doctor and Clara really do quite like each other and gel really well - which is an important mouse-ka-tool that’ll help when he becomes Twelve - but there’s a level of distance there as well on her end because he keeps hinting that he doesn’t fully see her as her.
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importance on that leaf and all the days lived and never lived (because she loved her mom and as we find out later in that season she is estranged slightly from her father and stepmother), we also hear her declare to the Doctor she refuses to travel with him if all he sees is a ghost.
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Because this is a sci-fi show and the mystery is the hook, we see what the Doctor sees. But idk we see her as a person pretty early in Rings of Akhaten, where we see her parents backstory and then hers losing her mother, we know she works with the Maitlands and we know that she places a lot of -
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That’s why after she does that we mainly focus on her, because we see behind the curtain and all it was to be seen was Clara. So now, going forward, the Doctor sees her clearly and we can just have Clara.
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Which was the point, the Doctor in his grief was forcing her into a mystery box because he missed the Ponds when in reality she is her own person and that’s why she does what she does. Not because she’s a mystery, because she’s Clara Oswald and that’s all she needed to be.
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going to help the Maitlands, or her iffy relationship with her dad and stepmother. Also this is less that those girls are less developed and more that Moffat and RTD have different priorities in storytelling. I don’t think either is inherently superior.
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I mean I don’t think so. There’s Bill and her life with her iffy, homophobic foster mom, she has friends we see in the episode, we know she wants to strive and attend school. Amy can still have insular stories before the Doctor about her mental health and Clara can be about losing her mom, or -
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the active choice to save him but she has an established story and people she interacts with, and a job with the Maitlands for a while and Coal Hill School. She saves the Doctor because he is her friend and because he helped her go past Page One in her 101 Places to See book.
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so I struggle to see why it’s a bad thing she doesn’t have much of a connection to home? Like that’s part of her very defined character. Also Clara is normal and has normal connections to people back home, she travels on a schedule at first. Her timeline is entwined with the Doctor because she made-
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Amy is an outsider and that’s part of her character - that she is the Scottish girl in the English village, that she was in trouble the most out of all the other children and was shuttled around to therapists, living in an emotionally neglectful household and it affected her deeply -
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So Amy, who was in a marriage already, knew she might fall pregnant and was okay with it - only nervous because of the effects of time travel on the baby - is not the same thing as Belinda. She was kidnapped but nothing about the kid itself was forced on her.
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Spaghetti plots I won’t fight you on even though I disagree, because what makes sense for someone isn’t always going to make sense or play well to someone else, but Moffat women aren’t as thin as I think people think they are.
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For the record I don’t want him back because I think we need a refresh to the series that isn’t attached to someone from the Wilderness Years, but if someone had to come back as an advisory role for someone new (because people seem reluctant to take over the position) Moffat is the best for my money
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way as her and only Martha has that sort of relatability but that’s because she’s black as am I.
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See again, this is false to me. Amy Pond (and Clara Oswald and to a lesser extent Bill Potts - but lesser cause she’s a 1 series companion, not 2) have a lot of character. For my money, Amy is the most relatable character in the series to my experience. I never related to Rose or Donna the same -
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they’d turn out. She was not opposed in Series Six to having children, she just thought they’d have a time head.
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That’s not true imo. I could, for example, name thirty things off the top of my head about Amy Pond - since she’s the pregnancy storyline - that have nothing to do with the Doctor or even Rory. And, I’d point out, Amy was married and never expressed disinterest in having kids, only worry about how-
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Like he’s actively the only one who was just a 1:1 match for his irl skintone unlike the other cats who had distinctly cat like coat colors and that was an active conscious choice and I think about it once a week.
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I more mean why they chose to make his coat color his real life skintone so he just looked buck ass nekkid like why did they not just make him ginger what for the song even still says in the movie
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This is me but with Idris Elba cat from Cats 2019
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*mythos idk why it corrected to method
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I guess my question is what doesn’t make sense about it and what wasn’t compelling about it? Cause for me a very compelling aspect was seeing the Doctor face the hubris of six series’ of him gradually growing further enamored by his own method and realizing he hurt his companions in the process.
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Are you looking for a genuine answer cause I do have one. Series 6 isn’t quite as tightly across the board quality as most of Series 5 but I still think it’s quite good and for my money Amy’s story, while flawed by his own admission, is a much better execution of a motherhood plot than Belinda.
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all that against it, and doubly so not really as much as RTD because Moffat was the one who canonized inter-gender regenerations, not him. It’s less that I give a shit if you think he’s good and more that I’m correcting a wrong assumption. You can still think he’s a dick but he wanted a female Doc.
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Yeah because she was dismissive and a bit reductive about the companions and saying ‘I’m so sick of that man with his girl sidekick.’ so rather than be against the idea, he was simply taking a lighthearted jab at that - he also then made several attempts at setting up a female Doctor so he was never
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I have reached nerd rage the likes of which can be seen from space homie it’s so bad and it’s making me really mad about people going “Moffat’s garbage I expected this from HIM but RTD??” Like WHY HE NEVER EVER DID ANYTHING LIKE THIS
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This is untrue and they are friends. Moffat has said multiple times he’s all for it. In fact RTD was more negative for it at first. Moffat put in so much subtext to set up for Whittaker Doctor to try and get people to come around on it.
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I wanna do a line of Moffat writing real fierce about to put on some Press Gang on my laptop and Doctor Who on my phone just to feel something again
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Moffat put something different in his era and it has yet to be matched.
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I don’t want Moffat to have to be Showrunner again but I would love for him to be the training wheels for some new (diverse) talents while they get their feet wet and then set them off on a new era.