Moar Adoribull, Doctor Who S9 continued
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More Dragon Age fanfic! Most notably an assortment of Dorian/Bull by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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There are no Electric Sheep under the Qun, an AU with high tech as well as magic, in which the Iron Bull is a refurbished military android.
What Cannot Be Cut Away, which explores why Tal-Vashoth are said to go mad. (Content note: quite a bit of suicidal thinking.)
And perhaps most gloriously, Mistakes Were Made, which is a modern AU fake dating fic... where the Iron Bull is fake dating Rilienus, to help him get over his best friend slash terrible ex. This is a wonderful twist on the fake dating premise, and I'd love to see more of it! Plus, the dialogue is just consistently hilarious. And I love all of Bull's cats.
WATCHED
The Good Place 4x04, "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy". I continue to love this show just so much. And -- spoilers! -- I'm absolutely content with having been wrong last week, since it gave me Michael explaining sadly that if his friends saw him as a gigantic fire squid with "so much juice", they'd never be able to unsee it. I hope someday you give Jason his wish, Michael! Giant fire squids deserve love, too!
Doctor Who through 9x11, "Heaven Sent" -- season spoilers ahead!
It was so strange to watch "Face the Raven" completely unspoiled. I didn't know that Clara was going to die, and I still don't know how fans reacted at the time.
I'm surprised by how well I liked her exit. Earlier, when she was convincing Rigsy (who is an absolute sweetheart I was thrilled to see again) to let her take the mark, I was thinking that I really liked this development for her, this slight recklessness with her own life combined with the deep concern for the lives of others. I feel like that isn't a response to grief that female characters are often allowed to have, and I really liked seeing it.
I should really find some other responses to this episode, to see how much of an outlier I am, or if there are things I haven't considered. But I felt like they gave her a good death. She didn't want to die -- she was clearly afraid to. But she had courage, and she damn well refused to let her death belong to anyone but herself. It felt to me like an affirmation both of the importance of the lives of black men (however belatedly), and of her right to her own story.
And I appreciated that they didn't make us listen to her scream.
As for "Heaven Sent", I was all set to find it very tedious, with the Doctor immediately going back on his promise not to seek revenge while gnawing on the scenery and generally behaving in ways I do not enjoy in fictional grieving men. But I do like a good building that rearranges itself, and I appreciated that they made him dig a grave -- and then, when he started punching the wall?
That was amazing. That was exactly my aesthetic. I saw a quote from a review calling it a bit inaccessible though brilliant, but that is exactly my flavor of idcandy. The Doctor living and dying for a billion years, slowly carving his way through a wall harder than diamond -- that's an image I'm not going to forget anytime soon.
More Dragon Age fanfic! Most notably an assortment of Dorian/Bull by
There are no Electric Sheep under the Qun, an AU with high tech as well as magic, in which the Iron Bull is a refurbished military android.
What Cannot Be Cut Away, which explores why Tal-Vashoth are said to go mad. (Content note: quite a bit of suicidal thinking.)
And perhaps most gloriously, Mistakes Were Made, which is a modern AU fake dating fic... where the Iron Bull is fake dating Rilienus, to help him get over his best friend slash terrible ex. This is a wonderful twist on the fake dating premise, and I'd love to see more of it! Plus, the dialogue is just consistently hilarious. And I love all of Bull's cats.
WATCHED
The Good Place 4x04, "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy". I continue to love this show just so much. And -- spoilers! -- I'm absolutely content with having been wrong last week, since it gave me Michael explaining sadly that if his friends saw him as a gigantic fire squid with "so much juice", they'd never be able to unsee it. I hope someday you give Jason his wish, Michael! Giant fire squids deserve love, too!
Doctor Who through 9x11, "Heaven Sent" -- season spoilers ahead!
It was so strange to watch "Face the Raven" completely unspoiled. I didn't know that Clara was going to die, and I still don't know how fans reacted at the time.
I'm surprised by how well I liked her exit. Earlier, when she was convincing Rigsy (who is an absolute sweetheart I was thrilled to see again) to let her take the mark, I was thinking that I really liked this development for her, this slight recklessness with her own life combined with the deep concern for the lives of others. I feel like that isn't a response to grief that female characters are often allowed to have, and I really liked seeing it.
I should really find some other responses to this episode, to see how much of an outlier I am, or if there are things I haven't considered. But I felt like they gave her a good death. She didn't want to die -- she was clearly afraid to. But she had courage, and she damn well refused to let her death belong to anyone but herself. It felt to me like an affirmation both of the importance of the lives of black men (however belatedly), and of her right to her own story.
And I appreciated that they didn't make us listen to her scream.
As for "Heaven Sent", I was all set to find it very tedious, with the Doctor immediately going back on his promise not to seek revenge while gnawing on the scenery and generally behaving in ways I do not enjoy in fictional grieving men. But I do like a good building that rearranges itself, and I appreciated that they made him dig a grave -- and then, when he started punching the wall?
That was amazing. That was exactly my aesthetic. I saw a quote from a review calling it a bit inaccessible though brilliant, but that is exactly my flavor of idcandy. The Doctor living and dying for a billion years, slowly carving his way through a wall harder than diamond -- that's an image I'm not going to forget anytime soon.
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Date: 2019-10-26 02:18 pm (UTC)I also really love that twist on fake dating. And in general I want more just-sideways-of-the-trope fic.
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Date: 2019-10-27 03:34 am (UTC)