cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
hi, i love dynamics that r like “we make each other worse” on the surface but when u look deeper it is actually just “we understand each other on a level that no one else does and nudge each other out of our typical comfort zone” which just circles around to “we make each other better”. it’s abt the accidental growth just by being in each other’s lives. idk
oh you watched a movie I recommended????? you listened to a song I told you about ?????? you read one of my favourite books ?????? do you know that I would literally kill for you ????? let’s drink each others blood
I love the spectrum and diversity of queer experiences shown by New Who’s three (canonically) queer companions, some of which is very grounded and some of which leans into the possibilities of the sci-fi genre.
Yaz is seemingly realizing her queerness at 25(?), and is maybe struggling with it. We know that she experienced severe bullying in school and struggled with mental health and identity issues because of it. It’s possible that this was related in part to her queerness, even if she wasn’t open about that to her self.
Bill isn’t out to her (probably homophobic, at least very heteronormative) foster mother, but she seems totally happy being out to everyone else. She mentions liking girls at least once an episode and hops about the universe being her gay self. She does face some homophobia, but also she becomes a transcendent space lesbian, so yay.
Jack seems to be living the sci-fi dream of a post-homophobia future where his omnisexuality is par for the course and a non-issue (as far as I know. I haven’t seen Torchwood; maybe it’s explored more).
These three also have different backgrounds and identities that intersect with their queer identities and will of course influence their experiences as well.
I love that Doctor Who provides the space and worlds possible to explore these queer narratives, providing something to relate to for many different queer people.
