So I Think I Figured Out What Fifteen's Problem Is. Not As A Flaw In The Writing, Mind. A Flaw In The

So I think I figured out what Fifteen's problem is. Not as a flaw in the writing, mind. A flaw in the character.

Every New Who Doctor has been a reaction to the trauma of the Time War.

Nine raged

Ten ran

Eleven repressed

Twelve wallowed

Thirteen regressed

Fourteen finally admitted he had a problem and sought help.

And Fifteen, I'm certain now, relapses.

Fifteen started out doing great. All his trauma processed. Ready to face the world. And maybe at first it worked (though sadly we didn't get to see his many offscreen adventures with Ruby). But like... you don't stay better. You have to work at it. And he's very much not doing that.

There's a brittleness to his good cheer. Be it the gods of chaos, the loss of a lover, or his first real confrontation with racism, he doesn't deal with adversity very well. He breaks down, he hides, he acts like everything's fine. It's not fine though. He's not okay. He might've dealt with his problems, but he didn't equip himself with the tools needed to deal with new problems.

He's gonna crack eventually. We can already see it happening.

one of the most important lesson I teach to all the kids I tutor is to work out *why* they got a question wrong, because the reason means how we deal with it is completely different.

got it wrong because you didn't know how to do it? cool, let me teach you this method!

got it wrong because you didn't understand what the question was asking? cool, let's go through how to read exam questions and figure out exactly what they want.

got it wrong because you didn't check for arithmetic errors, or you didn't catch them? cool, let's go through how to check your work correctly.

and it really annoys them sometimes, because they want to just move on, but when they start doing this our seasons move so much faster, because if they got something wrong they can tell me why and we can fix it rather than me trying to figure it out. yeah, it takes a while, but asking why mistakes are made is really important!

one of the most annoying things about corporate culture is that everything needs a "solution". if one person makes the smallest mistake we gather like 12 people in a room and talk about our "plan to make sure this doesn't happen again". a plan?? someone set a support ticket status wrong and we need a plan? ok here is my plan, we remind them what the correct status is and we immediately move on. but no we have to be """solutions-focused""". ridiculous. its for managers who have nothing to do all day and need to justify their 200k a year salary. how about you FOCUS on leaving my team alone buddy.

i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me

dude the art is gorgeous!!!!! congrats

also I feel we as a fandom do periodically need to remember that Gabriel is one of us in spirit (I was going to say even if he's not here but we have no proof of that).

Brb screaming

look Kristen mostly tamped down the chaos this season, but she is also exactly the type of person to go running back to her ex on almost no information

it was nevertheless a dick move towards Gertie who did nothing wrong, and I'm very down for Gertie to get some sort of revenge (of the catty high school variety)

i’m on team gertie. how DARE kristen ditch her for her weird ex after making out with her and making it seem like they were gonna have a thing. get her ass gertie!

thank you for the tag 😊

favourite colour: either moss green or the shade of navy that the sky turns just when the sun sets

last song - close to you, Gracie Abrams

currently reading - the way of kings, Brandon Sanderson

currently watching - the bad batch, and everything dropout releases

currently craving - patatas bravas as I'm getting tapas tonight before I move back to London!

tea or coffee - tea all the way (living in Spain has not helped this, they cannot make tea here. By which I mean they tried to put black tea into steamed milk)

and a bonus cat photo because who doesn't want cat photos:

get to know me!

rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to get know better and/or catch up with!

Thanks bunk mate for the tag @burntheedges 😘

favorite color - purple 🪻

last song - Good Kisser by Lake Street Dive

currently reading - The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi

currently watching - Rewatching Narcos for the ???? time

currently craving - Lemon anything

coffee or tea - Tea all the way, just got served an incredible cup of karak this afternoon

I will also tag the rest of our bunk mates @joelmillerisapunk @sixhours @ace-turned-confused @oonajaeadira

And some other folks who may or may not have already done this @treadlightlymydarlinggirl @ayeleye @mildredellie @22thumbs @elpickett