Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doctor-who-era-ot-its-almost-time-but-not-yet.765/page-210#post-155616835

I've retired from Resetera but I felt the need to pop up in this thread for a couple of reasons, and I'll tackle this one first.

I think that, while it was pretty obvious the fact that we don't know the future beyond the Christmas special made it pretty obvious that it was being thrown out there to tamp down the rampant negative speculation around what is supposed to be a valuable brand, the idea that they'd rope in RTD's involvement without his foreknowledge is mental beyond belief. For one thing, the BBC isn't going to put out a press release that leaves them open to a fucking law suit for interfering with Russell's schedule without his consent which, let's be clear, announcing him being tied to one more year on Doctor Who was bound to do. For another, I don't see someone with the lingering animosity towards the BBC, like RTD does, just playing along with such a move for the sake of public appearances. If the BBC announced a Christmas special written by him, without discussing it with him, he'd have came down on them harder than a sack of bricks because, again, they'd be getting in the way of potential contracts and work schedules he could be cracking on with that he wanted to do but wasn't offered, or withdrawn, because the BBC unilaterally declared him busy.

What we do know is that Russell at the end of last year said he hadn't even began writing the scripts yet, while also starting to distance his personal legacy from Doctor Who, with him saying that Doctor Who isn't going to feature in his obituary when he passes away. Which is a ridiculous statement on every level, not to mention a drastic change in tone from just a year before. To me, he seemed already checked out and if he really isn't filming anything this year, he's delivered his scripts to let the BBC do with them as they please and washed his hands of involvement going forward.

Which brings me to point 2, and to return to a drum I've beaten very loudly through a news item that seems to have slipped under the radar here; With Russell revealing to The Guardian that Tip Toe features a character named Stephanie, a gender critical friend of Alan Cumming's protagonist and inspired by his own gender critical friends who are "only toxic in the online space," I reiterate that Russell is an increasingly out of touch writer who harms his own progressive ideals, either through his clumsy writing or opening his trap. Doctor Who is better off if he has thrown up his hands and walked away, even with all the loose strands left by his 5 season plan, the Whoniverse project collapsing in on itself and the eleventh hour gambit he threw together by photoshopping Billie Piper's head onto Ncuti Gatwa's shoulders.

And I say this because the fact that RTD can write a drama about the increasingly hostile environment queer people face and then, in a post-supreme court ruling world that segregated trans people from society, claim that gender criticals are lovely people just expressing concerns and can be reasoned with through a lovely in real life chat should serve to underline that he totally misses the point of his own prestige drama, and that he has a pretty flimsy grasp of themes when they don't directly relate to his own personal life experience. Something that I've been putting on blast from the day he said he made the creative decision to have the 13th Doctor's clothes regenerate to protect unready audiences from the sight of The Doctor wearing drag, in probably the one fictional setting in British media most primed to confront audiences with gender non-conforming visuals and storytelling.

And while I'm sure those who still go to bat for RTD will go "well it's not going to be any more trans friendly without him," I should be clear that I don't expect a trans friendly, or even compassionate Doctor Who moving forward under the current BBC. If there is a Doctor Who moving forward, considering the compassionate elements of the show are pretty baked in. But I also firmly believe that his inability to engage with themes beyond a very surface level, meant to cook up rage bait headlines in the tabloid presses more than they were to engage with audiences, is precisely why this era of Doctor Who didn't connect with progressive audiences or marginalised communities it was trying to court.

Russell T Davies is not the daring writer or compelling storyteller people had him pegged as, and it's very evidently all collapsed as a result.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doctor-who-era-ot-its-almost-time-but-not-yet.765/page-210#post-155617669

Im doing amazingly, thank you! ❤️ I just got home from a week-long trip.

I made the decision to mostly retire for constructive reasons with regards to my career choices in helping others recover from addiction. It's all positive stuff.

I felt driven to pop back from a month of hiding away from era because, quite simply, reading the latest developments surrounding Who has been pretty frustrating. Particularly the tangentially connected, yet none-the-less infuriating comments by RTD about having Gender Critical friends, comments which are entirely disconnected from a reality where I started my week trip being transphobically harassed in the streets of London.

TheGummyBear
May 5, 2026

As a result, it's also because of this that I am making the decision to retire from Resetera. While I won't be asking for an account ban (Unless I have zero self control, in which case I will ask for a more strict enforcement by the admins.) as I'd like to keep access to positive memories I have made here, I also must stress this isn't a temporary vacation. This is me saying farewell, as I take this step into the next chapter of my life.

May 12, 2026

My retirement from Era is still in effect. This isn't a return.

But given I spent months predicting this exact outcome, when I saw the news of Jess Philips' resignation, I had to allow myself the grace to log back in just to say:

    Post-Retired from Era Gummy said:
    lol

Yesterday at 2:04 PM

I've retired from Resetera but I felt the need to pop up in this thread for a couple of reasons, and I'll tackle this one first.

That bitch didn't even last a week before he had to un-retire. 

[Shecky Fragbaum]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rockstar-north-devs-have-unionized.1533001/#post-155543194

 Troll account

Great, now GTA 6 will take even longer.

SmallSac
Great, now GTA 6 will take even longer.

I hope your union helps you when your boss inevitably fucks you over.

But also GTFO.

(Also also you are ignored)

Yo gang, did you SEE that? My guy just got the FUCK ignored out of him!  Holy shit.

[kaleidoscopium]

If you go to the politics “sub forum” 20! Of the posts are from everyone’s favorite copypasta SilentPanda  

https://www.resetera.com/forums/politics.48/

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-reborn-as-a-duel-spirt-duel-monster-yu-gi-oh.1534453/#post-155622976
(yes, its a echos thread. shocking)

Words don't have meanings on Reeeee

I'm a huge fucking lesbian so there's a very likely chance I'd end up as one of the most lesbian-coded monsters in the entire damn game.

Gender
Non-Binary
So I don't think you can call yourself "a huge fucking lesbian" if you're still clinging onto the NB label.

unless hes referring to his BMI. That part I could agree with.

[HaughtyFrank]

How am I supposed to take nonbinary people seriously if even they don't take it seriously?

[davepoobond]

God can’t be non binary cause he doesn’t exist

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/devastating-news.1534606/

Boys club rhetoric

[kaleidoscopium]

glad others are stepping up to fill fagathas void in making retarded weekend threads, thank you era posters for the effort.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-seen-something-you-would-deem-supernatural-or-impossible-to-explain.1534636/#post-155646856

I got shushed by a ghost once. Does that count?

Even the dead can’t stand this fool

[Daffy Duck]

Weirdos

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-seen-something-you-would-deem-supernatural-or-impossible-to-explain.1534636/#post-155646856

I got shushed by a ghost once. Does that count?

Even the dead can’t stand this fool

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hype-check-which-announced-xbox-game-studios-game-has-you-most-excited-pre-show-2026.1534681/#post-155646949

Honestly, at this point, nothing. Gun to my head I'd say Clockwork Revolution but I feel like that game was announced such a long time ago I barely care anymore.

Gun to his head? That escalated quickly. You just know he was considering telling the Final Destination icicle windshield story again.

[Alpacx]

Factually incorrect

Disney about to drop another stinker with starfighter

Unlikely. Levy is good at crowd-pleasing action-comedies and Gosling in Star Wars will be a big draw, unlike a movie based on a TV show that likely came a couple years too late.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wkd-box-office-%E2%80%A2-05-29-31-26-%E2%80%A2-may31_26_profits-tar.1534633/page-3#post-155648812

 wlw.Sweeney uWu

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[Jansen]

I just want to take a moment and share that multiple people have walked up to my partner and I to comment that she is Hathaway's doppelganger.



Life is good.

[Nintex]

Mine is 34, 4"11 and 99 lbs. Anne is too fat, tall and old. 

[killamajig]

Factually incorrect

Disney about to drop another stinker with starfighter

Unlikely. Levy is good at crowd-pleasing action-comedies and Gosling in Star Wars will be a big draw, unlike a movie based on a TV show that likely came a couple years too late.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wkd-box-office-%E2%80%A2-05-29-31-26-%E2%80%A2-may31_26_profits-tar.1534633/page-3#post-155648812

 wlw.Sweeney uWu

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Extremely likely with a hack like levy in charge actually.

It's like you didn't even read what you quoted.

Your personal opinion on him isn't relevant. He has a proven track record of successful audience-pleasing films, on top of the draw of Gosling.

Remember if ZeroVag says it it's not an opinion

[BIONIC]

Mine is 34, 4"11 and 99 lbs. Anne is too fat, tall and old. 

“Mine” bitch it was one date

[Potato]

glad others are stepping up to fill fagathas void in making retarded weekend threads, thank you era posters for the effort.

Isn't it great how everyone on Resetera is still in their morning period over fat4fuckall's sacrificial suicide? People literally walking in the streets wishing he'd come back to them. 

Actually, no one even fucking noticed after a week.

[Potato]

Factually incorrect

Unlikely. Levy is good at crowd-pleasing action-comedies and Gosling in Star Wars will be a big draw, unlike a movie based on a TV show that likely came a couple years too late.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wkd-box-office-%E2%80%A2-05-29-31-26-%E2%80%A2-may31_26_profits-tar.1534633/page-3#post-155648812

 wlw.Sweeney uWu

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Extremely likely with a hack like levy in charge actually.

It's like you didn't even read what you quoted.

Your personal opinion on him isn't relevant. He has a proven track record of successful audience-pleasing films, on top of the draw of Gosling.

Remember if ZeroVag says it it's not an opinion

Levy has a decent track record over a long period. I'd say this is one of those times for Zeo where the stopped clock is right.

[Lonewulfeus]

Mine is 34, 4"11 and 99 lbs. Anne is too fat, tall and old. 

Very pertinent emote for that post

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-reborn-as-a-duel-spirt-duel-monster-yu-gi-oh.1534453/#post-155622976

I'm a huge fucking lesbian so there's a very likely chance I'd end up as one of the most lesbian-coded monsters in the entire damn game.

[benji]

"You've be reborn as a character from a monster card game! WHAT HAPPENS"
"I love having sex with women so I'd probably be one of the monsters I imagine most having sex with women.  "

[JoeBoy101]

glad others are stepping up to fill fagathas void in making retarded weekend threads, thank you era posters for the effort.

Isn't it great how everyone on Resetera is still in their morning period over fat4fuckall's sacrificial suicide? People literally walking in the streets wishing he'd come back to them. 

Actually, no one even fucking noticed after a week.

Still yet to have their account deleted, despite having it flagged as requested deletion for a while now.

Dubs seems to be waiting for that spineless creep to come crawling back. 

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He will. Of course, he will.

[simiansmarts]

They talk about being lesbians like a redditors talks about being a Star Wars fan.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/home-office-revokes-hasan-piker-and-cenk-uygurs-visas-ahead-of-sxsw-london-appearance.1534858/

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/home-office-revokes-hasan-piker-and-cenk-uygurs-visas-ahead-of-sxsw-london-appearance.1534858/

The streamer has been criticised for comments he made on an episode of Pod Save America, where Piker said he would "vote for Hamas over Israel every single time". In the UK, Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation and showing support for it is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Wow, can't even say you'd vote for Hamas, this is bullshit.




(And then watch RE cry for more anti-free speech laws in the next thread over)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-us-influencer-candace-owens-is-barred-from-new-zealand-weeks-after-a-ban-from-australia.1048284/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/kanye-west-blocked-from-travelling-to-uk-government-says-up-festival-cancelled.1484206/

I'm sure there's more. First one is fun:

Good. Keep that trash out.

i wish barring these mfs from places was more common tbh

CoNsErVaTiVe VoIcEs ArE bEiNg SiLeNcEd!¡!

"Denying the Holocaust is a political position!!! You're allowed to say anything when it's politics!!!"

She has always been insanely antisemetic but because she used to defend Israel she was still aloud to operate in the culture war circles, even after doing things like defending Hitler quotes on the basis of nationalism

I dont keep up with Klandace, I know she was fired from Daily Wire but I cant remember why... I just know at some point she was beefing with Ben Shapiro by using bible verses and implying he was money hungry while jewish.

What changed. Why is the world finally turning on her now. Shes been saying wild hateful stuff for as long as Ive known of her.

[Uncle]

Factually incorrect

Disney about to drop another stinker with starfighter

Unlikely. Levy is good at crowd-pleasing action-comedies and Gosling in Star Wars will be a big draw, unlike a movie based on a TV show that likely came a couple years too late.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wkd-box-office-%E2%80%A2-05-29-31-26-%E2%80%A2-may31_26_profits-tar.1534633/page-3#post-155648812

"factually unlikely, because 'another' stinker implies they ever had a stinker to begin with"

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/home-office-revokes-hasan-piker-and-cenk-uygurs-visas-ahead-of-sxsw-london-appearance.1534858/

The streamer has been criticised for comments he made on an episode of Pod Save America, where Piker said he would "vote for Hamas over Israel every single time". In the UK, Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation and showing support for it is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Wow, can't even say you'd vote for Hamas, this is bullshit.




(And then watch RE cry for more anti-free speech laws in the next thread over)

Heckled while streaming about shocking his dog, UK visa revoked. Do these things come in threes?

Great weekend for Hasan.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-reborn-as-a-duel-spirt-duel-monster-yu-gi-oh.1534453/#post-155622976

I'm a huge fucking lesbian so there's a very likely chance I'd end up as one of the most lesbian-coded monsters in the entire damn game.

It kind of is… if you consider the background and lore materials… the stuff that YuGiOh relegates to art speculation and occasional you tube video. Shit that didn’t matter until the animu series become less and less popular.   

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is a monster princess that puts traps to capture a female knight that is invading her castle.

[Straight Edge]

Your opponent cannot activate monster effects in response to the activation of your Normal Trap Cards. You can only use each of the following effects of "Lovely Labrynth of the Silver Castle" once per turn. You can target 1 Normal Trap in your GY; Set it to your field, but it cannot be activated unless you control a Fiend monster. If another monster(s) leaves the field by your Normal Trap effect (except during the Damage Step): You can destroy 1 card in your opponent's hand (at random) or their field.

trans coded