Agatha All Along I Follow Me My Friend, To Glory at the End
“You want a straight answer, ask a straight lady”
“Teenager!” “Damn, using his full name.”
“I’m the queerent” “haha. 😐”
“What can i say, i like bad boys”
AND its devastating? Time in a Bottle?? Quicksilver’s song??? Ive been murdered from how good this episode was
Agatha All Along + Tarot cards
how january has felt so far
SO IN SERIES 10, MISSY SAID THAT SHE USED TO BURN WHOLE CITIES TO THE GROUND JUST TO SEE THE PRETTY SHAPES THAT THE SMOKE MADE AND SHE WAS CRYING, THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE SHE KILLED.
IF DHAWAN!MASTER IS BEFORE HER, THEN SHE'S TALKING ABOUT GALLIFREY. IT WOULD ALSO MAKE SENSE AS TO WHY SHE WAS ON TRIAL. HOLY SHIT
i love the way the way the locked tomb does gender. like gideon is butch, undeniably, but also can you really be gender non conforming when there’s no real image of gender to conform to in the first place? palamedes and pyrrah aren’t NOT trans in nona; their souls are trapped in different bodies, and those bodies ARE the wrong gender but also that’s literally the least of their problems. ianthe is pretty firmly in the box we would label “femme” and she’s simultaneously the princess of ida and a tower prince. but that’s also the least of her problems she’s literally puppetting a dead body around. nona experiences dysphoria about her body (harrow’s body and the barbie body) but that’s because she’s literally the soul of a planet trapped in a meat prison. any shaped meat prison would be bad.
like i wouldn’t call the locked tomb a “post gender” world, but they seem to all basically have the attitude of “i don’t have time for gender right now we’re trapped at the murder mystery dinner party from hell and someone stole god’s sperm we have bigger problems”
This is the best idea in the history of film.
This is the best idea in the history of film.
Agatha All Along + text posts pt 5/?
So now we've seen the finale, now we've seen how Rio chose to present to first Agatha before everything went wrong (coming for Nicky at his birth), and then to Nicky, while Agatha was sleeping - that gorgeous green dress, holding the green flame aloft. It's very different from the way she showed herself to Lilia.
It's also wildly different than how she chooses to appear to Agatha in the end. Rio's wild with grief. She's been pining for centuries. Agatha has just given her the most final, definitive, insulting no she could muster. There is no future here. There is no past to hold on to. There is only Agatha telling her she doesn't want her. That even in the end, she doesn't want the comfort of passing into a lover's embrace - she wants Rio masked. She wants Rio, essentially, to roleplay anonymity, strangeness, distance.
Now. Given what actually happens - and their moments of tenderness and Agatha's part in them throughout the rest of the show - I don't think we can take Agatha at face value here. But it is the first time Rio's heard Agatha's "no" when it comes to their relationship's viability.... and believed it.
To Agatha, in the moment immediately before everything went wrong, Death appeared as a beautiful woman, bedecked in green, expensive, well-made clothes. She appears the same way to Nicky. She's familiar, she's non-threatening. She tells him to come with her and he goes. She tells him no, kiss your mother, and he does. She extends her hand to him, and he takes it, and they walk together through the darkness. He knows her.
I wonder if she could ever be that version of herself again - or if it went with Nicky. I think there's a subtextual reading of what's going on in Agatha/Rio's relationship where Rio's grieving, too, but Agatha will never be able to see it, for so many reasons - where Rio's angry because she knows she'll never stop being invisible in this way. Where all she wants is for Agatha to see her.
Yessss girl go get your wife back