A Very Thorough Explanation, Courtesy Of The Boys Of Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode MTV USA - Sept. 7th,

Happy birthday, David “Dave” Gahan (born May 9, 1962) Dave at the final moments of Depeche Mode’s video to I Feel You (1993)

Black and blue 'Black Celebration' headers for @depecheho ♡

*hope you don't mind I only used shots from 'Stripped' :)

Richey Edwards for Select magazine, 1994 (source)

transcript under the cut:

What do you think of the feminist arguments about pornography? Richey: "You can understand both sides. Catherine McKinnon said that anybody who looks at say page 3 of 'The Sun', is as guilty as a man who commits a very violent crime against a woman. Well, obviously that's not true, but I understand why there needs to be that strain of thought, why she and Andrea Dworkin are very necessary. On the other extreme, Feminists Against Censorship say that the question of banning page 3 is not worth debating in the Houses of Parliament. People walk past a single mother with three children struggling to get on a public transport system which is falling apart and that's the norm, that's accepted. Feminists Against Censorship are saying that's the important stuff to remedy, rather than page 3." They also say that there's no point in changing page 3, you have to change the whole of 'The Sun'. Richey: "It's that thing of, Does image shape reality and women's condition? Or is it the other way around? It's a hard question. It's the most confusing thing about Andrea Dworkin. I've never been able to work it out and I've thought about her a lot. I've got absolutely no idea what is the right answer." Aren't image and reality intertwined? Richey: "Yes, I think they are really. But with this sort of topic people want you to be black and white. People's reactions to Andrea Dworkin are interesting. If you put her book 'Mercy' in reference to Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho'- the plots are very similar, except they're from two different perspectives, but the violence is the same. And yet 'American Psycho' is completely reviled in literary circles. I like Bret Easton Ellis and I like Andrea Dworkin."

Here’s the full version of Dr. Goodfriend’s explanation of why Rose Tyler is the most important companion to the Doctor and why he’s in love with her. You’ll have to open the images to read the full text.

This is part of a book called Doctor Who Psychology and this particular chapter is by Dr. Wind Goodfriend who is a social psychologist and university lecturer who has written multiple textbooks of her own, including one on intimate relationships. Needless to say, if anyone knows who the most impactful companion the Doctor ever had was, it would be her. There’s also other aspects of the Doctor’s attraction to Rose explained in this chapter, but I felt this was the most important.

“No, you can tell, you see, because it’s his eyebrows. When he’s really excited his left eyebrow goes like this (tweaks his left eyebrow). Have you noticed that? And when he’s depressed his right one goes like that (tweaks his right eyebrow) ha ha!”

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Dave Gahan about Alan Wilder

Smash Hits, 6th-19th May 1987

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Yeah, I know what he means. I can see it :D

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timepetals + bad wolf / religion

donna tartt (the secret history), hozier (take me to church), euripides [transl. anne carson] (hippolytos, grief lessons: four plays), hozier (take me to church), hozier (sunlight), percy shelley (ozymandias), clementine von radics (in a dream you saw a way to survive; "angie"), ovid (metamorphoses), kate cayley (lent)

oddly specific

decided to watch good omens, proceeded to get obssesed with david tennant. decided to watch doctor who (bcs of him), proceeded to get obssesed with doctor who. thats my life now. a 16 yr old obsessed with david tennant and episodes of doctor who that are older than me.

Doctor Doctor 😊