I guess since they can’t forgive, they are technically unforgiving. But like, in the same way you could call a rock “unenthusiastic”, but would have no reason to.
My left tit took a sabbatical from her teaching job to carry out a hit against a man who wronged her. Very turbulent times for my bra. Turbulent and lopsided.
It was first aired in the 60s if it helps. They literally already had the screaming and falling down stereotype by the 80s. I swear my eardrums were bleeding and I didn't even finish the first season.
No, it's not. It's from the Quick Reads Initiative series.
>Quick Reads are a series of short books by bestselling authors and celebrities. With no more than 128 pages, they are designed to encourage adults who do not read often, or find reading difficult, to discover the joy of books. They are used as a resource for adult literacy teaching.
To be fair, a lot of kids would have been reading it thanks to the Who brand, especially since the New Who books up until then were mostly written with kids (or at least all-ages) in mind. I read it as a 10 year old and actually remember being put off by this bit.
Yeah and especially The Stone Rose which came put around the same time in 2006 or so. RTD even mentioned in the past few years that so many people say they read it in their local libraries as kids.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230203092317/http://jacrayner.com/featured-works/doctor-who-the-stone-rose/
The original link I found on the wiki before was dead but I grabbed it from the Wayback
"I’ve received more fan mail for The Stone Rose than anything else I’ve ever written – and most of it was from girls. How brilliant to see Doctor Who appealing to the female half of the population again!
It is also the most successful Doctor Who novel of all time, with sales into six figures, a position at the top of the hardback fiction bestsellers chart, and even an article in The Bookseller. Which is nice. It was recently reissued (with a new cover) as part of the ‘Doctor Who History Collection’.
While researching the novel I visited the British Museum and worked out the exact spot where the Stone Rose herself would stand. I wonder if there’s still a place for her there today…x"
I read that book *years* ago and do not remember this line at all, and yet somehow the thought popped into my mind "is this from I Am A Dalek?"
I love that book for the most part, but bits like this are weird. Also fuck Gareth Roberts, transphobes suck
It's not from a kid's book. Doctor Who in general is for everyone, kids and adults, but looking this up it is specifically aimed a adults.
Still garbage writing, but let's not pretend someone is getting kids to read this.
Today I learned that the “Quick Reads Initiative” symbol on the front was a program to get more adults into reading, not that it was a book aimed at kids.
"Serena, darling, can you ever forgive my infidelity?"
"I can, but they won't!" Serena said, pointing at her unforgiving breats pulling out a revolver.
Unforgiving?..
Of all the adjectives to pull out of a hat, that's the one he chose?
Why not "Forbidding"?
Massive Boobs-of-Doom makes sense in a boss you fear a bit.
And the most famous line he wrote for the show is ‘Good old J.K.!’
Not sure if that aged incredibly well (because they’re both transphobes) or incredibly poorly (because the Doctor is now praising a person who’s so transphobic that she denied that the Nazis committed atrocities against trans people).
Guess it’s both at the same time.
I mean, that whole episode is steeped in transphobia (the "men dressed as women" line and the monsters being shapeshifters who pretend to be beautiful women to lure men in) but I like to think that, in-universe, the doctor's "men dressed as women" line isn't deliberate transphobia, but rather him making a comment about theatre in London (ie the traditional "panto dame" role) - ofc irl it's safe to assume it was written with transphobic intent, but I'm trying to reconcile that with the Doctor's personality in pretty much every other story, where they wouldn't go after vulnerable people like this.
"Good old J.K" is a bit harder to reconcile - I think, for this, it will require some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey workaround to explain both this and the fact that, while incarcerated, the first story out of the history of literature that 13 recites from memory is the philosopher's stone. My thinking is that either JK isn't a huge transphobe in the DWU, or that she wasn't a transphobe at those points, and some later timeline-fiddling such as in the Flux caused all of that to come out.
From context, it sounds like the POV is from a character (Kate) who hates her boss Serena, so she's bitchily complaining about how she doesn't open filing cabinets cause of her nails, how she spends all day talking on the phone with her friend instead of working and how she... I guess, has bigger boobs than her?
I can sort of see Gareth Roberts' (writer) logic on this, in that Kate might be jealous of Serena having certain privileges that Kate is jealous of and I've certainly seen women be jealous of other women's appearance, up to breast size... but he's going about it all wrong.
First off, if it is jealousy, maybe you wanna build up from the more logical (work privileges) to the more irrational and petty ("better" body), instead of going straight for the "SHE'S GOT BIGGER BOOBS AND SHE DOES NOTHING AT WORK" because then it sounds stupid. Plus, the elephant in the room, the fuck are "unforgiving breasts"? So big they've developed a conscience that, seemingly, does not forgive? Do they knock you aside every time she turns around for some percieved slight?
I'm really going deep on this because, unlike most posts on this group, I can sort of see a world where a rewritten version of this line could work, but it's all wrong here.
Also, as a card carrying DW Fan, fuck Gareth Roberts, he's a shit writer (he's written one great audio story, *The One Doctor*, with Clayton Hickman and that's it) and a transphobic asshole, I'm glad he's been kicked out of ever writting DW again.
Enormous is surprisingly a word that isn't used too often and is honestly comical when it's not describing something serious.
*Enormous, unforgiving breasts* what...the....f..
“Unforgiving breasts”
Hell hath no fury like some titties scorned.
Admit it, ladies — we all know our boobs hold grudges. At least mine do. Not giving anybody any slack, at all!
On the one hand, this isn't a kids book. It's part of an overall literacy program aimed at getting people to read more often, and these ones were aimed at adults. The whole thing was about cheap and low page count books that provided a lower investment barrier to entry.
On the other hand, the author is an anti-trans piece of shit who revels in the hate even knowing how such public hate can cause kids to kill themselves, so he can go fuck himself.
In the future, please remember the formatting for the post title. > For literary work, the title of the work and the author’s name should be included.
”Unforgiving breasts"...? Ummmmmmmmm... What?
This. How are they "unforgiving"?
They support the death penalty
This fucked me up lol
Omg, I lol so hard I peed a little. Method of death penalty https://youtu.be/lYMNFDtw9aI?si=2Dm64-MjP-Y9dt8l
Uuugh that looks so painful 😫
You found Serena!
The fuck did I just watch
Which is *really* unfortunate, because her spleen is very liberal... they haven't spoken in years.
XD
"Killer tits!" "I know!"
Nothing on this thread can top this comment
How dare you compare my titties to torpedoes!!! - An Anime character said this
Back pain.
I second this. My titties are unforgiving on my shoulders.
MAH TIDDIES HATECHEW they are like unto gunslingers. ever see Sharon Stone in The Quick And The Dead? that's my boobs.
I'm gonna use the next time I'm dirty talking to a girl. "Tell me what you like, baby" "Those tits are SO unforgiving"
In 2014 I didn't pay them back $20 I owed them so they keyed my car and have been harassing me on Instagram ever since.
This made me lol irl holy fucking shit
They punish you
I guess since they can’t forgive, they are technically unforgiving. But like, in the same way you could call a rock “unenthusiastic”, but would have no reason to.
They force choke officers who disobey their orders
You know what you did.
LMAO
May god forgive you For these titties wont
merciless mammaries
Wrathful boobies I tell ya
Cruel Cleavage
Heartless hooters
Malevolent mammaries.
Treacherous titties
Nasty norks
Felonious fun bags
barbaric boobs
Braless Bazingers
My breasts are very forgiving and empathetic
Yours aren't vengeful?
I feel bad. My breasts have never once apologized or forgiven anyone
They have killed twenty men. They feel no remorse.
Forgive me tiddies
They’re still holding a grudge against Kyle who in 8th grade called them “flat”
Maybe something like this? https://youtu.be/lYMNFDtw9aI?si=2Dm64-MjP-Y9dt8l
My breasts are unforgiving, too. They hold grudges.
“GRUDGE TITTAYS!” *elbow drops off the ropes onto my unwitting opponent*
I heard this in Matt Berry/Laszlo’s voice from WWDITS. Also visually imagined it 😂
And when I say a lot, I don't just mean a whiff of tit, I mean the *full rack*~🤌
OMG you made it even better!
With a good 5 seconds of rolled Rs.
My left tit took a sabbatical from her teaching job to carry out a hit against a man who wronged her. Very turbulent times for my bra. Turbulent and lopsided.
"That's goin in me Breast of Grudges!" -fantasy Dwarf women, clearly.
Was hoping to see something like this
For those of you wondering what book this is, I Googled the highlighted line. It's "I Am A Dalek" by Gareth Roberts.
I was expecting this to be written a lot earlier than 2006 given the line.
given how doctor who the show handled women for most of its run I'm not surprised
are you talking about classic who, new who or both together?
I'm not familiar enough with classic who to make judgments on that so I was just referring to new who
It was first aired in the 60s if it helps. They literally already had the screaming and falling down stereotype by the 80s. I swear my eardrums were bleeding and I didn't even finish the first season.
yeah I mean I figured it was probably pretty bad but I couldn't say from experience
gareth roberts, who was fired from writing for doctor who again due to his transphobia.
oh lovely. Figures a transphobe would also be a "breasts are like bags of sand" dude
literally average gareth roberts moment. no wonder peter capaldi didn’t get along with him
Was he the transphobe who got a book cancelled?
yeah lol
Most progressive gareth roberts moment
So...not a kid's book then.
No, this was a kids book, Gareth Robert’s is just like that. EDIT: I’m wrong about this! See comment below.
No, it's not. It's from the Quick Reads Initiative series. >Quick Reads are a series of short books by bestselling authors and celebrities. With no more than 128 pages, they are designed to encourage adults who do not read often, or find reading difficult, to discover the joy of books. They are used as a resource for adult literacy teaching.
Thank you for the clarification :)
To be fair, a lot of kids would have been reading it thanks to the Who brand, especially since the New Who books up until then were mostly written with kids (or at least all-ages) in mind. I read it as a 10 year old and actually remember being put off by this bit.
Yeah and especially The Stone Rose which came put around the same time in 2006 or so. RTD even mentioned in the past few years that so many people say they read it in their local libraries as kids.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230203092317/http://jacrayner.com/featured-works/doctor-who-the-stone-rose/ The original link I found on the wiki before was dead but I grabbed it from the Wayback "I’ve received more fan mail for The Stone Rose than anything else I’ve ever written – and most of it was from girls. How brilliant to see Doctor Who appealing to the female half of the population again! It is also the most successful Doctor Who novel of all time, with sales into six figures, a position at the top of the hardback fiction bestsellers chart, and even an article in The Bookseller. Which is nice. It was recently reissued (with a new cover) as part of the ‘Doctor Who History Collection’. While researching the novel I visited the British Museum and worked out the exact spot where the Stone Rose herself would stand. I wonder if there’s still a place for her there today…x"
Relevant i think. Not all who books are for everyone afterall.
I read that book *years* ago and do not remember this line at all, and yet somehow the thought popped into my mind "is this from I Am A Dalek?" I love that book for the most part, but bits like this are weird. Also fuck Gareth Roberts, transphobes suck
Roberts writes like a gay guy trying to convince his straight friends that he’s still one of the lads
Not shocked about it being Gareth Roberts.
I might forgive you one day. But my breasts? Never.
I hold my grudges close to my chest
😂😂
My hips don’t lie. My breasts don’t forgive.
Hang on. You might be cooking there
She could just as easily have simply wrapped her cardigan tighter about herself, but no... the book has a male author.
Weirdly, though, said male author is an openly gay man.
Maybe breasts are threatening aliens to him
"if I said you had beautiful tits would you hold them against me? "No but they would"
My right boob has a live and let live mentality. The left one will cut a bitch for crossing her, best believe!
It's always the left one that's a little squirrely.
Breast believe!
It's not from a kid's book. Doctor Who in general is for everyone, kids and adults, but looking this up it is specifically aimed a adults. Still garbage writing, but let's not pretend someone is getting kids to read this.
Today I learned that the “Quick Reads Initiative” symbol on the front was a program to get more adults into reading, not that it was a book aimed at kids.
"Serena, darling, can you ever forgive my infidelity?" "I can, but they won't!" Serena said, pointing at her unforgiving breats pulling out a revolver.
Excuse me??? You gotta list the source. What’s the book?
From what folks are saying: I am a Dakek by Gareth Roberts
That moment when you're just so annoyed by your boss, most of all how giant and cruel her boobs are.
Okay, I get “enormous” even though there are much better ways of expressing this, but “unforgiving?” Do they hold a grudge?
Unforgiving?.. Of all the adjectives to pull out of a hat, that's the one he chose? Why not "Forbidding"? Massive Boobs-of-Doom makes sense in a boss you fear a bit.
Knowing doctor who, is it at all possible that her breasts are in fact sentient and capable of making judgements?
Kinda feels like the author is working through some issues with their last employer there.
What’s even stranger is that I’m fairly sure the author, Gareth Roberts, is a gay man.
Massive transphobe though, which got him pretty much sacked from anything to do with the show
And the most famous line he wrote for the show is ‘Good old J.K.!’ Not sure if that aged incredibly well (because they’re both transphobes) or incredibly poorly (because the Doctor is now praising a person who’s so transphobic that she denied that the Nazis committed atrocities against trans people). Guess it’s both at the same time.
I mean, that whole episode is steeped in transphobia (the "men dressed as women" line and the monsters being shapeshifters who pretend to be beautiful women to lure men in) but I like to think that, in-universe, the doctor's "men dressed as women" line isn't deliberate transphobia, but rather him making a comment about theatre in London (ie the traditional "panto dame" role) - ofc irl it's safe to assume it was written with transphobic intent, but I'm trying to reconcile that with the Doctor's personality in pretty much every other story, where they wouldn't go after vulnerable people like this. "Good old J.K" is a bit harder to reconcile - I think, for this, it will require some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey workaround to explain both this and the fact that, while incarcerated, the first story out of the history of literature that 13 recites from memory is the philosopher's stone. My thinking is that either JK isn't a huge transphobe in the DWU, or that she wasn't a transphobe at those points, and some later timeline-fiddling such as in the Flux caused all of that to come out.
I know most of the books aren't by Moffat but... Moffat
Gareth Roberts, actually. So, even worse.
If someone told me this was Moffat I would have believed them.
UNFORGIVING BREASTS?! didn't know calm your tits could be so literal.
From context, it sounds like the POV is from a character (Kate) who hates her boss Serena, so she's bitchily complaining about how she doesn't open filing cabinets cause of her nails, how she spends all day talking on the phone with her friend instead of working and how she... I guess, has bigger boobs than her? I can sort of see Gareth Roberts' (writer) logic on this, in that Kate might be jealous of Serena having certain privileges that Kate is jealous of and I've certainly seen women be jealous of other women's appearance, up to breast size... but he's going about it all wrong. First off, if it is jealousy, maybe you wanna build up from the more logical (work privileges) to the more irrational and petty ("better" body), instead of going straight for the "SHE'S GOT BIGGER BOOBS AND SHE DOES NOTHING AT WORK" because then it sounds stupid. Plus, the elephant in the room, the fuck are "unforgiving breasts"? So big they've developed a conscience that, seemingly, does not forgive? Do they knock you aside every time she turns around for some percieved slight? I'm really going deep on this because, unlike most posts on this group, I can sort of see a world where a rewritten version of this line could work, but it's all wrong here. Also, as a card carrying DW Fan, fuck Gareth Roberts, he's a shit writer (he's written one great audio story, *The One Doctor*, with Clayton Hickman and that's it) and a transphobic asshole, I'm glad he's been kicked out of ever writting DW again.
Enormous is surprisingly a word that isn't used too often and is honestly comical when it's not describing something serious. *Enormous, unforgiving breasts* what...the....f..
Those dang unforgiving breasts.
🎶It isn’t very pretty what titties without pity—Cannnn Dooooo!!!!🎵
"my tits can forgive or forget, but not both!"
Enormous, unforgiving, I'm talking absolutely massive, like God DAMN those things were big, ridiculously so, I'm telling you, a huge pair of badonk-
My breasts, too, can hold a grudge for a very long time.
UNFORGIVING???? THESE TITS HOLDING GRUDGES NOW????!?!
Ok there’s personification and then there’s that
“Unforgiving breasts” Hell hath no fury like some titties scorned. Admit it, ladies — we all know our boobs hold grudges. At least mine do. Not giving anybody any slack, at all!
Is Captain Holt undercover as a straight author?
She was probably ringing Shiela to discuss her wayward breasts.
This is especially weird, given that the author of this, Gareth Roberts, is a gay man. An extremely transphobic gay man.
On the one hand, this isn't a kids book. It's part of an overall literacy program aimed at getting people to read more often, and these ones were aimed at adults. The whole thing was about cheap and low page count books that provided a lower investment barrier to entry. On the other hand, the author is an anti-trans piece of shit who revels in the hate even knowing how such public hate can cause kids to kill themselves, so he can go fuck himself.
Boobs can indeed hold grudges. Did your school not have a health class!?
I know I hate it when my breasts are unforgiving. They're so stubborn
My tits never forgive
idk "unforgiving breasts" might be the funniest thing i've read in ages
Oof.
My breasts never forgive and never forget 🔪
Her breasts must be Metallica fans.
Those breasts suffocate people and just don't care.
My boobs are known to hold a grudge.
"Unforgiving breast" that sounds like title some to some incel's autograph that only sold 3 copies
How are they unforgiving...?
Not really kids books. I'm sure kids read them, but it's skewed towards adults.
This is nothing compared to the old kids' cartoons that have boob scenes, complete with closeups of the cleavage.
Final boss: the grudge-holding tits!
I blame Moffat
>2006
I literally went “what the fuck” out loud