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New Moon.

i love characters who lie. i love when a character is established as a capital L Liar and then we as the audience can't take anything they say at face value. i love liars fakers schemers deceivers. characters whose tongues are outright necrotic with the rot of their lies. characters to whom truth is a stranger. i am kissing them on the lips btw it tastes disgusting

The thing about the twissy arc for me is that i actually really love it as a Tragedy? It is trying to be a tragedy and it is completely successful at what it is attempting. The characters Want to reconcile, be friends (i would make some comment about Love here but the ghost of missy would hunt me down), but it Doesn’t Work. Because of things both of them do, ideals both of them hold, because of things done in the past, they are prevented from getting what they want and it is sad and it’s tragic and then them both dying alone in the dirt hurts in a punch in the gut kind of way because they were so close to going out, hand in unlovable hand, side by side, but instead die alone. It’s sad! It was trying to be heart-breaking and sad and it worked. 

And I mean, if you don’t like tragedy stories, fine, whatever floats your boat, but it IS a tragedy either way. 

So the idea that 13 and Dhawan are an insult to that arc and that the story following is disrespectful to them because spydoc are the realistic nasty fallout to said tragedy IRKS me so much. Twissy was a tragedy, making it Untragic by ignoring the end of the story is what would be disrespectful to what i personally consider to be a hauntingly tragic story of trying and wanting and ultimately failing anyway. 

The ultimate disrespect would be ruining the tragedy. This isn’t a ‘actually they lived happily ever after after a few road bumps’ story, it’s a ‘there was love here and it Mattered but ultimately didn’t change a thing’ story. 

Dhawan!master alludes to the events of twissy as a way to dig at 13 a fair number of times in what has been very few appearances. He has weaponised his own pain, correctly deducing that it Also hurts the Doctor as much. He’s not wrong. Of all the outside things going on in S12 with the lore, it’s a pretty consistent thread between their interactions that he will allude to being Bad and Irredeemable to hurt her for ever trying (because he knows she cares), and she’ll goad him and rage back in response and try and hurt him like he hurt her and she scores her own hits by knowing him too well as well. It’s nasty and brutal and it works because they are so deeply hurt by what happened with Twissy as a base line for everything else. 

It’s just that twissy is written All over spydoc, without Twissy their Intense and Visceral rage does not make sense, even. They are both hurting even Before you consider the plot events of s12. They are both still hurting actively because they are poorly coping with how their previous story ended. Mostly, if they’d written it to be anything Other than an absolute clusterfuck it would be a case of ‘why are you ignoring what happened last time they saw each other???’. 

The doctor thinks the master abandoned them to die alone and that their decades worth of help was just some scheme to use to stay alive, probably, they Definitely did not know Missy intended to shank Simm and go back to 12 no matter how comforting a concept that is. The master is severely traumatised by being both the victim and perpetrator of a murder/suicide simultaneously. The fact that that event was entirely the result of the doctor’s influence over them and that in s12 they find out the doctor Also influences them on a genetic level, too adds to the mess of trauma. 

Twissy’s a tragedy, it was trying to be one and succeeded. It was tragic alone as a secular event, but if you track what the events of their arc do to their next regenerations it makes it More tragic, which is what it Should do. It should not defang the story from before, it should bolster it. Spydoc being violent and angry and horrifying makes that twissy came So So close all the more tragic. 

The insult would be to make the tragedy Less tragic. 

i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE

Jungkook just called. He said we have to end climate change now.

animal crossing's your bioshock. anyway POV: the cartoony babbling coming through your radio is telling you to tear the city to shreds, if you'd kindly

why do people care if we’re living in a simulation or not? what impact does that actually have on any aspect of our lives?

What would your opening play be? I feel like going for an overhead strike aimed at the head would be maximizing chances of success but I'm no primatologist. Hey @pissvortex, you ever thought about the best way to fight a chimp?

See the trick is usually don't make the first move in a fight because it leaves you too open. That said, I'd make a horizontal swat at the neck/upper chest of the ape. Not a full swing, that would recruit the back and lats. I'd more use a swat, get most of my energy from the chest, delts, wrist and tricep. I don't wanna open myself up to an attack, gotta keep my footing and keep able to parry and riposte the chimpanzee if he finds an opening. If he's too aggressive and he makes the first move i'm probably going to hold the machete out in front of me, hands at shoulder's width, with my off-hand on the back of the end of the machete. I'd use that to guard my body and "row" through the chimpanzee to inflict drawing cuts and, hopefully, keep its arms busy. I've heard this is what Indian rebels among a crowd would do during the British Raj in order to best the British semiautomatic rifles.

sound technique but what are we considering as the metrics for you winning this fight? if you are operating under the assumption that you are doing this until the chimp loses interest and you can run away, it would work. if you think you are going to kill a chimpanzee yourself with only a machete you are vastly overestimating your ability to harm a chimpanzee. Travis the chimp was stabbed like 10 times with a butcher knife and shot by a cop at least 3 times and the only reason he stopped mauling that lady was because he lost interest and walked away until he bled to death.

African tribes have had some success hunting great apes like gorillas with spears because spears are genuinely just the only melee weapon you could do that with. even then, though, the only hunting strategy that worked was something called a “Gorilla Dance” in which hunters in Gabon who had become so familiar with Gorilla behavior would mimic other gorillas in order to get close enough to spear the fuck out of it as a group. pretty much everywhere else, it’s a massive taboo to hunt gorillas, for good reason.

take this into account along with the recent news of a chimp group thrashing the fuck out of a troop of gorillas and killing their babies and the fact that there are no observed traditions for hunting chimps prior to firearms. i am sorry but you would get your ass handed to you by a chimp, as would anyone else alive. you could definitely scare a chimp into running away or hurt it enough to make it not want to maul you. you could maybe kill it if you got very lucky. but i need to stress that nobody in history has pulled this off

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he has one eye. he has one horn. he can fly. he's purple. he eats people. i didn't say any names but he popped into your head didn't he.

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