Nicanario and the Deadly Blog of Doom

I have made the mistake of starting my first rewatching in years of one of my all time favourite shows, El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time). if you liked Timeless (or even if you didn't like it or even watch it at all), you will love the show it plagiarized happens to be somewhat similar to maybe. it's also sometimes called "the Spanish Doctor Who," which, I can understand, but, also, no

for those who don't know, this absolute gem of a series centers around a secret ministry in Spain which must make sure history doesn't change. every episode is the main team encountering a historical figure or event and preventing some other force from changing it

it's sometimes very grim, and can deal with some heavy stuff, like one of the main characters being a widower that lost his wife in a car accident not being able to stop going back to meet her again a lot. but it's also funny as shit. the comedy and drama is very well balanced

a few examples of how fucking unhinged this show is:

- they don't have a time machine because time machines don't exist, that's stupid. they travel through FUCKING DOORS. they open a door, go through it, and BAM they're in fucking 1069 or something

- they have people of all eras working for them. the main team (in s1, since because the network renewed the show every like 2 years or something some actors left, came back, went from guest to regular and vice versa, etc) is comprised of a paramedic from the present, Julián. one of the first (fictional) female university students, Amelia. and Alonso a fucking soldier from 1569!!! there's also the subsecretary (why not Minister, I don't even know), Salvador, from the present as well; Irene, a lesbian from 1960; Angustias, from 1900, and Ernesto Jiménez (who is later revealed to be SPOILERS I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU)

- they sometimes need help recognising people, especially if they are travellers through time that have gained access to a door that is outside the Ministry. so, of course, they need a forensic artist. guess who they got. guess who they FUCKING GOT!! I'm not going to tell you because it's actually a great gag and I don't want to spoil it for you since you are. going. to watch. this show

also, I cannot stress enough how much character stuff it has. in relatively short seasons (8 or 13 episodes), they dedicate a lot of time to developing the characters apart from showing the viewers all the history shit. this is because each episode is an hour and 10 minutes long!! it really doesn't drag, believe me, and you can (will) watch it bit by bit

I will start making posts about it, if anything to annoy some people into hopefully watching it lmao

Nauuurrr, hear me out, this is super old (pre-pandemic) discourse but I'm really sad that Timeless had to be plagiarized an adaptation of El Ministerio del Tiempo because my mother is rewatching E.R. and I really like Goran Višnjić (although I hate his character on that show) and I LOVE to see him on science fiction stuff (great actor) since I saw him as Tesla on Doctor Who, so I would have loved to see if Garcia Flynn is anything like my darling dear Alfonso, and I LOVE SPN, but El Ministerio has my entire heart and I could never support Timeless with a clear conscience <\3 but I truly like the guy, so Hellraiser is my best bet for now on.

Pinhead being my absolute fave once again.

I loved him as Tesla!

and obviously I don't mind Timeless existing. I mean, 'people who have to prevent history from changing' is not exactly a new concept. especially for the US, right? which is why it's weirder they had to rip off a Spanish show, I guess it's just that good. but to be fair I didn't watch more than like 2 episodes of Timeless and perhaps it is a good show! the whole thing is just pretty funny to me

also, while we're at it, come on RTVE, come on. give. us. season. five.

I have made the mistake of starting my first rewatching in years of one of my all time favourite shows, El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time). if you liked Timeless (or even if you didn't like it or even watch it at all), you will love the show it plagiarized happens to be somewhat similar to maybe. it's also sometimes called "the Spanish Doctor Who," which, I can understand, but, also, no

for those who don't know, this absolute gem of a series centers around a secret ministry in Spain which must make sure history doesn't change. every episode is the main team encountering a historical figure or event and preventing some other force from changing it

it's sometimes very grim, and can deal with some heavy stuff, like one of the main characters being a widower that lost his wife in a car accident not being able to stop going back to meet her again a lot. but it's also funny as shit. the comedy and drama is very well balanced

a few examples of how fucking unhinged this show is:

- they don't have a time machine because time machines don't exist, that's stupid. they travel through FUCKING DOORS. they open a door, go through it, and BAM they're in fucking 1069 or something

- they have people of all eras working for them. the main team (in s1, since because the network renewed the show every like 2 years or something some actors left, came back, went from guest to regular and vice versa, etc) is comprised of a paramedic from the present, Julián. one of the first (fictional) female university students, Amelia. and Alonso a fucking soldier from 1569!!! there's also the subsecretary (why not Minister, I don't even know), Salvador, from the present as well; Irene, a lesbian from 1960; Angustias, from 1900, and Ernesto Jiménez (who is later revealed to be SPOILERS I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU)

- they sometimes need help recognising people, especially if they are travellers through time that have gained access to a door that is outside the Ministry. so, of course, they need a forensic artist. guess who they got. guess who they FUCKING GOT!! I'm not going to tell you because it's actually a great gag and I don't want to spoil it for you since you are. going. to watch. this show

also, I cannot stress enough how much character stuff it has. in relatively short seasons (8 or 13 episodes), they dedicate a lot of time to developing the characters apart from showing the viewers all the history shit. this is because each episode is an hour and 10 minutes long!! it really doesn't drag, believe me, and you can (will) watch it bit by bit

I will start making posts about it, if anything to annoy some people into hopefully watching it lmao

Nauuurrr, hear me out, this is super old (pre-pandemic) discourse but I'm really sad that Timeless had to be plagiarized an adaptation of El Ministerio del Tiempo because my mother is rewatching E.R. and I really like Goran Višnjić (although I hate his character on that show) and I LOVE to see him on science fiction stuff (great actor) since I saw him as Tesla on Doctor Who, so I would have loved to see if Garcia Flynn is anything like my darling dear Alfonso, and I LOVE SPN, but El Ministerio has my entire heart and I could never support Timeless with a clear conscience <\3 but I truly like the guy, so Hellraiser is my best bet for now on.

Pinhead being my absolute fave once again.

I loved him as Tesla!

and obviously I don't mind Timeless existing. I mean, 'people who have to prevent history from changing' is not exactly a new concept. especially for the US, right? which is why it's weirder they had to rip off a Spanish show, I guess it's just that good. but to be fair I didn't watch more than like 2 episodes of Timeless and perhaps it is a good show! the whole thing is just pretty funny to me

also, while we're at it, come on RTVE, come on. give. us. season. five.

I have made the mistake of starting my first rewatching in years of one of my all time favourite shows, El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time). if you liked Timeless (or even if you didn't like it or even watch it at all), you will love the show it plagiarized happens to be somewhat similar to maybe. it's also sometimes called "the Spanish Doctor Who," which, I can understand, but, also, no

for those who don't know, this absolute gem of a series centers around a secret ministry in Spain which must make sure history doesn't change. every episode is the main team encountering a historical figure or event and preventing some other force from changing it

it's sometimes very grim, and can deal with some heavy stuff, like one of the main characters being a widower that lost his wife in a car accident not being able to stop going back to meet her again a lot. but it's also funny as shit. the comedy and drama is very well balanced

a few examples of how fucking unhinged this show is:

- they don't have a time machine because time machines don't exist, that's stupid. they travel through FUCKING DOORS. they open a door, go through it, and BAM they're in fucking 1069 or something

- they have people of all eras working for them. the main team (in s1, since because the network renewed the show every like 2 years or something some actors left, came back, went from guest to regular and vice versa, etc) is comprised of a paramedic from the present, Julián. one of the first (fictional) female university students, Amelia. and Alonso a fucking soldier from 1569!!! there's also the subsecretary (why not Minister, I don't even know), Salvador, from the present as well; Irene, a lesbian from 1960; Angustias, from 1900, and Ernesto Jiménez (who is later revealed to be SPOILERS I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU)

- they sometimes need help recognising people, especially if they are travellers through time that have gained access to a door that is outside the Ministry. so, of course, they need a forensic artist. guess who they got. guess who they FUCKING GOT!! I'm not going to tell you because it's actually a great gag and I don't want to spoil it for you since you are. going. to watch. this show

also, I cannot stress enough how much character stuff it has. in relatively short seasons (8 or 13 episodes), they dedicate a lot of time to developing the characters apart from showing the viewers all the history shit. this is because each episode is an hour and 10 minutes long!! it really doesn't drag, believe me, and you can (will) watch it bit by bit

I will start making posts about it, if anything to annoy some people into hopefully watching it lmao

Nauuurrr, hear me out, this is super old (pre-pandemic) discourse but I'm really sad that Timeless had to be plagiarized an adaptation of El Ministerio del Tiempo because my mother is rewatching E.R. and I really like Goran Višnjić (although I hate his character on that show) and I LOVE to see him on science fiction stuff (great actor) since I saw him as Tesla on Doctor Who, so I would have loved to see if Garcia Flynn is anything like my darling dear Alfonso, and I LOVE SPN, but El Ministerio has my entire heart and I could never support Timeless with a clear conscience <\3 but I truly like the guy, so Hellraiser is my best bet for now on.

Pinhead being my absolute fave once again.

I loved him as Tesla!

and obviously I don't mind Timeless existing. I mean, 'people who have to prevent history from changing' is not exactly a new concept. especially for the US, right? which is why it's weirder they had to rip off a Spanish show, I guess it's just that good. but to be fair I didn't watch more than like 2 episodes of Timeless and perhaps it is a good show! the whole thing is just pretty funny to me

also, while we're at it, come on RTVE, come on. give. us. season. five.

I have made the mistake of starting my first rewatching in years of one of my all time favourite shows, El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time). if you liked Timeless (or even if you didn't like it or even watch it at all), you will love the show it plagiarized happens to be somewhat similar to maybe. it's also sometimes called "the Spanish Doctor Who," which, I can understand, but, also, no

for those who don't know, this absolute gem of a series centers around a secret ministry in Spain which must make sure history doesn't change. every episode is the main team encountering a historical figure or event and preventing some other force from changing it

it's sometimes very grim, and can deal with some heavy stuff, like one of the main characters being a widower that lost his wife in a car accident not being able to stop going back to meet her again a lot. but it's also funny as shit. the comedy and drama is very well balanced

a few examples of how fucking unhinged this show is:

- they don't have a time machine because time machines don't exist, that's stupid. they travel through FUCKING DOORS. they open a door, go through it, and BAM they're in fucking 1069 or something

- they have people of all eras working for them. the main team (in s1, since because the network renewed the show every like 2 years or something some actors left, came back, went from guest to regular and vice versa, etc) is comprised of a paramedic from the present, Julián. one of the first (fictional) female university students, Amelia. and Alonso a fucking soldier from 1569!!! there's also the subsecretary (why not Minister, I don't even know), Salvador, from the present as well; Irene, a lesbian from 1960; Angustias, from 1900, and Ernesto Jiménez (who is later revealed to be SPOILERS I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU)

- they sometimes need help recognising people, especially if they are travellers through time that have gained access to a door that is outside the Ministry. so, of course, they need a forensic artist. guess who they got. guess who they FUCKING GOT!! I'm not going to tell you because it's actually a great gag and I don't want to spoil it for you since you are. going. to watch. this show

also, I cannot stress enough how much character stuff it has. in relatively short seasons (8 or 13 episodes), they dedicate a lot of time to developing the characters apart from showing the viewers all the history shit. this is because each episode is an hour and 10 minutes long!! it really doesn't drag, believe me, and you can (will) watch it bit by bit

I will start making posts about it, if anything to annoy some people into hopefully watching it lmao

Nauuurrr, hear me out, this is super old (pre-pandemic) discourse but I'm really sad that Timeless had to be plagiarized an adaptation of El Ministerio del Tiempo because my mother is rewatching E.R. and I really like Goran Višnjić (although I hate his character on that show) and I LOVE to see him on science fiction stuff (great actor) since I saw him as Tesla on Doctor Who, so I would have loved to see if Garcia Flynn is anything like my darling dear Alfonso, and I LOVE SPN, but El Ministerio has my entire heart and I could never support Timeless with a clear conscience <\3 but I truly like the guy, so Hellraiser is my best bet for now on.

Pinhead being my absolute fave once again.

I loved him as Tesla!

and obviously I don't mind Timeless existing. I mean, 'people who have to prevent history from changing' is not exactly a new concept. especially for the US, right? which is why it's weirder they had to rip off a Spanish show, I guess it's just that good. but to be fair I didn't watch more than like 2 episodes of Timeless and perhaps it is a good show! the whole thing is just pretty funny to me

also, while we're at it, come on RTVE, come on. give. us. season. five.

oh my GOD

How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

One good thing about injuring my hand and not being able to knit and crochet: I finally have time to draw again.

(via TumbleOn)

Whoa..

What the actual fuck, I thought it was gonna make the lines in the painting kinda wiggly and stuff but holy SHIT.

try my quiz!

Yeah fair.

Yeah, fair.

happy international mother language day to those who speak dialects, minority and indigenous languages, discriminated and endangered languages, “economically unprofitable”, “useless”, “unprestigious” languages and everyone who defends languages from colonialism and chauvinism

I want to recognise especially indigenous groups in Argentina and other places in the Southern Cone for keeping their languages alive as much as they have been able to these past few centuries. before colonisation, there were dozens of different cultures here, and apart from the northest parts of the country being conquered by the Incas, there wasn't a culture that's recognised as 'important' or 'relevant' today. if Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs or Mayans are poorly researched or kept alive, imagine all of the cultures here.

the most well-known one is probably the Mapuches, but there were many, many more. I've been interested for years in the yahgan people, who lived in 'our' southernmost province. its last native speaker died early last year from guess what (COVID-19 complications bc of old age), though there are definitely people who still speak it or know it. she has a daughter who's a Chilean politician and I believe a granddaughter who also speaks the language.

I've found several, very old so perhaps not incredibly reliable (as our best saying goes 'I have no proof nor doubt') yaghan-spanish dictionaries on the web, so that's some comfort I guess. there are also a lot of studies and recollections on Mapuche myths and legends, which are frankly fascinating, and it's not too hard to find places, both irl and online, to learn Mapudungun. so there is some stuff on these groups' languages and cultures. and there are a lot of people from those cultures still, at least some of them. some people call these cultures 'originary peoples,' a term that, as has been correctly pointed out by these 'originaries,' kinda implies they don't really exist anymore, which is not true at all.

still, imagine if there were as many resources to learn aymara, guaraní, aonikenk, etc etc as there are for the fucking Spanish language. that isn't entirely fair, one could point out: Spanish is spoken in many countries, it's one of the languages with the highest world population. huh. I wonder why.

and one last thing: I definitely don't mean to pin all of this to the Spanish colonizers. not because they weren't that bad: they were. but because then we would forget our own countries' crimes, past and, if you've been reading the news lately, present (at least in my country, though I don't think it's much different elsewhere). here, after the May Revolution, the now-independent Argentinian government decided to wipe them out, and again, and again, and again, for their lands.

I have a Bolivian friend who told me her country hasn't won any wars (as an interesting historical tidbit and definitely not complaining, I was literally telling her about how we won the horrific War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay). I told her, "to be fair, most if not all South American countries have won at least two armed conflicts: their war of independence, and the genocide on their indigenous peoples"

Favourite One era quotes/speeches/dialogue.

14.”Oh. I know, I know. I said it would take the force of a total solar system to attract the power away from my ship. We’re at…the very beginning, the new start of a solar system. Outside, the atoms are rushing towards each other. Fusing. Coagulating. Until…minute little collections of matter are created. And so the process goes on, and on until dust is formed. Dust then becomes solid entity. A new birth of a sun and its planets!” The Doctor, the Edge of Destruction.

Just wow. The quote is beautiful on it’s own but made perfect by the mood as the Doctor is thrown alone into darkness and leans against the console, the only character in shot. William Hartnell delivers this beautiful soliloquy with such delicacy and talent.

For all the criticisms of him getting lines wrong, he never got the lines wrong when it really mattered. He was such an incredible performer and we’re glad they gave him something like this to do even for William who apparently looked at it in the script, knew he’d have to remember it all and do it ‘as live’ and said that it was ’ like Hamlet!’. It is intelligent, educational and sounds wonderful and that’s what it is, it doesn’t need anything else; just the actor, the words and the silence so we can hear it and feel it.

The Web Planet is one of my favourite things ever.  My life is a Web Planet appreciation life.

“Everybody will want to hear about your adventures. So be careful how you tell that story, will you? Don’t glamorise it. Don’t make war sound like an exciting and thrilling game. Tell them about the members of your mission that will not be returning. Tell them about the fear, otherwise your people might relish the idea of war. We don’t want that.”

JON PERTWEE AS THE THIRD DOCTOR (1970-1974)

look, i'm sorry to say it, but if you really truly want to see more queer representation in media, you're going to need to be okay with seeing representation that you don't relate to at all. you need to be okay with media that has queer characters but none who share your specific identity. you need to be okay with media that has queer characters who do share your identity but who you find completely unrelatable. this is because you are not the only queer person on the planet and queer people who are not you, including queer people who you share no similarities with besides your queerness, deserve to see themselves represented.

you also need to be okay with media that shows a queer experience that you personally find uncomfortable. it's okay if you hate coming out stories, but other people find them valuable, so they need to exist. it's okay if you're a masc trans guy and you feel uncomfortable seeing femme transmasc characters, but femme transmascs do exist in real life and also deserve to see themselves represented. it's okay if you're uncomfortable with queer stories that involve cheating or abusive/toxic relationships or queer characters who are not good people, but other people find a lot of meaning in those stories, so you need to be okay with the fact that they exist.

please stop calling out creators—particularly queer creators—for writing queer representation that you don't personally relate to. if you want every queer person to be able to feel represented in media and if you want every queer creator to be able to make the stories they want to tell, you're going to have to learn to accept that some stories will feel completely unrelatable to you, and that's okay, and it doesn't mean those stories are "problematic" or "bad representation"

The title is inspired by a paradox that concerns vague predicates and questions that don't have a clear answer. It's also called Paradox of the Heap or, from what I know, Paradox of the Rich Man (from that, the coins!).

I went overboard with this one XD I wanted to do something experimental and try to do a more painterly looking comic. This is why, in spite of this being short, it took me a long time XD I'll go lay down somewhere now, probably to sleep. Goodnight, I hope you like this!

Three x Delgado!Master text posts