heartbreaking: none of artist's other songs are as much of a banger as the song I discovered the artist by
your opponent is the most selected option. please don't spoil anything in the tags
i know i haven't really shut up about this since october, but i've just discovered yet another reason to be Furious with rtd for the clothes thing
because we all know how jodie and ray collaborated on the outfit that would be gender neutral and all that, right? BUT what they also did with it was pack it full of symbolism - the whole sky, universe, suffragette-coloured lining, rainbows, the whole INCLUSIVITY thing
and there comes russell and strips all of this away, none of that is left, because - obviously - he can't have any tennant doctor wear anything other than a basic ass suit
how innovative. how respectful. what a fucking saviour.
i can't leave this in the notes:
this is exactly the problem. two cis men, one of them gay, both of them household names in the uk, the two of them thought they weren't in the position to maybe shift the status quo? to maybe push the message that gender is not a binary, that it is more complicated, that it is not the most important thing about a person, that clothes have no gender? how could they not see that that could have been the place to take the discussion, rather than the lame "mocking drag" argument? and just to be mean to rtd, arguably something that potentially "mocks drag" waaaay more is writing a storyline in which the master turns everyone in the world into himself and appears as everyone, including wearing heels and dresses, but what the hell do i know, i'm not rtd.
Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness
Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?
THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT
I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible
Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together
this sentence makes me hopping mad. WHAT R U TRYING TO TELL ME
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of celery
My dash is mostly Doctor Who so I was waiting for the Fifth Doctor punchline to this... and it wasn't there!
it’s occurred to me that i’ve been out of classic who fandom so long that some of you doubtless have not seen it. if that is the case, here are some honest-to-god, hand-over-heart true facts about classic doctor who:
- an entire fake season of the show had to be made up to make a single companion’s timeline possible
- the last story of the entire run involves the master turning into a cat furry
- a companion nearly gets eaten by a giant clam
- there is an entire season where every villain is the master but in different ludicrous disguises. one time he summons satan
- one time the production team forgot colin baker tied to a pole in the woods
- tom baker’s scarf was supposed to be normal scarf-length, but the person who bought the yarn had no idea how much yarn you need to make a scarf and bought way too much, and the person who was hired to make the scarf wasn’t told to stop. so she just. didn’t
- the fifth doctor had a robot companion who had to be abruptly written off the show after the only person who knew how to operate the robot died
- there is a serial where people are eaten by inflatable furniture and people complained to the bbc that it was too violent
- an alien exiled to a boys’ boarding school on earth was convinced to kill the doctor by a man with a bird shellacked to his scalp. he failed so badly at killing the doctor that he became a companion instead
- UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING
- There was an entire six part story that was basically the miners strike but In Space. Everything was part of a plot by the Ice Warriors who wanted to start a space war and apparently pissing off miners with ridiculous hair was a crucial part of that plan. Probably still less evil than Margaret Thatcher though
- The Master once dressed up as a Scarecrow and stood in a field. The Doctor and his companion walked by by PURE CHANCE and the Master took that as an excuse to drop the disguise and throw together a plan that involved causing a minor inconvenience to established history. There was no logical way he could have known the Doctor would be in that place at that time. He just felt like being a scarecrow and freaking out birds I guess
- That same story has someone turned into a sentient tree
- The Seventh Doctor once distracted three Lovecraftian beings from before the dawn of time with a magic show who were running a Murderous Circus staffed by homicidal clowns until his pyromaniac lesbian companion could throw him a hippies magic pendant which shot lasers at the gods and killed them.
- That same story had a Space Werewolf and a British Explorer From Space
- The Sixth Doctor’s companion Peri had a timeline so effing convoluted that an entire audio drama was made about how time travel had genuinely created MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF HER because it was the only way to explain all the contradictions
- The Fourth Doctor painted the words “This is a Fake” behind the Mona Lisa as part of a plan to stop an alien art thief from wiping humanity from existence
- The Seventh Doctor once fought a Homicidal Bertie Basset who worked for Margaret Thatcher in Space and killed people with deadly sweets. He defeated him with lemonade.
- Ace literally has a girlfriend in almost every story she’s in. It’s not even subtle. In one story they literally had her and her Girl of the Week dressed in tuxes together.
- Harry Sullivan is an Imbecile
“I promise it’s cool when you watch it”
Real talk why does social interaction feel like you’re trying to get a good grade in being a person
Ahhh, glad to see it always comes back to this
One thing I urge adults to unlearn is the stigma surrounding forgetfulness.
Perfect memory retention is rare. A faulty memory can be the result a host of mental illnesses, from ADHD to PTSD. It's not a sign that someone wasn't listening. I have a friend that has a four year gap in her memory due to trauma. I have another with poor short term memory retention because that's one of their autism symptoms.
Your brain can also trick you into misremembering things. I can't tell you how many times I've remembered putting my keys somewhere and unearthed them in a completely different place. I have to remind myself what my birth date is because I said it wrong once and now the wrong date is in my memory forever. I have to come up with mnemonics for birthdays, anniversaries, and events because my brain doesn't do numbers for some reason.
I see people bicker about forgetting a person's favorite food or what their mothers favorite color. I think it's important to forgive people who forget easily.
A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.
Fanartists:
Thingiverse users:
Royalty free sounds
Flash games
Productivity has always been there
hestianerd1
Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!
thehottestmess
Fanfiction authors!!
Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?
Sarah: im starting to regret showing you how to work the blender
4 drinking toast: why on earth would you say that
I now disagree with that post that went something like "to make high schoolers laugh post pandemic you have to kill someone" because when I was clocking out of work today I overheard my coworkers, two high school boys, joking around. One said "hey bro...literally me when im making pizza..." He was in fact making a pizza, that's our job. They both laughed like beavis and butthead and repeated it a few times.
yknow what i think the doctor should make a lil pamphlet of all their most prolific enemies and hand them out to every new companion i'm tired of them getting everyone killed bc they don't know what a dalek is
reactions to the ten tonne handwritten guide to the doctor's enemies:
i'm not reading this shit lol: amy, jack, rose, ryan
i'm sorry there's HOW many pages??? and all of them are evil and/or will kill me on sight????? yeah fuck this actually i'm going home: donna, rory, martha, yaz, graham, bill
oh hell yeah recommended reading: clara, nardole
where the FUCK is my page: river
Autistic people are like, “yeah I love following rules” and then proceed to rip apart the gender binary
I love following good rules. bad rules keep me from following better ones so I put them through a meat grinder and see what happens
grammarmancer
The official rules suck, I have written my own.
the rules have to be consistent or they’re not the real rules
there are very few things less consistent than the gender binary
That’s not a contradiction at all. “I love following rules” means “I love having clear instructions instead of them being implied”. It doesn’t mean “I love obeying authority” or “I love conforming”.
People: gender is a RIDGED, SOLID THING and it only looks like THIS
Me: why
People: Because!
Me, arming my catapult: Hold on a sec i wanna test something
peakyarthurs
This is officially the best response and a big ass mood right there
At all the people in the notes saying: “Unless it’s this” and “Certain types of shippers need to die” this is fucking targeted at you.
I feel like so much slur discourse could get solved by discussing intent. “I’m okay with faggot but don’t like when someone yells it out a car at me.” Yeah no shit. I like physical touch in the form of a hug but don’t like it when it is in the form of a punch. People have said the word “gay” “lesbian” “trans” what have you with the most hateful vitriol they can muster because they MEAN it like a slur. So many of us have heard the tone that may as well make the word a slur.
If I saw a sign that says “I hunt members of the LGBTQIA+ community for sport” it wouldn’t really feel different from “I want to kill faggots.”
Additionally, I LIKE that it makes people cringe. It used to make me cringe. Those words have history for me too. But they also are not able to be sanitized by corporations. Shitlibs who would never rock the boat to protect me are never going to NOT shrink away at me calling myself a dyke and I do not care.
MY intent IS vitriol back, sometimes. A bold statement of attack. But sometimes it’s a joke. “His faggy mannerisms have captivated me.” Sometimes it’s a badge of honor from older queers. Sometimes it’s not that deep. What’s behind the words, what the intent is is everything.