i love that star trek is fundamentally about nerds

your favorite captain? a nerd

picard loves antiques and only drinks tea and dresses up his android buddy in weird costumes to rp shakespeare in his free time. he gets mad when people interrupt his flute practice. nerd

sisko built an obscure historical spaceship for fun. just because he could. there’s a whole episode where all he does is furiously build a clock. he never stops talking about some weird old earth game where you hit a ball with a stick. nerd

janeway gets super excited about pretty routine space stuff despite you know, working in space. she goes on larping adventures with leonardo da vinci. she loves classic british literature. nerd

nerds, all of you

Archer with his love for water polo and puppers. Who as a kid bulit model spaceships with his dad and flew them. Who was like “!!” when Daniels showed him the temporal observatory and proceeded to tell his besties about it.       nerd

kirk was the “grim” bookish butt at academy. he knows all about abraham lincoln and wyatt earp. he memorizes poetry he likes. his friends give him dickens and vision correction for his birthday. nerd

burnham gets the last word bickering with vulcans. she acts out sometimes but she’s always the teacher’s pet. she out-technobabbles the mushroom engineer and her own geek roommate. she had to hook up with a bad boy before she’d grow her hair out. nerd

alt kirk pulled up to the shuttle on his chopper, tossed the keys to whoever was standing nearest, broke all ties without looking back. pure james dean cool. cool as ice.

two years later he had the regulation book memorized.

nerd

In memory of David Ogden Stiers, reprinting the best dialog I ever wrote for Charles Emerson Winchester.

I know a lot of people don’t like The Caretaker, but honestly I’m really enjoying the character work in it

I dislike it because so high a percentage of the screen time is characters I like being angry with each other, but I know that's not a very good reason.

It's totally a good reason! A lot of the anger is them just projecting their issues on each other or lying, which can be frustrating to watch. Peter, Samuel, and Jenna are all doing interesting work so I enjoyed the acting more than the narrative, if that makes sense.

It does and usually I can do that too, and that's why I think I must not be being fair. I guess these guys are just so good that they suck me all the way in.

no one but drumknott knows that only on the darkest, longest night of the year vetinari shuts himself in his office, stands in front of the mirror with a plain wooden jewelry box no one ever sees opened, reaches inside, and for a few minutes looks in the mirror at himself with the red nose on

drumknott doesn’t know whether his one time spying this through the door left ajar was an accident, and that rather than the sight itself haunts him

Last spring

Last week

“Nope, sorry, I can’t retain that. I’ve tried but it’s just not going in.”

Danny should have said, "I know how many beans make five."

I know a lot of people don’t like The Caretaker, but honestly I’m really enjoying the character work in it

I dislike it because so high a percentage of the screen time is characters I like being angry with each other, but I know that's not a very good reason.

The funniest thing about the retcon in The Day of the Doctor is the fact that the Doctor saved Gallifrey all along. So, basically, ever since his regeneration into Nine, he’s been going around the cosmos telling people Gallifrey is gone, when in fact it isn’t. Imagine the reaction of the Time Lords when they get out of the Time Lock and try to trade for provisions to rebuild their planet. “You can’t be a Time Lord, they’re extinct. Piss off.” 

It’s the living embodiment of the ‘quit telling people I’m dead!’ meme.

Which, imo, is definitely a meme the Twelfth Doctor probably takes advantage of while hanging with Missy, especially how many times the Master has ‘died’ and come back.

You know what I want an in-universe explanation for? Why the Doctor’s taste in Earth women has slowly moved along a roughly fifty year stretch of human history over the course of the first thousand years of his life, and why at the pace it did for him. What made him suddenly go “the eighties, by god” when he sat up under the Pharos telescope, and why did it take him until the Los Angeles incident to move on? What did he have against the nineties? Why stay in the 2010s for a few centuries?

Well you know, the other planet the TARDIS tends to land on in sequence and following an apparent enforced chronolinearity is Gallifrey, what with the Doctor always meeting other Time Lords in the same order as they him, and timelines matching up so precisely point-to-point that the Mistress knows when his birthday is. Obviously the way that works is that it happens with the planet(s) your parents come from.

The Solution of Susan

“I’ve just lost my entire family in a horrible accident,” said Susan Pevensie.

“I too,” said the old man. “But you’re so young.”

“I’m older than I look.”

“I too,” said the old man, with a twinkle in his eye. “Perhaps you should call me grandfather.” And when his old, wooden box was bigger on the inside Susan wasn’t even surprised.

Someone reblogged this from me recently (which is odd, seeing as I reblogged it 11 months ago, almost to the day), and got me thinking about it again.

And this sounds nice and all, but it occurs to me that it makes the ending of “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” so much worse. Bad enough Susan basically gets chucked out of the TARDIS for having a sexual awakening; how much worse if she’s Susan Pevensie, so it’s the second time she’s being punished for daring to be an adolescent girl?

A good point.

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Does the squinting effect in the last panel work? I'm not sure the effect works

Thanks for reading.

i think it just looks odd cos he's got a funny shaped head? *shrugs*

Both men are squinting at each other in the last panel. The tropy penultimate dialogless panel was meant to help point up the difference, since there's no other difference between the last two panels.

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Clara’s eyes activating when she realizes it’s the Doctor lol

It's that thing she always does. It's like they inflate.

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Replacing "I dont want to live" with "i dont want to live like this" was v helpful for me because it helped me figure out what parts of my life i was trying to escape and reminded me there are absolutely versions of myself i want to work towards and ways of living i havent experienced yet that i want to see

Basically, we don't want *to die*. We want our pain to stop. And realizing those are two radically different things can immensely help you keep living and find how to improve your life.

I absolutely did this! I asked myself “Who or what is making me want to die?” and I realized it was my family. So then I figured I could kill myself and I’d be dead and they’d have to live without me, or I could just take off and never speak to them again and they’d have to live without me just as much but I’d still have my life. And I could go live it somewhere else without the people who were making me miserable.

So that’s what I did. It’s been decades and I haven’t regretted it once. 10/10 can recommend.

you need to live to be a weird funny old person whos weirdness was not broken by a rigidly formal world and to do that you must be a weird you now and not be broken despite it all

It's worked for me. ...Notes from the last 50 years:

i haven't seen any buffy ones soooooo

MORE!

…. That’s the same simulator that did the gravity on a car video isn’t it.

Simulator?! Oh!!

Not me sitting here wondering how they got so many identical blue vans to run their experiment with