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let's talk about looming.

y'know, i just really love the time lords' metaphors: the "anchoring of the thread" and the "web of time." "looming," "weaving."

for me, these metaphors create two distinct moods, and one of them is familial. when i think of cloth and looms, i think of home. i think of old women and young daughters weaving blankets together. the time lords have "houses" which contain "cousins" who came from the same loom. it's lovingly domestic.

but i also think about spiders - spinning a web, laying a trap, forming a strategy. i'm reminded of how some looms used to be kept in frames and others in "cradles," but, during the war, they were largely converted to a more streamlined and clinical "vat" design, as if the people they churned out were simply clones. fated soldiers. fodder, rather than family. this happened at least once before when the Final Chapter planned a coup attempt:

hmm... ouch. that hurts.

anyway, i think that the coexistence of these two moods is important to note when thinking about the complexities of time lord house dynamics, as well as how the war and political struggles changed things.

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Goodnight, Laika.

Space Dog, Alan Shapiro | From Wikipedia | Laika, Sarah Doyle | Space Patterns Painting, Katya Garipova | Laika, Ben Florin | Constellations, The Oh Hellos | First Dog in Space, Brennig Davies | Are You Scared Yet, Laika?, Gus Gresham | Pillars of Creation, James Webb Telescope | space dog., Basil Sai | Icarus, The Crane Wives | Quote via. Oleg Gazenko

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this guy

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the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

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GREETINGS EVERYONE!!! I've spent the last couple of months working on a full length comic adaption of @goodlucktai's beautiful 'fishbowl' fanfic!!! Below you can read the fruits of my efforts :) Enjoy!

This comic takes place before Dressrosa

CONTINUE >>>

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Unusual Saints To Pray To

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The Tardis has a twisted sense of humor.

Other Comics:

The Robot Revolution | Lux | The Well

(updating the link soon)

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The Robot Revolution | Lux | The Well

Other comics:

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Please, TAKE HER HOME

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And then the Doctor says something about Marionettus Puppetus (the common muppet) and then Belinda roundhouse kicks Lux through a window

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Spoilers for series 15 / season 2

Nobody mentioned it so here i go:

WHY DID DESIDERIUM the wish baby NOT HABE A HARBINGER ?

I cant blame them because the whole harbinger thing was a bit stupid and its really hard come up with anagrams and palindromes and puns with the word Harbinger.

And the giggle / laugh / hahahaHAHAHAhaa is much better for the shock reveal* of a Pantheon member

*Sutekh shouldve done it too but more sinister

I wonder if its because of the reshoots? I like the fan theory that Belinda was somehow a Harbinger or that Desiderium was meant to be Ruby

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im sick in the head and my only cure is them

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LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS S4 HOW ZEKE GOT RELIGION dir. Diego Porral

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Crisp Point Lighthouse

Originally built on 15 acres of land with a quarter mile of lake frontage, the lighthouse grounds now consist of less than 3 acres due to the continuous erosion from Lake Superior. In 1996, Crisp Point Lighthouse was listed as the most endangered lighthouse in the United States.

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An old comic I made in art school (14 years ago) about a papa and baby bear, as well as a neolithic human sacrifice

I'm calling it "Everybear knows"

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Some monster designs!

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so apparently in 815 CE there was a common belief that sky pirates sailed ships in the clouds and (working in collaberation with frankish weather wizards) stole all the crops that got damaged in storms and took them back to the cloud realm of magonia.

And this was apparently a common enough belief that an archbishop felt the need to write a treatise to debunk it and insist that only god controls the weather, which is the only reason we know about it.

there are three important points to take from this, i think

This is great inspiration for your next dnd game

Tropes that might seem relatively modern (like airship pirates) can often actually go WAY back

The stuff your average medieval christian actually believed in will often have very little resemblance to christianity. And thats before you even get to the proper heretics. EDIT: people keep asking for the source and its now been added multiple times in different reblog chains. I should have put it in the original post but i am a fool: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.asp