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This is so fucking funny

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The World of Ultimate Gaming

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True, It is so weird that in the finale you are kinda forced to like the Stuart's lifestyle, even though the entirety of the series leads you to the idea that its all very much fucked up. I feel like the conclusion of his story must have been harsher for him.

Stuart is a very manipulative individual, so it made sense when later in the series everyone sort of distanced from him. However then suddenly everything reverted to status quo, like something in him had changed, even though clearly it hadn't. I really don't know what RTD was trying to say here.

Watched Queer as Folk for the first time, as I kind of want to make my way through RTD’s back catalogue as I really like Cucumber, years and years, It’s a sin and of course doctor who…

and well Stuart is definitely the most likeable nonce on television, like seriously 15??? Wtf even at the time that must have raised eyebrows it was only 1999 anyway. But most of the outrage of the show at the time was not about Nathan being 15 but just about gay sex being ‘depraved’ in general, Queer as folk got incredibly homophobic responses (I saw some media clips in Russell T Davis: The Doctor and me) Like I get rtd wanted to do teenage gay experience, and that is realistic for some people, but I feel that Stuart should have been called out for it more then he was, Stuart is supposed to come off as morally grey, but not a complete shit bag so maybe they should of made Nathan 17 instead or even 16 (For those who don’t know age of consent in the uk is 16 but rather homophobicly, until recently, the age of consent for gay men was 18 even though it was 16 for heterosexual sex) But I did enjoy the show overall, and whatever you think of Stuart, Aiden Gillen was incredible in the role, also Vince dumping his Australian boyfriend because he didn’t know all the names of the doctor who’s was very funny. I liked the ending with Vince and Stuart and giving Nathan the speech but the scene in America with the gun was a tad ott, but that’s generally Davis’ style.

Bonus note: There was a line in the first episode that really confused me, Vince said “It used to be 70s night now it’s 90s night, that made me feel old” any other context that sentence would make sense but it was literally 1999, surely all nights that play modern music were 90s night, music that came out after 1999 literally didn’t exist, that would be like having a 2020s night today. I guess it was a joke but it was one that didn’t make sense, dumb of me to concentrate on a throwaway line but I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Oh wait writing about Vince’s first line made me think about one of Stuart’s where he talks about how he lost his virginity to his PE teacher when he was 12! He mainly talks about like he’s bragging but he does say ‘I must have been terrified’ almost in a jokey way but still… Russell T Davis is a good and very nuance writer so I think Stuart being sexually abused at 12 (even though he clearly doesn’t see it as sexual abuse he sees it as consensual) is connected to him sleeping with a 15 year old. I don’t think it’s meant to be in a ‘those who are abused as kids grow up to abuse others’ kind of way, I don’t think Stuart and Nathan’s ‘relationship’ was meant to be seen as abusive, problematic, but not abusive. Stuart isn’t attracted to very young men particularly, he sleeps with a large variety of men, he actively tries to sleep with as many men as possible, and a large variety of men, he slept with Nathan because he was just another notch on the belt (and good looking) and seen as he was 12 when he lost his virginity and was going to the clubs and having one night stands at 16, only a year older than Nathan, he generally doesn’t see much wrong with it other then it being taboo, but he’s been told all his life that being gay is taboo in general, he just thinks those who take issue with him sleeping with a 15yo are prudish or don’t understand the gay male experience (I am in no way saying sleeping with underage boys is part of the gay experience, I’m just trying to get into the head of Stuart and what he thinks)

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the belted waist and platform heel.... she knows she's serving, and it ain't just what's in the pan

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Old kanny art

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Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Star (2024)

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good morning

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My Doctor.

Still remember when Peter Capaldi was announced as the Doctor back in 2013 and seeing his premiere in August 23rd, 2014. To this day, he’s my favorite iteration of the Doctor and he’s got the best TARDIS.

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"Mona Lisa" of Nimrud, 9th to the 7th centuries BC

Excavated from the Assyrian city of Nimrud (In modern Ninawa in Iraq).

The Mona Lisa of Nimrud depicts a woman's head and the sculpture does not extend much below the chin. It has a band around the top and bottom with peg holes. She is wearing a headdress and her hair is arranged ornately.

The carved ivory piece of art discovered in the city of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir Max Mallowan.

It is one of the most well known of the Nimrud ivories. It has also been known as the “Lady of the Well.” In contrast, another sculpture found with it was named "Ugly Sister."

When excavated, it was cleaned by Mallowan's wife Agatha Christie.

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All right, back to the pictures from a year ago.

This is a zine job. I chose to illustrate the Mummy in the Orient Express series with the farewell journey of Clara and the Twelfth Doctor. Of course, I've twisted the plot of the painting. This time the Doctor sees the mummy first and he doesn't have the same time margin as in canon. The mummy only appears to those who are under great stress or experiencing loss, which can be attributed to the Doctor because he is saying goodbye to Clara. Of course, here we can talk about why not Clara then but let that be willed. I would have sent the Doctor away a long time ago if I were Clara, especially after the Luna incident. But there they have a co-dependent relationship and they're worth each other. Although when I watched the series as a kid, I didn't think there was any romantic relationship at all between the Doctor and his travelling companions, whoa. (Using a machine translator)

Ну все, снова возвращаемся к картинкам годичной давности. Это работа в зин. Я выбрала иллюстрировать серию "Мумия в Восточном экспрессе" с прощальным путешествием Клары и Двенадцатого Доктора. Конечно, сюжет картины я переиначила. В этот раз Доктор видит мумию первым и у него нет того запаса времени, что в каноне. Мумия появляется только перед теми, кто в сильном стрессе или переживает потерю, что можно отнести к Доктору, потому что он прощается с Кларой. Конечно тут можно поговорить о том, почему тогда не Клара, но пусть это будет волей случая. Я бы на месте Клары давно послал бы Доктора, особенно после инцидента с Луной. Но там у них созависимые отношения и они стоят друг друга. Хотя когда я смотрела в детстве этот сериал, совершенно не думала что между Доктором и его попутчиками есть хоть какие-то романтические отношения, воу.

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“There are too many clues in this room”

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, with a doodle of the underrated Albert Finney as Detective Hercule Poirot.

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Mon ami....

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*does this to you*

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literally every music genre has at least one album that will absolutely change your life if you give it a shot