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I think everyone should listen to the Gallifrey audios because at its core it’s about a 4-way situationship so problematic it at one point causes the time war

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After a year and two days, I finally finished this double sided sheep blanket!!!

The design is by Nifty Knitter:

They have a lot of cute patterns and their double knit instructions are are super beginner friendly!

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Link to original

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I adore this recent trend (if that's the right word) of letting an orchestra play classical music on a festival. It's magical to see thousands of festival-goers going absolutely wild on Beethoven. Mosh/circlepits, crowd surfing. It's wonderful to see the orchestra and the audience having the time of their lives.

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sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

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ok joanna russ lets say more

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disco elysium & the world

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never gonna get over the this. the faces of two women that Know Things but aren't allowed to say anything 😭💀

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Regular day on the job

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'Enjoy it despite its flaws' is one thing, but Mass Effect somehow invented its own category: 'simultaneously one of the most flawed and the most well-crafted sci-fi stories I've ever experienced'. These games are incredible. They’re the worst. All the women are sexualized. All the women have deeply flawed and complex personalities without being either demonized or romanticized. The first available f/f ship seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'. As the games go on, they effortlessly include multiple same sex romance options given just as much care and development as the the opposite sex ones. You can play as a xenophobic murderhobo asshole. You can play as someone genuinely caring but also harsh, who inspires growth and co-operation wherever you go but who makes hard choices when you have to. You can kill civilians and punch reporters and commit genocide. You can stop a generational war and mediate peace and save several species from extinction. The robots are stereotypically evil cannon fodder. The robots are deeply complex with a tragic history. Your team mates are assholes with xenophobic opinions or justifications for police brutality and genocide, or they just want excuses to Do Murder. You team mates are deeply flawed and can be urged to grow alongside you. The most important aliens are all humanoids. There are plant aliens and jellyfish aliens and insect aliens and elephant aliens and aliens who can’t share an atmosphere with us. You have to drive around countless identically boring planets with little to show for it. You get to discover hidden secrets and civilisations millions of years old and live through some of the most emotionally harrowing scenes in storytelling history. I am going absolutely insane about it.

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The Torchwood gang are poking around old files for whatever reason and stumble across some photos of Jack in a nazi uniform. This is at the point where they're still pretty in the dark about his background and a little suspicious of him so they're like huh there's no way he was a nazi right?? And then they're like no no there's no way. He must have been on an undercover mission or something.

So they look up what he was doing during the war and find that he actually stopped working for Torchwood, vanished for several years, and then came back like nothing happened, which is NOT how Torchwood usually records undercover missions.

Serious friction in the group as they split into camp 'there's no way Jack was ever a nazi' (Gwen, Ianto), camp 'i think we should be open to the possibility that Jack was a nazi' (Tosh) and camp 'let's just beat him up and have done with it' (Owen)

Eventually they confront Jack with the pictures and he's like yeah I took a sabbatical during WWII to avoid a time paradox. Those photos are from when I was in a gay musical about Hitler in the sixties. And they're like what?? And he's like I was in a GAY MUSICAL about HITLER in the SIXTIES. What's not clicking.

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His Name Is Elmer

Rating: T (or M depending on personal sensitivity to tagged topics) Characters: Tegan Jovanka, The Fifth Doctor (Hologram) Tags: Being Forced to Reconcile that Your Fave is also The Worst, Suicide Mention, Discussions of Pederasty/Pedophilia, Discussions of Age of Consent, (in a sense), Last Of The Scuzz Lords

For decades a thought has been eating away at Tegan. Adric. Pretending-to-be-schoolboy Turlough trying to get close to the Doctor. The photos of Ace, so adorable as a punky 16 year old, about to face the terrors of the universe. Yaz, who was clearly very, very close to the Doctor. And now there is a new one, who met him on her 19th birthday.

She has to ask what’s going on.

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Something about Louis being preserved at 33, the age Jesus was when he was crucified, vs Lestat stuck at 34, the porn rule number

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when me and my boyfriend make meals we have a tradition of sending each other unappetising off-centre photographs of them in poor lighting. we call this "wikipedia food".

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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There's some missing episodes of Dr who where you watch the recon and are like this has the air of being good but it's really hard to tell. But then occasionally you get a recon where it's like ohhh this fucked didn't it. This fucked so hard it's still sick as hell as a glorified PowerPoint presentation.

Anyway god DAMN destruction of time must have been good