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This is a question for indie writers, not of the fanfic variety. Have you ever used a marketing/PR to launch your book. I have two published novels that I launched myself, and I am pure pish at it. Can't market my way out of a paper bag with a headtorch. I have a third novel very, very close to completion, and I am wondering if I should give DIY marketing another go or find a person. And if the latter, then who? You search the web for PR people for indie books, and there are too many, and you have no idea if anyone is any good. In my case, I just get annoyed and overwhelmed by choice and go off and do something else. Any insights or recommendations, tumblr people?

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The year is 2014, a new teacher joins the secondary school you work at, you think she’s cute and you go on a couple dates with her. Eventually, you’re dating and you notice this guy she hangs out with a lot. He looks like he’s in his late 50s, he’s very strange, and he doesn’t approve of your relationship. You find this very strange, why does he care who you date? Turns out, he’s a Genderfluid Pansexual loser boy who is 10000s of years old and an alien from a now exploded planet. They are also your girlfriend’s situationship. She keeps turn up late to dates because she’s travelling the stars with him. You tell her to stop travelling with the alien, she says she does but she doesn’t. Robot men then start invading earth because your girlfriend’s situationship’s mortal enemy, best friend and situationship has transitioned into a women and wants to destroy the earth. You get killed by the robot men. Your girlfriend gets so upset she tries to throw out all the keys to her situationship’s time and space machine, she fails and the alien says ‘you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference’. Your girlfriend then gets back with her situationship. Then she dies. Then the alien is so upset that he gets trapped in his own personal hell for 1000s of years to save her. When he finally saves her, he is forced to either wipe her memory of him, or his memory of her. He puts it up to chance and ends up having his memory wiped. He remembers nothing of her but a distant memory and a song. He meets a woman in a cafe, he sings her a song based on the woman he loved and lost. The woman is the girl he lost, but he doesn’t know that. She waves him goodbye and then goes to travel space with that aliens weird surrogate child. This is the plot of Doctor Who seasons 8 and 9

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This sounds brilliant. Imagine if your beautful showjumper died, but then regenerated into Shetand pony.

It would be really funny if some other animals or even plants on gallifrey could regenerate. Beloved pet dies, suddenly you have a different pet. You try to eat a vegetable and it becomes a different vegetable. The burn gives it flavour. Cutting the grass becomes difficult near the schism. Amateurs can’t distinguish regenerative and non regenerative mushrooms. There’s a hydra that has to be killed thirteen times. Regenerative forest fires

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Am I the only one who struggles with many of the 12th Doctor audios because most non-Scots cannae fake a Scottish accent to save their lives, much less a Glaswegian one. It always annoys me and I stop listening.

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And meanwhile in real life...not Doctor Who related. I'm on the brown horse and my friend is on the mouse dun horse. The bridge to the right isn't much wider than the horses, so it's safer to use the "ford." Unlike on TV, we don't charge about everywhere in a gallop, and we wear a lot of hi-viz.

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I've been revisiting Capaldi's episodes (who doesn't) and what's very cool about all those - when you compare them to Season 14/15 - is that Stephan Moffat didn't raise the stakes on every single episode, or in every season finale. There were so many episodes where the Doctor was focused on saving his own arse, his companion's, and maybe the arses of a few people in a wee village or on a ship/space station. I mean sure, n=1 is everything if you're 'n,' but the universe/the Earth were perfectly safe.

Even in RTD's first run, with Tennant and Eccleston, he had a few too many "Oh, for fuck's sake, someone's invading Earth again" episodes, to the point where it felt like it was getting silly and meaningless by the time we got to David's final episodes. Oh Jesus, the Master *and* Gallifrey?? Though in fairness, he balanced it out with ones where the Doctor was only sorting out himself and his friends, but Davies had more episodes to play with in those days. The 'filler' episodes matter. When Moffat took over, he seemed to increasingly back off that world-ending-all-the-fucking-time paradigm, even for series finales. Of course, he wrote a few. But when he did, you paid attention. I loved Extremis, et. al., and the one during Matt Smith's tenure with the wee cubes. Dark Water/Death in Heaven went in that direction, but then Missy's motives for making her Cybermen army turned out to be impressing the Doctor, not really world domination.

And of course, Heaven Sent/Hell Bent are the best series finales, ever, and they are so grounded in character, and while the stakes for the Doctor himself are very, very high, most of the universe/Earth is just cracking on, not giving a shit.

I found it deeply disappointing and utterly beautiful that Twelve twatted himself and died because he did something stupid, trying to rehab Missy, and got himself sucked into the clusterfuck on that colony ship. In the grand scheme of the universe, none of it mattered. I was upset and angry at his life choices, but from an non-diagetic point of view, it was stunning.

In season 15, the stakes were always so high...in every episode, with the Earth, the universe, all on the edge of catastrophe, and at some point, you stop caring. It was like RTD letting his bombastic side run wild, whereas in his first run as exec produce, his work was at its best when he wasn't being bombastic, like 'Girl in the Fireplace' or 'Midnight.' Just let the Doctor save a village of 5th century Vikings and bitch about it being a waste of his time, and then do it anyway.

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It's Heaven Sent. Mostly because it did my head in the first time I saw it and I felt like I was tripping baws, and on subsequent viewings, it's like a big metaphor for all the shitty parts of owning horses, like winter, and box rest, and realising your horse has EMS. Does Stephen Moffat have a horse???

How many seconds in eternity?

As long as it takes me to soak this fucking haynet.

would be really difficult to just make a poll for this so please tell me which doctor who story scared you the most. classic who, nuwho, big finish, spinoff episode, etc. I’m not 100% sure on mine but I think listen has to be up there bc we just. never find out what was under the blanket

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"How many seconds in eternity?"

The words and look of a man who's been soaking the same haynet for 4.5 billion years.

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I love the tragedy of Clara Oswald because it’s a story that is so unique to doctor who as a show. She tries so so hard to live up to the hero that inspires her (or the man that she loves depending on your reading) but it kills her because nobody can be the doctor. Nobody else can live like him, nobody else can carry his burden. She crumples under the weight. And it’s so tragic for the doctor because he’s seen so many people die for his sake, and it feels like it’s his fault every time.

And then he spends four and a half billion years reliving a nightmare just so he can have a chance at saving her, which again is something that nobody but the doctor could ever do. And you’d think that a being as ancient and as tired as the doctor would just respect the laws of time and move on, especially because Clara was just a human who was there for a tiny fraction of his life.

But this is the doctor; humans are like giants to him. So of course he’s going to save her at the cost of everything else.

And what does he say when she asks him why he did it? “I had a duty of care.” The way he says it sounds so natural, like he’s not even thinking twice about it. That’s his job. He’s the doctor. It’s who he is.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose." I live by this line, and the 12th Doctor's sad but world-weary and cynical manner. I think all horse owners do. Does Jamie Mathieson, who wrote the script for 'Mummy on the Orient Express," own horses???

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The very first time I saw 'Heaven Sent,' I watched it blind. I hadn't read any reviews or anything on the internet. It was just the next thing on iPlayer. And holy shit, I thought I was tripping balls for an hour. Came out of it like, what the hell just happened? I have rewatched it (most recently last night), and it is glorious and you see fresh nuances and subtle things, but man, nothing will ever be like that very first time. You can't replicate that. Then 'Hell Bent' was also brilliant, more like normal television (it wasn't just Peter Capaldi on his own), but a totally different season finale than 'Oh dear, the Earth is being invaded by someone else. Again.' Nope, it was the Doctor going off the rails to reverse Clara's death, and as far as he was concerned, the Time Lords and the rest of the universe could go fuck themselves, and his whole thing backfired, and he wound up in Utah. We've all had nights like that.

And that trainwreck, we whip around to.....Greg Davies and Matt Lucas? The first I time I saw it, 'Husbands of River Song' was genuinely baffling because I didn't know who River was, as I had been watching Doctor Who backwards and hadn't got to Matt's or David's episodes yet, and then you have Greg Davies basically playing himself (even as a disembodied head), and it's like tonal whiplash. How the fuck did we get from that to this? On subsequent viewings, it has made more sense (seeing all of River's other episodes helped...surprise surprise), and the continuity is there, it's just subtle. Same as with 'Heaven Sent;' you can't ever replicate the 'what the actual fuck is happening' experience of your first viewing, which is what made Doctor Who so addictive. But you just find other sides of it.

I've always wondered what the Doctor did with himself between 'Hell Bent' and 'Husbands of River Song.'

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That's how I see it. I described it in my AO3 novel as a cross between doing a PhD at Cambridge, a military academy, and a cult.

thinking about the timelord academy and thinking about it does it function similar to Oxford/cambridge? like the academy is the university and chapters are the colleges. That the chapters matter for like interpersonal relationships and for other timelords it would matter but in general you’d say the academy. It just feels like the kind of thing that someone who went through the uk collegial system would put in as an automatic thing

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Black Mirror “Playthings.” Does anyone remember the game Lemmings? That dates you as much as it does me. You had to stop from them from dying because they’d mindlessly walk off cliffs or get stuck in places and stuff like that. Were the Throng not just lemmings going a bit wrong with A.I.?

Brilliant sci fi ideas on this show.

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what would happen if u drank 1 too many moscow mules and tried to fly a tardis. would u get arrested for a time travel DUI. would the tardis just not let u fly. would u crash and burn

What happens if you drink drive a TARDIS?

Let's start with the basics: piloting a TARDIS is not like flying a shuttle or a speeder or, for that matter, driving a terrestrial Earth vehicle. It's less 'you are flying it' and more 'you've convinced it to go along with your general idea.'

🌀 Who's Actually In Control?

TARDISes do the bulk of the piloting themselves, calculating Epsilon coordinates, managing course corrections, Vortex navigation, and avoiding phasing into the centre of a collapsing neutron star. In practice:

The pilot initiates the journey.

The TARDIS determines the safest (or most narratively interesting) route.

Then you hold on.

In short: the TARDIS does most of the flying automatically.

🍹 So, What If You're Drunk?

There are currently no known official Time Lord laws prohibiting intoxicated TARDIS operation. But this is probably because it's largely self-regulating, because if you were to try:

The TARDIS will know you are drunk no matter how many times you insist you're not.

It may silently ignore some of your button inputs to prevent disaster.

It could just straight up lock you out of the console room.

If it's feeling particularly annoyed, it may route you somewhere mildly humiliating as a warning, like an ethics symposium. Or a planet full of sober monks. Or your ex's house.

Either way, because of its self-piloting nature and millions of safeguards (the ACC, the EDS - see related), it's pretty hard to crash a TARDIS even if you're trying intentionally.

🏫 So...

Don't drink and time travel. But it's kind of OK because the TARDIS already does most of the work anyway.

Related:

💬|🛸🧑‍✈️What roles would six Time Lords have in piloting a TARDIS?: How having six pilots would work.

💬|🛸💥Can TARDISes or other time travel devices get into crashes?: How time capsules can crash and preventative TARDIS tech.

💬|🛸💥How do TARDISes deal with stress?: Theoretical ideas of stress management in TARDISes.

Hope that helped! 😃

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How are some of you AO3 writers so prolific? It takes me ages to complete anything, probably due to my inability to keep things under 100,000 words (lol) and then compulsively edit and rewrite them over a period of many, many months.

Working on sprawling novel #2, the sequel of sprawling novel #1, but if anyone has any ideas for a short story involving Twelve they'd like to see, I'd love to hear them and see if it's possible to write something between 2000 and 4000-ish words.

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Does hearing a very young Peter Capaldi in full Weegie make your day a little bit better? It improves mine in every way, aye, so it does, but I live in Glasgow (not orginally fae here...just saying), so I can understand him. He tones it doon a wee bit for Doctor Who and the Thick of It and everything, but how fuckin great would Doctor Who series 8-10 have been if he'd done it in his broadest Glaswegian dialect?