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Wait this is me except it’s Phillies, Taylor Swift, Eagles, audio dramas, aviation disasters, interior design, American history and collage.

The internet is amazing.

please i have such a weird niche combination of interests like what other human on this planet is simultaneously obsessed with the phillies, taylor swift, kid cudi, travis scott, a$ap rocky, moby, doctor who, good omens, hozier, plushes, the periodic table, armenia, street art/graffiti, and stanley tucci’s tv show+book.

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🫶 | 2 april 2024

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Anyone have those photos of ewan mcgregor screen testing/costume fitting or whatever for obi wan before they chopped his long hair for ep 1? I need them for reasons....

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Me but anytime anyone talks shit about Pennsylvania

I love how defensive of Yorkshire Clara has been so far this season: "Well, I'm a simple Yorkshire lass Fleet. Obviously I'd never seen more than two people in a row before coming to London. We have cities you know!"; "Again Fleet, there are cities outside London, even in my oh so remote Yorkshire. Can you guess the name of the city after which Yorkshire might be named Fleet?"; "It's a real place, you can get the train there!" She's always ready to defend Yorkshire with sass and sarcasm, even when nobody was actually criticising Yorkshire or even referring to it at all. I support her so much.

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Will booping bring back the joy of poking? What is booping? I feel ancient

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This is my Darcy Hand Flex

he's so repressed <3

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3,470 miles (5,858 kilometers) later it’s here!!!!

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As a person who actively endeavors to be kind I think it is perhaps one of the hardest things a person can do because you never know if you’re doing it right and sometimes all the instinct buried in you from the ancestors that survived to get you here is telling you to do the opposite and damn it’s just hard.

Kind characters are not boring; in fact, due to the vast amount of people who hold that opinion, kind characters are as edgy as it gets. In this essay I will

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also I didn’t know Brunel was a real person until literally yesterday sometimes I’m so American it hurts

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Because I cannot stop thinking about Victoriocity and I don’t belong to any sort of book club, I will be posting my errant thoughts and analysis here until further notice.

Today’s thought: I cannot wait for a deeper examination/exploration of the identities that both Fleet and Clara are struggling with. With Clara it’s very clearly the dichotomy between what is expected from her from society and her mother versus what she wants out of life. That’s definitely explored a little in S3 and I can’t wait to get more of that.

What is only hinted at though both in the book and in S3 and what I am DYING to learn more about is Fleets relationship with automatons post coming back to life. There is clearly so much tension between him and these robots and what happened to him and how he doesn’t fully KNOW what happened to him. Plus the whole determining whether an automaton is dead or merely off etc etc. So interesting and I can’t wait to get more hints of that as time goes on. Also there’s a part in the book about a railing that weirdly moved me and is where this thought comes from. You’ll know it when you see it which is why you should buy and read the book.

I wasn’t kidding when I said this was going to be a Victoriocity fan page until new content comes out. I may have been a bit hyperbolic but I wasn’t KIDDING.

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Victoriocity is one of only two podcasts that routinely make me laugh out loud at work, which is possibly the greatest endorsement I could give it

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'What I’m talking about, Miss Entwhistle, is a future where machines can reason, where they can imagine. Where they can think. Just like humans.’

‘Please aim higher,’ said Fleet.

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I haven’t fallen in love with fictional characters and the world that they inhabit the way I have with Victoriocity in YEARS. It genuinely makes me feel like a kid again, the way I got when I was reading Harry Potter for the first time and the universe just was slowly unfolding and I wanted to know everything about it outside of the main storyline. And then you have the pitch perfect humor and characters I AM VERY DEEPLY INVESTED IN that are in the most perfect Victorian slow burn of all time where I KNOW SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY BUT ITS GOING TO TAKE YEARS AND ILL BE HANGING ON TO A DARCY HAND FLEX MOMENT FOR DEAR LIFE UNTIL IT DOES, and you got me hook, line and sinker.

But seriously, it’s well written. It engages in some trope but does so in a way that only good writing can where expectation is subverted and then not that that is surprising and delightful, The pacing is excellent. The world they’ve created is completely original but totally familiar which grounds the characters and the plot.

Anyway, I bought three copies of High Vaultage (audio, ebook and special edition hard copy of course), finished it, binged season three and now I need the link to the kickstarter for the next project because I NEED MORE. This is just going to be a fan account until then.

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This is why the trope about otherworldly/superior/fantastical beings being in awe of humans for our flaws and our strengths gets me. Every. Single. Time.

I think my most unpopular opinion is that I’m broadly in favor of humans? Like, I do not think kangaroos or amoebae or AI would do a better job with the strange miracle of consciousness. I think we are doing about as well as we can do given the extremely strange situation in which we find ourselves.

Like, don’t get me wrong. We are a catastrophe. But we’re also so much else! We make music and art and movies, including movies from 1973 that do not exist. We are capable of such sacrifice and empathy. We pass on information that we have learned via writing and other technologies. We dream about our teeth falling out. We are so strange and terrifying and lovely.

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the problem with tumblr is how it tricks you into telling on yourself like I don’t need to world to know how deep my weird fandom history goes but 2013 me wants to reblog