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#whatever they had was not romantic but it was most certainly homosexual

they are categorically not in love. it's really more of a wine drunk fuck my squire type deal

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if you guys dont know anything about canadian politics, i dont think you realize how insane this liberal victory is.

just months ago, the conservatives had an almost guaranteed win. Trudeau was insanely unpopular even among his own party, the progressive vote was split between them and the NDP, and the conservatives had gained so much more ground with the up-and-comer poilievre who came in with a canadian trump campaign strategy. We were resigned to losing, canadian minorities were making backup plans for their livelihoods in the likely event that we would be targeted by poilievre and his goons. His victory seemed like a sad inevitability that we could only stand up for so long against

And then trump was elected. and then canadians woke the fuck up from their conservative pipe dreams as we were hit with tariffs and annexation threats. and then trudeau resigned, leaving his bad blood behind. and then the NDP nuked themselves by publicly betraying the minorities they claimed to serve with their "we dont care who you vote for as long as they arent liberal" strategy, ending the split progressive vote as they were left behind. and then Mark Carney, the best possible liberal leader for this moment in time to win as many people over as possible, was elected liberal leader. Not all of these things are good, many are terrible, many are complicated, but politics is incredibly complicated, and it's the system we work on, so it's the hand we have to play.

And it was close tonight. It was uncomfortably, nauseatingly close, even with all these factors at play, even with ridings in the prariries of all regions going red, because that's how guaranteed a conservative win seemed not too long ago.

But they didn't win. We won.

I want us all to take this moment in time and think back on it when it all seems hopeless and like it'll never be right again. An anti-doomerism moment if you will. Because he was going to win, that wasn't a question, he WAS going to win. And then he didn't.

NEVER. KILL. YOURSELF.

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this is weirdly specific, but early 60s doctor who captures some really simple human experiences really well. vicki's fear of heights in the chase and barbara's nausea in planet of the giants are almost absurdly realistic.

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in invasion of the dinosaurs, one of the twists is that yates has joined the conspiracy of the ecofascists. this is fairly important information which comes up fairly early, and when viewed in retrospect, yates' rather odd actions begin to add up. however, all this serious business leads to a hilarious sequence where yates asks the doctor what he's doing, seeking to sabotage the doctor's experiment, and the doctor, deeply distracted, tells yates his entire plan in great detail. yates leaves, and sarah enters, also asking after his plans with an ulterior motive—to get permission to sneak around. the doctor tells her to fuck off and ask yates about his contraption. sarah leaves. the doctor moves to lock the door shut, fed up with human interruptions—

and the brigadier walks in, asking after him. then the doctor loses it.

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i don't think exposing sarah's friends classic who era to her friends sja era would particularly surprise anyone but i do think exposing either of those to her friends sjs audios era would leave at least one person dead

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big fan of when a character is a vengeful ghost but they're not even dead

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this is a sarah jane smith unappreciation post. girl i love you but you HAVE to stop feeding your friends to the sacrifice machine.

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JO: How about you, sweetie? SARAH: Oh, I've got a son. He's called Luke, he's just gone to university. No, no dad on the picture. JO: Oh, playing the field. Good on you, girl.

it's really funny that everyone seems to think luke isn't adopted and sarah never really bothers to explain the truth

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collapses in your arms princess style after casting the biggest evil most fucked up spell you've literally every seen

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collapses in your arms princess style after casting the biggest evil most fucked up spell you've literally every seen

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if you interpret the hand of fear as a messy breakup, then from the doctor's perspective, he dumps sarah, gets back together with his weird ex (who's trying to kill him) and goes back home to throw himself into work (also trying to kill him) then moves back in with his mother (thinks he's satan). the logic tracks, though; warriors' gate is clearly an unceremonious divorce, in which romana got the dog and he got the kid. once again, the doctor gets back together with his weird ex (still trying to kill him), and then kills himself and comes back to life looking suspiciously like his ex-wife. fantastic.

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i think one issue with the way some people conceptualise atheism is that they consider it primarily the belief of ex-christians traumatised by the church growing up, which automatically excludes a whole variety of atheistic experiences - atheists who were raised atheists, sometimes by atheists, and have never been religious; atheists who are also part of a religion, especially an ethnoreligion; atheists who left other religions, like, ooh, i don't know... islam, the world's second-biggest religion; or ex-christians who left christianity simply because their beliefs changed.

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#the doctor w/o an enormous amount of self control & a morality they actively maintain would just be the master #'i thought we were the same. but when we grew up we weren't' isnt a 'the master used to be good' line #its a 'the doctor used to kill ppl with rocks' line

in terror of the autons, the doctor isn't thinking to himself, "wow! never knew he was evil," the master is thinking to himself, "since when did my ex have morals?"

some people seem to be under the impression that the doctor is naturally pacifistic and takes some frustration to snap and start killing. this could not be further from the truth: the doctor is naturally physically violent, and wastes significant amounts of energy every day on not punching all his enemies.

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Did you know that Eating can make you feel Sane?

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i hate the reddit atheist stereotype and furthermore i hate that the reddit atheist stereotype very much is a real genre of atheists, because my atheism is in fact a significant element of my personality and lived experience, and it would be nice not to have an entire belief system (because, yes, atheism is a belief as much as, say, roman catholicism is; one does not magically start lacking a belief in gods one day) caricatured as the angry postings of some idiots online. it is in fact possible to not believe in god and have morals and if you suggest otherwise i'll hit you with my copy of the stripping of the altars: traditional religion in england, 1400 – 1580

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they didn't have the tardis. they didn't even have the tardis. the whole series takes place in the span of like a week. the poor guy's clothes must be absolutely ruined.

hold on a fucking minute. where did sarah get that leather jacket? why is there a 5'4" women's size leather jacket just lying around at unit headquarters.