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[image: drawn illustration of a selfie on a cellphone taken by Piper, with Trickster 1 and Mick, all buddy buddy while Axel and Shade are in the background and Rainbow Raider is hanging out on a double rainbow he made]

My faves !! Playing fast and loose with the costumes and the fact Rainbow Raider is still alive, don’t @ me

Anyway, imagine that FBI Rogues arc only if it were actually fun

PREVIOUS ROGUE SELFIES: Mark Mardon ( here ) and Leonard & Lisa Snart ( here )

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Just like magic ✨🌀

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During World War II, Josephine Baker served with the French Red Cross and was an active member of the French resistance movement. Using her career as a cover Baker became an intelligence agent, carrying secret messages written in invisible ink on her sheet music. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre, and received a Medal of the Resistance in 1946. In 1961 she received the highest French honor, the Legion d’Honneur awarded by then President Charles de Gaulle.

Our loss, U.S.A….

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This can be your entrance.

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Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul) | Frozen Planet II: Frozen Worlds

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I CHOOSE YOU // sara bareilles

Tell the world that we finally got it all right I choose you I will become yours and you will become mine I choose you

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So I put my mind to it and retaught myself 3D modeling

Also I taught myself 3D printing.

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So through our 12th Doctor transition metaphor, Missy and Clara are two visions of "the Doctor as a woman" (not really competing visions; they're more like the same person at different life stages). Missy represents "would being a woman make me irredeemably evil," while Clara represents "would the lack of a protective masculine mask make me 'breakable' enough to inevitably get me killed." Each of their arcs reaches a sort of "no, but" conclusion: Missy is capable of goodness, but also so dogged by self-destructive impulses that no one will ever know; Clara is capable of fully embodying the Doctor role (and surviving the "death" of transition a la tv glow), but only at the cost of full alienation from everyone she once loved.

Bill is the Doctor's younger self if he'd actually gotten to self-actualize as a teen/twentysomething autistic lesbian. She gets sabotaged by Saxon Master, who self-destructs rather than become a woman. Missy and Bill are again two faces of the "self" - Missy as the self subject to a literal suicide, and Bill as the young-lesbian-self, spiritually smothered, forced into the ultimate mask/closet of cyber conversion. (This is the culmination of the themes we've been setting up since deep breath, re undeath, turning yourself into a literal or emotional robot in order to survive, killing the true parts of yourself so many times that you've ship of theseus'd your "self" out of existence and all that's left to you is to jump or be pushed, etc). And yet, Bill can't be extinguished. Where there's tears, there's hope. The Doctor has to face both the younger self who was (oh god I said so much sexist shit when I was younger, I'm going to throw up), and the younger self who never was (Bill, the self beneath the robotic mask). The Doctor has to grieve Bill, and yet understand that she's still there. She never really died. Despite your best efforts, despite the machine you tried to turn yourself into, the living death you made of your life...that inner spark survived.

So the Doctor is able to reach the same choice as the Master - kill yourself, or become a woman - and choose change.

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The oldest working astronomical clock installed in 1410, Prague.

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We’re All Anons Here

Cisco finds an advice blog for metas on tumblr. And maybe he could use some advice.

This fic is crossposted to Ao3 if you’d rather read there.  Their formatting is probably easier on the eyes.

Cisco could feel his focus slipping as he scrolled idly through the meta tag, skimming the newest posts halfheartedly. It might be a bit of an unconventional research tactic; the tag was filled with a ton of rumors and speculation, not to mention most of it was unverifiable, but occasionally he found something useful. It wasn’t until he realized he’d been scrolling for a reasonably long time and was still on the same post that he came back to himself, forehead scrunching slightly. Usually he just encountered short potential witness accounts. Curiosity getting the better of him, he found himself scrolling back up to the top of the post, an anon ask on a blog called metasanonymous.

Keep reading

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GUYS I’M TOTALLY AWFUL AND NEVER POSTED THIS

look at my two favorite dorks 💖

thank you thank you thank you @klaudiart!!  (her commission info is here!)  and thank you @strivia for pointing me in klaudia’s direction! <3

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"the worst part of being a trans man is wearing boring plain masculine clothes" skill issue, i look cool as fuck

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the Thirteenth Doctor casually showing up to help her past and future selves

from 'Defender of the Daleks' and 'The Reality War'

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Lilo & Stitch (2002) dir. Chris Sander & Dean DeBlois

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Agatha Christie's Poirot costumes [9/?] ↳ Miss Felicity Lemon's pink outfit in 2x01 "Peril at End House"

"[The hair curls] were stuck on. I've still got them in a box! But Brian Eastman, the producer, didn't like them, so he banned them after, I think, the second [season/series]. The first series he didn't like them at all. So, then it sort of shrunk to maybe one curl there or one here or going up that way. He wasn't having the curls at all. I quite liked them!" - Pauline Moran on the hairstyle she had as Miss Lemon, The Labours of Hercule interview, Dec 2023

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(june 23, 2025)

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