#ONWARDS!!! TO ADVENTURE!!!

[scatterbrainedbot]

Ehehehehhe your coming with me >:3

omigosh—

B E A N S ? ? ?

[delicourse]

lesbian pride moment 😳🌸

[inkclover]

What would Scarab's reaction be when he saw Nightmo for the first time?

" ... curious."

nightmo on the other hand...

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

[catspawcreates]

Going on a road trip! 9 day vacation, 6/9 days are driving. Lots of stops planned, going to have an adventure! Catch ya later!

[pushing500]

Against all odds, asexual Buckeye and reduced-fertility-gene Magic Man have managed to make a baby! However, because Buckeye is Animakin, she needs to plant the baby in soil... And there is no soil in the ocular forest where Monster's Basin is. Only red sand and red dirt and other nasty red stuff, which apparently doesn't count.

So, we have unexpectedly had to up and move in order to give this new baby the best possible chance of survival! We were hoping to be able to prepare a bit more first, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We'll leave everything behind for the sake of one of our own if we must.

However, moving means it's time for another (rather rushed, I'm afraid) colony tour! Presenting: Monster's Basin!!

Here's the whole thing from above. If I had to describe it in one word, I would say "red".

Here is the central room, the kitchen/dining/ritual room. Next to it, we have two bathrooms and our freezer. Magic Man is already packing some of our human leather kneel sheets, as you can see.

Some bedrooms: Top left is Vasso and Laursen's room, top right is Euclid and Socks' room, bottom left is Dire Wolf and Pro (and formerly Bella's) room, and bottom left is Magic Man, Buckeye, and Dopey the razorjack's bedroom.

We also have a small, utilitarian hospital.

Up above the bedrooms and the main room are our dinosaur museum (we can't go without a dinosaur museum) and our research laboratory. Also a better view of the freezer.

Our farms and a huge stack of red bricks that we'll never get to use.

Here's a nutrient-paste barn that we got from a prefab some traders sold us. Mostly so we could see what it was, but our animals seemed to appreciate it.

Bella's room that she was given when she grew up into an adult, the sauna, and Blackdragon, Duchess, and Night Stalker's room.

The wardrobe, the chemfuel room, the miscellaneous devices room, the hot spring, and the small place where we attempted to plant Buckeye's sapling child before we realised it didn't work in this biome.

Finally, our animal pen/archery range. We were very fond of the moose named All-Powerful (she fell out of the sky), but we'll probably release her into the wild (along with a self-tamed hare and three baby wolfchickens some traders gave us) to help us conserve food on our abrupt journey.

And that concludes the tour of Monster's Basin! I wonder where our caravan will take us. Hopefully, somewhere with plenty of fertile soil for a growing sapling child...

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[variousqueerthings]

I think it's also interesting to see how things change depending on the time in which they're being engaged with. so I see things about rose today that point out that she's written to be 19 when she meets the doctor and that's a big age difference (which... I understand the point is it's a big age difference because billie piper was 23 and eccleston was 40, and then dtennant was like 34/35 when he started which isn't so big of a shift but anyway the optics I get what people are getting at, but also I think it does oversimplify a lot of what's actually going on in the written dynamic, anyway-)

and also that the rtd run's Themes start coming together properly around s3 (although they are present from day one), and in some ways at this point, because nu!who has been running for... fuckn. actually quite a few years, which is wild to me as someone who started watching as a kid, and I wonder if classic!who fans felt the same way about their show and anyway -- she shifts from being Literally The First Companion You'd Seen For 17 Years (not counting the movie and fan things and the sketch) Who Was Defining A New Era For A New Generation to... a companion

comparable to other companions, comparable to the rest of the show

we sift through the writing to see what worked and what didn't (in our opinion), and we know how the ten-and-rose storyline Really ends, and how the ten storyline ends (sort, of because now that doctor and donna are Back), and we know what happens afterwards, and we talk about tenrose with a 2020s eye, and rose is "just" one of the people that travels with the doctor, one of several, and notably the one who gets most of the sunshiney doctor that buries a lot of the (wonderfully portrayed) angst of the latter half of the rtd show, and doesn't have as much lore as everything after that, so the story is "just" more simple overall

and to me she's kind of incapable of being just that. doctor who was still a risk that first season, it wasn't a done deal that it would have legs at all, never mind that it would continue for as long as it has. rose was created to be the Face of what nu!who was, moreso than nine/eccleston, because even with the extra angst and the eccleston gravitas, we know the doctor, the doctor is established, it's not actually the doctor that needs to sell what the new show is going to become and what the Feel of that new show is going to be (I mean, partly ofc, but-)

rose was doing so much heavy lifting and she succeeded! she was the face of who before dtennant or any other doctor or companion of his era and subsequent eras. she was created to appeal to a demographic of girls who wanted someone relatable in science fiction, because rtd wanted this to be for the girls, and billie piper came into it off the back of being a popstar and it changed her entire trajectory (for the better I think/hope -- there's a lot of bad shit in billie piper's past and I'm always sending her a fond thought)

nine/ten-and-rose were It! not calling it romantic or platonic or any secret third thing (haunting the narrative), but simply It! that's why it has so much staying power as a ship (which, my opinion on shipping has been somewhat *eh shrug* in later years, but in early-days when that was how you engaged with dynamics that got to you, of course it was going to be massive). it's so hard to properly describe how "for the time in which it was made" that this dynamic was written for, and how successful it was. it was rose that breathed doctor who -- and the doctor's character -- to life, as much as herself

she sets the stage for everything that comes next, both within and without the show proper

and I'm always so pleased that rtd at the time was thinking about what was needed to create this character and he opened with a shot from a girl on the estate with messy hair, clumpy eyeliner, and a minimum wage job, and went "that's the girl who's going to go on the adventure of a lifetime, that's the girl we're seeing the story through and relating to, because that's what girls (and uh... those who were girls at the time - and their parents and the boys) should be seeing."

I know rose isn't the first working class companion including classic!who, but she set the tone for nu!who and her family and background are important to why she is who she is, and is explored

"I've got no A-levels, no job, no future-" said the girl about to see the universe

she was very much for teenagers, and so she reads differently when you're an adult watching it back (much like those "teenager saves the world," novels you loved as a kid), but that's why she's 19 at the beginning. that's why she's billie piper (who does a perfect job). she was there to bring a new generation into this story, and it was perfect. and then she grows up. and we grew up. and she had adventures and it was brilliant and she survived and she made a life for herself. that's her story

[junotter]

Post ipre and wars and sizzle it up etc., Taako - aka Taako at the start of here there be gerblins

[churbo]

continuing my self imposed tradition of drawing these guys for new years! Happy new years everyone!

[bunnies-and-sunshine]

Follow me!

River is off on another adventure while Simon is working out how to traverse the loveseat-couch junction with the remote control still in the way. River makes that stuff look easy!

[mrs-trophy-wife]

There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

—Elizabeth Taylor

[digitalworldss]

Thinking about Mimi and her crest of purity…I feel “purity” is a trait that is misinterpreted a lot. I think that’s probably the fault of the American dub for changing it to sincerity (which, in my opinion, does not fit her and does not hold the same weight.)

To explain my interpretation of “purity,” I don’t believe it means what we usually interpret that word to mean. I think it’s commonly meant “sweet” and has a sort of gentleness to it, and that is not Mimi. She can be those things, but that’s not what really defines her. I think “purity” for Mimi means that her feelings are pure, a sort of innocence.

Mimi does not want to fight, she does not want to see others get hurt. Palmon’s evolutions are always motivated by her anger and desperation from those feelings (I’ve talked about this before, so I won’t go too much into it). The others aren’t like this, I need that to be clear. The other 7 original chosen do not have that trait, their evolutions are never motivated by that same anger.

Mimi’s crest glows for the first time when she feels that rage, because those were pure feelings. To better explain my point, Mimi’s feelings are pure because she doesn’t want to actually hurt anyone. It’s never to kill, it’s always to protect, even if she’s fueled by anger. The others also always have that sense of “protect” but it’s more associated with dealing the final blow, while Mimi is not. Lilimon’s first evolution does not result in DarkTyranomon dying by her hands, it results in Lilimon purifying it. Mimi doesn’t want death, Mimi just wants everyone to be safe, and that’s pure.

That is what I believe the crest of purity means, and I think it fits her extremely well. That is what Mimi is, pure.

[mariocki]

Anthony Ainley guests as medical specialist Josef Kerston, a doctor but also (shock!) a villain, in The Adventurer: The Bradley Way (1.4, ITC, 1972)

[saeraas]

if I had a nickel for every time a charismatic blonde guy with red eyes that became interested in a priest and was able to spout some philosophical bullshit to said priest that later ends up convincing the priest to do increasingly more fucked up shit as the story progresses I'd have two nickels. which isn't much, but it's weird it happened twice

[karmathenightowl]

TAZ vs Dracula Ep. 4 Spoilers

Huh

If I had a nickel for every time I specifically associated Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio with The Adventure Zone, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right?

First, it was Emerich's character especially that car scene with Hard Doug in Steeplechase.

Now this

A wooden boy with a borrowed soul situation I guess lol