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Happy birthday!!

Thank!!

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@stowawayinsantassackathealpaca it’s a 5-7 page essay (1500-2000 words roughly), so I’ve gotten the majority of it done. It just needs to undergo a lot of proofreading + needs a conclusion. But I was getting hyperfixated on it and needed to be told to work on something else and come back to it later, so thank you for that!!

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Have you guys documented the meme that is that stock photo of a guy with a girl right by him (presumed to be his girlfriend) checking out another girl who just walked by (with the former girl being visibly offended), whose characters people assign different captions to - e.g. 'me'/'an ice cream sandwich'/'another ice cream sandwich'? I think that that one's worth documenting! Regardless, thanks for all the work you do! You provide an excellent resource and we're all super-fortunate to have you!!

Yup, we know of this meme! 

It’s hard to track down the origins since it seems to have been popularised on Twitter and Facebook first before becoming big on Tumblr, but if anyone has info on the origins, please do reach out!

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post:can i ask what are your favorite NSA novels? i...

(I’ve only read a handful of New Series Adventures books myself so I’m not going off an enormously good sample size here but) No ‘Tales of Trenzalore?’ I loved how it did the necessary task of fleshing out the /massive/ time stretch that the Doctor spent in Christmas (heartbreaking… continuity aside, anyway… :<); it developed him and the village really well overall, I thought and filled that time period in with enough information that made it feel real in a way that ‘The Time of the Doctor’ couldn’t really accomplish with its own pacing! And it featured some pretty fun stories on their own merit intertwined with that development! (Also, star systems ahead of 'Engines of War,’ IMO, but… that’d take a lot longer to unpack and is, of course, just MO.)

I can’t comment! It’s one of the ones I haven’t read. But it, the Ashildr one, and the River one are all high up on my list of wanting to get to, as is the upcoming Missy one.

[bardqueenofgallifrey]

spanishthealpaca replied to your post: possible space related names for the band: Escape...

‘Escape Velocity’ and 'Aphelion’ are really good, I think. How about 'Alien Brains?’ (I first thought of the three brain stems as parallel to the two hearts - then realised that there probably isn’t a very organic way to work 'three brainstems’ into a band name.) Also, a name for you consideration: 'The Bootstrap Paradox.’ Probably more fitting for an album name (one including their own cover of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in the track) than the band itself but…

ok so the top contenders are:

Event Horizon

Vortex Hearts

Escape Velocity

Aphelion

Bootstrap Paradox

I genuinely really like all of them, this is the top five, vote in the replies once and for all

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Cosmos, galaxies, waxing, full moon, night light, nightmare (you don't have to answer this one if you don't want to; it's entirely optional; I just think that it's the kind of thing that can say a great deal about a person), soothing (put this one slightly out-of-order because it seems to make for a better order poetically), Earth.

Sorry this is so late, but !! THank you for the ask!!! :D!!!!

cosmos: what’s one thing you wish you could say to someone you are no longer friends with?Oh gosh this got long I didn’t realize how much pent up salt I have abt this: No, I shouldn’t have to respect you if your belief was against my existence. Yes, I’m old enough to know I’m not straight. You said that me telling you that I appreciated you were “nice” about being homophobic to my face was manipulative. You being nice and sugar coating the fact that a large part of my personality and a major key to myself was something you hated, was manipulative. Telling me that you were the oppressed one for being religious and putting me in the spot where I’d be labeled as the bad person for defending my Existence was manipulative. 

You sat under the claim of “love the sinner, hate the sin,” But when you tell me that me being LGBT influenced you to want to accept gay headcanons, write with me, and consume so much of those two years to what we worked on with our stories… I’d like to hope that you realize that wasn’t me making you want to sin. I’d hope it was you realizing that it’s okay to accept homosexuality. 

You writing stories with me with sga characters gave me hope that you accepted me as well. 

And then you left me. On my birthday. Because of the story we wrote, and because of me. Moreso because of me being gay than anything.

Left me, the person who was finally proud of identifying as bisexual at the time, because “the story we were writing is why we have to not speak anymore” But didn’t leave the other friend we had who helped write the same thing. The main difference? She was straight. 

You still speak to her. And she’s still your best friend. 

We speak now and we’ll talk occasionally, we’ll visit eachother’s page every so often, but there’s nothing there. A part of my existence is our disconnect and you’ll never break through that wall again. 

You can’t accept something I’m proud of, and I can’t accept you for that. You worsened my debilitating fear of replacement and the overwhelming anxiety of the slightest abandonment, under the claim that me, accepting your discontent with who I loved and who I wanted to date and what I felt comfortable describing myself as, was manipulative. Me standing and accepting and allowing you to berate a key of who I was, under the press that otherwise you would claim to be the one who’s oppressed, that was not manipulative. That was not me manipulating you, but me being the one who was manipulated.

It’s almost been three years, this still affects me, and it doesn’t affect you. 

You claimed to leave to protect yourself from homosexuality, I’m leaving to protect myself from someone who never accepted me in the first place. Had I done that in the first place, maybe It’d have less of an affect on my anxieties and insecurities I still have today.

I’m not a Sin. Read correctly and uncritically. And then come to me to peach.OKAY IM SO SORRY THAT WAS SO LONG IM SALTY KSDJAGH

Galaxies: what are three things you want to do before you die?

Uhh!!! 1: Probably live on my own/with a partner!! And with that, at least One (1) dog 2: Go to japan !! I have an opportunity to next year, actually!! My school has a sister school in Japan, and every other year, a handful of students can fly there for about three weeks in the summer as a student exchange for a week/tour fir the other two week program !! In return, we also have students from there who fly to japan! I want to get a job to help save up for the flight, but I just don’t know if I wanna be away from home so far for so long :’0! 3: Recover and learn to cope and work with my mental illness as much as possible so I don’t have to live the rest of my life like a Depressed Fuck adksjghNight light: who/what makes you feel safe?  Dare I be cheesy and say my boyfriend bc !! I love him !! And he’s always so supportive and comforting when I need it and its so good and hes so patient and its always so comforting and safe :’) Also my friends !!!! Even though its been a hwile since I’ve talked to them !!! Also you!! (You as in the person who sent this Ur amazing tbh :’) I really do appreciate everyhting you do for me!)Nightmare: what are you most afraid of?In a broad perspective?? Inadequacy I guess??? Not being as important to other people as they are to me? And also abandonment. Oh, and moths!

Soothe: what’s one thing that always makes you feel better when you’re upset?Honestly being able to feel the love and support others give me when I’m upset !! Also hot chocolate helps a bit. And coping through magic and stuff; even if its only small doing small spells or charms for the night or just to try and add a better atmosphere ?? It gives at least a tiny bit of comfort and sense of control 

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spanishthealpaca replied to your chat “Me: remember how Artemis Fowl is really good? Me, 5 minutes later:...”

Good. I t ' s t i m e t o r e t u r n .

I mean, did I ever really leave? Or was it just lying semi-dormant here the whole time?

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post: Mark uh. I do not like the way this conversation...

I haven’t watched Broadchurch but (… well, at least for one thing, I’ve watched Torchwood and) I agree. :

Broadchurch is super good and I love it a lot, but just this one bit is leaving me feeling like it was super unnecessary and pointlessly pessimistic and depressing. One of those things were I objectively see why that character may make that choice and I get that this is a show that deals with really heavy themes (and it’s not the first time it’s dealt with this- a similar thing happened in s1 which is where I wonder if this character thought it up from) but dang it all if it couldn’t use a little hope now and then too.

Not that it’s entirely without hope, I think. But it’s more in the small moments. Which I suppose could just be called life but yikes that felt a little tiny too far. I mean I even knew of people being upset surrounding something that happens with this character in this season and I didn’t see that coming. I mean I started to but held out hope. Freaking heck. The entire show deals with heavy themes but man does s3 need a great big trigger warning on it for SO MUCH stuff.

At least DW is a family show and not an adult one like Torchwood and Broadchurch are and I do very much enjoy his episodes of Doctor Who... though now I think about it a fair number of them hold a sort of hope tinged with sadness like the couple in 42 or the family in Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. And that’s sort of true of DW as a whole in a way as well. I wouldn’t expect *this* particular thing to happen in Doctor Who in the way and hopeless tone that it did in Broadchurch and I don’t think he would but it’s just... wow.

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post “i finally nearly won a civ 3 game because i was literally 1 turn away...”

... I haven't played the Civilisation games; but that sounds bad. Did the world blow up?? (Well... either in a subjective, feels-like-the-world-blew-up sense or the objective, 'kablooie' sense?)

One of the victory conditions is to reach something like 50,000 victory points in game. I was 1 turn from building the UN after focusing on diplomacy and culture and only really assisting England in getting rid of the Zulu (Who, naturally, captured all the cities before I got a chance to). I was working on the UN and The Manhattan Project (which was i think 5-10 turns from completion) and suddenly one of the computers meets the Victory Point condition, which ends the game.

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Artemis: Okay! Plan B!

Mulch: Fowl! Help me!

Artemis: Oh, you’ll be fine! This ship will have blown up long before you’ve been strangled to death!

Mulch: What’s Plan B?!

Artemis: I have no idea; but it’s going to be a very big relief when I think of it!

Mulch: You are completely out of your mind!

Artemis: How is that news to anyone?

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post “interrupting people with the right name when they call you by the...”

I'm... Slightly confused as to where the downside here is?

huckleton replied to your post “interrupting people with the right name when they call you by the...”

how's that a con

you two have excellent points

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@luxconstellata omg I bet you look freaking fantastic :o yessss let's wear hats together!!!! @astereaes @spanishthealpaca thank you both so much omg, your vibes must have worked some kind of magic because that exam was much more manageable than I expected it to be ❤❤❤

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Me & Jack are stuck dog sitting and it’s boring af (Zorro has been asleep the entire time) so we’re doing another Doctor Who liveblog to pass the time. And to drown out the crying baby nextdoor.

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post

Tonal, narrative and thematic, I would say! Moffat's explored the Doctor, his relationships with his companions and their universe from numerous different angles that I never really expected to /happen/ in the show while (and shortly after) watching the Davies era because he dared to break so many conventions and perspectives that he could have easily just kept, ones that a viewer of the Davies era alone (or, I imagine, of pre-Moffat Doctor Who in general, in most cases) might have just accepted as default! 

But in my view, this /totally/ worked in most cases and ended up leaving the Doctor Who universe (including its protagonist!) feeling that much more believable and alive by the (approximate) end of it than it did before. Of course, he had more time to work with than even up to his four-season point, he proved that he was capable of a fantastic deal of thoughtfulness and originality - not just in creating new monsters and clever plots; but in discovering new ways to imagine the more permanent parts of the Doctor Who mythos. 

(Also, not saying that the Davies' era's relative tonal/thematic/narrative homogeneity was actually a bad thing! In a lot of ways, I find that maintaining a more-or-less singular message/perspective throughout a story can be a really powerful decision - one that critics who value variety above most other things can really underrate that can accomplish things that a reinvention of message/perspective every season or every couple of seasons or so just can't. 

Really, that's one of my least favourite criticisms of Eleven's era - saying/implying that it got 'stale' somehow just because it held on to so many narrative or thematic aspects throughout when holding on to those aspects, by themselves - even more than necessary to serve one united story - can boost their effectiveness by, naturally boosting their longevity! 

And I think that the case is the same with Davies' era: having /one/ kind of message or story that you want to tell isn't an indicator of bad writing. I just. Really liked what Moffat ended up doing with /his/ originality and think that it ultimately served to make the universe much brighter and better. And we /should/ be happy with him for continuing to dare pushing that envelope, even if it [naturally] didn't work out optimally every time!)

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Tagged by @thegayswimmerboy for the "song for every letter in your url" challenge. Appreciate the tag bro :) F: Formation- Beyoncé A: All that Jazz, Chicago N: Not While I'm Around, Sweeney Todd B: Both Reached for the Gun, Chicago O: On My Own, Les Mis Y: Y.M.C.A.- The Village People I: Into You- Ariana Grande N: New Rules- Dua Lipa G: Genie in a Bottle- Christina Aguilera A: Anything Goes!, Anything Goes C: Call me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepson E: Eye of the Tiger, Survivor I tag @swfan4ever, @misfit6610, @cinderxiii, @elder-giry, @coral-poopa, @nerdgul, @spanishthealpaca, and last but not least, @it-s-jess

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spanishthealpaca replied to your post: Well, thanks Facebook comments section for...

… Why do I get the sense that I already know what the name is despite never having read it myself? ��

And you’re probably correct. Because apparently writing sci-fi is hard and can’t compare to a crime drama with excellent character work and phenomenal arcs and because he won’t come up with any good original ideas don’t you know?