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goddessofmischief · 3 years

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Another one lol

Loki and Morbius looking at Lokis life and seeing you in the flashbacks. You're a variant and had escaped a long time ago and Loki recalls some fond memories.

A/N: This is my first time doing a songfic, but the song fit so well. Probably my favorite Loki fic I’ve ever written. Trust me, listen to this song while you read.

Champagne Problems - Loki Laufeyson x Reader

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No matter what the TVA did to him, Loki was sure they couldn't hurt him any worse than you already had.

How could they? You were gone.

In search of something that he, apparently, could never give you.

In front of him, the projector began to whir.

Loki scoffed.

"What is this?"

"A sampling of your greatest hits, if I may," said Mobius. On-screen, 2012 Loki winced.

"If it's all the same to you... I'll have that drink now."

"It's funny," said Mobius, "For someone born to rule, you sure do lose a lot. You might even say it's in your nature."

"You know, things didn't turn out so well for the last person who said that to me."

Mobius hummed.

"Do you enjoy hurting people?" Mobius asked. "Making them feel small? Making them feel afraid?"

"Your games don't frighten me," Loki said, feeling a little less self-assured.

"Making them feel little?"

"I know what I am."

"A murderer?"

"A liberator."

Mobius chuckled.

"Of eyeballs, maybe - look at that smile. You are enjoying that. Did you enjoy hurting them? Yeah. I don't see anything very mischievous about this. Which, brings me back to..."

Loki winced, watching your perfect face flicker on-screen.

Still perfect, after all these years.

"They're kinda your origin story, huh, Loki?"

"I don't want to talk about them."

"No, let's do it. Might help you. Besides, this is one of my favorites-"

Loki watched as a memory of you danced across the screen.

"Oh, I love this one," you exclaimed, pressing a book of spells into his arms. "Come on, you have to read it-"

Loki trailed behind you, a goofy, lovestruck expression on his face.

"See? That was cute."

Loki swallowed.

"It gets worse."

"Oh, I know," assured Mobius. "Check this out."

"Loki," you whispered, tangling his fingers in yours as you gazed at the stars, "Do you ever feel like... there might be more, out there?"

"More?" he asked, gazing at you like you were the sun, moon and stars.

"Like we're on the path set for us. Like... everything we do, we're meant to do. Y'know?"

He nodded, though he didn't really understand.

"Now, that's funny," Mobius said, chuckling. "Closest anyone's ever come to reasoning us out, I gotta say."

"Yes, she was very smart," Loki muttered.

You always had been.

Because I, dropped your hand while dancing

Left you out there standing

Crestfallen on the landing

Champagne problems

"Can we be done now?"

"No, wait, this is the good part," said Mobius, redirecting Loki's attention. He winced, watching you on the screen.

"I... I don't understand," young Loki stammered. "We're... we're meant to be together. I love you."

"I love you too," you whispered back, lacing your fingers in his. "But... I found something out, and I... I can't do what I'm meant to, anymore. Don't you ever feel like we're meant for something else? Something... more?"

"Yes, I do!" exclaimed younger Loki. "But... I never really thought about it very much. I just want you."

You kissed him, pressing the golden ring into his hand.

"I love you. I'm sorry."

You had a speech, you're speechless

Love slipped beyond your reaches

And I couldn't give a reason

Champagne problems

"Aw. She broke your heart, didn’t she?”

Loki cleared his throat.

“No need to answer - it’s all on your face, isn’t it? Yeah.”

Mobius paused the tape on Loki’s tear-struck expression.

"Shame," mused Mobius, "That we had to prune 'em."

"What?"

"Oh, yeah - see, when she broke the timeline... I had to take her in. That's why you never saw her again, I guess. The funny thing is - she kinda hung around here, for a bit. Yeah, we’ve got some of it on tape.”

Mobius cued up a tape with your name inscribed on it, and a flash of memories began to play out...

“Mobius, can't I stay here forever?” you asked, spinning around the turnstiles.

“”Fraid not, kid,” he said, solemnly. “You, uh... dodged your fate. There’s consequences to that.”

You swallowed, letting him walk you into the courtroom.

“How do you plead?”

Mobius mouthed ‘not guilty’ to you, but you didn’t seem to understand.

“Guilty.”

The Judge banged a gavel.

“I sentence you to being pruned from the Timeline.”

“What?” you gasped, struggling. Mobius lowered his head, unable to watch.

“What? No, please, no, let me go - Loki -”

End of tape.

“They came down on her pretty hard,” he said. “Probably because... well, her curiosity about the timeline set off a path of death and destruction, on your part.”

“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it.”

“Probably for the best - she seemed a little crazy, anyway.”

“She wasn’t crazy,” Loki whispered. “She was brilliant.”

But you'll find the real thing instead

You won't remember all my

Champagne problems

...

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bloodenjoyer · 2 years

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BART HERE so my lifes been going as you know I've got instergrammers now (omg yes please follow me I will add you to the close friends story) which is exciting I just post the absolute worst takes there. uhm what else has been happening oh my theatres ending show got an article written about it in the local news stuff and it was our best performing show like ever that was exciting. I've gotten so many new clown friends also I will have to show them to you they are my kids. their names are Brad (baby doll painted w juggalo makeup), Bimbly, Britches, and Bait and I got a raggedy anne doll. if you remember dpg I did hook up w him but he's now dating mjy best friends and they r so fucking cute together. then I started talking to another girl but she ended up being a huge bitch. now I maybe am interested in my two friends idk tho I may just be having a woman moment. i started working on my crust jacket !!! i think its turning out pretty cool personally. just found out my friend likes billy from stranger things absolutely sick to my stomach. ALSO I'm so sorry to tell you this but I watched and enjoyed morbius. sorry. I've got more stories Ill give them their own asks tho for real. love u sorry i vanoished from haunting your inbox.

HI BART. clown friends!!! i love all ur clowns u will have to show me the new ones...also ya i remember him good for him!! But also boo sorry abt the girl not working out but also YAY two friends also hell yes jacket also EUGH billy stranger things. im talking like an alien or something IDK and its ok that you liked morbius i think thats funny Hi ily ok now im gonna answe ur other asks mwahahaha

#asks

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calzonekestis · 3 years

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What with all the Spidey hype cause No Way Home, I wanted to take a moment to refute the myth that the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies were rebooted because he wanted to make Peter bi.

That’s not what happened. Full disclosure, I myself am bi - if biphobia was the cause, I’d call it out.

There’s a lot of misinformation about this so I’ll just lay it out.

- YES, Andrew posed the question of “why couldn’t Peter be bi/explore his sexuality?” He flippantly suggested Michael B. Jordan as a cis swapped MJ.

- YES there’s an agreement that states Peter Parker has to be portrayed as a straight white cis man.

- NO, Stan Lee did not get Andrew Garfield fired because of his comments. Someone confronted Stan at a con with Andrew’s statements, trying to stir up controversy. Stan had zero say in the movies - his producer credit was in name only. He jokingly said he needed to make some phone calls, and that he thought one sex was enough for anyone. Unintentionally biphobic? Sure, but I’m sure he meant no harm or offense. Stan was an old in his 90′s. Not the most eloquent, but he was also a bleeding heart progressive. People can discuss how he treated his artists or stole the spotlight in the early years, but he was always big into social justice - even in his later life. I recall when he was still alive, people blamed him for the movie reboot and said truly horrible things - which is heinous in it’s own right, but he was also a victim of elder abuse and attempts at defamation. Even now that’s he’s gone, his official social media accounts are active courtesy of people trying to capitalize on his name/brand/image.

So why then, were the movies rebooted, if not for biphobia? A few reasons.

- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 under performed financially and critically. Andrew was contracted for only one more film, and made that very clear.

- Sony wanted to milk the franchise. A Sinister Six solo film, Venom and Morbius (which we got/are getting), there was even talk of an Aunt May prequel where she was a secret agent. This was all detailed in the Sony emails (see below)

- Disney wanted to make a deal for Spidey in the MCU, in which basically they did most of the heavy lifting for the solo films if they let him be in the ensemble films, and Sony would sit back and get money.

- The Sony email leaks (which are out there online) were the big thing that made this possible, as Sony had been resistant to the idea. Amy Pascal stepped down from the position she had, and into a smaller role - due to a bunch of Not Great things she herself said.

Sony realized they were hemmoraghing money on this franchise, and they didn’t have a (good) plan. Disney did. They were really hurting after that leak, and Disney was there to bail them out.

Ok, but so then why then was Andrew Garfield not retconned into the MCU? After all, there had been plans for Avengers and OsCorp towers to appear in each other’s movies at one point?

It’s simple Marvel wanted a fresh slate, free of the baggage. They also wanted a teen Spidey, and Andrew was in his mid thirties at the time.

And on top of that, Sony/Andrew were already on the outs.

Again, the Sony leaks detail this - Andrew (due to being sick) snubbed and embarrassed a chief Sony executive.

After that, they were done with him and he was done with him. He’s spoken about how naive he was when he first got the role, and despite his passion for the character, studio and corporate interference soured his experience.

I do hope that he is indeed in No Way Home, so that he can have some proper closure with the role as a bisexual man myself (and I realize I don’t speak or everyone and my opinion is my own) the myth that it was cancelled due to biphobia or Stan Lee’s biphobia is just. Stupid. And incorrect.

Stan was an old man who tried to be funny and failed, and ended up being insensitive/offensive. I’m not offended, but I’m not denying your right to be. I’m just saying it literally has fuck all to do with him.

Yes, Andrew expressed an interest in it. That much is true. In follow up interviews, he said said he was kidding, but also not kidding. It was something that started off as a joke but he ran with, because why not? It would be new and different. There was an actor’s round table where he talked with Dev Patel, who lamented his own experience on The Last Airbender film. He decried the studio interference and their unwillingness to take risks, but it was much bigger than this “issue”.

MJ’s character was not cut from TASM2 because they wanted to introduce her later as a male character. It was cut for time, and because they wanted to focus on Gwen/Peter solely. It was uncertain as to whether Woodley would come back in the third one as the character, yes, but that’s because she had committed to the Divergent franchise - which was going to be a thing.. She said it made sense with the direction they were planning on going in, but do you know what that direction was? Norman Osborn coming back, after his head had been frozen. More Sinister Six set up, stuff with the parents. Webb has spoken about plans for the unproduced third movie, and MJ wasn’t really mentioned at all.

I don’t mean this to be hostile or call anyone out, but to say the Webb movies were rebooted bc Sony/Marvel vetoed bi-Spidey is just fundamentally untrue. The mandate that he be a cis white hetero dude predates the Sony/Marvel deal.

IDK why this bothers me so much, but every once in a while I see that one post with so many notes and… so much disinformation…

#andrew garfield #peter parker #spider man #spiderman #the amazing spiderman #the amazing spider man

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veldian · 4 years

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tell us more of ur think tank hcs i personally am at the edge of my seat

HELL YEAH ALRIGHT HERE WE GO. some of these might be against canon in some way but that's your fault for trusting me with this

ALSO, AS USUAL, I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE. THIS GOT VERY LONG. when i think about the tanks i go fuckin wild with it

starting with pride headcanons to get the ball rolling

all the tanks are nonbinary, but additionally, dala is a trans woman and 0 is a trans man

8 hates gender he fucking hates it. every day he wakes up and says "today i will make gender my bitch" and then he does. he says this in the game too you just don't know cuz he only speaks in static (don't factcheck this)

if you ask 8 what pronouns she uses, they will shrug and give you a "i dunno" noise. sometimes it'll make a non-committal hand movement and some unintelligible noises. good luck

god this bitch (borous) is gay! good for him! good for him.

he's also intersex! i don't remember where we got that hc but i like it and im holding onto it

okay but borous calls himself bi because yeah Men, but he also loves dala very much and doesn't want to misgender her. also as previously stated, 8's main goal is to confuse everyone about their gender so the tanks all stick with mspec labels to be on the safe side. you never know what'll happen. gender is a ticking time bomb

bi gang: klein, borous, 0

pan gang: dala, mobius

don't ask her about any of her identities she doesn't know the answer either: 8

have i gone off about polytank dynamics enough? i don't think so

8 and dala started dating first because horny bitches gravitate towards each other. they can also "pass" as a "straight couple" so hopefully no one at work will look at them and call them slurs. hopefully

klein and borous knocked things out of the park for being the first gay scientists ever

8 and dala became polyam icons and pulled 0 in. trans bitches gravitate towards each other

klein and borous did the same with mobius. bitches with facial hair gravitate towards each other

???????

idk and then all six of them started dating somehow. the end

somewhere along the way klein and 8 were like "i like you a little too much" and now they're inseparable

okay anyway. misc hcs

ive mentioned this before but when i pretend everything is in modern times, 0 is a tiktokker and he thrives on the attention and making fun of his coworkers on the internet

"watching steven universe repeatedly when i felt even slightly bad transed my gender" - doctor 8 old world blues

i just remembered i made a carrd for the tanks as if they were kinnies in their early to mid 20s

8 kinned pearl su. borous kinned werewolf cookie. 0 kinned rimmer red dwarf. mobius kinned... morbius forbidden planet. obviously. klein refused to put his kins on it. DID DALA KIN FROM DANGANRONPA

i think at one point we had a half-joking hc where klein gets nauseous if he sees blood

and then that changed to he can't see others blood, only his own

while borous can't see his own blood, but he's fine seeing other ppl's

i know borous said that gabe barked at everyone, but i think gabe trusts the other tanks because he knows borous does

borous set up a kissing booth with gabe. the crowd goes wild

when the tanks get together they usually go to klein's. he's the leader or something. also he has a fucking bar in his house.

he complains about them the whole time but you can really tell he loves having people over. why else would he deck his house out like that? he LOVES hosting stuff. house husband

if you saw my chart where i said klein would rather die than do dishes, i was so wrong. his house is pristine. its easily the cleanest

klein's love language is acts of service. he goes over to his partners' houses when they feel awful and clean stuff up for them when they can't. he also makes them food if they want it. he only complains a little, but you can tell he's mostly teasing

did you know klein has five mugs in his kitchen in-game. he's literally prepared to host his partners at any given moment.

the group have learned that letting 8 come over when their house is a mess is a Huge mistake. it goes from 8 trying to help "tidy up" to "im going to put your books and albums in alphabetical order by artist also your clothes are going to be hue-sorted"

"8 why are there only 8 books on each of my bookshelves"

"it looks better"

"it literally does not"

8 can no longer stomach going into 0's house

on the other hand, 0 hates staying in 8's house. the ticking of all their clocks is sensory hell

on 80 date nights they have to do rock-paper-scissors for which house they go to. or they go out. they love each other but their houses drive the other fucking nuts

oh speaking of their houses. yes dala said she didn't like Literal Teddy Bears but that is null and void considering she has teddies in her house

and she has 5 on her bed. five of them :)

she named all of them after her partners! its mostly cute but there is a slight bit of concern because they know what she does with them <__<

not that 8 has any place to judge. mobius found batteries under its pillow once. all 8 said was "they can vibrate." mobius regrets touching them.

i don't know what to say about dala's mannequins i don't have anything funny im just scared

WHY ARE 0 AND KLEIN THE ONLY ONES WITH BATHROOMS IT DRIVES ME INSANE 0'S BATHTUB ISNT EVEN LAYING DOWN ITS AGAINST THE WALL WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT GENERATOR IN HIS BATHROOM DO THE OTHER TANKS JUST SHIT OUTSIDE I'M SEEING RED

mobius and 0 are both into robotics, and they worked together to make muggy, so they've had date nights where they mainly tinker with electronic things.

0 gets very excited when he makes a breakthrough, and seeing that warms mobius's heart. mobius made a habit of kissing 0 on the forehead or squeezing 0 into a hug when they figure things out.

(0 remembers he likes men.) 😳

dala/klein date nights are essentially just them drinking and gossiping chatting

i asked polycule for some more, so here are ones from your local think tank kinnies

borous -

"klein and borous both like classical music in very different ways. klein mostly likes it to feel smart (see: wheatley) but he just started associating it with the others so it felt nicer And borous just likes it bc hes borous"

klein also likes jazz, but so do all the rest of them

8 has a cochlear implant

"dala likes dressing up to look pretty (see: runway) but is personally embarrassed by it (until she gets encouragement) bc she feels like the others dont support that"

"0 loves collecting and reading those stupid magazines with the birthday party products and themes that ud wanna buy from as a kid but are way too expensive"

"mobius has a secret love for puppetry and will try to bring it up sometimes whenever he can. hes made 3 separate sets of the other tanks as puppets and they freak 0 out"

"borous, in an attempt to better his faults, has started learning from dala and 8 on how to take care of plants instead of what he did before. his basement turns into a cool little green house cozy cuddle area"

"to add on: 8 gardens to cope whenever hes alone bc (projects onto ur kin) he mood drops very fast when alone"

"mobius likes dressing in cozy sweaters and fancy stuff"

0 -

"0 doesn't like anal that much" (thanks.)

dala -

"their new rap album called boyz in the tanks" (THANKS.)

and to top things off, :) here are the normal names for them all, created primarily by our borous kinnie

klein - Ernest Klein (nicknamed ernie)

mobius - Wilbert Mobius (nicknamed bert)

borous - James H. Borous (nicknamed jamie)

dala - Dala Theodore (HER NICKNAME IS TEDDY ITS GENIUS)

8 - Emmett Handley (nicknamed 8 + emmy)

0 - Robert O'Barrick (nicknamed 0/O + robbie (HIM SHARING HOUSE'S NAME IS INTENTIONAL. HE'S TRANS HE PICKED HIS NAME WHY DID HE DO THIS))

#tech.txt #old world blues

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terryballs · 4 years

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My favourite Doctor Who writers

10. Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is one of the most talented people to ever write for Doctor Who. Of course, talent alone is not enough - Douglas Adams, Alan Moore, and Naomi Alderman all miss out on this list. What makes Gaiman special is his fairytale, fantasy approach to the show. He has big ideas, full of heart, and I am always delighted by them.

Why isn’t Mr Gaiman higher up on the list? Simply because he has only done four stories. One of them, “The Doctor’s Wife”, is an all-time classic, while the others are at least good. With a couple more stories, Mr Gaiman would surely be higher.

9. Paul Magrs

Coming in at #9 is one of the most important writers of non-televised Who. Paul Magrs has written nine Big Finish Main Range stories (most notably “The Peterloo Massacre”), three Companion Chronicles, and two Eighth Doctor Adventures, including the exceptional “The Zygon Who Fell To Earth”, as well as a huge number of spin-off adventures.

It’s in print where Magrs really flourishes, though. It’s quite hard to get across just how influential Paul Magrs has been. Firstly, his three books in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range - The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, and Mad Dogs and Englishmen - are hugely ambitious metatextual delights. These stories introduce Iris Wildthyme and the Smudgelings to the Whoniverse, and have each inspired their own spin-off series, collectively called the “Magrsverse”. Iris’s parody of the Doctor is a rip-roaring delight whenever she appears - and as you know, she’s famous for it - and will prove a lasting legacy for Mr Magrs.

I suppose, at this junction, I should mention Lawrence Miles, who has had a similar influence, but I just don’t find to be quite as good a storyteller as Magrs.

8. Rob Shearman

You probably know Rob Shearman for “Dalek”, the first good New Who story. What if I told you that “Dalek” is Shearman’s worst DW story?

The titles of Shearman’s audio plays are enough to send shivers up the spines of those who have heard them. There’s “Jubilee”, the loose inspiration for “Dalek”, which explores the Daleks as fascist iconography. There’s “The Holy Terror”, where the Doctor and Frobisher the Penguin Shape-Shifter have a similarly horrifying experience with a religious cult. There’s “The Chimes of Midnight”, possibly the definitive Eighth Doctor story, and “Scherzo”, itself perhaps the most experimental story in Doctor Who history, and “Deadline”, in which the villain is Doctor Who itself.

Like many of the writers on this list, Shearman has an eclectic back catalogue full of obscure oddities. But few people have quite his capacity for knocking it out of the park.

7. Chris Chibnall

It’s true that Chris Chibnall’s work before becoming showrunner is inconsistent at best. “42″ is bad and “The Hungry Earth” is uninspired. “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” is a fun romp, while “The Power of Three” is a great story that is let down by the ending which had to be re-written hastily due to unforeseen production issues. And Chibnall’s contributions to Series 11 range from “fine” (”The Woman Who Fell To Earth”) to “bad” (”The Battle of Ranskor Av Kolos”). But in “Pond Life” and “P.S.”, Chibnall shows that he knows how to write affecting character beats.

It’s in Series 12 that Chibnall really takes things up a step. His stories become sprawling and ambitious: globe-trotting thrillers crammed full of ideas. He’s still occasionally guilty of trying to throw too many ideas in, but his love for the story really shines through. There’s barely a weak moment in Series 12, and that’s largely because Chibnall himself steps up to write or co-write hit after hit after hit. It all culminates in the epic three-part finale, “The Haunting of Villa Diodati”/”Ascension of the Cybermen”/”The Timeless Children”, a hugely ambitious story that crosses space and time and pulls together disparate elements from the history of Who. It’s a million miles from “The Battle of Ranskor Av Kolos”: a fan-pleasing story that is truly epic.

6. Vinay Patel

Why is Vinay so high? Good question. Thinking about it, I can’t really justify this placement. Patel reliably produces great stories - “Demons of the Punjab” alone marks Patel out as a great, and to follow it up with “Fugitive of the Judoon” shows that it wasn’t a fluke. But Mr Patel has only got four stories to his name - the aforementioned TV stories plus “Letters from the Front” and “The Tourist” - so for similar reasons to Mr Gaiman, a high position is difficult to justify.

So instead, let’s give this position to Terrance Dicks. Mr Dicks has a bit of a reputation as more of a “jobbing” writer than someone like Chibnall or Shearman, Terrance Dicks was, first and foremost, a script editor. Yes, he co-wrote “The War Games” and was the sole writer for “Horror of Fang Rock”, but he’s best remembered for script editing the Third Doctor era (and part of the Second Doctor era), as well as producing an absolute mass of Target novelisations. But that’s not all - Mr Dicks has written original novels (VNAs, EDAs, and PDAs alike), Quick Reads, audio stories, two stage plays, and even the Destiny of the Doctor video game.

Sure, Mr Dicks didn’t burn as bright as Mr Patel. But his contribution to the Whoniverse is unparalleled.

5. Nev Fountain

Comedy writer Nev Fountain has written several of the very best Doctor Who stories. For some reason, these stories tend to centre around Peri (Fountain is married to Nicola Bryant). “Peri and the Piscon Paradox” is the best Companion Chronicle by far, due to a combination of great acting by Bryant and Colin Baker and Fountain’s sizzling script. “The Kingmaker” is an outrageously funny historical with incredible dialogue and multiple ideas clever enough to carry a whole story.

Frankly, those two alone should be enough to convince anyone of Fountain’s brilliance. But there is so much more - “The Widow’s Assassin”, “The Curious Incident of the Doctor In the Night-time”, “The Blood on Santa’s Claw”, “Omega“... if you like Doctor Who, make yourself familiar with Nev Fountain.

4. Robert Holmes

More than anyone else, Robert Holmes is responsible for the esteem which the Fourth Doctor is held in.

Holmes first wrote for the show all the way back in Series 6, with “The Krotons”. He wrote the very first Third Doctor story, “Spearhead From Space”, in which he also introduced the Autons. They reappeared a year later in “Terror of the Autons”, which introduced Jo Grant and the Master. In “The Time Warrior”, Holmes introduced the Sontarans, a pastiche of imperialism.

It was in the Fourth Doctor era that Mr Holmes really made his mark. He took over from Mr Dicks as script editor. In his own right, he wrote “The Deadly Assassin” and “Talons of Weng-Chiang”, but he also turned “The Ark In Space”, “Pyramids of Mars”, and “The Brain of Morbius” into usable stories, even appearing in “The Brain of Morbius” as the Doctor.

After stepping back from script editing, Holmes returned as a hack to write stories like “The Caves of Androzani” (probably the most popular story in Classic Who) and “The Two Doctors”, before dying shortly after his 60th birthday.

3. Jamie Mathieson

Putting Mr Mathieson above Mr Holmes really shows my bias towards New Who, but honestly, I’d rather re-watch “Mummy on the Orient Express”, “Flatline”, or “Oxygen” than any of Holmes’ stories. Mathieson is very inventive and extremely good at maintaining pace and tension. I’m sure we’ll get more stories from him in the future, but the ones we have so far should be used as inspiration by anyone wanting to writing exciting Who.

2. John Dorney

It is hard to exaggerate Mr Dorney’s contributions to audio Who. He may lack the external fanbase of Mr Gaiman, the influence of Mr Magrs, or the legendary status of Messrs Dicks, Chibnall, and Holmes, but make no mistake, Dorney is exceptional. In almost every range he tries his hand at - Lost Stories, Novel Adaptations, Third Doctor Adventures, Fourth Doctor Adventures, Fifth Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, Ravenous, Time War, Companion Chronicles, Short Trips, Jago and Litefoot, Missy, UNIT, Diary of River Song... Dorney reliably writes the best story in the set.

In particular, Dorney’s stories are notable for the way they focus on character drama. Look at stories like “A Life In A Day” or “Absent Friends” for particular examples of stories that use sci-fi concepts to draw emotion out of characters, particularly the stoic Liv Chenka. Other highlights of Dorney’s include “The Red Lady” and the “Better Watch Out”/”Fairytale of Salzburg” two-parter.

1. Steven Moffat

What more is there to say? Moffat is truly exceptional, reliably writing the best stories in TV Who for several consecutive years. The classics are too numerous to list, but the stand outs amongst the stand outs are “Blink” and “Heaven Sent”/”Hell Bent”.

Some of Moffat’s best work comes away from TV. The minisodes “The Inforarium” and “Night of the Doctor”, the novelisation of “Day of the Doctor”, the short stories “Continuity Errors” and “the Corner of the Eye”, and lockdown stories like “Terror of the Umpty Ums” are Moffat deep cuts which deserve to be held in the same regard as his great TV stories.

Moffat’s imagination lead to him creating multiple iconic monsters - foremost amongst them, the Weeping Angels and the Silence. Moffat emphasised the use of time travel within the stories themselves; other themes in his work include memory, perception, paradoxes, identity, sexuality, and responsibility. He is, without a doubt, the greatest Doctor Who writer, and I am so lucky to have lived through the period where he was active.

#Doctor Who #top ten #Steven Moffat

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nerdyfangirl23 · 3 years

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I find it funny when people complain that Chris Chibnall changed canon and damaged Doctor Who as a whole.

First of all, Doctor Who isn’t damaged. It’s different yes, but it’s definitely not destroyed.

Secondly, bold of you to assume Doctor Who could ever be that simple and that it could have a single line of canon. 😂

The Timeless Child continues with the mystery surrounding the character of the Doctor and expands the universe to other characters. Doctors like the ones in The Curse of Fatal Death; or the Morbius Doctors; can be named as having a more secure position in any form of ‘canon’ now.

#doctor who #no hate just facts #chris chibnall #13th doctor #the timeless child #genuinely tho #doctor who isn’t damaged or broken #it’s just furthered as a universe

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spooner-the-trinity · 4 years

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How Infinity Train pulled from Infinity War’s Playbook for Doctor Who’s final curtain

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O hai, Tetsuya Nomura. That’s a nice hole you’re digging with your Kingdom Hearts, what do you wanna do with it? Keep digging? Why thou? O for a production company? That’s great, whacha gonna do with it? Name and develop the town the Toy Story flicks take place in? Yeah, alright. Add the goofy jock from Glee as a best friend for Andy that the Triceratops assumes is just a Dinosaur Toy down the street? What a funny joke idea! Nix the final playtime they’ve hoped to cap off the film with and save it for a later project? A tad disappointing, but alright. Make Sora a vessel for Xehanort? Whoa, that sounds hella har- A sexy Genie of the Rose who grants a wish for every petal on that collar-mounted rose of hers? Unique concept, but I smell some Hans Christian Anderson shi- The genie’s life force is bound to the Rose so she croaks when the last petal falls ala Beauty and the Beast? And there it is, Color me unsurpri- The Genie finds Andy and drags him into a sex scene to the tune of Aladdin’s Friend Like Me? I don’t think the parents would be okay with their kids watchi- Toonami’s airing this show? Wait, isn’t it on a competing networ- Lewis from Meet the Robinsons is Deleted by DOR-15 Ala the Nanobots from Jimmy Neutron? Mister Enter would be insulted on how you did his favorite Disney flick dirty like thi- Andy is shot into a wormhole and is mutated into a photosensitive Beast? Guys, It’s starting to look like a bad ide- The Genie is an aged-up Bonnie and she’s pregnant with Shantae!? Get me off this crazy tr-

Infinity Train Productions is one of the boldest associates Disney has in its corner right now, from wrestling away ownership of three Gainax originals to collaborating with competing animation company Dreamworks, the IT guys are pretty renowned for their kooky crossovers and kookier cinematic universe. And they’ve made sure to make their acquired goods count towards that universe instead of burn it to the ground LUCASFILM. Starting off by stating this is a universe where Second Impact prevented the assassination of JFK by means of tanging up 13% of the world’s population and weaved a few stitches of train tracks across the globe, naturally the space race escalates exponentially and they begin to develop new technologies and elect Walt Disney himself to be the President of the United States with Nixon as his running mate. That alone resulted in a Sequel Show to Brigadoon where a 24-year-old Marin Asagi boards the Challenger and ends up cast into the future with Melan, a retelling of the first arc of Gurren Lagann that featured Yui Ikari as a supporting character that saves Kamina from death, a twenty-six episode miniseries featuring Andy from the Toy Story gaining a magical genie bound to an enchanted rose, and that’s just the first half of its initial decade. I could go on about its repertoire of shows both original and acquired: Twelve Forever, Evangelion, both Arcadia trilogies with the elder of the two being started by the aformentioned show with that genie of the rose titled, erm… Genie of the Rose, but the one I’m aiming my sights on is the latest acquisition, one that they made in secret. Doctor Who and how they pulled from the playbook of Infinity War to bring the story to its last stop.

Now, quick recap on how Infinity War makes a powerfully heartfelt mass market appeal joyride out of a thoroughly depressing story about failure. Where most Marvel Villains are merely obstacles for the characters to overcome, Thanos acts and reacts as a real person. Where most conflict have certain factors that tip the scales in the favor of who’s tipping them, the conflict is one where either side could come out victorious, where the Comedy of the Last Farcebender ended with the good guys laughing off their failure, Infinity War ended with a content smile from Thanos and our heroes dead silent save for a minor peep of: “Oh, god.” Where the bad decisions in Farcebender are made from genuine stupidity, Infinity War’s stem from worrying whether or not certain sacrifices are worth it. With that crash course out of the way, let’s dig in.

First thing’s first, is the villain a compelling character? Well, although Sacha Dhawan has the same unhinged energy expected out of any incarnation of longtime enemy, the Master, complete with moments of geniuine affection to his former best beff, he’s ultimately not the main baddie of this piece, that honor goes to Alrick. Believed to be dead after a dirtbike accident, it turns out that he had been picked up by the train and has spent a good three decades or so fucking with the systems to construct an empire starting with the crazy world of Elmore all the way to the Lanes Between and yes, he has shown himself to be a caring father figure to Grace and Simon throughout the second half of Cracked Reflections which leads into the episode, he’s concerned for his future as he’s clearly not as lively as he was when he first climbed aboard and even expresses hope for Jesse returning to the train after taking the exit and getting seperated from MT. And oh, look! He returns after the big moment, that’s nice.

So yeah, compelling villain, that’s one tick. Is there equal opportunity for either side to win? Well, MT and early on Jesse before his aformentioned exit have the additional assistance of the Watterson family, Banana Joe, and seemingly Penny for a scene only to reveal her in a new shell complete with mind-control and reflective surface to sick the Po-Po on MT. But despite being the protagonist of his show of origin, she’s not the opposing side to Alrick this time around, it’s the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey biatch herself and man, does it set up a curious comparison. Alrick is focusing his will into projecting his consciousness into the Doctor’s heart, an alien with countless eons worth of memories under her belt compared to Alrick’s measly sixtysomeodd laps around the sun. Not only that, but the Doctor is able to expel regeneration energy to fry the shit out of him if he feels the need to get a little messy. But with her locked up in the Time Lord Matrix which the Master has already skimmed through, there’s nowhere for the Doctor to run or even hide from Alrick. Throw in the Master’s ability to have his mind occupy two hearts at the same time whilst he’s chatting it up with the Lone Cyberman and the Doctor’s pretty pinned but still has a chance to outfox Alrick at the end of it all.

Bad decisions, the Doctor doesn’t trade lives so she keeps asking about the Timeless Child, what it’s supposed to be and why it drove the Master into absolutely butchering Galifrey after all the hard work each incarnation of the Doctor had. It turns out that this Timeless Child was a Pheonix Denizen created by Alrick to create a perfect world but One-One cast it out in hard-light beam form, striking Takeru and Ryou from This Ugly Yet Beautiful World from 2018. From the clipped wings came Hikari and Akari respectively whilst the main body crashed out of a wormhole into the sights of Tecteun who adopted the kid in time for a spaceship of highly-evolved snake people to crash land due to Kate and Leopold rules of time travel causing their machinery to get mucked up by Time Police in an episode of Rick and Morty of all shows, causing the child to fall to its doom and promptly regenerate, making her the first to do so in Galifreyan history. One of the survivors offers the gift of Time Travel in exchange for the power of Regeneration and Tecteun, scientist and explorer, jumps at the chance by means of tearing out the child’s soul for every three days that elapse. Obviously, she’s a fucking monster and she eventually does crack the code and test it on herself and the results allow the gift of time travel to bestowed upon the newly minted Timelords by Omega. Wow, all of this from a formally great show, (Doofenshmertz: what are the odds.) The Doctor is obviously unsurprised that Omega dangled the keys to time travel over the heads of the Shobagan race, but what horrifies her is that the very thing she and every other Time Lord we’ve seen had taken for granted was pilfered from a denizen that she learns after the life of abuse was created by some dude who hijacked some Train Car manufacturing equipment to build a perfect world. And it’s here where we see the main lynchpin of Alrick’s character: Perfection.

Those of you who’ve seen the whole series of Cracked Reflections will know that Alrick is an obsessive perfectionist first and foremost hence the plan to transform every Denizen of Elmore into full-blooded humans with leftover energy from this same Timeless Child. But not many of us recognize that this is only part of Alrick’s shtick. A simple man with complicated motives, a futurist in the trade of nostalgia, a conservative obsessed with progress, a gentle mentor with an impatient temper. These are just a handful of the ways to describe Walt Disney that were used by Ben Bouqulet, Mic Graves, and Owen Dennis to depict Alrick over the course of the last two seasons of Gumball leading into Cracked Reflections and Garrick Hagon truly gives his all portraying all the various shades of this man especially here when he is sharing his story of how he created a literal god only for One-One to cast it aside upon regaining control of the train from the very woman he spent the past 33 years building a perfect world for, a woman he cherishes like his older sister cherished his girlhood friend, a woman that even now still believes him to be ‘One-One: Gone forever?’ That is some next level tragic shit right there.

Of course, the Doctor is still concerned for this child and it’s here where a familiar face crashes the party to let the cat out of the bag, Morbius from the Fourth Doctor Adventure Brain of Morbius outing himself as the infamous Timeless Child as well as harboring his disembodied heart in the Doctor after his ill-fated Mindbending Battle. This swerve may have served to provide added tension towards his motives, is he really wanting to go back to his home and views traveling with the Doctor as his only way there, or is he biding his time, waiting for his chance to overwhelm the Doctor when she’s not looking. As we see more of Morby’s checkered past in excruciating detail, slavery to the Division with everything down to his personality programmed and dictated into a mind-melded Morby by an enigmatic cult dubbed ‘The Master Writers’ An organization build solely and specifically for Infinity Train Productions to use in their portfolio of works. And when they were done with their enslaved progenetor, the Division in which they served lined him up for an execution from the Fugitive Doctor, during the 2nd Doctor’s orientation. Then they promptly merc poor Ruthie to regenerate her into the 3rd Doctor, closing the gap between Troughton and Pertwee. So yeah, The Division, they’re run by total assholes and Numero Dos only agrees to work there if his first assistant is longtime companion Jamie McCrimmon. But look at his face, does this look like the face of concent and tolerance to you? ‘Joe (Help, I’m a Fish!): Of course not!’ Props to Sam the Man with a Plan Troughton for filling his father’s shoes in this emotionally tense scene. And this ain’t the chilling twist that shocked the fandom.

Alrick: “Whoever harbors the heart of the child is the child in of itself.“

Doctor: “Wot?”

Alrick: “It means that I will have my prize whether you like it or not!” (Punches through the Doctor’s Chest, crushes the Smash Ball within, causing the Doctor to turn into a pheonix before dissipating into Alrick’s body with the Smash Ball. Alrick’s Number skyrockets as his body regresses to his prime, the man laughing maniacally as the Timeless Child’s ultimate power rushes into him)

So yeah, Morby’s been reconstituting his powers over the centuries the Doctor had lived hence the golden energy during the later regenerations. How we find this out is by the titular character of the BBC’s last remaining reason towards that sweet TV Licence Money getting outright merced by Alrick in front of a guy that deep down still admires his childhood friend. This closes out An Untimely Caviat, the final episode in Doctor Who’s revived series, and leads us right into the finale of Cracked Reflection where he goes full on Disney Villain. Mercing the Master to make him a conduit to gijinkafy the entirety of Elmore, Co-Opting his Cybermaster drones as a mechanical army, ludiccrous speed incubating a pocket-dimension frog to house the Train Cars his empire had conquered via that same energy he channeled through the aformentioned Master, yeah, this does not sound like the man Amelia planned to marry if not had already married outright. Well, that’s the point. He’s drunk with power, it’s more likely that this is his ambition talking. No doubt he’s relishing in his own arrogance much to Marnie’s horror. Oh, yeah, Old Marnie’s doing her astral projection thing to react to her younger brother’s madness and watches on as MT gets roughed up by Super Alrick in front of an audience of his adopted children.

Of course, MT does find some santuary in the Number Car and re-unites with Jesse, resulting in the now sempailess Agent Sieve phasing through the glass screen whilst the train is figuring out how to solve Jesse’s seemingly unsolvable problem of getting a denizen off the train. But that just gives the Fleck some time to witness the madness of this rumored Apex fella as he ankleholds MT and gijinkafies Gumball and Darwin to demonstrate his final offer, her response is to break out a Denizen Ex Machina by prompting Alan Dracula to slice the monkeyfigher in half, causing him to regenerate into a pair of innocent, mindless little babies that will never bother anyone ever again… The Crown grieve for their master, Sieve calls off the manhunt for the rouge slither, the companions go their seperate ways with Graham staying on Earth to deliver the bad news the two youngest raising the two babies up to the Doctor’s standard… or at least one of them due to Yaz getting arrested by a Judoon Platoon before she could legally adopt Zarc. The expression of the companions are grim, and rightfully so, the one guy-or-gal that has kept the 21st century from falling into tyranny is no longer around to do the job they enjoyed doing whenever there was a sitch to see through. But after the wide shot of Yaz getting locked up in Shada we cut to MT, off the train and safe with Jesse in Arizona. Jesse’s brother Nate comes up to find his older brother with the very Chrome Girl he met on a magical train, Nate asks for the girl’s name and her answer?

Jesse: Dracula 2?

MT: (looks to the Lake, concerned that the Flecks would come after her but eases up when its clear that there are no Flecks coming.) I’m Lake.

We get a nice little callback to close out the series as the song Kibō plays in the credits, indicating that Hope is still out there in the cosmos, Doctor or No Doctor. And that is a powerful message to send to the audience and I have a pretty good feeling that whether or not the Doctor ends up getting revived in Kingdom Hearts III alongside all the absent heroes that Infinity Train productions had raked in over the years doesn’t quite matter, the studio does not need Doctor Who and its universe does not need the Doctor. And I have a pretty good feeling that the Doc may end up giving up their ticket back into the land of the living, leaving the universe to all the other champions of the cosmos that Toonami has flaunted over the decades. The Doctor has overcome many frightening, haunting, tyrannical, violent and downright Orwellian things in life and man, oh, man have we got a whole plate of them to overcome even now. Would I go back to this expansive world for further analysis, sure, if the views get gud. But the impact of the Doctor’s Death is a pretty big deal that actually caught a bunch of us by surprise despite the minor hints scattered throughout. (One-One: All aboard for emotional maturation on the finest freighter in all of Trenzalore) The Destiny of the Doctor News heard around the world, and the outpour of memories and grief rivalling even Mr. Peanut but unlike the legendary legume, our favorite timelord will probably be gone for a lot longer than just a couple of weeks and the time it takes will show how deep the rabbit hole goes. It will also show who’s willing to step up and find ways to make a difference in the lives of others, and they’re going to need to learn a thing or two to do so. (Cletus from the Simpsons Movie with the Skillshare Logo slapped onto his face in post: My time to shine.)

#schaffrillas productions #Doctor Who #Infinity Train #The Amazing World of Gumball #Timeless Child #Alrick #submission

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draayder · 2 years

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I’m thankful that the Morbin’ Time meme has distracted people from the fact Matt Smith plays an evil vampire in the movie.

see we were safe as soon as they named the movie Morbius. it's too funny of a word. also do people thirst over Matt Smith real bad? I know he was The Doctor so the answer was, at least at one point, yes, but I figured that would have died down by now

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fave-fight · 1 year

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ROUND 2, MATCH 23

NO MAGIC, POWERS, WEAPONS, OR ADDITIONAL HELP FROM OTHERS

Utatane Piko:

“Wow a vocaloid with an actual last name what a shocker *AHEM* Was made by Sony (yes morbius-releasing Sony made a vocaloid), was unfortunately released RIGHT NEXT TO two other way more popular vocaloids, ended up becoming half-obscure and more people know about him now that he's been discontinued. Yippee 💥”

“literally the most pathetic a boy can get discontinued (he is literally already losing) stuck in v2 forever and has no eng voicebank still assigned meme by fandom silly another vocaloid was meant to be his counterpart but they got split due to their original company going bankrupt sony hates him (yes hes owned by sony) sony please revive our baby boy :[”

“Imagine if a discontinued computer program won, just imagine, that would b cool”

“He deserves to win because he sadly probably won't ever get a voice update, and the little babyman deserves at least something good to happen to him.”

“Discontinued robot man. Let him kill.”

“ROBOT SWAG!! very skrunkly, looks really fucking tired in his official v2 art, dicontinued please give them some justice he has a beautiful voice :(”

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz:

“Regularly loses in fist fights to a platypus. Will therefore probably lose a lot of matches, especially when denied access to any of his -inators. However, he brings a certain humor and charm that would make any fights featuring him quite funny to watch.”

“"You see, Perry the Platypus, when I activate my internet-poll-win-inator I will win this specific poll that is about to take place, (that way I won't actually have to worry about fighting, or getting hurt, or losing, you know...), and by winning this poll I will become more popular than my brother Roger, and then I will be able to take his place as mayor and take over the Tri State Area!!!" (The inator later blows up but doof is already signed up to fight, did it activate in time? Is he strong enough to win without it? Only one way to find out.)”

#fight fight fight #round 2 #utatane piko #vocaloid #dr heinz doofenshmirtz #phineas and ferb

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yizeltoprakoglu · 2 years

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best of all “Friends”

Unfortunately, I couldn't watch a movie this week, and I still haven't been to Batman, Bergen or Morbius. I didn't smile because of the intensity of this week. But at this opportunity, I would like to talk about a TV series that I love. It would be an understatement to just say I love, this is actually my favorite series; its name is Friends. This topic always creates a lot of controversy. Because there are too many people who hate as much as those who love, and who don't laugh at all. It's also called "How I Met Your Mother?" There are many people who compare it with the TV series, which is a different topic of discussion, of course, but I will of course touch on that as well. First of all, I will talk about the love-hate relationship about this series. I really don't understand why people hate it because it's my favorite show. But I don't miss the fact that the haters are especially men. So I don't understand why they have such intense emotions, if you don't like it, don't watch it. I don't know if this is a "women love it, I don't like it" reaction from women's hatred and patriarchy, but I find it very unnecessary. I don't dwell on this discussion any more and I say it over and over again, let those who don't like watch it, I'll watch it for them as well. The other topic of discussion was “How I Met Your Mother?” state of being compared to the series. I have a lot to say about this. First of all, it has nothing to do with it at all. Yes, there is a group of friends and there are certain places to meet.Although space cycles and topics are similar, I think this comparison is very unnecessary. Because by a wide margin, Friends will win this comparison. First of all, the characters are much more interesting, sympathetic and interesting. Give exaggerated roles in both series, for example Monica's ambition and Chandler's effort to be too funny, but I mean, have you ever seen an unstable character like Robin, an unstable character and a sucker like Ted? While comedy sweetened these exaggerations in Friends, How I Met Your Mother definitely added drama and made it more repulsive. And although they both have a love cycle and relationships between friends, it is incredible that Ted tried to explain how the children met their mothers for 9 seasons and finally found the woman and then ran back to Robin when the woman died. I've never been sincere, I hope something like this never happens to me. It's a situation similar to the comments on Youtube, written under sad songs, my wife and child are sleeping inside I still think of you. On the other hand, Friends includes love stories with more sincere feelings. These are of course my opinion, no one has to agree with me, but please don't let anyone tell me their opposite opinion, everyone should open a blog like me and write their ideas there. Another issue is friendship, which is the essence of the series. So Friends wins in every comparison, but let me explain anyway. Male-female relationships on Friends may be more focused on romantic relationships between boys and girls rather than friendship. Because at every opportunity, there is a situation where especially Joey is approaching girls. But still, Joey is the same character who stands by all his friends in every difficult situation and is loyal. The friendship of Ted and Barney similarly involves sacrifices, but it still doesn't feel sincere to me. Anyone who asks why does not come, I do not have to give an explanation to anyone. That Ted sucker is getting screwed all over the place somehow, he's still going on with his life with the same stupidity, so I'm not the only person who gets upset about this situation. And also, it is always men who make the Friends vs How I Met Your Mother comparison and take the side of How I Met Your Mother. I didn't hate these men for a day anyway. There is a situation of preferring insincerity in everything. Men, please do not project their opinions on me. Apart from the subjects and actors, I find the aesthetics and appearance of the Friends series better. Although How I Met Your Mother was filmed later in the year, I think it is simpler and unappealing as a prop. Well, if you say you don't like anything in this show, I just love the character of Barney, but I mean, even if he's not there, it's fine for me. Joey, I can't do business with Barney with Chandler. That's how much I keep this discussion going for now. If I can't watch a movie again, if I have a hell of a week, I can continue this discussion and come up with an article where I will defend Friends and this time I will just make Friends beautiful without comparison. If you haven't watched it yet, watch it, and if you have, watch it again.

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