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Practiced a bit with Pearl!! 

I love that ep 

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also wait a fucking second. Who the fuck wrote an episode of a doctor who spinoff where the conclusion is "oh my god guys we have to destroy the film!!!!!"

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shame. this episode had so much potential and blew it. what was i expecting i forgot this show was bad

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haven’t robert smirke’d random unrelated media in a long while but this episode is the perfect eye/stranger hybrid

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watching from out of the rain. have a feeling this is another episode that’s as meta as two mirrors facing one another i.e. the greatest show in the galaxy. “would you like to join the travelling show? every young person’s dream… why not? you could travel with us! forever…” not sure where it’s headed but i’m always a sucker for haunted silent cinema and a creepy circus (scary clowns are overdone, give me ghostly trapeze artists, charred fire-eaters and sadistic ringmasters any day)

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sci-fi term that should’ve taken off: Issac Asimov described something 3D as “trimensional” in Foundation (1951), and frankly that’s just light years more satisfying to say

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I’m so sorry babes anytics and marketing don’t get you like I get you 😢

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being an eighth doctor adventures fan is so hard. how do i explain to people that i want them to read an unfinished postmodernist series of 73 pulp science fiction novels from the early 2000s that's made up of a bunch of writers arguing about how to best fundamentally deconstruct dr who as a concept

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Yareta (Azorella compacta) in Bolivia (elevation of 14,000 ft.).

This may look like a moss, but it isnt! This is a broad-leafed plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.

These plants can grow to bve over 3000 years old. This large specimen may be over 1000 years old.

photographs by Mark Dwyer

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people who market tumblr as a “fandom website” are missing the fact that the fandom tags are essentially unusable because you cannot venture into them without seeing a take so bad you want to throw up

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if you make art that is good, that’s ok, but don’t post it anywhere you sick fuck. art is supposed to be bad

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imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard

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The Old Astronomer to His Pupil, Sarah Williams

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Anyone missing a heavy stone/concrete Dalek?

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I JUST WATCHED THE PEOPLE'S JOKER! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

The People's Joker is a microbudget Batman parody and transfem coming out story from Vera Drew that you might remember for being pulled from TIFF in 2022 under pressure from Warner Brothers Discovery. (The film opens with a disclaimer "This is an unauthorized parody" etc. and ends listing WB under the thank you's "for all the free publicity" lmao.) AND I JUST SAW IT IN LA AND IT WAS A BLAST.

Oddly enough, the emotional stuff worked better for me than some of the humor (and the emotional stuff hit me hard in the best of ways, y'know?) Her mother telling her as a child that she's being an emotional toll on her mother because she's a child who is... stumblingly questioning her gender. Jonathan Crane prescribing Smylex to her, which just makes you smile more so that you look outwardly happy and the people around you aren't inconvenienced by seeing you in pain. The complicated, conflicting emotions that come from memories of an abusive relationship, where you still remember the good times with a bitter taste in your mouth ("You were my happy beginning..." ouch.) Little soft moments like gender exploration during sex (in 2D animation even.) The final heart-to-heart between Joker the Harlequin and her mom. The unexpectedly poignant musical finale involving a puppet Mxyzptlk and a very earnest song.

And it's an absolute phantasmagoria of different styles. We've got 2D animation that veers between jagged and elegant. We've got greenscreen. We've got stop-motion action figures in place of our actors for certain scenes. We've got models. We've got sock puppets. And there's infinite displays of creativity on a low budget. It's a feast.

@themousefromfantasyland @thealmightyemprex @ariel-seagull-wings @grctw @brokenwild

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Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

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The Robot Who Looked Like Me, from Cosmopolitan Magazine by Dick Ellescas (Nov. 1973)