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stop reblogging james and the giant pronoun

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james and the giant pronoun

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Find the lady of the light gone mad with the night

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Is it still tasseography when you're reading the milk, not the grounds?

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Hop

Would love to go get ice for my knee, but I can’t do that because that requires walking, which will only make my knee hurt more

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◊ TWIN PEAKS ◊ 2.22 · Episode 29 "Beyond Life and Death"

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They could probably just give it to Morrigan afterwards.

So like what happens if rook gets Mythals essence but doesn’t use it on solas?

do they just keep it??

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Doctor Who // The ship of Theseus

An Unearthly Child // The Power of the Daleks // Spearhead from Space // Castrovalva // The Chimes of Midnight // Rose // Journey’s End // An Adventure in Space and Time // Series 13 filming // Twice Upon A Time // Deep Breath // Season 1, Series 4, 5, 12 opening titles // Heaven Sent // The Time of the Doctor // The Eleventh Hour // Twice Upon a Time // The End of Time, Pt. 1 // The Timeless Children // Fugitive of the Judoon // The TV Movie // An Unearthly Child // The Mysterious Planet // Smile // Planet of the Ood // Deep Breath // Season 1 // Eighth Doctor comic // Heaven Sent

Text from Chapter 3: Philosophical Conundrums, in The Outer Limits of Reason by Noson S. Yanofsky, 2013

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I very much feel that the new show will live or die based on the new cast so that's where the focus should be, but I agree that the old characters shouldn't just be forgotten. Bring Giles back for a scene or two, let Willow return for an episode, etc. I want that stuff too.

But Buffy at its core was a show about teenagers fighting monsters as an allegory for growing up, and I want the new show to still be that. I fear that focusing too much on the older characters would drift us too far away from that core.

I also don't Buffy to feel like she's been frozen in amber since her early 20s. She's lived an entire life since then, and I want to feel that. Let her have new relationships and loved ones.

70% characters/30% old characters.

Not sure if this is a hot take, but I don't care about any new characters in the reboot show. If Buffy is in it, then that's who I care about. The writers/showrunners have an uphill battle making me care about any new characters nearly as much as I do about Buffy. If Buffy is around, then I want her to have some focus. She doesn't need to be the main character (which she isn't) but being a secondary character with a rich internal world is 100% possible and that's what I want. If they are tying this new show to Buffy's story at all, then, in my opinion, they should justify doing that by giving her the focus that she deserves. Otherwise, just make a show set in the Buffyverse that is disconnected from the original show and its characters.

Also, I think that it would be really depressing if she had no close relationship with any of the other original characters, so I do want at least one other legacy character to be around. My first choice would have been Dawn, but since that's off the table, then honestly I do want Willow, Spike, and/or Giles (others are fine, too) to make an appearance because I want Buffy to still have connections to the people that were important to her in her youth. I don't think that it would be unrealistic for her to still be in contact with any of them, either. Plus, the show is going to talk about what her relationships with the other characters are now anyway, and I'd prefer that we be shown what they are rather than told.

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I am a mosaic of everyone I have ever known and loved and touched and I find fragments of them in my playlists and how I make my tea. we may not know each other any more but we will stay connected like this. I hope a fragment of me is with you too.

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Predictions for the future of Doctor Who

disney backs out

2027 gives us a special that explains whatever the fuck's going on with billie piper. It makes everyone very angry but it ends with us getting a new doctor and the promise of a full new series in 2029!

the 2029 series has less budget and is only six episodes long. The producers try to explain this is actually a Good Thing because they can make a really tight epic story arc that's going to be Doctor Who Like You've Never Seen It Before!

It's followed by another 6 episode series on 2031. These series are generally agreed to be Shit, with a couple of absolutely amazing completely bizarre episodes that will be remembered forever.

The BBC do not cancel Doctor Who. It's just going on a little bit of a hiatus. Don't worry about it.

Wilderness Years 2 Electric Boogaloo begins.

Big Finish gets a big boost in popularity as people go there for new Doctor Who content. They produce more and more adventures with no more plot than, "And we have this Fan Favourite Character back to team up with this other Fan Favourite, and fight this Classic Monster!!" as quality goes steadily downhill. By 2035 they're releasing a new audio every day and using AI write their scripts.

The BBC licences a new series of novels that they don't really care about, which are generally agreed to be some of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time.

In 2050 or so Doctor Who is brought back as a hard reboot, using a lot of ideas from the 2005 series (the Doctor is the Last of the Time Lords, there's a large focus on the companion's home life). This makes a lot of Doctor Who fans extremely angry but also genuinely refreshes the franchise and makes for an extremely good series. David Tennant makes a guest appearance as the Master.

In the 2062 season finale, there's a surprise appearance from Jodie Whitaker, who comes out in costume and frantically explains to the current Doctor that the Division have Done It Again and erased a whole lot of their past.

This leads into next year's 100 year anniversary special, which retroactively reconises all of original Doctor Who. It's bad.

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Yeah, I'm guilty of this too. I thought they were referring to Looms.

The problem is they keep referring to a "molecular genocide" which isn't what the Master did. He just bombed everything, lol.

I really thought it was something from ancient Gallifrey, but I guess we're just retconning things a little.

STOP SAYING LOOMS CANON. YOURE GETTING PEOPLES HOPES UP its not even looms canon cuz the implication is that the infertility only occurred after the master killing everybody over the timeless child. like that shit happened only to the survivors, and only like, 4 years ago or whatever theres no looms. there isnt going to be any looms. there were nevr going to BE ANY LOOMS.

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I've been trying so very hard to come up with coherent thoughts on this episode and I just can't. An absolute Frankenstenian mess of jumbled ideas, painfully obvious reshoots, meaningless, cameos and lore dumps. This isn't a story, it's a mess.

I'm just going to list my thoughts and hope I arrive at a coherent conclusion. Lord knows Davies didn't.

What they did with Belinda is disgustingly horrible. Rewriting her life to force her into being a mother, the very thing Conrad did last episode, except now it's good because the Doctor gets a new child, kinda. Belinda is dead, someone new is standing in her place, and no one cares.

Did Davies just fucking canonise Looms? LOOMS!?!?!

Why is Omega back for two seconds? Why does he look like that? What's the point?

Why kill the older Rani? Can the younger one regenerate? Does that mean 14 can regenerate?

Davies still hasn't explained Bi-generation. Promised he would in this episode but i guess that was just a lie.

No Susan is shocking. Apparently she was a part of the original ending. I don't care, still shocking.

I hate the implication that Susan may not be the Doctor's biological granddaughter. Hate, hate, hate.

LOOMS!?!?!

Why is Mel here? I don't mean the episode but the whole show. She's added nothing, it's bean a waste.

Same with Rose Noble. Two finales and two lines. Why is she here???

Why are there so many UNIT characters. They add nothing and take up so much narrative space.

The spin-off trailer did look great tho.

Folding Poppy's jacket out of existence was incredibly powerful.

I love Whittaker. I love 13. Why is she here? A great scene in isolation but it's a complete narrative left turn with no purpose. It just comes and goes.

I love 13's excited run down the Tardis ramp.

Gatwa and 15 have both deserved better. Both in this episode and throughout their run. Both the actor and the incarnation of the Doctor.

I don't think Billie Piper is the Doctor. Actually I do. Actually I don't. Actually I...I don't want think about it anymore. My head hurts. Everything hurts. Why is Doctor Who like this now?

LOOMS!?!?!

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The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every

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"Where's Jack?" ↳ 14.15 - PEACE OF MIND

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"Where's Jack?" ↳ 14.15 - PEACE OF MIND

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Sheryl Lee on David Lynch and Laura Palmer.