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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S04E13: Devil's Due

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Gurathin: “So, you don’t have a governor module, but we could punish you just by looking at you?”

Murderbot: ”Probably. Right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.”

I'm so glad these lines made into the show!!!

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decided to rewatch 'the name of the doctor' mainly for the river clara interactions bc it's been so long but holy shit. steven moffat you are so fucking pretentious and annoying. every other line is "there is a secret so old and secretive it would kill a million worlds just to hear it.... the doctor is a man so important that shadows and whispers and moonbeams know to fear him... his grave is the most dangerous location in existence...." like what the absolute fuck are you talking about. why does every line of dialogue have to be SO fucking obnoxious.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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longnose gar (lepisosteus osseus) that i drew while extremely nervous in a crowded room. the form of this fish calmed me

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We can't quite imagine Delgado and Pertwee going at it like that.

Oh we absolutely CAN

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me when I'm happily enjoying something that someone on [tumblr] said I wasn't allowed to

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“The Slur Song” by @bigfoots-biggest-fan as performed by Cisero @ The Prohibition Cabaret

I fucking love this song so much and as soon as my friend played it for me for the first time, I knew I had to perform this. This is just such a banger song to perform at any drag show bc I am given plenty of people to point to. Not to mention that I had my family front row for this one.

The coat for this look took 40 hours to bedazzle alone (and gave me a serious case of solvent poisoning-) and the paper pad took me about 4 hours to complete in total. I’m glad I managed to get these pictures from @/solcm15 on insta so I at least have some good pictures of this beast. Needless to say, I’ve changed how I bedazzle from now on.

Just look at this hot bitch… Everyone gets to have a meeting with the Drag HR Manager and I hope to perform this number so many more times ❤️

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To all my fellow fat people out there: there is no secret thin person living inside of you, desperate to get out. This hypothetical thin person isn’t “the real you”. You’re fat. The real you is fat. And that’s okay.

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seeing the concept art Tommy Arnold did for Murderbot has made me so disappointed in the SecUnit we see in the show. i already had feelings about it's organic appearance from the start of the season, but seeing what we could've had just makes me sad

look at these examples of ways they could've created mechanical joints and 'blended' them with nearby organic materials:

imagine how much cooler it'd be to see those overlapping plates of organic material whenever Murderbot isn't in it's armor! to get to see bits of the inorganic machinery it's built from when it isn't grievously injured!

but also, think about how much of a difference it would make to the audience if the construct the PresAux team was trying to personify and befriend looked more like this:

i get that it's much easier to produce a nearly-human form on film than to reapply prosthetics every day of shooting and render graphical edits for every frame, but i feel like minimizing the inhuman elements of SecUnit's form has diminished such an important part of the story of The Murderbot Diaries

Murderbot isn't human. it doesn't want to be human, nor does it want to be treated like a human by those around it. but i feel like some viewers could entirely miss that aspect of it's personality because it's so much easier to just see it as a guy

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3x18 - Distant Voices