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Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.

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People are like, "He's not very active on here," but do y'all know how many unsent drafts I have clapping back at the haters who still think Paper Towns is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl novel?

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Listen. I can get behind the whole “Doctor Nyarlathotep” thing, but only, like, in a very specific way.

First of all, they’re not using some kind of perception-field or disguising their appearance. They truly do have a humanoid body, or at least they always have so far. A bunch of secret tentacles hidden under the scarf is just…too easy.

And if your Eldritch Doctor is secretly evil, you do you, but I’m not here for it. Pointing out when they make mistakes or run contrary to human morality is one thing, but if you make them fundamentally malicious or unfeeling, you might as well create a new character.

The Doctor’s fundamental strangeness is mostly internal, both in the physiological sense and in the psycho-spiritual sense. The face and (outer) body are completely human, to the point that (to paraphrase a fanfic I can’t remember the title of) the most sophisticated face-recognition algorithm on Earth would label them 100% human. But any human can tell. 

There’s just… something about them, coming up from their very core. Something in those bright, bright eyes and that wide, wide smile and the movements that don’t seem forced or unnatural per se, but just don’t quite match the way you expect a human to  move. And more than anything else, there is a presence. An aura. A voice, somewhere deep in your primal brain, says Follow. Another voice, from deeper still, says Run. Spending too much time around them is intoxicating and exhausting and exhilarating and unnerving. 

Maybe this is the reason for all their fast unending motion; for the outlandish clothes and quirky behavior. Because if you’re busy wondering why this bland-looking man has a stalk of celery pinned to his lapel, you won’t stop to think about the terrible, glowing charisma that elevates him above the anonymity his appearance should consign him to. If you’re distracted by the irritating tunes the funny little man in baggy trousers is playing on his recorder, you won’t notice the steel-trap glint in his smiling eyes. The Doctor takes many steps to ensure that most of the humans they meet never really look at them.

Because once you get a good look, you can never unsee the great ancient otherness pouring out from the cracks in the mask.

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The Doctor Who episode "Hell Bent" is such a weird episode of television because I think it's unironically a beautiful poignant masterpiece while simultaneously being an episode that comes across like it's deliberately trolling the audience.

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The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

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james marsters deliberately playing spike in a more sympathetic way to avoid his character being killed off after season 2 so he could keep his job is so funny. guy was literally scheming his way into job security by turning a throwaway villain into emo boy audience bait and it WORKED. gotta say i respect the grind

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I've read very little Cass but this makes me want to read more.

I refuse to let boring, toothless fanon/Cass win, so here is a non-comprehensive list of actual things Cassandra Cain has canonically done: -conquered and lived amongst a pack of wolves -eaten (among other things) the contents of a Gotham City dumpster, a raw cow carcass and the flesh of at least one interdimensional demon -brought down Two-Face's crime ring by stealing all his coins so he couldn't make any decisions -stabbed Rose Wilson in the throat to checkmate Deathstroke -played a game of chicken against Batman, in jets, and WON -broke Stephanie Brown's jaw for trying to stop her digging up a corpse -stopped a murderer's heart for several seconds as a teachable moment -broke the Joker out of Arkham just to kick his ass -threw Dick Grayson out a window for hurting Barbara's feelings

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I’m sorry but it’s fucking delusional to act as if prioritizing the actual material consequences of an election over making an abstract ideological “point” comes from a position of passive, moderate liberalism. I literally don’t have a guarantee to basic bodily autonomy as an American woman anymore because people didn’t take the threat of Trump presidency seriously enough in 2016. I don’t think democrats are undeserving of criticism either but if you don’t think there’s a significant difference between the parties at this point I have to assume you are not actually informed about the issues and institutions you’re discussing

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he was a boy, she was a multidimensional bigger on the inside time and space machine beyond any mortal's comprehension, can i make it any more obvious?

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Sometimes I remember that all lesbianism is named after 1 really gay lady from 4000 years ago. Whether you use the term Sapphic or lesbian, it still is from her which is hilarious, hope she enjoys being women loving incarnate

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azula as zuko’s evil advisor is so funny to me i actually fuck so hard w this concept. she gives zuko advice and then zuko looks across the room to sokka and sokka just discreetly gives him a thumbs up or thumbs down. one weekend sokka, aang, mai, toph, suki, katara, and anyone else who might have a modicum of common sense all go out of town for like. omashu coachella or smth. and when they come back the entire palace is in shambles, zuko’s just sitting on his throne shinji style, and he’s just like “i’m so sorry….. her advice seemed so cogent….. she made trickle down economics seem so reasonable……. why weren’t you there….. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!” while azula slyly sips from a cunty chalice she had personally made just for moments like this.

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Buffy fans can have a little gaslighting

As a treat

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No fucking way LMFAO

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the godzilla minus one experience

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RTD's the current showrunner now, so I think that means we're getting into the "making shit up to make the current Showrunner look bad" phase of Doctor Who discourse.

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

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WE CALLED THEM GIANTS is the new book Stephanie and I have been working on. It's a stand alone graphic novel, and it's out in November.

io9 had the announcement, which includes some preview pages to give a taste of what Stephanie has been doing.

It's all drawn (stephanie and I are already onto what we're doing next) and can't wait to show it to folks. Being a Graphic Novel, it's already available to pre-order from your retailers. (B&N/Amazon US/UK).

I'll be writing more in this week's newsletter, which you can sign up for here (or look in the archves).

It's the first time either of us have done something like this, so it's a huge thing.

Hurrah!

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Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history. Before she transitioned, she founded Rat Cage Records, a record label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs; she signed them at their very first show. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. According to member Adam Horovitz, since the men knew she wouldn’t accept the money if she saw it as a charitable act, they claimed they owed her royalties from their EP Polly Wog Stew.

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So if you’ve ever worn a ‘lightning bolt’ t-shirt or listened to Victim in Pain or found yourself fondly recalling a Beastie Boys show you went to, you have a transgender woman to thank for that. And we should know her story. If you call yourself a hardcore kid, Donna Lee Parsons touched your life.

Source: LGBTQ Nation | True Trans Soul Rebel by Norman Brannon | April 2024