sight unseen

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

- banging soundtrack just awesome

- lead female character with her own fully realized arc that had nothing to do with a love interest

- the concept of drifting is so fucking cool and prime fanfic material

- those two gay fucking weirdo scientists who drifted together inside a fucking alien brain like hello

- IT PULLS OUT A SWORD IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE

“Long Train Journeys” by Jordan Bolton

Princess Mononoke’s mother wolf Moro and Howl’s Moving Castle’s Witch of the Waste are both voiced by a famous singer and drag queen Akihiro Miwa.

Akihiro Miwa (born in 1935) is one of the most prominent queer icon in Japanese history, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (his hometown) during WW2.

This clip is from a document How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998)

I can't stress enough that Anthony Coburn didn't create Doctor Who. He was assigned to write the first serial and obviously added things to that but he didn't come up with the idea. By TARDIS originator he literally means "he wrote the line where Susan makes up the name 'TARDIS'", which at least makes him the first person since 1963 to remember Susan made up the name TARDIS.

The weirdest part of this is that apparently he hates regeneration as a concept. He wants control over the show his dad didn't create so he can institute his dream of a Doctor Who where the Doctor always looks and dresses the same no matter who's playing him, or alternatively just died with Hartnell

Given he almost certainly doesn't have the rights to do this, I'm sure this is just while the rights are in dispute, but. Yikes.

The weird part is, he was offered money. He said the BBC's offer was a "starting point" but, allegedly, it was the maximum they're allowed to offer him under the union contract Anthony Coburn had in the 60s. So what does he want on top of that?

For the BBC to produce his pilot.

"Here's the most money we can offer you." "Fuck you, and produce my rewrite of my dad's pilot you rejected in the 70s."

He's paranoid that the BBC "killed" his father, but it looks like he's paranoid the BBC, the network willing to pay him 20,000 pounds for rights he probably doesn't have, may go after him too, and he has a contingency:

He's going to leave the rights to Vladimir Putin. Who he thinks will sue the BBC and/or start World War III over the streaming rights to the first four episodes of Doctor Who. He also believes Putin will grant him asylum from BBC assassins, in exchange for the cavemen episodes of Doctor Who

Thankfully they've left Britbox alone. I just checked.

If he weren't being a white supremacist asshole, I'd be laughing about the fact that he's still griping about how they RUINED Doctor Who at the end of Patrick Troughton's run when they changed the concept of the Doctor from a wiley old inventor whose time machine could "rejuvenate" him to an alien who regenerated. TIME LORDS ARE NOT CANON! they were added at the end of the seventh season!