alas, still here

Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it.  That would leak out seemingly at random no less.  Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.

Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness.  Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation.  Also beads.  Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.

I can’t stress this enough. I wish I could get through to everyone I know. If you try to organise and be productive with every minute of your day, eventually, your body will pull the rug out from under you in a dramatic fashion, and you may end up being able to do very little at all, in a world that has no sympathy for people who need to rest.

So rest now. And work on making sure the people around you know it’s OK to rest.

And don’t feel guilty for resting. Practice telling yourself that rest - quality rest, where you’re not stressing about something you feel you ought to be doing - is actually a productive thing to do for your body.

You are an animal. You need to respect that animal’s needs. That includes laying about doing nothing as much as it does enrichment and running about.

Even your fucking computer gets overheated and slow if you don’t allow it to shut down and update sometimes (which is actually a lot of what sleep does for humans, btw). You eve notice how sometimes your browser just crashes sometimes because you have too many tabs open, or one of the tabs is causing the whole machine to run slowly?

So don’t tell yourself you want to work like a machine because guess what? Machines fucking fall over all the time if you overload them, try to do too many things at once, or don’t let them rest.

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like everyone here called 2006-2025 NuWho but I always referred to it with my friends as the reboot era but clearly neither will be accurate soon

like do we just base it on whichever company is producing it like Studio!Who or actually wait no why don't we just adopt the Fast & Furious naming convention

Doctor Who 1963-1989

2 Doctor 2 Who 2006-2025

What's up, Whovians! Our beloved TV show is DEAD FOREVER and it is time to CELEBRATE ITS LEGACY! Here are the five GREATEST EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO since 2005 only

5. The Chronko's Back! (series 15, written by Russel T. Davies)

In this new classic episode Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and his companion achieve Russell T Davies' long held ambition of bringing back the cult classic 1980s companion Shirley, who was considered for being a character in three serials, and the fan-favorite alien Chronko who appeared in one unpopular Peter Davison novel. The episode consisted mainly of the characters pointing to the Chronko and saying "oh wonderful! The Chronko's back!" and "we all love the Chronko". Davies said: "Bringing back Chronko was the only goal I had when I returned to the series. I really didn't think about anything but Chronko. Who did I cast as the Doctor again? Was it Chronko?"

4. Attack of the Silurians (series 13, written by Chris Chibnall)

This controversial installment was criticized for its poor pacing, incoherent story, and the low-budget effects of the Silurians, achieved by holding the boom mike operator's pet lizard in front of the actor's faces, but DID YOU KNOW this special's original storyline involved FORTY FIVE MINUTES of uninterrupted 13/Yaz sex scenes? To quote Chris Chibnall, "we literally didn't script that. Jodie and Mandip just did it. But then the BBC cut it and I had to write an actual story on short notice." Dan was sort of present in the background, milling about awkwardly to see if they're done before disappearing deeper into the TARDIS

3. The Emptiness Left Behind of the Daleks (series 3, written by Russell T. Davies)

In this tense cliffhanger of a episode, the Doctor and Martha land on a planet that shows all the signs of a Dalek invasion. But as they wander the blasted globe they see and hear...nothing, only a faint "exterminate" on the wind, distant noises in the fog, but the Daleks never appear. As they wander the lifeless city the Doctor says "the Daleks were here. The Daleks were here. I am nothing without them" and Martha starts to repeat "there's holes, Doctor. Oh god, there's holes". Their mantras repeat endlessly as they wander deeper into the city, and as the viewer realizes: wasn't this episode supposed to be over by now? Night falls and the episode carries on, the Doctor and Martha saying the Daleks were here, there's holes, until they can't take it anymore. Martha gets lost in infinite corridors trying to return to the TARDIS. The Doctor implants his own sonic screwdriver into his own body and points it to the featureless tunnels all around him, screaming in a hoarse voice: "exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate"

This was better received than the one where the Dalek has penises for a face

2. The Cyberman Paradigm (series 9, written by Steven Moffat)

In this memorable installment, the Twelfth Doctor finishes off a rather lackluster Cyberman invasion in five minutes and then proceeds to read the Communist Manifesto into the camera for the remainder of the time.

And FINALLY...it's THE NUMBER ONE MOST MEMORABLE DOCTOR WHO MOMENT OF THE PAST TWENTY ONE YEARS...

Blink (series 3, written by Steven Moffat)

It happens during the whole vampire questline. It's not related to vampires. I may misremember details so forgive me for that. But you have to go through old dwemer ruins and you meet the last living snow elf in Skyrim. You know, the snow elves. Who were enslaved by the dwemer and went blind and feral and still live in the ruins long after the dwemer are gone. The falmer is what they're called now. Here's the last one who's in their original form.

And oh hey, to get to where you need to go you have to take a path that's an old snow elf coming of age rite of passage. And he's going to take you through it and you're going to learn about this dead culture, this culture that was killed.

And now you've got what you came for and there's one way out. Now that you've learned what the falmer used to be, where they came from, what was lost because of the dwemer enslaving them, you have to go through a falmer village.

It's a narrow canyon lined with huts. There's no way to avoid it, in order to get through you have to kill them. They attack you because that's what they do to people invading their territory. You're invading their village. You have to kill them or they'll kill you. It's the only way out. You feel terrible.

If you stop to loot one of the huts on your way out you'll find a book full of unreadable text. Take it to the winterhold college and give it to the librarian and he'll tell you that it's a remarkable find because it's evidence that falmer have retained intelligence. They're not just mindless feral monsters. They have this book, they've kept this book even though they can't see. They have a culture. Maybe they still remember what happened to them. Maybe that's why they're so mad.

You just killed so many of them. You're going to have to kill many more.

Anyway.