#ask-the-hatbox-ghost

Thun is a friend of mine! He’s insightful and funny, good qualities for a liveblog, as well as just being a really nice dude. I linked his liveblog once before, but I’ll always do it again-- @amateur-ornithology​ :D

"Hmm..."

Well I got to this a few months late

I'LL EDIT IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

"As busy as maggots in a fresh corpse. You know, we had Jack and his fiends stop by for a while. Then I caught a horrific case of the boo flu... and then Dorian caught it... Then Victor and Sally and... We just passed it around like the unwanted tuna casserole at a wake.

That’s totally fine!  In fact, it’s more than fine -- I am delighted that my creation is inspiring other people creatively :)

I have not thought at all about the copyright status of the autoresponder posts.  I don’t feel any particular sense of ownership over the content of the posts, since I didn’t write them, but I guess I would object if someone were to pass them off verbatim as their own writing.

Even that is negotiable, though, and I can easily imagine giving someone permission to use long verbatim stretches of bot text in their own writing if they had a reason and asked me first.

it’s not a story actually, it’s just a single panel lol but it’s from Topolino 2987 and here’s the full page for context (its just like ‘you can meet the strangest people on a train’)

For @ask-the-hatbox-ghost: Eight trying to offer a biscuit to a rhino. Do rhinos even eat biscuits?

That’s fair. As a rebuttal though, I will point out there is some evidence against it being too long:

The main thing is that Twelve consistently labelled himself as being over 2000 years old, doing so both at the beginning of his incarnation [Deep Breath] and near the end [Smile, Thin Ice, Extremis]. He also said near regeneration that “1500 years of rock and roll” had passed since the First Doctor regenerated [Twice Upon a Time], which was around the age of 450 (Earth) years old [Tomb of the Cybermen].

Now of course we know these numbers are vague and inaccurate, but the fact that Twelve didn’t really acknowledge much time as having passed indicates to me that he was probably, discounting Heaven Sent, a relatively short-lived incarnation (not irregularly so, though - eg. Seven only lived for 55 years, Ten may have only lived about a decade - it’s more that Eight, War and Eleven are outliers for living so long). 

Similarly, while we haven’t gotten a statement of Thirteen’s age yet (I think I remember some tie-in material going with the over 2000 years old line, but I’m not sure), it seems she’s a fairly ‘young’ incarnation thus far. In one of the comics set after Series 11 she implies it’s been about 10 weeks since Team TARDIS began travelling with her [Hidden Human History]. The way she’s still struggling to remember her new gender in Spyfall also makes me think it hasn’t been that long for her.

As for the vault, my assumption was that the oath was less about the vault itself and more specifically about guarding Missy’s body for 1000 years. Since she was alive, I think Twelve was hoping he could watch over her while they travelled. 

Thinking about it now, I actually really like the idea that the oath was incomplete. It makes the events going on now in Series 12 a direct consequence of the Doctor breaking it (a bit like how the Master becoming Prime Minister was the direct result of Ten bringing down Harriet Jones).

Oh the Skeksis is still a very powerful nation in that world, very rich and broad. SkekSo wanted it BROADER

SkekSo was born from nouveau riche parents who had made a fortune and rose to high society. They were snobbish and completely forgot they just were butchers, but they still weren't evil. They never understood why their son was so heartless and gratuitously mean and sadistic

As he grew up into a very fine looking young adult, he tried to intend the Old Emperor's court by becoming Chancellor, but someone else applied to the position. He quickly hired goons and had that Skeksis disappear forever

Luckily for him, only a few trines aftee he had become Chancellor (and secretly used tax money for his own good), the Emperor died heirless. As the tradition wanted if it happened, the candidates to the throne had to fight in a Trial by Stone and the winner became Emperor and decided of the loser's fate. He candidated for the scepter... and so did SkekShod, the Treasurer

SkekSo was strong despote his slender appearance, and managed to win. With his new scepter, he decided to spare his rival from death or banishment... but asserted his dominace by furiously bludgeoning his head until he got the brain damage we know. He has become SkekSo the First

In his early reign, he was decided to expand his new Empire and make it richer than it already was. The closest nations to the limits were the Arathims and the Gruenaks... they shall perish for their lands, then. He never cared about anyone, but he always felt Skeksis were the superior, dominant race of Thra. They lived longer, were beautiful, graceful, strong, rich... he thought very less of anything that wasn't a Skeksis, not less than Mystics. He just did his best to remain diplomatic with Podlings and Gelflings. Didn't prevent him to continue the "tradition" of the previous Emperors of kidnapping lowly Geflings Gruenaks Podlings etc crossing the limits accidentally and have them become slaves

He hated the Mystics but for some rrason always had a form of respect for UrSu. They didn't like each other, but he admired how despite his "hippy ways" he hated from Mystics he managed to be a strong minded and determined leader. He tolerated him at best and that was why he never truely started more than just a cold war. As for Aughra, he was like everyone else on Thra about her. Respecting her and the Crystal, bowing if she came, the only person he or any other Emperor before him would bow to. He still grumbled and nodded mindlessly whenever she reproached him his authoritarian ways, like a rebellious teen scolded by his mom

SkekSo was very hedonistic, with a harem and concubines, and enjoying more riches and luxury than helping his people, that led to many inequalities in his reign. All protestants were killed or imprisonned, or worse. Despite all his mistresses or one night stands, he never became mates with anyone, uninterested at the concept (and aro in my HC) and remained heirless officially since neither he nor SkekZok knew that SkekZok's surprise baby was his

SkekSo hated aging and feared death, but never to the canon extreme. Being part of Thra, he knew he would go there when dying ; he just hoped it would happen faaar away in the future. Sadly for him, he didn't. He had had for a few centuries a disease that had the same symptoms as the Darkening (but the Darkening never existed in that universe) he chose to ignore and hide through his metal beak etc and not going to the doctor. He ended up to about 50 trines before his death... he had caught a mortal Skeksis STD that tool centuries before becoming critical. He was in his terminal phase

That was very hard and painful to hear from a life-lover like him. He completely snapped. He would die soon ? Very well. But not before accomplishing one grandiose act, something he had always fantasized of but never dared to actually do : make all of Thra the Skeksis', and kill or enslave all the others. They were tall, strong, very well trained in their army, and mofe numerous. They were the superior race

oh! well shoot I didn’t know about that one uh this. doesn’t connect with that one 8′I also who the hell makes a bull fight a unicorn that bull would straight up get murdered in 2.5 seconds jeez

ALSO I’M A STUPID i didn’t put a link to where you can read The Trail of the Unicorn but that first post is way long winded so I’ll bung it in with the next update but if you can’t wait you can read it over here

also to those three or so anons asking if the reason I’m sweating bullets is because I’m addressing *that*

yes.

EDIT: imma stupid again-