#sarriane

thank you so much for your sweet message & request! always a pleasure. 🧡

i am so intrigued by the fact that you don't really use a stovetop, especially considering you post so much about weird foods. i could probably do with a few more burners on my stove, and i already have five. more counterspace sounds phenomenal, though.

You’re not alone in that -- when I mentioned it to my coworkers shortly after moving they were all startled by the very idea. But I’d noticed that even in my previous kitchen, with four full gas burners, I rarely used more than one at a time unless I was cooking multiple dishes, and even then not always. 

I’m kind of curious in the reverse -- what are you cooking when you use all four burners at once? I feel like it must be vegetables, because those are things I don’t eat and often don’t even know how to prepare. And a lot of stuff I would cook on the stove, like potatoes for mashed potatoes or pinto beans for baked beans, I cook in the instant pot instead. 

d-a-f-punk

roasted garlic will add a slight sweetness also! if it's too sweet, switching to minced raw or fried slices might help?

I agree that the "oh, but I was having such a good day, and these people are doing their jobs" is pretty far from the spirit of Doctor Who. Like, what? But the quality of many new series short stories and some of the novels is kind of bad anyways, unfortunately. I don't think it's much worse than any of those. It's just a bit more evident with this one bc it falls flat and OOC.

I haven’t read a lot of new series stories, but the quality of the EU in general is very mixed. The problem with this story is that it’s part of a larger trend of the era. It’s yet another case of the writers not thinking through the unfortunate implications (everything in Kerblam, Grace’s fridging, the Nazi stuff in Spyfall, etc.) and of the Doctor being strangely passive in the face of evil or suffering (having to stand back and let history happen in Rosa and Demons of the Punjab, which works in the context of those stories but is part of a larger pattern; preferring to let the spiders suffocate/starve than give them a quick death; letting Kerblam continue to exploit its workforce and not caring that the System murdered an innocent woman; insisting that killing Tim Shaw would make Graham as bad as him, despite the fact that Tim Shaw has committed genocide against multiple planets, will continue to do so, and wouldn’t have done it if they’d succeeded in killing him the first time (but then is perfectly fine with him spending eternity trapped in stasis even though that's no better than death and means he could theoretically escape and kill more people); refuses to activate the Death Particle to stop the Master and the Cybermen, but is quite willing to let Ko Sharmus do it, implying it wasn’t morality stopping her as much as a desire to simply not be the one to pull the trigger).

Nope. It’s all connected, like one huge ungodly conspiracy theory

You know, Survival’s costume designer might have fucked up the order and made clunky funky furry costumes but they had noses and paws so I will always be of the opinion that Survival’s cheetahs are so much more fathomable.

Actually, the on stage musical Cats costumes isn’t that bad, and I think the episode would be a lot cooler if they let the dancers wear something similar so they could have acted precisely in the way they originally wanted them to, and it would have been a lot cooler. Cheetah-print thin clothing wasn’t all that uncommon when it was filmed, I think?? What was that guy doing ordering ROLLS of thick fucking cheetah faux fur??

OH MY GOD WAIT

wait

1981 - 1983

1989.......

Was it.... was it inspired......?

one of my favorite strategies for action scenes is to treat them like sex scenes! describe all the things you’d pay attention to if it were a different scene entirely (someone’s body, breathing, the sounds they make, etc). it’s at least a fun exercise. i got it from something guillermo del toro said about shooting pacific rim.

Oh, yes, I do try to do that -- as far as I’m concerned, sex scenes are basically action scenes where everyone’s naked, and vice versa. But the problem I am having now is really more “how do I conceptualize battlefield-level tactics?” which is not really one of my strengths and it’s also not something that comes up much in sex scenes. And there are a lot of people in this fight.