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will say though, difference between this wilderness years is that the show is in a terrible place for expanded media if you want to like, push forward with the story. back in 1989 it ended in a spot where you could go on writing new 7th doctor stories but like. where the fuck do you go from the reality war ending

The Brain of Morbius is actually so funny. You'd assume the Doctor shouldn't be able to remember his past life as the Other/Timeless Child, so why is his strategy for defeating Morbius just throwing his own mind at him full force and hoping it doesn't kill him?

four is simply that arrogant that he thought he could defeat one of the most powerful time lords to ever live and unfortunately for the universe he was proven right

It seems pretty on brand for him that he can do a number of improbable things that are beyond either humans or other Time Lords and instead of going "huh i wonder why I have these impossible powers" he either goes "Oh every time lord can do that" or "that's right, I'm THAT impressive."

i always think of the bit in Invasion of Time when he tells Borusa why he can mask his thoughts from the Varden where nobody else can and instead of thinking "huh maybe there's something fundamentally different to me" he just comes to the conclusion that "YEAH I AM BETTER THAN YOU ACTUALLY"

The OSR movement may have its issues, but ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that, to a large extent, it's merely reacting to the broader indie tabletop roleplaying sphere's tendency to lose sight of why many people take up the hobby in the first place: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.

Yes, but it was badly done enough that I came away with the impression "oh this won't be fine" and I stayed in the closet from them for another 15 years!

the problem with parents is that they are undiagnosed

writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe

[ID: A scene from the film Mamma Mia. Sophie Sheridan is her mother’s diary with a cheeky smile on her face. The subtitles read, “June 14th. What a night!” /end ID]

I love when you recognize junji ito’s style and you read on not knowing if it’s going to be horrific or just cute cat stuff

I was told that I’d get used to not having a headphone jack. I still want a fucking headphone jack. I hate that phones don’t have them. It’s stupid and awful and I hate it

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.

I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.

iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?

Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

My contrary definition of a "planet" is any object that has orbital epicycles visible with the naked eye from the Earth's surface. This limits us to 5 planets and explicitly excludes the Earth.