jimmyandthegiraffes

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I understand why peoples immediate mental picture of bertie wooster is hugh laurie from the tv series and whilst I do enjoy the tv series, my j&w experience began as reading them at a very impressionable and entirely too-young age and so my mental image is a bit more... blonde

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do u ever think about how the first thing Jamie does when he’s returned is grab his chest with both hands. makes sure he’s real, makes sure this is real, like fleeting understating really did set in during his last moments. checks his pulse, his heart. feels only one. one pulse, one heart. feels disoriented. looks around. where is the other one? there’s supposed to be more. where did it go?

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This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

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Doctor Who episodes | Story: 040 | season 5 [4/7] ↳ The Enemy of the World

“That’s what I’m trying to tell you about Salamander. He’s trying to destroy the world!”

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two and jamie have like. the exact opposite eyebrows

mcdonald’s m arch vs perpetual worried brows

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authors!!

quick question...

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if they made me showrunner the first thing i would do is bring gallifrey back as an active force in the plot and universe, thus knocking dr who off of their center-of-the-spiral pedestal that lets them warp reality like they do. this will not change their tactics, which they are used to using, those will just be less effective now. the second thing i would do is hire kate orman and do whatever she tells me

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get in the dustpan. since you wanna make sweeping statements

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“average classic Doctor Who season kills off companions” factoid actually just statistical error. Daleks Masterplan Georg who is missing from archive & kills off 10,000 each episode, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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It must have been so hard being a 2/jamie girlie in 1968… ugh! Like yes I ship eldritch horror bozo the clown and his 20 year old sugar baby!!! Jane Austen couldn’t have come up with something better!!!

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Essex (County), England, United Kingdom

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Its been a long week. Someone pass me an image of The Character

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“It seems appropriate that it should also have been in Antarctica that the Edwardian world lasted longest. After the period ended a tiny bubble of pre-war feeling and expectation persisted there in the form of Shackleton’s marooned Endurance expedition. Probably Shackleton’s men were the last Europeans on the planet still inhabiting the lost paradigm in 1916, year of the Somme: ‘I suppose our experience was unique,’ he wrote. The war had already just begun when they sailed in August 1914 to try the first crossing of the Antarctic continent, but the England they left was in the very first phase of high excitement. All they had seen was the Edwardian nation mobilising, not a single casualty list published, not a single telegram of condolence sent. The war had no colours yet except the patriotic ones. They heard their last instalment of news in Buenos Aires in October, where the received wisdom still held that the battles would end crisp and quick within six months. After that they passed beyond communication, ‘not without regret’ at their exclusion from the great adventure, as if the European catastrophe already unrolling behind them were a spreading stain they had accidentally outrun. […] His book South (1919) best conveys the bursting of the bubble in an exchange of dialogue as sudden and blunt as the inrush of the new world that it brought about. As soon as the three scarecrow-like travellers had established who they were to Mr Sorlle, the manager, and what they were doing wandering through his whaling station frightening children, ‘Tell me, when was the war over?’ Shackleton asked. 'The war is not over,’ he answered. 'Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad.’”

— Francis Spufford, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

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okay opinion incoming im sorry but genuinely ENOUGH with the modern companion thats just a quirky 20 something year old girl from current year who also happens to be the most special person ever born. how about we pick up ugg from caveman times next, hm? or maybe just some guy from like the 50s. maybe a young girl, but from the far far future? can they at least be totally unimportant to the universe, but important to the doctor none the less. i miss when the tardis team was a real mix of total randos, it felt believable that he'd find amazing intelligent people from every time to be his friends. the vibe was different when the companion was special in their own way, not forced to be by greater powers. i loved that rose was just like me when i was a kid; low income, totally normal day to day life, realistic messy home - but she was still brave & smart. ruby is like a pinterest perfect shiny smooth engineered companion to me idk, like her outfits colour co-ordinate with her perfect apartment? millie gibson didnt do a bad job acting at all but the character itself to me feels made to be a companion in a lab, not an organic person who just happened to come along for the ride. dare i say i think graham was a better companion, i just wish the writing had been better, i was actually so excited for an old man companion + young female doctor dynamic lol.

i think thats why jamie is my favourite, a scottish highlander from the 1700s who cant read & has no idea whats going on most of the time, but is the doctors best friend all the same & they have a real connection regardless. i feel like he brings ideas & perspective to situations the doctor wouldnt have otherwise thought of.

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firefox is just such a standard browser for anyone remotely interested in computers that remembering basically every normal person uses google chrome feels like a kick in the head