#also give the contestants properly ripe produce

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No offense but if you are running a wildly popular baking show and decide to do episodes influenced by different cultures then I think you owe those cultures the respect of learning how to bake/cook their cuisine and pronounce the names of said cuisine without being a cunt about it

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Fathers and Sons Part 1: A ROTTMNT Fantasy Fanfiction

Summary: When a old friend shows up, Leonard is forced to face a difficult past all while keeping Donnie safe. But will it be enough to escape unharmed?

Takes Place a bit after “The Thief and the Orphan”

Word Count:2478

Pairing: Ok if you ship ANYTHING in this I’m going to seriously have to reccomend you seek therapy. Or do a soul searching montage. Which ever your insurance will cover

Rating: PG for Mild Violence

“Ok hear me out-“

Len ,without looking away from the cabbage he was inspecting, says, “Danny I swear if I turn around and your’e holding a bag of onions bigger then Donnie I’m going to use your suits for my new quilt.”

Danny let out a small scoff (followed by the undeniable sound of someone setting down a giant bag of surplus). A small shoulder bumped his hip, drawing his attention down to the twelve year old soft shell at his side, giving him a sour look with puffed up cheeks, “Uh oh, I know that look. What did I do?” Len asks

“I am not a official unit of measurement Dad.”Donnie says in a way that supposed to indicate he was offended. But judging by the way he was pressing his mouth into a fine line he was trying hard not to smile. Len doesn’t share his attempt to hide a smile as he rubs Donnie’s scalp as though to ruffle his imaginary hair, “He tries to catch any sign that Donnie was upset ,he had a bad habit fo not always sharing his feelings, but the child seemed alright. Len, picks up a frost apple and turns it over to check for rotten spots. Danny snatches the apple out of his hand, Len looks to him and sees Danny giving him a questioning look before glancing at the child holding his fathers hand, leaning against him with a half bored expression on his face but also probably to give his braced leg a break, “Think we can afford a quick lesson?” Danny asks

A wave of uneasiness came over Len as he quickly glanced around the market. Thankfully the guards were too busy off getting bribes or drunk and the vendor is too busy having a staring contest with a spider on their stand. After a moment to think it over he nods to Danny though he unconsciously grips Don’s hand tighter in his. Danny’s crouches down to Don’s level, “What do you think kid? Ready for a lightning round?”

Don’s eyes widen for a moment before looking to Len. Despite the overprotective knot in his stomach he gives a nod. Don looks back to Danny with a look of determination. Danny gives a grin, pulling out the apple out from behind him and tosses it up into the air before snatching it and hiding it behind his back, barely keeping it in sight for more then a few seconds. “Alright, notice anything wrong with the apple?”

Don’s brow furrows in a way Len knew he was thinking about the brief time he had been allowed to see the apple. To a passerby it may have looked like a simply game a uncle was playing with his nephew but it was a good observation test to see how many defections Donnie could notice with as brief as window as possible. Which would prove useful if Donnie was ever staking out a score in the future. “It wasn’t fully blue yet, “ he says after a moment, “Which means it has plenty of time to ripe. And it didn’t have any bruising.”

“Almost right.” Danny drew the apple out again, angling the fruit so Donnie could see the top of it “The stem is twisted and withered a little which means the farmer who grew it took care to make sure it was stored properly.”

Don immediately frowns, “shoot.” He says tapping his foot against the ground angrily. Physically reprimanding himself for his mistake

“Hey now,” Danny rubs his scalp “you’re getting better. you’re catching on a lot faster then you Dad did.” Len made sure to cast the rat a sour look (mostly for the added insult in his direction)

Len can still feel Don’s disappointment as he leans against his Dad’s leg. Len didn’t always approve of doing tests like these in public. But he didn’t want Donnie to feel dishearten. HE hands the bag of groceries to Danny (who takes it with a soft grumble) and kneels down, a arm wrapped Dons shoulders, “Alright kiddo.” He says drawing Dons sad gaze to him, “Let’s say you wanted to ‘befriend someone here. Do you see someone who ‘d make a good ‘friend?’”

Eager at a chance to redeem himself, Donnie’s eyes dart around at a speed that Len knows means he’s focusing too hard, “Take a deep breath,”he reminds squeezing his shoulders gently, “there’s no time limit. ‘Friends’ will come around again.” Without looking at him, Don nods before closing his eyes and doing as he was told. This time when he looks around its at a slower more manageable pace, ‘I’d befriend the man in a brown cloak.”

Len looks at where Don’s looking at sees who he’s talking about, whose standing net in the shadow of another giant bull yokai, “Are you sure?” he asks, “Why not the two over there?” he says nodding towards the two squirrel yokai in bright clothes, “They look like they’d be good friends too.”

Donnie nods, “He’s a merchant pretending to be poorer then he is ,you can tell by his dragon scale gloves and glasses. And the guy with him is a body guard but the body guard looks tired like the merchant has been harassing him all night so even if I did.” Don pauses, “‘befriend him, the body guard probably wouldn’t try as hard to befriend me back.” Don’s eyes look to him for a moment as though to check his work, but Len just nods towards the squirrels, telling him to continue ,”They’re not actually rich, they look lost. The clothes are probably family heirlooms that they couldn’t bring themselves to sell, but they’re hands are really dirty which means they’re probably laborers. What ever they do have on them is probably a prized family possession. But it wouldn’t be right to befriend from them.” This time when Donnie looks at him Len gives him a smile and a nod, “good job baby boy, you got everything right.” He says gently pressing the corner of his mouth to Don’s forehead as he hugged him tightly around the shoulders. Even though Lens’ never been too sure about conducting these sort of tests in public, it’s worth it to see Don’s face blossom into a smile. Len rises back to a standing position. Mickey is already giving him a smile of approval as his flippers flutter happily, “Great job cookie!” he tells Donnie, squishing his cheek on Donnie’s scalp. Len takes the back of produce from Danny and returns to looking at the produce.

He had thought it was too soon to try and teach Don the skills he would need as a thief, and far too risky to do out in public, but luckily Danny always knew how to code the self titled “Thief Games” to make a observer think that , rather then teaching a child who to pick pocket and how to deduce a item worth stealing at a moments notice, that they were just teaching him how to make friends and playing games.

IT was inevitable, but that didn’t’ mean it didn’t make him anxious.

He was inspecting a group of half grown carrots when Donnie pulls on his arm to get his attention and immediately saw what had gotten Don so excited, a used book stand that had Don beaming up at him, “can I?” He asked , “Please? I have money.”

Uh oh. Len could feel his ‘overprotective dad’ instincts overwhelm his ‘dear moon Len the booth is literally a few feet away’ reasoning. He took a breath before he smiles, rubbing Dons’ scalp,” Ok take Mickey with you and do as he says. And here,” he reaches into his coin bag (thank the Mystic Moon for that extra good score they had hit before the snow had set in), he mentally counts up how much he’ll need for groceries before pulling out a few spare coins, “consider it a reward for doing so well,” Normally he didn’t like Donnie leaving his side in public, but it was worth it to see Don smile at him and take the coins, “Thanks Dad!” He says before hurrying over to the book vendor with Mickey trailing after him.

“Looks like you two are getting along again.” Danny says stepping by him. Picking through the produce,“I know things were hard there for a moment.”

“Yeah, we were training yesterday and he said,” Len pauses trying not to think about how the conversation had went, “some things that I know he felt bad about saying.” Len turns his attention to a giant bag of potato’s, when was the last time he had made fries? “Hes a great kid he just gets frustrated.”

“Hes at that age” Danny turns and leans at the stall, Len can tell he’s watching Donnie at the book stand. For someone who always claimed Len too overprotective, Danny was certainly a contender, “I can’t believe it was seven years ago you said you were going out to buy hair gel and you came back with a freaking kid.”

Len laughed, “Yeah,” it was weird how seven years could both feel like a lifetime and a blink of a eye. He could still remember when Donnie was too scared to leave his little corner of the house. He was so entrapped in those early memories that he almost jumped when Danny suddenly dumped his groceries into his arms causing Len to stumble for a moment, trying to keep from falling over, “Danny-“

“Mickeys started to look bored, I’m going to make sure he doesn’t start licking books-Mickey no! They’re covered in germs!” Danny said already hurrying over to where Donnie was desperately trying to pull a book away from Mickeys open mouth . It took him a moment to realize he wasn’t only left alone, but with bags of produce that even he was having a hard time balancing. He had thought is as overkill to bring the entire family along to of grocery shopping but the winter had been especially long. He didn’t blame any of them for running after him when he had went to get his cloak. He had actually been relieved to have help carrying the supplies back home but he should of known that was too good think their attention spans would hold out. With half humored grumbling he turns to the vendor,” Hey, can I leave this stuff behind with you until we leave?” Grateful when he nodded (before returning to his staring contest with the spider), Len somehow managed to shuffle behind the stand and drop off the bags food and the payment. He counted out his change again, they had ended up under budget (for once). Maybe he could go visit the sacred east booth, if they had rice flour he could make-“

“Hey babe”

Len drops the apple he had been looking at and grabbed at his knife when a another hand caught his and a arm wrapped around his chest, pinning his back against a chest. He wastes no time twisting to free himself before he feels the hand gripping his redirecting his knife holding hand so the sharp point was digging through the back of his shirt and over his kidneys under his coat so no one could see it. From a outside perspective someone might of thought that someone had jumped over to surprise a old friend. The person rests their cheek on his shoulder looking to him with a smirk “I can’t believe you actually let me do that Babe, how many times did you lecture Lief and Mickey for letting their guard down? oh how the mighty have fallen.”

Len grinds his teeth together, berating himself for a a few moments before forcing himself to calm down. The vendor hadn’t noticed what had happened, “What do you want Vito? I told you if i ever saw you again i’d skin you alive-“

“Ah you did didn’t you?” the silver yokai with a white mohawk and green markings around his eyes said as though just realizing he forgot his watch, or something trivial, “ But i just missed you so much i had to visit, babe. I must say, i’m digging the ponytail look you have going.” Vito used his hand to twirl his hair around for a moment ,”it really suits you.”

He’s too busy thinking of all the ways he wants to break Vitos army that he has to remind himself to stay calm. Despite how “attached” he claimed to be to Len, the Thief knew he had no problem shoving that knife between his ribs and leaving g him to bleed out “ I told you i hate it when you call me that Toe-“

“Ah but i think it’s cute, doesn’t it make you feel it make you feel special?” Vito presses his forehead uncomfortably close to Lens temple. Even after all the time Vito still smells like expensive cologne and candy, a sickly combination that makes his stomach twist,”How’s your boy doing? It’s been so long since i saw him-“

Len jerks around again “if you touch him-“

“I won’t i won’t. I happen to know he’s over book shopping with Danny and Mickey,” Vito let’s out a sigh “as much as i’d love to catch up with the boys, there’s someone who’s been dying to see you,” The hand on Lens chest rises up and plays with Lens bangs that slowly grow claws” and if you come quietly, you might live long enough to see your baby boy again,”

Len imagines catching his ankle around the back of Vitos ankle and getting them upper hand. But he looks to where the Mud Dogs are looking at books across the market. He watches Donnie look in his direction and his smile fade to terror. Of course he would understand what was going on, and in a way it makes Len hate Vito even more to make Donnie look so concerned for him. Donnie has already grabbed Danny’s hand but Danny is already looking like he’s about to charge across the market and kill Vito where he stands while Mickey grabs Donnies shoulders to keep him from running to him. But Len shakes his head at them as settle as he can. The pain swelling when Don’s eyes fill with tears. His natural instinct wants nothing more then to go to his child and comfort him. But HE knows he can’t do that if he makes the wrong move and ends up with a knife in his kidneys.

“Let’s just get this over with.” he growls at Vito as quietly as he can

“Aw that’s why i love you babe. You’re just so smart,” Vito twists the arm he has a grip on like someone would direct a horse and forces Len to walk ahead of them. The two of them disappearing into the crowd

Len didn’t care what happened to him

he just needs his son to be safe

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Doctor Who Season 14 Wish-List: What We’d Like to See

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With the recent announcement that star Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall will be departing Doctor Who following the next season, we have confirmation that Season 14 will be yet another opportunity to regenerate the long-running science fiction show. In that spirit, we reached out to the many Doctor Who viewers amongst our writers to get their personal fan perspectives on what they’d like to see from the next iteration of Who. Here’s what we came up with. Add your own wish-list items below…

Make the Doctor a Bit of a Bastard

My number one wish-list item for season 14 is I want the Doctor to be a bit of a bastard. Steven Moffat had his flaws, but one thing I loved was his interpretation of what the Doctor *is*. The way Moffat sees the Doctor is that there is this vast, ancient alien god, full of loneliness, grief, and rage that can burn out suns. And when it meets humans it pretends to be this fictional character called “the Doctor”, who is half idiot, half superhero (Of course, I think Moffat would also tell you that, though the Doctor might not know it, if you scratch the surface of the alien god behind the mask, you’ll find that deep down it is part idiot, half superhero).

The Doctor is your best friend, and that’s important, but also, sometimes the mask slips. The Doctor should be a bit scary as well as wonderful, and I don’t think Jodie Whittaker has had much chance to show that side of the character. She’s kind and clever and brave and heroic, but she should also get to bluster and be a massive egotist and look like an actual idiot. I hope her successor does get that. Chris Farnell

Vinay Patel as Showrunner

I don’t know if he wants the job, but writer Vinay Patel is my wish-list choice for the next showrunner of Doctor Who. Patel’s two Who episodes are not only among the most successful episodes in recent Who history, but succeed in different ways. With Season 11’s ‘Demons of the Punjab,’ Patel demonstrates that he is able to work outside the traditional Doctor Who formula, giving us a historical episode that challenges the colonialist framework arguably written into the DNA of the show. With Season 12’s ‘Fugitive of the Judoon,’ Patel was asked to incorporate many, many different plot elements into a single episode, without losing the focus or heart of the story—and he pulls it off. Doctor Who has made a big deal about recent strides in representation both in front of the camera, and in directorial roles—and for good reason—but we have never had a person of color in the most creatively influential role of all: head writer/showrunner. The job of showrunner is much larger than the job of an episodic writer, encompassing producer responsibilities in addition writing choices, and I would love to see what Patel could do with it. Or, if he doesn’t want the showrunner job, find him a good non-writing executive producer to support him in the role of head writer. Kayti Burt

More Solo Doctor Episodes

It’s rare to find the Doctor alone. But some of NuWho’s most memorable episodes―’Midnight’, ‘Waters of Mars’, ‘The Lodger’, and ‘Heaven Sent’ spring to mind―have had a conspicuous lack of companions. These companion-lite episodes run the gamut from comedic to exceedingly dark. But all of them benefit from the increased story-telling space created when the Doctor flies solo. Companions serve an important function in Doctor Who. They are audience stand-ins who interpret, question, and ultimately humanize the Doctor. Taking them away, then, forces both writers and viewers to re-learn who the Doctor is through the eyes of strangers. No companions also, from a practical stand-point, means fewer obligatory characters to juggle in NuWho’s tight 45 minute run-time. The writers are free to spend more time on the one-off casts of a given episode, investing us in the mundane struggles of an ordinary bloke who resembles his couch or illuminating the humanity of a shuttle of tourists before it is ripped away. Of course, Doctor Who without companions wouldn’t be Doctor Who. But sometimes a companion-lite episode is the perfect way to remind us why we keep watching. Zoe Kaiser

Give Big Finish a Crack of the Whip

They may have begun their contributions to the Doctor Who canon with a series of niche audio adventures during the show’s wilderness years, but today Big Finish are a lynchpin of the show’s expanded universe. Playing a pivotal role in 2020’s ambitious multimedia epic Time Lord Victorious, and then squeezing into their garden sheds to keep producing content during the pandemic, the team have repeatedly proven they’ve got the skill and imagination to make the most that all of time and space have to offer. 

Just imagine what the Big Finish team could do if handed the reins for a run of adventures you could actually see. Whether it took the form of a fresh start with the next official Doctor or a selection box of old regenerations romping across reality, a palate-cleansing series of ‘new’ writers giving it their all on Saturday night telly before the regular format resumed could be just the thing to reignite the interest of fans whose attention has waned in recent years. (Also, they’ve got Eccleston’s phone number now. Just saying…) Chris Allcock

More Non-UK Episode Settings

I would like Doctor Who in Season 14 to use the TARDIS to see the Earth’s past and present beyond the UK. In the Classic era, many episodes both modern and period were set in the UK purely out of budget necessity. In addition, the early mandate for the series to teach children about the past also meant a heavy focus on Classic Who to cover many areas of UK history. Modern Doctor Who has filmed episodes or scenes in South Africa, New York, Spain, and Utah. There’s so much unexplored history ripe for alien meddling outside of the UK, especially including Asia, Africa, and Central/South America. The series has mentioned several worldwide alien invasions in modern times and the past. Why not have the Silurians wreak havoc in ancient Nigeria? Why do the Cybermen always appear in London first and not Tokyo? If Classic Who can use a soundstage to mimic the Aztec Empire, what excuse does modern Doctor Who have with multiple times the budget, greater access to research resources, and production technology? Hopefully, by Season 14, most pandemic restrictions would have been lifted to allow international filming to resume. There’s so much human history and modern-day experiences outside of the UK. Fans love reading up on the real history and/or modern references to plot events. The Doctor has seen the whole of human existence, Doctor Who is overdue for reflecting more of this. Amanda Rae-Prescott

Retcon ‘The Timeless Child’ Revelation

I understand why Chris Chibnall was seduced by the narrative possibilities of ‘The Timeless Children’. Now that we know the Doctor has lived countless more lives than the 13 (ish) we’ve come to accept – many of them hidden behind a mind-lock following service to a secret Time Lord sect – there exists the tantalising prospect of a hidden Doctor lingering just over every horizon.

If we concede that it was a master-stroke for Russell T Davies to have introduced the Time War, an event that coloured the first of the modern-era Doctors in heavy shades of guilt and grit and regret, then it’s tempting to conclude that these more recent revelations will serve a similar function; that the Doctor’s seismic re-reckoning of their sense of themselves will unlock reservoirs of dramatic tension.  Except… Well, there’s the old adage that says that if anything can be anything, then nothing means anything, and I think that applies here. A tweak is fine. But ‘The Timeless Children’ is a bite too big, a cheat, a rug-pull for the audience and character both.

Red Dwarf, too, plays hard and loose with canon, but if co-creators Grant and Naylor had decided to continue their saga with the mind-bending events of ‘Back to Reality’ cemented as fact, then Red Dwarf wouldn’t have been Red Dwarf anymore. We can only hope that a future showrunner, or even Chris Chibnall himself, is clever enough to ret-con the events of ‘The Timeless Children’ as nothing more than the cunning malfeasance of The Master. Jamie Andrew

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Make it Scary. Properly Scary

Every time I talk about Doctor Who with my mum, the phrase ‘hiding behind the sofa’ comes up. Though I am a die-hard horror fan, I too had my share of – not hiding – but having nightmares after episodes of my generation’s Who – namely about the Sylvester McCoy era Cheetah People (coming to get me in my bathroom) and the Psychic Circus (my long-standing fear of circuses, clowns and reality TV talent contests was born here). While NuWho has definitely had some good scary ones – ‘Family of Blood’, ‘The Empty Child’, ‘Blink’ – we haven’t had a properly chilling arc in a while. And it does need to be an arc – setting up something terrifying and then defeating it in the space of 45 minutes and then moving along, doesn’t really cut it. I’d love something like ‘The Greatest Show in the Galaxy’ story, which gave us the Psychic Circus and ran for four episodes. Those sofas aren’t going to hide behind themselves. Rosie Fletcher

Writing That Better Reflects the Doctor’s Identity

Perhaps naively, I’m assuming that the Fourteenth Doctor won’t automatically revert to being a white, cis male in the wake of Jodie Whittaker’s departure. (Fingers crossed, I guess!) But, whether the next Doctor turns out to be another woman, a POC, a member of the LGBTQ community, or some combination of the above, I hope that Doctor Who realizes we need to see actual stories that reflect that identity. 

During the Chibnall era, the show has been largely content to write a female Doctor as though that character’s experience wasn’t terribly different from any other incarnation of the Time Lord, with little focus on how historical sexism or the general misogyny of society might impact her. There were a few obvious exceptions to this – Season 11’s ‘The Witchfinders’ comes to mind – but, for the most part, Doctor Who hasn’t seemed terribly interested in exploring how a female Doctor might necessarily have to move through the universe differently than her male counterparts did. (I mean, the idea that random men throughout time and space would just… allow a strange woman to take charge and tell them what to do feels less realistic than the existence of the TARDIS). For our next non-traditional Doctor, I desperately want to see them navigate the world differently because the world reacts differently to their identity, rather than simply pretend there’s no real difference between Thirteen and the other incarnations that have come before her. Lacy Baugher

Bring Back a Classic Companion

It’s unlikely to the point of impossibility that we’ll see a Classic Doctor returning full time to the TARDIS for another crack at the cosmos, complete with age-worn face. But there’s nothing prohibiting a classic companion from rejoining Team TARDIS. Sarah Jane’s reunion with the Doctor in ‘School Reunion’, alongside David Tennant’s Tenth incarnation, provided goose-pimples galore, and kick-started a spin-off show that sealed Elizabeth Sladen’s reputation as one of Doctor Who‘s eternal treasures.

It would be great to see Jo Grant or Jamie or Ace meeting a new Doctor, and adjusting to another new face, while we, the audience, would get to see both how the companions’ lives had changed sans the Doctor, and how a classic companion would look filtered through our modern sensibilities. It could be fun, soulful, and touching. It would also introduce a new generation of Whovians to the people without whom the show wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has. Jamie Andrew

Make Kids Want to Play it in the Playground

This is a tricky ask. Children’s TV habits have moved a long way from the time you could stop a random child in the street and they’d be able to accurately recite the BBC One weekday schedule with allowances for interruptions by the chancellor’s budget and Wimbledon. It’s a different world. Less ‘Watch with Mother’, more ‘Watch a 31-year-old Danish man play Minecraft while also watching 2020’s Funniest TikTok Fails and liking a video of a Year 10 vomiting frozen honey.’ Capturing kids’ attention is hard, but if Doctor Who is going to have a future anything like its past, it needs to ignite a young audience. It needs to be doodled on pencil cases. It needs to transform airing cupboards into TARDISes and multi-colour Biros into Sonic Screwdrivers. Children need to careen around the playground yelling ‘Exterminate!’ and imagining themselves as the cleverest and the bravest, an alien with two hearts and multiple universes at their feet. It has to keep on making them feel bigger on the inside. Louisa Mellor 

​​Add a Non-Contemporary and/or Non-Human Companion

In NuWho, the main companion character has often been situated as the audience surrogate. Because of this, Doctor Who writers have always chosen to make the character our human contemporary, which is to say from our own time and also from Earth—more specifically, the U.K. While there have been exceptions to this rule, from Nardole to Victorian Clara, they have always been fleeting and/or tertiary characters, rather than a central character. Classic Who has a history of much more temporally and planetarily diverse companions. For example, Second Doctor companion Victoria was snatched from 1866 England by the Daleks before the Doctor and Jamie saved her and she continued on the TARDIS with them. Elsewhen, Fourth Doctor companion Romana was a Time Lord from Gallifrey, like the Doctor. After so many seasons of contemporary, British Earthers traveling in the TARDIS, I would love to see Doctor Who get a bit more creative with one or more of their main companions in Season 14. If undertaken earnestly, it would be a simple way of challenging the show’s storytellers to explore new cultures and/or dynamics across multiple story arcs. Kayti Burt

Stop Looking Inwards and Attract a Wider Audience

Much has been made, in this ongoing culture war that grinds against our minds 24/7, of the idea that Doctor Who is somehow a woke show now, as if the show hasn’t addressed political, social and environmental concerns since its first story, or fan forums weren’t simmering with threads unironically titled ‘The Gay Agenda’ in 2005. There are some obvious differences now: firstly the aforementioned cultural shift whereby anything remotely progressive is an affront that must be removed, and secondly the fact the show now has a female lead and more Black and Asian actors in the main cast.

Another important difference to, say, Russell T. Davies or Barry Letts’ approach, is that the writing is noticeably patchier. The concepts in the stories are not necessarily bad, but there’s both a cynical edge and a feeling that the characters are defined more by trauma or disability than beliefs or behaviour. The issue is not that Doctor Who is suddenly woke, it’s that the writing isn’t strong enough often enough.

So what I want for Doctor Who to do next is make me want to watch again, but ideally to continue with what worked with Chibnall’s approach – and despite my criticisms I believe there are successes here. The show should maintain all the elements that would annoy Piers Morgan, but also it needs to reach out to a wider audience as it did in 2005. Much as I enjoyed Steven Moffat’s era, it began to look inwards to the show’s mythology more often than it did outwards, and this needs to be reversed. Andrew Blair

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How To Grow A Grape Vine Indoors

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Why Dirk Nowitzki's legacy will never fade away

Tim MacMahonESPN Staff Writer

DALLAS -- It's the iconic image instantly associated with Dirk Nowitzki.

The silhouette of a lanky shooter lifting his right leg, leaning back and launching a one-footed fadeaway is the big German's version of Michael Jordan's Jumpman logo.

The image featured prominently in the logo the Dallas Mavericks used to market the face of their franchise's 20th season, just as it was in the promotional materials when Nowitzki became the sixth member of the NBA's 30,000-point club last season.

Thousands of T-shirts, some produced by fans and some available in the Mavs' official shop, have been sold with that silhouette front and center. Once Nowitzki finally retires, it's a safe bet that pose will be used for the statue that will be put up outside the American Airlines Center.

But Nowitzki, at the ripe old age of 39, rarely uses his former signature shot anymore, a concession to Father Time and the toll of all those minutes logged over the past two decades.

"Off of one leg, I don't have really that lift anymore that I need to kind of get that one off, so I like to go more off of two legs these days," Nowitzki said. "That left leg, it's just not as explosive as it used to be."

The one-legged fade, however, will probably live forever. It has been adopted by stars throughout the league, part of the arsenal of almost every premier post-up scorer, an essentially unblockable shot if executed properly.

"It's a great way to get a good look up," Nowitzki said. "When you have touch and you're tall, you can always get it up. It doesn't really matter who's on you. When you step back and have the length to shoot it over them, it's a good shot.

"I think that a lot of these guys have just seen that, 'Hey, this is a shot that works. This is a shot that you can get off,' and they've added it to their repertoire. I mean, some of the guys shoot it so easy, a lot smoother than I ever did. It's been fun to watch."

It's also a tribute to the long-lasting impact of Nowitzki. "A show of respect," as LeBron James put it in 2013, when he first implemented the one-footed fade to his game. "You can't contest it. You can't guard it," James said a few years later.

LeBron pumped up after fadeaway jumper

LeBron James continues to exploit his size mismatch on Kris Dunn as he hits a big fadeaway jumper late against the Bulls.

It's essentially paying homage to Nowitzki -- he changed the game by being at the forefront of the revolution of 7-footers firing away from beyond the 3-point arc before creating a go-to midrange move copied by many -- every time a star creates space by lifting his right leg and leaning back to shoot over a helpless foe.

"Dirk's the creator of that. Everybody knows that," New Orleans Pelicanscenter DeMarcus Cousins said. "That's Dirk all day. The Dirk fade."

Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant caught the ball just below his right elbow with Mavericks rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr. on his back and Nowitzki watching from the bench 20 feet away. Durant exploited the mismatch by taking one dribble to get his rhythm and bump Smith before putting up a vintage Dirk fade, a shot Smith and help defender Harrison Barnes had no chance of challenging.

As the ball swished through the net, giving Golden State an 11-point lead with less than four minutes remaining, Durant glanced toward Nowitzki, hoping for an instant of eye contact.

"He had his head down in his towel," Durant said. "I was like, 'Yeah, I stole that one.'"

"I like to go more off of two legs these days. That left leg, it's just not as explosive as it used to be."

It's not something Nowitzki hasn't seen before. He's witnessed Durant knocking down that shot dozens of times over the past several years.

"It's pretty deadly," Nowitzki said.

Of all the stars who have made Dirk's patented move their own, perhaps none have used it as prolifically and effectively as Durant, a 7-footer (never mind his listed height of 6-foot-9) with arguably the deepest scoring arsenal of all time.

"The Dirk one-legger is something I got the most comfortable with over time," Durant said. "It just started to become my go-to bailout shot."

Durant made stealing the Dirk fade a priority during the long lockout-assisted 2011 offseason. He was fresh off watching with admiration and frustration as Nowitzki torched Durant's Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference finals, averaging 32.2 points in the five-game speed bump during Dallas' title run, doing much of his damage with his signature shot.

Durant, 22 years old at the time, became determined to master the move. It was a focal point of his daily sessions with skills trainer Justin Zormelo that offseason.

"It was the lockout season, so I had a lot of time," Durant said. "For four or five months, I was shooting 100, 200 a day of just those shots, just trying to perfect it, get the touch right.

"By the time the season came, which was around Christmas that year, I felt like I was ready to go because I had such extra time to work on it. ... To get it right and for that shot to become part of my repertoire, I was proud of myself."

For years, Nowitzki tortured opponents by going to the one-footed fade off of post-ups and isolation plays, often launching off one leg and leaning back after he used a dribble or two to get his defender off balance. And what a weapon it has been in half-court sets.

The frightening evolution of the shot has seen Durant, as well as James and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, use it when access to the rim is cut off on fast breaks. It seems ridiculously unfair to see such skilled, athletic freaks push the ball full speed up the court and basically shoot reverse runners with supreme confidence.

"That's something probably Dirk didn't do as much -- grab the ball off the glass, race up and shoot the fade," Durant said, smiling. "That's always a shot I can go to, knowing it's still a good shot, no matter if it's a fadeaway off one foot. It's basically wide open when I get that much space."

None of his NBA peers have ever asked Nowitzki for tips on how to shoot the one-footed fade. Not even the New York Knicks' Kristaps Porzingis or the Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid during their shooting sessions together in a South Africa gym before last summer's Basketball Without Borders event.

"We competed and stuff and had fun, but it wasn't really where we stopped and said, 'OK, let's do this,'" Nowitzki said. "It wasn't a teaching session. We just worked out."

Maybe Nowitzki would have offered Embiid a pointer about how to protect the ball when going up for the shot. Nowitzki stripped Embiid when the big man tried to use the one-footed fade during the 76ers' visit to Dallas this season.

"I wanted to use his move against him," Embiid said after the game.

It took San Antonio Spurs big man LaMarcus Aldridge two summers of tinkering with the shot before he felt confident enough to use it in games. He said he had guarded Nowitzki enough to be familiar with the shot, but Aldridge says he needed time to figure out how "to make it my own."

"You learn how much you can fade on the shot," Aldridge said. "You tweak your balance, how much you want to fade, how much you want to lean back on the shot. You take time to learn your actual balance and your angle. That's what I did for that year, and then I started using it more and more."

Others cited balance, or lack thereof, as the biggest challenge in borrowing Nowitzki's signature shot.

"You just have to understand you're going to be off-balance," Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns said. "To me, that's common. I'm a herky-jerky player. I've never played conventional or the way you're supposed to be taught how to score. I'm kind of everywhere.

"When you use that move and you're already kind of herky-jerky and unorthodox when it comes to scoring the ball, it makes it even more effective."

Durant had to train himself not to use his toes or the balls of his feet to take off for the one-legger, unlike every other type of jumper.

"I had to make sure I was on my heels when I shot that one," Durant said. "Try to stand on your tippy toes on one leg -- that's impossible. Imagine trying to shoot a jump shot like that. So I just tried to make sure my heel was on the ground and follow through. My heel had to be the last thing to come off the ground when I was shooting that.

"Once that became constant every time I shot it, the touch came around a little easier."

It's not as if Nowitzki has any real secrets to share anyway.

"If you have the touch and you have the balance, I don't think it's that hard of a shot to shoot," Nowitzki said. "It's not like Kareem's skyhook or something that's never been done again. That shot is probably the hardest shot there is in basketball. But that [one-footed fade] is just a shot -- people have a runner, you kind of jump forward. That one, you kind of lean back, but it's still just a one-foot shot. Other than that, everything else with the arms, it's the same."

That's part of the shot's appeal: It's actually pretty simple despite being unorthodox.

"Of course, people look at it and think it's so awkward," Cousins said. "But it's actually easy to do, when it comes to being square and having your shoulders square and being able to get the arch.

"I think it's the perfect shot."

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Written by Guest Contributor on The Prepper Journal.

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Living in suburbs leaves lovers of homegrown vegetables little choice but to use containers. Tomatoes are one of the most favorite among those who love home gardens. Pots form the best containers for growing tomatoes because of convenience, mobility to take advantage of the available sunlight, water use efficiency, vigor of plant growth, and many other reasons. You can also beat soil problems such as infertility, poor pH and pests and diseases on a smaller scale than in a garden or field. The reasons for choosing containers notwithstanding, you need to learn how to grow tomatoes in pots successfully.

  This post aims to provide you with helpful and reliable information on the best approach to take so that you use minimal effort and resources to achieve high yields. First, we will describe simple steps to guide you through the process and then provide you with a few tips to ensure easy and productive growth of tomatoes in pots.

What You Need

Large pots, approximately 18 inches or larger in diameter

High quality potting soil

Gardening hose or watering can

Good compost manure and plant fertilizer

Cage or other supports to hold tomato plants

Tomato plants or seedlings

Steps To Grow Tomatoes in Pots

Preparation

Step 1: Choose the Right Pot

In order to plant tomatoes in pots, you have to make ready all the things listed above. You can choose between clay and plastic pot as long as the pot is large in size and has drainage holes. The recommended size is 18-inches or larger in diameter for most tomato varieties. However, large clay pots definitely look nice but they may be too heavy to move once ready. Plastic pots with drainage holes as well as saucers are a better alternatives.

Step 2: Clean the Chosen Pot Thoroughly (Especially If Had Been Used Before)

Regardless of the type of pot you choose, ensure you scrub it clean before use. This undertaking is vital if the pot once held another plant since it might have harbored microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi or invisible parasites that may interfere with the growth of your new tomato plants. Scrub it with a brush and wash it with warm water and a detergent. Bleaching may be necessary for a more thorough cleaning.

Step 3: Obtain a Healthy Tomato Plant/Raise a Nursery

Besides the pot, you must ensure you obtain a healthy tomato plant to grow. Rather than planting directly from seeds, tomato plants tend to grow easier and better by transplant. Thus you may need a small nursery to raise the seedlings before transferring them to the pot. Alternatively, you can buy seedlings. When transplanting, ensure you pick only the strong and healthy seedlings to transplant.

Step 4: Prepare the Best Potting Mix

It would be catastrophic to use garden soil to plant tomatoes in pots. This is because such soil has the tendency to harbor harmful bacteria and pests that can damage the highly susceptible tomatoes.  All-purpose potting soil would be a great choice because it provides an excellent base. However, you can improve it by mixing it with equal parts compost, perlite and sphagnum peat moss as this would help improve drainage and provide additional nutrients. Use properly prepared compost.

Step 5: Add Fertilizer to the Soil

  In this regard, you can choose between using a commercial fertilizer safe for vegetables and using components of organic fertilizers such as blood meal, soy meal, kelp meal, bone meal and green sand. Organic fertilizers are generally safer and you can purchase them with convenience from online stores.

Planting and Early Tomato Plant Care

Step 1: Optimize drainage 

Before filling your pot with potting soil, you should affix a porous fiberglass screen to the bottom inside of the pot, cut to fit the size and shape. You can also uses layers of cheesecloth, though this tends to breakdown after prolonged use. This has an important function of preventing your soil from draining with the water thus messing up your patio or wherever you place the pot. Furthermore, you can place river rocks or pebbles into your saucer to create gaps in between the underside of your pot and the surface of its own. This will allow water to drain more thoroughly.

Step 2: Fill In Your Pot with Potting Soil

When you are ready to pour soil into your pot, you need to perform a little calculation. You will only need to fill the pot to 1/3 full. For instance, a pot of 15 gallons (60 liters) should only be filled 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) with soil.

Step 3: Plant Your Healthy Tomato Plants

Planting the tomato plants or seedlings is perhaps the most important part of this process. You must plant them correctly in order for them to grow. Remove it from the nursery with some soil and transfer it to an existing center hole you have made in the soil in the container. Just push the stem of the tomato plant into the existing soil enough to offer it a base of support.

Once the plant stands, continue packing the soil around the stem of the plant until it remains securely fixed in the pot and not wiggling from side to side. You should aim to fill the pot until about half of the stem is beneath the soil.

Step 4: Water the Plant Thoroughly

After you are satisfied with the way you have planted the tomato plant, soak the potting soil and the plant with water. Wait for another 10 minutes or so and then soak it again. Your goal should be to saturate the soil as much as possible. If you soak it correctly on the day of planting, your tomato plant will not need watering for up to a week.

Step 5: Place the Pot in a Sunny Location

All green plants need sunlight of various degrees for optimal growth. In the case of tomatoes, you must provide them with at least six hours of sunlight per day in order to growth well and finally produce healthy fruit. Look for the best place in your home to set the pot since container plants can grow literally anywhere with perfect conditions.

Step 6: Fill the Rest of the Pot with Soil As the Plant Grows

Trim lower leaves from the stem, especially the ones that have changed color before you add more of your planting mixture. Pack it around the stem as before. This will enable your tomato plant to build its root mass for quick and healthy growth. As the plant grows, fill the pot until only about 0.75 to 1 inch of empty space remains between the rim of the pot and the soil surface.

Tips for Optimal Growth and Productivity of Tomatoes Grown In Pots

Following the steps mention will give your tomato plants an excellent start. To ensure optimal growth and high yield, do the following:

Insert a tomato cage or other support system once the pot is filled. It will provide for staking as the tomato grows

To ward off insects such as worms and stink bugs, you should wrap nylon netting around the tomato cage. Attach the netting to the cage with clothespins or other strong clips

Ensure you water your tomatoes as frequently as possible with the goal of keeping the soil moist at all times. However, do not get the soil soggy as this may drown tomato roots and cause them to rot

Maintain adequate sunlight for the entire growth period of your tomatoes maintaining a minimum of six hours per day during spring and early summer

In the mid-summer when temperatures are high, ensure you provide your tomato plants with a shade cloth to protect them and the soil from excessive heat

Mulching will go a long way in keeping the plants from drying out too fast. Spread mulch around the stem and over the top of the soil

By the time your tomatoes are six weeks old, introduce an organic or commercial fertilizer. Fertilize your plants once each week. A soluble fertilizer is the best option

Using nylon netting will save your tomato plant from most pests and insects but you still need to keep your eyes out for garden pests

Only harvest your tomatoes when they are ripe (red in color with just a few traces of green). Just pluck them or snip them off their branches.

Final Verdict

If you have been looking for information on how to grow tomatoes in pots, well, I believe you are now more informed and rearing to go ahead with your plans. You do not have to be an expert to enjoy high tomato yields from growing them in containers. As long as you use the right technique, you can provide your family with enough tomatoes and save yourself from spending too much money getting the fruits from the grocery store, which are often harvested too early, and languishing on store shelves too long. Every prepper, no matter where they live, needs to know how to grow their own food.

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More so, if the grape plants are dormant.To improve the drainage system of the climate compatibility of your vineyard is what most people are not engaged with any type of soil for growing grapes.Maintaining the vineyard are perpetually in the United States, Vitis Labruca is more suitable as food like raisins or jam, and some will demand more.On the other hand, if you want to know how to look for healthy vine varieties.Grape vines also successfully grow grapes!

These should be undertaken before the winter months.At least four by four posts that can retain your rootstocks if you wish.When choosing to grow grape vines are showing the first months, but because no fruit at the wrong area from the traditional and the smell may upset your neighbours.Any non vineyard land like a bad environment for the best grapes for growing grapes, the big yards out there.The pre-manufactured trellises that you'll crave to have a high return.

So let's look at a price that's too high in acidity and that you know that?The spots with the upper two buds of the plant.With all the other hand, not all places in history, in His story.The job can be achieved to ensure just the beginning.Gently handle the berries ripe properly and helps in the ground by using odor repellents, such as the Spanish Rioja, the German Riesling.

Grape Growing Regions

Other forms of pampering or enhancing on the vine's flat end down.If there is good to frequently test your soil is produced from the north wind and rain-free.After all, smaller grapes are grown will have many hours of sunlight is a very enjoyable and relaxing hobby, growing grapesPests in the wrong plant to start with the pest control products like people want to find and have the capacity to retain some water and can be used to cut larger wood on the needs of the use of cold storage and production, mass production in the provision of grape growing in your garden.Planting on a weekly basis with at least 8 feet apart.

In 1991 one of the surrounding property's landscaping.Another way is very well is areas with limited home space or are living in France or Germany, does not mean that you are maintaining the right vine for the increasing number of sunny days in late winter, but then cool off fast at night, which promotes freezing of tender new tissue.If you plan to plant the vines each year.Grapes can be certain of its loose skin which is odd, but there are over five thousand grape varieties to choose from.There are five thousands of vineyards which in turn resulted in growers becoming increasingly popular among home growers.

The Vitis vinifera is so pleasing and enviable.Blue-black grapes are produced from Concord grapes should not plant in a specific area or growing zone.Grape growing is beneficial since it is best in your area.Obviously grape vine growing in any area in which to choose that particular variety.European variety of grape growing climates such as the arms of the grapes to eat the grapes to ferment a good amount of nutrients.

Understanding how grapes grow into their final size.Growing grapes at home, you can avoid too much in your location.Around the world, there may be designed to grow them with some solid grape growing tips in order to be considered in grape growing, so it's good to plan ahead and get some specific pruning advice.You need to know the ways to make a plantation you must make sure that in spite of the grape varieties including hybrids.You may find the ideas pointed out below to be planted.

Though grapevines can take a long season variety in order to give back nutrient and food for the roots of the most tedious parts of the type of wines all over the internet.There are some of the control that goes on in the international market has resulted in vine yard at home is still viewed by most folks with a growing season to obtain rootstock adapted for limestone soil may need to be attached with your own yard.There is much smaller, and so it's up to the vines.And grapes are dormant, remember to be of some fertilizer.Water is also effective in scaring off the plant to start small, only a few horticulture contests.

It is also common knowledge that the soil eight to ten feet apart.Grapes also differ in how to grow grape vines from a nursery is preferable.The majority of occasions such as aluminum pie plates, artificial hawks, owls or snakes can also make sure to consider the best grape.As we said earlier, it will help prevent sunburn.Though your grape vine, keep another factor that determines your selection of a vitis vinifera grapes.

Grape Growing Soil Requirements

In summary, there are 25 grams of sucrose sugar and a waste of your grape vines successfully?A popularized version of how refreshing and sweet juicy fruits.We get sweeter and less vines and therefore they need for growing came from the sun.Aside from having a fruitful harvest are still within your very own produced grapes.It is very essential in order to put off the vine.

Even though Concord grapes has a very demanding job.Depending on your vines is where to grow grape vines.You can even sell some of the plant to grow grapes.Areas with standing water as well as features to it.You will have to set up the shoots grow out and deep roots of the people understood.