#blorborbs

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Tags someone added to their reblog of this post, reading:

elrond and elros

retail au

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Our grocery store has a Perishable Manager and a Non-Perishable Manager and I know it’s talking about the departments they oversee but really it seems like Seth may be mortal but David will never die

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All I know is that the little blorbo orb (blorborb?) keeps muttering "Now be a good child and-" to itself when especially distressed/hurt. I think its sense of what it means to Be A Good Child is really really really skewed by some of the shit that's happened.

Their name is Memo. At least, that's what the faceless people are calling them.

...Do you know any of what they've been through? Maybe I can try to help them...

-🧡 Bea

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And Jane!!!!

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@dalekdi RAISTLIN BINGO

(though yeah in your AU he's Void bc Tas is Time)

A mage of time doing a sburb any% speedrun: “If i run at this tree in the right spot while doing a backflip i glitch through my land and make it directly to my quest bed. Doing this will kill me instantly and that’s perfect because if i execute it correctly i’ll end up on my quest bed, this allows me to god tier before even starting my quest.”

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A dark-ish red flat color field with seven small circles in a row: dark-ish orange, off-black, pale, off-black, black, dark-ish orange, darker dark-ish orange.

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The Silmarillion fandom: a wonedrful place where I can slap some circles on a red background and y'all will easily recognise the characters

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Scottish Doctor in a kilt I repeat Scottish Doctor in a kil

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A screenshot of a tweet from the account Doctor Who Filming Locations @/set_dw:

#dswr A double for Ncuti on set.

But look at the outfit!!!

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SCOTTISH DOCTOR IN A KILT I REPEAT SCOTTISH DOCTOR IN A KIL

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Fictional worlds can have all sorts of things not directly derived from either what is expected to be their inspiration or within themselves, but specifically the moment it has anything to do with suppressed groups, people began to get pissed.

Thedas has nonbinarity, has it by that name, and if someone doesn't welcome that, they should deal with it.

Of course, it is good if it also has different manifestations and names for similar concepts, just like in real modern world as well; and just like in real modern world, they can use "nonbinary" in more than one place.

And very yes to the "if it was a different term people would be arguing that it isn't really enby"

do you think it would have been preferable for 'non-binary' to be called something from an in game language? like maybe taash could have used a rivaini word, or an elf/dwarf rook could have used a name from their own language? i personally don't hate non-binary being used but feel like in addition, expanding upon in game languages would have been cool too.

I personally see no problem with it either. Especially because if you don't spell it out that plainly, there's gonna be people arguing about how it's "not really enby" or whatever.

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A screenshot from Vivienne’s wiki page, reading:

In a shocking move, she elected not to join any Fraternity when she became a fully-fledged enchanter.

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I think Vivienne as a Divine is interesting because she really isn't faithful. You ask her about her faith and the Chantry, and her response is always a pragmatic argument about how people should live or about the Chantry as a political body. She never professes any belief at all in the Chant as scripture.

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ID: Edit of the trolley problem illustration (a trolley before a track fork, a person nearby holding the lever, and, originally, five people tied to the track the trolley would go to without intervention, and one person tied to the track the trolley would go to if the person at the lever pulls it), where instead on the main track are tied four figures representing the Midnight Crew from Problem Sleuth / Homestuck, with their hats and card symbols edited on, and to the other track are tied three figures representing Team Sleuth from Problem Sleuth, with their hats edited on. /End ID

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Also. The person at the lever is the MSPA reader.

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hi

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HEY. vote kate orman.

firstly because if we learnt anything from the anthony coburn jr debacle

it's that his dad was responsible for very few of the good bits of An Unearthly Child

and they were mostly down to David Whitaker and Warris Hussein

and secondly

it's kate orman

not only did she write Unnatural History (one of the most important doctor who stories ever written)

but she gave us bisexual Sam in Seeing I

she gave the doctor a boyfriend in Intelligent Tigers

over 20 years before Rogue came out on TV

one of the major characters in Blue Box is an intersex trans man

(it's also the first book with a trans and/or intersex character i ever read)

and not only is all this stuff important

but voting Kate Orman for making doctor who queer would really really piss off anthony coburn jr

and you should always aim to piss off anthony coburn jr

kate orman

anthony coburn

doctor who

(@thenugking)

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Thank you so much Your Royal Highness the Nug King!!!!

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Anthony Coburn – wrote An Unearthly Child

Wrote An Unearthly Child. Also important in a bad way because his child/estate/whatever it is is why An Unearthly Child isn't available for streaming along with the rest of Classic Who on some platforms. There are rights issues because they won't let BBC use it. (anonymous)

Kate Orman – wrote Doctor Who novels

wrote Unnatural History and gave the Doctor so many different backstories the main show has been accidentally and deliberately doing them since it started (she created both the Hybrid and a backstory somewhere between the Timeless Child and the Other (@familyparadox )

very important to keeping the show's books alive and thriving during the wilderness era and wrote some incredibly good works of literature (anonymous)

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It's actually a quite old idea that all the past incarnations of the Doctor live on within their mind, I couldn't quickly find it on the wiki but I have read at least one Expanded Universe comic that used it, and there might have well been more.

That has also been used for another thing, but I'm putting that under the cut — cw for really bad plurmisia.

In the modern Big Finish canon, that's how it works for some Chronarchs, and in the Gallifreyan psychiatry it is defined as "regenerative dissonance". The only system of that kind that we meet are antagonists, there's also anti-NPD saneism, and it is shown to affect them exclusively negatively and push them more towards villainy, it is also said on the wiki that Chronarchs whose past incarnations live on within their mind often commit suicide because they "can't cope with the voices", no mention of those who learn to work and live together positively or at all non-negatively.

On the topic of plural headcanons: The Doctor from Doctor Who and by extension, all timelords that have exprienced regeniration. I view them as a median system because they all view themselves as the doctor but they have different personalities and, as we've seen with the 13th doctor, gender identities. There is also a few points in the show were they talk to themselves, refer to themselves as we/us and/or talk to past versions of themself. They're plural.

This is an interesting one. My host has seen a bit of Doctor Who but we're far from an expert on the series. I like the interpretation of them as a median system, and I didn't know about them using we/us pronouns. That's pretty cool!

When you say they talk to past versions of themselves, do you mean like actual internal communication rather than just the crossovers with other physical versions of themselves?

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Fuck, I’m sorry, first I had to wait till I’m unshadowbanned but then I wrote a part and kept it in the drafts; I’ve been meaning to get to it in some nearest days, I guess now might be a time. (I’m the anon)

Somehow until this post I didn’t actually realize the full… idk, importance? Not exactly the right word. Of the ashen quadrant. Now realizing that ohmygod. A kismesis that only works when it is auspisticized. Or maybe not necessarily but still it’s a completely different thing when the hatemates are on their own and when there’s the mediator present, them being as integral part of the relationship as the hatemates themselves. Aaaaaaaa.

……so yeah, I guess, it ends up that I don’t actually technically ship ssdd in all quadrants, because I do not (as of now) have a headcanon where somebody is auspisticizing between them.

The two paragraphs above were written in that first go, I have also since played Hiveswap and Friendsim and so did my sister and we’ve been talking about Konyyl and Azdaja and ended up with a conclusion: they aren’t red or pale or black, they are ashen without an auspistice.

That said, yeah, Callie auspisticizing between Dirk and Caliborn fucks. It fucks so hard. As does Dirk and Roxy auspisticizing between the cherubs!!

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I feel now like I’ve ended up with less than I’ve planned, I’m sorry; I also had plans of an addition on one of your Caliborn posts, although feel free to tell me if I’m Not Helping right now

In any case, I’m not much at personal talk at least when I’m not already close with the person, but whenever you by any chance want to talk to me about Homestuck, disability issues, and anarchism (and another common point is Doctor Who but I know you’re not actively in it) please feel free (oh and also PMMM, I’m so sorry I managed to forget you’re into PMMM-)

Sorry for being obnoxious but do you mean by “all quadrants”: “red + black”, “red + black + pale”, or “red + black + pale + ashen”?

And if it’s actually all quadrants where’s the auspisticism between uucest? Also while writing this I came to actually being interested to hear it for the sake of the story, so however you feel about this ask you may use it as an opportunity to rant about uucest :D And if there’s no auspisticism tbh help I now want to hear your hcs/thoughts about uucest. I don’t even ship uucest. Sorry this derailed please feel free to rant about uucest

(for an example of a literally quadrants ship, it’s how I ship slickdroog — a mix of pale, black and red + Droog auspisticisng between snowslick by fucking them both although with uucest if there is auspisticism it’s probably someone else between them not one of them between the other and someone else)

yes i do ship uUcest in the ashen quadrant as well! it actually used to be a really popular interpretation of the ship back in Ye Olden Days (like, pre-2015, which is when i jumped on board).

(actually, funny story about that. the "quartermaster of the s.s. cherry limeade" in my bio is a direct callback to those days. i was one of the original uUcest shippers in 2012, back when it was called cherry limeade, and when i mean original, i literally mean i was one of the very first. there were a few of us scattered around various sites, and at some point, a dear friend named vivi, who has sadly since then disappeared off the internet entirely, gathered a bunch of us into an IRC room and we spent several hours fucking around roleplaying homestuck characters, including me having my first uUcest roleplay. i never actually figured out who my caliborn was in that chat!

after that, a bunch of us started posting in the cherry limeade tag, which until then had mostly been photos of drinks, and vivi was christened the "captain of the s.s. cherry limeade;" shortly after, i claimed my title of quartermaster, and it was the title of my blog until fandom got weird and gross and i started getting death threats lmao.)

ANYWAY. *sits back in my chair and removes the pipe from my lips* enough about grandpa's childhood

where this all started; yeah, it used to be incredibly common to see uUcest shipped ashen with dirk or roxy (or both!) as the mediator. callieroxy and dirkuu are actually both major squicks of mine except in this context; i really love ashen cal/dirk/callie and callie/roxy/cal. brings me back to the good ol' days of the alpha kids desperately trying to play relationship counselor to two bodysharing aliens who are simultaneously codependent and homicidal.

your last paragraph made me think, though: i think dirkuu with callie auspisticising between dirk and caliborn would fuck pretty hard. i like the idea of dirk&cal only working if calliope's around to keep her brother in check (and maybe letting him work out his more violent urges that a human couldn't handle).

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personally i think it'd be more accurate for her to be raised in some deeply ascetic non-christian cult

maybe derivative but definitely not explicitly christian

probably something with a doomsday narrative & almost definitely worshipping john as a leader-prophet figure

& the asceticism would be very foundational to their belief system ofc

but like yeah basically. harrowhark veils religiously in the modern au too. It's Important To The Fundamental Conceit Of Her Character

and i've said this before but i would be sooo much more interested in modern aus that preserved the sheer degree of like

dysfunctionality and violence harrow & gideon display in tlt canon

and interpret it into analogous material circumstances in our world that would produce those behaviors

sorry but modern AUs which depict harrowhark as incredibly goth or punk-looking just completely misunderstand harrow as a character. like, yes, aesthetically in the TLT context harrow has goth-like attributes. skull facepaint, bone earrings, etc, etc, i get it. but that's not counterculture for her! in fact, she dresses exactly how the revered daughter of the ninth house is expected to dress - down to the sacramentally shorn haircut.

which brings me to my main point. harrow's not a goth! she's a nun! she wouldn't be wearing chains and spikes, she would be wearing a full habit and a headscarf! she's a religious nun and she accidentally fell in love with lucifer. that's her aesthetic. she was raised in some deeply catholic cult somewhere in buttfuck nowhere and she carries a rosary everywhere she goes. there's your modern AU.

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[I] SS: Take a moment to think up some time-based one-liners

Ok you think you got one. 

Time travel sure can be a...  DOUBLE EDGED SWORD. 

😎

Wait, that was awful. Really really bad. You're sure you can do better than that.

[I] ==>

Let's see... sorry to... no... time's running... no wait... fuck. 

You ask yourself from the past for a little help. Time's... something about time. Time being up. No wait, how about some kind of clock pun. No, dammit, will you just listen. You were almost onto something. Time... time is... 

Screw this. Too many cooks in the kitchen. 

(some context, he’s stabbed a guy with a double edged sword and also there’s him from the past because the guy he’s stabbed randomly travels in time when injured)

Slick my beloved!!!!!!!!!

Homestuck pages 1284–1285

This is just to the original post yeah but I don’t want to delete the previous additions because they’re also gold

we need more representation in media for people who are just dogshit at improvising snappy one liners. too many characters these days can come up with the smartest funniest thing to say in any given situation with zero rehearsal or hesitation and it's just not realistic. we need more guys who say shit like "yeah, well, um, how about you, uh, suck my dick?"

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#now I’m picturing this as the Master’s TARDIS for some reason lmao

*SCREAMS*

@space-glasgow

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