#come at me Blorgons

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

While the Inspector’s enemies tend to come to a bad end when it turns out the Inspector undid their evil plans,

the Inspector got to pull a fast one on the Blorgons in ‘The Space of the Inspector’ when the Infinity Knights granted him another cycle of reincarnations.

‘Nothing like getting an extra boost at the exact moment one needs it. Come at me, Blorgons!’

[luxthestrange]

G.I Incorrect Quotes#90 THERE'S TWO-

They were roommates + Baby Archon au...They multiply-

You and Kaveh were strolling around Port Ormos

Y/n: I just think that in a parallel universe, blorgons are- hold on-

Baby!Kunikuzushi*Was left in a basket in the sea, crying his tiny heart out as he wiggled trying to get outta the blanket*

Y/n*Grabs the basket* a baby...I wasn't expecting this

Kaveh:...Guess we'll have to support it

Y/n: I guess I could do another kind of job, maybe at beans & more and more, I'll probably have to work double shifts, but-

Kaveh: Oh, I see, While you're off, climbing the ladder at Beans & More, I'll just stay home and raise him and Nahida alone!!! That's fine. I'll just give up on my dreams!?!

Y/n: Here we go...

Kaveh*Tears up and sniffles with a pouty face* What? He needs to learn a strong man can cry!?!

Baby!Kuni*Blinks seeing a big man crying*...

-Back at Home-

Alhaitham*Currently with Nahida on his lap reading her a book of string theory, smiling seeing her slapping his hand if he tries to turn the page before she is done*

The door is kicked open and you coming in holding...a baby up in the sky with Kaveh throwing petals around you

Y/n: GUESS WHO BECAME A BIG SIIIIISTER!?~...like we pratice lil one~

Baby!Kuni*Sucking on his thumb, but then he raises his arms up with a smug war cry*GAAAAAAAH!

Nahida*Gasps happily seeing at that*!!!

Alhaitham:..PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME YOU TWO KIDNAPPED A KID AGAIN-

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[impalementation]

“Darkness! And horror of darkness. Unfolding, restless, visitant, sped by an ill wind in haste.” -Xander, 1.09 The Puppet Show

“No, I'm not saying she craned her neck. We are talking full-on Exorcist twist.” -Buffy, 1.04 Teacher’s Pet

“Oh, okay, th-this is nice... and scary.” -Willow, 1.01 Welcome to the Hellmouth

“Scary! I'll tell you something, though. There are a lot scarier things than you.  And I'm one of them.” -Buffy, 1.10 Nightmares

buffy season one imagery: horror

[commentary below the cut]

Every season of Buffy makes use of the horror aesthetic. It’s part of the show’s DNA. But season one is dense with the visual language of horror to a degree that really sets it apart from the other seasons, even the gothic season two. @blorgon-schmorgon rightly pointed out the way that the season transforms the high school setting into a place of shadowy danger, much like season seven transforms Buffy’s home into a haunted, unsafe house. But I think that season one’s use of horror imagery goes beyond the high school setting, too.

I’d argue that season one is in conversation with horror as a genre. The Master’s candle-lit cavern is a vampire movie staple. Natalie French twisting her head around is right out of The Exorcist. That shot of the vampires shuffling across campus in Prophecy Girl is taken straight out Night of the Living Dead, and other zombie movies. When Willow, Jenny, and Cordelia scream at them, it could be a scene from any number of teenage screamfests. In fact, Prophecy Girl is practically a cornucopia of horror tropes: Cordelia parking with a boy, the gore of the mangled jocks, the Master’s campy Come To Me gesturing. The creeping hell-vines remind me of movies like The Thing or even Little Shop of Horrors. Which means that when Buffy beats the Master and his various associates by the end of the episode, she’s also “beaten” the tropes of horror on a meta level.

That might sound pretentious, but we know that the origin of the show was literally the idea of turning the traditional horror victim into the hero. From the Welcome to the Hellmouth commentary:

WHEDON: In the credits, where it starts out with this scary organ and then devolves instantly into rock and roll, which is basically trying to tell people exactly what the show is in the credits. Which is, here’s a girl who has no patience for a horror movie. Who is not going to be the victim, who is not going to be in the scary-organ horror movie. She’s going to bring her own youth and rocking attitude to it. - [ x ]

With that quote in mind, I think it makes a lot of sense to see season one’s horror aesthetic as a bunch more church organs that Buffy--and the show, by extension--doesn’t have patience for. In Welcome to the Hellmouth, Angel stalks Buffy to an alley in a horror movie way, and then Buffy leaps down and tackles him. In the very first scene of the show, you think you know how this cliche horror tableau is going to go, and then Darla turns it around. In The Puppet Show the creepy horror movie puppet turns out to be a demon fighter. In Nightmares, Xander punches the clown that scares him, and the perfunctory way he does it (“I feel good! I feel liberated!”) could be seen as both a play on the resolution of It as well as the show giving the finger to the scary clown trope. In Prophecy Girl, it seems meaningful to me that Buffy is so afraid of the Master and her death. That grotesque old horror villain is scaring her. But because Buffy is brave enough to face that fear, she is able to be reborn from the trope of the helpless virgin sacrifice into a person who is no longer impressed by horror. “Oh look, a bad guy,” “What can I say? I flunked the written,” “You have fruit punch mouth,” “Save the hypnosis crap for the tourists,” “I may be dead, but I’m still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you.” Even if Buffy is still scared, she no longer lets these villains have power over her.

To connect things to season seven again, I think it’s telling that seven also has a pronounced horror aesthetic, both with regards to the high school (the dark basement) and Buffy’s house, and also just in general. Those scenes of the Bringers chasing the potential Slayers are very horror, as is the Sluggoth and Anya’s mutilated frat boys. And of course, everything in Dawn’s part of Conversations With Dead People. Seven is full of deep shadows and chiaroscuros to a degree that hadn’t really been seen since season two. But these aesthetic choices make a lot of sense when you keep in mind that seven claims it’s going “back to the beginning,” and that the beginning of Buffy was its commentary on horror as a genre. Season seven’s emphasis on girls being chased by horror movie terrors connects directly to the subversion of the slasher victim that Buffy originally embodied all the way back in Welcome to the Hellmouth, and continued to embody thereafter. By returning to visual and narrative horror tropes, and once again overcoming them, seven completes the arch that season one started.

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The Superintendent – Inspector Spacetime

From TV Tropes’ Inspector Spacetime Funny Page Archive

The clashes between Fourth Inspector and the Superintendent were always good for a laugh during the programme's Exo-Pol years.

The Inspector to the Superintendent after the Final Battle of "Exodus of the Blorgons":

Before the Blorgons come back with their next criminal enterprise, would you kindly set your watch five minutes fast so you could arrive slightly ahead of the nick of time?

When the Inspector is trying to take into custody a computer terminal that he suspects has been suborned by the Digifleet in "Reappearance of the Circuit-Chaps":

The Superintendent: On what grounds are you going to arrest that machine?  The Inspector: Probably cause.  The Superintendent: Probably cause? What's that? Don't you mean probable cause?  The Inspector: No, I do mean probably cause—probably cause it's winding me up!

The opening to the "Horror of the Asterozoids" serial apparently refers to an incident in between Seasons 12 and 13:

The Superintendent: I won't stand for any more antics like yours last summer in Westminster. Is that clear?  The Fourth Inspector: When I see the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt appear in the middle of Regent's Park in full view of 1,200 people, I must investigate the chronal anomaly. Am I clear?  The Superintendent: That was the Open Air Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra!

[theclassrp]

EVIE SMITH [ ELIZABETH HENSTRIDGE FC ]

BASICS:

age: 32 species: alien - humanoid mutant occupation: doctor romantic/sexual orientation: pansexual/romantic

ABOUT:

♦ Evie works at the same hospital as Martha and Rory, and is basically only an insider due to the fact that, well, they came through the rift – a refugee intent on making a better life for their child. Nobody knows about their status as alien, and they intend to keep it that way. Or at least that’s the plan. But as everyone in the whoniverse knows, things very rarely go according to plan.

♦ though she tries very hard to keep under the radar and away from all things rift/alien related (she really just wants to give her daughter a chance at a life she can’t have), her daughter Millie actually just started this past september at coal hill academy – the home of the very rift the mother/daughter duo snuck through – thus putting her in a position where she (and her daughter) are forced to interact with people she thinks might be involved in all the alien business. she’d considered kicking up a fuss in order to get her daughter into another school district, but she didn’t want to draw any extra attention to them – rule # 1 of being an alien refugee? keep a low profile. ♦ picked her current alias by doing a quick google search and picking at random a first and last name from the list of top 100 most common names in the uk. the more generic the name the better, she figured. but she hadn’t exactly counted on being surrounded by quite so many smiths when she’d chosen it. better to be boring than tracked down by the blorgon mafia, yeah? ♦ she is of a humanoid alien race which has a mutation gene that allows them to take on the form of whatever sentient creature that makes contact with her bare skin. she can control this power, a little bit, by slowing down the process– but so long as there is contact she will take on the physical structure of the being (conversely once contact is broken she is able to return to her natural form), though she is able to hold this mutation as long as she likes it does come with a cost – she is able to see the future of whoever’s entity she wears, and that is very rarely a good thing.

personality:

☑ caring, courageous, intelligent, enthusiastic. ☒ cautious, guarded, know it all, perfectionist.

CONNECTIONS:

♢ Rory Williams: Her favourite male nurse. Rory is kind, dedicated, brilliant with children, and doesn’t ask too many questions which are… actually exactly the traits Evie looks for in a friend these days. Someone, she can enjoy a laugh with, who has no interest in prying into her personal life. So they’ll sit together in the canteen if they happen to share a lunch break, or meet up for the occasional coffee – he’ll share stories about his very ginger wife, and she’ll share anecdotes about Millie and that’s good enough, isn’t it? ♢ Martha Jones: Evie and Martha work together in the ER, and if she’s honest she sort of looks up to Martha… in a way. She thinks she’s a brilliant and capable physician, especially considering the obsolete tech the year 2016 provides. She thinks they could actually be pretty good friends – both kind, quietly, slightly nerdy individuals. It’s just… she gets the sense that Martha knows a bit more about the rift and the resulting alien activity than she lets on. And Evie can’t afford to risk being sent back through. ♢ Ashildr/Me: Mayor Me. The first person who greeted her when she passed through the rift, and the one who helped her get acclimated to the area. When they first arrived, Mayor Me gave them shelter on Trap street. And when Evie insisted on building a life in London (being human passing, apart from the gloves they’re forced to wear has its perks!), Me helped her find a flat and set her up with a job. All she asks is that Evie be her eyes in the hospital, and report any new arrivals to her so that she can over them the same protection Evie was given

[theclassrp]

Thank you OSWIN for auditioning for our first alien OC EVIE SMITH, we love how in-depth and thorough you’ve made her and her daughter. We find the idea that she’s a Floraxian to be interesting and fun! We have decided to go with Elizabeth Henstridge and we are pleased to say that you have been accepted!

Please create and send in an account within 24 hours, thank you!

We will also have your character card updated shortly.

IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character desired: Evie Smith, 32; daughter: Millie Smith, 11(i realise there are a lot of smiths, i just went generic because she’s an alien so it felt right, but i’m also cool with changing it!) Sexual and Romantic orientation: pansexual/romantic, but a bit too busy hiding/keeping her daughter safe for any of that sexual/romantic nonsense. Ships: evie/chemistry Anti-Ships: evie/forced, evie/no chem Character biography/history:

- though she tries very hard to keep under the radar and away from all things rift/alien related (she really just wants to give her daughter a chance at a life she can’t have), her daughter Millie actually just started this past september at coal hill academy – the home of the very rift the mother/daughter duo snuck through – thus putting her in a position where she (and her daughter) are forced to interact with people she thinks might be involved in all the alien business. she’d considered kicking up a fuss in order to get her daughter into another school district, but she didn’t want to draw any extra attention to them – rule # 1 of being an alien refugee? keep a low profile.

- picked her current alias by doing a quick google search and picking at random a first and last name from the list of top 100 most common names in the uk. the more generic the name the better, she figured. but she hadn’t exactly counted on being surrounded by quite so many smiths when she’d chosen it. better to be boring than tracked down by the blorgon mafia, yeah?

- she is of a humanoid alien race which has a mutation gene that allows them to take on the form of whatever sentient creature that makes contact with her bare skin. she can control this power, a little bit, by slowing down the process– but so long as there is contact she will take on the physical structure of the being (conversely once contact is broken she is able to return to her natural form), though she is able to hold this mutation as long as she likes it does come with a cost – she is able to see the future of whoever’s entity she wears, and that is very rarely a good thing.

Character traits: + caring, courageous, intelligent, enthusiastic. - cautious, guarded, know it all, perfectionist. Connections:

Rory Williams: Her favourite male nurse. Rory is kind, dedicated, brilliant with children, and doesn’t ask too many questions which are… actually exactly the traits Evie looks for in a friend these days. Someone, she can enjoy a laugh with, who has no interest in prying into her personal life. So they’ll sit together in the canteen if they happen to share a lunch break, or meet up for the occasional coffee – he’ll share stories about his very ginger wife, and she’ll share anecdotes about Millie and that’s good enough, isn’t it?

Martha Jones: Evie and Martha work together in the ER, and if she’s honest she sort of looks up to Martha… in a way. She thinks she’s a brilliant and capable physician, especially considering the obsolete tech the year 2016 provides. She thinks they could actually be pretty good friends – both kind, quietly, slightly nerdy individuals. It’s just… she gets the sense that Martha knows a bit more about the rift and the resulting alien activity than she lets on. And Evie can’t afford to risk being sent back through.

Ashildr/Me: Mayor Me. The first person who greeted her when she passed through the rift, and the one who helped her get acclimated to the area. When they first arrived, Mayor Me gave them shelter on Trap street. And when Evie insisted on building a life in London (being human passing, apart from the gloves they’re forced to wear has its perks!), Me helped her find a flat and set her up with a job. All she asks is that Evie be her eyes in the hospital, and report any new arrivals to her so that she can over them the same protection Evie was given.

ORIGINAL CHARACTER INFORMATION

Face claim: 1st choice Elizabeth Henstridge, 2nd choice Chloe Bennet maybe? Pronouns and Gender: female, she/her, mutant humanoid from the future. Additional biography: - she comes from a planet that is unpronounceable by most humans, in a future most of earth’s population hasn’t even considered. a planet with no sun (it’s basically always day and everything appears to be the colour blue, this tooks some getting used to when she was first on earth), that has the most beautiful mountain range in the galaxy, and one that has been in a civil war for as long as history has been recorded by the people who live on it. two races – one with all the power and one existing only to serve, and then her kind. the mutants. half breeds. the lowest class citizens. and so naturally the leads of the rebellion.

- evie was born into a family whose outward appearance was floraxian – and so long as they always wore a pair of gloves, they were able to fit in and and reap the benefits all floraxian’s were awarded simply for being born. which was great, in theory, apart from living in fear of being caught. living as a floraxian meant more opportunities, better food, access to a better education (which is how evie was able to be trained as a physician… she’d be thankful later for such thorough training when she found herself working in a primitive earth hospital in the 21st century.)

- however evie never quite felt… right. it seemed wrong, din’t it? that she reap the rewards of a society that runs on the oppression of her own people. so in her 20′s she joined the rebellion, using her status as doctor to help. but her idealism perhaps made her a bit naive. and so she got caught in over her head – pregnant and in way too deep in the blorgon mafia. a fact that became particularly evident when her then boyfriend (and father of her child), a fellow mutant higher up in the rebellion one night drunkenly admitted that perhaps the intention of the group was not as noble as she once believed.

- with no way out, and a young child to protect she did what she had to do, and found a way out after a chance encounter with a time rift. she had no clue what would be on the side, but it seemed a brighter possibility than what the mess the were up against.

- earth provided a lot of challenges and even more new opportunities. like the opportunity to start over fresh – new identities and all. and so long as she always kept on a pair of gloves, her cover wouldn’t be blown. which was nice, wasn’t? safety at last. she does miss her family, but she knows they are safer without her around. and anyway, she’s got millie and that’s all the family she needs.

- though there is a part of her that worries her ex will find a way through the rift and come to take them back, she can’t bear the thought of it being closed permanently (monitored, certainly, but kept open). she knows she not the only being in the galaxy that’s ever needed a fresh start. and with mayor me and the trap street there’s no reason refugees from across the galaxy shouldn’t be able to find the same safe haven in london as she has. within reason, of course.

- all of that being said she does know how to protect herself. she may look very sweet and innocent on the outside (and she is both of those things, for the most part), but since coming to earth and escaping the rebellion/her ex she’s decided she never wants to feel helpless again, and so has taken some self defense classes and even knows how to carry a gun. (she does keep one in the flat in a lock box just to be safe, but it’s not loaded.)

- in her spare time she works on creating a gene suppressant. mainly for millie’s sake, something she can take (like a vitamin or a shot) to keep her powers under control and maybe offer her a real chance at a normal life. but so far she’s come up completely empty.

PARAGRAPH SAMPLE

She had a system. Finely honed over years of overachieving. She lined her open books across the table – by subject and in order of importance – she’d study one subject until she either got bored or distracted at which point she’d move on to the next. The genius part, of course, being that it prevented her from wasting time closing her books and finding her place in the new one. Efficiency is the key to good grades. As proven by her many years of excellence. Who said you couldn’t be brilliant and a Hufflepuff?

That is to say, she generally had an effective system. But that day something seemed to be going awry…

She’d just moved from Defense Against the Dark Arts and onto Potions when she realised it. Her pages were askew. She’d been meant to read Chapters four and five, but she was on seven.

“No,” Jemma asserted to herself, flipping anxiously through her very detailed planner, “No, that can’t be right I checked.” Triple checked in fact and yet….

Her eyes glanced from her to the Potions book again, now midway through the second chapter.

“Oh!” Jemma gasped in surprise, leaning forward to inspect her books. “Now that’s new. How you doing that then?” She whispered into the pages of her book, eyeing them curiously.

IN-CHARACTER QUESTIONS

1. What are your character’s last three texts sent? And to whom?

[ SMS MILLIE ] Late shift at the hospital. Dinner’s in the freezer. No chocolate until after you’ve finished your homework. [ SMS Millie ] I mean it! [ SMS Me ] There’s a situation at the hospital, I think you’d better come check it out.

What would be your character’s last three social media posts?

1. an instagram shot of an exhausted looking millie wearing a smile and scrubs. captioned: ‘Need tea in an IV bag STAT! #knackered’ 2. a new pinterest board filled with perfectly organized wardrobes (by colour, clothing articles, length etc) entitled ‘organisation goals’ 3. joined the facebook group working mums of hackney area.

What are the very first three things your character does when they get up in the morning?

she’s a very early riser. first she’ll pop on the treadmill for an early morning jaunt to get that adrenaline pumping. she’ll then set the kettle hop into the shower. she lets her tea brew whilst she dresses and sets about getting breakfast ready before waking up millie.