#dwParallels

[mizgnomer]

Doctor Who - Fourteenth and Tenth Doctor parallels (some of the ones that get to me the most)

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Bonus: Phil Collinson, David Tennant, and Russell T. Davies doing in-vision commentaries for 2023's The Giggle and 2006's New Earth

[sleepymarmot]

HEY GUYS LOOK AT THIS

Any ideas? I feel like I gotta participate and give feedback, but I don't really feel ready to be an admin and I have no existing ideas for my own community.

The only thing I can think of rn is a community version of dwparallels, my poor dear sideblog I repeatedly failed to maintain all by myself, but idk if that would work as a community: they seem to be more about hanging out semi-privately with a group of like-minded people than about showcasing posts on a specific topic.

[herestoimagination]

I was right. You're not the Doctor. You can't ever be. You're just a copy.

[timetravellerseyes]

Asylum of the Daleks (7x1) // Listen (8x4)

[alrightsnaps]

Clara Oswald + parallels to Rose Tyler (i)

[onepiecepsychosis]

Rain Bonus: 

[borntosavethedoctor]

You were an exceptional Doctor, Clara.

[timeandspacegifs]

The year five billion and fifty three. Planet New Earth. 

[petercapaldy]

Doctor Who parallels - The Parting of the Ways / The Time of the Doctor

[sleepymarmot]

Backed up my blog using the Python script. The process froze twice and I had to quit and continue. On the third try, it completed.

After ~3 thousand lines of error messages, the log says it backed up 140,381 posts. That's a bigger number than either of the post counts displayed by Tumblr itself this week. There are 140,309 files in the "posts" folder. Some of them seem to be broken, and without the broken ones it's 140,297 — two posts less than the current official count.

The backup process took approximately 13 hours and resulted in a folder size of 357 GB. 355 GB out of that is the media folder.

Even though I used the "--tag-index" argument, the script did not create a tag index, leaving me with an unsortable chronological list of posts.

I tried backing up dwparallels to see what happens. The process froze at some point but mysteriously restarted. By the official count, the blog has 1075 posts. The backup saved 1072 posts, according to both the log and the file number. It also built the tag index successfully.

My only guess was that in my request for the main blog, there was an extra space after the "--tag-index" argument. Because there was an extra space there in the tutorial, and I copy-pasted it directly. Could that be the culprit? Or was it because I quit the script by force? Was I supposed to use all of the arguments again when continuing an aborted job? If so, then a lot of audio and video had to be missing as well.

I started the backup of the main blog again, now with the "--no-post-clobber" argument so that it wouldn't redownload existing posts. It failed once, because I reached the daily API request limit and couldn't continue afterwards. On the second try, it successfully went through all of my posts and then seemingly froze on the "Building index" stage. When the script reads/downloads posts, it displays progress in numbers, but when it builds the index, there is no progress indicator at all so there's no way to tell if it's running or came across an error and stopped. After approximately 35 minutes, according to the timestamps, the script updated the index and created a folder for the tags, but the log stayed still. A few hours later, I right-clicked on the command line, and the log suddenly updated and displayed the completion message. On this second run through, the script downloaded 2 more posts, so I now have 140,299 html files, exactly like the official count. There are also 30 other html files in the posts folder that seem to be broken. The json folder has 140,299 files exactly. The html files are timestamped with what seems to be the corresponding post's creation date, but the json files are timestamped with the time and day of the backup.

So now I have all posts, a monthly index, and a tag index. Unfortunately, the html post pages display photosets by wrapping every image in its own paragraph, and don't seem to record the photoset layout anywhere. I hope that data is preserved in the json somewhere, so that it theoretically would be possible to reconstruct these posts properly if the need arises. That's far beyond my own technical capabilities, though.

Now, if only any representative of Tumblr deigned to explain to me what they have done with all my posts that have disappeared into the ether without a trace...

[herestoimagination]

“Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” 12x04 vs. “The Rings of Akhaten” 7x07

I'd known we were going to have a royal visit, I'd have put the kettle on.

[rosed-tyler]

doctor who parallels

↳ "Am I ever going to see you again?" 

[onepiecepsychosis]

3x13 | 4x18

[sleepymarmot]

Idea: a Tumblr for a long serialized canon that reblogs posts by episode/chapter/etc. without including content from the future seasons, allowing the viewer/reader to look up the posts about the episode they just watched without the fear of spoilers. For example, a gifset of scenes from the episodes 1x01 and 1x13 would be tagged only as #1x13.

(Inspired by Dracula Daily, I guess, even though I noticed the connection only after typing the above.)

Features:

Very simple tag system, just the episode number, or name when it’s less ambiguous like in the case of Christmas specials (the main reason I could never get the poor dwparallels off the ground was because the tag system inherently requires a lot of work).

Custom homepage. Override Tumblr’s default list of latest posts (because that would immediately show spoilers to the visitor, defeating the purpose) with an intro text and a manually created list of tags in the viewing order. The intro text should warn the viewers-in-progress not to follow the blog, or they’ll get spoilers delivered to their dashboard, also contrary to the purpose.

Since, as far as I know, you can’t insert custom links into pages for specific tags, you’ll need to manually make a post with the “prev episode tag”/”next episode tag” links for every tag. I.e. you make a post tagged #2x02 and put the links to /tagged/2x01/chrono and /tagged/2x03/chrono inside.

[sleepymarmot]

The new season inspired me to resurrect @dwparallels, so over the last couple of days I’ve been busy updating its theme — it was created (not by me) in 2014 and a lot changed since then!

Change log:

both 500px and 540px photosets can now be displayed without resizing gifs (using the blessed Photosets.css)

the theme is now responsive

sidebar now uses flexbox and turns into a sticky header if the viewport becomes too narrow to fit it

added info about the current search to sidebar on /tagged/ and /search/ pages

fixed the layout of the search page when no results are found

improved the page title

updated the “about” page, included a link into the mobile description

separated the descriptions for the mobile view and the desktop sidebar

switched to modern tag encoding

fixed image size within the reblog chain

increased font size

improved notes readability

There might be some more work to be done: I have not even tried to check how NPF posts will look in this theme, and they’re a giant headache on their own. But otherwise I feel satisfied! Now for the hard part: properly tag all the posts I mean to reblog there...

[sleepymarmot]

This damn episode actually made me want to resurrect dwparallels but it's sooo much work (that nobody actually needs)