#imperial moon

[cringecompanionapologist]

Women That Turlough Has Been Depicted Being Attracted To

This almost definitely isn't a complete list, but it's what I can definitely confirm.

TW: The two PDA examples are dubcon at best.

Imperial Moon (Past Doctor Adventure, Christopher Bulis, 2000): Lytalia

Gets Turlough to fall in love with her as part of an evil plan. Her species produces pheromones that can sort of mind control humanoid males. Trions are humanoid males, so it’s possible that he became infatuated with her because of mind control pheromones that would make virtually any humanoid male fall for her.

The King of Terror (Past Doctor Adventure, Keith Topping, 2000): Eva Oblon

Turlough seems out of character going to a bar, getting absolutely wasted, and actively trying to pick up girls. Eva lures him to her apartment and turns out to be an evil alien who needs alien DNA to take of the world. This leads to an extended period of uncomfortably sexualized torture and her continuing to flirt with him for no practical reason, since he’s afraid of her now. He violently murders her and calls her a bitch and I honestly don’t blame him.

Loups-Garoux (Big Finish, Marc Platt, 2001): Rosa Caiman

It’s implied that they have sex but in a way that’s very easy to interpret as chaste cuddling that Rosa sees more significance in than Turlough does. When the Doctor brings her up to Turlough he says there’s nothing between them.

Kiss of Death (Big Finish, Stephen Cole, 2011): Deela

A past relationship on Trion. Turlough was the bad boy Deela’s dad told her to stay away from. In the present, Turlough will only kiss her when literally held at gunpoint.

Gardens of the Dead (Big Finish Short Trip, Jenny T Colgan, 2016): Nyssa

Apparently Turlough had a crush on Nyssa that lasted forever. Because everyone has a crush on Nyssa in Big Finish. That probably includes Peter Davison and at least half the writers.

So we have a situation that can be blamed on mind control, a situation involving alcohol, torture, and a lack of consent, an ambiguous possible misunderstanding, awkwardly executed backstory, and the same crush that basically every character in Big Finish Doctor Who has.

[do-you-know-this-dw-story]

imperial moon (novel: 2000)

[constance-mcentee]

According to the Doctor WHO book Imperial Moon, the Brits did land on the moon first. But the Doctor, with the help of Kamelion, convinced them to suppress information of the event.

[thoughtportal]

Happy Lunar New Year!

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This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[moonstrider9904]

Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany

[rebel-moons]

I think it can be easy to overlook in the midst of all the other stuff Snyder tackles in his movies, but I love the way he writes romantic relationships.

Kora seeing kindness as a virtue worth dying for, and Gunnar being shown to be kind above all.

Kora resisting a deeper relationship with Den - who is described with attributes the villagers admire such as the best hunter and a loyal friend. Gunnar is shown to be just a simple farmer, trusting and honest to a fault, but it is him she wants is drawn to.

Kora believes she is incapable of loving and being loved. But it’s Gunnar’s love for Kora that saves her in the end.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"Woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom..."

(Pt. 2)

[child0feden]

gorgeous men, truly just absolutely gorgeous men…

[mothlingmeg]

fave moth pics i’ve taken :)

[rayshiram]

flight rising oc lore

[hanzajesthanza]

cahir in chapter 5: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach remained tactfully silent.

cahir in chapter 7: [punches soldiers to prevent their flight] “WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING, MOTHERFUCKERS?!”

[randomnameless]

Something pretty interesting I missed in my earlier Supreme Bullshit reading.

When Supreme Leader is upset at Lonato, she wonders if going to help him would be feasible, which leads to this convo with Hubert :

You want to save the man, Your Majesty? If I may, we would march all that way for...what, exactly?

Hubert, imo, thinks Lonato as basically already done and dead, Supreme Leader earlier was pissed at Lonato not following their plans, he acted on personal enemity and will most likely have to fight both the KoS and the Kingdom so...

Imagine the consequences of leaving him to die.

Here we have an example of the Supreme Leader who made this route, so interesting : it's not Hubert who has all the dastardry in their duo, Supreme Leader too, participates.

When KT forgets that they gave her a sailor fuku to be "more free", they write her to be in a similar vein as the other red Emperors like Arvis, or, Gustadolph from TS.

It's not "we must save him" or "we can't let him die", but Supreme Leader directly evacuates all that pathos, and thinks, rationally, about the consequences of leaving Lonato reap what he sowed.

We need our vassals to believe the Empire will always come to their aid. Always.

It's PR!

Going to save Lonato is not about Lonato himself, she can't give a fig about the dude, but it's all about public relationships and keeping a façade for her war of conquest : her vassals need to believe the Empire will always come to their aid.

Whether they actually do, or not, is irrelevant - they need to believe Adrestia is "trustworthy enough" to come to their help when called.

And the sheer "we need them to believe" coming from Supreme Leader herself? It's really neat, she's lying/manipulating the events to build a perfect image for her vassals, or the ones who will become her vassals (by choice).

Compare this to the Kingdom/Church "we need to help the ones who need help!" and here, instead, we have "we need to make people believe we're going to help them".

Lonato doesn't act following the plan ? It doesn't matter, Supreme Leader will seize this new opportunity to advance her own goals : aka, making people believe the Empire is "trustworthy" and "reliable".

Good. Now make our plans known to the others. I'm counting on you, Hubert.

What plans? The "we must rescue Lonato because he is our ally" or the true "we must pretend to rescue Lonato to make other nobles join our cause and believe in us"?

And what is intereting is how this exchange, of course, only happens when she is alone with Hubert.

In the following event, where Barney is here and they talk about their powers :

Ah, you should see the look on your face! Did Hubert threaten you? Don't let it get to you. Yes, he's quite good at that kind of thing, but it comes from a place of caution.

Hm... Sure. It's Hubert's way of caring I guess.

But then comes the manifesto :

I want to transform the world into a place where no one has to feel trapped by where they came from.

What's that about the place they come from? Aren't we later in this route trashtalking Annette and the Kingdom peeps because they believe in outdated values like chivalry and sacrifices to protect their loved ones?

When I am done, it won't matter where you are born, whose blood you have, or what powers course through you—everyone will be treated as equals.

When she means equals, she means people will "believe" everyone will be treated as equals, just like Lonato was supposed to "believe" Adrestia was coming to back him up and not just, play minimal part to guarantee their PR but not much more?

That's what we're fighting for, and that is what this war is going to achieve.

But Hubert said this war is a war of conquest ?

So believe me when I say this—I don't care who you are.

And yet Barney is still a nobody commoner, even if pal with the Emperor, when Linhardt is a general?

I only care about what you have done and what you have yet to do.

And what Barney can do with that power you said you don't give a crap about right? But what if Barney's abilities are basically the result of their weird powers, can we still say their power/abilities are irrelevant ?

And, hm, maybe someone can translate this for me ?

人の力に拠る未来を創るため、 すべての犠牲を私は負って立つ！

She says this when she defeats 1k peons, and Googl'd it gives... "To create a future based on the power of people, I will bear all the sacrifices!" - so what this line about not giving figs about "what powers course through you everyone will be treated as an equal"? Could Amelie the lady from Mittelfrank who couldn't end up as a diva be treated like Leopold, or what?

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Supreme Leader's words being treated as gospel is always imo hilarious, because Supreme Leader has some instances where, when KT's not busy dressing her up with some "Scarlet Blaze Power! Make Up!", she plays the role Arvis already played before her, the dastardly red emperor who manipulates and seizes every opportunity to reach her goals.

In Tru Piss we got the Javelins - but in Nopes? We get those "heart to heart" moments with Hubert that lampshade even more how much of an unreliable narrator Supreme Leader is - she still maintains care to have a level of PR and only confides to trusted people (yay Hubert!) or, in FE16, when, curiously, she has her mask on (Flamey doesn't need PR).

That's why we still have so many pretzels over Rhea's fate in Tru Piss, yes, Supreme Leader claims she wants to spare her when she adresses her in Firdhiad, in front of her allies and the people she has to lie to about her War.

But when she was with Billy? Nah, she can safely tell them that path lead to the death of Rhea and her people, something she rejoices about in their S support.

Too bad Nopes doubled down on "Sailor Adrestia" instead of giving us more of that "Arvis with a skirt" they teased us with (seriously that power move of betraying Rhea in the third chapter was just, that awesome from her part).

[vikkicomics]

Anniversary of the fall of Königsberg. >Re image 2: POV, you just woke up. The anniversary was actually April 9th, but Tuesdays are so chaotic for me I didn't get around to posting. Now would be a good time for you to go and research the history of the city and it's destruction. The subject of Königsberg should not be used to stoke division, it is the tragic, shared legacy of many European peoples, may we hold hands and morn losses on all sides.

Description of Image 1: Three Prussian Officer Cadets and a junior Lieutenant gather outside of Königsberg Castle, wearing walking out dress, in April 1908. Characters are from my pre-wwi Prussian Officer Cadet drama, Moth. Their names from left to right: Vincent Odinkirk, Leon von Zelewski, Siegfried Isenstein, Gottlieb Witt. Description of Image 2: The same view of the castle, but in April 1945. Three crosses represent the deaths of the comrades in the first image. A Soviet has crawled out from a burning tank and is screaming to be put out of his misery. The Script of Moth, to which these Illustrations relate, does not continue beyond the 1920's. And so, this is likely to be my first and last piece of wwii art. The two images are 37 years and 2 world wars apart, but the castle and the surviving German officer, are meant to lend permanence to the composition. This is the destruction of his home.

[cringecompanionapologist]

hello fellow turlough liker. what are some good books with him u recommend? i already listened to almost all audios (what few of them there are) and i need more of this shitface 🙏😔

Turlough was pretty unlucky with novels tbh, but The Crystal Bucephalus and Deep Blue are pretty decent. His short trips are a bit better. I can't really list the best ones off the top of my head though.

[ksen-noodles]

Fighting boredom in the bus

Iterators are soooo silly and neat and cool and I love the relationships people point out between them!! About what NSH and SRS are doing is: using filters/avatars. Being silly

Also all modern Flight Rising breeds I could remember. From memory.