#it sounds really cool

[doctorwhoisadhd]

im gonna make this unrebloggable to prevent doomspiraling particularly bc its VERY early in the era to be thinking about this but i just wanna get my worries about dw off my chest

im kinda worried about our prospects for next showrunner after RTD cause like. before its been pretty clear cut. moffat won 3 hugos and was nominated for a fourth during RTD's first era, then chibnall had run the first two series of torchwood. but i worry that RTD isnt going to hire any writers of color who are willing or able to take on the position of showrunner. looking it up, it seems like there are plenty of people who would probably be great but the problem is interest. like it would be totally understandable for writers of color to not be willing to take on the big commitment of helming a show as popular as doctor who, especially when it has been (lets be real) pretty damn racist for the VAST majority of its 60+ year history. in fact it would be totally understandable for them to not be interested in writing for dw at all considering how white the show is. RTD is really going to have to make a good environment for them in order to get people on board in the first place but i just doubt if he'll hire writers of color who are willing to take on the show after him. my honest prediction here is i kind of think he'll hand it off to a white woman if even that, which sucks.

anyway heres a (very short) list of people who i think would be good to take over after RTD or at least would be great writing an episode. that said i dont watch basically any TV aside from dw so im basing this off whether theyve done things that seem similar

jo ho: british-chinese woman, created CBBC series spirit warriors

sumerah srivastav: british south asian woman, wrote for lupin

namsi khan: british pakistani woman, wrote for the his dark materials show

anna ssemuyaba: has written a few different things of very different tones (period, action, sci fi, comedy) but what really interests me is this quote from her "I want to create TV shows that explore the inconvenient truths that rule British society, looking at our culture through the prism of subversive humor, rather than being preachy" which i think could serve dw well

daniel lawrence taylor: black man, wrote timewasters which is about a jazz combo that travels back to the 1920s

[askthe-iii-shipchildren]

*looks at an au I made of my own ship kids (old silvercandle one and old Fantube one when they were dating/married) where the silvercandle one died and the Fantube one went insane to use science to bring them back, aka ghost x living person* yo new crackship dropped Vee x Red

[the-genius-az]

Maizukalee is nice.

What about Kazumailee?

Both are great, people can definitely use both.

Maizukalee/Kazumailee are going to triumph against the world!

[thebeedleboat]

It's going to be so funny next week if it's a Nana Morri trick and no one gets a doppelganger card.

[seeminglyseph]

it is frustrating sometimes watching anime youtubers talk about isekai, and bring up Sword Art: Online, and talk about it in a way that makes it clear that like... the existence of .hack and the fact that like... it was pretty fucking huge and well known and from what I have seen of SAO must have been influential because like. I have not seen or read SAO, and so like, even if the creator of SAO has not played or watched read an entry in the .hack series, he's clearly consumed media influenced by it, right????

like I know .hack didn't create the like... 'trapped in a video game' genre, and I'm not saying all anime in the like... 'quasi-isekai, but it's an MMORPG' genre are .hack inspired, or owe something to .hack as a series...

I don't know exactly what point I'm trying to make specifically. But so much credit goes to SAO, and clearly it inspired a lot of the modern interest and web novels. I understand it's responsible at least for the resurgence of the genre.

But. I also feel like the way some people talk about SAO it's like... "How do I make people become fully aware of this other thing I feel is much better???" which I think is probably very self serving but also like. ugh the .hack series was really cool. I really wish we could bring it back and give it the credit it deserved. Sure not every entry was great, but I loved it. I think many anime fans would be happier with .hack as a reference point instead of SAO...

[girlboyburger]

i was extremely sleep deprived yesterday when i discovered the dragon survival mod which was LIFE CHANGING when you're on three hours of sleep so of course i made a whole custom forest dragon texture in one day about it. and. just for fun, some concept art i made for it:

[silicon14blog]

Only played the demo so far, but when I heard the reason non-rescue corps castaways were on PNF-404, this image came into my mind.

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

[cemeterylight]

NSFW

what steve would see every morning if eddie woke up first (eddie is never up before 9am)

[ectonurites]

CHAPPELL ROAN THE LATE SHOW [2.15.24]

[puppyeared]

whatever. go my scarab

ive been watching scruffys pikmin 4 playthrough (go check it out!!!!)

[pigswithwings]

pig i need you to know i had a dream last night where i played a game that was a really violent and bloody first person shooter and the bosses were all angels but all the angels looked like cutesy pastel anime girls except when they reached the final phase of their boss battles the anime girls peeled in half like a gory banana type thing and revealed a glowing ball of light with infinite arms and legs that like unfurled from it as it shed its skin. anyways thought you’d like that

OH LORD... that's incredible

[fritzmonorail]

The doctor really spent the entirety of season 10 trying to get to the worst planet ever just so he could show Jo a really cool rock. And when he managed to drag himself back in one piece Jo was just like “oh yeah cool, goodnight.”

[thequibblingking13]

Fearne Calloway, the woman that you are

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[babblingbonnabel]

🥁 | hurray for Imp and Skizz!!

Other Hermitcraft x Soul Eater designs: Stress + Iskall

[bacchuschucklefuck]

pygmalion and galatea for aroace people

you should tell your friends what I look like, riz gukgak.