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What can I say but "do they got da booty? They dooooo"
HUEHUEHEHEUHEHEUHEUHEHEHE HI @thinkingredwizard
#whimsy has answers#me rediscovering my ask-answers tag after literally 10 years hello#thinkingredwizard#my brain defaults you as thinkingingallifreyan
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@thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post: @thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post: ...
Balin was like, 7 years old when Smaug attacked
he was a very mature & precocious 7 year old
(I don’t know the hobbit films well enough for this conversation)
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post “Moomin fandom, taking a piece of fanart based on a misunderstanding of...”
oh no people aren't having MOOMIN discourse now are they?
Oh, I wouldn’t call this “discourse”, just people playing telephone with canon.
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post: brutality isn’t as interesting as men who write...
That’s why I got 70 pages into the first book and then decided never to pick it up again.
that’s valid
#don't get me wrong the books did manage to get me invested in the characters and the plot#and they were more nuanced than GoT seems to be#but glancing through them now the amount of violence rape and general grimness is... even more excessive than I remember#Replies#thinkingingallifreyan
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scienceofficer-winifredburkle replied to your post “The Witchfinders” is probably my favorite Thirteen story so far. It...”
I mostly agree but at the same time the jokes about King James' unwanted flirting with Ryan really bugged me. A more petty person than I, a person willing to get into fan drama than I, would contrast that with much of Season 10, specifically to point out that DW with Moffatt was necessarily regressive and DW without him will be necessarily progressive.
I don’t think this was worded quite like you meant it, but I get what you mean. Yeah, the way they played that flirting thing really was the one bum note in the episode, especially at the end. (Also, I’m no historian but did kings in that time period generally just wander the country with a single guardian and no retinue? I spent the first half waiting for him to be revealed as an impostor until I realized that it was definitely him.)
Still, I did love to watch Alan Cumming clearly having the time of his life being on Doctor Who. I mean, I’ll watch Alan Cumming do anything.
thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post:“The Witchfinders” is probably my favorite...
I thought it had more of a ‘Six and Peri wandering the woods running into historical figures and getting accosted by bad guys’ era vibe.
It did also have that vibe! A “Mark of the Rani” sort of thing (which is honestly a bit underrated.)
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Penguins are birds, birds are dinosaurs, dinosaurs are reptiles.
So it’s turtles all the way down?
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Inktober - Characters of the Forest 27/31 - The Sphinx
#inktober#inktober 2017#forestinktober#dropthedrawing#thinkingingallifreyan#this is my general art tag
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your photo: “I’m supposed to look like her, but I don’t really know. There’s...”:
I don't think any UK grading system would allow anyone to get high marks like that WITHOUT being factually correct as well as being interesting to read... I know England is different from Scotland in terms of university grading systems but I don't think they're THAT different that people get away with saying anything. :P
Yes, factual correctness would certainly be a prerequisite for a grade in the 80s and 90s, no matter how liberal a grader the Doctor is! Fact is that he already bases tutoring Bill on the assumption of exceptional grades -“You ever get less than a first, then it's over”. Being interesting to read, being well-written, including original thought... even if the Doctor was adding a good 20 points because he felt like it, it would still have to be an exceptional essay.
That’s all in-show reasoning of course, in practice someone probably just thought “let’s give her scarily high grades to make a point”. But staying within a frame of logic in which characters actually make these decisions, I think the rest of the episode shows as that Bill can surprise the Doctor. She asks questions no one has thought about before. She makes leaps and bounds to come up with an hypothesis. As the says Doctor, “I can see I'm going to have to up my game”.
#doctor who#dw spoilers#fandom disagreements#replies#the pilot#thinkingingallifreyan#fandom discourse
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@thinkingingallifreyan a réagi à votre billet “@thinkingingallifreyan a réagi à votre billet “Extremis” ...”
No, they just had to drop that in there as something which hadn't previously had any effects on human history before and since so few people were supposed to have known about it in the first place it wouldn't have been much of an issue.
but if it was an explanation of how they weren’t in a real world and how they could test for it then why would it have even existed outside the simulation?
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@thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post “really could have done with more gay without the dead lesbian, thanks...”
I'm going for immortal, time-travelling, water lesbian. Hey, if she starts off the series dead, the only way to go is to come back, right??
@gwylock-one replied to your post “really could have done with more gay without the dead lesbian, thanks...”
she's only sort of dead (I mean converted to weird alien water stuff and off exploring the universe sounds better than being dead to me), I suspect she'll be back- if not this year then next.
yeah, that’s what i’m hoping for, but it’s still unpleasant than the first thing they did was kill her off
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@thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post: I don't know if I want to take away from your...
I wrote a whole thing on that other post explaining that while we are given sexes/genders for many Ainur, it’s pretty much meaningless and any concept of gender they had of themselves has nothing to do with how the Elves (the POV of the narration) or Bilbo (who later translated the works) or the human who “translated” it into English (I guess that would be Tolkien) understood the Ainur’s conception of themselves.
GOOD stuff thank you!
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post “cool cool, but what was hetalia anyway?”
Wait, THAT'S what that is/was?????? ooooooooookay........
Yyyyyyup. I used to watch it back when I was 12-13, and it seems fine when you’re watching it, but if you have any context for the events they’re occasionally “depicting” or think about it for a moment, it’s....Not Good.
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post “at his son’s wedding” aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I hope they don’t give...”
Wait, I don't remember that line???
Picard told Riker he met Sarek once before, “at his son’s wedding.”
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your photo “awnex: Laguna Garzon Bridge, Uruguay, by Rafael Vinoly”
It's to stop motorists zooming down it at top speed, as it's a significant place/people stop to get photos? So this way any pedestrians won't be in as much danger.
oooohhh i see
thanks!
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thinkingingallifreyan replied to your post “Well, guess who’s binging Dirk Gently’s Holostic Detective Agency....”
THAT'S BRAD DOURIF'S DAUGHTER? That makes so much sense.
INORITE? I was like ‘huh, she reminds me of Brad Dourif’ and then I looked her up.
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