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[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

During the 1980s, due to the fact that most Inspector Spacetime serials from before weren’t available to the public (and sometimes to the writers),

references made to those old serials frequently caused consternation amongst newer fans, who had never seen the episodes or events referenced.

[lighthouse-guardian]

a completely normal glasses team. nothing to see here

[not-kayvalencourt]

Let's all put on our thinking caps and see that there is no actual evidence that iskall didn't do anything but his own word. There is, however, massive amounts of evidence that he did.

If you follow me and support iskall (or stress), unfollow me. The bullshit tantrum he just had and the amount of people there are supporting him is actually disgusting. If you genuinely believe him, you need to look up manipulation tactics. He is going to use his fame to get people to trust him, just like he did to his victims.

[simandy]

Being invited to a 2000s party as a plus size woman

[Clown music]

[bookwyrminspiration]

🎉The ACOD Wiki has moved!! 🎉

As of this afternoon, the A Chorus of Dragons wiki is now officially moved to wiki.gg and publicly available at https://chorusofdragons.wiki.gg/. If you'd like to contribute, all you need is an account!

Myself (bookwyrminspiration) and SelinaTheLitch have spent the past few weeks prepping it for today's launch alongside wiki.gg staff, and we are the current admins.

For those unaware, the ACOD wiki was originally on Fandom, created by Hawk2020, who laid a lot of the groundwork (thank you!). However, they haven't been active since 2021 and locked 95% of the pages prior to leaving.

This means, until now, no one has been able to update 95% of the information since The Name of All Things. So while the wiki is public again, there is a lot that's missing and out of date. It's going to take a lot of work and time to get this wiki functional, so any helping hands would be greatly appreciated !!

If there's any questions, comments, anything--please do reach out! Otherwise, I'll be celebrating the successful launch and getting ready to overhaul this thing <33

[itsmistyeyedbi]

I've been tagged by @wayhavenots to make so couples for Valentine's Day! (f/f, m/f) I'm a little late, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Zuri kinda romances...all of ub lol. But I made the two pairings that have been on my mind the most rn:

Farah x Zuri and Adam x Zuri (Also, bonus couple! Rebecca x Rook!)

I can't think of anyone who hasn't been tagged already, so if you see this and you haven't done it, do it (no pressure of course)!

[t4tadrienette]

Wanted to give a new spin to these list challenge

[fictionadventurer]

Details:

1940s Hans Christian Andersen shorts: Intended as animated segments within a live-action film about the author's life, these would have adapted The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Through the Picture Frame, The Emperor's Nightingale, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. (Yes, I know we got adaptations of several of these, but I still want to share the concept art for old versions).

Gremlins: A film they worked on a lot during WWII but couldn't crack the story (or find money to make it)

Don Quixote: They tried to adapt the story in various ways in the '40s, '50s, and '00s, which is too long to get into here, but it led to some interesting concept art.

Chanticleer: A story about an arrogant rooster who thought his crow made the sun rise, and used this to rule over the other farmyard animals. Reynard the Fox was a villain who tried to take advantage of the discontent in the farm animals to take over as their leader (with plans to eat them), which leads to Chanticleer saving them and learning humility. Work started on it in the 1940s, and it was so close to being made in the 1960s, but they decided to go with The Sword in the Stone instead. Some of the animators loved it, though, and some of the character concepts were later adapted into Robin Hood.

Catfish Bend: I haven't found much about the story beyond "talking animals in the South", but the concept art intrigues me. It would have been released in 1981, but after it was shelved, some of the concepts went on to inspire The Rescuers.

Mistress Masham's Repose: An adaptation of T.H. White's novel, pitched in the late 1980s

Fraidy Cat: 2009 film about a pampered housecat named Oscar who is falsely accused of kidnapping another pet and has to team up with a cockatoo and try to find the real culprit to clear his name. Shelved because they figured kids and general audiences wouldn't understand the Hitchcock references (which seems like a terrible reason, but alas).

King of the Elves: Announced in 2009, it was a 3D animated film scheduled for 2012, before being shelved in 2016. Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, it was about an ordinary man who saves some elves from a troll and (apparently reluctantly) gets declared their king.

Gigantic: A retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk set during the Spanish exploration, it involves Jack meeting an 11-year-old female giant who treats him like a doll, and eventually fighting much larger Storm Giants. Would have had songs written by the team from Frozen and was set to be released in 2018, then moved to 2020 before being cancelled because apparently they couldn't figure out the story.

[dramas-vs-novels]

Once upon a time, we were sent this picture of a fat little furball

And now she's a big little furball

[bandzboy]

it's always hilarious to see kpop stans nowadays being so against pirating music but literally back in the day, the only way to listen to kpop was through youtube and you had to download the music and even when spotify became a thing, there were barely any kpop artists on there until like the of 2017/beginning of 2018 and nobody back then gaf about streams

[queenklu]

The mental gymnastics on this guy to prove Watson and Holmes WERE, in fact, in love but not in a GAY way...

I read the full essay and boy oh boy:

[Excerpt from book] "I rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished his breakfast . . . my plate had not been laid nor my coffee prepared. With . . . petulance . . . I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready. Then I picked up a magazine from the table and attempted magazine from the table and attempted to while away the time with it, while my companion munched silently at his toast." THAT is a terrible picture, and you know and I know how bitterly realistic it is. Change the diction, and it is practically a love story by Ring Lardner. That Sherlock Holmes, like other men, had breakfasts like that is a hard pill for a true disciple to swallow, but we must face the facts. The chief thing to note of this excerpt is that it not only reinforces the conviction that Watson was a lady--that is to say, a woman--but also it bolsters our hope that Holmes did not through all those years live in sin. A man does not munch silently at his toast when breakfasting with his mistress; or, if he does, it won't be long until he gets a new one. But Holmes stuck to her--or she to him--for over a quarter of a century.

After that Mr. Rex Stout gets fully lost in the sauce. He claims to be able to discern the first name of "Mrs. Holmes née Watson" because...numerology??

There are sixty of the tales all told. The first step is to set them down in chronological order, and to number them from 1 to 60. Now, which shall we take first? Evidently the reason why Watson was at such pains to conceal her name in this clutter of titles was to mystify us, so the number to start with should be the most mystical number, namely seven. And to make it doubly sure, we shall make it seven times seven, which is 49. Very well. ...The next most significant thing about Watson is her (his) constant effort to convince us that those things happened exactly as she (he) tells them; that they are on the square. Good. The first square of an integer is the integer 4. We take the title of the 4th tale...

tldr: He rearranged the letters in several randomly chosen Sherlock titles and got the answer....Irene Watson. Which further supports* his point that Watson can ONLY BE A WOMAN because who is the only woman Holmes loves?? Irene Adler Watson.

*no it doesn't.

[canisalbus]

What's Machete's sexuality? Is he bisexual? 💙💜💗

He's homoromantic demi or something along those lines.

[lieutenantselnia]

A little comparison of Lieutenant Lyste's voice in the English and German dub (+ a little bit of Kallus too); because I find languages interesting and this made me really think about how a voice actor can influence how a character is perceived.

First of all, I've watched Rebels primarily in German so far (though I've seen a good amount of scenes in English as well), partly for nostalgia reasons (I was in my teens, probably around 14 when I first watched the series and my English wasn't that good at the time to just casually watch an entire series, plus I was watching it with my younger sister), but also because I think the voice actors especially for the main and recurring characters are genuinely doing a really good job. Heck, for some characters I might actually prefer their German voice because it is that good! Kallus might actually be a good example for this if he's already here, I think he has such a pleasant roughness in his voice. For Thrawn it's also a pretty close match, he sounds wonderful in both variants but I might prefer his German voice just by a teeny tiny bit.

Who I actually wanted to talk about is Lieutenant Lyste though. I'm mainly familiar with his German voice, and as he's a fictional crush of mine, this is also the voice of his that I've fallen in love with. When I imagine him talking - regardless in which language - the sound is that of his German voice. Personally, I feel like that voice makes him seem a little younger and more naive compared to his English voice. I've always headcanoned him to be fairly young, in his early to mid twenties, and that by the start of the series he had just completed his military training recently (his position as supply master might have been the first one where he had to bear more responsibility). I've always seen him as a guy who's motivated and just trying his best, but at the same time he's lacking experience, plus, if we're being honest, when it comes to his military career he's a pretty average guy. I think he'd learn and improve over the years, but he isn't the "best of his academy year" or "promising young talent with innovative ideas" kind of guy, and he's far from a mastermind like Thrawn. He's literally Just A Guy, and personally, that's actually something I really like about him and that makes him endearing to me.

In contrast, I think his voice in the English dub makes his age a bit more ambiguous (I still wouldn't guess him older than 30, also based on his appearance but I feel he seems less "boyish" than in the German dub). I think it also gives him a bit more of an arrogant tinge and less of the playfulness that at least I hear in his German voice. He still conveys that dutifulness, but he seems a bit more uptight as well. I wouldn't go so far to say that that's bad, and I still like his English voice as well, but I think for me it won't come close to the charm that his German voice has to me.

Towards the end I want to point out though, that the voice, while being an important aspect, is not everything that makes a character. Appearance, behaviour, body language, actions and decisions contribute to that as well. What I found interesting is that most headcanons that I read about Lyste actually still overlap closely with my own as well, even though I heavily assume that not all people who wrote them are familiar with his German voice. I would say that this is a good thing, because his core personality is still conveyed across language barriers, even though the way that different actors voice him may emphasise different aspects of his character more or less.

[crashout-cain]

Thinking about Mary, raised by her black family in a community of people she has loved her whole life, growing up and marrying a white man, leaving her community and her family and her whole world. How she was so dissatisfied with the safety and security of her white life because it kept her from her family. Then her mother dies literally days before the movie starts, and that informs every single thing she does. She starts trying to reconnect with that family and her first community, and immediately another white man shows up and inserts himself into those relationships and twists her love into something that hurts her family and drags her community down into further subjugation to him. The way he literally lures her in with her grief. Just thinking about the choices she made, the choices that were taken from her, and the things they cost her. God.

[ofmdee]

working on stede's hot weather gear now

this was the last time i edited ALL their outfits (over the course of several days, lol), i've been doing it 1 at a time as needed now, but all of their hot weather outfits felt lacking to me

this one is so simple but i rly like it, lol

all of ed's old outfits btw

[yavieriel]

Healthcare systems are flawed and frustrating and bureaucratic and I absolutely understand why people blame that for why people have an urge to turn to "alternative medicine" grifters instead.

But please, please stop.

A fundamental difference between ethical medical practitioners and grifters is that an ethical medical practitioner recognizes the limits of their own knowledge and resources. They will tell you "I don't know what's wrong," and "There's no treatment for this". They know that modern medicine can't fix everything. Sometimes there just isn't a treatment. Sometimes partial effectiveness is as good as it gets. Sometimes managing symptoms is all science knows how to do so far. Sometimes the honest answer is that the damage is permanent and you're going to have to learn to live with disability. Yes, there are bad doctors out there who are unhelpful and/or make things worse, but there are also simply limits to what modern medicine can do.

And understandably, that's frustrating! It sucks to get told that whatever problems you're having are insoluble or unfixable. People want answers and solutions and at least a chance that whatever they're struggling with will go away.

Which is where grifters come in. A grifter will always tell you that your problems can all be solved, your suffering will all go away, you just have to give them money and do what they tell you. They are happy to say anything that will keep you coming back to them, to offer false hope. And no one else is willing to make these promises of health and happiness and wholeness, because honest people know that it's a lie and not everything can be fixed. So the desperate keep going back to grifters, drifting from one con to the next or accumulating them like collectibles, sure that somewhere out there is someone who can perform the miracle they so desperately want.

I don't know what the solution to this is, other than maybe general mental health support to help people come to terms with having disabilities and illnesses and generally less-than-perfect health. But asking doctors to be dishonest, to promise miracles they can't perform, is not it.