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When the Fifth Doctor's dying and he says "feels different this time". Like okay dramatic bitch. Name two previous times it's been even remotely the same. One time there was a mysterious mummy man hanging around as an omen of your impending death. One time you were executed by the state.

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playing imaginary bedroom dress up to distract myself

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people will see a fandom thing and be like "why isn't this a fanfic" "why is there no fanfic about this" my brother in christ, because you're not writing it

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I love how here on tumblr dot website we regularly cast the greatest curse we can muster on each other by pointing our long creepy fingers and intoning "10,000 notes" in a voice that carries the winds of the mountain with it.

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That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

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i dont care if mondays rife,tuesday qednesday full of strife, thursday fuck my baka life, its friday im in sucks

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okay opinion incoming im sorry but genuinely ENOUGH with the modern companion thats just a quirky 20 something year old girl from current year who also happens to be the most special person ever born. how about we pick up ugg from caveman times next, hm? or maybe just some guy from like the 50s. maybe a young girl, but from the far far future? can they at least be totally unimportant to the universe, but important to the doctor none the less. i miss when the tardis team was a real mix of total randos, it felt believable that he'd find amazing intelligent people from every time to be his friends. the vibe was different when the companion was special in their own way, not forced to be by greater powers. i loved that rose was just like me when i was a kid; low income, totally normal day to day life, realistic messy home - but she was still brave & smart. ruby is like a pinterest perfect shiny smooth engineered companion to me idk, like her outfits colour co-ordinate with her perfect apartment? millie gibson didnt do a bad job acting at all but the character itself to me feels made to be a companion in a lab, not an organic person who just happened to come along for the ride. dare i say i think graham was a better companion, i just wish the writing had been better, i was actually so excited for an old man companion + young female doctor dynamic lol.

i think thats why jamie is my favourite, a scottish highlander from the 1700s who cant read & has no idea whats going on most of the time, but is the doctors best friend all the same & they have a real connection regardless. i feel like he brings ideas & perspective to situations the doctor wouldnt have otherwise thought of.

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Please stop using disabilities you don't have as comparisons.

I saw a video trying to explain that autistic people don't make eye contact because it can be painful for them (good, this is true) and telling them to "just do it anyway" is ridiculous, saying "you wouldn't tell a wheelchair user to "just walk, its better for you" so don't tell autistic people to just make eye contact".

But people do. They do all the time. It's well documented that doctors will withhold their ok for patients to get a wheelchair (which is needed unless you're paying out of pocket, because insurance and most public disability services like the NDIS need proof from a doctor). I've known people who can hardly walk and are having to fight because the doctor still insists it better for them to walk, even if it's painful and sevearly limiting their quality of life.

Then in the comments, someone pointed out that people do say that to wheelchair users (good, this is true) but then continued on by saying "unless you just don't have legs" which is just as bad as the origonal.

I had to fight to get my first wheelchair as a double leg amputee, and every wheelchair since then I've had to justify not wanting the "better option" (prosthetics) to the government so they'll approve me for the funding. Doctors and even strangers too, all want to know why I'm not walking, why I'm not using prosthetics all the time. When I go on trips with my family I'm told to "just walk" so they don't have to pack my wheelchair. at my own graduation from university I was chastised by the organisers for not bringing my prosthetics (because wearing them was exceptionally painful back then and i hadnt worn them in nearly 3 months. I had asked before if this would be ok. they knew) because the venue was accessible but not the part of the venue the graduates were in. On the topic of university they also put my class in the only non-wheelchair accessible room and held meetings i was expected to take part in, in the non-accessible lunch room. When I complained, I was told to just use my legs for a few minutes so I could get into my classes. Being an amputee with no legs didn't shield me from these experiences either, it often made it worse.

I have all 3 of the disabilities mentioned (autistic, wheelchair user, amputee). If you don't have the disability you're using for a comparison, don't use it. Please

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i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

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THE LAST OF US - BILL & FRANK

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there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look

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bro we're so fucked they just integrated a ticking clock into the background music

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Hi !

I am very sorry to bother you, but I wanted to make a small remark. You talked a lot about the Knight of Eon recently, which is amazing because she is really badass, but you're using the wrong feminisation of "chevalier" to talk about her. "Chevalière" means signet ring, while "female knight" would be "chevaleresse"

This is a very fair error, especially if French is not your native language (French speakers often make this error as well, as "female knights" are rarely discussed) and it's already really cool to see someone putting efforts to gender her title correctly

Anyway, I love your blog and sorry for the nitpicking !

Oh thanks!

It always really annoys me when people insist on using they/them pronouns and the masculine version of her title for her. Because like yes, obviously as with any gender variant historical figure it can be very hard to say for certain what she would've considered her gender given the modern slate of options. But I always feel like people ignore the fact that she was pretty emphatic about wanting to be seen as a woman After she transitioned – everyone talks about supporting late in life transitions, and then gets all cagey about this particular historical figure. Like she made the king of France pay for her new wardrobe of gowns and then got him to officially declare her (in modern parlance) cisgender

She wrote an entire autobiography being like "oh yes, I was definitely assigned female at birth, but my parents needed an heir so I was just raised as a boy!"

That's an awful lot to commit to if, as some people think, this figure didn't actually necessarily want to be seen as a woman but it was a condition of returning from exile. Like it was a condition of returning from exile that she live as a woman, yes, but… This is a level of committing to the bit that doesn't really seem to fit any circumstance besides "she was a woman"

Anyway, I really appreciate the correction! I will use it going forward