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Narvin: Not gonna lie, I'm kind of afraid of Romana... Brax: As you should be. Narvin: No, for real, she's kind of- Brax: As. You. Should. Be.

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I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

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ranking the best things I have heard surgeons say mid-surgery:

1. "Five second rule!" while scrubbed, after dropping a sterile scalpel on the floor (no they did NOT pick it up again but I swear everyone's buttholes puckered)

2. (spoken during the closing of a particularly long and difficult case) "Nurse - my tunes." :heavy metal starts blasting:

3. Gently to a fretful patient, pre-anaesthesia: "It's going to be okay. I promise, I've dealt with worse." As soon as the patient is unconscious: "This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen."

4. [okay this one was a med student] "Wowwww, that's so gross!!" Reg: "Please remember that [patient] is awake for this procedure." Student to patient: "Oh my god. I am so sorry, that was really unprofessional - " Patient, cheerfully, also engrossed with what's happening inside them on the screen: "Nah - it's, like, super gross, right?"

5. [another procedure where the patient couldn't be put under GA] Patient: *starts singing country roads midway through the procedure* Surgeon: *shrugs and joins in with surprisingly good harmony*

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GAME CHANGER - ‘Second Place’ 6.01

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TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of “tobacco angina” exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

via reddit.com

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presented without comment

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Lol just found McDonald's doordash on someone's doorstep #hunter #gatherer

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The Milt Kahl Head Swaggle (Source: Cartoon Brew)

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This really was a spectacular panel. So much fun to have these three together to talk about our favorite series.

Gallifrey Cast Panel - Gallifrey One 2025 Highlights

1. Gary Russel bringing up “the Leela and Narvin romance” (and Miles Richardson saying he’s jealous) and saying he played it a bit Romeo and Juliet

2. Miles saying he was trying to be “sexy and appealing” during the first scene of series 4

3. Just. THEM!

4. “Seán, how does it feel to have a fanbase?” (Referring to the narvinettes)

5. Miles talking about going to dennys and saying he got the Benny breakfast because “I couldn’t not get the Benny breakfast!”

6. Jason and Scott bullying Gary Russel

7. Scott Hancock and Louise Jameson confirming she’ll be doing more with her Torchwood character who, in Louise’s words is “neurodivergent, probably lesbian, and alcoholic”

8. The boyz

More photos:

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one of the most ship dynamics of all time

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there's a secret good sequel series that lives only in brain where finn and rey are force-sensitive foils to each other and they still spend movie #2 entirely apart but it's because they're exploring parallel and at time opposite relationships with the force and their place in the universe

and in my secret good version. okay hear me out. the han-leia kid is a hot lady. okay. are we following. and she DOES abandon luke's new jedi, not by falling and murdering people, but by stealing the millennium falcon and running off to escape responsibility and swaggers around with incredible han solo "loser pretending to be cool" energy. and then. she accidentally picks up two force sensitive teens on jakku and she's like. are you KIDDING me

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spin this wheel for a prefix, and then spin this wheel for a suffix

as a bonus you can spin this wheel to find ur role in the clan (note: spin twice if you get apprentice)

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GALLIFREY FANS: 3 FANLETTER BOOK PROJECTS ARE NOW LIVE!

Seán Carlsen, Miles Richardson, and Louise Jameson will all be attending Gallifrey One in 2025. The goal is to collect fanart, fan letters, and more to compile into booklets for each of them. Whether you're attending or not, please consider writing a message or sending in some art for these three!

DUE DATE IS FEBRUARY 1st, 2025!

Link to Seán booklet submission

Link to Miles booklet submission

Link to Louise booklet submission

Please RB to spread the word, and message me for any questions!

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I’ve been doing a full Gallifrey relisten in preparation for GallifreyOne in two weeks. I’ve been doing a deep dive back into the fanfic and fanart and @bioinforwhat has been blessedly listening to me scream about this series for at least 15 years.

Also, @fiotrethewey this episode fucking hurt. (I loved it)

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It has been way over a decade since this happened, so some details are a little blurry, but I still have to tell this story here too:

So, my dad's colleague was on a trip with their friends, who were a couple. Now, the wife of this couple was a huge U2 fan, and the highlight of this trip was going to a U2 concert. Later that night, after the concert, they went to a restaurant, and who do they see there at another table? Bono. The wife wants so badly to go and ask for an autograph, but in a typical Finnish fashion, she doesn't want to be a bother because surely Bono just wants to enjoy his night and not be surrounded by fans all the time, so she doesn't go.

Then, she notices that someone from Bono's table gets up and goes to the men's restroom, so she also gets up and goes to wait outside the men's room, until the guy comes out. She then stops him and goes excuse me, I saw that you were at the same table as Bono, would it be in any way possible that you could ask for an autograph from him for me? (because apparently it is much less mortifying to bother someone else you don't know than to bother the guy directly, I guess).

The man apparently kinda stands there for a moment, just looking at her, before he asks, sounding just a tad bit confused, if he heard her right. You want me to go and ask Bono for an autograph for you?

Yes, she says. She's being very polite about it. If you would be so kind. That would be great.

The man says yes, sure, I'll see what I can do about it.

They then part ways and go back to their own tables and continue the night, and some time later, they notice that Bono and the rest of the people who had been at that table have left.

Oh well, the wife thinks. No can do, maybe he just forgot or something or just didn't want to do it. It's okay.

They finish up their meal and ask for the bill. The waiter tells them that their meal has already been paid for, and then tells that they were left with two notes.

The waiter gives them the notes. They are both autographs. One of them says Bono.

And the other says Bruce Springsteen.