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whenever I watch a movie and I see the tiniest cutest character I will say to the people I’m with “that’s me” and I just realized that’s what Paul does with the mouse in Dune.
I've always wanted to ratio Project 2025 (a blatantly evil manifesto dreamt up by deranged and soulless fascists) with a picture of the Doctor and Rogue's gay, interracial kiss
So in the "All thirteen!" scene of Day of the Doctor, there were canonically nine or ten Sutekhs clinging to their TARDISes and looking at each other like this
Ancient Coin of the Day: A little thread on the Altar of Augustan Providence and its appearance on Tiberius' coins, starting with this rather lovely As, ca. AD 22-30.
#ACOTD
#Numismatics
#Providence
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Image: RIC Tiberius 81; ANS 1944.100.39226. Link -
Imagine if Donna and Rose 'letting go' fully undid the metacrisis, and somewhere in Pete's World Tentoo just dissolved to goo in front of Rose Tyler and their child while they were making bangers and mash
On a morning when bloodied horses have been running loose in London, I'm reminded of the similarly symbolic moment in Sept 2021 that a white hart—an animal of deep significance in English folklore—found itself lost in a Merseyside town, and was shot dead on an industrial estate
When they talk about whether or not David Tennant was "respectful" in his comments about Kemi Badenoch, remember that Rishi Sunak cheerfully joked about trans identities while Brianna Ghey's grieving mother was in attendance
the ‘evil gay trickster’ is an archetype rooted deep within our collective unconscious
however, for woke reasons, society is unable to explore and integrate this via mass media
the pent up pressure has manifested itself in physical form (george santos). in this essay, i will
🔵 Kemi Badenoch has said she wants a personal apology from David Tennant after the actor told her to “shut up” and said he wished she “did not exist any more” because of her views on women’s rights.
Read more here ⬇️
Kate Middleton has officially confirmed her whereabouts, explaining that she's been shifting her lifestyle to a nocturnal sleeping schedule to prepare for the upcoming series of Doctor Who.
"I can't believe it's on at midnight," she added in her statement. "It's a British show!"
I thought it was weird the other day when I read on this package "soft jelly WOMEN AND JELLY MEN" like why not just jelly people, and then today we realized
In honour of the man's birthday (and the excessive chocolate consumption I'm intending for the next few days), I give you:
Peter Capaldi as Easter eggs, a THREAD
IMO, “erasure poetry” is not poetry in any way. And to destroy someone else’s writing—or, God forbid, poem—and then call the leftover words a new “poem” is pure philistinism.
Fight me.
One of the most beautiful juxtapositions in Who is this moment in The Parting of the Ways, where we transition from the Dalek Emperor in 200,000 AD denying responsibility for a mystery permeating spacetime—to a shot of rotisserie chickens, and Jackie Tyler talking about coleslaw
Doctor Who is just a scam by Russell T Davies to make us say goofy things
"I'm so hyped for The Giggle!" "Let's get The Goblin Song to Christmas Number One!" he's got you talking like FREAKS
Saw an image of the Moment and briefly thought "wow how does all that fit inside the box" before realising that's, like, an iconic core concept of the show
Just thinking about the theory that Ancient Greek 'Kúklōps', i.e. Cyclops, might have originally meant 'cattle-thief' (PIE *pḱu-klōps), but was reinterpreted as 'circle-eye' (Ancient Greek 'kúklos' + 'ṓps') after the loss of the Proto-Indo-European root *péḱu
I found the look Kate gave the Doctor in the Time Window scene utterly heartbreaking—and one of her most powerful character moments yet—because it felt like, in that moment of upset and grief, her eyes were saying:
“You know what I said earlier, about joy? I take it back.”
Happy birthday to Peter Capaldi, and happy anniversary to the time I made a "Peter Capaldi as Easter eggs" thread and my favourite Doctor Who director (who happened to be working with him on something else at the time) showed it to him
Ok, all you geniuses: who’s a -smart- person’s idea of a smart person? Whose intellectual work and manner of presenting it has earned your respect? Or do we not commit ourselves that way on Twitter?
Do you ever think about how, between the verb SING/SANG/SUNG and the noun SONG, we have one word with ablaut variants for four of the "five vowels" of English?
We only lack one, and it must be found and properly adopted: the elusive and mysterious SENG
If you've ever wanted an example of how intellectually vacuous this stuff is under the veneer of these guys pretending to know literally anything about anything, please enjoy the way this guy has rearranged Greek letters into (English/Latin) alphabetical order