'But surely,' he said, 'that must be an orange.'

"Books which teach how to dance -- There are authors who, by representing the impossible as possible, and by talking of morality and cleverness as if both were merely moods and humours assumed at will, produce a feeling of exuberant freedom, as if man stood on tiptoe and were compelled to dance from sheer, inward delight." Cully, genderweird sea creature Weirdo queer feminist, barefooted hobbit-person, prodigious ginger, predisposed towards fannishness and literary criticism, writer of many things. Here you will currently find: honestly mostly Doctor Who at the moment. Doctor/Master generally, specific flailing over Delgado!Master, Simm, and Missy. Current Doctors of choice are Ten, Three, Six, and Twelve. Jo Grant is my baby child and I adore her I was also Gimli in the Epic Sansukh Podfic Project My fanfiction can be found over at the AO3: CHECK IT Occasionally I write flaily unexpected not-quite-fic which may be found under the tag whoops i wrote a thing I am also an amateur fandom archivist and fic rec expert, you can check my annotated Boosh (and associated fandoms) fic recs here: my fic recs tag and here: Cully's Ever-Expanding General List of Boosh Fic Recs-- Feel free to ask if you're ever looking for fics of a particular flavour! Also sometimes I sing and/or read things

[assassinbugs]

First spin This Wheel to get a companion(ish person), then spin This Wheel to get a Doctor. Feel free to spin until you get someone you're familiar with. Now.

Do they fit together?

traveled together in canon and yes

traveled together in canon and no

they would be fantastic together

they'd be fine. good. ok.

unsure. could go either way.

don't think it would be that good

bad. very bad. not good.

nuanced nuance

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

Feel free to interpret "fit together" however you want. Would they like each other? Would they be entertaining to watch? Could mean either or both. Whatever you decide.

[paranoidangel42]

I got Tegan and the Fifteenth Doctor. It very much depends. If he met her instead of the Fifth Doctor then he'd definitely get her back to Heathrow and everything would be fine. If he meets her in present day, then it could be a bit interesting.

[thisbluespirit]

Peri and the Seventh Doctor. I picked unsure, because that could go well, it could go really badly, and also she doesn't blow stuff up.

[culumacilinte]

Liz and the Second Doctor. On the one hand, he wouldn't undermine her scientific expertise nearly as much as Three does, so I feel like they might be able to build a good thing with him kind of... surreptitiously playing support for her in those kinds of settings, doing his Two thing of flitting around the edges of a scene. Two's actually working TARDIS also means he could actually introduce her more fully to a broader scientific world, which she might find initially overwhelming but subsequently *fascinating*.

On the other hand, I feel like Liz's patience for Two's Silly Little Guy shtick would be Extremely Thin, and she would just get Very Exasperated Very Quickly. I feel like maybe in small doses they'd work well together-- if you had a setup with Two where UNIT are a recurring presence a la current Who with Kate Stewart et al-- but perhaps not actually as full-time travelling companions.

[culumacilinte]

It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[please-attend-carefully]

WHO IS RUNNING THE BIG FINISH INSTAGRAM??

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[post-to-poll-pipeline]

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

Younger than 10

10-13

13-16

17-20

21-25

26-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

Older than 60

Never had a smartphone

Voting ended onJul 22

[creekfiend]

what if I never got a fucking migraine ever again

[creekfiend]

WHAT IF NOBODY ON EARTH EVER GOT A MIGRAINE EVER AGAIN!!!!

[itssofuckingover]

average conversation in the vault.

[parkayquarts]

im glad we're mostly out of the "girls are so soft uwu" era. it was really hard for me to go through as a girl with a segmented carapace covered in hundreds of tiny barbs

[culumacilinte]

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[tlirsgender]

Ok listen I get that people tagging posts with men is a rule of physics on this hellsite but it's kind of bizarre how badly some of you have failed the assignment on this one. A generic male protagonist archetype who is a man is nothing. That's just the normal cliche I'm talking about subverting. What?

[tlirsgender]

Like if you are For Serious headcanoning your blorbo as a trans woman I am kissing you on the head. But I KNOW most of you are not doing that. Come on. For one dollar name a fictional woman. No being a loser does not make him a woman try again

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your fav flower {if multiple then the first one you thought of} is your new name how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

not for my gender

results

Voting ended onJul 19

[culumacilinte]

THE BIG NEWS IN MY LIFE. My queer choir did a big show over Pride (at a pretty fucking big local theatre) (collaborating with a pretty fucking famous drag king), and I was one of the solo drag acts!

I came on about two thirds of the way through the second half, in this show all about celebrating queer joy, to do a big villain turn with 'The Smell of Rebellion', from Matilda the Musical, as a sort of mad pirate captain, and then got booed offstage by the entire 100+ person choir at the end of it, and it was AMAZING. I wanna be a big, tear-the-house-down queer musical villain literally every night of the week. I sweated so much, but my god, THIS IS THE SHIT I WAS BORN FOR. Soooooooooo much fun; I cannot imagine anything more fun than that.

Also, I made those trousers! First pair of trousers I've ever made. First anything I've ever sewn from a pattern. Not perfect, but damn if they didn't get the job done.

also also Dick Von Dyke wants to hang out and collab and be actual friends how cool is THAT

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[natalieironside]

The wizardposting trend feels a bit too specific to "the D&D 5th Edition character class known as Wizard" and/or "Merlin from T.H. White's The Once And Future King" to really reel me in. The wizardposting doesn't encompass nearly enough odinposting and/or solomonposting, imo. To say nothing of väinämöinenposting.

[natalieironside]

I gotta get you guys on the Väinämöinen hype train

[regicidal-defenestration]

This Be The Verse - Philip Larkin

[polarity-disturbed]

Nine: What can I do? Grimminy-Grue: There is nothing more you can do for me, Doctor, except. Nine: What? Grimminy-Grue: Tell me that which I failed to guess before. Who are you? Nine: I'm the Doctor. Just the Doctor. It's the only name that ever stuck. Grimminy-Grue: You heal the wounds and end the pain. Nine: If you like. Grimminy-Grue: Then I thank you by that name.

-> 4.6. Thirteen O'Clock - The Ninth Doctor Adventures

The doctor and their chosen name ughhhhh I just ughhh ya know?

[beggars-opera]

I’d like to introduce everyone to my new theme song