Hic Est Baculum Meum

im canadian and i contain multitudes! he/him

[fwizard]

[sistertaxon]

[vfeioa]

[jame7t]

you are always telling lies

elephants are hunted for their jumping slime, which is used to produce trampolines and the runways of airplanes

[ayeforscotland]

Going to make a bold claim that the push for IMAX to be the ‘intended viewing’ of certain films contributes to cinemas dying.

[ayeforscotland]

Another unrelated take - if you rebrand British food as ‘Tavern food’ everyone suddenly loves it.

And criticism of food like beans on toast is just classism.

[becausedragonage]

Jimothy Fever!

Yesterday, someone on Reddit posted a video of a very strange raccoon - a fellow who seemed to have a condition that gave him a very short spine. This is the boi in question:

Now Seattle, Jimothy's territory, is being overrun by Jimothy fever with more spottings.

And just today, BABY PICTURES WERE UNCOVERED!

This is the most exciting thing in raccoon news since Conrad, the dead raccoon of Toronto.

ETA: Just checked. There's now a Jimothy subreddit with all the latest Jimothy news and fanart.

[fucxingcuties]

I BELIEVE!!!

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[teaboot]

Remember! When companies lay off all their staff because AI is cheaper, this sort of shit is what you can leverage for a better contract when they are inevitably forced to hire everyone back :)

[stealingpotatoes]

Random question but what's your opinion on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from the hunger games?

they make me start frothing at the mouth and punching drywall thanks for asking <3

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[irrationalplanets]

I do appreciate what lore welders do and don’t begrudge the fun in trying to make doctor who at least somewhat coherent but it does rub me the wrong way when newish fans then get misled into thinking popular fan theories are actual text

[irrationalplanets]

unpopular opinion but tardis.wiki contributes to this

[irrationalplanets]

and I’m not saying that to privilege certain parts of doctor who “canon” above others. I genuinely believe the “it’s all canon” and/or “doctor who has no canon” but like I say in my other post that goes around: no one is required to remember or incorporate all of it.

To use a tv show example: there are now two versions of The War Games. One where the War Chief is a time lord the Doctor knows and one where he’s all but stated to be the Master. Both of these are “canon” as far as I’m concerned, but to go on tardis.wiki and say definitively the War Chief is the Master would be wrong. It’s the quantum superposition I was talking about the other day. The War Chief is and isn’t the master and there are eu works that approach it both ways. The existence of one doesn’t erase or retcon the other and everyone gets to pick and choose what they want. Hell hold both in your mind based on whatever’s fun that day.

I think we do a disservice to new fans when we directly or indirectly imply that doctor who has a more coherent narrative than it does.

[silliestcolressfan]

come. take my hand. we can make benton homeless together

[silliestcolressfan]

so a lot of my evidence for why benton would in fact be homeless comes from extended universe stuff, and im only going off of what i have seen, so bear that in mind. but benton is one of the only people at unit to not have a home outside of unit hq. yates has a flat (short story: where the heart is), the brig has his house, jo has her uncle's house that shes lived in since she was 8 (short story: velvet hugs), etc. benton however, has never really had having a home mentioned. thats likely why he stays at unit for so long, because its his home. unit hq gives him a roof over his head and he can easily access a shower, food, and generally have somewhere to stay in the winter. in the short story, the wringford worm (benton and hawthorne investigate), benton is shown going on leave. but hes not shown like, going home to his family, or even going to an actual home. he's staying at a b&b. a bed and breakfast hotel. usually, soldiers would take their leave to go and reconnect with family, but benton doesnt have that, so he goes to a b&b instead. this is because benton is homeless

[silliestcolressfan]

if youre wondering why he doesnt just go live with his family. like with his mother. well thats simple. theres this thing called 'wartime' which shows that benton has guilt over his brother's death and he probably doesn't want to live with a constant reminder of that

i also think he lives in his car because at least it keeps him dry and he can store things in there and such

[silliestcolressfan]

but i think thats all just me idk. you dont have to subscribe to all of my headcanons i just wanted to get my thoughts out tbh

[silliestcolressfan]

BENTON BEING CALLED 'RIFFRAFF' IN DEVIL GOBLINS FROM NEPTUNE CAN PROBABLY BE SEEN AS AFFIRMING MY HEADCANON THAT HE'S HOMELESS. homeless people are seen as the lowest of society and the definition of riffraff is that youre the lowest in society. benton is called riffraff because he is homeless

this does not make that comment any less mean but alas

[silliestcolressfan]

if you think about the implications of this one line from business unusual, which reads (from the brigadier's perspective) 'He'd caught up with some of his ex-colleagues over the years, many at the reuinion party back in October '83. John Benton had returned to active service, while Mike Yates and Tom Osgood had set up their tiny tearooms just outside Reading. Even that awful Shakespearean-sounding man had been there. Carol Bell had left shortly after Lethbridge-stewart went to Brendon'. if you think about it, benton hasnt really got a reason to return to unit, especially considering that none of the people he knew or was close to were there (book didnt mention harry sullivan other than in the past tense so 🤷), other than he is homeless and has shelter at unit. we all know this

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[grapnel]

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

[sepdet]

LOL. I think they tried to fix it.

Nice try. Still no.

[sillysiluriforme]

[rowanthestrange]

I think Dhawan!Master!Doctor, by meta virtue of simply being A Doctor, should realise his Big Finish Escape Clause that thus allows him to exist in a slice of highly time dilated canon, and go and have a 13-episode-and-a-special series where we find out whatever it was he was planning to do (nothing, head empty, no notes - i mean it he has no notes).

During which of course he loses one Doctor Outfit piece per episode, ending up being gifted items by the people he accidentally helped along the way, until he’s dressed and acting as his own Doctor.

He eventually comes to like it. Not just the accolades — god he loves having his name chanted, even this one — but that warm fuzzy feeling *shudder* that he’s getting fond of like a dad who didn’t want the cat.

By the end of the second series he’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because he can’t get to just stay like this, surely? Having ran out on the pre-defined narrative like the Doctor would? But it seems like he’s the only one who can make him go back and finish the story and what if he just…doesn’t…

Dhawan!Doctor: “Cus, I mean like, even you had to go back, in the end, right? Couldn’t just joyride as the Doctor forever, had to die sometime.”

Clara: “How would you be talking to me now if I had?”

Dhawan!Doctor: “Oh. …How old are you? Just between us girls.”

Clara: “Hit the big five a while ago.”

Dhawan!Doctor: “Five hundred? Or thousand?”

Clara: “Digits.”

Dhawan!Doctor: *whistles, kicking his heels against the diner they’re sat on top of, floating through space* “…Yeah, we’ve got loads of time…”

[parkchanwoohoo]