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a new reality tv show called So you think you can write Doctor Who

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

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One of the most upsetting parts of the Doctor Who cancelation/hiatus/whatever is that the Susan arc will likely be dropped and never concluded. The worst part is that there's a 99% chance that RTD has no plan with Susan. He teased us with a possible return for literally no reason and now we have nothing. I would have prefered to have no tease in the first place and keep dreaming for her return.

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hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

echo-heo

a sitcom is a genre of comedy in which you are sitting

willowhelmiam

The opposite of stand-up

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katestewartt

YOU'RE LAUGHING AND THEY ARE SELLING DOCTOR WHO TO ONE DIRECTION.

penny-anna

Ok let's start brainstorming. If we get another soft reboot in like 15 years what are we going to call it? And/or what will we call new who

#nuwho2 electric boogaloo. NW2EB for short

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You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

loveshoplifter

same but it's black people

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That's right

hinoneko

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

wanderingcoasties

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

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that poll thats like 'which nuwho character would you trust with a baby' is still so funny to me like donna is literally the only one who has successfully raised a child. clara works with kids but she's not good with them. I know amy and rory adopted a son in manhattan but we never see him in canon, he could've turned out just as insane as river. donna is literally the only character who has raised (and protected) a normal functioning well adjusted person. how did she not win that poll. martha tried to set off a nuke last time we saw her.

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famously, nukes are pretty bad for babies

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#I love you Martha #…but also YEAH

charl0ttan

long distance friends pets feel like celebrities because you can only be parasocial with them

kedreeva

If you're ever worried about whether your writing is too self indulgent, I just want you to remember that Sharknado had 5 sequels. I'm only partway through watching Sharknado 6: It's About Time, but already they've traveled through time and ridden a pteronadon into a Sharknado so they could use the magic teleportation portal inside of it to travel forward in time to King Arthur's time, where they are currently battling a Sharknado full of fire-breathing dragon sharks with Excalibur, which is a chainsaw sword that calls lightning. You're fine. In fact, be a little more self indulgent if anything.