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Cis female, demiromantic asexual, Italian-American, 43. Major fandoms at the moment include Doctor Who (mostly Classic/EU), Star Trek (mostly Deep Space Nine, plus a bit of TNG and Voyager), Steven Universe, ReBoot, Shadow Raiders, Slayers, Megaten, No Man's Sky, Animal Crossing, general cult sci-fi television, RPGs and various Western animation and anime.

[morgeil]

Recently discovered that cabaret performances at my downtown historic theatre are beautiful gifts for shallow, aesthetic-easy older aces like myself.

You mean I can just sit here quietly by myself, drink alcohol and stare at live pretty people dressed in pretty clothes with pretty voices? Not touching them (ew) or ogling and no one thinks it's weird? Score.

[morgeil]

YouTube Comments on Blaze of Glory: "Wait, Graveheart and Jade are a thing? Where did this come from?? It's so sudden! We had literally no warning!"

Me: ...

Shadow Raiders Season 1: *Graveheart and Jade giving off ridiculous levels of Divorced through the whole arc*

Me: *long sip of coffee* ....uh huh.

[morgeil]

The ReBoot ReWind team, currently in charge of the ReBoot master tapes digitization and remaster, have also digitized and remastered the first Shadow Raiders episode! It's already uploaded to the Mainframe Studios YouTube channel.

Now, a full remaster of the whole series isn't confirmed, but Mainframe is gaging interest in it. So watch the YT upload to up the count, comment, spread around, etc if you want Shadow Raiders to get the same treatment!

[morgeil]

Hmm, okie, lemme look... WAIT I GOT JUST THE THING

[morgeil]

I'M DYING AHAHA.

So I set them as brother and sister mainly for my own amusement. And then this fucking news reel happened when they became roommates.

[morgeil]

My Mel in Tomodachi Life couldn't possibly have turned out better, LOOK at her.

[morgeil]

I got my Graveheart and Jade Miis married and living together on the first day of playing mwahaha.

GH caught feelings first, because of course he did.

[sogekii-heii]

recent 5 stuff

[morgeil]

Five/Tegan/Turlough:

We have PTSD, sass, but absolutely zero fucks left and we're going to make it everyone's problem.

[sogekii-heii]

having a great time at an alien jungle

[corallapis]

In Mardwyn Undead, it's mentioned by the Headmaster that he deals with Turlough through a "solicitor in London" and he remarks the solicitor is "a very strange man".

Maybe my memory just isn't as perfect as I thought it was, but do we ever actually discover the identity of the solicitor?

yeah, the solicitor is the trion agent overseeing turlough's exile! in planet of fire, when the doctor asks how trion could possibly know that turlough's escaped earth, turlough says "the trions have agents on every civilised planet. an agrarian commissioner on verdon, a tax inspector on darveg, and a very eccentric solicitor in chancery lane. they'll know, all right."

if you mean, "do we ever learn the guy's name?" then no. but here's some more dweu tidbits about him under the cut:

in turlough and the earthlink dilemma, he's called an agent of rechtaht, that is, an agent of the leader of the new regime (the side that won the civil war).

in the king of terror, the doctor, tegan, and turlough visit london in the year 2000. turlough slips off alone to see the solicitor and returns "with a bloodied swollen nose and a smile on his face." take from that what you will.

eldrad must die! wildly asserts that, unbeknownst to turlough, he wasn't the only alien (or even the only trion) at brendon (?!), bc the solicitior was using it as "a proper little underground railroad, shuttling stateless exiles into safety," and that if the solicitor hadn't gotten involved, turlough would "still be a slave worker on trion" (?!). turlough describes him as "creepy." he's told that the solicitor had had his prospects "all planned out. your family back home would be seriously impressed — what's left of them." turlough briefly hallucinates meeting the solicitor in his office, but we really don't get much info on him, except that turlough addresses him as "sir."

from meanwhile turlough:

He didn't need to say that, fumed Turlough as he scuttled out. It was just pure righteous enjoyment of getting to do his job and grind someone under his heel at the same time. He knew that look from the mentor he had been assigned back on Earth, the solicitor who'd exiled him to that vicious little public school. From the schoolmasters and the senior boys. Every face he had never been able to talk back to. Just keep his eyes down, answer ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, sir,’ and dream of precisely where in the man's back he could one day slip a knife.

meanwhile turlough also tells us that trion agents take roles that are close to seats of power on underdeveloped planets and covertly exploit them, with the sugggestion that the solicitor has the ear of politicians in london. after the war, some of these agents had "been tasked with grooming the most reedemable members of the previous opposition. the ones who would be more useful as compliant followers than as martyrs." and turlough's sentence was to be one of those getting groomed.

...and that's it, i believe. not a ton to go on, put it certainly paints an interesting picture, doesn't it?

[irrationalplanets]

like and reblog to keep bullying him

[buddieloustat]

We have lost the meaning of queerbait

[buddieloustat]

Just because what you wanted didn't happen, doesn't mean it's queerbaiting. It is now being used an excuse when the ship you want didn't get together. Queerbaiting has to do with marketing.

[shamebats]

Queerbait: A cookbook that you learned about from ads with pictures of people eating tasty looking soups and the author's social media posts about how soup lovers are going to love it, proves to have no soup recipes.

Not queerbait: A cookbook has no soup recipes. You assumed there would be some based on vibes and wishful thinking. No soups were ever advertised or promised.

Also not queerbait: A cookbook that was advertised as containing soup recipes has soup recipes but not for the types of soups you like.

[wiishopchanelboots]

Girl

[morgeil]

Rewatching The Awakening (again).

My boi Turlough finally got to bash someone with a rock! *And* it was the douche who who kept harassing Tegan. 10/10

[heycupcake]

Thanks for the gifs on my post!

Also, I do wonder if Striker was messing with Five on purpose. The serial clearly pairs the three main Eternals with one of the TARDIS team. The dynamics with Tegan/Marriner and Turlough/Wrack are pretty clearly defined, but Striker and Five is more ambiguous. But sometimes it was as if Striker was deliberately trying to provoke him? I need another rewatch with this in mind...

I think you're right!

A moment that comes to mind in which he seems to mess with him on purpose is when he waits for him to find out the TARDIS' has disappeared. After giving Marriner directives, we see him sipping his champagne, smiling all proud of himself.

It's unusual of him to be this expressive, not to mention the theatrics he went for (hiding the TARDIS in a clever spot, having his officials ambush the group only after they realize the ship is gone, abruptly taking Tegan away). Plus, his normal approach with Ephemerals consists in regularly drugging his crew to keep everyone calm, so stressing the Doctor out like that definitively reads as something intentional to me (be it for psychological warfare or because he finds the Doctor particularly entertaining).

[morgeil]

I agree with all of this. Also of note, Five is the only Ephemeral onscreen that Striker consistently acknowledges beyond practicality and polite decorum. And regularly engages in conversation with. He gives Tegan and Turlough consideration as they're important to him (as well as Tegan being Marriner's favorite), but doesn't show much interest in either otherwise.

And he openly mind reads Five out of curiosity more than the other Eternals do. Which makes his tendency to weaponize Tegan's safety against him mutiple times *very* telling. ("Sir, I know your actual emotions, you are not fooling anyone" lol)

[being-of-rain]

the lighting at the start of Enlightenment, my beloved

not to mention this shot where the Doctor looks like a stained-glass saint with a roundel as his halo...

[being-of-rain]

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