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Thinking about doctor who and contorting myself into shapes unknown to science

:/ well that's mean. i guess if i'm not allowed to go on my guilt trip i'll just hang around your inbox and gnaw on posts

My poasts!

#awww you are always welcome #some of them squeak #also go to bed

icarianstars

Leela and Narvin, at the end of everything

natequarter

a lot of romana's attempts to kill herself aren't explicitly suicidal. she doesn't go into them declaring that she's going to kill herself today. rather, she has almost no regard for her own life, and treats her own death as an acceptable outcome in wildly inappropriate or far too insignificant contexts. it's not always that she goes around trying to kill herself; she simply does not see her death as a problem in any regard.

envexenveritas

yes, nor is it the typical heroic suicide that main characters traditionally end up in (you know the 'this plan is really dangerous, but saving the day is more important than my survival' type plan). it's more a 'narvin has find this obscure legal loophole that means today's political problem would be better if i were dead. i guess that's the plan now'.

bonivers

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

secondbeatsongs

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

#no. lerios no not allowed come back no guilt trip for you. stores are all closed

gracefelldownaflightofstairs

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natequarter

brax is probably the first person to speak to andred with any kind of kindness in a long time

natequarter

#oh good point actually #but also why 🤔 maybe this gets settled later and i just don't remember it #but what does brax get out of it

ngl i don't think he does get anything out of it, and i think that's the point. brax is the only character of the main cast of series 1 who doesn't appear in a blind eye. as such, he's really the only person who has no personal stakes re: andred. likewise he's the only character who shows genuine sympathy for leela (romana............. lmao); he's already shown that he does actually care about outsiders to gallifreyan society. his main political priorities are himself and romana - and though romana and andred fucking hate each other, andred isn't really a serious political threat (even if he is working for darkel). he's just a nuisance, skulking about in the vaults. what narvin says of andred is true: he does belong to no one. and again, brax is the one person to show sympathy to leela at the start of the series - when she is literally dispossessed, lacking any formal place or loyalty in time lord society. so honestly? i think it's genuine kindness. sure, he's not going to go around actively helping andred out - but unlike narvin or romana or leela (or darkel), he doesn't feel the need to spit in andred's face.

valeyardx

Leela rubbing her hands on fabric to shock Narvin with static but it scares him and he jumps up so high he just flies away into the stratosphere and slowly floats away like when you wash a bug down the sink who agrees

daughterofheartshaven

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...yes?

shiftofgallifrey

Hi

daughterofheartshaven

Hello!

shiftofgallifrey

Hi

daughterofheartshaven

Oh the thirteenth day of the final month of the Grand Viser's first year in office, the swarms of mega-cats were seen to be amassing in the southern hemisphere. In response to this, the Queen's personal army as dispatched to guard them, with only a small contingent staying behind. One would be concerned at the danger this posed to the seat of power, but the mercenaries of the Lashed Rocks were placed on standby, should there have been an emergency. This created some small confusions when there was an emergency, but one of a very different nature - the collapse of the so-called Final Supply Line lead to the town of Mossy Forests losing out on its food supplies and leaving them at risk of starving. It ended up having to be that the town was completely evacuated to the nearby larger cities, although they were to return once the supply lines were re-opened the following year. This temporary evacuation became known as the Mossy Diaspora, and it had significant geopolitical effects on the surrounding regions through overstraining the resources of the city of Leng, leading Leng to declare a soft war on several of its neighbors. While no battles were fought, the hostilities did lead to a disruption of trade that was not resolved until the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month of the Grand Viser's second year in office, through the assistance of an adjudicator sent by the Capitol.

shiftofgallifrey

Aha, some words at last! Thank you, I got lost

#cozy words #building a nest #altering your perception as a form of self expression