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after watching The Story and the Engine, i wondered: did the Barber ever cut the gods' hair? then i thought, both the Toymaker and Maestro can change their hair at will, and Lux is balding... and then i had this stupid idea. bon appétit 😂💖

#this was actually so much fun to draw!! i spent a good bit of time researching West African geometric patterns to pick a good background #and the Nigerian patterns on the cloak and the Barber's undershirt (the latter looks like snakeskin?) are as close to canon as i could get #it would feel strange to divorce the Barber from the explicitly Nigerian context of his episode - even for a jokey bit of art 🫡#so sorry for inflicting 'purposefully balding' Lux Imperator on you all but i hope it made you laugh 😂💖#i just know Adétòkunbo is absolutely seething in this art (and for good reason) 😭😭#lux imperator #the barber #lux #adétòkunbo #mr. ring-a-ding #adetokunbo #mr ring-a-ding #mr ring a ding #the story and the engine #doctor who #dw #alan cumming #ariyon bakare #starleskart

yeah this is my reaction to seeing the Sixth Doctor too 🥰🥰🥰

#sorry i really did squeal when he popped up on the screen - incorrigible Sixie stan that i am 😳💖💖💖#honestly it was so lovely getting to see all the Doctors together!! what a wonderful sequence in a wonderful episode :3c #the doctor #sixth doctor #6th doctor #the barber #adetokunbo #the story and the engine spoilers #doctor who spoilers #doctor who #the story and the engine #dw #colin baker #ariyon bakare #adétòkunbo #starleskatalks

YELLING THOUGHTS ABOUT DOCTOR WHO SEASON 2 EPISODE FIVE 'THE STORY AND THE ENGINE' 🕷️💈

enormous gigantic insane spoilers for this episode!!!! what are you doing?!?! GO AND WATCH IT NOW!!!!!

jaw is on the actual floor after that episode, holy SHIT. we knew that anything written by Inua Ellams was going to be profound and absorbing, but oh, that felt like a movie in its own right. this might be the most...evolved episode of Doctor Who we've had in a long time: a perfect, self-contained story that encompasses multitudes of stories and cultures and ideas, and such a huge love letter to Black barbershop culture and African mythology 👀 from the second we saw the spider lots of us clocked that Anansi and West African folktales were likely going to be a huge part of this episode, especially with Inua Ellams being known for The Barbershop Chronicles...and the beautiful, meta, character-driven story is such a wonderful combination of them all! it was so interesting to hear how the Doctor reached out to the Black community in Lagos to find a sense of belonging in his new body, and absolutely devastating to see that sense of safety and comfort ripped away again, reinforcing that he is still an alien, and still without his own family and culture...jesus 😭💔💔 Omo's betrayal was so well-written, and it cut like a knife, because he was trying to save those who he has true allegiance to: his fellow humans. it echoes the transactional nature of the Doctor's relationship with so many humans, because the Doctor is an 'evolved life form': he's the one who's supposed to save us, and time after time he's wounded for it, but he can't stop himself coming back. so much so that in this ultra-meta run of Doctor Who, he's aware of the power of his own stories: that he drives the narratives, he powers the engine. but that's the difference with this story, isn't it? this time, the Doctor was saved by the ingenuity of enslaved Black women and the maps they wove in their hair. he's saved by the stories he's lived through with humanity. and he's saved by knowing that he does always have a place on Earth, with us 💔 i loved seeing more of Fifteen's insecurity, anger, and fear...we need that. this is definitely one of Ncuti Gatwa's best episodes 👏👏 i could gush for hours about The Barber | Adetokunbo: what a spectacular performance from Ariyon Bakare, i got chills!!! 😭💖 gahhh i adore the idea of a spurned, overworked human being who propagates the stories of the gods and becomes so consumed with envy and spite that he wants to take the power for himself!! he's so skilled and intelligent that he could well have ascended to godhood himself, and honestly, i would've loved to see it. there was a good ten minutes in there where i thought the Barbershop was a TARDIS and The Barber was a Time Lord name—but the concept of the Nexus and his spider-inspired machine-shop traversing the web is so genius and fitting with the story!!!! i'm just so blown away. sounding like a broken record without offering much criticism this season, but of all the episodes for series 2, this was the one that had me rapt and breathless the entire time. i yelled seeing all of the other Doctors and the Fugitive Doctor again!!! what a treat!!! the big question on my mind is: where does that leave us with Mrs. Flood? i was utterly convinced that she was going to be a member of the Pantheon and have dominion over stories, but is that possible now we've seen that The Barber | Adetokunbo effectively ghost-wrote the gods' narratives?? god i need to watch all of series 1 and 2 again to understand 🙈💖 my guess? i think that The Story and the Engine was able to happen as a consequence of the Doctor casting salt and inviting in the Pantheon, driving the main narrative from science-fiction to sci-fi/fantasy, and without that happening, we would not have been able to see The Barber | Adetokunbo or Abena. and i think past The Interstellar Song Contest, reality is going to break in a huge way 👀

see i thought. i thought the TARDIS was reacting like that because it was detecting the proximity of another TARDIS. and i thought the Barber's clippers were a sonic screwdriver. and i thought he was called the Barber because it was a Time Lord name. but i should know better by now than to ever trust first, second or third instincts when it comes to understanding a Doctor Who twist 😭💔

#part of me yearns for Adétòkunbo as another Time Lord. and part of me thinks The Story and the Engine is perfect as it is #the story and the engine spoilers #doctor who spoilers #the story and the engine #doctor who #dw #the barber #adetokunbo #Adétòkunbo #starleskatalks

Antetokounmpo (Greek script rendition for Adetokunbo) was born in Athens, Greece, on December 6, 1994, the son of immigrants from Nigeria. Three years earlier, his parents had moved from Lagos, leaving behind their firstborn son, Francis, with his grandparents. Although Antetokounmpo and three of his four brothers were born in Greece, they did not automatically receive full Greek citizenship as the Greek nationality law abides by the jus sanguinis.

For the first 18 years of his life, Antetokounmpo was effectively stateless, having no papers from Nigeria or Greece.After gaining Greek citizenship in 2013, his family Hellenized their surname from Adetokunbo to Antetokounmpo to more closely follow Greek spelling rules.

His parents are from different Nigerian ethnic groups—Charles was Yoruba, while Veronica is Igbo. According to basketball great Hakeem Olajuwon, also Yoruba, the original family name of Antetokounmpo translates to "the crown has returned from overseas"

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Homecoming For Meghan Adetokunbo Markle, The Duchess of Sussex

Homecoming For Meghan Adetokunbo Markle, The Duchess of Sussex By Adeola Aderounmu, Sweden. The homecoming of Meghan Adetokunbo Markle with her husband Harry to Nigeria in May 2024 was almost unreported in the western media. In Sweden, the visit did not make a single headline (that I know of anyway). In other spaces, the reports have been unfair and in bad fate. Only the Nigerian media did…