#coto524

[johannestevans]

my ex-[???] who blocked me on everything 4 months ago and has only in the last few weeks been civil to me at work again just texted me a massive paragraph about the filthy things he would do to me if we run into each other in the sauna. this feels like one of your stories (complimentary)

EYYYYYYTY nice

[yourclashatdemonhead]

darling zero pressure but I remember you used to have broken Tumblr DMs so paging you the old fashioned way

Oh bollocks, yeah sorry I see you have messaged me but I didn't get a notification - thanks a lot for the nudge

[jettiebettie]

hi! bit random but i think about that Arthur Guiterman QWERTYUIOP poem quite regularly so thank you for including it in that one Rhack fic and introducing it to my life

Yo! Hey, that's awesome, I'm glad it stuck with you! It's something I learned as a child that's stayed with me my whole life for some reason. I still recite it sometimes when my mind wanders~

[a-wizards-kiss]

sorry ur having a not great day my dude. here is my cat her name is kosh

Hi kosh!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

[marzipanandminutiae]

☕ polyester

Broadly? Despise it.

It's not the warmest fabric, nor the coolest. It's not the softest, nor the most interesting texture. It doesn't breathe at all, to speak of. It IS versatile and cheap, which I suppose must be allowed virtues, but it's essentially plastic- something we need less of in the world, generally.

I'm sure it does have important functions, as plastics do on the whole: medical applications and certain sanitary things like gloves, etc. And I won't judge anyone who, by budget constraints or simple lack of access to other options, is compelled to wear it. Far too many people fall into that category nowadays. I have plenty of polyester in my wardrobe, and replacing all of it at once would be highly unfeasible.

(Besides putting those garments into landfills, potentially, which is one of the major issues I have with synthetics since they don't break down. So. Yeah. I have to keep some garments made of The Beast around.)

But I hate it, I try to avoid it where I can, and I wish it wasn't so ubiquitous.

[prokopetz]

which systems would you recommend for a "doctor who"-style scifi monster-of-the-week with a ragtag bunch of misfits? any and all recommendations welcome, from the staid to the esoteric!

There are a number of actual Doctor Who RPGs, both official and fan-made, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend any of them if you’re just aiming for the style of Doctor Who – the official ones tend to have the Doctor-and-companion model baked into their mechanics in a way that’s annoying to work around if your party composition doesn’t match that assumption.

If you don’t mind the whole shared-narrative-authority deal, you might have a look at Rose Bailey’s Beautiful Anomalies. Like many of Rose Bailey’s games, it use a print-and-play card deck for randomisation rather than dice, with a novel “timeline” mechanic in which the GM’s hand is constructed face-up on the table out of the players’ discards, creating a very fun tactical tension where the benefit of spending a powerful card is balanced against the fact that doing so will eventually place it in the GM’s hand.

(Note that there is a second edition of Beautiful Anomalies in the works, but there’s no estimated release date at the time of this posting.)

If you’d prefer something with more dice and less meta-narrative goofiness*, and if Fate Core isn’t a dealbreaker, you might have a look at the Atomic Robo RPG. When applied to Doctor Who it definitely leans strongly toward the goofier seasons, but it’s perfectly playable with lower-powered characters if you limit access to mega-stunts, and the brainstorming rules (where characters can score mechanical bonuses by engaging in wild speculation about what exactly they’re up against) are an excellent fit for the premise.  Alternatively, if you’re cool with Fate but want something that’s better suited to the tone of the more down-to-Earth seasons, there’s Time and Fate, a Fate Accelerated Edition hack of the aforementioned Beautiful Anomalies – though it has no public release at the time of this posting, so you’d have to drop a couple of bucks on the author’s Patreon to get your hands on a copy.

* But not, alas, no meta-narrative goofiness; meta-narrative goofiness is kind of a thing on this blog.

Finally, if you don’t mind a system that really wants to pigeonhole you into playing characters from the show (or very close expies thereof), the Cubicle 7 edition of the official Doctor Who RPG is a perfectly serviceable game, and it’ll save you the trouble of having to come up with your own stat blocks if you want to feature critters from the show as antagonists. It’s a bit pricey, though, presumably due to the expense of the license; the PDF costs more than some games will charge for a printed book.

[hocky-polayor]

did anybody ever work out what the name is for the PCPR gang version of monica??? the CCs say "moniker" which is clearly not right but,,, i can't tell what it's meant to be. muñeca maybe? hlep

I'm not sure either... Over-pronunciation of Monika maybe?

[lesbiandonnanoble]

just imagining 9 and donna's energy.......

this ask has literally been sitting in here for like a good few days just because it has such strong Vibes... i’ve been thinking about it nonstop and i can now safely say that their energy would be off the charts powerful. the shenanigans of 9 and donna include (but are not limited to) - 

so many movie nights. donna inherited a love of soaps from wilf(sylvia calls them a waste of time) and she makes 9 sit through her favourite shows (he gets so invested in them after like 2 episodes, they both lose their mind when they figure out the tardis can tape tv)

so many insult-offs. just for fun. donna drops one, 9 one-ups her, she one-ups him, and so on until they’re just stringing ridiculous words and curses together until they run out of breath or burst out laughing

all that healing 10 did because of donna? imagine that but with 9 right out of the time war. she literally saves his life bro.. just by being his best friend.. 

9 WOULD drop snippy little rude comments to sylvia whenever they spoke, then him and donna would laugh about it later in the tardis 

also, 9 would call sylvia out. like he’d actually give her the “your daughter is the most amazing person i’ve ever met and you convinced her she has nothing to be proud of. how are you okay with that” talk. 

also i’m just picturing donna with 9 during the ‘everybody lives’ scene and can you just imagine the joy there’d be?? they’d make each other so happy bro