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Coding shouldn’t feel like some exclusive, unattainable club. We all started somewhere—most of us just messing with elements to try customizing them before we got ✨ambitious✨ and started building our own projects.
Most of us are hobby coders, and we can’t always hold everyone’s hand as they’re getting into the community. Plus, a lot of our knowledge is hobbled together according to need (maybe that’s just my personal experience though lol). But we can share the resources and communities we use to build our sites and skins with you. So here’s my ever-growing list of communities, resources, and learning tools I’ve used, and still use every day, to build my projects.
If I’ve missed a valuable community or resource, let me know so I can add it to the list! And if you’re a coder with resources on your blog, reblog this with a link to a tag that others can follow!
Forums
Jcink Support Community
This should be everyone’s first stop shop when it comes to Jcink. The support forum has an active community that’s ready to help with specific problems, and is full of very specific codes that usually don’t ever make it to other resource forums. Learn how to use the search function to find what you’re looking for!
Caution to the Wind
The OG jcink rp resource site at this point. It has a lot of what we now consider essential building blocks of our forums, as well as tutorials to teach you how to do things.
jCodes
A community that is mostly full of JavaScript coders, with an amazing collection of Jcink plugins to optimize your forum and add functionality. Not necessarily the best for learning, but definitely a wealth of resources.
Sourced
A mini-resource community, hosted by Essi. It’s the home of many useful resources for forum development that Essi and others have put together. This is not an active community, but a home for resources.
RPG Initiative
A resource forum for more than just Jcink rp’s. There isn’t so much a coding community here, but there are some great coding guides in the codex.
RPG Directory
Another general resource site, the coding community here is pretty quiet these days, but it has some classic tutorials and resources worth visiting.
Discord Groups
The Jcink Community Corner
A great community for coding, as well as writing and general site management. For newbies and pro’s alike! This is the general home for most of us (afaik), and is probably the biggest/most active group of jcink coders on discord.
Coding Camp
A discord community for all levels of coders. Camp offers regular coding challenges, as well as a variety of resources for beginners who might not know where to start but want to get into the thick of things.
General (and free!) Learning Resources
If you’re just starting out, want a general refresher, or are a seasoned pro looking to add some credentials to your name, these resources are for you! All of them are free and are not Jcink-specific.
Free Code Camp
Learn how to code for free! It walks you through the basics to build the fundamentals you need to start on more complex projects. I’ve done the CSS and JavaScript courses and cannot recommend it enough.
The Odin Project
A full stack curriculum that I’ve heart great things about! I haven’t used it myself so I can’t speak to it, but their JavaScript and CSS courses looks amazing.
Flexbox Froggy
A game to learn how to use flexbox and all its corresponding properties by organizing some frogs and their lilypads. When I take a break from coding, I always play a round of flexbox froggy as a refresher.
Grid Garden
A game to learn how to use CSS Grid! A lot like flexbox froggy, but with vegetables.
CSS Tricks
Not recommended to open until you have a basic handle on things, only because it has a wealth of articles that are easy to get lost in. But if you’re looking for how to do something specific, chances are CSS Tricks has an article on it!
Stack Overflow
An active community for coding of ALL kinds, every question about coding ever has been asked and answered here somewhere.
W3 Schools
The reference sheets on W3 are tools I reference all the time. I always have a tab with the CSS or JavaScript references up, because nobody can remember all the properties and what they do off the top of their head!
CodePen
A place to start creating your own codes! It has live updates, so you can see what you’re creating as you make it. And you can use it to create a nice little portfolio for yourself! You can also “fork” other users’ codes to play with them, figure out how they work, and learn how to implement those practices into your own work. (side note: if you see my profile on CodePen, no you didn’t, it’s a mess)
If you follow me here or mastodon you may have noticed that I've been reblogging/boosting a lot of posts for something called The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development (@fujowebdev). There's a good chance you followed me or know me from the Dragon Age fandom where I run communities, events, and zines and write fanfic, and you might be wondering why the sudden and drastic departure from my normal content. Why would a writer contribute to something related to webdev? Why have you stopped seeing thirst for Dragon Age characters and started seeing… whatever a FujoGuide is?
The answers to those questions (and more!) are below the cut.
My Coding Journey
I wrote my first lines of code in 1996 (yes, I'm old AF). It was the early days of the internet and tutorials for how to make your own websites were literally everywhere. You couldn't go more than two clicks without finding a how-to written in plain language. But it was painstaking and tedious. CSS didn't exist yet (literally, I started coding about six months before it was released) and even when it appeared it wasn't widely adopted or supported.
It was the "glory days" of Geocities, Myspace themes, Neopets, and Livejournal. If there was a cool site, you could use HTML and/or CSS to customize it. I honed my skills by coding so many tables character profiles for RPs, creating themes, painstakingly laying out user info pages, and building my own site.
Gradually, things changed. Web 2.0 showed up with locked down profiles and feeds you couldn't customize, free website hosts became more difficult to find, and point and click page builders became the way of the web. Shortly after, I took a long break from fandom; frustrated and disappointed with site closures, lost communities, and general fandom wank… it felt like it just wasn't worth it anymore.
I eventually came back, and when I did it meant customizing themes, figuring out how to create tools for my communities, coding tumblr pages (and learning they're not really supported on mobile), and looking at automations for my common tasks. One day, I woke up and thought, "I'm going to make a Discord bot… it can't be that hard."
So, I did it.
An Unexpected Friendship
About a month after I launched my bot to the public, I received a random Discord message from @essential-randomness. A friend had told her about my bot, and she was working on BobaBoard which needed volunteers. I was shocked. First, people were talking about my bot. Second, I wasn't a real coder. I didn't know anything! I just googled a bunch of stuff and got something working. I had no idea what I was doing.
She assured me it was okay. She was willing to teach me what I didn't know - and most of all, that she wanted my help. I took a day or two to think it over, and fatefully filled out the volunteer form. I didn't know if I could be useful or how I could be useful, but I wanted to try.
Programming Is Awful
In the years months that followed, I spent a lot of time in @essential-randomness' DMs complaining about programming… at least once I realized she wouldn't judge me. I was still very much doing things the hard way, taking hours to update a site to add a single link on all the pages. I knew there were easier methods, but I either couldn't find them or once I found them, they were filled with dense jargon which was terrifying.
"An all-in-one zero-javascript frontend architecture framework!" Is that even English? "A headless open-source CMS." Cool. Sounds good. "A full-stack SSG based on Jamstack extending React and integrating Rust-based JS." Those sure are words. With meanings. That someone knows. Not me, though.
I spent so much time looking at what sites claimed was documentation and losing my mind because I had no idea where to even start most of the time. With @essential-randomness' encouragement, I kept at it, experimenting with new things, and jumping in headfirst even when I had no idea what I was doing. And I was so glad. Where I used to struggle keeping one website updated, last year I managed to deploy and update 7 websites. Yeah, you read that right. It was amazing.
The new stuff made it all much, much easier.
An Idea Is Born
Meanwhile, we spent hours discussing why it was difficult to get fandom to try coding. Part of the barrier was the belief you must be some sort of genius or know math or that creative/humanities people can't do it. It is also partially coding communities being unfriendly to newbies and hobbyists; a culture which often thrives on debasing people's choices, deriding them for not understanding, and shouting rtfm (read the fucking manual) and lmgtfy (let me google that for you)- all of which are unhelpful at best and humiliating and abusive at worst. The tech dudebro culture can be unforgiving and mean.
The number of coding-based Discords I've left far outnumbers the ones I've stayed in.
We determined what fandom needed was a place for coders of all skill levels to come together to help and support one another; where they could learn to code and how to join open-source projects they love, and where they could make friends and connections and show off their projects whether they were new or experienced programmers.
And thus… Fandom Coders was born.
What About FujoGuide?
Of course, running a coding group and working on BobaBoard together means we spent a lot of time talking about the state of the web. We both lamented over poor documentation, jargon-rich tutorials, and guides which assume a baseline of knowledge most people don't have. What we needed to do was provide tutorials which start at the beginning… from the ground up (what is a terminal and how do I open it?) without skipping steps. What we needed to do was make those tutorials fun and appealing.
I don't remember exactly the journey it took to get us here if I'm honest. I have no clue who said it first. But I do remember I first started thinking about anthropomorphizing programming languages when we attempted to cast the languages as the Ouran High School boys… and again when I suggested we do a [TOP SECRET IN CASE WE DO IT] group project in Fandom Coders to help people learn about programming.
What I do know is that as last year ended, @essential-randomness became laser-focused on creating our gijinka and moving forward with FujoGuide… and I couldn't say no.
Okay, But… Why Contribute?
To be honest, it's not just that I was around for the birth of the idea. It's ALL of the things in this post - the culmination of three years of frustration trying to figure out what I'm doing with coding, of wading through dense documentation, of wanting to give up before I even start. It's three years of dipping my toes into toxic techbro culture before running away. All added to decades of watching the web become corporate-sanitized, frustratingly difficult to customize, increasingly less fun, and overtly hostile to fans who dare enjoy sexual content.
To sum all of this up, it's the firm belief that we desperately need a resource like this. Something that's for us, by us. Something that builds fans up, instead of tears them down; that empowers them to create for themselves and their communities what no one is creating for them. It is a project I'm deeply passionate about.
And I can't wait until we can bring it to life for you all.
Unlocking Full-Stack Development: A Comprehensive Roadmap for Aspiring Developers in India
In the era of digital transformation, the demand for skilled full-stack developers in India is soaring. These versatile professionals proficient in both frontend and backend development are essential for building dynamic web applications. If you're aspiring to become a full-stack developer in India, this comprehensive roadmap will guide you through the steps to achieve your goal.
1. Grasp the Essentials of Web Development: To kickstart your journey as a full-stack developer, begin by mastering the core concepts of web development. Dive into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—the fundamental languages for creating web pages. Understanding these basics lays a solid foundation for your future endeavors.
2. Select a Backend Language and Framework: Once you're comfortable with frontend technologies, delve into backend development by choosing a programming language and framework. Options like Python with Django, JavaScript with Node.js, or Ruby with Ruby on Rails are popular choices. These backend technologies empower you to handle server-side logic and data management efficiently.
3. Acquire Proficiency in Database Management: Database management is a critical aspect of full-stack development. Familiarize yourself with database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB. Learn database querying, indexing, and normalization to effectively store and retrieve data for your web applications.
4. Explore Frontend Frameworks and Libraries: Enhance your frontend development skills by mastering popular frameworks and libraries. React.js, Angular, and Vue.js are widely used for building dynamic user interfaces. Dive deep into these tools to create interactive components and manage application state seamlessly.
5. Embrace Version Control Systems: Version control is indispensable for collaborative software development. Get hands-on experience with Git and platforms like GitHub or GitLab. Learn to create repositories, commit changes, and collaborate with other developers to streamline your workflow.
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10. Cultivate a Continuous Learning Mindset: Becoming a full-stack developer is a journey of lifelong learning and growth. Stay curious, explore new technologies, and continuously expand your skill set. Be open to adapting to new challenges and opportunities as they arise, and embrace a growth mindset to thrive in the ever-evolving tech industry.
Conclusion: Mastering full-stack development in India requires dedication, perseverance, and a commitment to lifelong learning. By following this comprehensive roadmap, you can acquire the skills and knowledge needed to excel in this dynamic and rewarding field. So, roll up your sleeves, embark on your full-stack development journey, and unlock a world of endless possibilities in India's thriving tech ecosystem.
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Isn’t it something very new and strange, that almost more than 70% of the world have been staying indoors and living in their houses with restrictions on not to go outside for quite some time now? Not everyone is used to staying indoors. Looking ahead to do useful and productive stuff would be something that everyone will be interested in. On that note, how would it be if you could take free skill development courses that could benefit not only your quarantined time, but also your career? What if you develop the right technical skills for your passionate dream to work in the field of Information Technology? What if your job hunting process after this could be more satisfying considering the fact you are talented and have the right skills for the right job? Here you are the right place for that. Get yourself enrolled with the free online courses by Great Learning.
So, What is this all about ?
Staying at home, you can choose from a variety of courses that provides you with Great learning and exposure on various technological topics.
All these courses would be self-paced i.e., suitable for your learning speed with no time duration to complete the courses.
You can also enroll into any number of courses as you wish.
The course would be a compilation of videos and lectures related to the topic and at the end of the topic you would be given an assignment and quiz submission which would be based on what you have been learning.
On successful completion, you would be provided with a certificate of completion within 24 hours from completion.
This would definitely be very crucial while finding employment opportunities based on your qualification. Who would not want a person who has all the technical skills needed for the jobs along with a passion to work? Seems much effortless, right? Yes, it definitely is very simple.
Who would these courses be suitable for?
These courses are suitable for all the students, graduates and professionals who have been pursuing their careers in the field of data sciences, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, machine learning, marketing/finance and many more. Wondering whether how it would be if all such courses would be free? Wonder no more, because, you are right, all these courses are absolutely free of cost. All you need is an effective internet connection, zeal to learn and explore and of course, time to spare.
What are all types of courses available?
So, there are various courses available on different technological based subjects. These are elaborated and explained as follows –
1.Data Science Courses
To get the best data science courses, here you are at the right place. To give a short brief about the subject; data science is the synthesis of tools, algorithms, maths, business intelligence and machine learning. In short, it is a subject that helps in the analysis of data that provides with the understanding of a business and helps in making important business decisions. Some of the courses available on this subject that is suitable for beginners would be –
Introduction to R : Gives an understanding about the programming language R that enables the learner to understand about R functions, Debugs, R commands, profile R code, etc.
Data Visualization using Tableau : Understanding data using visualized method like charts, graphs and other visual analytical methods.
Financial Risk Analytics : To get to know the risks in the market for a business is quite critical and this course provides with the right tools and skills to do that.
Marketing and Retail Analysis : Provide with the technical know-how to have a potential knowledge about the market and analysis of retail. Exclusively gives an understanding about a famous marketing technique, Recency, frequency and monetary value (RFM).
For intermediate learners, here are the data science and analytics courses available :
Statistical Methods For Decision Making : Solving important business problems with the help of using numerical data available and analyzing it using statistics is what this course is all about.
Predictive Modelling and Analytics : Wouldn’t it be great if you have the potential skills to predict the future of the business with the help of appropriate data model and analytical tools? And that is what this course would be all about.
2. Machine Learning Courses
Without being programmed, a machine gets to learn automatically from its analytical data. This is the common explanation for what machine learning is all about. Rest guaranteed that you get easily get into high paying jobs with the technical knowledge and being a kingpin in machine learning. So, the artificial intelligence and machine learning courses available for beginners based on machine learning are -
Python For Machine Learning : To make production use effective in algorithms, python is the programming language used. The two important elements of Python covered under this course would be — Pandas and NumPy.
Statistics For Machine Learning : Hypothesis testing, Statistical distribution, Bayes theorem and other basic statistics are some of the skills that could be learnt from this course.
Some of the Great Learning Academy Online Courses for intermediate level on machine learning are :
Data Visualization using Python : Doing data analysis using Python and making use of data visualization techniques to better understand the data is a skill that is most demanded by many companies and this course trains you in this skill.
Machine Learning Foundations : Would you want to learn about the most favored technique of Machine learning that encompasses algorithms based on supervised learning like Naïve Bayes and KNN? This is perfect course for you to learn that.
3. Artificial Intelligence Based Courses
Everything today in the field of technology is based on Artificial Intelligence. With that being said, who would be able to resist a person who is technically and well skilled in AI? Some of the courses available for the users are –
Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning : Suitable for users at intermediate skill level, Data may not always be of the same type. Diverse data and complex problems are difficult to be analyzed and Deep learning is the right tool used to resolve such problems. Working right as effective as a human brain, you will be learning about basics and application of deep learning in this course.
Computer Vision Essentials : Most relevant for users with advanced skill level and having a basic understanding of Python and Neural Network, this course provides you with an understanding about digital imagery. You could equip your skills on Convolution, Transfer learning, motion capture, optical capture recognition, etc.
4. IT and Software Courses
Courses and basic skills based on the existing Information Technology field and software are commonly demanded today. Mostly suitable for the beginners, some of the courses available in this subject are :
Introduction to Full Stack Development : If you have spent sleepless night dreaming to be a full stack developer, then this is the right course for you. The learnings will majorly be on HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Introduction to Information Security : In collaboration with Stanford Centre for Professional Development, this course provides you with the basics about information security and upcoming advancements in this field. Additionally, you will also get to learn about cryptography and applications of information security in this course.
5. Cloud Computing Based Courses
Cloud Computing is a unique platform where companies could have their complete storage of databases, power sources, networks and many more. So, the following courses are designed in a way to various elements of cloud computing. The cloud computing online courses available are :
Cloud Foundations : This course is highly relevant for beginners who wish to learn about the basics of cloud computing, evolution and the history of cloud computing. This course also provides with the virtualization-based learning with regard to cloud computing.
Cloud Computing with AWS :Being one of the most popularly used cloud platform, AWS is used in this course to elaborate on the Storage, Network, Identity and Access Management. Practical application of such elements is also taught in this course.
Microsoft Azure Essentials : Microsoft Azure is one of the top experts in the field of cloud computing. Some of the skills that you could learn from this course would be Azure landscape, Azure Analytics, Azure API management, Azure Cognitive services, etc.
6. Marketing and Finance Courses
Not only courses based on technology, there are a variety of courses available based on marketing and finance that could help you in understanding the current trends in markets. Some of the best business intelligence and analytics course are :
Introduction to Digital Marketing : As one among the best advanced digital marketing course, this course covers various concepts of digital advertising, Facebook marketing and strategies for reaching the perfect audience for a product or service.
Business Finance Foundations : This course provides you with an overview about the accounting and financial components that is of vital importance in running a business. It also helps you to analyze financial statements and arrive at business conclusions.
Marketing Foundations : To understand about the current marketing trends and the basic of marketing like strategies involved, marketing mix, life cycle of a product, etc. are covered in this course. Insights on the satisfaction of customer and how to enable the customer to maintain loyalty is also given.
7. Big Data Based Courses
Making use of specialized concepts and tools, big data is used to perform tasks based on the larger quantity of data. The course provided based on big data are:
Mastering Big data Analytics : Being suitable for beginners, this course covers a vast dimension about big data. Staring with basic introduction about the subject, it is followed by tools and technologies of big data like Hive, Yarn, MapReduce, etc. Following this, further learnings are on the Spark framework and data formats like Avro, Protocol buffers, XML, etc.
Other Courses
Certain other courses that are provided for the users are :
Live Master Class : This is a live course where the industry expert lecturer or instructor comes live at a stipulated time to teach about a specific concept. Almost all live master class courses are for a time period of one hour. Some of these master class include how to ace coding interview, data structures and algorithms in Java, advanced cyber security course, etc.
Comprehensive courses like data science with python, machine learning with python and statistics for data sciences are also available.
Apart from courses, there are also various industry data science case studies on fields like healthcare, Insurance, marketing and retail, HRM, etc.
So, these are some of the course available that could help you grow as a professional in your field and thus, opening up new job vacancy much suitable for your skills. Making use of such courses in this time would definitely be of great benefit to you.
Machine Learning Interview Questions and Answer for 2021
“Every serious proposal for Medicare for All contemplates a significant transition period. Today, I’m announcing my plan to expand public health care coverage, reduce costs, and improve the quality of care for every family in America. My plan will be completed in my first term. It includes dramatic actions to lower drug prices, a Medicare for All option available to everyone that is more generous than any plan proposed by any other presidential candidate, critical health system reforms to save money and save lives, and a full transition to Medicare for All.
Here’s what I'll do in my first 100 days:
I’ll pursue comprehensive anti-corruption reforms to rein in health insurers and drug companies – reforms that are essential to make any meaningful health care changes in Washington.
I’ll use the tools of the presidency to start improving coverage and lowering costs – immediately. I’ll reverse Donald Trump’s sabotage of health care, protect individuals with pre-existing conditions, take on the big pharmaceutical companies to lower costs of key drugs for millions of Americans, and improve the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid.
I will fight to pass fast-track budget reconciliation legislation to create a true Medicare for All option that’s free for tens of millions. I won’t hand Mitch McConnell a veto over my health care agenda. Instead, I’ll give every American over the age of 50 the choice to enter an improved Medicare program, and I’ll give every person in America the choice to get coverage through a true Medicare for All option. Coverage under the new Medicare for All option will be immediately free for children under the age of 18 and for families making at or below 200% of the federal poverty level (about $51,000 for a family of four). For all others, the cost will be modest, and eventually, coverage under this plan will be free for everyone.
By the end of my first 100 days, we will have opened the door for tens of millions of Americans to get high-quality Medicare for All coverage at little or no cost. But I won’t stop there. Throughout my term, I’ll fight for additional health system reforms to save money and save lives - including a boost of $100 billion in guaranteed, mandatory spending for new NIH research over the next ten years to radically improve basic medical science and the development of new medical miracles for patients.
And finally, no later than my third year in office, I will fight to pass legislation that would complete the transition to full Medicare for All. By this point, the American people will have experienced the full benefits of a true Medicare for All option, and they can see for themselves how that experience stacks up against high-priced care that requires them to fight tooth-and-nail against their insurance company. Per the terms of the Medicare for All Act, supplemental private insurance that doesn’t duplicate the benefits of Medicare for All would still be available. But by avoiding duplicative insurance and integrating every American into the new program, the American people would save trillions of dollars on health costs.”
-- Elizabeth Warren, “My First Term Plan For Reducing Health Care Costs in America and Transitioning to Medicare for All”
Okay so if this blog is moving forward still as a two-Master blog (which I think it still is, I just need to keep digesting stuff...) then I need to make a list of differences between Simm and Dhawan, since they already have so many similarities. Some of these are facts observed in canon, others headcanons.
ALIGNMENT
Both Simm and Dhawan are Neutral Evil masquerading as Chaotic. “A little chaos can be a wonderful thing,” Dhawan tells Barton, and “a little” is key there. When gloating over a victory, when essentially preening for the Doctor, both engage in erratic acts of sadistic play (Simm gassing the whole British Cabinet as Saxon, while wearing a gas mask and giving his victims a thumbs-up; Simm clapping joyously after the Toclafane kill the fictitious American President; Simm shouting “DINNER TIME!” as he eats people’s life forces in End of Time; Simm taunting Cyberman Bill Potts; Dhawan exclaiming he’s had fun on Barton’s jet; Dhawan in a tophat shrink-killing people at a science fair in Victorian London; and so on). But for all those cases of giddy play, both primarily engage in long-cons that use ALL TOOLS at their disposal (be it Toclafane, transphobic and sexist slurs they don’t really ascribe to, mysterious alien gateways, a ship colony living under a black hole, or N*zis) with an impartial and cold indifference, entirely Machiavellian, uncaring about the fate of any collateral in the way, to reach their own personal goal. Neutral Evil.
EMOTIONAL RANGE
Simm is more steadily manic, threatening, accusatory and snide. He is always loud, outrageous, obnoxious, sanguine and optimistic, flirtatious and lusty and passionate, dynamic and charismatic. His humors are terrifying, and his furies burn “like a whole screaming world on fire” (Missy’s apt words), but they are also fairly constant, even when he plays at/pretends “insanity.” Dhawan is another story entirely, and this to me is their biggest difference aside apparent motive (below): Dhawan acts like someone with an exceptionally developed intellect, but an exceptionally under-developed emotional range. He seems capable of only three very pure emotions, which almost exist like primary colors: yellow giddiness/mania, red fury, and blue reticence/melancholy. They switch on a dime, for little apparent reason. This is what makes him more frightening than Simm, in many ways. Mid-sentence he will break from breezy small talk into screaming, roaring, snarling tirade. He is also far more physically violent than Simm: not that Simm isn’t capable of this, but more than once in a rage, Dhawan grabs, shoves, and tries to strangle the Doctor, and in those moments he seems helpless to that rage, controlled BY it (a bitter irony given his moniker). He seems to be of two minds: an almost rueful, gentle intellect, and a beast.
APPARENT MOTIVE
Simm’s entire apparent motive is to be autonomous of all other beings, and free to do his own bidding. This, even at the expense of friendship, even with the Doctor, if the Doctor poses the ultimatum “change to be the type of good person I prescribe, or else.” This is the reason why he found Missy’s time in the Vault so disturbing: not that she was physically mistreated or truly trapped, but rather, that she was willing to conform to the Doctor’s highly absolutist notions of ethics, and suppress her own personality for his sake. To him, this was a profound act of self-deprivation and self-betrayal. He still struggles to find the balance between loving the Doctor and abiding by his own honor code. The fandom easily misinterprets this philosophy as “unevolved” and “selfish,” and indeed, sometimes Simm does deplorable, disgusting, unnecessarily vicious things to ensure his independence. But it is actually, on another level, a profound act of self-respect.
Dhawan on the other hand seems to have entirely disposed of the idea of autonomy. He admits and even revels in the idea that he’s doing all the horrible things he does to catch the Doctor’s attention, to preen before his lifelong best friend and crush, to obtain an equal footing with her in infamy/notoriety, because “notoriety isn’t as good as fame, but it’s heaps better than obscurity” (Neil Gaiman) and after all their canonical history of explosive romance, rapport and strife, there’s no point in feigning pride. he might as well flirt with her in the open, ask her to say his name sexually in the open, he might as well KNEEL WITH HER ON HER LEVEL in the open. There’s no need to fake not needing her anymore. Even though he strives to kill her, his life is empty without her. He remembers being Simm, and he remembers “get out of the way.” He doesn’t regret “get out of the way” or rushing into that Timelock.
In a way, Dhawan’s motive is the externalization of Simm’s unconscious motive. Every Master does what they do for the Doctor’s attention, to prove themselves worthy of the Doctor’s regard. Every Master, and Missy, is a farce on their own claim to “controlling everything,” because they can’t control their own hearts. Because their locus of control is truly external, and pivots around the Doctor’s good opinion. And that’s why they are always furious. Because they don’t understand how to get the Doctor to approve of them, without betraying themselves. Dhawan is the natural next step of Simm and Missy in that he embodies the conflict Simm and Missy had with each other in the Doctor Falls, but within ONE body.
It’s desperately sad, tbh.
TREATMENT OF THE DOCTOR’S COMPANIONS
Simm, more shrewdly, seems to believe that hurting the Doctor’s friends is the most efficient way to hurt the Doctor. He enjoys watching the fruits of his labors slowly unfold. Dhawan on the other hand is so impatient to get to his goal (after, in fairness, working on it many years at a time) that he would rather separate the Docto from their companions as quickly as possible. this ties in closely to the above issue of motives: Simm, though he secretly desperately misses his best friend, is more comfortable being alone, and Dhawan clings to the Doctor and wants his plans to succeed specifically to catch the Doctor’s attention. The quicker the pesky companions are eliminated, the better. The upside of this is he’s not as likely to play with his food before eating it, as Simm is. Look at the Joneses, and Bill Potts.
VULNERABILITY FACTOR
Dhawan’s emotional duality also makes his vulnerability more readily apparent, more obvious, than Simm’s, but that doesn’t mean he is actually more vulnerable. Both of these Masters are particularly pariah-esque, both of them feel misunderstood by homeland and former friends. Both are exceptionally emotionally volatile. Simm, however, is far better at guising his hurt as snideness and as anger. He may be hemorrhaging inside, but he knows how to deflect that with apparent cruelty. Dhawan gives up far more quickly. He cries openly, more than once an episode; indeed he’s an “angry crier.” He sulks and broods and romantically dons the air of a jilted lover. He doesn’t care if the Doctor sees him looking pathetic. He even uses it to his advantage. Simm, contrariwise, and frequently to his own detriment, would rather die than be seen desperate ( “I’d rather die than beg you” is an actual line he speaks to the Doctor). He is far prouder.
SOCIAL SKILLS
Simm’s neurodivergency is more obvious when he socializes (unless he has actively donned a disguise, like Harold Saxon or Razor, and is skillfully playing a role). Even when he is being charismatic and charming, he has difficulty turning off his eruptive energy. Dhawan is capable of completely masking his personality for impressive periods of time, and seeming entirely innocuous, even placated and serene.
WEAPONRY AND TARDIS
Simm still uses his laser screwdriver. Dhawan uses his old tissue-compression weaponry. Both Masters have a Type 45 TARDIS with intense red interior lights. Simm’s TARDIS is immaculately kept, with a greenhouse full of orchids he’s grown, and a bathroom that’s also a pristine lagoon with a waterfall for showers. It also contains countless workshops and a massive Victorian-Era library. Dhawan’s TARDIS maintains its wooden house in the Victoria Desert appearance; it’s a pig sty of surprisingly mundane table lamps, messy paper stacks, desks and tables, a modest kitchen, and a transparent holo-computer inverted pyramid Console. For sentimental reasons, he hasn’t been able to change it from the appearance it held when the Doctor visited it.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION/POSITIONS
Simm is a panromantic demisexual who prefers the Power Bottom role in the bedroom. Dhawan is a panromantic bisexual who prefers to Top. Both are nonbinary, but Simm is more comfortable embracing genderfluidity (so far) than Dhawan.
APPEARANCE
Although one chooses to appear like a mid-thirties-forties blond white man, and the other like an early-thirties dark-haired brown man, both Simm and Dhawan utilize the trope of apparent innocence, boyishness, to their strategic advantage. Simm looks like a chubby-cheeked puckish little boy, and Dhawan looks like a big brown eyed puppy. Both can cover remarkable ground, and literally get away with murder, because of looking so innocuous.
