#iamthederpasaurus

[rosetylr]

Timeline for the toy soldier goes young danny takes it-->passed down through his family to Orion-->Gives it to Clara-->Clara gives it to the doctor. Just moves through time.

Okay I was thinking something completely different haha that simple explanation makes sense thanks :DD

[bartonbones]

Under the bed was just a kid that snuck in to play a prank--Like clara said at the end, some fears are just fears. There was no monster, and the doctor had this fear due to this experience.

yeah no i got that last part maybe i missed something like it didn't make it obvious that that was a kid???? 

[rosetylr]

K so basically all time lords are gallifreyan but not vice versa. At age 8, gallifreyans either join the academy to become a time lord or the army to be soldiers. This showed something before that point in the Doctor's life.

OHHHHHHH and clara gave him the soldier without a gun :') but wait how did danny end up with it? and he said it's a family heirloom (?!?!)

[riotsiren-blog]

Just a heads up, the hotel wasn't planning on and wouldn't kick anyone out of their rooms for anything involving a convention. Dashcon apparently had a verbal agreement to pay the hotel at the end of the con, something that would literally never happen at a real convention. They made up the story, and people contacting the hotel have heard that no extra money was asked for by them.

We're still getting updates on what happened. Tori and I just arrived at the convention for the day and we haven't talked to a con rep yet. That's what I knew last night when everything was still going down. Last night, the threat of people being thrown out of their rooms felt very real. The threat of a lot of things felt very real.

Please try to imagine the scene: a bunch of young people, many of whom probably weren't used to traveling without their families, had come from all over the country to the middle-of-nowhere Illinois expecting to have a convention. Instead, they were gob-smacked by a crisis. And it was a crisis. Rumors were flying, people were angry, people were having meltdowns. People weren't being bratty - they were SCARED. When people are scared, they tend to act irrationally.

As for what the hotel has been telling people: In my real life, I work in PR. Companies spin. It's just the way things are done. There's the official party line and then there's the truth. I'm not accusing the hotel of lying (yet), but as far as I'm concerned, this is still a matter of he-said/she-said. I'll post more when I can track down a con admin.

For now, please find it within yourself to have a shred of sympathy for a bunch of young people who were blindsided. 

[frankoceanwater]

That's actually super cheap for a con. Convention centers are normally hundreds of thousands and up to a million to rent for a weekend.

i imagine they could be super expensive!!! i didnt mean it as being overly expensive but more the money could probably be used better like every other person on tumblr is saying.

[frankoceanwater]

iamthederpasaurus answered your post: what the heckie is going on w/ dashcon...

So apparently the con organizers had a “verbal agreement” to pay after. Hotel said pay us 17 grand now. Attendees raised it and paid.

?????? thats super unprofessional of the hotel. 17k for a frickin con im gonna punch myself in the trachea

[mr-snufflegums]

The hotel wouldn't EVER kick someone out of their room at a convention. That's a legality thing that they can't do. No convention in history has had an agreement where they had to pay after, which is what dashcon was claiming. People calling the hotel have heard that no money was demanded.

Hey im just saying what i noticed on the tag that is all

and what the people who claim to have been there said is that the hotel locked people out of their rooms

[daisyishedwig]

I was reading comments on the Maren Sanchez, and I saw something that pissed me off but made me think. The way society's going now, we're teaching kids that everyone's always a winner and you don't ever have to lose, and they're not learning how to deal with rejection on all fronts. What are your thoughts on that?

Yeah, it kind of starts with those little league games where at the end of the season they give everyone trophies (and not even like different trophies depending on how well they did it’s just the exact same trophy) even if they never actually hit the ball. It’s like, well, we don’t want to hurt their self esteem because they tried, but I think that’s bull. Yeah, they tried and that’s great, we should praise them for that but we shouldn’t reward them because then they’ll never be urged to improve and they’ll just expect things to be handed to them.

Things like that where, oh you tried or oh you actually did something are the reasons why I had a guy in my english class who would ask for extra credit on the few days when he actually did his homework because that was an improvement for him and some great achievement when the girl who was striving for a 4.0 couldn’t get extra credit to bring her A- up to A.

Not everyone is a winner, we can’t always be winners. If we want to be we need to strive to be one and work hard to get there. If we’re just handing kids trophies for sitting on the bench, we’re not teaching them that. We’re teaching them it’s their right to have these things. It’s their right to get a good grade, it’s their right to get into college, it’s their right for the pretty girl to go to prom with them. It’s NOT their right, it’s their reward, their privilege for working hard and being a good person.

And yeah, sometimes when you try really hard, you still fail and you still get rejected but we should be teaching them that that is completely normal and that not everyone gets everything they want all the time and they just need to bounce back.