Christine Kelley @xineprincova - Tumblr Blog

Belatedly getting into X-Men at the age of 26. You can't create Nightcrawler and fail to hook me.

The Monkey Island videogame series?

When my sister was born—so when I was ten—my uncle bought me a lizard for Christmas. The idea was that I was presumably going to be feeling jealous after ten years of being an only child, and so I could use a pet. This was, however, not an especially popular move with… anyone really. I thought the lizard was vaguely neat (I named him Iggy), but he wasn’t exactly the most social pet—about all you could do with him is poke him and make it dart around his tank. Also, he ate live crickets, which had a certain gory fun to it but was a bit much. My mother, meanwhile—who had not been consulted on this gift plan at any point—found him terrifying and was constantly afraid he’d gotten out whenever she was out of bed in the night, which was a lot what with the newborn daughter and all.

A couple of months later, I wake up one morning and Iggy is dead. Distinctly the wrong color, laid out over his little heated rock unmoving, no matter how much I poked him or how many crickets I threw in. Blatantly dead. So I do what anyone would do and burst into tears. My father was out of town for some reason, and I tore into my mother’s room sobbing that Iggy died. (I distinctly remember this sounding vaguely like an accusation, as if I were tattling on him.)

My mother, a sensible woman who correctly assessed the lack of shits I actually gave about this lizard, went into the Rainy Day Closet and gave me a copy of The Secret of Monkey Island, which I quickly installed and got myself lost in until the afternoon, at which point Iggy awoke from his torpor and I burst into tears a second time, even more upset that my lizard had resurrected himself than I had been that he’d died.

We ended up donating Iggy to the pet store shortly thereafter, and I happily played through the rest of The Secret of Monkey Island. The insult swordfighting was a highlight I remember to this day, along with the hilarious sequence in which you sneak into the governor’s mansion (or something similar) and watch as the game auto-inputs various increasingly ludicrous commands and various things happen unseen behind the wall you’re sneaking through.

Never played another one though.

xineprincova

My grandmother is a smart woman.

elsandifer

Dudman?

If you’re going to send me contextless asks in which you just put a noun and a question mark, please Google the noun and make sure that it will actually be apparent to me what the fuck you are talking about.

Best guess is the guy Big Finish uses for a lot of their Doctor imitations? If so, my views on Big Finish are well documented; I’ve literally never listened to a second of his work.

But if that’s the ask, shit, would it have killed you to type a fucking given name in there? Like, you’re literally going “hey El, can you write me a short critical take for free.” You can spare five extra characters and a goddamn hit of the spacebar.

xineprincova

Swear to god just asking “Hopscotch?” would have the same amount of obvious meaning

elsandifer

I’m sorry but if you think this looks like a remote control or a smartphone and not a sex toy you are too straight for the Gatwa era

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btw if you want to listen to some of the mashpee wampanoag people tell the story of "the first thanksgiving" in their own words you can do that here:

The Mashpee Wampanoag first encountered the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower ship in 1620. They say much is missing from the often-told

elsandifer

what episodes of doctor who would you say that you've had the biggest change in opinion on?

Over my life time, and ignoring the sizable category of stuff like Time-Flight where I went from a “yeah, that’s a perfectly fine thing I have fond memories of” to solid dislike, the big change is that I’ve warmed to the Pertwee era, with… ooh, probably Carnival of Monsters being the one I’ve most completely swung on, though I always knew it was better than the rest. Don’t think I realized just how good Paradise Towers and The Ribos Operation were either. The most substantial cooling of opinion on something I actively would have said was good was probably Pyramids of Mars.

Of opinions formed post-Eruditorum, the majority of movement is cooling opinion. The obvious pick is Journey’s End, although all of the Smith era has cooled substantially for me, more in the sense of “it was an infatuation, Capaldi was love” than in the sense of actually thinking it’s bad. In classic series terms… I don’t think I will ever be the right amount of stoned again to understand the giddy joy of my Mutants post.

In terms of warming opinion post-Eruditorum, hm. Web of Fear sure was a lot of fun to actually see. New series warming… not really much. Witch’s Familiar is probably your closest, going from a like to a love over time.

xineprincova

I’ve also cooled on the Smith era without coming to dislike it. Warming has mostly been the Hartnell and Pertwee eras. Also The War Games, which went from a like to “this is the best thing ever.”

xineprincova

Actually, I tell a lie. Biggest change is that I’ve broadly shifted to “Classic >>> New Who.”

elsandifer

what episodes of doctor who would you say that you've had the biggest change in opinion on?

Over my life time, and ignoring the sizable category of stuff like Time-Flight where I went from a “yeah, that’s a perfectly fine thing I have fond memories of” to solid dislike, the big change is that I’ve warmed to the Pertwee era, with… ooh, probably Carnival of Monsters being the one I’ve most completely swung on, though I always knew it was better than the rest. Don’t think I realized just how good Paradise Towers and The Ribos Operation were either. The most substantial cooling of opinion on something I actively would have said was good was probably Pyramids of Mars.

Of opinions formed post-Eruditorum, the majority of movement is cooling opinion. The obvious pick is Journey’s End, although all of the Smith era has cooled substantially for me, more in the sense of “it was an infatuation, Capaldi was love” than in the sense of actually thinking it’s bad. In classic series terms… I don’t think I will ever be the right amount of stoned again to understand the giddy joy of my Mutants post.

In terms of warming opinion post-Eruditorum, hm. Web of Fear sure was a lot of fun to actually see. New series warming… not really much. Witch’s Familiar is probably your closest, going from a like to a love over time.

xineprincova

I’ve also cooled on the Smith era without coming to dislike it. Warming has mostly been the Hartnell and Pertwee eras. Also The War Games, which went from a like to “this is the best thing ever.”

I’ve started watching a Japanese fantasy show made by vegetarians. It’s tofusatsu.

#tokusatsu #puns #Christine shut up

blueaubrey

First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

blueaubrey

He's just a baby boy...!

Bill Haydon's death at the end of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy might be my favorite kill in any movie.

Barely reacts to his own murder at the hands of his lover, whose life he destroyed. He's dead before the bullet enters his skull. Jesus.

#Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy #Bill Haydon #Colin Firth #John le Carre

Watching Trevor Nunn’s Othello. Ian McKellen is a perfect Iago. The character allows him to unleash his impish side. Even Richard III is less gleefully inimical than Iago.

Also Willard White is damn sexy.

#Othello #Trevor Nunn #Ian McKellen #Iago

I'm a binary trans woman who seems to largely date non-binary people and there's absolutely someone on Tumblr who considers me a chaser.

#trans dating #polyam #I'm trans too you weird hypothetical fucks #make up a person to get mad at

lesoldatmort

| JEZINKA |

Jezinka (Jezinky is plural in czech, sometimes called Bezinky) are certain kind of forest demon, also known as Divoženka (literally a "wild woman"). They could be interpreted as forest witches as we know them from classic fairy tales. Their role can be both negative and more of a neutral - just minding their own business, living in a forest, far away from civilisation - ah, what a dream!

More (folk)lore, info and WIPs of this project on my P/treon.

xineprincova

Everyone say hi to the Divoženky.