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Gallifrey conspiracy theory that the doctor doesn’t exist its just cia excuse for failed missions or unknown interference. Like every renegade is just called the doctor if the exact identity is unknown. A collective writing name
thinking about letting clark be written as scary without having to make him evil or morally grey
a lot of the time when people want clark to be frightening they make him evil, like in justice lords/injustice, or morally questionable, like how he dealt with zod in the dceu. but it would be equally cool to see a superman who’s the moral pillar of the justice league, who is kind and gentle and rescues cats out of trees, suddenly having a moment during a fight or a dangerous situation where you realize exactly how much he’s holding back. world made of cardboard etc but played much quieter/scarier. Or if we’re talking Alien Clark, having a moment where he forgets himself and does something extremely creepy. maybe he forgets to keep breathing. or something like that one panel where he forgets humans can’t see in the dark and scares the bejeesus out of a firefighter. uncanny valley cryptid clark.
idk I just think it’s Neat and would love to see more of it. if anyone has recs lmk :)
The weird recognition that Clark, without autism, still has to run ‘actlikeanormalperson.exe’ in his head and when he gets really involved with something he occasionally has to go through a checklist in his head-
Am I breathing?
Have I blinked?
Are my feet touching the floor?
Am I touching something typically fatal or painful?
Have I damaged the environment in some unexpected way?
Am I responding to sensory input not available to humans?
Oh … I’m not breathing…
And suddenly the Clark they know and love is there but for just a second they were in deep humanoid abomination/ uncanny valley territory and had no idea why…
It reminded me of this scene, Clark is still perfectly normal and heroic but he is Angry and he shows just how much he normally holds back and how deadly he’d be if he wasn’t holding back
Were I to direct a Superman movie I’d put in it something like “Clark gets hit by a car” twice.
Have some opening action scene where Superman shows up to stop crime and the robbers try to run him over at top speed.
Obviously it doesn’t work and Clark stops the car - wrecking it a bit and stunning the criminals inside but not harming them.
Then the scene repeats much later but this time Clark is distracted, stunned or suffering some phlebotinum effects - anything that causes him to not react.
He doesn’t catch the car or recoil from impact at all. He doesn’t budge. The car crashes into a completely immoveable obstacle and gets wrecked. The driver is seriously injured and Clark freaks out because usually he doesn’t allow this to happen. He consciously makes effort to limit the damage. Catching the car at all is not an effort to stop it - it’s a way to distribute the force behind impact and keep people alive
If your car doesn’t have crumple zone you better hope that Superman is your crumple zone.
Like the scene where dealing with Joker as Clark is much harder than other villains, because he’s never had to consider what ‘giant funny mallet’ or ‘deadly rubber chicken’ would do to a human. How deadly would it be, how much can he get away with taking a blow, how much does he absolutely have to avoid, even if he moves at slightly superhuman speed - so that he appears the most human.
So much of what he does, both as Clark AND and Superman, is for other people’s comfort.
The way he tilts his head to show he’s hearing something you can’t.
The way he dresses for weather he can’t feel.
The way his glasses obscure the too-intense blueness of his eyes.
The way he lifts his feet over cracks, and ducks under overhangs.
The way he eventually purchases oven mitts and other protective gear to wear before touching dangerous substances.
The way he leans into blows so people don’t shatter their hands.
The way he tries to only respond to words and tone, rather than heartbeat, increased/decreased sweating, breathing changes, ‘inaudible’ mumbles, and all the other things people don’t know they’re communicating.
A Clark that forgets to do those things is fascinating to observe.
(I’d also love to see more of various Karas and Kon dealing with similar things, because their perspectives are all so different.
Kara grew up without powers, but not around humans, and so her blind spots would be really different.
Kon starts out without any interest in passing for human, and then gets a lot of his Kryptonian abilities around the time he begins to care, and it’s mixed up with all this resentment and confusion about ‘being human,’ and the fact that most of the people close to him act weirder than he does - he must be SO CREEPY, you guys!)
I am so glad read all of this, creepy alien (and still nice and kind!) Ckark my beloved 🙂↕️🤌✨
“superman detects something normal people can’t and accidentally scares the people around him by pointing it out” is one of my favourite scenarios.
If we go canon there is plenty of cases when Clark X-ray scans people around him and tells them to look into potential problems( ie. in a comic he tells Jim Gordon he should quit smoking)
One I always like to use in my own AU: kryptonians can detect electric signals well enough to feel all living things(animals, plants, fish, insects), electronics/machines, changes in weather and the earth’s own electromagnetic field, from up to 500 kilometres away.
Because this is just one of their regular senses, it doesn’t weaken or go away if their powers are compromised (suffering from Kryptonite, under a red sun erc) Because they can feel the earth’s electromagnetic field, they also, coincidentally, always know exactly where they are.
So. Imagine the Us Government or something has arrested superman in like, his first year superhero-ing and as they’re trying to transport him to a secure location to Question/study him for his powers, all of a sudden he just goes:
“oh hey, We’re already past the us-canada border. Another 50 miles to go, right?”
“…how did you guess that ?”
“the static in the air tasted different and I noticed we were getting closer north. Also, come on. I’m going to notice the only building in the frozen desert. 🙄”
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I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping
1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer
2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung
3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)
4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK
5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money
Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you're gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.
It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it
yeah okay ill reblog that
Please I’m begging yall as an asthmatic, your fruit-flavored vapor will still give people around you who are smoke-sensitive attacks. So will weed. Don’t do it inside; if you’re at a bus stop or something try to not stand right next to people or move downwind of them if you can.
This International Tiger Day, we’re remembering the Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata). This large tiger subspecies, which went extinct sometime during the 20th century, weighed up to 530 lbs (240 kg) and was second only to the Amur tiger in size. Once inhabiting a wide range from what is now Turkey to Central Asia, the Caspian tiger likely went extinct by 1970. This cat was driven to extinction by the same factors threatening surviving tigers—human activity, including deforestation and overhunting.
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even before i lived in a place with a massive population of feral cats decimating the wildlife i had read the studies and knew the data said that TNR did not work and we need to be trapping and euthanizing feral cats but now that i’ve lived in a place where there are an enormous number of feral cats it’s like, inconceivable to me that anyone supports TNR, not just for the health of the world but for the sake of the fucking cats
nobody will even acknowledge it not even in most conservation circles. We have a solution to a massive, massive problem that is more humane, cheaper, easier, takes less time, prevents animal suffering, and saves valuable members of our disappearing ecosystem. And nobody is even willing to theoretically acknowledge that it exists outside of a few very small circles.
it works. It works. It is better for the cats. It’s better for the cats. Living in a place where you cannot drive 10 minutes without seeing a new roadkill cat almost every single day really makes you think about how much suffering could have been prevented if we just dealt with the problem we have created. It’s not a pleasant way to go, being hit by a car. Or being ripped apart by a predator, or eating a poison, or starving to death, of dying of an infection, or an illness, or any of the hundred thousand ways an animal in the wild passes without human intervention. Euthanasia is simply falling asleep. It is fucking wild to me that saying you think we should take responsibility for our mistakes and ensure that cats fall asleep peacefully instead of capturing them and then hurling them back out into the world SPECIFICALLY in order to allow them to die in agony makes people treat you like a fucking serial killer.
And if you don’t care about cats dying in agony do you care about the world around you? There’s a species of bird we only know ever existed because someone’s cat brought home our only example. That’s horrific. We’ve lost so much biodiversity because we simply won’t listen to the research, which again, has proven that TNR is not effective.
a peaceful death is not the worst thing that could happen to an animal.
@cathartidae sources for ya!
Sources:
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW468 “How Effective and Humane Is Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for Feral Cats?”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6523511/ “A Case of Letting the Cat out of The Bag—Why Trap-Neuter-Return Is Not an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat (Felis catus) Management” (also has a thousand references attached that are handy)
Not a reference so much as the human society actively admitting that TNR does nothing to decrease population, actively contributes to harming wildlife, and doesn’t actually help the cats in any way, just reduces some of the nuisance behavior that people complain about: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/real-impacts-trap-neuter-return
Unscientific from here on out as i don’t feel like trying to find the studies i read in like January of last year:
https://hahf.org/awake/the-trouble-with-trap-vaccinate-neuter-return/ “The Trouble With Trap-Neuter-Re (Abandon!) from the hillsborough animal health foundation, articles also link to studies
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence-Against-TNR.pdf from the american bird conservancy, has scientific articles quoted.
Even More Sources on TNR being non-viable and ways that cats are impacting the world from birds to *hawai’i’s monk seals*
Animal Emergency and Referral Center of Minnesota. (2022, October 26). Indoor cats vs. outdoor cats. Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota. https://aercmn.com/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/
Campbell, V. (2017, January 25). The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren. All About Birds. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-obituary-of-the-stephens-island-wren/
Castillo, D., & Clarke, A. L. (2003). Trap/neuter/release methods ineffective in controlling domestic cat “colonies” on public lands. Natural Areas Journal, 23(3).
Coe, S. T., Elmore, J. A., Elizondo, E. C., & Loss, S. R. (2021). Free-ranging domestic cat abundance and sterilization percentage following five years of a trap–neuter–return program. Wildlife Biology, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00799
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N., Kirwan, G. M., & Sharpe, C. J. (2022, October 25). Guadalupe storm-petrel (Hydrobates Macrodactylus), version 1.2. Birds of the World. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/guspet/cur/introduction
Dickman, C. R., & Newsome, T. M. (2015). Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 173, 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2014.09.021
Edge. (2019, June 19). Guadalupe storm-petrel. EDGE of Existence. https://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/guadalupe-storm-petrel/
Galbreath, R., & Brown, D. (2004). The tale of the lighthouse-keeper’s cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli). Notornis, 51(4).
Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources. (2025). Feral cats. Feral Cats. https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/feral-cats/#:~:text=Feral%20cats%20on%20islands%20have,kill%20approximately%202.4%20billion%20birds.
Loss, S. R., Will, T., & Marra, P. P. (2013). The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States. Nature Communications, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380
McGregor, H., Legge, S., Jones, M. E., & Johnson, C. N. (2015). Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video. PLOS ONE, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133915
Medina, F. M., Bonnaud, E., Vidal, E., Tershy, B. R., Zavaleta, E. S., Josh Donlan, C., Keitt, B. S., Corre, M., Horwath, S. V., & Nogales, M. (2011). A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on Island Endangered Vertebrates. Global Change Biology, 17(11), 3503–3510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02464.x
National Research Council. (1992, January 1). Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow. U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235935/
NOAA. (2024, August 29). Toxoplasmosis and its effects on Hawaiʻi Marine Wildlife. NOAA Fisheries. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/endangered-species-conservation/toxoplasmosis-and-its-effects-hawaii-marine
Read, J. L., Dickman, C. R., Boardman, W. S., & Lepczyk, C. A. (2020). Reply to Wolf et al.: Why trap-neuter-return (TNR) is not an ethical solution for Stray Cat Management. Animals, 10(9), 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091525
Reed, L. (2022). The effects of free-roaming cats on native wildlife populations. Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin, 40(1), 17–21. https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v40.250
Salano, E. (2024, October 5). Eliciting the effect free roaming cats have on Native Hawaiian wildlife using stable isotope analysis. UKnowledge. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/103/
Steele, J. H., Thorpe, S. A., & Turekian, K. K. (2009). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press.
science says it’s long past time to stop prolonging the suffering of feral cats, for the sake of the people, the native wildlife, and the goddamn cats themselves.
I was at a friend's house to check on carcasses I had macerating in his yard. A little grey cat ran up to me, yelling her head off in friendliness and wanting nothing more than to be pet. I had nothing to give her but let my friend know he should catch her since she was so friendly. I am ashamed to admit I didn't give her much thought beyond that, finishing my work and giving her a last pet before going home.
My friend told me how he'd seen her before but she always vanished before he could catch her. He works far too many hours and is always tired so he couldn't prioritize catching this cat.
Three months pass with no sign of her. I go back with my partner to check on carcasses and this same little grey cat appears. This time, however, a tooth has been snapped off and her tongue is so badly cut that she can't keep it in her mouth. She was thin and dirty and screaming to please be given some food.
This time I couldn't look away. I asked my friend's girlfriend if I could borrow a cat carrier. She loaned me one and a tin of wet food that the grey cat willingly followed into the carrier. She didn't care at all about being put into the carrier - all she wanted was a hand on her. She'd arch up against the top just so my hand would rest on her back for a moment.
We drove through rush hour traffic to the only shelter still open. We knew we couldn't keep her and I couldn't stand the thought of putting her back out on the streets to die slowly.
The shelter couldn't take her. Her ear was clipped so she was a "community cat" and outside their ability to help. They tried desperately to offer alternatives to me as I cried over her carrier, knowing I couldn't take her home but also that if I didn't I couldn't live with the thought of her back on the streets.
I made a Hail Mary call to a local friend who is very connected in our city. They didn't have my number saved but answered all the same to hear me sobbing about a cat I'd found and to please help me find a place for her. Please. If I don't find something then she'll be alone on the streets again to die.
My friend came through. I could keep the cat in their garage overnight and in the morning my friend would be back in the city and could find someone to help the cat.
The shelter folk gave me a crate and some food - their hands were tied but they didn't want to leave me with nothing. They were good people doing the best they could in their own system. Community cats were ones they weren't allowed to "waste" resources on. Ostensibly they'd been dealt with and their fate decided. There was nothing the shelter folks were allowed to do for them.
I took the cat to my friend's garage. She was settled into a crate on towels, happy as a clam to be warm and safe. This was a cat made to be loved and to love, as she immediately began trying to groom one of my friend's roommates. He stayed in the garage with her, giving her food and water and in exchange having no say on whether she was in his lap or not. She was always in his lap.
Nobby Nobbs (so named for the only other character known to man that is as scrungly as she is) was then formally adopted by my friend. Her tongue has healed, her fur remains scrungly, and she's every bit the rabid love bug I suspected her to be when she came to me yelling to be pet.
She's a TNR cat. Someone thought they were doing her a kindness in that and if nothing else she didn't add kittens to the world but that doesn't negate the pain she suffered before I found her - the broken teeth, the lacerated tongue, the ulcerated cheeks, the flea-bald patchiness of her coat.
I say this as someone who adores this cat and has the privilege to see her loved and cherished: I wish she'd never had to suffer what she did. I wish people were alright making the harder call that leads to less misery on the side of the cats.
TNR is a polite fiction, nothing more. Just so the humans can pretend they've done right by the same cats they're letting loose to die miserably somewhere else. As long as the humans don't see it it's fine.
The shelter folks told me she's a community cat and that I could take her home and release her by my house. Then I could feed her myself and keep up with her and know where she was! I could still keep her, after a fashion.
I am not proud of how I snarled back that I would never exchange a quick death for a slow one. I would be giving her a different funeral plot, not giving her a life. Even near me she'd be just as vulnerable to the innumerable predators that find cats quite delicious, let alone cars and poisons and the other cruelties humans practice on stray cats.
She's the second stray cat I've met that when I held them the cat melted in my arms, purring and so desperately wanting to be loved. The first cat I was able to trap and take to a local shelter only to find when I called to check on him a day later that his health had been so terrible, so beyond help, that he'd been put down. All the love in that tiny body lost because the people I lived beside didn't care enough to trap the cats they had.
My partner was asleep. I woke her up to crawl into her arms and sob, my heart breaking for the stupidity of the humans who hadn't cared enough to grant this poor little cat the chance to be either an indoor cat, loved and cared for, or to grant him a quick death long before I met him. I've other stories of the cats they kept around, essentially feeding the poor souls to the predatory birds and wandering dogs that frequented our area.
TNR doesn't work. It is a lie humans tell ourselves so we can pretend we haven't failed these animals on a massive scale. Cats are invasive and cause massive harm in their turn. It is humanity who needs to deal with this crisis, this horror we've made, and I pray one day we look it square in the face and vow to make it right.
sorry
for the record, this includes barn and farm cats. ive grown up in a place where theyre common. theyre not better off
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They stole his colour :(
Scroll to cure Doctor Who of colour blindness
It worked!!!
Almost forgot. I fucking love doctor who
Swordfish lives through the pursuit of the world’s worst archers, and finally meets Grym! I can’t tell if either of them are very enthusiastic about their situation, but at least Hopper’s happy!
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'The Chimes of Midnight' destroyed me emotionally, but it also contains one of the funniest lines i've ever heard the Doctor say. the whole exchange is hysterical.
[transcript]
SHAUGHNESSY: I assume it was suicide, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes, I imagine so. It's quite clear that Frederick brought the car into the house, ran himself over with it, and put it back outside before he finally expired.
CHARLEY: Doctor!
SHAUGHNESSY: Most unfortunate.
gar field? that’s not where they’re supposed to be
ah,,, but they are such gentle beasts,,,
oh wow… how serene…
1920s gangster voice: when you stare into the boid the boid stares back
