In many ways being Peregrine Took at Minas Tirith is like being non-binary and/or aroace and/or disabled

Something really compelling to me about RotK Pippin having to constantly assert himself as A) and adult and B) not a Man but a Hobbit. He literally Can’t be any social role that’s expected in Gondor despite being very competent at a lot of things that are valued in the Shire. Happened to me irl

I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day

My flight to Boston is delayed by like three hours so I’m pregaming Massachusetts by getting some godawful airport dunkin

Oh, is the deflection turning out to be subject in the last instance to the very social realities we were trying to forget? Should we hold a funeral for culture?? Should we invite Horkheimer and Adorno???

what doctor who doesn't want you to know is that tecteun never fully figured out regeneration and just patched out the margin of error by slapping in a david tennant any time a regeneration goes wrong

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Endor," i holler as i overturn Anakin Skywalker’s funeral pyre and turn Episode VI: Return of the Jedi into Episode Shit

A retelling of Never Let Me ago set in the Toy Story universe and starring dog toys

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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The circuit breaker team seems to know what they’re doing and I’ll never be *mad* about new Osgood-focused stories but it continues to baffle me when dweu writers refuse to even touch the thing that is most interesting to me about her (that there’s two of her)

I’m okay with plot in movies but only if it advances the sex scenes

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

I am now going to scream into a pillow

time to see who's on the rise in everyone's favorite star wars character rankings,

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...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

i love it when people torture doctor who it should happen more often

hot takes that shouldn't be hot takes: porn is a cultural industry

love how every app has to periodically inform me that push notifications are disabled. damn bro who do you think did that!!! history's mysteries

Every Episode Of Generic Animated Sitcom™

When I was 15 I was using social media to learn about abortion rights, LGBTQ identity and history, and of course blog up to 8 hours a day about Supernatural. I demand the next generation have the same rights I did

The front page headline on my town's weekly newspaper is about the "alarming" increase in online scams targeting the elderly, so by today's logic we'll be immediately banning all elderly people from all access to the apps where they get scammed. Right? Right?

We need a Hunt for Gollum summer

"Why tear down the Berlin Wall? What do you replace it with?"

I have two careers - paying tax for both - and both of them are traceable back to the fact that I was online talking to adult Doctor Who fans when I was 11.

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I’m him now (got the degree)

just in case anyone was concerned, i can assure you that a person can be s3x-positive *and* prefer other forms of intimacy over the assumed adult default. these two qualities are not opposites. there are many nuances to asexuality, as many as there are aces (& it changes throughout one’s life).

since dr who is over, that means all the merch is worthless now, and you guys should put all your VNAs on ebay for $2 each. 😢

FOUCAULT: I wrote "Panopticism" to show how people are enculturated to think of themselves as subjects and agents of surveillance CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: at last we have invented the Panopticon from Foucault's famous essay "Panopticism"! FOUCAULT: Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon in the 1790s

Oh, is a massive ritualized deflection of our cultural anxieties happening?

Three events in reverse chronological order that made me think about gendered violence

While we wait, why not a series of Doctor Who novels for adult readers?

The BBC need to lean into this. When the current series of any show ends, the main character should suddenly turn into Billie Piper. When the next one starts, Billie is nowhere to be seen. Normalise this now and in a few years it won't be an issue for Doctor Who.

animated series starring richard e grant as the doctor -- but get this, the MASTER is traveling with him, and he's a robot...

Dear BBC; I am available to take Doctor Who in a new direction.

An ongoing series of original novels, using the written format to tell stories too broad and too deep for televisi… Naah, that would be silly.

My boring take, from other people’s experiences and my own: Doctor Who is a ferociously difficult, near-inhumane show to produce. Brutal for every department, but particularly for one person to hold at the top as it is. If they want the best range of pitches, the production model needs rethinking

I am once again begging folks to understand the difference between ‘I don’t like this’ and ‘Nobody likes this’. You are not the main character of the world. Readers and authors have different tastes. You are not the arbiter of what authors should and should not put into books.