thinking about the 70s doctor who writer who prepared a verbal manifesto on the history and biology of the aliens he made up for the show and the other writers had to tell him to shut up 3 hours into it because the sex worldbuilding was too vivid
[ID: a page of a book that reads:
…true – he gave us the entire storyline for The Hand of Fear. He couldn’t stop thinking about Doctor Who. He used to invent sex lives for his creatures! It never made it into the script, but he knew them inside-out.
The Sontarans had sex through the back of the neck. He gave us a complete rundown on their lifestyle and planet for The Sontaran Experiment.
Bob: They were Bob Holmes’ own monster, and he knew the intimate sexual and physiological history of the whole race. He spent about three hours talking to us about them, after which we said, “He’s a squat froggy thing, that’s all we want to know!” Out of that came The Sontaran Experiment because they didn’t have enough money that… end ID.]
So he’d leave, then. It wasn’t like he could do much else. He’d walk away, and start all over again, somewhere new. And he’d keep on doing it, as many times as he needed to, until the war had gathered enough cobwebs in people’s minds that where he came from and what he’d done wouldn’t matter.
But if he did that -
If he was going to walk away, why should he bother killing the Doctor at all?
It wasn’t like the Doctor would know where he’d gone, after all, if he just vanished. Even if he did say something that might have given Jamie away, nobody would know where to find him. He’d still be safe. Killing the Doctor, or not – it was all the same, so long as he could give all this up.
Why did an innocent man have to die?
Just a few days after confessing where he comes from, Jamie finds himself backed into a corner. Anything the Doctor knows about him makes him a potential threat, and the only way out he can see is to take the Doctor’s life.
But something is staying his hand. And realising what that is might just change everything.
Man! All these huge 2010s YouTubers turned out to be shitty garbage people who can’t be left alone with children! Who would have ever guessed, based on their steller content?
…I realize a lot of you here are like 25 so you have nostalgia for these sewer people. You were too young to understand that you were watching terrible crap, and your parents were either too busy or too confused to stop you. It’s okay. This kind of thing happened before the Internet, too.
…But also, you’re adults now, so embrace how the system has failed you, and apply basic standards of human decency to your childhood heroes.
And watch them all fail the test.
Though I guess growing up liking Jake Paul is theoretically better than having unfettered access in high school to RealPlayer pornography and Rotten.com?
I don’t know. Us First Generation Internet veterans had a pretty odd mess of an experience.
But we also got to slowly download a lot of low-quality mp3s without the Government caring, so…
An underdiscussed aspect of the tariffs is that they are being driven because Trump falsely believes that a trade deficit is the same thing as a budget deficit. The economy is going to be obliterated because the president is a very old and stupid man who believes very fervently something which is simply not true.
This is an incredibly American problem: the idea that in order to win, someone else has to lose.
In most countries, this kind of toxic competitiveness is just… Silly, childish, in the annoyingly immature way, not in the endearing way.
In America? It’s held up as a sign of strength… For some reason. It’s what’s taught in schools (as I understand it? Your schools teach competitiveness, right? I only know what a valedictorian and a saludatorian is because Americans care about it, for example; see also the popularity contests in high schools that masquerade as democracy but it’s just another excuse for one more pissing contest each time, so far as I can tell, e.g. Vote for this captain, that captain the other captain, prom queen and prom king, etc).
It seems to me to be a needlessly stressful way to go about life for no meaningful gain.
Trump is an imbecile but the capitalist mode of production, as it exists across the industrial world, does in fact tend towards a zero-sum game in which competition is crushed and a monopoly is established. This is the ultimate goal of any entity operating within the capitalist framework, regardless of whether they are American or not.
Obsessed with this notion that high pressure academic competitiveness in secondary school is a uniquely usamerican phenomenon that exists no place else on earth. This person is really just taking their experience in their little silver of the planet and assuming it must be universal, with the exception of the United States.
This star isn’t far away– it’s just very, very small! Parvulastra parvivipara is the smallest known species of starfish, with adults reaching only 1 cm (0.4 in) in diameter. What’s even more interesting, the Tasmanian live-beaing sea star is a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, and juveniles hatch and develop within their parents gonads before being released, making them ovoviviparous.
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(Image: A trio of Tasmanian live-bearing sea stars (Parvulastra parvivipara) by John Eichler)
