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The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

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New rule: you're allowed to name your kid any dumbass thing you want, but once they turn 18 your child is allowed to legally rename you to whatever they want.

#random thoughts #stop naming your kids like a fanfic OC #and easy on the silent consonants #your poor kid has to learn how to spell that!

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I have a mighty need to write a Nyssa/Tegan fic where they're trying to make the duck cake from Bluey but I don't know if they're making it for their kids or grandkids yet so y'all hang on while I figure out this timeline

(also if someone wants to steal this idea and write this fic before I do, go for it then we'll have two duck cakes)

#doctor who #classic who #tegan jovanka #nyssa of traken #we need more tegan/nyssa fic

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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we put so much importance on romantic love in queer spaces that i think we can forget about how important queer friendships are. having queer friends makes it so much easier to accept yourself and learn to accept others. queer friendships have so much love stored in them

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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

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Most shows need to end at some point, and in many instances they benefit from ending sooner rather than later. This is not the case with doctor who. To me, half the entertainment value of dw comes from trying to write new content for a show that’s been around 60+ years. I need it to ferment; I need to see what doctor who will look like in another couple of decades. I need it to go on forever. I hope future generations will have to experience centuries, maybe even millennia-old doctor who. I hope they have lore so incomprehensible it takes a lifetime to even begin to understand

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Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

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Consider- Donna trying to keep Tiny!Ten out of trouble.

Ten and Donna end up on a fucked up deadly space newlyweds show despite uh. Not being newlyweds but they get almost all the questions right. They start to sweat when the final question is "what's one secret desire you have involving the other?" And Donna writes "sometimes I wish I could occasionally shrink down the doctor real small so I could carry him around in my pocket and make sure he doesn't get lost' while Ten writes "sometimes I wish I was small enough that Donna could carry me around in like a cat backpack or maybe a shirt pocket" and they look at each other like AYYYYYY because not only are they deeply drift compatible they're also fuckin weird about it 💖

#doctor who #donna noble #tenth doctor #he's not gonna stay in the pocket #he's tiny but surprisingly fast #and he won't stop jumping off of things!

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Today's the day!! Channel 4 at 19:40 for my UK friends if anyone wanted to know

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"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose." - The Doctor

A message for all Americans of voting age: You don't have to like Biden, you don't even have to approve of any of his actions.

But if you choose to protest by NOT VOTING this year, you lose any right to call yourself an ally or progressive.

"But Biden-!" Doesn't fucking matter. If Trump or any Republican candidate wins, not only will the genocide in Gaza continue, but it will get worse. Not only will it get worse, but now the stage will be set for the far-right to install an authoritarian theocracy.

You know what's worse then genocide or an old guy? The fascist hell that the GOP wants to force upon us.

Go read up on Project 2025.

This isn't a game where you can refuse to play until you get a better outcome. You can't protest or petition your way to the perfect candidate. One of these people will be elected whether you vote or not.

There is no way NOT to participate, as not voting for Biden is the same as supporting Trump. (Doesn't matter what you say, that's exactly what it amounts to.)

Neither candidate is good.

YOU STILL HAVE TO CHOOSE.

#politics #American election #voting #seriously make sure you are registered to vote #make sure you have correct information on how to vote #and for fucks sake don't fall for the anti-Biden propaganda! #they WANT you to stay home! #they WIN when you're able to vote but choose not to!

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"Sometimes, the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose." ‐ The Doctor

I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to

#seriously tho #fucking VOTE #vote democrat #doesn’t matter if they're imperfect #because the alternative is to let the fascists take over

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:D

I thought of another one:

- Nyssa wants to understand Tegan better so she goes through the Tardis database researching Australian culture.

- Nyssa tries to relate to Tegan using her new cultural knowledge.

- Unfortunately, the Tardis chose to show her a bunch of Outback Steakhouse ads and three hours of Bluey. Tegan has no clue what she's talking about.

You are a quality Indestructible blog! Please pass this on to at least five other blogs that show much love for Nyssa/Tegan.

OH SHIT I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS

Uh...shoot, who hasn't been tagged yet??

Actually, it's been forever since I posted anything Nyssa/Tegan, how about I release some Ideas into the world? Story prompts or whatever?

- They start a podcast/YouTube channel where Tegan explains an Australian thing and Nyssa reacts to the thing in real time.

- Nyssa and Tegan get stuck on a roller coaster because a loose scarf got tangled in the wheels and it takes a few hours to get rescued.

- In a huge space library, Nyssa finds a handful of random Trakenite books: folklore, history, outdated building codes, etc. Tegan steals them for her.

- They have to share a bed and Tegan has excessive Gay Panic because she's still overcoming some internalized homophobia.

- Team Five lands at a standard-issue nudist colony during a festival. The penalty for being clothed is just a modest fine, but they have to disrobe to get into all the good places because "We're trying to maintain a dress code here, madame." There is more Gay Panic.

- Tegan and Nyssa have been on Earth for a few decades and are now trying to learn to use social media.

- Going horseback riding, except this isn't Earth, that's not a horse, and they'll have to share a saddle.

- Nyssa and Tegan at a Pride event, either with the Doctor or years later as a married couple. They get matching shirts and tiaras.

- More animal transformation! Only this time Nyssa turns into a border collie and keeps jumping on Tegan to try and lick her face.

- Or doggo!Five tangling them up in the lead like a rom com cliche.

Uhh....that's all I got off the top of my head. Hope it helps!

#doctor who #classic who #tegan jovanka #nyssa of traken #nyssa attempts to deep fry an onion #Tegan wants to know wtf “veranda santa” is

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You are a quality Indestructible blog! Please pass this on to at least five other blogs that show much love for Nyssa/Tegan.

OH SHIT I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS

Uh...shoot, who hasn't been tagged yet??

Actually, it's been forever since I posted anything Nyssa/Tegan, how about I release some Ideas into the world? Story prompts or whatever?

- They start a podcast/YouTube channel where Tegan explains an Australian thing and Nyssa reacts to the thing in real time.

- Nyssa and Tegan get stuck on a roller coaster because a loose scarf got tangled in the wheels and it takes a few hours to get rescued.

- In a huge space library, Nyssa finds a handful of random Trakenite books: folklore, history, outdated building codes, etc. Tegan steals them for her.

- They have to share a bed and Tegan has excessive Gay Panic because she's still overcoming some internalized homophobia.

- Team Five lands at a standard-issue nudist colony during a festival. The penalty for being clothed is just a modest fine, but they have to disrobe to get into all the good places because "We're trying to maintain a dress code here, madame." There is more Gay Panic.

- Tegan and Nyssa have been on Earth for a few decades and are now trying to learn to use social media.

- Going horseback riding, except this isn't Earth, that's not a horse, and they'll have to share a saddle.

- Nyssa and Tegan at a Pride event, either with the Doctor or years later as a married couple. They get matching shirts and tiaras.

- More animal transformation! Only this time Nyssa turns into a border collie and keeps jumping on Tegan to try and lick her face.

- Or doggo!Five tangling them up in the lead like a rom com cliche.

Uhh....that's all I got off the top of my head. Hope it helps!

#doctor who #classic who #nyssa of traken #tegan jovanka #I need more Nyssa/Tegan content

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Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.