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now that I’ve got you all more or less used to early modern Scots via Kidnapped Weekly, is there any chance I can make anyone read Redgauntlet?

#it’s got folk music #(it’s got folk music used AS A SECRET CODE which is my favorite thing ever) #it’s got intense youthful friendship #it’s got a slightly disturbing love triangle #it’s got mysterious family secrets #it’s got an epistolary framing #it’s got an entirely unhistorical third Jacobite rising #it’s got Scots law #it’s got everything #it’s not even Sir Walter Scott’s best book #but it has everything I like #recommended for fans of gothicness and Scots law #(and folk music used as a secret code) #I’m not doing a substack though y’all have to just read it yourselves

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hello my name is Very tiny flying insect i see you’ve got an uncovered beverage outdoors. Can i fall into it and kill myself please please please please please please please please please please

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"One need not be a chamber -- to be haunted -- ..."

by Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber — to be haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain — has Corridors surpassing Material Place —

Far safer, of a Midnight — meeting External Ghost — Than an Interior — confronting — That cooler — Host —

Far safer, through an Abbey — gallop — The Stones a’chase — Than moonless — One’s A’self encounter — In lonesome place —

Ourself — behind Ourself — Concealed — Should startle — most — Assassin — hid in Our Apartment — Be Horror’s least —

The Prudent — carries a Revolver — He bolts the Door, O’erlooking a Superior Spectre More near —

#oh. #poetry

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"Sound" as a concept was incredibly important to Maestro's character and The Devil's Chord as a whole. It has also been at the center of many other Doctor Who stories as well, including the 2003 Robert Shearman audio Scherzo. The antagonist of Scherzo, the Sound Creature, fed on sound in a way similar to how Maestro fed on songs. Throughout Scherzo, the Sound Creature continually evolved to become the dominant life form in the experiment. I believe it possible that the Sound Creature indeed eventually evolved into Maestro. In this essay, I--

#doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #eighth doctor #charley pollard #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday

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charley being great in embrace the darkness:

ROSM: you are identified as lifeform charley

CHARLEY: i may be feeling awful, but the one thing i'm not suffering from is an identity crisis, thank you

ORLLENSA, TO THE DOCTOR: she seems to think you're the font of all human knowledge

CHARLEY: perhaps it's better than being the personification of sarcasm and bitterness

THE DOCTOR: i do take on board your desire to get us out of immediate danger

CHARLEY: im so pleased

THE DOCTOR: well then would you take some more advice-

CHARLEY: if you wouldn't mind

THE DOCTOR: charley shh!

+ whatever the hell these interactions were

THE DOCTOR: and there you were, charley pollard, doubting me

CHARLEY: i wasn't

THE DOCTOR: i think you were

CHARLEY: well, maybe just a bit

THE DOCTOR: wellll, let that be a lesson to you

CHARLEY: being with the doctor, in a funny sort of way, that feels like home now

#I love #embrace the darkness #so much #I think it’s the best of the early eight/charleys #wildly underrated #doctor who #big finish #eighth doctor #charley pollard

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cat 51, from this random reddit post i found about lucid dreaming

#poetry

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Hi, that poll I made hasn't even ended, but a sufficient minority of people said they'd prefer boat media to not be on this blog (and it sounded fun to make a sideblog) that I have made a sideblog. If you do want to see the boat media go and follow me over to @hms-lurking-latinist. I cannot guarantee there will now be no boat media here, because famously I believe everything I like is the same thing, but I will try to keep it more or less sorted.

(Although there are some things that I genuinely don't know where they go - as this here is the SFF & misc. & personal blog. Aubreyad dissertationblogging, which has occurred? That's personal, but boat blog probably, I guess. Imperial Radch? Clearly SFF but all my thoughts about it are boat media thoughts. No idea. But if I mention Hornblower I promise it will go into the quarantine. Hey, like in Episode 2 of Hornblower...)

Just to be clear this isn't because I think all my followers are secretly mad at me or something. I do not think that. I am doing this because making a sideblog sounded fun and I thought of a good url that wasn't taken and I thought it would be clever to have another but different Colin Baker icon on it.

So go and follow me there if you want! But maybe not for a minute here as I'm about to reblog a bunch of boat posting from here to there.

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Mutuals you would share your fresh baked bread with 🥰

#i have chocolate chip banana bread fresh from the oven #my granny's recipe + crushed up leftover baking chocolate from whatever it was I had baking chocolate for #v good #you can all have some

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Canon compliant: not contradicted in any way by canon.

Canon compatible: not NOT canon compliant, but like, it's not like I'm following cues given in canon or anything, there's no reason to say any of this *did* happen, you just can't prove it *didn't*

Canon complacent: the official writers did all this cool stuff, now I just have to sit there and point to it. (I write a lot of this)

Canon comparable: AU, but the closely parallel to canon kind, like plot point for plot point.

Canon compulsive: ever since I read the source material these characters have moved into my head and I don't actually have a choice about whether I write their story.

Canon competitive: written to prove you could do better than those hacks they put in charge of the franchise.

Canon competent: a story whose writing proves you really know the lore.

Canon compassionate: they deserve to have nice things and the writers sure aren't gonna give it to 'em.

Canon complementary: doesn't really accord with the tone or genre of canon, but convincingly explores sides of the characters or world that the canon tone/genre can't.

Canon comprehensible: worldbuilding patches in fic form. Look I've been thinking about this for weeks and I swear it actually makes sense--

Canon companionable: not exactly compliant, maybe the logistics don't work for these two characters to be in the same place at the same time, but like, the vibes match.

Canon compressible: it'll fit into canon if I squeeze hard enough!

Canon complexifying: you know what would improve the lore of this show? MAKING IT WEIRDER.

Canon compensatory: I may not be able to fix it but at least I can soothe myself with fic.

Canon complicit: opposite of canon compassionate. The writers have committed crimes and I am aiding and abetting them.

Canon compliant

Canon compatible

Canon complacent

Canon comparable

Canon compulsive

Canon competitive

Canon competent

Canon compassionate

Canon complementary

Canon comprehensible

Canon companionable

Canon compressible

Canon complexifying

Canon compensatory

Canon complicit

#bonus points if you can coherently define all of these #<prev tag #how's this?

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not ONLY did the Doctor talk about Susan but he did so in a delightfully weirdly matter-of-fact way. “I live over there. right now. In Shoreditch”

not like “ohh this is where it all began” or something all mythologizing like that, just. *points* I live in Shoreditch

of course he goes on to talk about his past/future family who may or may not be dead. but that’s just the doctor for you

#doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers

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Susan Foreman listening to There's Always a Twist in the End on her little radio and the Doctor tells her to turn it off because he doesn't like it, blissfully unaware that he makes the song in his ~15th regeneration.

#doctor who spoilers #doctor who #dw spoilers #susan foreman

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#the song about the cathedral #yes even on this website. #my dad starts to sing the song every time the trip we took to england when I was tiny is mentioned #he is convinced we went to winchester #we did not. he is thinking of salisbury. #so I think of the song the most

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okay do you guys know Exactly what your characters look like while you're writing or is it a vibes thing

#I don't even know what the fanfiction ones look like #I mean I know some Key Facts and expressions. but there's a reason I describe voices so much #I Am Faceblind #I have been thinking about trying to cast side original characters and see if I can borrow appearance/mannerisms from existing actors #but given my knowledge of actors it would just be 'guy from doctor who again'

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Also this is the pinnacle of comedy. To me

#haven't we all been there #hornblower

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I’m honestly very pleased that we have an active musician as a companion. I haven’t watched much classic who so I can’t speak for that but I don’t believe we’ve seen any new who companions demonstrate much musical virtuosity (but my memory may be betraying me). It was SO fun to watch Ruby duet alongside the Doctor and play her own composition, and I’d like to see more of her band.

#I'm very glad because I've been imagining the Doctors and Companions All-Eras Band for a while and they can definitely do with a keyboardist #(they play a kind of folk-rock-punk) #they need a drummer next. at present the only percussion options they have are Seven and the Master #and they can't have the Master because Molly sings and that just seems rough on her #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #ruby sunday

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i only draw the most serious of fanart

the post it's based on

#aubrey-maturin