Author: peasantchick

nowwearealltom:

In the first serial of Doctor Who, Ian has some hazy recollection that Susan Foreman’s grandfather is “a doctor, isn’t he?” and so he addresses him at first as “Doctor Foreman” and the Doctor doesn’t answer to it so Ian just starts calling him “Doctor” instead. Nobody ever asks the Doctor what he wants to be called, and he never introduces himself, so Ian just decides to start calling him “Doctor” and he just happens to answer to it.

In the entire first season the Doctor never says that his name is a secret and he never tells people that he is “The Doctor” or even a doctor, with only a single exception–in part two of The Aztecs he tells Cameca “No, no, they call me the Doctor. I am a scientist, an engineer. I’m a builder of things.” In which case “they” might well mean a general nonspecific “they” or it might mean his companions specifically; it’s not clear from context.

This is not easy to reconcile with later stories in which the Time Lords know The Doctor as “The Doctor”, but I’m a big fan of understanding earlier eras of Doctor Who on their own terms first, treating later continuity developments as a secondary concern, and so when watching sixties Doctor Who I like to think of “The Doctor” as just a nickname Ian came up with that happened to stick, to the point where eventually he just calls himself that.

linguisticparadox:

theelderscrotes:

theelderscrotes:

theelderscrotes:

theelderscrotes:

i feel like the lgbt community is only suddenly a ‘community’ on tumblr when its convenient so they can defend their imaginary territory over ace kids wanting to be accepted

where the fuck was this supposed solidarity when i felt like an inhuman piece of garbage while coming to terms with being nb and seeing literally no nb ‘’’’resources’’’’

exclusionists can fuckin eat me stop basing your sense of community over who you think doesn’t belong and take care of your goddamn own

all exclusionism discourse does is pop up relentlessly to scared and confused kids just trying to learn about themselves and feel like they belong somewhere. its not a good fucking community if people have to wade through drama to get scraps of actual support from your clique-y asses

I’ve seen them say “Why can’t the aces have a separate but allied community???” and like…that is literally what the LGBT+ community IS. A bunch of separate (often overlapping and intersecting, true, because humans are multi-dimensional) communities allied together against a multifaceted common enemy.

At least, we SHOULD be allies. But somehow we always end up wasting our energy fighting each other.

You’re a trans woman in a videogame!

canmom:

Your choices are…

  1. hilarious joke about sex workers (make sure you have a deep voice!)
  2. the protagonist of an indie cyberpunk adventure game
  3. minor character with maybe three lines about being trans, who will inevitably get every woman on the dev team harassed by about three thousand random men on twitter
  4. an actually decently written character, but your game has to be made in Twine or Bitsy, and only five people will ever play it

dr-archeville:

roachpatrol:

cooliosis:

call us and we will personally fuck your toilet.

but only the lady toilets cuz we’re not gay

I had to see this and now so do you.

[image is of ths side of a van for a company called llg plumbing and heating. the slogan reads “do you love plumbing as much as we do?”. painted on the van is a cartoon of a plumber and a pink toilet, with eyes, eyelashes, lipstick and large teeth, looking up to make eye contact with the plumber. the plumber is down on one knee to get down to the toilet’s level, and offering a bouquet of roses.]

Source: graynard

betterbemeta:

betterbemeta:

maybe I’m just a crusty ass frozen heart but from a young age I felt that a lot of the ‘magic’ in romance and love as served by mainstream straight culture was like a big smokescreen. It’s cynical but I believe far fewer people would feel some kind of big enchantment or drive to experience ‘love’ as they expect it, if women weren’t constantly negged by society and basically made desperate for any unconditional positive experience. Likewise, if men in our society were allowed to find alternative forms of intimacy such that finding a gf wasn’t the only socially acceptable outlet, I feel the magic would fade a little bit. Because we gotta believe in magic when we are made to feel horrible a lot of the time.

Which is not to say passion and feeling the magic are bad. But when that magic is used as the tool to keep otherwise untenable straight couples together, I don’t see how overemphasizing it in relationships, or using it as the yardstick of what legitimizes a relationship, is in any way safe.

Within a lgbt+ community I have seen all forms of love and straight people find elements of a more cerebral love almost as threatening as the genders involved in same-sex relationships. Hell, they see something is ‘off’ between two bisexual people who superficially appear in a different gender relationship. The very idea that your love could be total and reasoned rather than purely passionate, that “it makes sense for me to be with this person,” that “I didn’t need to, but I chose to, and I can choose to leave,” threatens them. Even if passion is vital to most people, the appropriated ‘born this way’ narrative that hits the mainstream depends on lgbt+ love not being a choice that makes sense– even more sense– than participation in straightness. 

The norm deeply fears that. They want passion to be the only narrative to explain why people they don’t understand are together. It leaves them in the position of reason and enfranchisement, and it leaves lgbt+ people as somehow swept up in urges. Progressive people might say it’s a beautiful urge. But the truth is that we’re comprehensible and that scares them.

queenieeegoldstein:

honestly the whole “no one gets made fun of for nerdy interests anymore!!!” only applies to allistics without ADHD because autistic people and people with ADHD always have been and continue to be constantly made fun of for how intense their special interests/hyper fixations are and in my experience this has only been intensified when those interests were considered “nerdy”