Conversation Based On The "would Ford Pay Child Support" Poll.

A bit different but I did fanart for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, specifically the 1981 TV adaptation, because I love it and it's my favourite show of all time :3 also because I met Peter Davison at Captial Sci-Fi Con in Edinburgh yesterday! Obviously he was Doctor Who, but he also played Dish of the Day so I asked him to sign a print, and I gave him another copy as a gift, so hopefully he likes it! He was super super nice!

Hello...i,m ahmed ... From a person trying to satisfy his hunger and thirst with a little to a person with a compassionate and tender heart. Imagine waking up to find yourself sleeping in the streets of a ruin. 💔💔 This is my situation and the situation of my family. The war has destroyed all my dreams and ambitions and broken everything inside me. 💔💔 Help me so that I can stand on my feet and sleep in a safe place. Help me, even with a little, so that I can eat the least amount of food, as I sit for hours without a single bite. 💔💔 The war has left me without food or shelter. 💔💔 I can barely wear the most worthless things. The least you can do for me can be a lot. 💔💔 I am waiting for your compassionate heart to give me a little something. 🥺

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rogue: do you ever wonder, why keep going?

doctor: because we have to. we have to live, each day, because they can’t… you don’t have to stay a bounty hunter, rogue… you could travel with me! ah! the worlds i could show you, rogue.

rogue: and what if i like what i do? (voice shaking) would you… travel with me?

doctor: that is — quite an argument. i tell you what, when we both get out of this, let’s argue across the stars.

rogue: (steps closer) i’d like that.

the god of death possessing the tardis:

Please stop reading my murderous agony

I am Muhammad from Gaza. I was living a good and simple life with my wife, and suddenly the war started on October 7. Our lives turned 180 degrees from a person of prosperity and value in society to a poor person who had nothing because of the continuous displacement. Every time I left everything behind and started from scratch, and my wife was forced to give birth. My first born was born prematurely before he completed his last month in her womb due to the intense fear of missiles and the scenes of killing around us. Here we are being subjected to genocide. I appeal to you and to the world’s chants to remove my family and my only child from genocide. I fear that my child will be kidnapped at any moment by the Zionists because they kidnap children and attribute them to them. Please donate to get us out of here 🙏🙏

I'm really embarrassed by my request. 🙏

https://gofund.me/25affbbb

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Do wizards believe in magic?

Sounds like a ridiculous question, I know, but think about it. They understand how it works. Would they even see it as magic? We have so many things that people would've seen as magic not too long ago. But we don't see them as magic, because we understand how it works. Or, at least, trust that it can be understood.

Also, I just think it would be hilarious that a wizard might roll their eyes at someone for thinking that they were doing magic, just because they were doing something as simple as conjuring a fire-ball, or shooting lightning from their finger-tips.

I can imagine every apprentice going through a phase of disillusionment early on in their apprenticeship. It happens so much that it gets named "Wizard's apprentice syndrome" or something like that.

There's even evidence of this in LOTR. When Galadriel shows Sam and Frodo the mirror, she tells them that they might call it magic, but she doesn't.

So, what do you think?

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

ENA if it was Thoschei (awesome)

I'm bored. Here's boxes I like.

when i talk shit about golfing, please know that none of it is about mini golf. it could never be about her. she's done nothing wrong in her entire life. god's perfect little putt putt.

The thing about Equal Rites is, it's not just a book about how girls can do anything boys can do, and the only thing trying to stop her is meanie old men. It's about how girls can do anything boys can do, I suppose, if she really must, though I* can't see why she wants to.

It's about shaking off gender essentialism, not deciding who someone can and can't be as soon as you see their newborn baby genitals, and adults not telling kids to be who they "should" be instead of who they really are... while also being really super clear that the traditionally male-dominated path isn't inherently better, it's just better paid.

It explores Granny's position of trying to hold Esk back from becoming a wizard, stemming not from thinking that girls aren't smart enough or that they should only be wives and mothers, but from a contempt for the flashy and self-important ways of wizards and belief that the more domestic and practical sphere of witchcraft is more important and better. It's a pretty accurate depiction of the way some older women enforcing gender roles think.

I suppose the book is more of a critique of the whole women's intuition/men's intelligence nonsense dichotomy, as well as a reminder not to cling too eagerly to the patriarchy's priorities in the search for equality.

Men aren't better at "jommetry" than women. But "jommetry" isn't more difficult or important than Granny Weatherwax's practical, rural skills - herbcraft, midwifery, caring for and understanding goats and bees, managing people, and so on.

Sir Terry never got on with the assembly lines of formal education, which is probably an important thing to bear in mind when reading this book.

*Granny Weatherwax

Looking more like a checklist these days. I want off this ride. 😭