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On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

S1E3 The Unquiet Dead: The End

Okay, I know this looks like the simple option, but it fits. Corpses and zombies (obviously). Dickens wondering if he wasted his life. Rose confronting the fact that she can die in the 1860s. Gwyneth never really having a chance to live or be known but saving the world from the End regardless. Rose and the Doctor’s conversation right before the credits about how Dickens is dead in Rose’s time but they could bring him back via time travel (and emotionally). Gwyneth herself is Eye aligned (reminds me of the Knowing in later seasons) and being forgotten may also lend itself to the Lonely but overall this episode is very End.

Starting my first “long thread of me watching a thing”

The thread?

Assigning tma fears to every doctor who episode (starting with the 9th doctor and going onward)! I plan to watch every episode basically chronologically but we’ll see how it plays out.

S1E2 The End of the World: The Lonely

You’d think an episode with that name would be the End or the Extinction, but it reeks of the Lonely. Rose is surrounded by aliens. The only other human around is Cassandra, and she’s no prize. Rose realizes everyone she loves is dead. The Doctor talks about Gallifrey for the first time (not counting Doctors 1-8, this is all going to be 9 onward). The extremely Lonely scene at the end where Rose is standing still while a crowd of people walk around her. It’s got elements of End, Corruption, Vast, and Desolation, but the Lonely truly rules this episode.

Starting my first “long thread of me watching a thing”

The thread?

Assigning tma fears to every doctor who episode (starting with the 9th doctor and going onward)! I plan to watch every episode basically chronologically but we’ll see how it plays out.

S1E1 Rose: The Stranger

This one’s easy. It’s the Stranger. Of course it’s the Stranger. It’s mannequins. If that weren’t enough, Mickey gets replaced by one and Rose doesn’t notice for a while. It’s got Stranger written all over it. Nikola never watched Doctor Who or the Unknowing would have been wayyyy more dangerous.

Starting my first “long thread of me watching a thing”

The thread?

Assigning tma fears to every doctor who episode (starting with the 9th doctor and going onward)! I plan to watch every episode basically chronologically but we’ll see how it plays out.

Starting my first “long thread of me watching a thing”

The thread?

Assigning tma fears to every doctor who episode (starting with the 9th doctor and going onward)! I plan to watch every episode basically chronologically but we’ll see how it plays out.

I love when tumblr decides i’m in a fandom now and starts tossing TONS of fan content on my dash. Guess im a king of the monsters fan now (i have watched exactly one godzilla movie and it wasn’t that one)

I love seeing people have fun with their cars. Hell yeah put a light strip under the sides. Lime green paint job? Not the colour i would have gone with but slay. Custom decorations? Awesome.

Now, i think car companies should release tires that are like, made of coloured rubber or something. Your tire wears out and you get a turquoise one. Sure the colour wouldnt be visible on the road-touching part but it would be visible on the sides and it would be so cool. For now though coloured hubcaps will do

Idk i want fewer cars to be neutral-toned behemoths with no personality and more of them to be a little eye catching and interesting. I wanna look at a car and go “i bet a cool person drives a car like that”

I HATE how tumblr brings up your old tags as you’re typing a new tag because I really don’t!! Want to remember!!! Some of the things I’ve said on this godforsaken site!!!!

I can't reblog two posts at once so you get a link instead. PROOF. PROOF YOU CAN KICK IT. FROM MR NEWALL HIMSELF

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Iggy

One of my hobbies is listening to the tma q&a with jonny and Alex and clipping out bits that I'm like, this is just martin and Jon bickering

The Eye is a symbiote with all other fears, the Spiral and the Eye equal the Web, all of the fears are Vast-coded, the Stranger needs to rebrand to avoid just being the Hunt again (same with the Spiral tbh), and the Dark needed more attention. send post

I wonder what the Web has to do with Old Things. Because it has spiders for some reason (spiders should be corruption or hunt imo. cellar spiders are so hunt and stranger coded i love them), which means it probably also has cobwebs for the same "the theme demands it" reason. and cobwebs are associated with old things. so what does the web have to do with that? seems more lonely to me personally. but i could see something being untouched, almost like everyone instinctively avoids it, leaves it undisturbed... hmmm

The Eye is a symbiote with all other fears, the Spiral and the Eye equal the Web, all of the fears are Vast-coded, the Stranger needs to rebrand to avoid just being the Hunt again (same with the Spiral tbh), and the Dark needed more attention. send post

So we don’t REALLY know how much of an avatar Mary was (assuming that, like Jon, there’s a transitory period where you kinda sorta feed on fear but also kinda sorta are alive and need people food and such, before you die and go full avatar) but wouldn’t it be interesting if Mary was constantly feeding on Gerry’s fear of her

I have been laughing so hard i cannot breathe for several minutes. Get off of tumblr google it isnt good for you

Google is cooked

everyone living in EU - please support the citizens initiative for safe and accessible abortion!!

So an archive contains stories right. But it doesn’t necessarily destroy other copies. So

Idk where i was going with this actually. Something something tapes something paper copies? I know it was inspired by a drawing of jon eating tapes.

Also what would happen if you typed a statement into a google doc or something with automatic non-local saving. Would it just explode

Two lovers have reincarnated throughout history, destined to find each other and fall in love all over again. There’s also this third guy that reincarnates alongside them… we don’t really know what he does.

in fucking Tears thinking about how disgusting a baby griffin would look

I realized something about michael last night that i haven’t converted from “rant in friend’s dms” so I’ll just put the conclusion here and elaborate later: michael distortion’s horror is mostly Hunt-oriented actually (fair bit of Eye too), not Spiral

I am *obsessed* with the trope of fictional couples that swap a piece of their aesthetic. Like spinerella and netossa wearing necklaces of each other’s main colour. Feels so much more meaningful than a gold ring. Who knows if either of you even like gold? Or rings?

Anyways, doorkeay where michael has one (1) black leather bracelet that it intentionally doesn’t twist, and gerry has one (1) confusing friendship-bracelet-thing that subtly changes every time you look at it

i think what michael shelley wanted more than anything was to be loved or even just appreciated, but in the neurodivergent way where you think that the reason you aren't recognized is because you haven't done enough rather than because the people you want recognition from won't give it to you

the distortion reflects this by being bizarrely overt, making campaigns of terror against specific people, being the center (or at least a very hard-to-ignore presence) in the lives of its victims, rather than eating them outright or befriending them like helen does (which reflects a much more businesslike "get the job done, make some connections, and move on" attitude that likely reflects her job when she was human)

type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

I need to confess something

I’m actually of the Vast

Guys something happened and im back on my she ra nonsense. Help all my recent tabs are tma fanfic i need to go deep in my bookmarks to pull out the she ra stuff and follow a ton of she ra posters bc its been like two years since i was substantially aware of she ra BUT THE HYPERFIX IS COMING BACK I CAN FEEL IT AAAAGH

Its 12:44 am and i’m going to write all my thoughts and theories and you are going to enjoy them

1. Beast island is actually sentient and the reason it makes that signal is because it’s achingly lonely and doesn’t want its new friends (anyone who comes to the island) to leave. Little does it know it’s forcing its depression upon everyone that visits

2. Etheria and Eternia are actually twin planets, the First Ones are humans, and Eternia is far-future Earth (idk, Earth got a neighbour and then we colonized it? Sure sounds like humans to me). This explains why the First Ones’ language is made up of English phonemes and includes English words, and why Adora looks human.

3. Horde Prime used to be an Eternian, a very long time ago. His current form is the result of hundreds of years of incredibly vain genetic engineering and experimenting. He still isn’t fully pleased with his appearance and tweaks his clones every generation in an attempt to find “purity”.

4. Hordak’s “defect” is a result of this tweaking. Imagine inbreeding, except it’s one guy who keeps turning random genes on and off and switching out base pairs to see if it’ll make him prettier. Turns out there were some nasty genetic surprises in Hordak’s version of the code. As with any other clone that had such genetic conditions, Prime tossed him out in the next major fleet movement without running any analyses first. Running an analysis would force him to confront the fact that he (gasp) made an error!

5. The “general” thing wasn’t actually complete bs. Prime threatening to take Catra’s body as his own, was. See, Prime really wants to be this one perfect thing. Why would he waste time being a cat when he could be perfect? He has a special line of “generals” whose sole purpose is to house his mind. They have two additional eyes, the ability to grow those weird chin/cheek spikes, and the capacity to be much taller (all hidden unless he gives them specific hormones in preparation for inhabiting them). All this to say: Hordak might just wake up with four eyes open one day and promptly freak himself (and everyone else) out.

6. Entrapta has been in the center of a lot of explosions (esepcially when she was a teenager and hadn’t figured out the right balance of “pursue knowledge” to “lab safety” yet) and has replaced a startling amount of her body with prosthetics covered in a synthetic skin.

7. Hordak’s body wasn’t repaired by Prime in season 5. Prime just injected him with a bunch of painkillers (not enough to not be in pain, but enough to function) and covered up the arm holes. About an hour after the finale, the painkillers wear off and Hordak all but collapses. Having a chronic muscle/joint condition + being electrocuted + being possessed hurts. Man, he really went through it, didn’t he?

8. Based on Wrong Hordak, it’s going to be… really hard for the clones to get used to being outside of the hivemind. They will form cults. They will make new pieces of technology that will mimic the hivemind. They’ll scrounge for the chips and try to implant them in each other. They will find and beg (or threaten) Entrapta and Hordak to put back the hivemind. Hopefully people will have enough compassion for them to help them get used to being individuals.

9. All Eternians have the capacity to activate the Sword of Protection and become She-Ra (or gender-correlated equivalent). Horde Prime is, initially, Eternian, based on the other headcanons here, so he hypothetically could. Any clone could. Hordak could.

Wow! I forgot about some of these headcanons! This was pretty neat. Hope you guys like em too. Also I haven’t watched canon in like a year so there might be some inaccuracies, but at some point I figured that holding onto the thoughts until I rewatched canon just wasn’t worth it. And lo and behold now you can see all my random thoughts too!

I don’t think adding nonbinary to Victorian’s gender system would’ve fixed their weird sexism. If anything I think it would’ve made them weirder and sexismier

To the person whose post i just liked and unliked and liked again about a billion times, i was looking at the difference in width between the 0 and the 1 in the notes field

In 2020 we celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the Good Omens book on the May 1st, only to learn later that it was not the correct date! :D

hey magnus archives fans i know yall got a lot of mikes… you may even know a mike who isn’t in magnus

consider send one in?

A lot of people draw needles as a goofy spikeball, but we know they look roughly like a normal person until you get too close. So I propose this: yknow how sometimes when you get a splinter there’s a sharp bit poking out that you can’t really see but you can feel if you touch the splinter? He’s covered in tiny invisible razor-thin spines that at a distance might appear in weird lighting conditions as a funky halo. Only after you get within arms reach do you see the spikes. And of course, by then they’re embedded in your skin, and we all know how painful and hard to remove splinters are

The lonely wants to be seen and so it chases the eye demands its focus because it has not been truly seen in so long