Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

holy gosh it took until 2013 for Doctor Who to have any smartphones

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Aside: I've stopped putting the story name in the CW, because the Content Warning was getting too long. If this site was structured more like Tumblr, where the posts are rather wide, then I'd definitely make the post title the full thing, but this UI isn't wide enough

I'm up to episode 5 of The Mind Robber, which is the shortest episode of Doctor Who ever

"Only a man-like creature can write fiction!"

what. why would you make that a part of your story? why would you want to make non-humanoid aliens incapable of creativity???

Happy Hatchday to @softgoat , the loveliest and most important goat in my life ♥

In the second episode of the Mind Robbers, they had to add a scene at the last minute – the actor for Jamie was ill, and so they replaced him with a different actor. But they needed to explain why his face changed between episodes.

Luckily, the story is already set in a weird hallucinatory reality, so it's relatively easy to explain.

snooze...

"would of", on the other hand, is a compound – you cannot divide it into individual words, because you can't say "I of done it"

but you* CAN say "I would of done it"

so we have this divergence where a formerly derivable phrase is becoming a compound!

*"you" means "a speaker who considers this grammatically valid"

I've noticed an "error" that some local people make when writing messages: a few people have been writing "would of" instead of "would've"

At first, my Editor brain wanted to correct them, but then my linguistics brain took over – this is really interesting!

"would have" has a derivable meaning – each word stands alone, and you can easily figure it out:

"I have done it"
"I would have done it"

(cont)

And then there's the interstellar organisation dedicated to killing The Doctor.

Over and over again, Moffat makes the Doctor this mythical figure, that can never be defeated. And it takes all the fun and adventure out of it – I don't want an ultra-important person, I want to see a Doctor who goes on adventures, who follows where whimsy takes them, and who ends up saving people in distress.

But Moffat treats The Doctor as though they're a God.

One of the major gripes I have with Moffat's writing of Doctor Who (approx. 2010–2017) is that the Doctor is portrayed as being the most important person in the universe.

The speech from "The Pandorica Opens" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa74e8oAvIM ) is the doctor talking about how special he is.

Then there's the question ( https://youtu.be/lGDC0n89nhA?t=1m39s ). "The oldest question in the universe, and the one that must never be answered".... is "Doctor Who?"

(cont)

one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=557533618

the other: https://store.steampowered.com/app/519860/DUSK/

one of them is a 90s-style fps, the other is a survival game

oh nooo

there's 2 different upcoming games called "Dusk"

suddenly: snoozy lizard

goodnight~