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Do we know when Doctor Who comes on tomorrow?

#doctor who

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Welcome back!

Thank you! Hoping you're the same anon I just answered at @not-caused-by-those-who-love

#tumblr death

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Or they were complaining about the mature content sideblog on this account which I haven’t updated since 2017 when most of its posts got flagged. Which would mean the intended consequences wouldn’t have been accomplished, because while this blog was deleted its activism sideblog was still there even though I couldn’t access it. I don’t remember whether I checked whether the mature content sideblog was still there while the main was deleted but, when one sideblog still was, I imagine so was the other.

EDIT In any case the Three Faces link post with the preview panel with the triangle casual nudity was still pinned when I got the blog back, so your hypothesis is as good as any. Well, it leaves open the question of why my first replacement blog also got zapped but the second one hasn’t.

Anyway here’s this blog’s FAQ and here’s my active blog’s FAQ

3/27/23 - This blog has been reinstated by Support thirty six days after being summarily deleted by Tumblr with no explanation then or now except a pointed comment in the reinstatement notice about the mature content now being permitted here not including depictions of actual sexual activity which restriction this blog never violated. 

I wasn’t expecting this and I’m not sure how I’m going to react. Probably I’ll continue using the replacement I made, @paulgadzikowski, as my primary blog. If you’ve found your way here via an Ask-Me-Anything link at the main Hero of Three Faces site, please be patient, because I’m not sure how often I’ll remember to look at this blog in the future. Or send your ask at @paulgadzikowski. 

#tumblr #tumblr death

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3/27/23 - This blog has been reinstated by Support thirty six days after being summarily deleted by Tumblr with no explanation then or now except a pointed comment in the reinstatement notice email about the mature content now being permitted here not including depictions of actual sexual activity which restriction this blog never violated. 

I wasn’t expecting the reinstatement and I’m not sure how I’m going to react. Probably I’ll continue using the replacement I made, @paulgadzikowski, as my primary blog. If you’ve found your way here via an Ask-Me-Anything link at the main Hero of Three Faces site, please be patient, because I’m not sure yet how often I’ll remember to look at this blog in the future. Or send your ask at @paulgadzikowski.

Anyway here’s this blog’s FAQ and here’s my active blog’s FAQ

#tumblr #tumblr death

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Finish this poem 🥰

Roses are red, sugar is sweet..

#roses are red

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#i was persuaded #tumblr polls

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the removal of all nonconsenual kissing from Doctor Who by a new showrunner is not a concept I anticipated having to deal with today and for the rest of my life

The thing is, chibnall removing all non consential kissing from the show is one of my favourite things about him, so him cutting the master kissing ashad is on point and works for me.

On the other hand, the master is a bad guy. I don't necessarily mind a bad guy doing it. The master isn't known for their regard for consent. And it would have been Wildly Hilarious.

I'm so torn right now

#chris chibnall #doctor who #russell t davies #steven moffat

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Preview panel only. Click here for full cartoon. Or see the on-site navigation tutorial. Or see this tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons linked at about 10:00 Central US are new and link posts are pinned to the top of the blog. Cartoons linked at about 22:00 are from the archive and are only pinned during annual summer hiatus of new cartoons. Thanks for reading.

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link. Sarah Jane of Sarah Jane Adventures and Captain Jack of Torchwood stand talking on the Cardiff Plas at night outside Torchwood headquarters with Sarah Jane’s car nearby. The wormhole Torchwood monitors is open and visible through it is a thick forest under a blue sky. Sarah Jane is saying, “Would you really burn the entirety of the Forest of Cheem if that’s what it should come to?” Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.]

#sarah jane adventures #torchwood #fan art #fancomics

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holy shit it’s a horcrux

Everybody who wears The One Ring in LOTR starts to refer to it as ‘My Precious,’ and Tolkien’s right that is super creepy, but what I really love is that everybody does it, which says to me that this super powerful scary evil sentient ring has a favorite pet name and just, like, will not respond to anything else.

#the one ring #sauron #lord of the rings #lotr #the franchise which must not be named #did everyone but me already realize this

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#cartooning #drawing #cartoon reply

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the most viewed image in the world is ‘bliss’ by Charles o’rear (1941). It was featured as a default windows xp background.

“Bliss” was taken in January 1996 while driving through California’s napa and sonoma counties.

(via)

#bliss #windows xp

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Reblogging seems to be back but can’t seem to reply at all now. If this lasts a third day I’m reporting it

Anyone else having trouble replying ot reblogging tonight with posts created in the new text editor?

EDIT Hm. Doesn’t look like it. The poll I couldn’t reblog is reblogged all over my dash

#tumblr life

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rip victor frankenstein you would’ve loved build a bear

#llol

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#where on earth is this question coming from 

perhaps from the Association of Ordinary Solicitors

do in general like crossovers or is it rare?

In general I mostly like Doctor Who.

Uh. I dunno. I like them a lot as a thought experiment. In execution they can be hard to pull off without doing a major disservice to one or both (or all) of the sources. In general I don't really enjoy fanfiction.

That said, Scooby-Doo meets Batman: the Brave and the Bold is flawless. Rich Morris's The Ten Doctors is masterful. A Study in Emerald is just incredibly cute, though I prefer the disaster of a board game (before they ruined it with their cop-out of a second edition - For shame!) And my favorite comic is Arthur, King of Time and Space.

So I think on the balance I do, but primarily as a hypothetical or as something of a joke - playing with the pieces in recombinant formation, more than anything else.

#association of ordinary solicitors

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I think a lot about manufacturing processes because they’re the most impressive things humanity has ever done and injection moulding wacks me out the most. I was looking at the toy keyboard I bought a while back and it got me thinking about how much of what we consider to be the look of The Modern Era is down to injection moulding.

I hold that injection moulding is one of the pillars of modern society and technology. Can you imagine a world where you couldn’t use injection moulding. It’d look completely foreign. Like looking into an alien world. When you consider it you have to conclude that injection moulding has shaped our culture as much as the development of the camera or the invention of the piano or the creation of glassblowing. If archaeologists had to name our culture in the style of the Corded Ware culture or the Funnel Beaker culture, we’d be the Injection Moulded Plastic culture.

Injection moulding is how we get, oh, almost every plastic thing you’ve ever seen. The keys on your keyboard are injection moulded. Your phone case is injection moulded. Unless you’ve got a fancy milled metal laptop like a macbook then your laptop’s chassis is mostly injection moulded plastic. Your lightswitches are injection moulded. Plastic water bottles are injection moulded. Injection moulding is how we can produce extremely similar objects at breakneck pace for almost no money.

Now it’s important to rememeber that injection moulding isn’t cheap, or, well, injection moulding is only cheap for mass production. Every single unique piece of plastic needs a mould, and each mould will cost somewhere around thousands to tens of thousands of dollars EACH, depending on how tight the tolerances are and how complex the geometry is. Look at how many unique plastic pieces there are on that keyboard. Each one represents an investment of like $7000 into making this toy that gets sold for about $20, so there’s no way this would get made unless the company had plans to sell literally hundreds of thousands of these things.

(This mould can spit out one chair every 30 seconds and it probably cost twenty thousand dollars to make)

Once you learn to see injection moulding you can’t unsee it. It’s like learning about kerning, or musical intervals, or disability compliant designs, or the pantone colours, or about how many insulator disks are needed on different voltage power lines. You start to see it everywhere, you realise that everything in your life relies upon our ability to jam plastic through a heated screw and into a mould reliably, hundreds of times per day, all day, every day.

Unless you’re wandering alone in the wilderness (and even then, maybe: check your clothing), look around and see if there’s something injection moulded near you. I can tell you the answer, there definitely is. It’s inescapable.

What would a world without injection moulded parts look like? It’d be weird. Everything we think of as cheap and easy to make is suddenly expensive. Complex curves and slopes like you’d find on a one dollar potato peeler now require hours of work to form. Every budget consumer item would be like those cheap sheet metal PC cases that have drawn blood from everyone who build a PC in them. Everything now has the aesthetics of a Sun 3/280 system:

Heck, even this sheet steel cube has a dozen injection moulded parts visible.

All the chunky plastic housing of the 90′s and 2000′s, all the sleek curves of the 2010′s, all the cheap plastic knick-knacks, the plastic toy horses, the snugly-fitting appliance chassis, the stacking plastic chairs. All these things now cost ten times as much and have to be formed from heavy steel, or milled out of chunks of cast plastic, or replaced with formed sheet metal.

Our culture, artistic sensibilities, and sense of value has been irrevocably shaped by our ability to squeeze liquid plastic into a metal die.

#injection molded plastic

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Love the argument "oh but if you transition you'll have to deal with being trans your whole life" because first of all there is nothing bad about being trans and second I'm still gonna be trans even if I don't medically transition I'll just be trans and miserable instead of trans and happy

#transgender #gomez addams

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#half assing