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imagine youre a teenager and one day you decide to steal a car because it looks fast and sleek and you want to travel on the road. so you go on a trip in your stolen car and you love it so much that you dedicate your life to the road. you spend your years travelling, visiting new places and picking up hitchhikers, all in the same car you stole, which at this point has become old and run down and needs refurbishing every now and then, but you never replace it because you live in this car now and it's your home. at one point your actual house was demolished and your family members are dead. the people you've hooked up with in your car have broken up with you and gone away. youve changed many times as a person, but your shitty car has stayed the same, the one constant in your hectic life. it's the last one of its model after they stopped manifacturing it: that's how old it is. then one day, your car suddenly breaks down in the middle of the road. you go out to get help and find a lady who weirdly knows all about you. she knows all the places youve been to and the people youve gone there with. as you talk with her more, you begin to realize that, somehow, the soul of your car—the one that's sitting broken outside—has transferred into the body of a human woman. your car is alive and now speaking to you, and she remembers all the moments you two have spent together, every word youve told her when you thought you were alone, every desire and complaint youve expressed to her in the middle of the night. your car is speaking to you, and she tells you that however much you love her, she loves you equally back. that you never really stole her all those years ago because she wanted to travel with you, and she wouldn't change you for anyone else in the world. you speak with your living human car, and you realize that, hey, she's kind of funny actually, and you might be a little bit in love with her, and she might be a little bit in love with you. but the desert you're stuck in is also sentient and evil, so your human car dies in your arms in order for her soul to transfer back into the machine and drive you away. so now you're back on the road with your car the same as always, except now you know she's sentient and maybe has feelings for you, so you sometimes let go of the wheel and let her take you wherever she wants. that's what happened between the doctor and the tardis in that one episode

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I’m having so many thoughts about Doctor Who and how it seems to be leaning into the fact that it’s a tv show.

The Toymaker, the Maestro, and the Golbin King all having campy, over-the-top villainous musical numbers, paired with the Space Babies realization that a villain was created because it necessary to tell a story. The way the Doctor kept saying “babies” and then correcting himself to say “space babies” because that’s the name of the episode. The new sonic looking more like a television remote than a screwdriver and the Doctor using it to press “mute”. “I thought that was non-diegetic”. Looking directly at the audience and winking. Seemingly using an actor’s name as a clue.

I don’t know what to make of any of it. Doctor Who is so fucking back.

#doctor who spoilers #i swear RTD has somehow casted HIMSELF as the big bad of this season #timeless child origin is our world (the universe where DW is a TV show) #and the doctor came through into the DW universe #which is why he has the power to regenerate (bc the writers came up with it for TV)

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you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.

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The Doctor being able to to hear non-diegetic music explains why Eleven always fixed his bowtie so dramatically. Motherfucker could always hear 'I am the Doctor' blasting and acted accordingly.

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happy bill watterson emerges from the recesses of suburban ohio day to those who celebrate

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is it fucking weird to anyone else to think that deer are like, everywhere

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s credits have almost exclusively Japanese people in them; but one name sticks out:

By searching around, people have found this forum post from 2007:

Follow your dreams.

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ugh. some fruit has a venomous wooden bead hidden deep inside it

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TIL: Paper airplanes were not created to mimic real airplanes. They predate them.

via beatlyzer.com

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"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

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If you watch Doctor Who on Disney+, it gives you a 'skip intro' button, and if anything shows that Disney does not understand the appeal of Doctor Who, it's that. Who skips the Doctor Who intro. It's the least skippable intro in television history. It never even occurred to me to do that.

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me and the five other people that didn’t see the northern lights are throwing a party and you’re not invited btw

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one thing they don't tell u is if it's niceys outside u can go outside to look at phone . just go under the shade. it's literally better vibes than being inside looking at phone