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Paul... I know it's very easy to assume everyone within a social circle is philosophically identical, but I am going to gently ask that you refrain from openly attacking my religion and my character on my own posts unless you actually disagree with what is being said

I actually think it's very weird how St. Peter's common (Protestant) cultural portrayal is the arbiter of who gets into heaven. Sure, he reads the book and such, but it feels like heavenly judge/bouncer is a role he then usurps from Christ the Judge.

I know I shouldn't judge based on a punchline, but it does seem like changing Peter from head of the earthly Church as Christ's vicar to making him the minor god of individual salvation is far more idolatrous than whatever the pope is.

#this was a heck of a thing to wake up to #I'm so sorry OP

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why does it annoy me so much when people try to make every character an actor has ever played the same character?? i know it's fun to try to make it fit, i know it's fun to think about it, i know i probably did it myself at some point. and yet, whenever i see it i get so irrationally annoyed now.

please give the other characters and the other universes their autonomy back. they have a right to exist seperate from each other, they have their own unique quirks and qualities. maybe the actor worked hard to make them all different. i like to honour that.

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Have you heard of this show?

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Peri and Tegan can very much come too

Jo, Martha and Clara should form a “had to deal with the doctor and the master’s shit” club.

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Bring back the weird noises from Classic Who. Why does everything have to be so polished and fancy nowadays I want a weird duck-like instrument playing a 5 second instrumental between scenes

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Happy Friday

#customer absolutely correct I see #animal death cw

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Arthur trying to convince the very Not Okay Jonathan to go to sleep?

Thank you for the prompt! I enjoyed drawing this.

Of course there's an even better version of this scenario here.

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(I'm still taking art requests— feel free to drop an ask or comment with suggestions!)

#dracula daily #dracula spoilers

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I had rather wondered

dichotomous plants are so weird man. like they’re not even weird it’s the becoming the dichotomous that’s weird. i went to a talk once about a population of strawberries that were accidentally slowly becoming dichotomous and they didn’t even have sex chromosomes, like they had like a bunch of genes across a bunch of chromosomes that did a little bit of sex but not a lot and it added up to one whole sex kind of but not enough that they had all collectively decided to be one sex or the other, so there was still like, a sizable chunk of the population that was producing flowers of both sexes. like they were microdosing it. taking the sex genes for a spin in the strawberry patch

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That pun is so bad she immediately woke up and beat him with his own arm

We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.

And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.

A child.

Now that's too big, surely.

But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.

And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.

In normal circumstances.

Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.

No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.

And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.

But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.

"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"

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Monstrous May 2024

Once again, the time is nearly upon us - with less than a month left of April, it's soon time for #Monstrous May!

Monstrous May was first established in 2021, and I've arranged prompts for each May since - for each day of the month of May, there is a prompt involving and invoking the monstrous.

Create art, sculpture, write fiction, poetry, make whatever you feel inspired to! Create for as many or as few days as inspire you, collaborate with friends, and have fun.

Fan creations are just as welcome as original ones, and naturally, erotic and adult creations are as well as SFW ones!

Have some questions? Here’s the FAQ from 2021. Otherwise, feel free to reply with any questions or HMU with more of them!

Want to see prompts from previous years?

Here’s 2021.

Here’s 2022.

Here's 2023.

#monstrous may

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just finished the chase serial! The highlight was obviously Ian and Barbara going home and the doctor admitting he would miss them (although, Barbara making shoot-y noises and pretending to gun down daleks should get an honourable mention). I wonder how long it’ll be before another companion joins the mix, I totally thought Steven was gonna find them last minute to escape but poor guy just got left in a jungle with his teddy bear lol.

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A solar eclipse and the Milky  Way seen from the ISS

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Forget-me-not watercolour

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Dafang Cascade Frog (Amolops dafangensis), family Ranidae, found in Dafang County, Guizhou Province, China

Newly described (2024).

These frogs are found in mountainous streams filled with moss covered rocks.

Males do not have vocal sacs.

photograph via: Shi-Ze Li, Jing Liu, Xiao-Cong Ke, Gang Cheng & Bin Wang

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everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

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I am so jealous!

Well, uh, uh, RASPBERRIES

The red columbine is blooming