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It took me four goddamn years to notice that, after the Master tells the Doctor that ✨somebody✨ destroyed Gallifrey and murdered their entire species in the process, the Doctor at NO POINT thinks to wonder why the hell the Master would respond to the discovery that an unknown entity burned their homeworld to the ground by immediately deciding to come to Earth and enact yet another Zany Scheme To Ruin Her Day. She's just like "totally in-character coping mechanism, no follow-up questions."

#and i mean she's not wrong #zany schemes are basically the equivalent of art therapy for the master #doctor who #the master #doctor who spoilers #doctor who series 12 #Youtube

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Today's the Eesti Laul final, so this will be the last Google Translates Estonian Television of the season.

Happy Mixed Sum Cottage On Wheels, everyone!

I was watching the Eesti Laul final this weekend, and Google tried to be helpful and translate the titles of the television programmes on the ETV website...

Tag yourself, I'm "Ferret Horse".

#eesti laul #google translate #estonia #Eurovision #eurovision 2024 #tag urself

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The 2024 edition!

I was watching the Eesti Laul final this weekend, and Google tried to be helpful and translate the titles of the television programmes on the ETV website...

Tag yourself, I'm "Ferret Horse".

#eesti laul #google translate #estonia #Eurovision #eurovision 2024 #tag urself

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Thank you to everyone who showed up in the tags to join me in collectively dunking on our favorite Drama Queen:

It was absolutely hilarious hearing the Toymaker brag about defeating the Master like it was some kind of flex, as though the Master hasn't died in practically every appearance, as though that dipshit's entire life hasn't been the equivalent of the Sixth Doctor regenerating by falling over, as though that idiot isn't somehow simultaneously the best at being basically immortal and the worst at being basically immortal, like this dumbass was killed by Lucy Saxon because he pretty much forgot she was there—you're not special, Toymaker.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #the giggle #the toymaker #the master #tags #images #image description in alt text

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It was absolutely hilarious hearing the Toymaker brag about defeating the Master like it was some kind of flex, as though the Master hasn't died in practically every appearance, as though that dipshit's entire life hasn't been the equivalent of the Sixth Doctor regenerating by falling over, as though that idiot isn't somehow simultaneously the best at being basically immortal and the worst at being basically immortal, like this dumbass was killed by Lucy Saxon because he pretty much forgot she was there—you're not special, Toymaker.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #the giggle #the toymaker #the master #hopping back into the tags to point out that 'I defeated the Master and now he lives in my mouth' is a pretty weird attempt at a flex too

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My Six-Week-Old: <freaks out over literally nothing>

Me: Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.

#ma'am this is a wendy's #parenting #little kitten adventures

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I suppose I should explain where I've been, since it's been about a year since I last posted anything.

In short, Life Happened. Most of it good.

My Very Patient Spouse and I spent the entire pandemic in an incredibly tiny apartment and so spent a lot of 2022 and 2023 trying to find a new place in a fairly dismal real estate market. Cut to May 2023: while I was busy preparing for a Star Wars convention, the Very Patient Spouse found a place we could actually buy instead of rent.

Due to a variety of scheduling weirdness, I didn't get to see the place until the night before we got the keys. Pro tip: do not marry anyone who you wouldn't trust to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars on something you won't get to examine until it's too late.

Luckily, I picked a good Spouse, and the Spouse picked a good condo. I painted the door to my home office TARDIS blue.

The downside, though, is that the part of my brain that organizes and plans complicated things like moving and the logistics of home ownership is the exact same part of my brain that organizes and plans complicated fanfic plots. So I had to take a break for a few months while day-to-day life settled down.

Spoiler: it did not settle down.

Something rather Significant happened, in fact, and she's currently dozing in my lap because she decided a few nights ago that her bassinet is The Absolute Worst. 

(It's a bit hard for me to even type on my phone when the creature I'm holding in my other arm occasionally tries to scratch my face off when she's fussy and it turns out that even at five weeks old, babies have fingernails that are surprisingly sharp.)

So am I done with writing? No. Well, hopefully not. Even while horribly sleep-deprived, the part of my brain that lives in imaginary worlds is still alive and kicking, so it's probably only a matter of time. But it may take more time than I expected.

Stay safe, everyone.

Love, Cat (and the Little Kitten too)

#fanfic #author's note #life update

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I would like to apologize in advance to everyone in my life who will have to put up with me spontaneously yelling "I FEEL BETT-ER IN MY SWEAT-ER" at any given moment between now and the middle of May

(or at least until it's too warm out to wear sweaters, which in Chicago could also conceivably not be until the middle of May either)

#eurovision #Eurovision 2023 #esc 2023 #esc malta #Eurovision Malta #the busker #dance (our own party)

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I was watching the Eesti Laul final this weekend, and Google tried to be helpful and translate the titles of the television programmes on the ETV website...

Tag yourself, I'm "Ferret Horse".

#eesti laul #google translate #estonia #Eurovision 2023 #Eurovision #tag urself

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In the aftermath of the Doctor Who finale “The Power of the Doctor,” I wrote a little coda to work out all of my silly Thoschei feelings.

Excerpt under the cut:

For the first time in her many lives, the Doctor knew what she would see next: that wide expanse of bare ground leading to the edge of an abyss, where her old consciousness would pass on to somewhere deep inside of her. Somewhere beyond.

It felt less horrible than her last visit here. This time, it felt like a well-deserved rest.

The same strange entity was still sitting by the precipice: the amalgamation of all of her past selves, a shifting blur that she supposed her own face would join once she took that final step.

“I’m ready,” she said as she approached them. And it was true: the lingering anxieties and regrets of her final moments before regenerating had vanished. She felt, for the first time in so long, at peace.

But to her surprise, the entity’s face(s) twisted in a combination of annoyance and vague embarrassment. “Commendable,” said the weathered face of her regeneration from the Time War, before shifting into the broad Northern accent of his successor, “but there’s been a bit of a…” He hesitated, then finished as the Doctor with the floppy hair and bow tie: “...thingy.”

“A thingy,” she repeated flatly. “What sort of ‘thingy’?”

Her first regeneration (well, the first one she could remember) answered: “To put it another way, there seems to be a queue.”

He pointed to something behind her and, in the distance, the Doctor saw a seated figure dangling his feet over the edge of the cliff.

Was it possible for one’s heart to sink and rise at the same time? she wondered. Well, she did have two hearts—perhaps they were going in different directions. That would be rather appropriate for this latest spanner in the works.

She took a deep breath and struggled to keep the petulance out of her voice. “Do I have to deal with this?”

She thought it was over. She thought she could finally rest.

“If you need an icebreaker, tell him he looks rubbish in that vest,” the vest’s owner suggested.

With a heavy sigh, the Doctor headed over to her very unwelcome visitor.

“There are easier ways to raid my wardrobe, you know,” she remarked, crossing her arms over her chest.

The Master didn’t look at her. “Tell him this vest looks better on me and he knows it,” he said, the hint of a smile on his face.

“How are you even here?” she demanded.

He continued to stare into the abyss. “Why wouldn’t I be here? I was the Doctor, remember?”

“No, you weren’t,” she shot back.

“Of course I was,” he said, finally glancing up at her. “You regenerated into me. Although,” he conceded, “I had been hoping to keep the original face—would have made things a lot easier to have kept looking like you—but regardless, it did work. I was the Doctor, and then I regenerated back into you, so here I am with all your other past incarnations.”

“If you’re the Doctor, then who the hell just shot me and forced me to regenerate?” the Doctor snapped. “Your evil twin?”

He hesitated.

“Exactly. Now get out,” she said.

“I didn’t want to go back,” he blurted out. “I didn’t want to go back to being me.” He shrugged sadly. “So a part of me managed to stay. I’m tenacious like that.”

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #the power of the doctor #thoschei #the doctor #the master

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Update: there's now an ebook version!

(note: if Amazon's not your thing, there are other seller's using the publisher's page linked in the original post)

Since I just got a bunch of new followers thanks to a random Doctor Who shitpost, I figured I'd use the opportunity to plug a historical fantasy book my friend just published and put a few more dollars in her pocket, because it's pretty fantastic:

The Marlen of Prague: Christopher Marlowe and the City of Gold, in which Kit Marlowe, reluctant magician, even more reluctant spy, and Big Gay Disaster, has his death faked for him and is shuffled off to Prague to track down rogue English magician John Dee. He is extremely unhappy about the whole thing and more or less decides to make it Everyone Else's Problem Too. Featuring intrigue, angst, magic, and a slew of real life historical figures.

#shameless promotion #historical fiction #christopher marlowe #kit marlowe #book reccomendation #poc authors #support my awesome and talented friend

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Since I just got a bunch of new followers thanks to a random Doctor Who shitpost, I figured I'd use the opportunity to plug a historical fantasy book my friend just published and put a few more dollars in her pocket, because it's pretty fantastic:

The Marlen of Prague: Christopher Marlowe and the City of Gold, in which Kit Marlowe, reluctant magician, even more reluctant spy, and Big Gay Disaster, has his death faked for him and is shuffled off to Prague to track down rogue English magician John Dee. He is extremely unhappy about the whole thing and more or less decides to make it Everyone Else's Problem Too. Featuring intrigue, angst, magic, and a slew of real life historical figures.

#shameless promotion #historical fiction #christopher marlowe #kit marlowe #book reccomendation #poc authors

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This might be the closest I've ever come to seeing a solid English definition of the Portuguese word saudade.

a lil bit emotional about how "nostalgia" originally meant longing across a displacement in space but in common parlance it refers to longing across a displacement in time... you don't go away from home and miss it, you stay where you are and time passes and home just disappears

#saudade #nostalgia #poem

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One of the things I find utterly delightful about NuWho is how all of the actors who have played the Doctor have gone on to play deranged villainous characters in comic book adaptations.

All of which is to say that I'm eagerly awaiting the Unhinged Villain chapter of Jodie Whittaker's career.

#doctor who #the doctor #i guess most of this is because Americans still use the Evil Brit character trope but still #it's like the bbc's casting department was like Who Could Also Convincingly Play The Master and just used that as their main criteria #chris eccleston #david tennant #matt smith #peter capaldi #thor the dark world #malekith #jessica jones #kilgrave #morbius #milo morbius #suicide squad #the thinker

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It took me a literal hour of searching my likes to find this goddamn gifset so I’m reblogging it so I can find it again the future.

You tripped...

#doctor who #ascension of the cybermen #the master #scrolling through all my early pandemic likes going 'whoa apparently I was a huge Problem'

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Every single time I encountered another Mara Jade cosplayer at Star Wars Celebration:

#star wars #mara jade #star wars celebration #swca2022

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Eurovision 2022 as Chris Fleming/Gayle Quotes

Last year I did various Eurovision acts as John Mulaney quotes so this year I thought I’d try a different Comedian Who Deals In Weird Metaphors.

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Austria (Lumix feat. Pia Maria, “Halo”)

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Bulgaria (Intelligent Music Project, “Intention”)

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Croatia (Mia Dimšić, “Guilty Pleasure”)

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Cyprus (Andromache, “Ela”)

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Czech Republic (We Are Domi, “Lights Off”)

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Estonia (Stefan, “Hope”)

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Finland (The Rasmus, “Jezebel”)

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France (Alvan & Ahez, “Fulenn”)

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Georgia (Circus Mircus, “Lock Me In”)

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Iceland (Systur, “Með hækkandi sól”)

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Ireland (Brooke, “That’s Rich”)

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Israel (Michael Ben David, “I.M.”)

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Latvia (Citi Zēni, “Eat Your Salad”)

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Lithuania (Monika Liu, “Sentimentai”)

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Malta (Emma Muscat, “I Am What I Am”)

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Moldova (Zdob și Zdub & Advahov Brothers, “Trenulețul”)

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Norway (Subwoolfer, “Give That Wolf a Banana”)

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Poland (Ochman, “River”)

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Romania (WRS, “Llámame”)

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San Marino (Achille Lauro, “Stripper”)

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Serbia (Konstrakta, “In Corpore Sano”)

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Slovenia (LPS, “Disko”)

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Spain (Chanel, “SloMo”)

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Switzerland (Marius Bear, “Boys Do Cry”)

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Ukraine (Kalush Orchestra, “Stefania”)

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There were more acts this year, but due to time I couldn’t get to them all.

Image Text/Sources:

First Image: “Where do you think we are, Italy?” (source: “Davis II”)

Austria: “And everyone’s looking at me like I’m at an Eyes Wide Shut party uninvited.” (source: “Baby Got Back Brings Out The Worst in People”)

Bulgaria: “They should invent something for guys with this kind of affliction, like a VR system where he can believe he’s in a perpetual state of giving you a tour of his house.” (source: “W.U.G”)

Croatia: “Too bad he was married.” (source: “Showpig”)

Cyprus: “NYU is just girls in fedoras trying to get addicted to cigarettes.” (source: “NYU”)

Czech Republic: “Terry if you haven’t made your bed, throw it away, it’s too late to make it now!” (source: “COMPANY IS COMING”)

Estonia: “Hi, I’d like to report a stolen horse? Actually, don’t worry about it.” (source: “Valentine’s Day”)

Finland: “It’s very apparent that they haven’t seen the light of day since ‘94.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 38: Lizard People”)

France: (description: person standing in the woods screaming) (source: “Meeting Boyfriends”)

Georgia: “Why do I feel like that guy washes his hands with strawberry milk?” (source: “Gigi the Christmas Snake”)

Iceland: “Enough turquoise to get into Stevie Nicks’ house (no questions asked).” (source: “Sick Jan”)

Ireland: “I’m like ‘preteen at her Bat Mitzvah disassociating doing “Greased Lightning” choreography.” (source: “Showpig”)

Israel: “I should have known how you kept going on about ‘how welcoming the burlesque community’s been.” (source: “Polyamorous”)

Latvia: “But I was off my face on Terra Juice, so I didn’t know right from wrong.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 3: The Movies”)

Lithuania: “And on ‘sexy chanteuse,’ she punched me so hard in the jaw that I flew against a piano.” (source: “Showpig”)

Malta: “Those aren’t freaks, those are attractive people with heavily-vetted idiosyncrasies.” (source: “St Vincent, Crazy Pete and Kevin Magee”)

Moldova: “He thinks his vibe is all ‘Don Draper’ when it’s really more ‘Hertz Rent-a-Car’.” (source: “W.U.G.”)

Norway: “It may look like a 2010 Corolla, but it’s not: that is in fact his spaceship.” (source: “My Day with the Alien”)

Poland: “Zero qualms about going full Streetcar Named Desire at 2PM at a Bertucci’s.” (source: “Am I a Man?”)

Romania: “I have never just had a twosome.” (source: “Gary Johnson Ad”)

San Marino: “And the boyfriend’s jazzing around, all proud of himself, like a seagull who just pulled off a Dorito heist at the beach.” (source: “What To Do If Your Boyfriend Proposes on Christmas Eve”)

Serbia: “For 51 years of my life, I walked around looking like the leader of a jazz band, until one day, by a freak accident, I messed up in the shower and I used dog shampoo. Sure, I was humiliated, but Terry: the results.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 22: Beef Hutchins”)

Slovenia: “How nice would it be to have the confidence of a teenage coffee drinker?” (source: “Teens Who Drink Coffee”)

Spain: “And he had this big ass, this big proud ass, this Christmas goose, this terrific bassoon player’s ass!” (source: “St Vincent, Crazy Pete and Kevin Magee”)

Switzerland: “You know a guy got into Radiohead too young if even his pocket rejects him.” (source: “Polyamorous”)

Ukraine: “I’m like the kid at the school dance wearing the bucket hat, grinding with the fire extinguisher.” (source: “Gary Johnson Ad”)

Closing Image: “You think that shit happens to John Mulaney?” (source: “Davis II”)

#eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2022 #esc 2022 #text post meme #chris fleming #chris fleming quotes #gayle #gayle series #image described