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flammenkobold · 2 months

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TMagP Quick Thoughts Episode 8

Quick thoughts while listening to the episodes and then some additional thoughts:

Listening rambles:

architecural induced stresses sooooo anything smirke huh xD

"architectural hunger"

the student's sources are just: me.

"unique personal experience" aka it came to me in a dream

love the background music

YOU ARE HERE

I sure am still here for this funky little podcast company

the whole diner scene is giving the crowd vibes from the vacation gerry episode whose title and episode number i forgot but which i love. lost in the crowd?

Alex doing his robot voice!

alice and gwen should just hatefuck at this point imo

I WAS JUST THINKING GERRY AND HERE HE IS???? MY SONBOY? ALIVE? HAPPY? TRULY GOES BY GERRY?

GERTRUDE IS HERE TOO?

STATIC THERE WAS STATIC!

I AM SCREECHING INTO THE VOID OMG

I checked the transcript and: Gee Gee

and now we get a Georgie mention too?

WHAT EVEN IS THIS EPISODE

I am losing my mind over here

don't mind me staring at a wall for a bit to sort out all my emotions

i cannot with this podcast i love it so much

Staring has been done so on to:

Slightly More Coherent Meta-ish Thoughts

Is Georgie TMA or TMP Georgie? Are her and Celia and some others doing a Sliders (does anyone remember the show? just me? anyhow). Did they step through a rift on purpose or by accident and are now trying to get back to their original universe?

If it's not tma!Georgie is an integral part of Georgie making podcasts in any universe? How does Celia feel about it (if she is the Celia from the lil tma!tunnels cult), having someone she used to know be there but it not being the person she knew?

Did Gertrude rescue Gerry from the Institute? If not how did they meet? Why are they going with grandma instead of mother like they did for the hospital in TMA? Where does the nickname Gee Gee come from? Is it just to annoy her? Is it an alliteration for Grandma Gertrude?

Does she dye his hair now?

Also Gerry gives me so much artist hipster vibes I bet he has colourful hair and wears floral shirts and everything. The transcript states that he drinks herbal tea for breakfast so you know he's that kind of artist. (I hope someone draws both Gerry's and it's that barbie and goth house meme personified)

Did meeting Gerry early changed the course of Gertrude's character as well? Like instead of being this battle hardened cold Archivist, she met this kid and thats it, she's had enough of this place, she's getting out and taking him with her.

final thought:

....tmp!gerry definitely learned how to play mrs robinson on a ukulele just to annoy gertrude i am calling it now

#the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #tma quick thoughts #zero thoughts #tma meta #spoilers #tmagp spoilers

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lycanlovingvampyre · 1 year

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MAG 154 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: apple cutting + sitting thrilled on the couch.

Ah yes, I remember it so clearly when I heard that episode the first time. I was almost done cutting apples, but I didn't quite feel satisfied after MAG 152 and 153, those are statement that were a bit subtle for me. So I thought "Okay, I'll give one more episode a shot" (even though the episode title didn't sound particularly interest-piquing) and then it’s a Gertrude tape and I had some problems following a lot of Gertrude statements before, I don't know, her voice makes me sleepy xD And I was already prepared to drift away during this episode again and felt a bit demotivated. But I kept going. Well, best fucking decision ever. As soon as I realized she's reading from the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead I was like "Ohhhhh!"

JON: "And I started to pay attention to the ones I… wasn’t drawn to. The tapes I instinctively wanted to discard." That's very clever, go against what the Eye wants!

JON: "There was one, this one, that my hand… pulled back from. I dropped it, twice, when I went to pick it up." Lol, that actually sounds funny. Like "Whoops! I dropped it... Woaa, dropped it again, ahaha, clumsy me."

JON: "I am the avatar of awful knowledge and revealed secrets." Oh Jon, you theater kid!

GERTRUDE: "“When he opened his eyes, he of course saw nothing" Ok, she already read that part and still couldn't guess what was necessary to quit. Already talked about this in MAG 111 - because of this I think those memory-ghosts of the Catalogue work like the appearances of people plugged into the Matrix, a mental projection of their self. How they most liked seeing themselves. So when it comes to depicting Book!Eric, I think he'd still have intact eyes. Cause he says he "destroyed them completely", I can't imagine how one could not see that, if the appearance is the same as in the moment of death.

I love how similar Eric and Gerry sound, and I don't think it's because of the ghostly echo. After all, we do have a recording of Gerry without that effect. Very good VA choice!

ERIC: "I know that I’m not really Eric; I’m just a memory someone wrote down. It hurts, most of the time." Primarily it's probably meant to be an effect of the Catalogue's nature, of the Fears just doing their job. But I guess the knowledge of not actually being you also makes it weird and uncomfortable. Sometimes I think about that, like what are we anyway? Isn't the memory of oneself's entire life basically what makes one that particular person (+ hardwired personality probably)? Because it still matters on which hardware we run. Otherwise, how would we explain body dysphoria?

ERIC: "You too. (beat) You got old." GERTRUDE: "Better than being dead." ERIC: (short sigh of a laugh) "Fair enough. To be honest, I’m impressed, more than anything. Hard to get old in this business. You either die, or you, uh, stay young. (short, uncomfortable pause) …How did Mary look?" GERTRUDE: (same sort of short laugh) "She got old, too." Well, let's see, this is in 2008. My educated guess from MAG 35 was that Gerry was born sometime around 1983 or 1984. Perhaaaps 1985 when we'll go with the most extreme numbers from MAG 35. We don't know when exactly Mary killed Eric, Eric says he left the Archives months before she killed him. So, Eric died.. what? 1984 or 1985? So he hasn't seen Gertrude in over 20 years! He probably saw Mary a few times since she summoned him to bounce off ideas of him. But even if she kept doing that for a few years and then stopped, 15 years would still be a long time with visible changes^^

ERIC: "And Gerry? Have you seen my son?" Nawwww... He actually calls him Gerry, like he always wanted friends (and probably loved ones) to call him.

ERIC: "Yeah, it doesn’t feel great. But being dead, I s’pose you don’t feel things quite as strongly. Little bit – flat." Ha, flat like a piece of paper!

ERIC: "Elias? Elias Bouchard, seriously?!" GERTRUDE: "Hm, he’s changed a lot." <.<

GERTRUDE: "So. What did they not want me to know?" ERIC: "I quit." GERTRUDE: "You – Sorry, you quit?" ERIC: "Yeah. I figured out how." Well, on my first listen I was sitting at the edge of the sofa at that point, staring wide-eyed at the TMA logo in the YT video on screen.

ERIC: "You know, you were never actually all that nice to me when I worked for you, Gertrude. Not like Michael, or Emma." Hahahaha, very good, let her dangle a bit! I'd like to say I'd do the same but I know that in the end I never want to give people, one: what they did to me, and two: something they could hold against me in return.

Eric: "I don’t know what she saw in me, not really." Not-really counter of S4: 20!

ERIC: "You were almost there, you know, with your theory that James could watch us from any eye, even an illustration. What did you do? How did you sever that link?" GERTRUDE: "My God!" Yeah, at that point I said "Fuuuuck" out loud... My spouse was sitting on the couch next to me was like ?? and I just kept saying "Fuck" over and over again. First: Eyes are one of the body parts I find the most horrific... I can watch every body horror torture splatter movie without problems but when it's about eyes... Fuck off! If I'd be in that position I'd be like "Yeah, you know what, I actually like the Archives! Screw that, y'all go ahead and do what you must do, but keep me out of it." Second, I love moments like this in fiction! The last one like this I remember was when I read The Last Wish (The Witcher) by Sapkowski, specifically The Lesser Evil. When that innkeeper (or whatever that guy was) explained what happened in Tridam and it dawned on me what Renfri was about to do (just like it dawned on Geralt in that moment. I love having the same reaction like characters. When I can discover huge things alongside them).

[TAPE CLICKS ON.] [JON SIGHS HEAVILY.] JON: "Fuck." [TAPE CLICKS OFF.] Yah, same...

JON: "I know. I know what you said, but I just – (inhale) I think I’ve found a way for us to leave the Institute." [BRIEF PAUSE.] MARTIN: "O-kay…?" JON: "Yeah. But it’s – (heavy inhale) It’s pretty drastic." MARTIN: (hah) "What, you going to gouge your eyes out, or something?" [BEAT.] MARTIN: (gets it) "Fuck off!" Such an iconic piece of dialogue xD

MARTIN: "Erm… like, I mean… permanently? Or…" This has the same energy as answering "In general?" to the question of "Haven't seen a dog, have you?"... Those idiots^^

JON: "But we could leave here, you and me. Escape." Eeek <3

JON: (squawk) "Uh, I, I don’t know. I don’t – know. But… maybe it’s worth it? The risk – y-you and me, together, getting out of here –" [MARTIN SNIFFS.] JON: "– one way or another." MARTIN: "Jon." Double Eeeek <3

So what's going on here has a name, URST or UST. It stands for UnResolved Sexual Tension, although I don't like that term cause it's just as well used for unresolved romantic tension. Especially when we're talking about a couple with an ace character, or when it's used in a show for minors about minors (Miraculous is a textbook example). So basically it's a trope to keep suspense going on by having all kinds of obstacles to keep the love interests from actually getting together, usually also having them pine after each other over and over again + once in a while giving them a scene in which it looks like they finally get somewhere. Full disclosure: I'm a sucker for that trope. I loved that in Inu Yasha, I love this in Miraculous (although it's getting a bit destroyed by all the What-if-episodes with a subsequent time reset or memory wipe) and of course I love it in TMA.

JON: "I mean, whatever their plan is for me, I am damn sure that doing that isn’t it. I’d derail everything – we could derail everything, and then just – leave!" Time travel fix-it for TMA is extremely difficult because you basically have these powerful forces which had it all planned out. I think there are actually two points in TMA where it could really take a very different turn. One of them is here. If Jon blinds himself, he won't belong to the Eye anymore and can't complete the ritual. And given what Annabelle says in MAG 197 it sounds like Jon will even survive being cut off from the Eye. (There’s of course still the problem of just going ahead with a new Archivist, so it’s only a temporary resolve...)

MARTIN: "Nothing; It’s just – (one more laugh) It’s just ironic, that’s all." That's totally in the sense of "At any time before taking Peter's deal I would have run away with you in a heartbeat. But back then you never came to me and now when you do it's me who won't do it"-ironic, right?

@a-mag-a-day

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a-mag-a-day · 1 year

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Nothing big enough to make a post so:

ARCHIVIST Gerry wasn’t yours. You had no right --

I LOVE HOW LIKE AAA ANGRY HE SOUNDS?

JULIA Sounds like you’ve got pretty chummy. (Threateningly) Where is he? ARCHIVIST Gone.

And then this!!! Fuck yeah, dude, antagonize the people who won't hesitate to kill you!! This is genuine I'm enjoying this, I like it when jon gets angry it's kinda hot ngl

ARCHIVIST (Winded) Not by blood maybe. JULIA Shut it.

it's not a good idea to back talk to people who are about to kill you, but also like... cool. it's cool.

I mean like I like Daisy's character development, she did fucked up things, she's never forgiven or redeemed for that, but she's trying to be better. Idk, Daisy's character has really helped me unlearn a lot of that black and white thinking that I had going on. I like her.

"Gerry wasn't yours" ours 🥺🥺🥺

Also "(Winded) Not by blood maybe" is "third degree maybe?" All over again, good god Jon xD

#a mag a day #tma #the magnus archives #episode asks #mod ashes #tma spoilers #mag 153 #landscaping-your-mind

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grigori77 · 10 months

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Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 65

Oh dear gods Sam what the sweet fuck are you doing? I mean ... "Matt has actual DRAGON HAIR!" Um ... what? Wait ... six foot THREE? I don't remember you being THAT tall, Samuel ... Oh, a Scottish accent? Here we go. Beat that, Sam. Liam: "You want direction? This is it. Give me fucking Scottish." Sam proceeds yo THOROUGHLY butcher his delivery in the worst way. Nice ...

The Third Seal has been opened ... O.O

Chetney Pock'O'Pea dice? Watch Travis' face INSTANTLY light up ...

Wow, way to send Marisha into total hysterical laughing collapse, Travis ... XD

Okay ... back to business as usual at the table. How long will THIS last, I wonder?

Orym: "You look different, Letters." No shit, right? That is gonna make any serious stuff REALLY HARD to get into the frame of mind for ...

Ah yes. The threesome ...

Wow, Laudna is getting REALLY worked up over this ... yeah, Bor'Dor has REALLY fucked her up. I don't blame her at all.

Oh yeah, it's true, Imogen was FRANTIC the whole time, Laudna.

YES!!! Ashton's onto something there. Unwind! Definitely! Just CHILL OUT!!!

Wow, Chetney is actually offering himself up ad a sexual release mechanism ... okay then ...

Laudna: "We have the Harness." Ashton: "Was that part of the sex thing?"

Chetney really is so hung up on the Angel fight, it's a little hilarious ...

Next moves, then? What's the plan?

What ARE Laudna's hands doing?

Wait, go to Zephrah? Right now? I mean Orym has a point, they need to check in on Keyleth ...

Imogen essentially calling Orym an object from Zephrah ... Ashton: "She's objectifying you."

The goat ... that exploded ... yeah ... poor Gerry ...

FCG: "Hey! I feel guilty! That's like a human emotion!"

A Plane Shifting key to the Feywild? Hmmmm ...

Eidolons! Yes! And the Map? Hmmmmm ... yes, pooling information, cool, they can do that now! Yeah ... and the Harness ...

Laura: "What does that mean?" Matt: "I don't know, we're all having a mild stroke right now."

FCG: "We've seen you ask nicely, and it's not nice." Ashton: "Well, we had shit to do."

Imogen: "Where are you going?" Laudna: "Wherever YOU'RE going." Awwww ... and then Laudna bursts into tears because she loves the corset so much. :3

Milo! Hey!

Oh yeah, Milo's magic ... yup, it's on the fritz a bit like with everybody else. And he's all kinds of WURED right now ... Ashton: "Were your meds arcane? I can't remember."

What's in the note? Seriously? Don't tease us, mate! Day and a half? What even IS THIS?!!! Whoa ... his HAMMER?!!! That's a big deal ...

That's true, Ashton in a good mood is just unnerving ...

Ashton: "I don't wanna be worthless right now. This is not a time to be worthless."

Telling Ashton about FRIDA ... and his reaction is ADORABLE. Wow, he is really just SO HAPPY for his friend finally getting what he needs ...

IS Ashton actually the smartest person in the group? I mean it could well be true, but still ...

Imogen and Laudna now? Oh, here we go ...

Oh for the gods' sake, Samuel ... that bloody flask ... XD

Back to Zhudanna's place! A genuine homecoming ...

Awwwww ... I love this old girl so much ... yes! Hugs! "I'm fragile!" :3

Wow, she's PAINTING now? Oh, that's so cool ... and she's GOOD too, clearly.

They're gonna go do her shopping, that's so sweet! Yeah ... cauliflower, potatoes, lemons ... TWO loaves of bread? AND lavender oil?

Making up ... awwww ...

Imogen: "Can I kiss you?" WHAT?!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!!!

SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK?!!! IS IT HAPPENING?!!! IT'S HAPPENING?!!! IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING!!!

Laudna: "I don't think you realise how much of an anchor you are for me, and when you weren't there, I was adrift."

ANOTHER kiss! Aaaaaaaah!

Yeah, Dead Girl needs healing BIG TIME for the Bor'Dor aftermath, and Imogen is exactly what she needs. Help her, Imogen!

Imogen: "He attacked you, first of all, so FUCK HIM." YES. "Power's very tempting. I won't judge you either way."

Awwwww ... gods they're both so adorable and I am SO HAPPY they're finally there ...

Oh shit ... who the fuck ... oh shit, tell me it's not ... LUDINUS, YOU FUCKER!!!

Yeah, this is totally giving me Masters of the Universe movie vibes from the Skeletor projections ... shit, and this crap is starting to SINK IN with some people? Fuck ...

Oh boy, dress shopping for Laudna, yay ... so cool ... and this is getting SO ADORABLE now ... Regency romance era? Awwwwwww ... that's so cute ... I'm sorry, blacks can CLASH?!!! How's that work? Victorian Spooky too? :3 Yes. Nice ...

Weave Piercer Gloves? Sweet ... Nice! Yes, Laudna can totally make that work ...

The Pate house! As a BACKPACK?!!! Awesome ... I love that so much ... yeah, Laudna's new look sounds FANTASTIC ...

On to Chetney, Fearne snd Orym ...

Ajit Daahl, hello ... yup, looks like things are different HERE too ... hmmmm ...

Here we go, Orym fills him in, then. Yup ...

Oh yeah, hello there, mister Platinum Dragon ... XD I love a good name drop ...

Crap, more magical prison escapes? Nuts ...

Ah, what does HE think is happening? Lovely ...

Eidolons? Oh yeah ... he doesn't know them? Fearne is ACTUALLY making an insight check? Whoa, WHISPERS?!!! Really?

Oh, he can point them to somebody to get a read on the old magic stuff? Hmmm ... oh, who's THIS?

Daramom? Okay ... wow, this dude is OLD ...

21? As if Orym COULD roll bad on a Perception check ...

The Harness has stumped him. Of course ... and now he's gone back to his soup ... XD

Chetney: "Anything else, Fearne?" Fearne: "No. I thought I was onto something, but turns out I ... wasn't."

Chetney's magnetism grows ... DAY BY DAY ... "Hey baby, this face is a curse."

Little kid: "Why is she so furry?" Fearne: "I don't know, why are you so hairless?"

They're being followed? Hmmm ... what ... the smell of MEAT PIES?!!! What?

Oh, so it's NOT actually a good smell? Okay, now I'm suspicious ...

And now it's making him HUNGRY?!!! A wisdom check? Oh shit ... and now he's GONE!!! Crap ... chase him!

A short cloaked man? With a pouch? Oh boy ... IT'S A TRAP!!! FUCK!!!

A net? Crap ... a SILVER NET?!!! SHIT ... Matt: "And that's where we're gonna go to break!" WHAT?!!! NOW?!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

And we're back ... to riotous laughter ... yup ...

An elderly dwarven gentleman? Hmmm ...

Wow, Fearne just BLIGHTS him on the spot! Of course she does ... 31 points of damage? Ouch!

Dwarf: "It's just business." Fearne: "Fuck. Off. This IS my business." Matt: "Roll for initiative." Yeah, that's about right ...

Chetney's up first ... Blood Curse of Bloated Agony? Oooooooh ... and a strength check? 19? Okay ... WHAT?!!! That's NOT enough?

Orym slides under Fearne's legs and then comes in for a seriously sweet leg sweep ... oh nice! And a second one with his sword ... Nice again! Badass, wee man!

A "problematic cursed beast"? What the hell?

Even with the Bloated Agony this guy STILL gets a hit in? Whoa ... and now he's trying to drag Chet off ...

A silver warhammer? SERIOUSLY?!!!

A last kiss? Persuasion or deception? 26? Impressive indeed, Fearne! Stone Skin? Hmmm ... oh yeah, definitely, against the silver? Smart!

Mister! Yeah! Do something, monkey man!

Aha! Turmoil! But he's still all tangled up in the net ... Shatter? Okay ...

Orym flips onto his feet again and CUTS THE NET!!! And Chetney ... yeah ... 9 damage, but it's worth it. Not free yet, but getting there ...

Indomitable ... and EVEN THEN Orym fails his Wisdom save ... fuck, and now he's CHARMED!!! Crap!

Scorching Ray! Burn his arse, Fearne! Third level ... six D6 of fire damage ... 23? Oof ... and then Mister uses Fiery Teleportation to jump in and attack? Sweet!

Tuyen? Who?

AND they trashed the net! Nice!

The shopkeeper from the Prism Emporium? Really? So this is like some SUPER PETTY shit?

And now Chetney's invisible. Perfect. Shimmying into cover ...

He just Misty Steps away? Crap ...

Oh well, at least that's over with. But what the fuck was that even about? Oh yeah, the threat ... that's right, he did ... yeah, Chetney's not entirely blameless in this ...

So, on to the Duskmaven's temple in the Smoulder Spire, then ...

Well they're not locked up, at least. That's probably a good sign. In theory ...

Fancy looking priest, definitely ... quite friendly underneath that hood, too. Hmmm ...

"The skein is tangled, and the threads are knotted.," Hmmmm ...

Oh yeah, clearly they're having as much trouble keeping in touch with their god too. Hmmm ... but they do still FEEL her, so ... yeah ...

Drink the waters? Okay ...

It's very cold ... but refreshing. In a chilly way ... hmmm ...

Invisible Chetney slurping Holy water really loudly ... OH MY GODS ... XD

Sam: "Did someone summon a root?"

So ... they all gad some kind of weird subtle spiritual experience, then?

A DEEP RED SKY?!!! Crap ... Oh! Of course! It's some crazy vision ... okay ...

A period of MOURNING?!!! For who? One of the gods? Who?

Orym blessing his shield with the waters ... yeah, smart ...

Heading out again ... back to the others, then ...

Back at the Spire By Fire ...

Laudna's parading her new outfit and I don't blame her at all. It's adorable.

Pate: "Hey Imogen! I saw what you did!" Snitch!

FCG baked Laudna some goodies! Oooooh!

Laudna: "Wait, the meat pie ambushed you?"

So this means that Vax is still technically THERE, he's just trapped. Okay ... so then there's hope ...

Yes. Get to Keyleth, get her advice. Smart move.

Snd now FCG's trying to convert the others to his Changebringer faith ...

Chetney's still being alive is a miracle now, apparently ... XD

Oh hello, moody Ashton is back with a vengeance, it seems. "I'm here to save US." Yup, that's about right. "I'm not gonna pick a god. They can pick ME."

Laudna: "Why do I have to have faith in the gods? Can't I just have faith in all of you?" YES!!! EXACTLY!!!

Yeah, this really isn't going to be solved anytime soon ...

Laudna: "it sounds like the harness ... was harnessing ... fuck, I lost thd thread!"

Fearne and FCG BOTH planning on Scrying on Ludinus and Lillianna ...

Cool, so Fearne is like TOTALLY channeling through nature to find that big scary bastard now ... and finds NOTHING. Crap. No joy, then ... yeah, he's totally blocking any attempts, then ...

Meanwhile FCG attempting Imogen's mum, instead ... oh, okay, is it WORKING? Cool ... oh, the dream, the dust storm dream again! Okay ... yes! That's her! And somebody else ... oh shit! It's Ludinus! There he is! They're together! Where are they?

Holy fuck are they ... THEY ARE!!! THEY'RE ON THE FUCKING MOON!!! THEY'RE ON RUIDUS!!!

I love it. FCG's mind is blown because he's just received irrefutable proof that Exandria IS ROUND!!! XD

Yup, sometime they're gonna go to the moon. It's like a foregone conclusion now ... I can't wait ...

So rest, then to Zephrah, right?

Not enough charge ... crap ... okay, waiting an extra day, then. Never mind ...

Ashton's hammer has been UPGRADED?!!! Sweet ... so they've used the cavern crystals to turn it into a chaos weapon? Awesome ...

Orym tries to send a message to Caleb ... D100? Bollocks ...

Imogen Sending to Ira ... okay ... D100 again? Balls ... same again ...

FCG tries to Scry on him ... he's out there, but can't see him ... okay then...

Fearne tries instead ... oh wait ... oh, it's WORKING?!!! Wow ... trudging through a dust storm? A RED dust storm? Holy fuck ... so does that mean IRA'S on Ruidus too? Oh, there's someone else there too? Who is it?

Whoa ... so what ... was that a Reilora?

Okay. Sleep. Then Zephrah!

Right, charge the staff, then ... and ... here we go ... whoosh! All right ... mountains, trees ... a precipice? Yes, that's it ... yeah, they're there, definitely ...

The tree! Yay! And THIS is where Matt chooses to close the episode ... Nice. Perfect place for it ...

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brilliantfantasticgeronimo · 2 years

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the power of the doctor

c+p my livetweets

first note: no one but maybe Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis has gotten the cybermen quite right... sure it's fun to have villains boasting, but cybermen (or ~cybermasters) are scary bc they're not supposed to do That (that being any emotion at all)

do appreciate the continuity of bringing back the ~hybrids~ (tm)... .

still holding out hope that there will be fallout/consequences to the last universe reset / Armageddon and the doctor's "solution" there (1% of hope)

can't tell if Too Dark Scene or Crappy Bandwith T_TACE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HIDE YOUR WIFE HIDE YOUR PROFESSORS

SHE'S HEEEEEREMOUTH-ON-LEGS-WALLABY-QUEEN SHUT UP NO ONE TLAK TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

im gonna go ahead and say this makes canon one of my favorite short eu stories - https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Girls%27_Night_In_(short_story)

"it's only been 3 decades for me" rip all the timelord-ace lore lol (in this continuity at least)dan slow down crazy it's only been 10 minutes

lmao i died @ the house still not being there xD

for future analysis: message about the comforts of modernity / technology doing away with regional cultures / identities?

i love my contact-lensed hypnotic trash son

yaz: is yours, isn't it? (...) yours from another time? me, immediately, without breathing: VALEYARD?????? RANI!!!?!?!?!

i love this nonesense:

u know what would go great with that new UNIT building.. . .. a UNIT. . .. spin off

“are you ready for this?” “no! ””me neither!” me neither!!!!!!!

graphic design is my passion

im screaming chibnall is actually Getting It Right TOT

i love how this is proving the widely held fandom wisdom(tm) that 13 would not get away with her bs if she had been traveling with tegan and / or donna lol

one day it WILL be the valeyard / the rani and then You Will All See

and that was the day 23.342.340.923 university collage professor thoschei AUs were born and then launched into space

im enjoying this a lot but i do have to give the critique that the emotional grounding of 13's and yaz's arcs feels very thin (as individuals and as a pair) and hasn't been the focus 20 minutes in, better hurry up @ show

I waited 2 years for this omg ot3 dynamicsssss

HE'S IN T H E S T A I R S I REPEAT. HE'S IN **THE** STAIRS!!!!

gotta love a petty in-character reference

"oh, and ace! or should I say dorothy?" (...) "last time I saw you, you were half-cat" epic burns all around in this sunday night

the cameraperson doing those close af angles in the thasmin bit... i see you cameraperson

waiting for a twist because we've done the One Good Dalek thing like 3 times in new who asdfg

i think Dhawan's master is forever gonna be my favorite master by far. the guys simply had no bad scenes ever.

ooo, i liked this moment

CHIBNALL: RECONCILE A L L THE MYTHOLOGY!!!!!!

the master in the doctor’s body... i have read that fic

fear you got beaten to the punch there, m8

me walking to the local convention w/ my first cosplay

chibnall: can i copy your homework? rtd: yes but change it a little

but,,, my spin off....,,, ):

the noise i just made omg

(screaming this was in the results when i went to re-check the meme's text sdlkjfdlksjf)

chibnall: can i copy your homework? moffat: yes but change it a little

we started the era with a funeral, and ended with support group for grief. bookend storytelling!

(though lol not to brag mates but the 10-era crew has probably have cycled thru a dozen whatsapp - facebook - zoom calls and discord groups by the time this is happening)

CHIBNALL IM GOING TO LET YOU FINISH BUT-

OK overall takes...

im gonna need time to digest lol yes, lots of very clever things, cool lore, and thematic bookends (esp, re: the fam, unit, cycles, optimism, and the master), some Right choices for classic characters BUT a lot of wasted potential for the current ones (thasmin, 13, yaz, honestly even dan! what a flimsy goodbye...).

i also think this finale fits well the rest of the era, a lot of excellent set ups for fic writers + fandom to elevate, esp in regards to character stuff and new interpretations of old themes (regeneration as identity, emigration metaphors, companion grief, etc). im always gonna be thankful for this lesson in the 13th era: art is what the interpreter of the art brings to it. a lot of people didn’t bring a lot to this era (for valid reasons, sometimes just for misogyny/racist ones) so they didn’t get a lot, but those who worked their way thru the subtle stuff and even “added-in” stuff, got a great, if imperfect work w/ a lot of nuances, and def things never before done in dw (one of the major wins: making the doctor mysterious again, and making them a refugee / vulnerable rather than “president of the universe” he’d come to be in 10 season of new who). stray points (things i wasnt as satisfied with) 1- im not sure thirteen learned a lot? i think the reason the master's final point in his arc hit and landed so well, while thirteen's didn't as much (for me) is that it all kind of circled around with not really a "lesson" being learned. we really pulled back the layers of the master's narcissism and obsession with the doctor, and followed it all the way through its origins in jealousy and self-hatred. meanwhile the doctor's optimist, happy-go-lucky facade-that-falls that the fandom did such excellent meta about... never quite hit it in the end with the show. EVEN when the setup was so clearly there SO MANY TIMES: giving yaz a gun, comitting triple genocide on the daleks/cybermen/sontarans, the tim shaw of it all... etc. 2- related to the point of 13 not growing: in the end she and yaz didn't commit to anything (quite the opposite, they stuck to the denial from the warriors ep, which i thought would be Turned Around here...), the special instead of calling out the older doctors, validated them for abandoning the companions (when tbh i think the True Thing, even if it hurt, would be for 13 to have outright said to ace and tegan [and yaz, even!] "im sorry, i wish i could have given you what you needed, but i couldnt. and probably never will") Let me stress it tho: i did really like the yaz/13, 5/tegan, ace/7 resolutions in isolation, they got those dynamics Right in a lot of ways (the 7/ace thing about the Cost you pay for “doing the right thing” , the doctor/tegan being like That but rlly only bc they care sm about each other (aaa) thing, and even with the yaz/doctor thing i can see the logic of them always being so positive + supportive, of doing all they can to “stay together”) but looking at it as a whole, in the context of "doctor who as one long running story", this felt a bit like a regression for the doctor, and by extension for ace, tegan and yaz. 3- i think there was also just not enough time to let the story breath. or rather, there WAS time but also a lot of nonsense taking that time (like the dalek trairo or the whole train thing i was SO EXCITED thinking it would be a kid from the doctor’s mysterious origins but nope, it was just a diversion to get to Squiggles.... even vinder whom i rlly enjoyed ... idk i have to question how Necessary it was to have a whole thing about him breaking his ship then repairing his ship... etc. ) . the scene at the veeery end where 13 and yaz eat ice cream was like the first time chibnall slowed the peace *enough* to let the emotions land (and also the only moment i actually started crying asdfg).there were so many more companion / doctor companion interactions to be had, but bc of all the Stuff (tm) there wasn't time to rlly exploit (not having the companions in Somber Silence around the doctor, waiting for her to wake up for days, was almost a writting crime of negligence). but then again, that's been chibnall the whole way through lol he ain't no Aguinaldo Silva and that's fine. "understated emotions" is just not my thing.

#livetweeting is so much work #i think i'll just stick to my text files in the future #dw #spoilers #dw spoilers #the power of the doctor

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TMA S4 spoilers but again!

This one is a tad long. My apologies

Daisy my beloved lady

Daisy sweet darling woman please just take care of yourself

Daisy my beloved please

Woman who I would give my hand in marraige to PLEASE

Also I think Simon fairchild is my new favorite character

Martin is now in number 2 spot

I just kin martin a lot more now lmao

I like Helen, but I miss micheal

Can't I have both of them? They scratch a different itch

Basira plz leave Martin alone if all you're going to do is yell at the guy

He is trying to heeeeelp

Ooor he's being manipulated can't tell which

A statement Jon doesn't want to hear?!?!

Ceaseless Watcher, what are you playing at?

...

WAIT IS THIS GERRY'S DAD???

FUCKING MARY KAEY

It's a sad irony that he's bound to the same book his son will some day be bound to

"You got old" "better than being dead" DAMN YOU TWO

POP OFF IG

He quit?!

HOW?!

....eric

She wasn't "nice" to Micheal. She fed him to a fear God

Aw Eric seems like a loving Dad

LET HIM MAKE A STATEMENT GERTRUDE PLEEEEASE HE DESERVES IT

You're fine, Eric. Take your time

People who hate Gertrude: Most all Avatars, (probably) Elias?, Micheal, And Eric

ERIC LOOKING OUT FOR GERRY HE'S SUCH A GOOD DAD

If I didn't already hate Mary I definitely would now

...blinded???? Sir what???

Wait is this where the "Gouge our eyes out" joke comes from?

I'm afraid for the characters

Hi Martin!

Wait...

Wait

I'm also skeptical Martin

WAIT HOLD UP FOR REAL?!

IM DYING XD

THIS SHOULDNT BE AS FUNNY AS IT IS BUT MARTIN'S "Fuck Off..." MADE ME WHEEZE

He's in love with you Martin obvi

"You and me, together..." 🥺

He's got you there, Jon.

THAT LAST LINE FROM JON MY HEART MARTIN HE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU GET AWAY FROM THE LONELY AND KISS HIM

I'm gonna have to make this a part 2 hang on

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma #tma s4 spoilers #tma s4 #alice daisy tonner #daisy my beloved #simon fairchild

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corens-relisten · 3 months

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MAG 48 Lost in The Crowd

as someone whos dabbled in exploration, lets say, i absolutely get the statement giver here TT. its just completely different to be alone. like sure i like people and going around with them would be nice, but being alone is just unique.

wait i forgot how much she implied sex with ethan TT or i just didnt notice :p

omg not understanding the language around you and feeling peace among that is so real

the man who bothered her is Gerry isnt it. im so sure. ooh jon thinks the same

ok like sure lady, the crowd wasnt real and they all looked wrong and like they were dying, but thats like every crowd (im autistic-)

and then she just dissociated till she got back. tbh this just sounds like me on a bad day- this whole statement is real

anyway spoilers !

tbh this one definitely threw me for a loop. ive narrowed it down to the Lonely (fog in her mind, being alone for a while) or the Stanger (the people in the crowd?). she also said that the alleys were getting more and more compressing, and theres the crushing element of a crowd

so turns out its the Lonely, with possible elements of the two others!

awe jon is so oblivious and it makes sense. like thats what all parties involved want but its so sad to see TT

spoilers over

sashas the most suspicious according to michael, huh? interesting... :p michael is so silly trying to confuse our archivist like that XD

JON. STOP STALKING YOUR FUCKING COWORKERS. ELIAS ISNT SUSPICIOUS FOR TELLING YOU NOT TO FOLLOW YOUR TEAM MEMBERS TO THEIR HOMES. WTF

okii thanks for reading my rambling once again, and have a fine and dandy day!

(forgor i didnt post this one TT)

#coren's relisten!#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod

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ashes-in-a-jar · 3 years

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Top 5 TMA moments :3

Oh boyyy there are so many!

I'm gonna go with the ones I've enjoyed comedically/ones I go back to relisten to lightly rather that the really dramatic ones that make your heart stop (eg episodes 91, 154, 170, you know the ones)

And I'm probably missing a bunch, especially from the early seasons with Tim and Martin and so much from season 5 etc but here you go!

Episode 95, Martin talks about Jon and Basira reveals herself to have been there the whole time making him jump 10 feet in the air xD

And I get that he’s worried about us. I mean, we worry about him as well.

I worry.

And we should just –

BASIRA: Could you pass me that pen?

[NERVOUS, SURPRISED SPLUTTERING]

MARTIN: Oh, er… Hi Basira… Um, how long have you been there?

BASIRA: Erm, I don’t know. Couple of hours? Why?

MARTIN: Y-you didn’t say anything.

BASIRA: Yeah, I was reading.

[MARTIN CLEARS HIS THROAT]

Did you need me?

Episode 111. That's it. Just Jon and Gerry's whole conversation. Absolutely iconic. Especially the 'obviously vampires' line.

Episode 121 Oliver being Oliver. I love him

GEORGIE: Can I help you?

OLIVER: Oh, I, I’m a friend. Of John’s.

GEORGIE: Are you, now.

OLIVER: Uh, y-yes.

GEORGIE: Right. Just haven’t seen you visiting before.

OLIVER: Umm, I’ve… been out of town!

GEORGIE: Right. The nurse didn’t say anyone else was here.

OLIVER: Oh! Oh, oh, well. Sorry if I surprised you.

GEORGIE: It’s fine.

OLIVER: …I’m Antonio!

GEORGIE: [sarcastic] Sure.

Episode 124. I've already talked about this extensively but just read:

ARCHIVIST: (overlapping) H-how are you, Martin? I-Is everything…

MARTIN: Yeah. Yeah, no, I’m, I’m alright, uh… everything’s… fine.

ARCHIVIST: Right. Um… how’s… h-how’s the poetry?

MARTIN: Oh, uh, well, I haven’t exactly had a lot of time recently, so…

ARCHIVIST: Yes, of course.

[MARTIN HMS]

Episode 140. That's my rib...

BASIRA: But I think – Have you got a pen?

ARCHIVIST: Uhh – Yeah, i-in the drawer.

[BASIRA OPENS THE DRAWER.]

BASIRA: Ah, John. What’s this?

[SHE PICKS SOMETHING UP.]

ARCHIVIST: Hm? Oh. That’s… I, th, uh – that’s my rib.

BASIRA: (Pythagorean theorem, volume of a cone) Right.

[SHE PUTS IT BACK.]

ARCHIVIST: Yep.

BASIRA: And… the jar of ashes.

ARCHIVIST: (stress.exe) Not – not, m,mine – I mean, it belongs to me, I, I, I guess, but it’s not – stationery is in the, uh, other drawer.

[SOUNDS AS THE STATIONERY IS RETRIEVED.]

BASIRA: Right, thanks.

#Transcript for the last one sends me #Basira is too funny #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #Basira Hussain #Georgie Barker #Oliver Banks #gerry keay #Jonmartin #Fabric Rustles #Tma 111 #Tma 95 #Tma 140 #Tma 124 #Tma 121 #Ask

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almuerdesayuno · 2 years

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001 tma 002 caejose? OwO

nyeheheh lets see.....

ok lets see for tma

Favorite character: jon, hands down, i care him so much,,,,,,,if i think about him too hard i tear up

Least Favorite character: i hate elias with a passion, but he’s a great character y’know? he serves his purpose (being easy to hate) masterfully

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): oh boi....obvs jonmatin, georgie and melanie <3<3,jon and gerry (and martin why not) oh my....,s1 archives polycule djkasjdk (i know its ooc but....think of the shenanigans, the angst), and the absolute otp, breekon and hope of course

Character I find most attractive: martin pick me up i know u can

Character I would marry: georgie my beloved (and also probably the most reasonable of them all lmao)

Character I would be best friends with: i wanna say tim, i loved his energy. or maybe mike crew if i were of the fucked up side of things <3

a random thought: i would listen to the full what the ghost podcast xD

An unpopular opinion: oh i have no clue what opinions are popular lmao and i gotta rewatch it soon djaks

My Canon OTP: jonmartin, what can i say

My Non-canon OTP: probably s1 polycule djsakdj

Most Badass Character: addelard dekker hes the best

Most Epic Villain: the whole stranger theatre thing was unmatched awesome to listen to, idk about a particular villain though

Pairing I am not a fan of: anything with Michael,,,

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):

Favourite Friendship: i live for the georgie and jon friendship, both pre and post dating

Character I most identify with: probably martin just giving tea to everyone and trying to minimize the tense energy(?

Character I wish I could be: oh boi i hope i dont become any of them djkasjdka

oh wow this is,,,,longer than i thought it would xD no backing out now djaksdj

for caejose...

When I started shipping them: the training scene at the oil pillar, but the ice cliff scene...that did it for me

My thoughts: djasfkhjkadhfjkadhadfjadfadjlka

What makes me happy about them: i love their dynamic,,,theyre just dumbasses your honor

What makes me sad about them: i dont even need to say it

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: i hate it when they just hate eachother’s guts, like, all they’re interactions are just downright hostile like......cmon. ALSO when people tear down susie q so she isnt in the way or something ;-; i havent come across many of those but i hate them

Things I look for in fanfic: the soft moments when they let their guard down around the other and go “huh maybe he isn’t just an absolute dumbass........oh..........”

My wishlist: (idk what this means so this is just my ideal everyone lives dynamic) dumbass old men bicker while trying to save the world, more at 11

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: on the one hand, i love me some good old everyone lives caejoseq au......on the other hand those two are divorced as fuck djaksdjak

My happily ever after for them: everyone lives (of course), joseph is dating both caesar and susie q, they raise Holly together <3. eventually joseph meets tomoko and even though they split up in good terms, both caesar and susie q know about her (i think they’d get along and team up to bother joseph, just saying), so when josuke is born he idk spends the holidays with the three of them and holly is the best older sister ever the end(?

#hey look i got an ask!#ask thing #hiiiii #tma #jjba #ajsdkasjk this was way longer than i expected but i had so much fun #i havent thought about them in a while....ah the feels coming back #yes someday i'll write that fic

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voiceless-terror · 3 years

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I know this is late to the whole ask thing, but I'd love to see your Archivist Sasha headcanons, whether its from your planned fic or in general!!

I’m going to stick to my general Archivist Sasha headcanons, because I’m still in the process of drafting the other fic and I don’t want to give too much away. I hope that’s fine!

God, do I wish we’d had more of Sasha. She’s such a delightfully contradictory character. Says she’s not brave, and yet confronts the distortion and is reckless and too damn curious for her own good. I don’t think she’d have been much better of a ‘real’ Archivist than Jon, she didn’t have the training for it. But boy do I think she would’ve accumulated marks a hell of a lot faster. I think she might have caught on to the bigger picture a bit quicker, but I don’t think she would have been able to stop herself from pushing on even with that knowledge. In her last episode, she’s narrating what’s going on to Jon...very ‘I don’t want to be a mystery’ vibes. Instead of running and hiding from the not!Sasha she says ‘I see you. Show yourself!’ Look at this girl!! She didn’t think Prentiss was ‘that dangerous’ originally, she has no sense of self-preservation.

I also don’t think she’d be a super compassionate to statement givers either. Perhaps not as outwardly dismissive as Jon was (even though we know that’s a front), but I think she’d be very clinical about it. This is based more on my own headcanon, but from what little we get of her, she’s not incredibly personable or warm. That’s not to say she doesn’t care, I just don’t think she’s got great people skills. That territory is reserved for Martin and Tim, let’s be real.

Where does that leave Jon? As an assistant, I think he’d be a great researcher. I don’t think he expected the Archivist promotion, but I’d like to think he’s still just as eager for answers and hungry to prove himself. Without the need for such a skeptical veneer, and with less imposter syndrome to boot, I think he’d be in his element, and I think Sasha would treat the archives much as Jon treated it- as a second research dept. She didn’t bat an eye at in canon, and again- she doesn’t have a library science degree.

I also think she would encourage the worst behaviors in all of them xD. After all, she had no problem violating their privacy over and over again, and I think she’d expect the same from them. Jon had more of a quiet acceptance/approval of illicit activities, but I think Sasha would very much outwardly encourage it. And (here’s more headcanon territory) I’d love to see that bring out the inner explorer in Jon. He was kind of a wild kid! And he’s certainly still capable of it now, the guy broke into Gertrude’s apartment. It just tickles me to think of Jon topping the others on the crime board- B&Es, trespassing, all the crimes that don’t have to deal with charm or personality, he’s willing to do them in pursuit of answers. Would probably rack up a few marks himself, and would certainly be a good backup in case Sasha doesn’t make it….

I’m keeping his canon love for Gerry. He idolizes him in all things, esp his Leitner hatred. Jon trying to achieve Gerry levels of chaos is a wonderful thought. Everyone teases him for his obvious crush but Jon’s like...why don’t you have a crush on Gerry?? I also think he might get along slightly better with the crew- definitely with Tim, but I still think it would take a longer time for him to adjust to Martin. But maybe, without the whole ‘boss and employee’ thing, they’d date a little faster...season one get together?? A girl can dream.

Sorry for the rambling, and sorry it took so long to get to this! I’ve had TMA episode brain rot so it took a while to get my thoughts together.

#tma #the magnus archives #sasha james #jonathan sims #my writing #archivist sasha au #furthering the jongerry agenda #long post #Anonymous

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malicerewatchesdoctorwho · 4 years

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The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode Three

Written by - Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis Director - Morris Barry Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Three

("Still think you'll be able to form an alliance with the Cybermen, Klieg?" - The Doctor to Klieg, after he got out of the tunnels. Over his massive amount of stupidity.)

Likes

- I like how this is a direct consequence of what happened on the Moon base. That's nice. Continuity.

- The Cyberman going after Jamie keeps quiet, because it knows it will be able to capture him easier that way, and succeeds. Poor Jamie.

- Hah! Victoria spooking Kaftan enough for her to make a mistake so the guys can take her down and get the gun off her. I like Victoria screaming not out of fear, but because it's necessary or for attack. She's good at that XD

- Hahaha! Victoria complaining about the sexism of the captain of the ship and asking the other guy if he's always like that and totally getting a positive response from it. Hah! Looks like even his own crew doesn't like it much.

- Jamie trying to help Toberman up and getting snow out of his hair. A little less ringing of the neck would be good, but hey, he tried.

- Captain Asshole getting them all out using smoke bombs.

- Toberman taking two blows of the electric ray thing the Cybermen use to paralyse their victims to get him down. He's strong.

- Victoria being set on watch. They don't expect her to just start screaming, they expect her to start shooting if Klieg and Kaftan get out of the room. Hell yes.

- The Doctor talking to Victoria about how you move on from grief given time, but never truly forget the people who died.

- Pff The Cybermats start attacking people and my first thought is give the gun to Victoria, she'll blow them to pieces in a single shot XD The other guy from the ship who isn't Captain Asshole, Callum. Yeah, he gets the gun instead.

- The Doctor and bad puns XD "Complete metal breakdown" XD

Dislikes

- Excuse me? Did Captain Asshole just say Victoria would have no idea what it is like to be a woman? Well, fuck you.

- Uh, yes, let's put the bad guys in a room with a giant Cyberman frying weapon. That works...

- ...Have I mentioned I don't like Klieg? Yeah, I don't like him.

- Okay, this one is bugging me. The Cybermats beep like nothing else when they’re active. So why does no one hear them until they’re basically on top of them like they move silently?

- I think the Doctor was well aware there was a gun being held up, Jamie by the time you should at him to look out.

Awesome

- Nice use of smoke on the set in this one.

- Gonna say it. The Cybermats. Shut up, I think they're cute little props.

- I do also really like that gun of the Cybermen.

Shitty

- I don't like the constant noise the Cybermen make while during that fight in the beginning. Just...why is it necessary? The constant beeping of the Cybermats makes sense, with the actual Cybermen, it doesn't.

- You can see the wire on Toberman for when he was being lifted up by the Cyberman. And by wire I mean the winch or whatever it is called attacked to him to. The whole thing can be seen, which is a bit distracting.

- In a few shots one of the Cybermats is clearly being moved by a wire. Other than that, their movements are actually really good.

In Conclusion

I liked this episode. I wouldn't consider it my favourite of this story, because it is definitely not that. Some parts are great, like anything with the Cybermen in it, or anything involving the Cybermats.

I don't like that Klieg has gone up the walls I am the Master and should be treated like a god insane. I did like the oh shit look on Kaftan's face when I think she realised what sort of monster she has created with her manipulations. Since she does seem to be the mastermind behind all of this.

I like the talk the Doctor has with Victoria about grief and it getting easier in time, and about how Victoria thinks he needs more sleep because he's an old man XD Also, the Doctor going back to bad puns. I do wish they took a bit more time than this on Victoria losing her father in such a bad and horrific way, but hey, this is Doctor Who. Look how long it took them to do an episode about grief. Yeah. That it is even remotely discussed is a miracle.

Still, compared to the other episodes, this one seems...to lack something the other two had. And the worst part is, I have no idea what that is. So, this one is going on the normal episode list. It's not bad by any stretch, but it just doesn't hold up to the others so far.

Body count - 7. Well, 7 that I counted anyway. Callum killed 1 Cybermat. It took him 3 shots, but he got one. The Doctor killed the rest.

#Classic Doctor Who #doctor who #the tomb of the cybermen #episode three #epic rewatch #Second Doctor #Jamie McCrimmon #victoria waterfield #The Cybermen

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puppyluver256 · 4 years

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The Habititians as StephenVlog/Breakfast Stream moments

Because honestly, StephenVlog moments are good for slice of life inspiration for just about anything.

Flower Kid - My FK, Cosmos, is really into astronomy despite being known as the florist’s kid, so this is specific to them: “Stargazing” (aaaand I just realized this one has my seven-year-old-prolly-notebook-paper art I sent him in the background XD)

Nat - (I can’t think of one) EDIT: “It’s Not Griefing If You Deserve It” (because she wouldn’t do anything like that in a permanent manner, she has attitude, she’s not an asshole)

Mirphy - Any time there’s a video where Stephen’s excited about a new camera and accessories. Also “DO NOT BUY PANASONIC”

Dallas - Most any time conversation is brought around to one of Mal’s paintings for Mal Makes, and while this predates StephenVlog, the “Far Out” public stunt because hippies.

Lulia - (I can’t think of one, feel free to suggest your own)

Ronbo - (I can’t think of one, feel free to suggest your own)

Millie - Most of the minigolf stuff.

Trencil - "Someone Stole Our Doormat!” because that seems like the kind of thing that would happen to him. Trevor probably stole his doormat. I was also tempted to suggest “Being Around Sam / Dracula X” because vampire, but the relevant part is only Stephen talking about very very very rare and expensive games and not actual vampires.

Trevor - Okay, so this technically shouldn’t be counted as it predates StephenVlog, but I remembered the /earthbound public stunt videos and Trevor is totally the Tessie watcher in Tessie Sightings. Actually put this one in the list before I added “Far Out” to Dallas’s part, there you go, some insight how I constructed this little list.

Wallus - "Official Document From The Queen” if only for the parts where Stephen’s “in the refrigerator”.

Gillis - I can’t think of anything except for “I’ve Had Enough of Your Sass, Couch” when William picked up that old couch when Stephen and Mal’s friends were helping them move. “Time to f***ing go, kid!”

Putunia - (I can’t think of one, feel free to suggest your own)

Gerry - "Honesty and Trust” and most other things involving Roland at work.

Parsley - "Pushed The Limit”, as well as “EVERYTHING ON FOOD MUST BE FOOD”

Randy - "Pee Cereal” (where he’s Dan)

Jerafina - I was gonna say "Kaboom! Sparkle!” (the moments I’m thinking of are in Favorite Fan Moments 2) but I just found out that’s been unlisted sooooo I’m gonna be nice and nooot link that because it’s probably unlisted for a very good reason unbeknownst to meeeeee...and I have no other idea... ^^;

Jimothan - Nearly anything involving Papa Georg and/or Marc.

Tiff - (I can’t think of one, feel free to suggest your own)

Borbra - “Hey Little Birdie!”

Questionette - I originally had this as one of Randy’s along with Pee Cereal, but y’know, maybe Questionette might be “La Pizza Gelée”...

Tim Tam - "Thomas Met the Guy” (specifically the part taken from Breakfast Stream where Thomas broke in)

Marv - "I Haz A Bucket” (because...fish)

Kamal - "SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE” with Habit “accidentally” sneaking up behind him in shadow form. I also imagine a lot of the Stephen and Mal domestic stuff between him and Habit because *thunk* oh god soft day-to-day partner life right in my shipper heart aaaaaa

Dr. Habit - (oh there are so many hang on) A lot of the surreal ones like “25″ or “surl” or “DEAL OR NO DEAL FOR THE NINTENDO DS”, “I AM NO LONGER YOUNG” when he’s realizing Things, “I AM DAN” because he totally would pull this kind of thing...and of course the Stephen and Mal domestic moments for the same reason as stated above. :3

(if any other fans of both Smile For Me and StephenVlog wanna chime in, feel free to lemme know any other ideas you might have!)

#smile for me #stephenvlog #too many characters to tag #jess rambles about random things #i ordered the same way i did in my habititian art series #that being by the order you'd reasonably interact with them #as for the vlog bits i chose #i basically excluded anything TOO personal like weddings or big medical problems #i really wanna draw like...90% of these #sorry for pushin' this out with the empty spaces but i really just wanted to get this outta my drafts #will either update or reblog with additions for the five characters i didn't yet attach any moments to

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lycanlovingvampyre · 1 year

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MAG 103 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence

I heard some people were surprised by the pig facts? I guess I'm being a redneck again? XD That's just stuff you learn when you grow up in the countryside.

"and their manure is great for composting." And omg, the smell of pigs is really quite something... I generally avoid going into the pig's barn at my grandparents in law's farm. Can't get that smell out of your clothes, your hair... A few years back someone in the area where I live fertilized their field with pig manure and it was dreadful... Luckily only happened once. Even the farmers around here were complaining.

"at around three or four hundred kilos" My fucking horse weighs 450 kilos. So that really, reaaaally big for a pig.

"Part of me did consider immediately trying to send it for slaughter" I wonder what would happen, if people were to eat meat from Monster Pig...?

"But as I got closer, I saw that they were scars. Shot scars, most of them, with some that looked like they might have been from spikes or axes." Nago/Okkoto?

"The first year they did it there was a lot of trash left behind we had had to clean up, but apparently someone bashed the right heads about it, since last year there was barely a cigarette stub left." Shit like this is actually a problem, there doesn't even have to be an event. Some people will just litter their trash, other people are just careless. And that trash then lands in the food for our animals.

"But instead, I felt it settle next to me, the meat of it sinking into the spaces left by my position. It was pressing up against me, and let out the most contented sound I have ever heard from a pig. The message could not have been clearer: ‘Friend’." Awww! But yeah, that farmer always fed Monster Pig. He never treated it badly. Of course Monster Pig thinks he's a friend. Until now he didn’t even do anything against it, so one could argue he’s complicit with the Fear?

"When you explained the situation, I hoped you’d have some special trick for dealing with it, but I suppose welding scrap metal around the pen and filling it with cement just about works" Our first problem being solved with concrete!

"Those pigs didn’t deserve what that thing did to them. Tearing them apart and eating them." Go vegan? Or, vegetarian would actually be enough for that. It’s something you should always be aware of when you eat meat. (Disclaimer: I'm a flexitarian. So I do still eat meat. Hell, my grandpa in law turned his pigs into delicious smoked meat...)

"Oh, and if you’re hungry, I’ve got some bacon in the freezer I’m going to cook up. ... What?" Lol. It sounded earlier like this was a transcribed statement. So Dylan Anderson did not write it down himself (because of that bit about "Oh, uh, when you’re writing this up, make it’s clear that we’re near the Marlborough Forest"). Still funny, that the transcriber would include the “What?”.

JON: "I currently have nothing to indicate where Gertrude might have travelled next, but I… I have a hunch Kurt Anderson might be able to help." He stops himself there. Was he going to say "I Know"? Still in denial about that?

KURT: “Yeah, but he didn’t say how. Told me some weird guy turned up afterwards, and she went off with him in a real hurry. So Gerry suddenly turned up with some horrible news. Can’t remember if we hear what it was exactly?

Interesting how Kurt Anderson doesn't notice he's been compelled until he gets the juicy stuff pulled out of him...

KURT: [Afraid] "What are you?!" I'm sure this hurt Jon. Now even others refer to him as... not human. He did absolutely chose to use compulsion here though. Why play investigations on hard mode if you can just cheat your way through it? And Jon later says he likes it. To be completely honest, I would use the hell out of that myself. Would probably save me a lot of nerves and time.

Jon finally puzzled together that the tunnels are a blind spot!

DAISY: "Right. So, if he’s not paying attention, and I kill you down here…" Oh man, I HATED Daisy back then.

Jon meeting up with murder cop, upon his wish alone and not because Elias told Daisy to escort Jon, heavily suspecting Elias can't watch (and therefore protect) him just so he can organize a bit of safety for the others <3

JON: "No. No. I was, I was… I was thinking. This… Section 31 unit that, that you’re a part of –" DAISY: [Insistent] "Not a unit! Just paperwork." JON: "Right but, but… what do they think about Elias?" DAISY: "Best avoided. Pretty harmless. Um, crimes involving the Institute get people sectioned, but he’s not an active threat." JON: "If we had evidence that he was an active threat, that he was killing people, he, he was the one threatening to make all of your stuff public, do you think they’d move against him?" DAISY: "… Maybe." Martin's stunt in MAG 118 is a JonMartin collaboration!

DAISY: "You sure you want to talk with that thing running?" JON: "Oh. Um, I-I… I didn’t … didn’t realise I’d turned it on." Was there ever an instance, where Jon unknowingly turned on the tape recorder himself? I think it was always the tape recorders acting on their own. Maybe Jon doubts his own mind, questioning himself if he's the one doing this? (I mean, we know that as least most of the time it's not him, it has happened plenty of time where the recorder was out of reach or Jon wasn't even there at all.) Also, since the tape recorders do work in the tunnels, it is kind of implied that the tapes are not the Eye.

@a-mag-a-day

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MAG 46 - apple cutting

"His name was Michael Crew, though he normally went by Mike" - Was there already a confusion in the fandom back then that Crew already got a nickname to make him distinguishable from Michael Distortion?

"Gottfried Leibniz" - I not E, Jonny! "Ei" in German is pronounced like the letter I. You're thinking of "ie" (like in "Gottfried"), that would sound like the letter E. You can do it in Leitner, why are the other names with "ei" a problem? xD (There was also one in MAG 23).

5:11 "He was able to pay five figures for a copy of a 1559 printing", rustling in the background at "for a"?

Ha, the Malleus Maleficarum… I spend a lot of time hunting down scans of the book only then to realize I mixed up the names of the books I needed (I was actually looking for the Compendium Maleficarum, oops XD)

After "the lightbulbs in my shop would burn brighter" a high-pitched whistling sound in the background starts and it slowly fades out again at "It was February when I got the Leitner book."

"Well, in January of this year, she passed away. Lost balance on the stairs and broke her neck." - Hm, lost balance… Did she experience vertigo perhaps?^^

Wow, during the whole segment of describing the tale of the Ex Altiora you can hear static!

Static again during the period of describing the woodcuts.

"I had bad dreams, as well. I don’t recall them with any clarity, but I’m rather sure they were dreams of falling." - The shitty small sibling of the Ex Altiora is responsible for dreaming of missing a step when almost asleep and therefore startling awake.

High-pitched whistling starts again at "The bulbs crackled and brightened" and stops again at "he was out into the rainy February afternoon."

"but I could make out the words “altiora,” “vertigo,” and “the vast.”" - This is the first time we explicitly hear the name of an entity as in Smirke's 14, right? Prentiss spoke of them too, but she didn't know about them exactly. She said "Webs have a song as well", not "The Web has a song as well". And Gerry used alternative names in MAG 12, Beholding and the Lightless Flame, but not the popular "The Something-Something" way Smirke described them.

At "and in front of him was a strange, branching figure." the whistling starts again with a descending tone while Mike was falling and all stops at "and I was alone in the dark." I don't know if I ever noticed this in any of my listens…

"with a cry of “I am yours,” he leapt through the open window, and – presumably – to his death." - The birth of a full-fledged Avatar right there.

19:56 "comparing his statement to that of Dominic Swain in 0132806", right after 6 thump again^^

"The book which Mr. Knox received did not seem to have a woodcut of the dark night sky, with the branching, arching design of the Lichtenberg figure." - Mike trapped the Spiral lightning monster in the book, right? It took me so long, to get this… I think this arc in general was quite confusing as to what belonged to the Vast and what to the Spiral since I still see a lot of depictions of lighting in artworks of the Vast. Then again, lightning is part of the sky and the sky is a typical domain of the Vast. One of those edges bleeding together I'd guess.

"I noticed the trapdoor appeared to have been disturbed. It was unlocked." - Jon, you are paranoid about the absolute right things!

"The only difference now is… all the spiderwebs. They seem to have spread down there. I think I saw some of the larger specimens actually eating the remains of the worms." - Well…

I used to be obsessed with Leibniz's monads idea, it was so cool

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Amnesia

AN: Hey! This is the first fanfic I’ve written in years, so please be nice to me lol. It’s based on the song Amnesia by 5sos, basically I wrote about Tyler breaking up with his girlfriend to move to Dallas, and of course I also wrote their eventual reunion. It’s really cheesy and I kinda hate it, but that’s ok. I hope you guys enjoy it because I read a lot of fanfics and I know how frustrating it is to read poorly written/boring work. Also I know I said this was going up on the 8th but I didn’t really want to wait because I have my Jujhar Khaira fic to post, I just posted something about PLD on my ao3, I’m in the middle of writing another fic about Tyler, and I have fics planned for draisaitl and mcdavid.

Warnings: none really, it’s sad for a bit but then it’s fluffy

You got home from work to find Tyler sitting on your couch, which wasn't an uncommon sight. You'd given him a key to your apartment when you'd moved in, and he'd often come over to watch movies after a game, or come help you make dinner when he had nothing better to do. You’d been dating for a few years, you got together before his NHL debut. What was uncommon about seeing him sitting there were the tears on his face.

"Tyler, what's wrong?" you asked, placing your purse on the ground and kicking off your heels before walking over to sit next to him on the couch. He didn't respond, he merely buried his face in your neck and continued crying.

"Ty, hun, tell me what has you so upset."

"I'm leaving."

"What do you mean you're leaving Ty, what's going on?"

"I got traded Y/N, I'm moving to Dallas."You sat there stunned, not knowing how to respond. You felt your eyes water at the thought of being without him, but you knew you couldn't let yourself be upset right now, Ty needed you to be strong. You feel his arms squeeze you tighter, and you were forced back to reality.

"What are we gonna do Y/N, you just got a promotion, you can't leave."

"We can try to make it work Ty..... we can Skype every night?" you offered, knowing this wasn't a solution, but not wanting to think about the reality of what would likely end up happening to your relationship.

"Y/N..... you know how busy I'll be, there's no way we would be able to make that work," Ty said while sniffling.

"I know, I just can't imagine being without you Ty. I'm happy for you though, maybe a fresh start will be good for you. You're a great player, Dallas is lucky to have you."

You spent the rest of the night in each other's arms, fearing what would happen once you let go.

Three Years Later

You were driving home from work one day, and you passed the restaurant Tyler and you used to frequent after he'd won a game, remembering the nights you spent there together with the rest of his team celebrating.

I thought about our last kiss, how it felt, the way you tasted

You thought back to the last time you kissed Tyler, in the airport before his flight to Dallas. He tasted like his favourite peppermint gum, and his lips felt soft and familiar against yours. You had agreed to break up before he left and he got a girlfriend shortly after his arrival, so the few times you'd been able to make it to Dallas to visit him, you weren't able to kiss him, and it's something you missed dearly.

Even though your friends tell me you're doing fine, are you somewhere feeling lonely when though she's right beside you?

You had made friends with some of Tyler's teammates the few times you'd travelled to Dallas, and you made a point to text Jaime regularly to make sure Tyler was doing alright. You still talk to Ty, but knowing him he won't tell you if anything is wrong. You still wonder if he's hiding something, but you have to tell myself there's nothing else you can do.

If what we had was real, how could you be fine? 'Cause I'm not fine at all

You haven't been able to find a date since Tyler left, knowing nobody would be able to fill the void that Ty left. It wouldn't be fair to date someone when you’re still pining after your first love who now lives almost 2,000 miles away. You tried dating apps and even blind dates set up by your friends, but they all fell short compared to what you'd had with Ty. You still wonder how he managed to find someone just months after moving to Dallas, how he was able to get over the years you had together so quickly.

I wish that I could wake up with amnesia, and forget about the stupid little things, like the way it felt to fall asleep next to you.

The first few months of sleeping alone had been torture. You'd become so used to falling asleep next to him that you found it impossible to sleep without him. No amount of pillows could replicate the feeling of him next to you, snoring quietly and occasionally mumbling in his sleep. You would often lay awake at night wondering what your life would be like if you had fought harder to keep him with you. You think about what would've happened if you'd quit your job and moved to Dallas with him. Truthfully you still do think about it, when you can't sleep or when you sit alone at my desk at work eating lunch.

October

One day your boss called you into his office, with a proposal. He told you they're planning on opening a new location in the south, and that they'd love to have you there working for them. You swore you misheard him because it sounded like he just said it will be in Dallas. You immediately took the offer, willing to take any opportunity you had to get closer to Tyler after three years without him in your life. You pulled out your phone to text Jaime once you returned to your desk.

Y/N: hey uh weird question but do u know if ty is single rn?

J: he's painfully single, he complains about it every chance he gets

Y/N: on a scale from 1-10 how happy do u think he'd be if he found out I'm moving to dallas for work

J: probably a 10 tbh, he misses you more than he'd like to admit

Y/N: I'm planning on surprising him will u help me? make sure he doesn't find out I'm moving!!

J: will do, look forward to seeing ur stupid face again

You also texted Ty, and begin laying the foundation for your surprise.

Y/N: hey ty, i know i said id try to make it to dallas for ur bday but I'm getting really busy at work rn :( my boss says it doesn't look like ill be able to get time off until march. i promise ill come down then, I'm really sorry i won't be there for ur bday

T:Hey! No worries Y/N, I understand. I look forward to seeing you in march :)

January 28th

You arrived in Dallas two weeks ago, and avoiding Ty had been pure agony. You met up with Jaime and a few of the other guys for dinner, getting all the updates on their lives and Tyler's. You found out he has three dogs now, and you must say you're not surprised. Tyler and you were going to adopt a puppy but then he got traded, and you knew it was only a matter of time before he finally got one. You decide to text him to put the finishing touches on your surprise.

Y/N: hey stranger!! I sent u a bday gift, it should hopefully arrive sometime soon :D

T: aw thx, you know you didn't have to get me anything

Y/N: hey, i had to make up for missing ur bday somehow. I hope you like it!

T: ill love anything you picked out for me :)

Y/N: oh shut up XD

You decided his "gift" is going to arrive on the 30th, considering you wanted to be with him on his birthday, plus you didn't know how much longer you could wait to see him. You texted Jaime and tell him to make sure Tyler doesn't have any plans that day, and you went to buy some balloons. You bought some green and white ones for Dallas, and some yellow and black just for good measure. You squished them in my car and drive back to your apartment buzzing with excitement.

January 30th

You woke up an hour before your alarm was set, unable to contain your excitement. It was only 8AM, but you decided to text Tyler to let him know his "gift" would be arriving soon.

Y/N:hey ty, just checked the tracking and it says ur gift should arrive this afternoon

T:ooooh any hints?

Y/N:no!! be paaaaaaatient

T: but that's no fun :(

You smiled as you set your phone down and began to get ready. As 1PM rolled around you could hardly contain your excitement anymore. You still felt a slight bit of anxiety, worrying Tyler won't be as happy to see you as you were hoping he'd be. You heard your phone buzz, and see a text from Jaime.

J: hurry up and go take back your bf, if i have to hear him bitch about being lonely one more time i s2g ill scoop my own brain out w a spoon

Y/N:stop being so dramatic I'm just about to leave

You gathered the balloons and the gift bag containing some snacks from back home in Boston, a card from all his friends, and a nice watch you'd picked out for him. You glanced at yourself in the mirror and took a deep breath as you walked out the door of your apartment.

You soon find yourself in his driveway, and you could barely contain yourself as you got the balloons out. You slowly walked up to the door, unable to believe what you were about to do. You knocked loudly, and heard a dog begin to bark.

You heard a familiar voice shout, "Gerry! Be quiet! It's just the mailman for god's sake," and hear footsteps approaching.

You felt a huge smile form on your face as Tyler opened the door and was greeted with a face all of balloons.

"Surprise!" you yelled, feeling what you assume was Gerry jumping all over you.

".......Y/N? What are you doing here? I thought you couldn't get time off?" Tyler said in disbelief, and you felt two strong arms wrap around your shoulders and squeeze you tight.

"That may have been a lie...." you said sheepishly, handing him the balloons and gift bag. He looked so much different than the scrawny boy that left Boston, now sporting a full beard and tattooed arms. You took a moment to savour being around him again, before he ushered you inside.

"So how are you? I feel like I haven't talked to you in forever?" you asked, sitting down on a large couch in his well decorated family room.

"You literally texted me this morning," he replied, sitting beside you while the other two dogs attempted to climb over him to come say hi.

"Don't be a smartass, you know what I mean. We haven't had a proper conversation since before the season started."

"Things have been great. I love it here, the weather is so much better than Boston. The guys here are awesome, the chemistry we have as a team is amazing. I still miss home though, those guys will always be my family. I miss you too, you know. I tried to replace you but I just couldn't. Hell, I bought three dogs and even that didn't work. You're clearly pretty special Y/N, if even three cute labs can't replace you," said Tyler, with a hint of sadness in his eyes. It hit you then that you had to tell him you weren’t leaving, that you could finally be together again.

"Hey, you gotta open your present, I traveled a long way to deliver it personally," you joked, handing him the gift bag. You watched his eyes light up as he saw the snacks, and a large smile form when he read what his former teammates wrote for him. You told him you can return the watch if he doesn't like it, but he insisted he loves it. You laid on the couch for a bit, and you could tell he wanted to get closer to you but won't.

After a while he asked, "Hey Y/N, how long are you in town for?"

"Well I was gonna wait to give you the last bit of your surprise but since you asked I guess I can tell you. I moved here, Ty. I've been here for two weeks. The company is opening a location here and they wanted me to come work here. Once they told me it was in Dallas I couldn't resist."

You watched a look of realization develop on his face, and the next thing you knew his lips were against yours. They were just as soft as you remembered them, and he still tasted like peppermint. Without saying a word you felt him pick you up.

"Tyler what are you doing?!" I shriek as he begins walking somewhere.

"Making up for the three years I spent without you," he explains as he carried you down the hall towards his bedroom.

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