#the measurement

[variousqueerthings]

genuinely may have to make a tag for river song, because I know I'm a minority in the way I feel about her writing and place in the story, and I really feel so very negatively about the character as functioning to be The Most Special Of The Show and how that diminishes every other character (noticeably not created by moffat).

even the episode order of her first appearance -- library right after the doctor's daughter, yes it feels like the latest in a long list of people the doctor sees die and that's how ten's narrative tends to go, but it's only truly affecting because she is going to be more special than any of the others the doctor has witnessed the deaths of, honest, and you can tell because of the screwdriver and because she "knows the doctor's true name" which is hinted at as being only for the most important person in the doctor's life, and the most important person is not just romantic, it's the person the doctor marries Spoilers Wait And See It's All So Romantic Honest

and they're going to get married and it will be sad, promise, so feel sad now, because this is deeper -- deeper than rose, deeper than martha, deeper than donna, deeper than jack, deeper than jenny, deeper than the master, deeper than any classic companion or nu!who companion... and it's deeper because it's been stated to be deeper for some reason or other, which is the same as writing a narrative I guess

#anti river song #anti moffat #i wonder how this will feel once i get to eleven when the bulk of river song narrative happens #doctor who #dw #the most annoying thing is that i really want to like her -- i think alex kingston is funny and good at acting #genuinely river song absent of the doctor is a much more compelling character to me RIP #the measurement

[where-the-tumbleweed-plays]

Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!

He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.

#tumbleweed the cat #tumbleweed #cat #autoplay warning #video #turns out he was actually getting 2/3 cup of food a day due to a measuring cup mix up and more he's down to 1/2 cup per day

[pinotorto]

Peak comedy

#what was the point of measuring his arms #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #chilchuck

[thenightisland]

people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist

#measuring the size of fandoms based on their goncharov index #this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming #rote has a goncharov index of 0.63 #for perspective ofmd has an index of 26.5 #spn's is 360.8 #the cosmere is 2.26 for a fantasy book comparison #i am very normal #post

[socra--tease]

The way they’re holding back the first “seaweed brain” like it’s a bass drop bc they know it is going to irreparably alter all of our brains forever

#pjo #pjo tv show #percabeth #Annabeth chase #percy jackson #leah sava jeffries #walker scobell #the moment Leah says it I know I will never be the same #time will then be measured as bsb (before seaweed brain) and asb (after seaweed brain)

[spockvarietyhour]

#Breaking Bad #BrBa #Half Measures #Skyler White #Anna Gunn #Danny watches Breaking Bad

[lizardsfromspace]

Still confused and haunted by the Monster Factory golf ethnicity grids

#there are odder scales on MF but none as inscrutable #what does this measure #what is Ethnicity 1 2 3 and 4 and who assigned them #monster factory

[musiclovingmoth]

and when i say "specimens" i don't mean taxidermied mounts made to look lifelike for exhibit, i'm talking about the thousands to millions of specimens lying in drawers and shelves like this:

asking because i didn't know this until i was in high school. reblogs greatly appreciated, i want to reach as far out of science nerd tumblr as possible!

#science #biology #paleontology #botany #entomology #animals #birds #mammals #herpetology #microbiology #nature #museum #dark academia #vulture culture #throwing those last two in for good measure... #lab notebook

[variousqueerthings]

the thing is I do quite like individual stephen moffat episodes, I think they're good episodes. they get less good when you start to see patterns of writing and how he has a tendency of beating a dead horse + ongoing sexism which may be missed in one episode, but becomes very clear through repetition, but if one considers them as one-offs they're Neat bits of writing. it's when he tries to make it longform that it all falls to pieces for me and reverberates back. his lore is a mess and consequently so are his characters if one spends more than an episode or two with them.

#anti moffat #im rewatching doctor who #the measurement #we're at silence of the library and meeting river song #and she's quite a different character to who she becomes later in the show but already got some Stuff that rubs me the wrong way #i would call this moffat's issue with creating someone 'worthy' of the doctor #he talked about that before in terms of madame de pompadour #and so river song Has to become The most interesting most badass most capable most witty most knowledgeable etcetc #has to know everything about the doctor that nobody else knows + have all the same adventures as the other companions #so it's no longer their adventures with the doctor and their stories - she's shoved on top of them to be better than all of them #so none of them were worthy enough -- not compared to her. and then ofc later on she's part timelord as well to really hammer it home #unfortunately river song on the show never worked for me #she ticks every box of things i dont like about moffat's writing and it only becomes moreso as the show continues #but maybe in the audio dramas where she's got more personality -- i have been curious about it

[rizsnt]

you're an angel; i'm a dog

#(or you're a dog and i'm your man) #the point is gojo wasn't an angel till geto and geto wasn't a demon till gojo DO YOU SEE IT. DO YOU GET IT. #jjk #satosugu #mitski #they are sooo mitski coded #angel/devil satosugu what if i went CRAAZYY RAHHH #my tablet broke making this had to take drastic measures #gojo satoru #geto suguru #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #rizsart

[cherrydistrict]

🕸 you won’t remember a thing except me. 

#im so normal about kafka #she is sooo #kafka #kafka honkai star rail #kafka fanart #honkai star rail #honkai star rail fanart #hsr kafka #hsr #art #my art #sorry i havent posted art in so long #i was busy and then hsr happened so i HAD to sit and draw Her #motherquake measuring 9.0 on the cunter scale

[destinationtoast]

A concise description of Goncharov, for anyone as confused as I was when I first awoke.

There are as of now 19 AO3 fics in the Goncharov (1973) fandom... when I checked a couple hours ago, there were only five.

#goncharov #oh tumblr #ao3 #the fandom stats on this are going to need to be measured hourly #time to resurrect my tumblr api scripts? #though possibly it would be more in keeping with this phenomenon #to produce fandom stats about the earlier goncharov fandom-specific archives #😹 #op #50 #100 #500 #1K #5K #10K

[tooquirkytolose]

Everyone loves my moms mexican rice and proclaim it the best they've ever had and I see a lot of recipes out there that are either too fussy or too bland so I'll just list the things my mom does that she says make it good

-you really truly do not need chicken bouillon/chicken broth. Plain water is fine, my mom started omitting the bouillon when I became vegetarian so I could eat it and literally no one knows the difference its fine

- you don't need cumin or cilantro you just need onion, garlic, salt and tomato sauce (or jarred tomatoes)

-FRY YOUR RICE!!! in oil!!! Fry until golden brown and nutty, DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP it adds flavor and deepens the color of the end product if you don't fry your rice in oil it looks pale and unappetizing

-blend your water, chopped onion, garlic cloves, and tomato sauce (or jarred tomatoes) add this liquid to the fried rice after you've drained the excess oil, cook like regular rice

You will now be the envy of all mexican mothers and taquerias 👍

#i mean if you WANT chicken broth thats fine #but believe me when i say most people are flabbergasted its not included in her recipe #i...dont know exact measurements shes one of those eyeballing it type of gals

[theoldkyokodied]

If you follow my main you had to know this was coming… anyway. Enjoy these bloodweave doodles :)

#bloodweave #gale x astarion #astarion x gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate more like baldurs gay amirite folks? #yeah sorry the themes of hunger abuse and power got to me. I’m not immune to thematically mirrors #I have so many thoughts about the it’s not even funny anymore #oh you mean to tell me that canonically gale would offer up his blood if asked and that astarion can’t even do that bc of the orb ?? #tasteful irony that the guy who would want to help can’t do that bc of a mistake he made for love. #especially devastating for someone who measures his self worth in usefulness #oh they are so fucked up and they could understand each other in ways hardly reachable to others #once I start an origin run it’s over for you guys I will be so insufferable. even more than usual

[70sscifiart]

Here's another '80s Space Crowd Saturday: David B. Mattingly's cover art to "Desperate Measures," by Joe Clifford Faust, 1989. I think we can add Bladerunner right alongside A New Hope when it comes to influentially seedy sci-fi bars.

#art #Space Crowd Saturday #David B. Mattingly #Desperate Measures #Joe Clifford Faust #bladerunner

[l-just-want-to-see]

still amazes me that Jason Todd took over the criminal underworld of the most dangerous city in America as a teenager right under the nose of the planet’s greatest detective and some people still run with “Jason is the dumbest Robin”

#jason todd #enoughhhhh #none of them are the “dumbest” Robin btw #They’re all incredibly smart and competent and I don’t think you can fairly measure it #Batfamily