The Giggle: Behind the Scenes | Doctor Who
saw someone misspell “stochastic terror” as “socratic terror” so I’d like to clarify that stochastic terror is the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act that seems random but is not, while “socratic terror” is what every athenian felt when they went down to the agora in the 5th century and saw an old man with a beard approaching them
twitter has apparently unverified the pope. i need a bishop in avignon to decide to be the funniest person on the internet
dawes in hell bent cooking for Team Murder while the entire world and underworld collapses around them
Reading Hell Bent, which is so very good! Just got to the Walsh-Whiteley character- anyone else seeing this as a very obvious send-up of Harold Bloom??
Why Tumblr? Why do you, an actual celebrity, a famous writer, use Tumblr of all websites?
(The actual celebrity and famous writer sits back in his rocking chair, surveys the world of Tumblr, from his porch. He chews meditatively on a straw, and then he says:)
TACAFW: Y'see, I’ve been here for nigh on twelve years now, which in new-fangled internet years is about four hundred years… yup, I remember when all this wuz just folks trading photos of cats, and I remember when over there, where it’s now just waste land, that whole part of town was whut we used to call ‘Not safe for work" – hooey, I don’t know where those folks went, when they got driv out of town – but me, through those twelve years, I’ve just been in this old rockin’ chair on this old porch, and I’ve seen 'em come and I’ve seen 'em go… I guess I mus’ just’ like it here…
saw babylon. not good.
—Egyptian scout circa 1150 BC after the invasion of the Sea Peoples