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Good Morning Starlight

@hellostarlight20 / hellostarlight20.tumblr.com

Because my Doctor Who love (obsession) can't be contained. And, you know, cute animals. BBC owns Doctor Who but I own the fiction I write about the characters. Please don't reproduce without proper tagging.
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I do often wonder what the Tyler's neighbours thought after the Doctor made an entrance into Rose's life. Like, Rose's disappears for a whole year. Jackie blames the boyfriend. Rose then turns up, and they hear from Jackie that Rose had been travelling with some kind of Doctor!

Not to mention, he looked old enough to be her dad! They see him around for a while now and then, when Rose comes to see Jackie. But suddenly, he disappears! And now Rose is off travelling with a younger man, who also seems to be a Doctor!

Poor Mickey! Dropped by his girlfriend for two different blokes! And then of course, one day Mickey disappears as well! Rumour has it he had been at that school which blew up, but never came home! Then came the ghosts, and then Rose is back with her second Doctor, holding hands and giggling. They seem totally surprised by the turn of events. Like, where on Earth could they have been travelling that didn't have any Ghosts?

By the end of the day, all of the Tylers are missing.

Only a man in an army coat comes by once to knock on the flat door. But there's no answer, and he leaves looking crestfallen. And now the Powell Estate feels less joyful. The Tyler's had been a fixture for over two decades. They'd comforted Jackie when her poor husband had died in that tragic accident. They'd watched little Rose grow without her father, but incredibly close to her mother.

They watched a heartbroken Jackie as she searched for a whole year for her only child. And watched with happy surprise as they reunited unexpectedly.

But now they were all gone. Even Mickey Smith, the happy go lucky kid who'd always had a soft spot for Rose. All they knew for sure, was that that family fell into trouble the moment Rose met that first Doctor. And it had only gotten worse from there.

Couple of years pass, and they hear rumours that Mickey Smith has suddenly reappeared. Only he doesn't return to the estate, and marries a woman named Martha apparently.

They don't blame him for not returning to the Estate.

Too many ghosts.

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"Mandalorians didn't want to change, Satine merely forced them to"

Except, no she didn't and and yeah they did.

Here's the thing, we are told that the majority of the people wanted the change and were New Mandalorians, we are told that the only people who weren't were a small minority that had been exiled for causing a damaging war on the planet and population

And it was That minority that kick started Mandalore falling, that brought wars back to Mandalore, that took over via trickery and deception because the majority were Happy with Satine so the only way that said minority could take over was by making her seem incompetent and convinced the population of exactly that

Mandalore was a tragedy in the Clone wars because people WANTED to change, they were HAPPY with the change that Satine brought, but because an Extremist Minority didn't like it so they all Suffered

George Lucas said that the Prequels were a story about how a democracy fell, and I see The Clone Wars Mandalorians as another chapter of that, but this time it wasn't because of the civilian inaction, it was because while the people did Everything Right, they suffered under things out of their control and an Extremist Minority used propaganda and staged attacks to take over at the first chance they had.
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An important update from your friendly neighborhood mod: I've been abysmal at advertising for this event, and I'm sorry about that. I've had some life-changing things happening recently, so my focus has been elsewhere, but thankfully, I have more time to devote to this event (both as a mod and a participant) now.

In order to give people a bit more time to prepare and to spread the word on other sites, I've decided to move Satine Week out a couple weeks.

Satine Week 2024 will now be taking place from March 31st to April 6th. You're invited to share fanfics, art, videos, edits, and other creations featuring Satine Kryze. The themes for each day are as follows:

Sunday, March 31st: Jewel Monday, April 1st: Mother Tuesday, April 2nd: Tears Wednesday, April 3rd: Cat Thursday, April 4th: Sisters Friday, April 5th: Mercy Saturday, April 6th: [Free day!]

However, if you're not particularly inspired by those prompts, or if you want to challenge yourself further, feel free to make use of this set of alternate quote prompts. You can use them on any day and in any context!

  • "You mean more to me than anything in this galaxy."
  • “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
  • "Deep down, you're really just a dork."
  • "In the end, it is often the young who pay the price for the decisions made by the old."
  • "Sometimes heroes fall, despite their strength."
  • "When your life is on display, you cherish the things that are yours alone."
  • "What do you see when you think about the future?"

Once again, I apologize for these changes, but I hope that this makes it possible for more people to participate and celebrate our favorite pacifist duchess!

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

Man behind me having unhinged phone conversation. There is an internationally famous dairy in the area I was visiting and he was commissioned by the lady on the other end of the phone to collect specific cheeses from there. The lady is very high strung about the type and condition of the cheese.

The man does not know from cheese. The man "ain't never seen no cheese but orange before" and "I showed ya list to the cheese lady so if it's wrong it's her fault ok?"

I am 80% sure she sent him there for a really specific bleu cheese, 40% sure he does not have the very specific bleu cheese, and 100% sure he's done with her shit.

Our flight is delayed.

He does not have the cheeses in a cooler, just a regular backpack.

I need to emphasize that there is no cooler bag in the backpack. He has Jansport backpack that is jam-packed with cheeses. There is apparently $405 dollars worth of cheeses in that backpack, which I know because he has been trying to get the lady to venmo him the expense, which she has failed to do. It is unclear whether his relation to the lady is romantic, familial or what, but I'm leaning towards "what".

Two more people have joined us. One is a very elegant man with a perfect manicure in a tailored business suit, the other is a neon-haired person of indeterminate gender wearing a fox kirigumi. The Shiba Inu has been staring at the latter for three minutes now.

Uh oh.

Cheese man has been demanding payment because apparently he went like six hours out of his way and paid with his own money and between the cheese and price of gas, he is pretty sure he does not have enough money in his account for an Uber home.

The lady is FLABBERGASTED that he is demanding payment at all, as she was under the impression he was doing this for her out of the goodness of his heart.

He's not having it. He's insisting she told him she would pay him back- he would have gotten her maybe one cheese somewhere closer to his business in the area out of love, but he went out of his way because she agreed to pay him costs+ extra to cover it.

HE RECORDED THE CONVERSATION IN WHICH SHE PROMISED TO PAY FOR THE CHEESE, SHE'S THAT MUCH OF A FLAKE.

I am about to offer this man cash for some of these cheeses because our flight is now more delayed.

"YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS AND I FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME! NO! NO! FUCK YOU! IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA PAY ME, YOU DON'T GET FANCY CHEESE."

"OR ELSE WHAT?"

"I'm gonna-? THE BABY SHOWER? MONICA CAN'T EVEN HAVE THIS CHEESE SHE'S PREGNANT!"

"The cheese lady asked if it was for someone because the mushrooms or whatever in the cheese are dangerous for the baby or something?? You wanna poison Monica?"

"WHY WOULD I LIE ABOUT THAT?"

"YEAH OF COURSE I GOT THE CHEESE, THATS WHY I DON'T GOT MONEY FOR UBER!"

"YEAH, GO TELL! GO TELL MOMMA I STOPPED YOUR STUPID ASS FROM KILLING MONICA OR THE BABY! FUCK!"

*hangs up phone*

*head in hands, borderline hyperventilating*

The man in the three piece suit is in the chair next to him. He waits a moment, then reaches into his carryon and pulls out an entire bottle of wine with the TSA pre check sticker on it, and taps cheese guy on the shoulder.

"If your friend doesn't want it, would you be amenable to having it right now?"

Naturally, I have volunteered my box of wheat thins and offered to buy one of the harder cheeses which should be fine if it makes it home.

Meanwhile, Kirigumi has noticed that the Shiba Inu is staring at her and is correctly intimidated.

1. This is some fucking great Camembert. I have compensated cheese guy accordingly. So have like six other people. He's recouped like half his losses.

2. Cheese guy is crying a little about the cash and opening up about his problems. The cheese lady is his younger sister. Suit guy is being very generous with his Pinot Blanc. We are having a picnic/improv family therapy session.

3. This is apparently the latest in a long string of his sister asking for something and then flaking when he asks to be paid back. Started with paying him back only some of what he was owed, then claiming something she paid for him was of equal value when it was not, then recently telling him his memory is wrong and he said it was a gift or that he'd do it for free.

"Yeah, the specific thing of trying to convince you your memory is unreliable is called gaslighting and it's really fucked up." I say

"yeeeeah. The other stuff I forgave because she's never really had a good job so she can't pay me back all the time but at least she was making an effort y'know? But that was. That was over the line."

"If you haven't already, check on the rest of your family's finances. My brother started trying to gaslight everyone when he started stealing from our parents." Says Pinot Blanc.

4. Shiba Inu Lady has purchased a cheddar. Apparently, the dog's name is Donut, and he's her service dog because she's severely visually impaired.

"Oh, he's a guide dog?" Asks cheese guy.

"oh, no." She laughs. "He's too short, and the way my eyes are, it's easier for me to navigate with a cane. No, the problem I have is that some morally impaired people see the cane and think they can get away with stealing my bag or assaulting me because I wouldn't be able to give a description- which is wrong, but rather than deal with that I got Donut, and he helps me by howling at anyone who gets in my personal space and biting anyone who grabs me!"

"Uh." Says Kirigumi. "He's been staring at me do I need to back up or..?"

"Ohdear! No, no- He wasn't looking at you! He loves cheese but he knows he's not supposed to beg so he decided the way to deal with something he wants but can't have is to stare in the other direction."

"OKAY!" Says Kirigumi. "I'm wearing fox pajamas and thought like. He thought I was another dog or something."

"No, no- he doesn't care about dogs, and you get a warning before he goes for the calves. Very helpful, when I was living in Italy!"

"Oh what part? I have family in Tuscany." Says Pinot.

"Does he want a cheese? There is still so much cheese." Says cheese guy.

Plane may be arriving. I am paying for in flight WiFi to keep y'all updated.

1. Cheese guy has sold all but two or three cheeses that he an Pinot are going to eat on the flight.

2. I know they're planning to continue because Pinot talked to the gate agent so he and cheese guy can sit together and talk about family drama and cheese.

3. Pinot has been teaching him about different types of cheese and how to enjoy them.

4. Cheese guy apparently repairs computers and other technology devices for a living and is currently doing the software version of scraping barnacles and other crap off Pinot'macbook.

5. Pinot is now convinced that cheese guy is the smartest and most interesting man in the world.

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2023 Bucket

This is a bucket. Anything you don't want to take with you into 2024, feel free to drop it in the bucket. I will be burning the contents (with Hellfire) at exactly 11:59pm on New Year's Eve.

You don't have to type anything, at all. Just reblog the bucket and your intentions will be known by the universe. Or the bucket. Or whatever you like.

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honestly the real mvp is shaun temple. his wife shows up after the world almost ended and is like hey, remember that little fruit who you met 3 days ago? he's my best fucking friend he's my younger brother who's a gazillion years old he desperately needs therapy and he lives in our garden now with his time machine. and shaun was just like okay! what are we making for dinner :)

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I really deeply appreciate the storytelling craft that has gone into ensuring that David Tennant is the Doctor forever, and can appear at any time without requiring weird timeline shenanigans. This is fan service, yes, but I'm certain the #1 fan this is servicing is in fact David Tennant.

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watching the christopher eccleston and billie piper panel .. and honestly, they are truly so good together:

  • the way eccleston gives billie all his attention when they are talking about first working together .. i can't handle this
  • eccleston remembering the FIRST time him and billie really met in a bar .. this is a lot
  • not him remembering 'bella and the boys' .. he's fan, i know it
  • christopher 'keeping an eye out for billie' eccleston is my favorite
  • billie going from not being fan of dw to one of the most beloved characters on dw .. love that for her
  • not eccleston bringing up how brits are snobs and talking about how they attacked billie cause she was a pop star and has now become a great actress ... snobbery and limited imagination and how they are a class system ... I LOVE YOU, SIR
  • billie not remembering a memory eccleston is sharing about nicholas briggs doing the dalek voice and her saying 'did i laugh?' lmaooooo we love a memory-loss babe
  • billie loves the charles dickens episodes and eccleston saying it was like their christmas episode .. i'm crying
  • eccleston saying billie charms people and has chemistry with anyone .. PLEASE SIR, I CAN'T HANDLE THIS
  • billie's face when they ask eccleston about returning to dw .. this woman KNOWS him
  • billie saying she understands fandom now because of her kids and how they are fans of things .. MILF LEGEND
  • eccleston said he didn't know billie wanted to leave with him and him saying they manipulated their relationship .. i'm crying
  • billie talking about how she wanted to be there for tennant 'a lovely bloke', like eccleston was there for her .. and eccleston saying that makes sense since he was young .. and then them talking about their age and how he's 60 now and billie is 41 and him saying 'NO' after she said that .. PLEASE WORK TOGETHER AGAIN
  • eccleston saying to fire everyone involved in dw and billie making faces while he says it lmaooooooo ... we love a man who truly doesn't give a fuck
  • billie saying she wants to come back ... SHE IS DEFINITELY MAKING A COMEBACK
  • 'THERE'S ONLY ROSE FOR THE NINTH DOCTOR' - ECCLESTON, YOU KING!
  • him saying the doctor and rose tyler were more than just romance and even their kiss was more than just that .. he is obsessed with them and i agree
  • billie saying she always laughed at the daleks and the cybermen .. how she couldn't take them serious lmaoooooo
  • eccleston saying 'father's day' is his favorite because of what he was going through with his own dad and how billie really took the reigns of that episode (plus 'dalek' and 'the empty child') .. sir
  • the way eccleston just instantly looked at billie when they asked if they took things from set and him calling her a kleptomaniac lmaoooo .. PLAY A THEIF, MY LOVE
  • billie saying her life experiences really inspires her to act and eccleston saying it was his family and how they never got the chance to make it out because of their class and society .. WE LOVE A KING WHO KEEPS TRYING TO CALL OUT THE CLASS SYSTEM
  • 'you all work with people you don't like' - eccleston you truly get me !!!!!
  • 'depends on the money' - eccleston on when billie and him doing big finish together PLEASE BIG FINISH

they are so enjoyable together and the way they would look at each other and laugh at their jokes .. I NEED THEM TO MAKE A NINTH DOCTOR AND ROSE TYLER AUDIO PLEASE

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