hey who lives in northern Virginia and wants to be friends

it’s hella lonely here without Josh and I don’t have anyone nearby to go out to bars with

I feel ya

Today in “Holy shit what the fuck is happening?!?!”

(Today being 02/14/17)

Mike Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor after it became clear that he lied about talking with Russia back in December about lifting the sanctions Obama placed on them

This is leading to members of the Senate, including members of the GOP, calling for an investigation into who in the White House knew what and when

Especially since Trump said he had “no knowledge” of any Flynn investigation by the FBI (which has been ongoing) whereas we found out today that Trump and other members of the White House were informed of the investigation into Flynn’s ties with Russia three weeks ago by the Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates

The Office of Government Ethics is calling for an investigation into Kellyanne Conway’s comments about Ivanka Trump’s brand during a Fox News interview over the weekend 

She’s also bizarrely claiming that someone “hacked” into her account to retweet praise from a self-proclaimed White Nationalist this morning

Trump is currently being asked to “explain himself” as to why he was handling highly secure information in the middle of the crowded Mar-A-Largo dining room where patrons were taking pictures of him and the Japanese PM receiving a briefing about the North Korean missile launch

And the New York Times has just broken the news that members of Trump’s campaign had repeated contacts with Russian Intelligence during the election

And this is just in the last 24 hours

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

Welp

Mr. Wednesday from Neil Gaiman’s “Fragile Things” (via deepthroatthoughts)

Happy Galentine’s Day!

This is neat.

The Late Show, November 4, 2015

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure.

What are your most hardcore Time War headcanons

The real difficulty for Gallifrey was that it’s difficult to mass-produce sentient timeships. I mean, yes, you can timeloop them so they mature in a nanospan, but… they tend to come out a bit wrong. Perception filters seem to slide off them, the internal dimensions shift about wildly, and, worst of all, the Rassilon Imprimatur sometimes just isn’t enough to control them. Sometimes you bond a Patrician to their brand new TT capsule, and. Well. The psychic backlash of a young telepathic mind being devoured isn’t pleasant.

So the Time Lords plundered their alternate Timelines. All those other Gallifreys they sealed away. Sometimes, the Never Were Time Lords were keen to join! Trapped in their bubble universes for eons, with no contact with anything beyond their own version of Gallifrey, they had grown xenophobic to Dalek standards. Sometimes, though, these alternates were meek, pathetic things, of no use to the War.

But they had TARDISes. The technicians (cunning Arcalians that they were) found a way to sever the linking bond between a Time Lord and their TARDIS, without damaging the Timeship. These were quickly bound to the nearest equivalent Time Lord from our Gallifrey, before any lasting psychic damage could be done from the shock of separation. The original owners weren’t nearly so fortunate.

Sometimes though, if they looked like they might put up a fight, or if casualties were outstripping the pace of looming, or if Lord Rassilon was bored, then the Time Lords simply rewrote their Matrix. Turning an entire Capitol-worth of Gallifreyans into cold-blooded killers was a lot simpler than petitioning the Patrex chapter to stop looming more bloody artists and focus on soldiers for a couple of spans.

Man oh man! Have I got some gruesome headcanons for you!

So, one of the more terrifyingly practical aspects of regeneration, is that between regeneration of lost limbs during regeneration and for the 24 hours afterwards, hypothetically, you could take a lot of whacks at a Time Lord and still have them survive. There were some battles where the supply lines got low, and, well, meat is meat. Time Lords just have the added bonus of surviving, and producing more meat then they reasonably should. You have to keep going somehow.

Then, there’s weaponized telepathy, which is especially useful for torture; Gallifreyans can share memories with other people via their telepathy. So, imagine a Time Lord tortured to regeneration, who then uses those memories against enemies of Gallifrey. After all, if it’s only in their head, you can skin someone as many times as you want, and they can’t ignore emotions and sensations hard-wired straight to their brain. 

There’s also the use of time technology against Daleks. The problem with Daleks is that they eventually are developed to live for a long time, and they’re mass-produced fully formed, so the usual time bombs don’t do all that much. So Time Lords have to get more creative with their weapons. One of the more successful ones was a device that shuffled the DNA, causing reconversion to earlier evolutionary forms. And humanoids, like the Kaleds, just aren’t meant to fit inside the little domes on the top they put the squid things in. It’s the tell-tale squish then hiss, of biological material flowing out then hitting the searing hot casing that let’s you know it was a success.

Plus, there are other telepathic species that the Time Lords fought against eventually. So, they had to modify a few poor souls. It’s possible to separate the reception from the broadcast part of telepathy, you just have to go in there and tweak a few things to get rid of the broadcast, and make a few adjustments to the Matrix. So, for all intents and purposes they are invisible to species with telepathy as their primary sense, but also feel strange and cold to their loved ones for the rest of their lives.

The Daleks also found out how to turn regenerations against Time Lords. Regeneration is kind of like birth, a new body is created from scratch, and just as many things can go wrong if you start messing with the carefully perfected art. Perhaps the old body isn’t entirely re-absorbed. Perhaps things don’t grow out of the right place. Perhaps little details, like skin are forgotten. There’s a lot of ways to incapacitate someone when you can control how their body comes out.

All my “New Who” Doctors are done!

All the classic Doctors are finally done! Next: two John Hurts, Christopher Eccleston and Matt Smith…

It’s fine, Lego, I didn’t need that money anyway, just TAKE IT ALL. 

Since today is Halloween, I figured every Classic Whovian ought to have this on their dash. ;)

Happy Hartnell-ween! :)

Doing Halloween like it is 1998 and you are in an episode of Felicity.

For more head to TV Ate My Wardrobe:

http://tvatemywardrobe.com/2014/10/29/halloween-costume-tips-from-felicity/

…Is that Amy Jo Johnson as Catwoman?

Watch: Bernie Sanders, what a mensch.

please protect him at all cost presidency will absolutely take its toll on him but he’s prepared to give it up to genuinely help other people protect this cinamon roll

Last Week Tonight s02e29 

“But if we’re going to constantly use mentally ill people to dodge conversations about gun control, then the very least we owe them is a fucking plan.”

THANK GOD

READ THIS AND READ IT AGAIN

The knowledge that Brax has survived the Time War all this time but not bothered to tell his brother he’s still alive has reminded me of one fact:

Irving Braxiatel is an asshole.

Big Bang Generation is a very special book. A book in which Braxiatel is mentioned incessantly. A book in which Keri the Pakhar is suddenly a companion. A book in which Peter goes around wearing a hoodie that, physics be damned, somehow covers his dog nose but not his eyes. A book that provides a literal big-lipped pink alligator moment. 

…and a book in which Benny and Twelve have an entire conversation about the Time War without either of them remembering they can just call up Braxiatel and ask if he’s seen Gallifrey anywhere lately.