the venn diagram of “things said to an unconscious whumpee” and “things people say to you when you drop off the zoom call” is not a circle but it is pretty dang close
there is a shadowy third circle that’s less prominent that’s “things you say in a seance”
here’s the diagram:
ive been buying more stuff on bandcamp because it supports indie artists way more than spotify
reminder to buy on bandcamp fridays!
these specific friday events (that do not happen every friday, it varies)?
artists get 100% of what you pay for their work.
On bandcamp friday all proceeds go to the artist.
bandcamp fridays are usually the first friday of every month though right now there isn't one until August 6th, 2021. though this Friday 6/18 they're giving all the money they usually take to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
also I'd be remiss to not rudely stick my bandcamp on here under this info
and even if you don’t buy stuff on bandcamp fridays, bandcamp still pays artists 80-85%, whereas spotify only pays artists less than half a cent per stream.
so if you like listening to someone’s music on spotify, also support them on bandcamp if you’re able to!
Technically speaking its actually 93% of the money spent on bandcamp fridays goes to artists. Not the full 100%
Playlist tag thingie!
Rules: we’re snooping in your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and tell us the first ten songs. Then choose 10 victims.
(this is also a memory exercise because tumblr is the worst on mobile and i cant copy things so i am typing these rules from memory) anyway i got tagged by @undefeatednils a while ago and just found it in my likes.
1. Whataya want from me - Adam Lambert
2. Welcome to the jungle - guns n’ roses
3. Hope to die - Orville Peck
4. Tick Tock (vocal track) - murray gold, doctor who soundtrack
5. Chorn - Firebringer the musical, Starkid
6. Like real people do - Hozier
7. In Liverpool - Suzanne Vega
8. Heaven - Emeli Sande
9. Serious (Reprise) - Legally Blonde the Musical
10. Super Trouper - Mamma Mia
You knows what guys this one is fairly good. Nothing embarrassing in there its largely solid to leave running like that and is fairly mixed in its weirdness as to represent my music taste well.
I’m gonna tag @heda-fleimkepa @definitely-not-an-alb @commandervimes @emptymasks @feral-pixie and anyone else who wants to
I can’t believe people actually… clean out their likes. They go through all of their likes to reblog and remove shit. Like… how organised is that. How… what gives you that kind of motivation
Please read this story from Vox. It’s always made me deeply uncomfortable whenever people look at queer representation that they find dissatisfactory for whatever reason and say, “A cishet person obviously wrote this” or “This is written for straight people” or “No queer people were involved here.”
Because like. You can’t know that. And saying that can be very damagng when you’re wrong.
The article is here and you should read it, but the SparkNotes version is:
Like. It wasn’t enough to force Becky Albertalli to out herself before she was ready because clearly, no queer person could’ve written Love, Simon? Now we’re just skipping to wrecking people’s lives?
You cannot be sure if someone is queer or not without forcing them to out themselves. You just cannot be sure, and it’s rude and dangerous to assume you can.
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ziyal answered:
oh god, okay… this is a fairly long story that colin baker relates in the dvd commentary for mark of the rani, i will be paraphrasing it but i’m pretty certain i remember all the major details because i was laughing SO hard the first time i heard it
first of all you have to know that mark of the rani was filmed on location in this particular village and the public woods surrounding it, and also that the weather was being rather inconsistent on this one day. it kept raining and then the rain would stop again, so every time the rain shifted, the whole filming crew would immediately jump up and run between two locations – for continuity reasons, because they were alternately filming one scene where it needed to be raining and one where it was sunny
so they’re doing this scene where the doctor is tied up and hanging from a pole like so:
it’s super uncomfortable to be actually hanging from a pole by one’s wrists and ankles for multiple takes of a scene, so the crew built some kind of contraption to make it easier on him… it was basically a metal frame-like thing that was hidden under his jacket and pants, supporting his back so that he wouldn’t actually be straining his wrists, i guess? at any rate, the downside of this was that this thing took a LONG time to set up, so it wasn’t possible to UNTIE him from the pole in between takes, so they just kind of. set him down on the ground. during the moments when they weren’t filming
anyways, in the middle of this situation with the intermittent weather, at some point it starts raining and the director calls for everyone to go to the other current filming location!! everyone is rushing about trying to get the cameras and props and people over there as quickly as possible (because you never know when the rain will change again) and in all of this hullaballoo they somehow manage to
forget colin baker on the ground
(actually he said that he sort of noticed them leaving him behind but was initially hesitant to say anything, thinking “surely i’m just missing something and they’ll come get me in a moment” and then by the time he fully realized he was left behind, they were too far out of earshot for him to say anything)
so he’s just like. well. i’ll just wait. and they’ll figure it out soon enough
he lies there tied to this pole for a good ten minutes or so until he hears someone coming down the path
but it is not the film crew, because these are PUBLIC WOODS they are filming in. it’s a random middle-aged couple walking their dog. and the dog comes running up to colin baker (who is a little ways off of the main path) and sniffing him and barking
and the couple just … look at him, tied to the pole on the ground… he said he could tell that they didn’t recognize him as being dr. who, so god knows what they thought about his COAT
he looks at them
there is a deeply awkward silence in which he doesn’t know what he could possibly say about the situation of him being TIED TO A POLE IN THE WOODS and they are clearly being TOO POLITE AND PROPER AND BRITISH-Y to bring it up
eventually one of them is like “nice weather today isn’t it” and he’s like “er yes quite” and they just keep going and leave him lying there on the ground tied to the pole
he just stays there for another twenty minutes or so until FINALLY he sees one of the camera crew running back to get him while yelling “COLIN OH MY GOD WE’RE SO SORRY”
…aaand that is the colin baker tied to a pole in the woods story, more or less as related by colin baker himself, aka my all time favorite thing that ever happened behind the scenes of doctor who!! ACTOR DVD COMMENTARIES ARE SO WORTH WATCHING, KIDS
top stories about weird shit that happened behind the scenes of doctor who
adding some of my personal favorites:
“we accidentally left colin baker tied to a pole alone in the middle of the woods for half an hour, oops” can someone please send me the source for this
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Also consider: this clip. This episode aired in 2005, and was written by Russell T. Davies, a gay man. He gives Rose the line “You’re so gay,” which is used as an insult, not as any kind of broader commentary on societal homophobia or some kind of character arc on Rose’s part; it’s just normal vernacular that a 19-year-old character can use on a family-oriented TV show without it being considered objectionable because invoking the word ‘gay’ as a slur is such common usage.
Pretending that the word ‘queer’ is unique in its usage as both an identity label and a slur, and that labels like “gay” and “lesbian” were safely reclaimed in the 70s and/or weren’t ever used in harmful ways against people currently in the community, is ignorant at best and malicious falsehood at worst.
