…they just completely dropped the whole thing.
The arc is over, without Extremis ever affecting anything.
Perfectly good mindfuck wasted.
Basically what I said lol
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#(June 2017) #conversational aglets #(I’m glad to see somebody agrees with me) #Doctor Who #The Lie of the Land #reactionblogging #negativity tw
…they just completely dropped the whole thing.
The arc is over, without Extremis ever affecting anything.
Perfectly good mindfuck wasted.
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#I’m not saying I even necessarily *like* mindfucks #(it really depends) #but dammit I know a lead-up to a mindfuck plot when I see one #and you can’t just do that and then *not deliver* #you can’t just have the characters ignore the single largest threat to their plan #and have them be *right* to ignore it #*headdesk* #Doctor Who #dw spoilers #The Lie of the Land #oh look an original post #negativity tw #reactionblogging
New DW episode tonight.
Place your bets on whether the Resistance will realise the need for frequent shadow-testing.
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#after last week’s stupidity my hopes are not high #in their defence it’s currently not clear if the Resistance even has access to enough background knowledge to figure this out #the Doctor’s alpha-timeline self #–and therefore all of his forks from that point on– #know about shadow-testing #but it’s not clear if he’s told anyone else #(I’m thinking the answer re: the Resistance is either ”no” or ”they find out partway through the episode”) #(and that the regeneration scene that’s going around in gifsets takes place in a shadow-world) #(leaning toward ”find out partway through” on the grounds that) #(IIRC) #(none of the characters have made *any* use of the information from the Extremis recording yet) #(all of their dealings with the Monks would have gone the same way if they’d never heard of them before) #(so I’m hoping the writers will realise they haven’t actually fired that proverbial rifle yet) #((but they might not because on the surface it *looks* fired already)) #((just in ways that didn’t actually affect the plot)) #tag rambles #Doctor Who #negativity tw #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #(sort of) #The Pyramid at the End of the World #The Lie of the Land #dw spoilers #(…I just realised I forgot to spoiler-tag my reaction post last week) #(oops) #(too late now I suppose)
(probably qualifies as a sequel to this post)
(I might be missing something here, but I’m pretty sure this is at the very least mostly correct:)
Every problem Team TARDIS is currently facing can be traced back, directly or indirectly (sometimes both), to failure to bring their own spacesuits. To assuming that clean, breathable air would be available when they had zero reason to think that (in the case of Chasm Forge) or less than zero reason to think that (in the case of an apocalyptically-fatal-biohazard lab with a known internal breach).
I think they’re teaching a very valuable lesson here: remember, kids, protective gear is not a joke, wear your fucking hazard suits, just fucking do it already.
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#this post brought to you by #a person who wears surgical masks while on airplanes and when going outside during high-pollen times #(works too) #(only partially in the case of the airplane) #(but buying myself a few days’ delay by contracting the passenger’s cold indirectly through my family was very valuable) #(I needed those few days and was very glad to get them) #hazard gear: fuck yeah #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #Doctor Who #everyone in this episode was incredibly stupid but we can learn from their mistakes #(there were other things wrong with this episode too) #(including lessons they tried to teach that you absolutely *should not* learn) #((like ”consent is only consent if you’re doing it for stupid shortsighted reasons”)) #(but I’m focusing on this problem right now) #negativity tw #illness tw #tag rambles
@hypnokinkwithmrdream is posting their old hypnokink class notes under the Fetlife Hypnapocalypse tag. It’s a fascinating read- like having a mini-EEHU in my living room. Since there are a lot of older notes, it’s also an interesting peek into how and when hypnokink culture evolved into what it is now.
Thanks for posting these @hypnokinkwithmrdream!
Personally, I find these posts chilling.
Being so much about the power of suggestion, hypnosis is, to a fair extent, what people believe it to be. What hypnosis is changes over time, as society’s view of it changes.
I happened to be born into a part of space-time where the view of hypnosis meshed with what I was naturally inclined to find hot. It hasn’t always been this way, and, I expect, it won’t always be this way.
Someday, you’re going to leave me behind. You’ll move on to new pastures, where I will not want to follow. When I read things like this (or this, or that vanilla article you linked a while back on waking suggestions that I can’t find), I fear that it is already happening.
I’ve read over two pages of the /chrono version of the tag you linked, and he hasn’t said a single thing that makes me think “yeah, that sounds appealing”. It’s all a mix of things that don’t sound like fun at all and things that sound like they maybe could be fun but in a purely platonic way.
His kink is okay, but it is not my kink. If I’d been raised in a culture where this was the consensus view of hypnosis, I don’t think I would be a hypno-fetishist.
Sooner or later, and perhaps sooner, the future of hypnosis will be defined by people who say things like:
“Honestly I think the ‘relax/sleep/deep’ is counterproductive to what I want. People treat it as an idiomatic crutch but the reality is that I don’t really want any part of the person to sleep. I want them to be so focused that they can barely integrate the experience they are having with anything before, after, or around them.”
I look at that, and all I can think is, “I hope I find my real people before these people realise I’m not theirs.”
(And if I don’t find them in time, at least I’ll have had something resembling a community, and which will have taught me some useful techniques that I’ll likely be able to preserve privately even after they fall out of fashion. The next generation of people like me may be completely alone.)
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#I spent yesterday afternoon dealing with communities that insisted on claiming me as a member against my will #and yesterday night dealing with communities that #I’m at least 60% convinced are getting ready (however slowly) to kick me out and leave me stateless in that regard #yesterday was a bad day for group affiliations I guess #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #adventures in ‘close but not quite’ #raw nerves #negativity #nsfw? #in which Brin is predictable #(maybe not quite *as* predictable as the other post I’ve used that tag on) #(but this involves a couple of recurring and related themes of my blog)
Brinens and Things 