Thorn Wilde

Ice hockey is the only sport worth watching. All those other guys have no idea what they're talking about! Incidentally, I found myself at an O'Leary's in Stockholm during the Finland vs. Sweden semifinal this year. I rooted for Finland. It was humiliating. My brother gloated mercilessly. He's lived in Stockholm for nearly fifteen years and plays hockey on the weekends...

Found this on the intertubes. Thought people might enjoy it. 40 Maps They Didn't Teach You In School Apparently, the biggest sport in Japan is baseball, England has at some point invaded all but 22 countries on the planet and there are only three countries on Earth that don't officially use the metric system. I was gonna include some of the images in this post, but the site won't let me, so you'll just have to click the link.

Eeee, that was awesome!

Sometimes boycotting something is the way to go, it's helpful and useful and works. Other times, all you're doing is depriving yourself of an experience. I try not to boycott the works of individual artists for views they may or may not have expressed at some point, not if I enjoy the art and not unless their views are expressed in too extreme a fashion to ignore. Clapton has expressed some very unfortunate nationalist views, Bowie said some pretty stupid things in the 70s and 80s, and there are plenty more. Often quotes are taken out of context or were originally meant as jokes, or they're downright misquotes. As long as the person in question doesn't fund any organisations or act upon his or her opinions, and as long as their art doesn't promote said opinions, I don't see why I should deprive myself of their art if I enjoy it. Also:

He was, which is pretty awesome, I think.

Helena Bonham Carter would be a fantastic Doctor. Helen Mirren would be pretty awesome too, but she might be considered a bit too old to follow Capaldi... I would also like to put Natalie Dormer up for nomination. As for RTD, he did a good job of bringing back the series, but during his run Moffat's episodes were consistently the best ones and I think the man has done a great job throughout his run of the series. I want more episodes written by Neil Gaiman, myself. Maybe he should be the one to take over after Moffat? Not so. The sonic screwdriver made its first appearance in 1968, during Patrick Troughton's tenure. Of Classic Who I liked Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker the best, to be honest. Since it started up again I've been fickle. I loved Eccleston so much and pretty much flew into a rage when he went away, but then I got to know Tennant's Doctor and thought he was the best thing ever and no Doctor would ever be as good as him, and then came Matt and I hated him and then I loved him within the first two minutes of The Eleventh Hour. By fishfingers and custard I was utterly sold. (It was sort of like when Daniel Craig was cast as Bond, and I saw a picture and was like, wtf is this he looks like a Bond villain and didn't watch his movies, and then I caved and saw Skyfall because of Ben Wishaw and now Craig is the only true Bond for me even though I loved Sean Connery since I was like 8.)

I have no problem with the Cushing doctor. I think those movies are fun. I just don't accept it as canon, and it was never meant to be either. Those movies weren't created by the same people, they weren't a spin-off or anything like that. An important thing to recognise is that Cushing didn't play the Doctor. He played Dr. Who. That is a significant difference. Not the same character, never really meant to be either.

Btw, this Buzzfeed article is a pretty accurate description of what my Tumblr dash looked like Sunday night. And most of Monday, to be fair. First monday in pretty much ever where anything has been more prominent than explicit drawings of Martin Freeman in red briefs.

Happy birthday!

Oh, Zombie, that was priceless!! I for one hope that they'll let him keep his accent and not make him be all standard English-y like they did with David Tennant. I think that Peter Capaldi will be excellent as the Doctor. I've loved him ever since I saw him as the angel Islington in Neverwhere years and years ago. He's a great actor, and I think he'll kill the role. It was time they went with someone older, anyway. They discount Peter Cushing because he never played a Time Lord from Gallifrey. Peter Cushing's doctor was human, and doesn't fit in anywhere on the official timeline. The movies he was in are completely separate from canon. The 12 regenerations limitation was set by the high council of Gallifrey to stop corruption, because no one should be immortal (The Master got around this and had unlimited regenerations), but Gallifrey is gone, and the high council with it, and no one's controlling how many regenerations anyone gets to have anymore. So it makes sense that it's no longer a thing.

I think it looks pretty good, too. It'll be fun to see if it lives up to expectations.

*Cylons. When the robot singularity happens, let's just hope that they're friendly robots, like on Questionable Content, and want to help us out instead of trying to kill us all or enslaving us and using us for batteries like in The Matrix.

I read that some ants steal eggs from other nests and raise slaves to do all the hard labour. Those ants don't know any different and just go along with it. It's really interesting.

Oh, yes, there he is! Paro!

There's a robot seal that's used to keep elderly people company, I think... I saw it at Miraikan when I was in Japan. I petted it. It was super cute and very responsive, but ultimately not really a proper replacement for human contact...

See, I think that's really cool, astronaut Barbie can be inspiring to young girls, not only men can be astronauts. But why for the love of everything holy does it have to be so pink??? Can't she wear a space-suit that looks like a space-suit???

That's fantastic, Greg! I'm so glad he's been able to help you. He is inspirational for sure, and seems like a lovely human being, following his dreams and fulfilling them, too.

And a new Harold Camping arises... Anyone remember his doomsday cult back in 2011?

I LOVE that!!!

He's such a cutie, too!

I remember a manga a few years ago about a girl who gets into a boy's school to play basket ball, and falls in love with her room-mate, which was pretty cool.

I didn't mean to say that you were. I was just saying that there's this attitude forming with some people that anyone who's skinny is automatically anorexic or something, which just isn't true. That's all I meant. Your comment about malnourishment of that model (and she's not really that super-skinny, I've seen plenty worse) just put me in mind of it.

Oh, all this is definitely true. All I'm saying is that you can't necessarily tell from a person's appearance whether they're healthy or not. A person can be chubby-looking but still be in perfect shape, while another can look super-skinny and eat like a horse. The fashion industry should cater to people of all shapes and sizes, and that includes the tiny ones as well. I just get pissed off when people have a go at skinny people as thought it's somehow better to shame someone for being thin than it is to shame them for being fat.

This is a really very moving coming out video... Not that Troye Sivan didn't ping on my gaydar from the moment I first watched one of his videos, but all the same. Well done, Troye!

Which is why I said 'in most cases'.