Doctor... one day

confusedtree:

In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists

Has anyone mentioned that Paterson Joseph was seriously considered for the role at some point? I think it was the time when Matt Smith eventually got it, because I remember being disappointed. Joseph had good scifi credentials at the time as well, as he’d just done Survivors. 

I mention it only because he is also a black man, and I don’t remember there being a lot of racism about it, but then I wasn’t on tumblr at the time. I’m sure there was plenty. 

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hereincoherent:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Part of the issue I have reading scifi is so much of it is “a wandering band of white men set out to colonize space” and it’s just like reading a history book except there are asteroids. 

aagghh yes I was so glad when somebody started helping me find the scifi that isn’t this

When I say I like scifi I’m never even thinking about this type of scifi. I don’t really like space stuff that much (some exceptions, mostly TV/film ones, like BSG) and much prefer the set-on-earth-in-a-near-future stuff. 

Although given that I like stuff from 1890-1960, it’s still mostly white men. But hey. At least they’re getting whacked by triffids and shit. 

hereincoherent:

iambickilometer:

alarei:

liztits:

I never reblog this shit but mine is Burgerking Bandersnatch and it made me laugh so much.

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BILLIARDBALL THUNDERCATS

BACKITUP CUPBOARDLATCH

BENADRYL NUMBERCRUNCH

Burgerking Chunkybap.

I laughed quite loudly for several minutes.

misssandyjean:

This is it #bachelorthesis #university #graduate #phonetics #linguistics #RP #geordieshore #tyneside

I can’t believe you studied Geordie Shore for your thesis. That’s a big sacrifice for academic purposes :)

catchinglerman:

dr-and-mrs-who:

helveticathestitcher:

southpaw-holmes:

DAVID OWL

IT’S DOCTOR “HOO”

AND ITS ANIMATED

OH MY GOD THE BOW TIE

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jerradwilliams:

My stack of power (Updated)
I just wish I had the will power and dedication to devote time every single day to these delicious devils.

Are those ‘complete’ books good? Thinking of getting the Latin one as a reference/refresher book. 

languageismybooze:

http://tolu.na/19t2V6k

It’s really basic stuff and super easy. If you’re a fluent or advanced Esperantist, please don’t take it (it’s for the general populous).

SIGNAL BOOST FOR ME THOUGH

Done, took about three minutes, so signal boost!

In linguistics papers, we often need to give examples of some linguistic construction or other, and so we use example sentences. It didn’t strike me as at all odd until I talked to other people about linguistics, and they found it hilarious. Still. It’s what we do. What I mean by this is that, say I’m writing about questions, and I need to illustrate what questions look like in various languages, I’ll just give an example of a question. It doesn’t matter what question, usually; it just has to be a normal question with nothing syntactically weird going on. So I might give these two examples:

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You know what’s cool? Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know  how old it is. It’s at least 800 years old. I love the fact that we (I say ‘we’, I’m just taking credit merely by being from the UK) have such ancient stuff still in existence.