“Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.”— Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”— Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2
“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”— Martin Heidegger
“Allow yourself to be a beginner. No-one starts off being excellent.”— (via purplebuddhaquotes)
when people ask how long you’ve been online
Inktober Day 16: Angular. The wonderful Peter Capaldi has a fascinating face made up of sharp angles and interesting planes! 😉🎭
Black biro and white crayon on brown paper.
I think what people miss about the whole Danny + Twelve antagonism thing is that like. It’s part of an entire continuous arc of ‘’post-Big Ass War and the consequences thereof’’ that runs for the entire three series
s8 Twelve is recently and deeply traumatized by an ~800 year siege against the cyborg embodiment of military supremacists - Daleks - which was a consequence of an even bigger War he thought he had -finally- resolved. he was literally born out of that experience– and that is an explanaition for why he is such a prick about soldiers, but not an excuse for it
which is exactly why Danny is THERE. He is the -only person- who clocks Twelve’s moral ambivalence towards the military for what it is, and refuses to take his bullshit from day 1 when everyone else concedes to or apologizes for him, because he is the only person who SHARES that ambivalence and can call out Twelve’s hypocrisy– and his tantrumming and sulking like he’s the only person who ever experienced a war
he throws that all in the Doctor’s face and forces him to confront it and resolve it and it’s ugly and messy and not really fun to watch but
the graveyard scene and Danny’s role in it is pretty much the catalyst for Twelve’s entire character arc from then on, it is not insignificant to the fact he can confront the primary architect of the War two episodes later without -entirely- losing his mind, how he can talk Kate and Bonnie down from obliterating the planet later on, etc none of that would have been possible if Danny hadn’t forced him to confront some truths about himself
and by the time TUaT rolls around, there is -no question- that the lovely soldier man is coming aboard and that they’re going to get him home. s8 Twelve, pre-graveyard confrontation with Danny, would have been -spitting chips- in that situation, he would have torn into him for no apparent reason like he did that poor UNIT soldier, and he would have been shitty and useless
Danny isn’t some passive punching bag that got whaled on by the Doctor for no reason but people keep treating him like that, and then blaming the narrative, when the narrative makes him a keystone in Twelve’s post-War closure
So apparently there’s a sound that is 36 or so octaves below middle c that is so low that it kills you. The sound waves literally kill you. And this sound is only found in dark matter (for what we know). This is so cool
I love science
#the catholic church was weak to ban augmented fourths when this is the real forbidden music