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I was just wondering, is this still a thing that is happening?

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:25:15 -0400

Yes. Give me a week or so to get it back up and running. :)

explodingdog: It all comes down to one

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:03:57 -0400

explodingdog:

It all comes down to one

thefrogman: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:01:36 -0400

thefrogman:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:04:17 -0400

all-about-villains: Drawn ByMark Mchaley

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:06:59 -0400

all-about-villains:

Drawn By
Mark Mchaley

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:02:17 -0400

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:02:05 -0400

constantlycomic: benedictatorship: moriarty-did-it: doctorwho:...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:24 -0400

constantlycomic:

benedictatorship:

moriarty-did-it:

doctorwho:

#MARY POPPINS IS A TIME LORD.

moonmyst:

angsturbatecate:

chylan:

totalspiffage:

yousexythiing:

icthyosapien:

angsturbatecate:

If there was ever a female Doctor, Mary was it.

Head canon, idgaf, fight me.

seriously. she had the bag that was bigger on the inside and everything.

Bowties are cool, huh Mary?

OH MY F**KING GOD.

#been saying this for years #issues with authority. cheeky. sweeps children away on nonsensical adventures. is sometimes a dick. has sociopathic tendencies. is delightful. sounds like the doctor to me

Okay, so Julie Andrews for Twelfth Doctor, y/y?

I wear a daisy hat now… daisy hats are cool

How have we never blogged this before!?!

The Doctor (aka John Smith) is a Time Lord
The Nanny (aka Mary Poppins) is a Time Lady.

omg

OMG

OMG

The Doctor’s mother, everybody.

The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer “Ladies and gentlemen of the...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:01:09 -0400

The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

“Ladies and gentlemen of the City Council, I’m just a caveman… Your world frightens and confuses me. When I see your tall buildings and flashing neon signs, sometimes I just want to get away as fast as I can, to my place in Martha’s Vineyard. I’m more at home hunting the woolly mammoth than I am hunting a good interior decorator. And when I see a solar eclipse, like the one I went to in Hawaii last week, I think ‘Oh no, is the moon eating the sun?’, because I’m a caveman… but there is one thing I do know. The new resort housing development proposed by my partners and myself, will include more than adequate greenbelts for recreation and aesthetic enhancement. Thank you. (smug grin)”

—Cirroc, The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Saturday Night Live

We’ve all seen it. A character is placed in a completely unfamiliar environment, perhaps sent forward through time, or to a ship in outer space, or something equally ridiculous, and quickly becomes a Fish out of Water. This case doesn’t seem any different. Just like every other time, the fish is flapping around, and is running out of air. But wait, why does it look like that fish is trying to walk on its hind fins? IT’S LEARNING TO BREATHE AIR! Something’s fishy here.

Take it to the illogical extreme, and you could end up with a caveman, frozen in ice for thousands of years, who awakes to the modern world and promptly becomes a lawyer. It’s when a former Fish out of Water becomes well adapted to their new environment, to the point where they almost fit there better than the people that actually belong there. Makes you think this is where they should have been in the first place. Often justified in that the person coincidentally had an affinity for the very environment they ended up in, and thanks to their Genre Savvy manage to adapt with little fuss. i.e. a person who reads a lot of sci-fi novels ending up in space and thanks to all the stories he’s read about aliens, is inoculated against the shock of being around them and easily wraps his head around their whacky explanations of all the Phlebotinum they tote around. Sometimes the justification is that the newcomer’s fresh viewpoint makes them superior to the natives at operating in his new environment.

An alternate justification is that the newcomer possesses a trait he always considered useless, but is of incredible utility in his new environment. Named for SNL’s Cirroc, The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, who slyly manipulated the jury by playing the “I’m just a caveman” card, who wore nice suits, and had a smug charm stereotypical of modern laywers. Despite the name the character is not necessarily a Contemporary Caveman.

Compare Like a Fish Takes to Water, Going Native, Mighty Whitey, and I Know Mortal Kombat; contrast Fish out of Water and Fish Out of Temporal Water. An Unfazed Everyman may grow into this. Villains Blend In Better is a subtrope. Very like a Bunny-Ears Lawyer in that they’re strange but competent and accepted as such.

katvonsharktits: Gears of Love.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:06:35 -0400

katvonsharktits:

Gears of Love.

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:06:16 -0400

svalts: Link & Ganon - by Mike Puncekar Blog | Twitter

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:01:17 -0400

svalts:

Link & Ganon - by Mike Puncekar

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thisgirlgames: Death Star.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:03:41 -0400

thisgirlgames:

Death Star.

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:03:32 -0400

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rogerwilkerson: Do You Know This Man?

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:02:08 -0400

rogerwilkerson:

Do You Know This Man?

rogerwilkerson: Cold Drinks Now

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:07:08 -0400

rogerwilkerson:

Cold Drinks Now

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:03:48 -0400

Eye Am Watching You So there’s something off about the new...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:01:07 -0400

Eye Am Watching You

So there’s something off about the new guy. You want to keep him on his toes, let him know that he can’t be at home just yet. You want him to know that you’ll be watching him.

The wonders of nonverbal communication make saying all this without wasting your breath possible. Just perform these three simple gestures: 1. Point to yourself: “I” 2. Point to your eyes, preferably using the backward V Sign: “AM WATCHING” 3. Point to your target: “YOU.” Details can vary from forgoing some of the steps (most often the first one, since technically you’re pointing to yourself in step 2 anyway) to using different fingers when pointing at different things, but this is how you generally tell someone that Eye Am Watching You.

Though generally a threatening gesture, it is known to have at times been used in a friendly or reassuring manner as well; communicating something to the effect of “I’ll be seeing you”, “I’ve got your back” or such. In sign language, the same gesture from one side of the face (not centered) translates as “see” or “I see you.”