On This Day Twenty Years Ago, Rose Tyler Tried To Find Out More About The Mysterious Man Known As The

i had no fucking clue what this meant on my last reread and i have no fucking clue what it means now. jeor mormont was so restive he could have.... given birth.

another random post because apparently I can't go to sleep if I don't make delusional theories on the internet

anyways

Dark has pretty much shown us that in it, love transcends universes. That's kinda the focal point of the series, I guess? Anyways². We can see this specifically with Peter and Bernadette as well, and they are the pair I'll be focusing on for the purposes of this post.

We see them end up together at some point/have some sort of relationship in all the three universes, with a shift in Bernadette's gender presentation.

Eva's world: "Benjamin" is completely closeted and presents as male. I think we only see him like once and that time he's in the church talking to Peter. Then Charlotte arrives and they stop talking and it's all very awkward. It's not stated if they had anything going on there but just. Watch the scene and tell me it isn't terribly awkward.

Adam's world: Bernadette is out of the closet as a trans woman, but hasn't yet reached the transition goals she hoped for. She's with Peter, sort of.

Origin world: we see Bernadette as a more well-adjusted person, and just in general recognized and accepted by the people around her for who she is. And she ends up with Peter.

Peter kinda loves her in every universe, in the end. Even if we don't get the full picture a lot of the time, they're still secondary characters. But I don't think he just ends up with her because she's trans and he's gay and in denial. That would make sense if you only looked at Adam's or Eva's world, but that isn't what we're doing here. Basically, I think love in Dark doesn't just transcend universes, but gender as well.

all this to say if Sonja and Martha met they'd be lesbians and if Jonas and Marek met they'd be gay. And it's not about orientation. Just. Doomed by the narrative but they'd still love each other in any form I think

Yeah sure maybe you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting, I however…

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Vulture

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.

hi gerry

George just told me what Littlefingers Winds of Winter arc is going to be btw. He’s going to try to fuck Stoneheart

If the seelie queen and sebastian had a daughter and she had her red hair and his og green eyes, do you think janus would hate her for resembling a dream he can no longer attain or love her in a very unhealthy way while trying to mold her into a pedestaled replica of what his memories of clary allow her to be

In terms of science communication and space exploration advocacy, Elon Musk has sent us back into the fucking Stone Age.

A friend for her!

Made a little dragon boi - I call him Jean