Subject: Just came across this old music video (Whovians, check this out). Also other stuff!
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Posted on: 2020-05-31 03:35:26 UTC

This is, apparently, "Doctorin' the TARDIS" by KLF. It's more or less a remix of the Doctor Who theme and a stadium chant, and in the video, an old black-and-white runs over a square, cardboard Dalek. I have no explanation, but it's amusing!

For entertainment, I'm currently watching the final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix, which is AMAZING, and if you haven't seen She-Ra yet, you should put it on your list. Every single main character is well developed and sympathetic and makes you care about what happens to them. Every. Single. One. Plus, hella strong female leads, normalizing non-hetero relationships, a variety of skin tones and body shapes, and there's a character who uses "they/them" pronouns who shows up in season... three? ... and it's just good, you guys.

I've also been catching up on Arrow, which is fine for brain candy. Season four is rough, but I'm past it now, and season five is okay. Will probably move on to the rest of the Arrowverse eventually, because I want to have all the context for the musical crossover whenever I get to that. >.>

I'm reading a book called The Genocidal Healer by James White. Came across it in a used book store, and with a title like that I couldn't not pick it up to see what it was about. So far, I'm enjoying it a lot! The alleged genocide is not the main plot, as you might expect; it's basically a pre-credits cold open. Our non-human protagonist, Lioren, is an amazing medic who was sent to help cure a plague that was killing a newly discovered race. Unfortunately, in Lioren's zeal to solve the problem, he rushed into administering the cure too quickly, and this indirectly resulted in a whole lot of the race killing each other. (It's complicated.) Lioren, absolutely destroyed with guilt, wants to be executed for his crime, but everyone else is like "Sorry, but we're a civilized intergalactic federation and we don't actually have the death penalty. How about you go intern for Sector General's Psychology Department under the supervision of the best possible doctor instead? Hopefully you will learn to live with yourself and we won't waste your brilliant mind. Win-win!"

I've since come to find out it's part of a whole series of medical sci-fi books set in Sector General, an enormous multispecies hospital out on the galactic rim. The author's philosophy is nonviolent and non-xenophobic. There's really alien aliens everywhere. Apparently Earth-humans are one of the only races that consider nudity and sexuality taboo (more on how this is handled as I come across it). Do I even have to tell you how much this appeals to my interests?

Seconding the rec for If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device! The latest episode was... pretty much as manic and entertaining as they all are? I don't even know how to explain. {X D

Oh, BTW, Thoth! Phobos tells me there is an actual character in one of the 40k books by the name of Thoth! ... He's a servitor scribe who works for Iskandar Khayon, and was given that name by Khayon. I'd say Agent Thoth wears it better. ^_^ The book in question is The Talon of Horus, if you're interested. Haven't yet read it myself, but I'll get there! More Thousand Sons stuff is always good.

~Neshomeh

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