chuckling indulgently.. oh go on... i suppose a LITTLE bit of monica in my life wouldn't hurt

bonnie langford from the cover of wit knits: lively and original hand-knitted designs the book that also features the "i'm a luxury" "few can afford" guy

the cats match:

If you want to be able to do a thing, you need to do the thing. If you want to be able to keep doing a thing, you need to keep doing the thing.

This is a fundamental truth and it fucking sucks.

Fixing Windows 11 - A Masterpost

Windows 11 is absolute crap for a good bunch of stuff so yeah, have a masterpost with most of the things I've found around to fix it haha (they're not all here because I did stuff around and I don't remember what)

I also have a ko-fi if ever you want to help.

Stopping W11 from making you create an account/setting up your computer without internet (with a way to create gpedit.msc if your version doesn't have it)

Fixing the Taskbar (in case you also don't like the grouped Battery/internet/sound or the way the windows look)(there's more to it, check the settings)

How to move the volume and luminosity pop ups (so you can finally see those sweet sweet subtitles)

In case ModernFlyouts doesn't automatically start up, possible solution

Fixing the Start Menu

How to show all options right away

How to remove Copilot if you have it (I don't, but it might be because I'm in Europe??)

Apparently Copilot is being forced on people so hummm

Other stuff not specifically related to the shit W11 did

Changing the size of the scroll bars

How to fully remove Cortana

Website with tools to fix W10 and W11

also novelization four said i'm gonna fucking kill that man.

I'm sorry but I'm going to talk more about survival.

Ace asks the Doctor why the Master tries to destroy people and the Doctor replies "malice".

Unsatisfied, Ace says "there must be more to it than that",

-and the Doctor amends his answer to "survival." The Master believes one day the Doctor will destroy him, and wishes to destroy the Doctor first. (The Doctor is evasive about whether the Master is right to fear him like this, saying "I suppose one day we might cancel each other out.")

Shortly after this, the Master makes a speech echoing the fascist ideas that the weak must be destroyed to allow the strong to survive that several of the human characters have been lured in by all episode.

There is so much to unpack there. We can talk about the uncomfortableness of Dhawan Master dressing up as a nazi and Simm Master joking about a 'master race' and enslaving Martha's family as a problem of new who not understanding what crosses the line from fantasy villainy into real-world horror that's hard to forgive, but survival is unambiguous:

The Master aligns himself with a facist worldview. And I think that's important, because that's what Rassilon and Tecteun do too. I think it matters that the Master's rebellion against the time lord high command eventually leads him right back to them. I think it's important that his desire to dominate drags him down into a belief in his right to dominate because that's what happens in real life. It is impossible to desire power over others neutrally. There is always a moment when you have to relinquish that desire for power or be changed by it. There is no third option.

Someone pointed out, and I immediately agreed, that the Master lays out his whole thesis in "Colony in Space" when he tells the Doctor: "one must either rule or serve."

Both of them want the same thing - to be free of the domination of the culture that bore them. That's why they make such good foils for each other. But the Master genuinely believes that the only path to freedom is Domination. He seeks to rule because he refuses to serve. But by the time he's Anthony Ainley, he's just seeking to survive, as you say - and he still sees Domination as his only path to that goal.

And when the Master in the end finally does return to gallifrey in the books he eventually takes command as president for life as the War King dressing all in black. He leads them into war against the Enemy and lets his subjects wipe out any lesser species they dream because they may one day rise up to challenge him.

All I really have to suggest this is Fifteen repressing the memory of whoever he saw in the cloak and vibes, but you know how even casuals found “the worst prime minister” egregious…

Does Fifteen currently remember the Master?

Thought he got trapped wherever the Toymaker did, couldn’t emotionally cope with the idea of ever having to face that soul-splitting terror again and just…blocked him out of his memories.

If this is the case then the Rogue situation is double hilarious. Cus if it’s the Master pretending to be a good guy when Fifteen wouldn’t recognise the Master in the first place, that’s gold, especially if ‘Rogue’ starts enjoying his deep cover enough to keep it running, then you’re going real mutual mental illness with these guys. Bond over the fact that both of you are currently pretending the Master doesn’t exist. Friendship with [REDACTED] is over, Rogue is my new Best Friend.

Or if it’s someone trying to pull the Doctor by roleplaying the Master roleplaying a good guy, then they’re basically playing five-dimensional chess with a duck.

very horrifying of ahab to be calm when he sees the compass pointing west when theyre actually sailing in the direction of the rising sun. this might be unintentional but in islam, the sun rising in the west means the apocalypse is coming and the door for forgiveness has been closed.

A little bit obsessed with whatever’s going on in this book

help one of dw posts broke containment and now I’m getting tags like this

Doctor Who (1996)- BTS-Part 3