A realization: my distaste for JCDecaux's StreetTalk scheme is somewhat hypocritical, given that I admire the functionality of the KX100. Large advertisement panels are a necessary survival mechanism if a payphone is to hold out in a consumer-driven society in which mobile phones are on the rise.
I don't obsess over them, I don't think. My mum thinks I do.
I know lots of Doctor Who fans like police boxes because of the TARDIS, and the K6 design is one of the most iconic symbols of Britain (although I like the K2 better).
Actually, there's no evidence that the Met ever trademarked the blue MacKenzie Trench public call box in the first place. Arguably their attempt to revive it (by building one box, in Earl's Court, and not identical to any earlier model) was a cynical attempt to claim royalties off Doctor Who merchandise.
I have kind of mixed feelings about the case. It's an image strongly associated with Doctor Who, and if it wasn't for the show, practically nobody would know that the things existed anymore. Still, the Beeb didn't invent it and it was once a familiar item of street furniture.
You know, it just occurred to me that there are actually only a handful of women in fiction that I don't see as being widely sexualized.
Lucca is one.
Hm, let me think of another one...
The general trend in fandoms is to either sexualize females or infantilize them. That is, if the writers haven't done so already. That's why there are so many pseudo-cheesecake women and moeblobs in fanart. So, that may be a factor.
You know, there are an abnormal amount of songs from the late 80's and early to mid 90's about a guy sleeping with a girl only to find that she's a transvestite.
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^ Granted, he probably didn't see it as one when he was being tortured and all.
I wish I were more enthusiastic about stuff.
Experimental/postmodern literature, somehow.
Time based challenges (counting down, not time travel).
Hills shaped like breasts.
Patchouli Knowledge.
^ OMG, please let Giant Space Flea From Nowhere be a real boss.
They make me feel kind of sad, nonetheless.
My interest in police boxes predictably stemmed from watching Doctor Who.
I know lots of Doctor Who fans like police boxes because of the TARDIS, and the K6 design is one of the most iconic symbols of Britain (although I like the K2 better).
I have kind of mixed feelings about the case. It's an image strongly associated with Doctor Who, and if it wasn't for the show, practically nobody would know that the things existed anymore. Still, the Beeb didn't invent it and it was once a familiar item of street furniture.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You okay?
Feel human again