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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · Jul 24

Update: Decided on a spreadsheet instead.

This is a Google Docs spreadsheet transcribing all 100+ pages of Dan Pelzer's reading list "What Dan Read, 1962-2025." Feel free to contribute so I don't have to do the entire list myself!

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What Dan Read 1962-2025

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 10m

So really (and now I get to respond to this post I bookmarked four months ago), when the Doctor landed in a junkyard and sent his granddaughter to school in "An Unearthly Child," he changed the entire history of the universe and every crap thing that has happened since then is directly his fault.

James H-B @fitgeekuk.bsky.social · May 31

When you think about it, it's very possible that, when the Doctor had Harriet Jones removed in "The Christmas Invasion", he changed the entire history of the universe and so every crap thing that has happened since then is directly his fault.

#DoctorWho

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 16m

The Eleventh Doctor once had a revelation that "Time can be rewritten," but he still hasn't figured out that he's been rewriting Time since the very beginning.

That's what happens when you steal a time machine and go bumbling around the cosmos without proper training.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 19m

The Doctor keeps traveling through time and encountering threats to Earth, not because they've always been there, but because he made it possible for them to be there.

And the more threats he encounters and has to stop, the more he accidentally creates.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 22m

They weren't there before, but, now that Time is its own dimension and its own plane of existence, they're there now. And every time the Doctor returns to Earth, travels up and down the timeline, and opens up more and more of time to the outside universe, the more the universe seeps in.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 34m

Earth had developed a certain way up to 1963, and that history was pretty much fixed--but it was also soft, and malleable, and there were a lot of little holes and cracks that certain creepy crawlies could wriggle into and start nibbling at.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 38m

But the moment the Doctor dropped a TARDIS into 1963--the moment he introduced time travel as a possibility onto planet Earth--then things went FUBAR.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 39m

There was no Racnoss ship hibernating inside the core. The Silence weren't secretly controlling humanity. There were no aliens hiding out in Renaissance Venice, Sherwood Forest, Elizabethan London, Victorian London, WWII London, or Cardiff.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 48m

Earth in 1963 was a fairly ordinary planet. It had been inhabited by Silurians and Sea Devils at one point, was now inhabited by Humans, might've accidentally been visited by various aliens over the years, would eventually make proper contact with aliens in the future, but that was it.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 51m

The Doctor fucked up Earth beyond repair the moment he set foot on it, continues to make things worse every time he returns, and he STILL DOESN'T REALIZE HE'S DOING IT.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 1h

(My bad, I misread the post as being about novels, not novelizations. Can’t help it, I see a conversation about Star Wars and Matt Stover and can’t -not- heap praise on Traitor.)

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 1h

It happened twice.

(Four times, apparently, but I haven't read Shatterpoint or Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor yet)

The cover of STAR WARS: THE NEW JEDI ORDER: TRAITOR by Matthew Stover

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 1h

We thought it was a warning, but it turned out to be gleeful aspiration.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 1h

A photo of George W. Bush being informed of a second plane hitting the WTC on 9/11, with added text:

Top: "A SECOND LOTR CHARACTER"

Bottom: "HAS JUST DEVELOPED BIG NATURALS."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d

I saw this comic strip in the Sunday comics page this week. I really think we're going to win.

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t expecting to find this in the comics page of the local Sunday paper.

The comic Six Chix by Isabella Bannerman: a one-panel comic depicting a chicken painting a green stripe in a colorful pedestrian road crossing. The caption reads: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To help repaint the Pride rainbow.”

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d

("Wasn't expecting" as in "wasn't expecting to find an actual pro-Pride message in what is usually a bland comics page," but then I don't think I've ever heard of Six Chix before. Either way, I think this is a sign that we're winning.)

Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d

From comicskingdom.com/six-chix/202...

Six Chix Comic Strip 2025-10-12 | Comics Kingdom

Read the Six Chix comic strip from October 12, 2025, and check out other Six Chix comics by Bannerman, Xunise, Konar, Lawton, Patrinos & Piro.

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t expecting to find this in the comics page of the local Sunday paper.

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