What was y’all’s first: New Who episode, Classic Who Episode, DW novel, audio play?
Mine were: Rose (original broadcast), Remembrance of the Daleks, The Monsters Inside (I think?)* and The Glorious Revolution.
*(My first CW novel was Human Nature.)
Rose, An Unearthly Child, Alien Bodies and The Natural History of Fear
I think it was The Fires of Pompeii, An Unearthly Child, The Dark Path, and Blood of the Daleks. (And first short story, which I read before any novels, was Nothing O’Clock)
I honestly don’t remember on novel cause I’ve read quite a lot of them(they make good transatlantic flight reading) but it was probably a Tenth Doctor one, and haven’t really delved into audio plays, but New Who was Impossible Planet, and Classic was An Unearthly Child.
Hi! 🙂 I assume you’re referring to this 9gag picture that’s going around on the internet at the moment?
Sex doesn’t play a role for wolves when
it comes to attacking or not attacking another wolf. Wolves don’t have such
rules.
In wolf packs, the breeding pair who are leading the
pack exclude non-pack members from their territory and will attack and try to
kill trespassers. Other mature pack members (for example yearlings) are sometimes
less hostile to outside wolves, because those alien wolves are potential mates.
But wolves rarely attack or kill their pack mates.
The 9gag picture is taken by Jean Paul at the International Wolf Center in
Ely, Minnesota. Here, wolves live in artificially composed packs in big
enclosures. Members of the packs may vary as wolves age and new wolf pups are
socialized and added.
If a random pack of (often unrelated)
wolves is composite in such an artificial way, there is no natural pack
structure, so you get a battle on the power, and in the end a dominance
hierarchy that is maintained with difficulty. In situations like this, there’s
more dominance/submission display among pack mates, and more fighting, but
rarely with the intention to seriously harm, or kill each other.
Wolves can’t
talk with each other like we do, so their body is what they use for the majority of their
communicating. For us humans, that way of communicating may sometimes look very serious/aggressive,
when there’s actually nothing serious or seriously threatening going on. Besides,
wolves have a basic aversion to fighting and will do much to
avoid any aggressive encounters.
It’s difficult to tell from just a
picture what was going on in the depicted situation, but I’m pretty sure the
white wolf has no intention of attacking/harming/killing the other wolf/wolves.
The two wolves on the right are showing active submission to the white wolf.
I’m also pretty sure the white wolf is Shadow, who was the leader of the Exhibit Pack, so that would
reinforce that. Part of showing active submission includes lowering the entire
body and pointing up the muzzle to the more dominant wolf, which would be a
better explanation of the wolf’s position of it’s head instead of it being
a strategically move to protect the other wolf’s throat.
In passive submission, a wolf rolls on
its back and exposes its vulnerable throat and underside, whimpering, with paws
drawn into the body. This is a very common way of showing submission that
wolves display without fearing to be attacked – both the dominant and the submissive
wolf know the dominant wolf will not actually attack the submissive wolf. So once again I’m pretty sure the lowest wolf isn’t placing its head there for the reason 9gag is describing.
Also, if a wolf dóes have the intention
of killing or attacking another wolf, he’s not going to waste time playing the
whole dominance/submission game – he’d just do it.
And just to myth bust the 9gag comment;
the lowest wolf isn’t a female. The picture was taken in 2009, and at that time
the only female in the Exhibit pack was Maya, who has yellow/orange eyes, very profound eyebrow
markings, and a light brown top of the muzzle whereas the wolf in the 9gag
picture has grayish eyes, a dark grayer top of the muzzle, and different
eyebrow markings.
shit I gotta wait five more years for my fucking potato salad
Well so I’ve been gone basically the entire year and then some, actually probably close to six months now???
Anyway shout out to the like 20+ porn blogs that followed me, sketchy porn blogs are probably like 98% of my total follower count by now as the number hasn’t changed so I’m just assuming most of the actual humans decided I was dead and moved on.
So I’m at the bus terminal and this guy (who’d been following me and hovering over me for 10 minutes) comes up to me and says “hey beautiful. Can I talk to you?” So I said “no thank you.” He goes “I just want to speak to you, though.”
And I said “yeah I know that and I’m not interested in talking to a strange man at a bus terminal. Please leave me alone.”
So he stands there watching me. Finally he says “listen, there’s no need to be difficult. I approached you politely like a gentleman so I don’t see why you’re saying no. Now just let me speak to you.”
I said “nobody’s being difficult my guy. You asked a question, I gave an answer so we’re done.”
Then he says “yeah but the answer you gave me made no sense. Why don’t you want to talk to me? You don’t know what kind of person I am. You’re judging me before you know me. You’re being ignorant and prejudiced so”-
Just then this other guy who’d been sitting close to me said “my nigga shut the fuck up! I saw you following her and stalking her like a fucking animal or some shit, like you didn’t think she didn’t notice? She’s probably scared of your predatory ass and I don’t blame her. Mans need to understand you don’t follow girls and shit. That shits corny.”
So the guy goes “yo, mind your fucking business.”
And the other dude says “nah because I see you harassing this girl and as a man this becomes my business. You thinking you were polite doesn’t mean a girl has to speak to you. Be nice because you’re nice, don’t use that please and thank you shit and think somebody has to speak to you. You’re not a “gentleman if you don’t respect her. Take the L and go catch your bus you fucking creep.”
So the guy starts swearing and then walks away. The guy who’d defended me is like “you okay tho? Like real talk I don’t really like men because of shit like that. They’re fucking predators man. I do what I can when I’m able to for women because you don’t deserve to be hunted.”
Waiting for Winter 