For all the US-based folks, here’s Celiac.com’s annual GF candy list for 2023! Please remember (as always) to double check your ingredients, and contact the manufacturer with questions or concerns.
The best home-from-school-sick days in the 1970s were when Gargoyles was on TV in the mid-afternoon. Bernie Casey could sell any role with sincerity no matter how weird the material got.
So recently, I discovered that nightmare in silver is a disliked episode of Doctor Who (I loved it, the dynamic of the doctor and cyberplanner? Love it).
Well, I have to ask, how much of it was changed without your saying if at all? And, do you ever feel regret for how the Cybermen became more robotic than cyborg?
Regardless, I absolutely adore the two episodes you've written for the show (the doctors wife is without flaw and no one can tell me otherwise)
I’m still fond of the original script for Nightmare in Silver.
The Cybermen I wanted to write would have been much more like the ones in Wheel in Space, which were the Cybermen that scared me, but what the show wanted were higher tech, upgradable Cybermen.
It was originally written for Beryl Montague, when she was going to be that season’s companion… (She became the short-lived Victorian governess who became Clara.)
“Parents can often be the last to know about their child’s gender identity, Ehrensaft says. Coming out can be terrifying for many transgender kids. Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house. Almost 40 percent of transgender youth experience homelessness or housing instability, according to a 2022 report from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support for young LGBTQ+ people. Many kids who wait to discuss their gender identity with their parents before appearing to “suddenly” come out are simply keeping themselves safe, Ehrensaft says.
”‘It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,’ she says. 'It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.’“
