He Always Slept Better With The Great White Wolf Beside Him; There Was Comfort In The Smell Of Him, And

“He always slept better with the great white wolf beside him; there was comfort in the smell of him, and welcome warmth in that shaggy pale fur,” - Jon VII, A Clash of Kings

I think it was mentioned at one point that Gertrude was intentionally making the filing system more complicated than it needed to be in order to hide things from Elias

The way TMA does case numbers is so annoying to me because the majority of them follow the yyyddmm format right? Tim and Jon even have a conversation about it in Boatswains Call.

BUT! Not all case numbers follow this rule. Episodes 10, 16, 39-48, 56, 79, 80, 90, 98, and 134 have their case numbers formatted as yyymmdd in their descriptions.

Now, you might just wave this off as the out of universe episode descriptions being incorrect and thus these are not the true numbers. However, some of these yyymmdd case numbers are mentioned in the episodes. Take Body Builder and Light's Out for instance:

So canonically, statements in the archives are numbered using both yyyddmm and yyymmdd. Isn't that maddening???

Another things about case numbers, statements with unrecorded dates seem to follow the pattern of ###-U. MAG085 (Upon the Stair) is #376-U and MAG113 (Breathing Room) is #571-U. Likely the numbers are the order that the undated statements were received, so Upon the Stair would be the 376th undated statement received, with the U standing for undated.

Something else that I noticed that was fun was that MAG105 (Total War) has a completely unique case number: #D-1682-143. Because it's from the The Pu Songling Research Centre it doesn't follow the same case numbering system that The Magnus Institute does. Fun!

Well that's interesting

Huh, and I was only reading The Empire of Glass as an introduction to a certain character's brother.

David Tennant's awesome

David Tennant interview at the British LGBT Awards, June 2024 (x)

Int: You being an ally to the community isn't something new. You've been doing it, but recently you've obviously really stepped up for trans and non-binary people in a time that's so, so needed. What made you do that?

David: I don't know that I feel like I've done anything that I wouldn't just sort of be normally doing. I mean, it's for me it's just common sense that there's there should be any suggestion that people aren't allowed to live the life they want to live and and to be who they want to be with and to express themselves wholeheartedly. I mean, as long as you aren't hurting anybody else, everybody else just needs to fucking butt out. I don't really understand why...

Int: ...it's controversial.

David: Yeah, there is and the thing... the thing, if there's something that's particularly sobering and depressing, it's that certain debates are being weaponized by certain elements of the political class, often for no... it seems it's not ideological so much as opportunistic. And I just think that's pretty disgusting, really.

Int: I couldn't agree more. What message would you like to send out to trans youth?

David: Please don't feel like you're not loved and that you're not accepted and that you're not... you know, most people in the world are good and kind and just want you to be able to be who you are. Most people in the world don't really care. I mean... you know what I mean?

Int: We're all narcissistic.

David: Exactly. Everyone's so self obsessed that really, the sort of noise that comes from a certain area of the press and of the political class is... it's a minority. It really is. And please don't let that make you feel diminished or dissuaded or discouraged, because, you know, you just... you have to be allowed to be yourself, and you are, and you are yourself and you must thrive and flourish, and we're all here for it.

Int: Amazing. I think, yeah, it's so important .I think sometimes it feels like there's so many people, but it is a minority. It's such a minority.

David: It's a tiny bunch of little whinging fuckers that are on the wrong side of history and they'll all go away soon.

Int: Like what happened with gay people 20 years ago.

David: When I was a kid, when I was a kid, exactly. You know, I was at school when Clause 28 came in and it all felt like being gay was something to be terrified of. And gay men in particular were demonised as paedophiles and now that just feels historic and ludicrous and, I mean, I don't see all those... all those battles aren't won, but we're in a very, very different place. And I feel like.I feel like history is on a progressive trajectory and it might get knocked sideways now and again by people for all sorts of reasons, which are often quite selfish and quite, as I say, not coming from a place of any sort of genuine belief system, but other than a place of opportunism. And that's something that we... I hope that in 20 years time, we're talking about, you know, these culture wars as something of the past.

Int: I believe we will. I'm a huge Doctor Who fan, so.

David: Oh, good, me too!

Int: You are my Doctor.

David: Oh, thank you very much.

Int: But recently, obviously, you came back for the 60th anniversary and you got to work with Yasmin Finney.

David: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Int: What was it like working with her?

David: Oh, she's brilliant. She's fantastic. Yeah. And she's in the show again now, she's back in it, so that's fantastic to see. She's lovely, talented, cool as a cucumber, articulate, brilliant. I learned a lot from her as an actor and also as someone who, you know, who's become a sort of de facto activist just because of who she is and where she is, and she becomes a sort of symbol of hope, and she's wonderful.

Happy pride, fuck bigots