a book cover-ish illustration for the Year of Intelligent Tigers, which is probably still my favourite EDA 🐯🧡

destroy me why don't you

Happy "They blow each other every time the camera's off them" day

[has my brain irreparably changed by the tiger book] oh ok. happy birthday to eight btw <3

‘Your playing is just a parlour trick, isn’t it?’ said Karl. The Doctor started as though he’d been struck. ‘You didn’t have to spend a lifetime sweating blood to become a virtuoso. The way your superior brain is wired, you could probably play the concerto with your feet. You’re just amusing yourself with us.’ ‘How dare you?’ thundered the Doctor. ‘How can you say that?’ ‘You’re a cuckoo chick. A pretender. You’re just doing your impression of a first violinist.’ The Doctor gave a bitter laugh. ‘And you’re jealous. Of me. Because I’m something more than human. Jealous.’ ‘Oh yes?’ snapped Karl. ‘Written any symphonies lately?’ The Doctor spun, suddenly, his arm arcing out. The violin shattered against the concrete pillar. It tore in half, the back bursting into chunks and splinters, the strings tearing out of their pegs or snapping in two. In an instant, the Doctor was holding a useless stick tangled in strings and hanging fragments. He let it fall from his hand. It made an ugly twanging thump as it hit the floor. Karl didn’t look at the Doctor’s face. They both stared at the ruins of the violin.

--

After lunch. Fitz had gone to see the composer. ‘I hope you’re not a messenger,’ Karl said.

‘Nah, the Doctor didn’t send me or anything. I just wanted to find out what happened.’

Karl showed him the shattered violin, his gift to the Doctor. He cradled it in his lap like the body of a pet. Fitz stared at it. ‘You can’t fix that,’ he said.

‘No.’

‘Are you really going to get someone else?’

‘If necessary,’ said Karl stiffly.

‘He just goes a bit over the top sometimes,’ said Fitz. ‘You know.’

‘Yes,’ said Karl, ‘I had noticed.’

--

Yeah, well, there’s not a rational explanation for everything.’ ‘Like locking yourself in a room and playing the violin all night?’ The corner of Anji’s mouth twitched. ‘He’s like a teenager who’s had a tiff with his best mate. He’ll be all right.

-The Year of Intelligent Tigers

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures - Various Authors Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eighth Doctor/Karl Sadeghi, Eighth Doctor/Fitz Kreiner, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Fitz Kreiner, Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who), Karl Sadeghi Additional Tags: Jealousy, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Musicians, Musician Drama, The Greater Hitchemus Polycule, openly bisexual Fitz Kreiner, Nonbinary Doctor (Doctor Who) Series: Part 4 of it's not a symphony, it's a jam session Summary:

Fitz is seeing other people. It's fine.

'The Doctor always seemed to be trying to feed his friends, thought Karl. He’d held a dozen dinner parties since his arrival, and there always seemed to be something edible in his pockets, a toffee or an apple or a grape-flavoured  lollipop. It was like an impulse he didn’t know what to do with, on a world of peace and plenty - a need to be kind, to take care of people. Almost a maternal impulse.' reading 'the year of intelligent tigers' for the first time....doctor i would die for you

FINALLY RECIEVED YEAR OF INTELLIGENT TIGERS AHHHHH verye xcited to read i love kate ormans dw books bsjeisjosjeoskdnheiaj

Reading the truth rn but intelligent tigers is next in book pile mauhahahahha

books!eight and karl sadeghi didn't blow each other every time the camera was off them for people to act like the doctor being bisexual is a new thing 🙄

Doctor Who episodes that aired on the 4th of June…

In 1966, The Savages Episode 2

In 2005, Boom Town

In 2011, A Good Man Goes to War

Phew. This one took, uh… a bit longer than expected due to other projects both irl and art-wise, but it’s finally here. The long-awaited domestic animal infographic! Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough space to cover every single domestic animal (I’m so sorry, reindeer and koi, my beloveds) but I tried to include as many of the “major ones” as possible.

I made this chart in response to a lot of the misunderstandings I hear concerning domestic animals, so I hope it’s helpful!

Further information I didn’t have any room to add or expand on:

🐈 “Breed” and “species” are not synonyms! Breeds are specific to domesticated animals. A Bengal Tiger is a species of tiger. A Siamese is a breed of domestic cat.

🐀 Different colors are also not what makes a breed. A breed is determined by having genetics that are unique to that breed. So a “bluenose pitbull” is not a different breed from a “rednose pitbull”, but an American Pitbull Terrier is a different breed from an American Bully! Animals that have been domesticated for longer tend to have more seperate breeds as these differing genetics have had time to develop.

🐕 It takes hundreds of generations for an animal to become domesticated. While the “domesticated fox experiment” had interesting results, there were not enough generations involved for the foxes to become truly domesticated and their differences from wild foxes were more due to epigenetics (heritable traits that do not change the DNA sequence but rather activate or deactivate parts of it; owed to the specific circumstances of its parents’ behavior and environment.)

🐎 Wild animals that are raised in human care are not domesticated, but they can be considered “tamed.” This means that they still have all their wild instincts, but are less inclined to attack or be frightened of humans. A wild animal that lives in the wild but near human settlements and is less afraid of humans is considered “habituated.” Tamed and habituated animals are not any less dangerous than wild animals, and should still be treated with the same respect. Foxes, otters, raccoons, servals, caracals, bush babies, opossums, owls, monkeys, alligators, and other wild animals can be tamed or habituated, but they have not undergone hundreds of generations of domestication, so they are not domesticated animals.

🐄 Also, as seen above, these animals have all been domesticated for a reason, be it food, transport, pest control, or otherwise, at a time when less practical options existed. There is no benefit to domesticating other species in the modern day, so if you’ve got a hankering for keeping a wild animal as a pet, instead try to find the domestic equivalent of that wild animal! There are several dog breeds that look and behave like wolves or foxes, pigeons and chickens can make great pet birds and have hundreds of colorful fancy breeds, rats can be just as intelligent and social as a small monkey (and less expensive and dangerous to boot,) and ferrets are pretty darn close to minks and otters! There’s no need to keep a wolf in a house when our ancestors have already spent 20,000+ years to make them house-compatible.

🐖 This was stated in the infographic, but I feel like I must again reiterate that domestic animals do not belong in the wild, and often become invasive when feral. Their genetics have been specifically altered in such a way that they depend on humans for optimal health. We are their habitat. This is why you only really see feral pigeons in cities, and feral cats around settlements. They are specifically adapted to live with humans, so they stay even when unwanted. However, this does not mean they should live in a way that doesn’t put their health and comfort as a top priority! If we are their world, it is our duty to make it as good as possible. Please research any pet you get before bringing them home!

just finished the year of intelligent tigers for the second time. gorgeous beautiful book. thank you kate orman for saving my life

-Kate Orman

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ABOUT. Eight plays the violin.

I just finished reading the year of the intelligent tigers and it’s so good. Definitely one of my favorite EDAs so far

More than half the works in the Eighth Doctor/Karl Sadeghi tag are mine (there are five works)