Anastasia
@anatahia.bsky.social
Happily in love with Doctor Who: classic, eu and gallifrey. 30, from Aotearoa, BA in classical studies. Current languages: English, French, and elementary Welsh. Absolutely unhinged views on the Fifth Doctor and Tegan Jovanka.
"Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Propping my tablet on a reading easel on top of a copy of a paper called "Assessment study of lichenometric methods for dating surfaces" so I can write Doctor Who fanfiction, and I'm sorry V. Jomelli your paper is amazing, but I will be making a dumb reference to it with Benny Summerfield.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Propping my tablet on a reading easel on top of a copy of a paper called "Assessment study of lichenometric methods for dating surfaces" so I can write Doctor Who fanfiction, and I'm sorry V. Jomelli your paper is amazing, but I will be making a dumb reference to it with Benny Summerfield.
moral support for me writing my December advent short fics. Will inevitably reach day ten or so and burnout from a combo of retail work and organising Christmas for my own family, but fun to force myself to write just wee things for awhile.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
moral support for me writing my December advent short fics. Will inevitably reach day ten or so and burnout from a combo of retail work and organising Christmas for my own family, but fun to force myself to write just wee things for awhile.
Oh, it feels a bit wrong trying to read this in October, gorgeous as it is.
Plus, now I have Hark the Herald Angels Sing stuck in my head.
Plus, now I have Hark the Herald Angels Sing stuck in my head.
October 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Oh, it feels a bit wrong trying to read this in October, gorgeous as it is.
Plus, now I have Hark the Herald Angels Sing stuck in my head.
Plus, now I have Hark the Herald Angels Sing stuck in my head.
My coworker joked to me that tattoos are cheaper than therapy, and not wrong, so I joked back that fanfiction is too, and all the things I've put this fifth Doctor through...
In the snippet I've just done, such torture is having the chorus to History Never Repeats by Split Enz stuck in his head.
In the snippet I've just done, such torture is having the chorus to History Never Repeats by Split Enz stuck in his head.
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My coworker joked to me that tattoos are cheaper than therapy, and not wrong, so I joked back that fanfiction is too, and all the things I've put this fifth Doctor through...
In the snippet I've just done, such torture is having the chorus to History Never Repeats by Split Enz stuck in his head.
In the snippet I've just done, such torture is having the chorus to History Never Repeats by Split Enz stuck in his head.
Not sure how I feel about a vampire being a legitimate mayoralty vote in 2025 when it's only a couple of weeks before Dracula is on show here. (He made no. 5 on my shortlist.)
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Not sure how I feel about a vampire being a legitimate mayoralty vote in 2025 when it's only a couple of weeks before Dracula is on show here. (He made no. 5 on my shortlist.)
Kudos to Jonathan Blum, for making me cry /twice/ in one story. Thank god I'm not reading this at work, I've already had to explain A Blind Eye, Forty (2) and The Adventuress of Henrietta St to my coworkers.
September 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Kudos to Jonathan Blum, for making me cry /twice/ in one story. Thank god I'm not reading this at work, I've already had to explain A Blind Eye, Forty (2) and The Adventuress of Henrietta St to my coworkers.
The Obverse has reached Aotearoa!! The introduction alone has made me remember the joy (and tears) of reading as many EDAs as I could get my hands on during lockdown. 💕💕💕
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The Obverse has reached Aotearoa!! The introduction alone has made me remember the joy (and tears) of reading as many EDAs as I could get my hands on during lockdown. 💕💕💕
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
September 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Can finally stop feeling bad about promising a certain Doctor Who actor that I would get around to listening to Hooklight, way back in early April (?). It is done! Lots to think about.....
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Can finally stop feeling bad about promising a certain Doctor Who actor that I would get around to listening to Hooklight, way back in early April (?). It is done! Lots to think about.....
For all I am /thoroughly/ enjoying the Cadfael books, the occasional archaic English is really a puzzle when I'm reading at work and can't get to a dictionary. Not that words like 'pleached' were in any of the four dictionaries I owned! Had to hunt out dad's Chambers from the 70s.(Folded or plaited)
August 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
For all I am /thoroughly/ enjoying the Cadfael books, the occasional archaic English is really a puzzle when I'm reading at work and can't get to a dictionary. Not that words like 'pleached' were in any of the four dictionaries I owned! Had to hunt out dad's Chambers from the 70s.(Folded or plaited)
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
Slightly diminish a band: Electric Light Choir
Slightly diminish a band: Lid Zeppelin
Slightly diminish a band: Bronze Maiden
August 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Electric Light Choir
Procrustean. (thanks, my late classics and etymology lecturer for that word, adore it.)
coruscate
We can do it everybody www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
August 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Procrustean. (thanks, my late classics and etymology lecturer for that word, adore it.)
Drank this during my 11 hour work shift today and in a beautiful moment of clarity I /understood/ the fourth Doctor.
Lost that when the caffeine wore off and I had to help people pick curtain fabric again.
Lost that when the caffeine wore off and I had to help people pick curtain fabric again.
August 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Drank this during my 11 hour work shift today and in a beautiful moment of clarity I /understood/ the fourth Doctor.
Lost that when the caffeine wore off and I had to help people pick curtain fabric again.
Lost that when the caffeine wore off and I had to help people pick curtain fabric again.
Can't a girl read about queerness in medieval monasteries in peace-
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Can't a girl read about queerness in medieval monasteries in peace-
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July 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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let’s get really really weird & really really kind
July 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
let’s get really really weird & really really kind
Trying to put my fifth Doctor big finish cd collection into chronological order feels a bit like this sometimes
July 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Trying to put my fifth Doctor big finish cd collection into chronological order feels a bit like this sometimes
Trying to write a job application while knowing if I get an interview, there is no way I'll be able to answer the 'and what would you call your weaknesses?' without mentioning I spend an hour a day telling my coworkers all about the tragedy of the Fifth Doctor.
June 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Trying to write a job application while knowing if I get an interview, there is no way I'll be able to answer the 'and what would you call your weaknesses?' without mentioning I spend an hour a day telling my coworkers all about the tragedy of the Fifth Doctor.
I still actually have a bottle of Styx water on the shelf above my door. That was nearly 8 years ago I dunked myself because I have a silly sense of humour and a degree in classical studies.
May 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I still actually have a bottle of Styx water on the shelf above my door. That was nearly 8 years ago I dunked myself because I have a silly sense of humour and a degree in classical studies.
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
I crossed the river Styx barefoot (ok, /a/ river Styx) and sliced my toe pretty badly. Didn't even notice till I got out. Found out years later that the river is infested with lampreys and ecoli.
Thank god all I got was a scar that hurts in the cold. 😅
I crossed the river Styx barefoot (ok, /a/ river Styx) and sliced my toe pretty badly. Didn't even notice till I got out. Found out years later that the river is infested with lampreys and ecoli.
Thank god all I got was a scar that hurts in the cold. 😅
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
I wanted to break apart two frozen-together veggie burgers. I used a very sharp knife. I sliced open the pad of one of my fingers instead.
It was roughly 29 years ago, and the scar is still a ridge.
I wanted to break apart two frozen-together veggie burgers. I used a very sharp knife. I sliced open the pad of one of my fingers instead.
It was roughly 29 years ago, and the scar is still a ridge.
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
Checking to see whether the stove was on by putting my fingertip on it.
Checking to see whether the stove was on by putting my fingertip on it.
May 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
I crossed the river Styx barefoot (ok, /a/ river Styx) and sliced my toe pretty badly. Didn't even notice till I got out. Found out years later that the river is infested with lampreys and ecoli.
Thank god all I got was a scar that hurts in the cold. 😅
I crossed the river Styx barefoot (ok, /a/ river Styx) and sliced my toe pretty badly. Didn't even notice till I got out. Found out years later that the river is infested with lampreys and ecoli.
Thank god all I got was a scar that hurts in the cold. 😅
Can't beat Pōneke Wellington on a good day.
April 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Can't beat Pōneke Wellington on a good day.
Spending some quality Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles time after seeing Blithe Spirit. The eerieness of It Had to Be You playing as the lights fell and Elvira's voice came from nowhere is going to stick with me for a long time. Poor Elvira. Poor Rudy. (Queer production. 💕 )
April 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Spending some quality Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles time after seeing Blithe Spirit. The eerieness of It Had to Be You playing as the lights fell and Elvira's voice came from nowhere is going to stick with me for a long time. Poor Elvira. Poor Rudy. (Queer production. 💕 )