I’ve been trying to change this to a secondary blog please help. (Any pronouns)
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the time lords actually invented looms because they had a serious macbeth infestation. don't listen to that nonsense about the pythia they just really needed some people who weren't of woman born to kill all those bloody macbeths
i suspect certain elements of doctor who are definitely a different (read: baffling) experience if you're not british
"average doctor has no fear of what killed their previous incarnation" factoid actualy just statistical error. average doctor is terrified of what killed their previous incarnation. Fours Georg, who lives in rocks & is scared shitless of heights, the thing that will kill him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
i’m like if a court jester had a fat ass and a sickening sense of melancholy
with how often the bbc tried to cancel doctor who in the 80s, one might very well accuse them of being serial killers
dr. who is trying to open a door. alas; it will not open! but he hides the key and pretends it fits the lock and tells the keyhole very sternly that it matches the key and bam! the door flies open, whacking him in the face and breaking his nose. bloody academy party tricks
nobody ever talks about my favourite tardiswiki category, people from the real world, which is dedicated to real world people who also exist in doctor who, and gives us such highlights as
Karen Gillan was an actor who existed in several universes.
and
One account even indicated that Tom Baker and the Fourth Doctor were the same individual.
haha what if the time lords had tumblr
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hey um. have you guys seen. the body in the vaults
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The What
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the body. in the vaults
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Dude, what were you even doing in the Vaults?
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let's not talk about that let's talk about THE BODY IN THE VAULTS
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The president is still not dead, but has stated that "Rassilon, I wish I was."
#is the president dead #gallifrey #time lords #the citadel #the president #president romana #the president is not dead
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i must not kill my bodyguard's husband. killing my bodyguard's husband is the bodyguard's husband killer
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an ancient spirit from the dawn of time is trying to take over gallifrey through me and now i must *remembers that suicide jokes do nothing for my mental health and wellbeing* kill myself
#shut up romana # <- i should probably change thar #ughhh every day i am subjected to my job #remind me why i banned the oubliette again???
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reblog if your name isn't Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathadadeyyilungbarrowmas.
2,121,566 people are not Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathadadeyyilungbarrowmas and counting!
We’ll find you Quences.
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Wait what do you mean he had a Timeblr account this whole time.
#What the fuck
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Whenever I mention that Romanadvoratrelundar is from House Dvora, someone inevitably mentions the House of Heartshaven, and up until now I’ve explained the relationship between Heartshaven and Dvora as being analogous to that between Lungbarrow and Prydon or Meddhoran and Xianthellipse: in other words, Heartshaven is a sub-bloodline of Dvora. I’ve recently come up with an alternate solution, though, and I think it’s far more satisfying.
I am Romanadvoratrelundar, mortal heir to the House of Heartshaven, inheritor of the House of Dvora, and custodian of the House of Everston.
— Romana, Panacea
I was an only child. I didn’t have many friends.
— Romana, Neverland
When Romana visits the House of Heartshaven at the beginning of Panacea, she finds it completely deserted, laying in ruins and infested with pig-rats. Nothing could be more dissimilar to the House of Lungbarrow from Lungbarrow, which belongs to an active bloodline with many living members. Heartshaven isn’t some modern experiment with new biodata; it’s a fallen House, like Catherion or Ixion from The Book of the War.
And Romana acknowledges that Heartshaven is dead: there were no other children in the House; she’s not just a member, she’s the bloodline’s “mortal heir”. The last person with any claim to Heartshaven’s property and legacy.
[Eighth Man Bound] is never played by Time Lords of those ‘newblood’ Houses for whom a change of body is as trivial as a change of fashion, and who come straight from the loom with a secondary heart.
— Christmas on a Rational Planet
The Imperator crisis was the moment of catastrophe for the Houses. … From that point on Dvora was known as a Newblood House, the first House to have bred such an obvious mutation despite its reasonably long lineage.
— The Book of the War
When Christmas on a Rational Planet introduced the idea of a Newblood House, it specifically did so by contrasting Romana and the Doctor: the First Doctor had only one heart, per The Edge of Destruction and The Man in the Velvet Mask, whereas Romana I had two hearts and also seemed to casually regenerate in Destiny of the Daleks. (The novelisation of City of Death goes so far as to suggest that she regenerated “for the fun of it”.)
The Book of the War then introduced Dvora as the first and oldest Newblood House, being deemed as such after the Morbius crisis. Assuming that Romana is a member of Dvora, this means that Romana was from the generation right after Morbius’ rise to power, which does match the timeline: she’s about one generation younger than the Doctor, who himself was loomed around the same as Morbius.
The Faction Paradox series actually introduces us to one of Romana’s cousins, another child of Dvora from the generation after the Imperator: Larissa. Larissa graduated from the Academy and was recruited into the Order of the Weal when the “worldquake” and the “goblin infestation” were still recent events, which matches perfectly with the freshly-graduated Romana we see in The Ribos Operation. Their timelines are perfectly aligned, and by peeking into Larissa’s childhood, we can get a hint of Romana’s.
They had separated her from her playmates and marched her over the mountains. This was punishment, but not for her. There was madness in the family, a taint in the blood, so the children were scattered to the nine corners of the world for their own protection. She was still too young to understand the reasons, the scandal and disgrace her elders had left behind. She had been carried everywhere all her life, and hated walking. Her new and temporary home was a small house in the mountains, so tiny it was forgotten and flew no sovereign banner.
— Larissa’s childhood, Newtons Sleep
The bloodline of Ixion had already vanished in the Diaspora, leaving only a line of caretakers to manage the affairs of the House. … Following the death of Thessalia and the decline of the Order of the Weal, Ixion became an empty, desolate House.
— The Book of the War
After the Imperator crisis, the children of House Dvora were scattered around Gallifrey, and just as Larissa went to live in the long-empty House of Ixion, Romana was sent to the House of Heartshaven. Just like with Ixion, the death of the caretaker would later prompt the chapterhouse’s collapse, as we hear in Panacea; but, just as Larissa returned to the House of Ixion as an agent for the Order of the Weal, Romana gained a sense of belonging with Heartshaven during her time there that lasted long after she left for the Academy.
all that said, the circumstances of regeneration shape an incarnation and romana ii was born out of suicide (self-sacrifice, if gallifrey is to be believed). so. you know. lives shaped by suicide inevitably driven by and towards that act is it any wonder she's messed up if her first incarnation viewed suicide as a game and the second spent twenty years waiting to die
brax being rejected by romana in his own daydreams whilst romana writes self-insert fanfiction about her and the doctor, his cringe younger brother, at the academy is peak comedy
Regarding the new episode of DW, I'd like some advice.
My friend's a POC, and she watches Doctor Who; she's a bit behind at the moment, so when I see her tomorrow it's unlikely that she'll have seen the new episode.
Should I give her a head's up that it's very confronting at the end in a comment on racism? I think I should, because I was very confronted by it and she has much more reason than me to be upset, and I don't want her to be caught off-guard.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts.
i saw this:
and thought it would be fun to actually work that out. so
^^^ every doctor who episode in chronological order
(pls let me know if theres any mistakes! i got most of the info from the tardis wiki so idk if its 100% accurate)
about to throw hands with l*ndy pepper bean
Anyways. I'm glad we've moved past the "heavy handed allegory for racism between two different sentient species where they are all best friends in the end" episodes and into the "racism is so deeply engrained into society that in the absence of active anti-racist deconstruction people would go to any length to avoid confronting their biases and changing their worldview"
immediate thought whenever i hear the word ‘alphabet’ in a doctor who setting
seeing a lot of "the episode was about social media and suddenly out of nowhere turned into a commentary on racism" THE WHOLE EPISODE WAS ABOUT RACISM. THE WHOLE THING. IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT RACISM. from how white everyone was to lindy immediately blocking the doctor while only "sliding" ruby to them all being rich kids to lindy being appalled ruby and the doctor were in the same room to everyone saying they could "tame" the wild woods and "be pioneers". it was ALWAYS about racism.
yes the social media aspect ties into it bc racism is RAMPANT on social media. i specifically noticed how lindy made an effort to say how her clothes were sustainable and then turns around and commits microaggressions against the doctor. its the exact flavor of showboaty performative activism you see everywhere. just because you didnt notice it doesnt mean it wasnt there.
THIS IS A LINDY PEPPER-BEAN HATE PAGE
Love it when the kinda half-formed observations you make about an episode finally come to the forefront.
Watching the start of "Dot and Bubble": Hmm, everyone in this episode is very... white.
Halfway through: The Doctor certainly continues to stand out, especially in that bright red sweater amongst all the pastels
Lindy freaking out about the Doctor and Ruby being in the same room together: I suppose that could be due to some cultural taboo about interacting in-person when everyone is supposed to communicate via bubble, but that doesn't track with what we've seen of her work day...
The "twist" that the chronically online, all white, super rich, entitled to the point of satire, willing to sacrifice others without hesitation, oh so eager to colonize people living in a literal bubble (TWO bubbles) are *gasp!* actually, devastatingly racist...
Yeah, that's not a twist. That's all deliberately interconnected. The episode didn't suddenly move from an argument about social media use to an argument about racism; the two historically go hand-in-hand.
Holy shit the new Doctor Who episode Went There. It's important that they did, and I'm glad that they executed it seriously, but Fuck.
My favourite thing from the new episodes is the lore they're building around Gods (or those from outside the universe) being able to interact with the 4th wall.
I cant quite remember but I think the Toymaker made a few nods to it? The Maestro absolutely did. They took the 4th wall and said hey babes! Pay attention to me ;) right now ;) LOOK AT ME
But the DOCTOR. Oh my god the DOCTOR Literally saying "I thought that was non-diagetic" The fact he can hear the shows backing music!!! (Does he just tune it out normally??) Absolutely insane concept i love it.
You could argue they alluded to this with the 12th Doctor playing the show's theme tune but to outright state it. My god where are they going with this i am obsessed
Similarly him winking to the camera at the end. Very reminicent of the 4th doctor skirting the same line.
But to have what were little silly allisions pointed out and clearly wrapped into the story? As a way of showing showing us WHO is godlike and WHO has connections to outside the universe? Again i am obsessed.
I'm guessing it will tie into their continued explorations of the Timeless Child. I am so excited to find out. I am so excited for more silly 4th wall breakers or perhaps one who makes it terrifying.
As a last, this also implies Mrs Flood is a God. Not surprising but interesting... I have absolutely no idea what to make of any of this.
The Master always bringing in diagetic music, (I Can't Decide, Hey Missy, Rasputin, etc) because they've always been a little miffed that THEY couldn't hear the non-diagetic theme music like the Doctor could.
Imagine your best friend swore up and down they could sometimes hear situationally relavent music. Yet you were stuck with a 4 beat pounding in your head or nothing.
Like sooooo unfair. Hand me the aux, I'm leveling the playing field
And with the Timeless Child. Regeneration energy is FROM The Doctor!!!
thinking abt @causalityparadoxes talking abt how this season is establishing the doctor as a god. how he literally breathed life into that butterfly, like how god breathed life into humanity. anyway,
"Baby farm" this
"Population going sterile" or "going mad and banning kissing" that
LADS THIS IS HOW WE CAN BRING BACK THE LOOMS
Young Theta Sigma hearing non diegetic music and thinking huh this would go HARD on a perigosto stick
imagine youre going to your job as an actor and your roommate's mysterious brother shows up to play your (thirsty) archenemy
