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you guys ask and i provide:]

#rose tyler #art #ndw #dw #q

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A telesnap redraw. I wish the first episode of Evil Of The Daleks were found, so we could see the 2nd Doctor moping around in a colourful 60's café (once colourised) and Jamie being severely out of place among people his age.

#twojamie #art #cdw #dw #q

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"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

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But listen. You’re in there. Loves a redhead, the Doctor. Has he told you about Elizabeth the First? Well, she thought she was the first.   

#otp:i remember you #ndw #dw #q

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Random headcanon I came up with early this morning, because I’ve been thinking about Gallifreyan language recently:

The reason why so many Time Lord things are decorated with circular Gallifreyan, often too impractically to actually be read (eg. on the Moment), is because it’s a cultural touchstone that remains from pre-/early-Pythian Gallifrey’s use of magical runes and sigils.

Presumably it was more typically Old High Gallifreyan used in that time (though The Timeless Children does seemingly confirm circular Gallifreyan existed at least as far back as Rassilon's time, if not earlier), however. Twelve describes it as ‘the language of the Pythia’ in The Lost Magic, and as Eleven says in The Time of Angels:

ELEVEN: There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods.

This is obviously very reminescent of the Carrionites' (themselves from the Dark Times too) "word-based science" from The Shakespeare Code:

MARTHA: What did you do? TEN: I named her. The power of a name. That's old magic. MARTHA: But there's no such thing as magic. TEN: Well, it's just a different sort of science. You lot, you chose mathematics. Given the right string of numbers, the right equation, you can split the atom. Carrionites use words instead.

In other words, while they probably weren't actually intended as such and may have their own specific meaning, whether they be poetry, namesakes, histories, instructions, whatever... these are basically protective wards:

[ID: Five screenshots of Circular Gallifreyan in New Who.

1. Rassilon's Inner High Council meeting in The End of Time Part 2. The table and headrests are inscribed with circular Gallifreyan.

2. The Moment in Day of the Doctor. Gallifreyan writing bends round the edges of the wooden frame.

3. The 'whirligig' rotar in Eleven's second TARDIS, inscribed with individual Gallifreyan symbols.

4. Set photo of the glowing Gallifreyan writing on the steps of Thirteen's TARDIS.

5. Tecteun's laboratory in The Timeless Children. Circular Gallifreyan lines the light above her, and a door in the background.]

As a side note - if they actually are kind-of intended as a form of protection, perhaps this is why we were only introduced to Circular Gallifreyan in New Who, despite it seemingly existing through Gallifreyan history. Because it was retroactively inserted into Gallifreyan culture as a form of defense during the War in Heaven / Last Great Time War?

Regardless, this also opens up questions how many other Time Lord traditions are holdovers from the Dark Times.

For example, who's to say that the renegade naming tradition didn't begin as a form of protection from hexes - either from hostile forces in the pre-anchoring universe, or from oppressive magic-users back on the homeworld? This may also be connected to the change in Gallifreyan name format before and after the Intuitive Revelation (eg. ancestral -sti and -sor names), though shifting power structures, gender roles etc. presumably played a role too.

Heck, is this one reason why Gallifrey's own name has changed over its history? From Jewel to Gallifrey in Rassilon's time to try and protect it from vengeful Pythian curses. From Gallifrey to just 'the Homeworld' in the War to protect it from new rituals of alternative histories and paradox?

#AUGH #i love this #dw #gallifrey

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matching roberts!master and eighth doctor icons by @finniigan

#ADKDNSJJS #art #doctormaster #dw #eightness #q

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You have to recognize your capacity for harm. You cannot omit the harm you've done to others to remain "good." Anybody can be a bigot. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can harm anyone at any time even those who have been harmed themselves. The world is not made up of victims and villains only, this is life, not a Saturday morning cartoon and you are a human being who can or maybe even has hurt others and you HAVE to acknowledge that to learn to be better.

#mmm

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"I might be any number of things, young lady. As it happens, I am the Doctor.

The original, you might say."

My favourite companion and the first Doctor :)

Colours under the cut :)

#first #ian chesterton #cdw #dw #art #fave #q

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The year is 2024. If you want to learn how to do something, there are literal centuries of video you can find on YouTube and watch to pick up the basics and get started.

You decide to learn about investing and the stock market. You are a reasonably smart individual. You know that there are millions of hours of videos on YouTube you can watch to learn about investments. You also know that 99% of them are bullshit. Your main source of easily finding tutorials is filled with scam artists finance conspiracies and con men on this specific topic, and you are basically fucked

#mmmm #q

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Not much going on on this post

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been super busy but mustered up a k-9 :)

#art #k9 #cdw #dw #q

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fascinated with this wordage

#indestructible homosexuality #idk who this is but i am all about it

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speaking of big finish's lone centurion series one thing I really appreciate is how ace they wrote rory

like there were a bunch of unappealing directions they could have gone and instead they simply wrote him as a technically-demisexual-but-in-the-absence-of-the-one-(1)-person-he's-ever-experienced-attraction-to-very-very-aroace man who is utterly oblivious when people make advances on him because the entire thing hasn't crossed his mind

he goes "oh! a friend!" and doesn't read anything into it no matter how explicit the other person is trying to make it and the whole thing has HUGE ace energy

and I LOVE IT

#rory williams #the lone centurion #big finish #dweu #dw #lavender thoughts #and is that not perfect #all ponds are so queer #amy wasn't wrong when she thought rory was gay it's just that it's the aughts and 'gay' is the only frame of reference you have #for all varieties of queerness

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happy 13 years since amy threw herself over the doctor's dead body and cried begging for him to live!!!

UNPROVOKED???

can you believe they opened the season with that like what the fuck. anyways look at these gifs i made

#AUGH #gorgeous gifs #raggedy man i need you #otp:i remember you #ndw #dw #q

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Performance by Ray Castelo for Paris Menswear Fashion Show 2018.

#art #q

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"Are you in charge here?"

"No, but I'm full of ideas."

#art #foursy #cdw #dw #q