#Doctor Who EU

[random-human-being2311]

the expanded media whovians keep trying to get me to start listening to big finish and I'm so sorry guys you're amazing and all but to me it always reads like

!! WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU ABOUT YOUR CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY !!

thank you guys I appreciate your effort but I'll fall down that hole when I get to it, I'm currently busy obsessing over some other stuff at the moment

#doctor who #doctor who eu #classic who #big finish #dw eu #whoniverse #dw #dr who

[thediaryofriversong]

doctor who is so silly because, yes, it has a huge following, but, there is also a secret mini-fandom that lives off obscure books and worships Paul Mcgann.

#Slowing falling into the endless void that is the doctor who extended universe #doctor who #doctor who eu

[man049]

Ok, so I was looking for a Doctor Who comic to read online because I'm a pirate and I found this cover that oh my god.

They did it before the Barbie movie

#doctor who #nuwho #12th doctor #the twelfth doctor #bill potts #doctor who eu

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Yesterday I asked a tipsy friend who has never watched the show about the Doctors etc etc

She knows they're all the same person but not much else.

#help me #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #first doctor #second doctor #third doctor #fourth doctor #fifth doctor #sixth doctor #seventh doctor #eighth doctor #war doctor #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #fugitive doctor #the valeyard #shalka doctor #the emperor #dw eu #doctor who eu #doctor who expanded universe #scream of the shalka

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

8th dr who textposts + some Fitzie

#one picture is there twice because its from my other textposts post #doctor who #8 #fitz kreiner #8th doctor #edas #doctor who eu

[enbyeighthdoctor]

#doctor who #dweu #doctor who eu #edas #academy era #faction paradox #lungbarrow #bernice summerfield #eighth doctor #looms #liv chenka #anji kapoor #charley pollard #bliss doctor who #fitz kreiner #helen sinclair #compassion doctor who #bliss #compassion #molly o'sullivan #lucie miller #8 #.png

[clockworkouroboros]

sorry but we fucked up surgery on your boyfriend. yeah the anesthesia wasn’t safe to use on aliens. sorry. the surgeon was listening to opera while she operated. yeah he regenerated and lost all his memories. he’s now a prettyboy amnesiac who doesn’t understand gender. sorry.

#eighth doctor #dw movie #doctor who #doctor who eu

[partywithponies]

Something very funny to me is how The Eighth Doctor has amnesia during the Doctor Who TV Movie as a result of post-regeneration madness. You know, as had already happened in multiple regeneration stories previously. Because the TV Movie was basically just one extended regeneration story for Eight.

But because the TV Movie never made it to series, the movie itself was all anyone had to go on with regards to the Eighth Doctor's characterisation for the longest time. Which meant that a bunch of Extended Universe writers seemingly just decided that having amnesia was a key part of Eight's character and personality, and so it Just Kept Happening. Again and again. For years.

#doctor who #classic doctor who #doctor who eu #they really just diagnosed him with Forgetful Bitch Disease

[tardis-technician]

This is what eu fans sound like

#haven’t read it but of all the things on here I’ve absorbed through osmosis this is maybe my favorite #doctor who #doctor who eu #thoschei #paradox posts #the doctor #the master

[perfectlynormalbooks]

Binding of the technically-unpublished technically-unfinished Doctor Who novel, Time's Champion by Craig Hinton! This was a commission for a friend, and they've officially recieved it now so I can ramble about design choices. The book is a folio binding with rounded spine, which is something I've been working on learning for a bit now.

The book cover - obviously designed to look like Six's coat! I used this excellent blog post as a reference while tracking down all of the bits of colorful fabric I'd need, it was a lifesaver. There's a little cat charm on the ribbon, because of course there is, and (it's not really visible in any of the photos) hand-sewn headbands in black-and-yellow, to resemble the sleeves of that coat.

If the book itself is Six, then the case is the Valeyard! Because obviously, this book is all about the conflict between those two. The clamshell case was a last-minute addition, because I hadn't ever done one before and wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull it off. But I did, and it looks great - that's metallic silver HTV on the outside. 'Time's Champion' is on the spine using the WS Simple Gallifreyan font - I thought about using Sherman's, but it's a bit too circular. The writing around the front and back frame is in Assassin's Gallifreyan, aka the writing the Doctor uses in the serial The Deadly Assassin. It's the names of all of the gods of Gallifrey, who show up in the book itself - Time, Fate, Life, Pain, Hope, and Death - repeated over and over. The book fits snugly into the case, and I've got my fingers crossed that it managed to protect the book on the way over.

I kept the internal typeset simple - Alegreya typeface with Bernard MT Condensed chapter headings and highlights. These are the straightest margins I've ever cut in my life. I impressed myself.

And here's a few pages from my design notebook from when I was pulling it together:

There's a LOT more progress pics lying around, but Tumblr only allows 10 images per post - I'll have to add more later!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #my books #perfectly normal books #doctor who #doctor who eu #time's champion #sixth doctor

[intuitive-revelations]

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?

#Doctor Who #Gallifrey #Gallifreyan #Circular Gallifreyan #The Pythia #DW Theory #DW Meta #Doctor Who EU

[romanathree]

timeladies!!

#gallifrey audios #my art #big finish gallifrey #big finish #dw eu #gallifrey #livia gallifrey #romana ii #romana doctor who #darkel #doctor who eu #dw fanart #doctor who fanart #classic who #dweu

[familyparadox]

The reason why Doctor who is going more towards fantasy is because with Gallifrey gone now Magic is coming back into the universe. Yes that right we are getting a live action adaption of the Adventuress of Henrietta street.

#the last bit is a joke #but go I want it #doctor who #dweu #faction paradox #doctor who eu

[magpiefrankie]

my boys!!!

bonus doodles below

#magpies art tag #doctor who #doctor who academy era #doctor who eu #dweu #theta sigma #koschei #koschei oakdown #the doctor #the master #thoschei

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know

The Doctor has been known to keep a teddy bear in his pocket.

The Master's first TARDIS (Lolita) is the Doctor's TARDIS's twin.

The Eighth Doctor once had sex with a sentient planet.

Machiavelli, Richelieu, and Robespierre were all just different aliases for the immortal Hades.

The iceberg that the Titanic crashed into was actually the Monk's TARDIS.

Also on board at the time were several incarnations of the Doctor, the Decayed Master, Jack Harkness, John Hart, Ace McShane, and Bernice Summerfield.

The First, Fourth, and Fifth Doctors were all in London around when the Great Fire started in 1666.

The Eighth Doctor was briefly engaged to Queen Edith but ran away before the wedding.

Consecrated planets, moons, and asteroids cannot be mined under Galactic Law.

The Doctor used to make up imaginary enemies to play fight when they were a small, lonely child. One of these enemies was called Mandrake.

The Sixth Doctor once went back in time with Peri to kill a baby who would become an evil dictator but could not go through with it.

After Nyssa tried to fix the chameleon circuit, the TARDIS took the shape of a whale.

Tegan Jovanka is the Earth Ambassador to Gallifrey.

The First Doctor participated in a riot and became wanted by the CIA two days before running away from Gallifrey (although some sources dispute this).

While the Ninth Doctor witnessed Kennedy's assassination, the First Doctor witnessed McKinley's.

The First Doctor has been repeatedly eaten and regurgitated by a whale before.

Marilyn Monroe married both the Eleventh Doctor and King Henry VIII, who fathered Elizabeth I, who married the Tenth Doctor, and he had also been married to Amy Pond, who was also the Doctor’s mother-in-law through River Song. Talk about a confusing family tree!

The First Doctor fed a snapping wart fowl to Valyes's summer project, and Valyes has had a grudge ever since.

The Eighth Doctor once demanded to die naked upon being sentenced to execution.

All righty, folks. I'm very tired! Good night. I may add more later.

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#doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #dw eu #doctor who eu #doctor who expanded universe #big finish doctor who #big finish audios #the doctor #eighth doctor #sixth doctor #peri brown #eleventh doctor #first doctor #valyes #tegan jovanka #amy pond #the master #jack harkness #bernice summerfield #tardis #gallifrey #fifth doctor #fourth doctor #ninth doctor #the monk #dw comics #comics

[doccywhomst]

i love that the three main gallifreyan gods (time, death, pain) are conceptual and lack other names or mortal accoutrements (as far as we know). they easily could’ve been named like azathoth or ieaiel or some sci-fi gunk but nope! humans tend to personify/anthropomorphize phenomena, maybe because we like to communicate through stories? to relate to our contexts? idk but the deification of a phenomenon itself feels reverently scientific. time, death, pain - effects that the universe has on life. on you. literally universal experiences.

with this theme in mind, may i present the new gallifreyan gods: hungry and sleepy. and taxes

#also why isn’t fear one ?? thought theyd jump at the chance #doctor who #classic who #dweu #doctor who eu #menti celesti