#Once Upon Time

[evviejo]

thirteen’s face appreciation: 55/?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #chibnalldaily #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker #once upon time #13s face appreciation #my gifs #thirteen*

[lucyllawless]

#once upon time #ouatedit #swan queen #sqedit #regina mills #emma swan #otp: i know her #tvgifs #tvedit #my gifs #*ouatgif

[thefiresofpompeii]

HARD.

#i love interactions like this they MAKE the show. they are its lifeblood honestly #cybermen #jamie catches up #dw #once upon time #jamie.txt #doctor who

[airprime7]

I've been watching Doctor Who episodes randomly, because I'm bad at deciding things, and I've decided to liveblog the next one because I'm insane.

I've already seen them all (NuWho), so I'm not going to be too surprised by anything, more interesting things or thoughts.

The first time I got randomly Partners in Crime (I'd already watched it recently), The Day of the Doctor (watched it literally the week beforehand, Love and Monsters (no) and A Town Called Mercy, which is what I went for (surprisingly good! It had a trans horse that swears!)

Then The Caretaker (eh), The Pilot (I had watched it 3 days ago), Ascension of the Cybermen (which would have come with The Timeless Children, but I wasn't really up those) so I settles on The Sound of Drums (and with it Utopia, and Last of the Time Lords. Better than I remembered, save the Doctor turning into Gollum).

This time my options are Boom Town; Once, Upon Time (probably would choose to watch all of Flux with it if I were to); The Doctor's Wife; or Wild Blue Yonder, which I'm interested to re-watch.

#doctor who #new who #the doctor #partners in crime #the day of the doctor #love and monsters #a town called mercy #the caretaker #the pilot #ascension of the cybermen #the timeless children #the sound of drums #utopia #last of the time lords #boom town #once upon time #the doctors wife #wild blue yonder

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 8

Episode Summaries under the cut

59: Father's Day - Season 1, Episode 8: Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to see her deceased Father, so that make sure he doesn't die alone after he was killed in hit-and-run. Instead she saves his life, causing a paradox and angering the Doctor. She follows her father to a wedding, where she sees her mother and herself as a baby, and learns that her parents do not have a happy marriage. Creatures appear and start taking people. The Doctor explains that the paradox is like a wound in time, and the creatures are sterilizing it.

The wedding party cower in the church while the Doctor works to stop the creatures. Rose reveals to her father that she is his daughter from the future, but does not tell him he is dead. The creatures break into the church and take the Doctor. Realizing that the only way to put things right is for him to die, Rose's dad runs out into the street and is hit by a car, setting things back to normal while Rose holds his hand as he dies.

70: Once, Upon Time - Season 13, Episode 3: To save Yaz and Vinder from Swarm killing them she pulls them, herself, and Dan into a Time Storm, allowing them to hide, but each is pulled into their own time stream.

The Doctor is pulled into a memory of herself as the Fugitive Doctor working for Division when she originally beat Swarm and Azure. Dan explores different moments with a woman he is involved with. Yaz goes through various memories, including as a police officer and playing video games with her sister, each time seeing a Weeping Angel stalking her. Vinder relives becoming a guard for the dictator of his planet, who banished him to a distant outpost for questioning him.

The Doctor gets everybody out and they escape. The Doctor takes Vinder back to his home planet, and they depart. Yaz checks her phone and a Weeping Angel emerges from it and takes control of the TARDIS.

#doctor who #ultimate doctor who poll #my post #polls #9th doctor #rose tyler #13th doctor #yasmin khan #dan lewis #christopher eccleston #billie piper #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #john bishop #father's day #once upon time

[bestmothertournament]

#female villains #female villain tournament #ouat #once upon time #regina mills #bbc merlin #morgana pendragon

[bonjovishipper]

Feel the L ❤️VE.

#seana #outlawqueen #outlaw queen #ouat #once upon time #lana parrilla #sean maguire #gif #gifs #thec4 #thec 4 #the happy ending convention #paris #kiss #hand #neck glue #овс #аутло квин #однажды в сказке #лана паррия #шон магвайер #шон магваер #реджина миллс #регина миллс #робин гуд #гифки #гифы #гив

[doctorwhobracket]

#doctor who #the god complex #once upon time #round 1

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

Thirteen With Yaz And Dan “Doctor Who - One Upon Time”

#doctor who #once upon time #thirteenth doctor #yazmin khan #dan

[iconicsurferdude]

if i could change one thing about once upon a time, i'd let regina say fuck

#it would only be right #and i dont mean one time #i think she should say it at least once per episode #its in character #once upon time #ouat #regina mills #the evil queen

[susanpxvensie-wp]

Luna Charming ( insp. & insp. )

Emma is the Saviour. Not me. I'm just ordinary. Luna, you are anything but ordinary. You are magnificent. Oh... Well, that's nice of you to say, but it's just not true. Emma was born with the ability to be the ultimate hero, and I was just the spare... without the cool title. You may not have been bestowed the same title as your sister, but you are an 'ultimate hero', as you put it, without it. And I think that is pretty extraordinary. Ask any of my Merry Men, and they'll tell you the same. Thank you, Robin. You're too kind. My pleasure... Your Highness. I thought I told you to stop with this princess malarky? Ah, of course. How could I forget? Luna. Thank you. Much better.

Read here: Wattpad

#ch: luna charming #fic: like you say you do #series: fools love #ocappreciation #allaboutocs #fyeahonceuponatimeocs #once upon time #ouat #robin hood x oc #gemma arterton

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 255/?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #doctorwhoedit #chibnalldaily #doctor who #bel #cybermen #once upon time #thaddea graham #13seraappreciation #my gifs

[lucyllawless]

Caved and finally watched OUAT after seeing some of your gifs, and while I rarely think listening to fans could fix anything, listening to the fans definitely could have fixed this show. Regina and Emma shacking up could have solved so many problems, like soooo many problems.

Why do I feel like I should be apologizing to you rn for making you go through that???

Objectively, it is not a good show after s4 (s4 I have my reasons for loving s4 coughdqcough*) but it will always hold a very special place for me. Regina/Lana is the main reason for watching tbh.

There’s a reason the episodes centered around Regina and Emma’s relationship are some of the best ones in the entire show. They hit almost every romantic trope on the list, shared a son, and were each others perfect opposite. The ship literally wrote itself.

They set out to “reimagine” fairy tales, but instead of giving us what could’ve been one of the most memorable fairy tale romances, we got the freakiest Pinocchio’s I’ve ever seen and warlord Little Bo-Peep.

Fanon swan queen is an amazing world to live in. I have some messages asking about fic recs, so I’m working getting them answered. Fans fixed everything and created so much more than the show could’ve ever imagined.

#reply #once upon time #swan queen

[thefiresofpompeii]

once upon time is throwing my brain for a loop but not even in a bad way. it’s reminiscent of moffat episodes with all the inceptiony layers upon layers of false worlds and entering someone else’s timestream and crazy convoluted lore. my opinions on flux so far are: this is really silly but i’m genuinely invested, feels more exciting and features more memorable characters than all of s11 and half of s12 for sure

#jamie catches up #dw #jamie.txt #once upon time #thirteen

[intuitive-revelations]

Had a couple of (related) theories.

“Time” is actually...

First of all, I was thinking about the "Time" we saw in Flux. While TARDIS wiki and others have taken her to be Time the Eternal, who we met in the VNAs, a lot doesn't match up perfectly.

There's never any previous indication of that Time having to be imprisoned by the Time Lords, nor is she particulalrly connected to the pre-Anchoring universe. In fact, if anything, she seems quite the opposite, taking up the Seventh Doctor as her Champion, whose duty was to protect history.

Now, a lot of this can arguably be put down to different forms. since we see members of the Menti Celesti being 'born' in the VNAs (and we have met multiple versions of Death, from Torchwood’s grim reaper to the goth girl resembling Death from The Sandman at Benny’s wedding), but it's still not a perfect match.

Instead I have an alternative suggestion: the "Time" in Flux is actually the Carnival Queen.

I’m the one who starts the carnivals, Christopher Cwej. The one who makes the music that plays when civilizations fall. Sister to superstitions, grandmother of gynoids. The spirit imprisoned in every piece of clockwork.

Both were imprisoned by the Time Lords around the time of the Anchoring of the Thread to make the universe logical and establish the laws of physics as we know them. The Carnvial Queen also seemed to be captured on a desert world set out of time.

Her personality and history matches the Time we meet a lot better than VNA!Time. She attempts to escape back into the universe for much the same reason the Ravagers wanted to free Time - to undo the Anchoring.

– All that time. All that time I’ve been trapped here, shut off from the universe outside. Ohh, I’ve managed to influence things a little. Pushing a few irrational ideas out into the Majestic Clockwork. Little spanners in the works. A sorceress here, an alchemaître there, a pocket universe somewhere else. I’ve whispered words into the occasional ear. I’ve even managed to nurture a few, ah, special powers. Latent abilities, waiting to be triggered, wrapped in little genetic parcels marked ‘Do Not Open Till Xmas’...

– But I could never venture out into the rational universe. Not without an invitation.

Though she pushes it as a paradise, there is of course a lot of danger in an irrational universe, as we get to see a glimpse of in Flux, let alone all the Eldritch beings that would be able to exist again.

Interestingly, the “Watchmakers” in Christmas on a Rational Planet also refer to “their temple” a couple of times. They also grant Catcher a gun from their temple which marks him clearly as an agent - an “electro-static galvanistic rifle“.

Perhaps the kicker though? Just as the TARDIS seemed sick throughout Flux and into Eve of the Daleks, so too was the TARDIS directly threatened by the unleashing of the Carnival Queen to the point she even gives Chris false memories to be sure he’ll choose order over chaos, out of self-preservation.

No?’ The mouth twitched at the corner. ‘Please, Doctor, consider the situation. The "force" in the desert, as you describe it, wanted to create an irrational universe. Yes?’

‘Yes, yes.’

“And who has the most to lose from that? Consider what the TARDIS represents. The ship is the ultimate expression of reason. Its heart is made of mathematics, its architecture the very model of order.’

This isn’t to say that this Time / the Carnival Queen couldn’t in a sense still be the Time of the VNAs. If we are imagining the Menti Celesti split into multiple incarnations, then it’s just as reasonable that Time could have been split into the rational Gallifreyan God and an irrational imprisoned demon.

In fact, they almost definitely ARE linked. It’s already known that Time was born from Time Lord dreams and while the Carnival Queen was “born from the irrational parts of their souls”, she too is linked to Time Lord dreams in some way:

‘You’re the one the Watchmakers... I mean, you’re the thing that...’

– That they couldn’t live with . They don’t remember me at all now, and don’t even let themselves dream of me. On their homeworld, buried in the deepest archives, there are books, that only the Highest of the High are ever allowed to read. The only books that describe the old time before the days of the clockwork universe, locked away from the eyes of the world.

Side note: the “Highest of the High” and the “Deepest Archives”? 100% the Division.

The Missing Link of TARDIS Evolution?

I am far from the only person to have spotted some similarities between the “Passenger-forms” (which, we should note, sounds quite similar to the “N-forms” used first against the Great Vampires then later in the Time War) and TARDISes, which themselves can be humanoid.

Well while thinking about the previous theory, I considered the “Gynoids”, the Carnival Queen’s granddaughters. They’re kinda set up as a gender-essentialist manifestation of feminity in the universe, vs the ‘orderly masculinity’ of the Time Lords. Which, is uh...

But getting past that, there’s a lot more interesting about them. For one thing, they can change their forms:

It had just lain there, pockmarked and sand-blown, its big, bloated body expanding and contracting, like a sea creature washed up on a beach and gasping for water. Quite dead, the Doctor had insisted, though he couldn’t tell the cause. Its movement had been some kind of automatic function, the thing constantly adjusting and re-adjusting its shape even after death, still uncertain of the exact form it should take.

They also aren’t built, but exist independently of a creator:

‘Gynoids aren’t "built". Only androids are "built". Gynoids just are.’

And are bigger on the inside...

There was a whole new world trapped inside every little piece of glass, and whenever the pieces locked together to form a ‘circuit’, an entire alien universe was born inside its body, the shape becoming something totally new and unfamiliar, sculpted by different laws of physics. Roz felt she was just looking at a fragment of the thing, if ‘thing’ was a big enough word, one face of something that had a million faces. And was that all the gynoids really were? Walking windows, that you could look through to catch glimpses of something bigger and older and stranger?

You should see what I’m getting at. TARDISes too are largely considered female (not that TARDISes would have gender identities anything like humans or other species, but they have usually been referred to as “sisters” or by “she”), of course dimensionally transcendental, and can change their form. They also are speculated to exist, in a sense, beyond their creation by the Time Lords, according to Toy Story. They also, again, can be humanoid.

In Christmas on a Rational Planet, where we learn about these Gynoids, we even also see an “un-TARDIS” which literally manifested seemingly on its own, without being manufactured (which I’d argue also sounds a lot like I.M. Foreman’s Travelling Show).

The fact that the Gynoids are described as Cacophany’s granddaughters also rather evokes the idea of the TARDISes being children of the Matrix, as if establishing a lineage between them.

Then add Passenger-forms in as well. Physically, they may not seem to exactly have the more stereotypically ‘feminine’ forms of Gynoids or TARDISes (‘masculine’ TARDISes seem to exist to some extent too though)  but there is a pretty strong resemblance in abilities and their roles in regards to the Carnival Queen / Time. And hey, who knows, it’s not like we know that much about Passengers:

But there’s one more creature / technology that resembles all of the above. Feminine-seeming, glass robots, capable of shapeshifting, time manipulation, perception filters. Literally full of people, who interestingly are being preserved in a manner akin to Matrix soul-catching.

Am I suggesting that Testimony’s glass avatars are literally TARDISes? Not exactly. But I think, in the same way we see certain themes echo through some of the major time-sensitive civilisations that could have been / could become the Lords of Time (eg. regeneration/renewal, central databases/afterlifes, bridges to the next universe), the avatars may well be humanity’s technology equivalent to the gynoids or TARDISes.

And perhaps these are all indeed parts of the one conceptual species with multiple possible histories we know primarily as TARDISes, depending on the time track of the universe (pre-Anchoring, post-Anchoring, War in Heaven, post-Ancestor Cell, Time War etc.)?

Maybe they really do, quite literally, form a meta family of sorts?

“However, there are other things that can have distortional effects on the continuum.’

‘Such as?’

‘Gynoids. And their friends and families.’

#Doctor Who #Doctor Who: Flux #Thirteenth Doctor #Christmas on a Rational Planet #Once Upon Time #Twice Upon a Time #The Ravagers #Seventh Doctor #Twelfth Doctor #The Division #The Carnival Queen #Faction Paradox #Gallifrey #VNAs #DW Theory #DW meta #Doctor Who EU #long post

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Day in Fandom History: November 14…

The Doctor throws herself into a time storm in a desperate attempt to save Yaz, Dan, and Vinder, entering each of their time streams and unable to escape while being cornered by Swarm and Azure in reality. “Flux: Once, Upon Time” premiered on this day, 2 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #2 Years Ago #Doctor Who #Series 13 #Episode 3 #Once Upon Time #TV and Film