#doctor who the flux

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

"Doctor Who - The Flux"

#doctor who the flux

[flynnandsteel]

I have not been the same since Zheng Yi Sao became a character in our flag means death. It means so much to me that pirate-related media is representing her more because I never would have known about her and she is too cool to be forgotten.

For years pop culture either portrayed her as the racist "submissive asian woman" stereotype or ignored her completely. It's infuriating. Now though we have a strong portrayal of her in both doctor who and our flag means death!! Let me tell you a few things about the rightfully named "Pirate queen".

On average, most pirates died 2 years after starting piracy. Edward Teach died after two years, Stede Bonnet died after one and Israel Hands impressively died around 8 years after starting, all executed. Our pirate queen died at 68 after a successful 9 year career. In fact, she only stopped because she was made to surrender and lived the rest of her years in effective retirement.

She inherited her late husbands pirate fleets and at one point commanded around 1,800 ships. Blackbeard is believed to have a maximum of 5- likely because he didn't get along with people well enough to amass enough crews to run them. She had the largest fleet in history.

Zheng Yi Sao was a leader and undoubtedly one of the most successful pirates ever and yet we dare to forget her.

#zheng yi sao #pirate queen #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #israel hands #izzy hands #doctor who #13th doctor #doctor who flux #history

[spirantization]

the doctor: 🥺🥺🥺 by any chance do you happen to know anything about my life since we've been separated? maybe? i might want to talk about it, but only if you know every single detail already. if that were the case i would consider opening up. oh no? you don't? that's not a problem. i'm sure wallowing about it for the next million years won't be too bad.

#making me feel emotions about the timeless child and the flux?? #doctor who #dw spoilers

[donutdrawsthings]

I just finished the Flux storyline and it makes me so upset they introduced this cool idea to us and then IMMEDIATELY took it away again the next episode!! The Doctor turning into a weeping angel would have been such a cool plot point!!

#LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE #you could have so much fun with that #like how long is the doctor willing to go hungry to save humanity #how much would it hurt her if Yaz couldn't stand her starving herself and offering up someone else OR EVEN HERSELF #The SHAME the GUILT #not even the TARDIS wanting anything to do with her #jodie whittaker #13th doctor #doctor who #doctor who fanart #dw art #dw fanart #the flux #the timeless child #weeping angels #weeping angel #the weeping doctor #weepingangel!doctor #man idk how fandom people tag stuff #weeping angel doctor #fanart #the doctor #doctor who flux #weeping angel 13 #donutdrawsthings #bad wolf #angel #digital art #artists on tumblr #doctor who series 13

[olympain]

How am I supposed to look back on that?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #dwgif #doctor who #david tennant #14th doctor #jodie whittaker #13th doctor #thaddea graham #bel #jacob anderson #vinder #original #*gifs #the planets getting demolished is still hands down the coolest shots to have come out of flux

[improbabledreams900]

Flux: The Vanquishers

#doctor who #doctor who gifs #thirteenth doctor #thasmin #thirteen #yaz #flux #doctor who flux #the vanquishers #my gifs

[causalityparadoxes]

Re the Doctor talking about destroying half the universe. Was the Flux never undone? Did I misremember it as being undone? Like it just happened. Half the universe poof, gone forever.

SPEAKING of destroying half the universe. Was the destruction of half the universe in the 4th Doctor episode, Logopolis, ever undone either? Cause if Nyssa's home planet stayed destroyed, then I dont think it was.

Sooo.... if the Doctor destroyed half the universe...

And then later destroyed half again...

Has the Doctor destroyed 3 quarters of the total universe? Because damnnnn, picture of their face next to genocide in the dictionary indeed.

#my sibling pointed this out and im fucking CACKLING #doctor who #dw spoiler #60th anniversary #wild blue yonder #logopolis #the doctor #the flux

[linusbenjamin]

We stand here now on the edge of creation, a creation which I devastated. So yes, I keep running! Of course I do! How am I supposed to look back on that?

#doctor who #dwedit #tvedit #scifiedit #fourteenth doctor #usertennant #userdiana #userteri #userlanie #nikolatexla #the anger he's keeping inside since the flux... #literally me 10 times a day #this is why david's portrayal is my favourite doctor

[yesokayiknow]

whittaker!doctor turning up at martha's door: so uh turns out being seen as a woman kinda sucks & i'm sorry about being a part of the problem for you

gatwa!doctor turning up the next day: well. racism huh

#doctor who #doctor who casting spoilers #doctor who spoilers #just covering my bases!!! #the doctor #martha jones #btw im still not caught up!!!!! im on like ep2 of the flux #but the casting news was all over twitter sooo

[nat-20s]

i think the structural nature of doctor who makes it so i cannot relate to people who are consistently obsessed with it nor can i relate to people who are exclusively casual fans the entire time. Doctor Who is one of the ultimate pieces of media that's like BUILT for having it consume your every thought for like two years and then you forget about it for a decade. And then it comes back around. But that might just be the perspective of someone who like comic book characters lol

#doctor who #idk man there was SEVERAL years where i was like. damn i don't really get why i was SO into doccy whomst #like i had been watching it i've watched almost all of new who #(except the last of jodie's run I've only seen through the flux specials whoops) #but i wasn't like. Invested. it wasn't making an impact. #but then i fuckin watch go season 1 #and i was like oh fuck i really like david tennant that's right #and then i rewatched donna's (aka the best) season #and i was like OH RIGHT. I LOVE DOCTOR WHO BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT FUCKIN BAAAANNGGGSSS #and now we're here. congrats to both 2019 and 2008 me <3

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

Thirteen "Doctor Who - The Flux : Once Upon Time"

#thirteenth doctor #doctor who the flux #once upon time

[blorblobby]

if u aint rocking with thirteen and her goggles u arent a real dr who fan /hj

#doctor who #doctor who fanart #bbc doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #thirteenth doctor fanart #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor fanart #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #doctor who series 11 #doctor who series 12 #doctor who series 13 #doctor who flux #flux #dr who #dr who fanart

[spirantization]

"Wild Blue Yonder" dealt with some of the emotional fallout of the Flux, so I want to rewind a bit and look at what that means for the Doctor.

I know that the Timeless Child and the Flux are contentious topics. I'm not here to argue either way. But now those storylines have decisively not been retconned, and with both of these fresh in my memory, I feel the need to offer some context for anyone who may not have seen it, and to recontextualize it for myself and anyone who has.

NotDonna: You don't know where you're from. The Doctor: How do you know that? How does anyone know? How does Donna know?

In "The Timeless Children", we find out that the Doctor was discovered as a child alone under a wormhole, and adopted by a woman named Tecteun. There was an accident where the Doctor fell from a cliff and regenerated, and subsequently Tecteun performed "experiments" on them to try to understand regeneration. The show minces words about this but she killed a child a whole bunch of times is what happened. Her experiments created the Time Lords and allow them to engineer their regeneration properties. The Doctor has no memory of any of this, and only finds out via the Master and information stored in the Time Lord Matrix.

The Doctor, predictably, doesn't tell anyone about this revelation. She makes a speech to the Master about how this makes her more, we get a single shot of her looking a bit tired in the TARDIS, then she immediately gets thrown in prison.

Ultimately, the Doctor doesn't know where they're from or who their parents are. And the very fact that they're not from Gallifrey is information that no one in the universe should have. Everyone who knew is now dead.

NotDonna: I saw it in your head. The Flux. The Doctor: It destroyed half the universe because of me. We stand here now, on the edge of creation, a creation which I devastated, so yes I keep running, of course I do! How am I supposed to look back on that? NotDonna: It wasn't your fault! The Doctor: I know!

A fun fact about the Flux is that the Doctor did not cause it. So why does he blame himself? Because the person who caused the Flux was Tecteun.

The reason why Tecteun wanted to destroy the universe is because the Doctor interfered with things too much. Too much morality. Too inspirational to people. She calls them a virus. So her solution to the problem of the Doctor is to destroy the universe, with the Doctor inside, and take her ship to a different universe to start fresh. She also was the one to steal all the Doctor's memories of previous lives in the first place. She's dismissive and patronizing and clearly does not care about the Doctor on an emotional level at all. Tecteun is a piece of work, and the implications of her actions and how they've shaped the Doctor have the potential to go deep.

Thirteen doesn't get too much of a chance to react to any of this, because there is plot going on. And shortly after they reunite, Tecteun gets killed by a different villain. So there was no emotional closure in the moment, and there's now no possibility for the Doctor to make sense of her actions. The Doctor does not tell any of her friends about any of these events. She keeps promising to tell Yaz but does not.

"Wild Blue Yonder" is the first time we, as the audience, hear the Doctor discuss the Flux. And their perception of events is skewed at best. The Flux wasn't caused because the Doctor made a mistake and a lot of people were killed, which is what you can argue for many other situations. The Flux and the devastation of the universe was caused by their mother, who promptly turned around and told them it was their fault for being such an interfering nuisance. We know that the Doctor is often an unreliable narrator, but this is beyond that. These are the words of an abused child who has internalized the narrative that the abuse was their fault.

So the Doctor being able to talk about this with Donna, who has seen what happened, who knows him, and tells him that it's not his fault — it means so much to him. He wants it to be her so badly. And then NotDonna laughs in his face. You can see the devastation. He thinks for one moment that he can finally talk about this with his best friend, and it's snatched away from him. He gives himself a moment to break down in the corridor, and then you can see the walls rebuilding as he suppresses it all again.

At the very end of the episode, back in the TARDIS, he's trying very very hard to be nonchalant. I'm curious. The NotDonna could remember all these things that happened to me while we were apart. Can you? Just wondering. Things happened, but I'll be fine. In a million years. It's not a joke.

He wants so badly to be able to talk about this. You can see it in all the lines of his body language. He's keeping himself together but is prepared to fall apart in an instant. He doesn't want to actually tell anyone, but if Donna just magically knew already, and could tell him it wasn't his fault — well, that would make the world of difference. But she doesn't know, and he can't bring himself to tell her. And so the cycle continues.

#doctor who #dw spoilers #wild blue yonder #the flux

[the-lone-zarbi-on-trenzalore]

I just rewatched Flux in a single-day binge and I'm gonna be honest it holds up and holds together way better than I expected it to. And it REALLY lends itself well to a binge.

I kind of miss this version of Doctor Who already, and as much as I've really enjoyed the first two episodes of RTD2 I'm also kinda disappointed that we're now gonna spend another 4+ years watching Davies continue to solidify his voice as being synonymous with that of this show, rather than let new voices expand what Doctor Who can be and make more weird messy things like Flux that, whether you like the season or not, definitely represents a bold and fresh direction.

I can't wait for the Whittaker/Chibnall era to experience a re-evaluation, and it absolutely deserves one, but I have a feeling y'all aren't ready for that conversation yet.

#doctor who #flux #doctor who flux #chris chibnall #jodie whittaker #russell t davies #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #series 13 #60th anniversary #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 270/?

#dwedit #doctor who #thasmin #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #survivors of the flux #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #13seraappreciation #my gifs #thasmin* #thirteen* #yaz*

[jcforsapphics]

"I'm adopted. I only found out recently." I keep winning with flux mentions

#thirteen doctor era you'll always be famous to me #I won't let her be forgotten #doctor who #doctor who flux #doctor who liveblog #doctor who spoilers #dw #thirteenth doctor #thirteen doctor #13th doctor #fifteenth doctor #15th doctor #the doctor #the church on ruby road #cal's basement