#faction paradox

[thefiresofpompeii]

a transgender clara echo by the name of lee harvey oswald assassinated US president jennedy fennedy kennedy on 22 november 1963. he was protecting the ninth doctor

this was of course vital to preserving the timeline so an unearthly child could air on english national television the following day

#you can do what you want forever #autism <3 #doctor who #dw #clara oswald #the impossible girl #ninth doctor #eleventh doctor #jenna coleman #jamie catches up #jamie.txt #faction paradox

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

We don't appreciate enough how vampires are no only canon in Dr. Who but also a major plot thing and very poweful. The time lords, the oldest civilization, the time travel guys fought a WAR with the VAMPIRES and had to trap them in another UNIVERSE. And they're not even embarassed of this, the writers I mean. They bring it up constantly because that's what Dr. Who is like. Our horrifying murdering time-travelling blood cult? Yes we will definitely bring up the vampires again here. If you don't like it go watch Star Trek

#doctor who #faction paradox #faction paradox's vampire timelord bat skull masks are sick as fuck fr

[ranmagender]

Its easy to forget sometimes that doctor who has a tv show attatched to it

#doctor who #dweu #doctor who expanded universe #faction paradox #big finish #gallifrey

[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

[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

[vivvision]

It'll never not amaze me the depths and vast expansive-ness of Doctor Who spin-off content. Can any other fandom or show truly say that they have a 'universe' in the same way that Doctor Who does? You have decades of audio dramas, licensed, partially licensed, and unlicensed. Books about the main character, books about the main characters friends, books about timelines that never were or might have been! Movies with villains from the show and promotional shorts that occupy a secret third special place between plain fun and actual canon. Is all of it canon? Is none of it canon besides the show? Are only the bits we like canon? YOU decide, because you have decades and mountains and worlds to choose from.

Not to mention that this all gives fans the easiest in to make fan-content, fan doctors, etc and they do, hundreds of them! They have been for decades!

The Whoniverse is ever expanding, vast in a way that few can truly grasp onto, and you'll never be done discovering it. I'll never not be in awe of it.

#doctor who #doctor who eu #the whoniverse #torchwood #faction paradox #gallifrey audios #bernice summerfield #the Sarah Jane adventures #Forgotten lives #morbius doctors #iris wildthyme #jago and litefoot #doctor who vnas #virgin new adventures

[galahadwilder]

Watching Doctor Who and then getting to the expanded universe materials afterward is hilarious because like

Doctor Who mentions that the Sontarans weren’t allowed to fight in the Time War and you’re like “what why?” and then you listen to the Audio Dramas and you’re still like “I feel like the Sontarans would’ve done fine. Not great, but fine”

And then you read Faction Paradox and find out what weapons Time Lords ACTUALLY use and it’s like. Oh. Oh the Sontarans would’ve gotten fucked.

#doctor who #faction paradox #original content #sontarans #the time war #the last great time war

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Is it too much to ask for the Doctor to regenerate into something a little bit inhuman at least for part of an episode?

Time Lords don't necessarily regenerate into human-like forms, like what Romana did when she was trying out bodies before choosing to look like Princess Astra. Nine said that he could regenerate with two heads or no head!

One time a Homeworld soldier began to regenerate and razor sharp mandibles started appearing where their throat should have been (though this did make them cry and beg for help). Some of them had informal bodies without obvious faces. I think there was even one that regenerated into an avian!

My point is, what if something goes wrong with the Doctor's regeneration? Like, very, very wrong? And they spend the whole episode trying to fix it? This is just going back to my desire for eldritch Time Lords of course, but what if?

#you can tell im very normal about this #eldritch #dr nyarlathotep #doctor who #dw #classic who #dr who #new who #eldritch abomination #eldritch time lords #time lords #the book of war #faction paradox #the doctor #romana #ninth doctor

[heimeldat]

Um so I listened to the first 2 Faction Paradox audios and now apparently this is my beloved witch-daughter, my freaky little shadow child.

ID: two versions of a realistic digital painting showing a woman standing in front of a stone wall, casting a mismatched shadow that holds a knife in its hand. One version shows her curly red hair and youthful face. In the other version, she wears a translucent black veil and a fanged bat-like skull mask that hide her face. end ID

#faction paradox #cousin justine #doctor who fanart #digital painting

[recursivetransformarray]

This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles / ULTRAKILL level 7-4 hidden lore entry

#something something. war vastly beyond the grasp of human comprehension. war as a spectacle. perfectly automated war #faction paradox #<- have not gotten too far into the first book but god damn its good #ULTRAKILL #ultrakill spoilers

[intuitive-revelations]

FLUXES [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "DOCTOR, The"

[Image description, courtesy of @quailfence: a series of pictures of text, alternated with screencaps and gifs from Doctor Who.

1: Text: Fluxes: [Celestis: Engineered Participants/Technology] Individuals transposed backwards in time but not too far in space, using a very high chaotic limiter setting and tied to their home period by a thread of biodata

2: The Eleventh Doctor stands in the future corpse of his TARDIS, looking and a pulsing stream of light that has replaced the console. He says, "That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe. My path through time and space."

3: Text: He raised a finger. 'Look. There.

Now she could just make out the thread in the moonlight. It was just a faint reflection, maybe a foot or two long, about a metre off the ground. A taut strand of spiderweb hanging in the air, not attached to anything.

'What is it?' Fitz asked.

'It's only partially rotated into three dimensions,' he said. He pushed his finger right through the glimmering line, without affecting it. 'That's why it looks one- or two-dimensional. The rest is still perpendicular to what we can see - woven into higher space, or the time vortex…'

'Yes,' said Fitz, 'but what is it?' 'It's what your friend mistook for a ley line.' The Doctor was scuttling around the silver thread, peering at it from every angle, getting more and more agitated. 'It's part of the fabric of space-time itself. What DNA is to your genetic code, this stuff is to biodata. And it's all just exposed here now. Personality, history, memory, perception, all vulnerable…'

'I'm going to have to ask you again, aren't I?' said Fitz.

The Doctor said, 'It's me.'

4: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth doctors in the TARDIS. 14: "But you're fine?" 15: "I'm fine, because you fixed yourself. We're Time Lords, we're doing rehab out of order."

5: Text: The subject is turned loose in his or her own history, and the limiter setting allows tiny actions taken by the future version to have considerable effects on the past version. The biodata link then transfers these changes to the future version, which alters it, and thus alters the changes made to the past version. Therefore, the individual's history is kept constantly in flux.

6: The Fugitive Doctor says, "Let me take it from the top: Hello, I'm the Doctor."

7: Text: Let me finish. Think back to that time when you went to see your previous selves.

8: Ten, Eleven, and War talk to each other. Ten: "You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?" Eleven: "We change history all the time. I'm suggesting far worse."

9: Text: 'Maybe there's no one home on Gallifrey,' said the boy softly. There was just the one of him.

The Doctor looked at him, cupping the small white cube in his hands. The boy said, Maybe they all left. Or maybe the whole planet's being destroyed, and undestroyed, and destroyed, and you just caught them at the wrong moment.

10: The TARDIS by the ruins of Gallifrey

11: Text: 'It's impossible,' said the Doctor. 'It's impossible for my people. Our past is unreachable. What's written can't be unwritten.'

'Who said your history can't change?'

Another boy answered, 'Someone from his history.'

And another: 'Maybe it's the second-biggest lie in Time Lord history.'

12: Dhawan!Master tells Thirteen, "You are the Timeless Child."

13: Thitreen stares at a ruined house. Swarm whispers in her ear and tells her, "All the memories you've lost, all the people you've been. It's all in there, contained within that house."

14: Text: And it was like the Doctor's home. As if his ship understood the loss of the House and had compensated to fill the emptiness. Shadowy corridors, alcoves and stairways, a secret at every turn. Like being in the Doctor's head. Like his life, for that matter, the details of which were strewn like flotsam across the floor.

15: Text: 'Sweet,' said the little boy. 'That's my favourite of your origin stories, too.'

The Doctor opened his eyes. He had been laughing, he realised, he felt that lightness in himself. The boys had all moved away, behind him, leaving him facing the empty dark of the warehouse.

'What do you mean?' he asked. His voice sounded very small.

'Is this the version where they banned all mention of his name, and yours, for consorting with aliens? Or the one where he got every record of himself deleted from the files?'

'Feel free to believe either of them,' snapped the Doctor, 'or both of them, or neither of them. If you're curious about my past, I want there to be as many wrong answers as possible.'

16: The Eighth Doctor tells someone, "I'm half human. On my mother's side."

17: Text: 'Well he's a hybrid, you know that. A Gallifreyan not born of Gallifreyan, the one who unites the two races and brings good old human niceness into their alien society. Aliens need that, y'know.'

'A human hybrid? She saw the contempt in his curling lip. 'Pseudoscientific nonsense. There's no evidence,' he repeated.

'He's allowed to be different. He's got a prophecy and everything.'

18: Lady Me says, "By your own reasoning, why couldn't the Hybrid be half Time Lord, half human?"

19: Text: Someone giggled. 'Let's play pin the tale on the donkey.'

'Maybe you didn't use to have a father.'

'Maybe you're living in the middle of a time war. Maybe there's an Enemy out there -'

The Doctor shouted, 'I'm not listening!'

'- who's rewriting you when you're not looking!'

'Maybe you weren't always half human.'

'But now you've become always half human.' 'Maybe you weren't always a Time Lord.'

But now you've always been a Time Lord.'

'Maybe you originally came from some planet in the forty-ninth century. Fleeing from the Enemy who'd overrun your home -'

'I said I'm not listening! Laa laa laa laa laa -'

'- and you've just been written and rewritten and overwritten, ever since.'

'Pin the tale!'

'How d'you know it's not true?'

'How could you know it's not true?'

The voices crowded in. 'How would you know, huh?'

'How would you know?'

'How would 'How would you 'How 'How would you know? you know? you know? know?'

'Why would I care?' shouted the Doctor.

The boy fell silent.

20: Lady Me asks, "Am I right? Is it true?" Twelve replies, "Does it matter?"

21: Text: However, the one group from the Homeworld which has excelled at flux-engineering is the Celestis.

22: Two asks the Time Lords, "Now then… what about me?"

23: Tecteun tells Thirteen, "Which is ehy we engineered the Fluyx: Shut the universe down and you within it."

24: Text: Even Mictlan itself can be considered a kind of enormous flux, an endlessly-shifting realm so cortosive to the rest of history that its heartland has to be kept on the outer skin of the universe

24: The Fourteenth Doctor tells Donna, "I invoked a supersition, at the edge of the universe, where the walls are thin and everything is possible."

25: The space station from Wild Blue Yonder

26: Text: There are suggestions of a stable middle-ground between the two fates, in which the physical matter of the flux is lost but the meaning of the subject/ victim is retained, a series of memetic connections with no flesh to support it. Yet this entity exists only on a purely theoretical level, relying on the perceptions of others to survive at all.

27: The Twelfth Doctor walks up to the TARDIS console. He says, "Can't wait to hear what I say." Glancing at the viewer, he adds, "I'm noting without an audience."

28: Text: You know what Sam represents. If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? Stop me if I'm getting too abstract here, but if a Time Lord saves the world and nobody witnesses him doing it, does history care? She's your witness. The thing you need to make you whole.

29: The First Doctor looks at the viewer and says, "Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!" End description.]

[Plain text: Fluxes [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "Doctor, The". End plain text.]

@dw-described

#Doctor Who #DW Meta #DW Theory #First Doctor #Second Doctor #Eighth Doctor #Tenth Doctor #Eleventh Doctor #Twelfth Doctor #Thirteenth Doctor #Fourteenth Doctor #Fifteenth Doctor #Martin!Doctor #Tecteun #The Division #The Flux #Faction Paradox #Doctor Who EU #The Book of the War #Unnatural History #just some random thoughts #linking together some of the parallels and headcanons over the years into a chain #actually was spurred by me thinking about the 'destruction of the universe' line in Class and connecting it to the Flux #but had to cut it #as well as a lot more #due to the 30 image limit #so consider also the Solitract; the Great Old Ones from the previous universe; the Doctor as a 'virus'; “once upon several times” etc. #DW Spoilers #Doctor Who Spoilers #for Tennant and Gatwa together

[doccywhomst]

rate the last doctor who book you read in the tags

#what series are ppl reading rn?? or plan to read? #i know i mostly read edas but where are my vna and benny and faction paradox enjoyers #i’m suffering through beltempest but excited for the taint™️ and fitz’s arrival #doctor who #vnas #edas #faction paradox #benny summerfield

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

What I love about the wilderness years novels is if they did literally any of that on TV the fandom would all go fucking insane. What do you mean Time Lords are weaved? What the FUCK do you mean there are sentient TARDISes who breed and this one companion turns into one? Why is Sherlock Holmes in the Time War

They would also go crazy about all the gay shit and call it woke.

#edas #vnas #faction paradox #they would go crazy about iris they would hate her soo much #doctor who

[thekinglemingle]

It will never not be hilarious to me that in preparation for the return of Doctor Who to the screens, the novels neatly put away their toys. They resolved their years' long Time War storyline in a way that it wouldn't be required for future canon, they un blew up Gallifrey and brought the Time Lords back to life.

And then RTD immediately established that in the time since the show was last on TV, there has been a huge Time War, Gallifrey has been blown up and all the Time Lords were dead.

#doctor who #war in heaven #the time war #the last great time war #EDAs #eighth doctor adventures #faction paradox #nu who

[felinelun]

Oh, almost forgot! Attended a 60th anniversary Doctor Who party as a Faction Paradox cousin. No one recognised me. One guy was too embarrassed to ask if it even is a DW cosplay. I proceeded spam him the hell out of Faction until he maybe lost his believe in humanity.

For all who's interested, the cake was cut with a retractable blade knife in the end because out of several dozens people nobody thought to take a cake knife to a party with a cake

#doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who #dw #faction paradox #cake #cosplay

[sauron18]

Weeping Angels Are Conceptual Entities

In their first appearance (Series 3’s Blink), the Weeping Angels are a race of monsters who can only move and live when no other creature is looking at them. As soon as they are perceived, they become quantum locked and turn into stone statues. They feed by shifting their victims back in time and absorbing the potential energy of the life they would’ve lived in their original era.

Yet even in that story they’re called “creatures of the abstract.” This description would make more sense in their next appearance (S5’s Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone), where we see a long-dormant angel crash-land a human ship above a labyrinth that held a multitude of other dormant angels.

In this story the angels display the ability to act on the world around them in non-physical ways. The first angel causes the ship it’s in to crash without leaving its prison cell. Then it inspects the area around the ship by using a projection of its image in a camera recording to manifest outside the crash site. While it does this, it is also able to deadlock the temporary shelter where its image manifests.

Then, after killing two soldiers from a military force that arrived on the planet to re-capture it, the angel strips their cerebral cortex and uses their consciousness to communicate via radio with the Doctor, his companions, and the other soldiers. All the while the radiation from the crashed ship slowly revives the dormant angels in the labyrinth, and they all proceed to hunt the humans as they try (and fail) to harness the energy from a time rift in the hopes of becoming a formidable force in the universe again.

Besides seeing an expansion of their abilities in this episode, we also get some interesting lore from a book written about the angels. The book explains how the projection of an angel is an extension of it, “That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.” It speculates on their abstract origin, “What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if, one day, our dreams no longer needed us?” And it even explains how they can infect and possess a living being who looks into their eyes, “The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter them.” And as the other angels in the story begin to regenerate from shapeless humanoid statues to their angelic forms, the Doctor states “Their image is their power.”

All of this means that the angels in this story have become, essentially, conceptual entities. They are perceived physically as stone statues, but they operate primarily as non-corporeal beings.

“As conceptual entities only seem to affect the minds of their victims, it’s often said that the entities are ‘made out of pure thought’, but this is clearly inaccurate as thought itself isn’t a substance. Although many people are determined to think of the entities as telepathic presences, or neurological parasites, or in some cases even ‘spirits’, in fact it’s much more accurate to think of them as nothing more than hostile ideas. They exist by bypassing matter altogether, and instead giving themselves structure inside the meanings of things.” — The Book of the War

At this point, the angels are no longer simply monsters who move when they aren’t seen. They are living ideas who exist on the periphery of perception. They affect the world primarily through non-physical means. As conceptual entities, the angels infect the physical world, reshaping its meaning to suit their needs and to give them power and form.

This post is already long enough, so instead of going into more detail about other stories. I’d like to conclude by mentioning how in their most recent TV stories, in Flux, we see a group of angels working as operatives for Division. They are killers-for-hire for this ancient temporal power that exists outside of normal time and space, a notion that goes back to their original description in Blink as “the lonely assassins.” In other words, they are conceptual entities who are living weapons at the service of a Time Lord interference group that has abandoned the physical universe.

This may all be coincidence, but regardless, I love thinking about how the angels have gone from being a creative monster of the week to becoming another televised incarnation of ideas from the Faction Paradox and Doctor Who literary universes.

#Doctor Who #Weeping Angels #Faction Paradox #Conceptual Entities #Book of the War #Mictlan #Flux #Division