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intuitive-revelations · 4 months

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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.]

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mizgnomer · 5 months

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The fourteenth and fifteenth Doctors in the Tardis

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa being glorious

#david tennant #doctor who #tennant tuesday #ncuti gatwa #two beautiful boys #leaning on the tardis console #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #I hope we see them together again someday #they looked like they had fun together #stuff i posted #doctor who spoilers

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alyona11 · 5 months

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It feels so weird drawing Doctor Who fanart after literal ages but Giggle was really cute so I wanted to sketch 14th and 15th

#my art #dw spoilers #doctor who #dw #doctor who fanart #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #14th doctor #15th doctor #dw fanart #idk they were so so cute together #also ncuti is fun to draw

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bronzeagepizzeria · 6 months

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okay things we know about the second special:

-we haven't seen any footage of it in the trailers

-it's called wild BLUE yonder

-letterboxd listed david tennant as '14' in special 1, ncuti as '15'. they then listed david as '10' in special 2, and ncuti as '14' in special 3

-this listing has since been taken down

-the director of the second special, tom kingsley, said he's most looking forward to "the bit with the hands"

-there's a shot of ncuti in tenteen's clothings, which rtd has confirmed has a cgi'd background (zeppelins, perhaps?)

-the toymaker has the ability to 'shape dimensions'

conclusion: BODY FUCKIN SWAP

#it's allllllll coming together THAT'S TENTOO BAYBE #i know it i know it in my bones #rose tyler #doctor who #tentoo #tenth doctor #david tennant #ncuti gatwa

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emotinalsupportturtle · 5 months

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the bigeneration or whatever may not have made sense but it means I didn’t have to say goodbye to David Tennant again AND it led to these moments

multiple doctors meeting can actually be something so personal

#doctor who #60th anniversary #dw spoilers #the giggle #14 and 15 together give me so much joy #Rtd probably realized the death count would be too high if we had to say goodbye to 14 #14th doctor #15th doctor #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #Why do they look like they’re about to kiss #Help

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quietwingsinthesky · 24 days

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“least favorite” isn’t anywhere close to bad. it just shows how damn hard the competition is going, but we’re talking about gold medals all around for each actor i’ve seen portray the doctor so far.

#and again on acting alone. i think i might prefer him over tennant in the long run.#which isnt saying tenannt is bad either its saying like. i just love them both but i love what smith brings to the table just slightly more.#i dont really put the war doctor on my rankings very seriously because he only had the one rpisode. and it was. a bad episode.#but his performance endeared me enough to him eith his haunted eyes and the weight he’s carrying that i would. possibly with a bias.#put him between ten and eleven.#and then first place depends on the day but i think twelve has pulled ahead of nine just barely. like damn. capaldi Gets It man. eccleston #also Got It in similar ways but obviously his shorter tenure did give him less tjme to show it off and twelve’s gotten three seasons to show #just how fantastically capaldi pulls together this grieving weirdo. this man who loves so hard it burns him up. who is so scared of his own #goodness and losing it. he’s so good guys.#god i cant wait to see where jodie falls on this list im really excited for her take. and mr gatwa too.#and the classic who guys obviously. i mean i already like the guy they get to play One in the audios and im really curious how he measures #up against hartnell(?)’s original performance #i know the vibes will be very different than those of nuwho but im excited :)

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soalkie · 5 months

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So curious about how the bi-generation is going to impact the timeline of the doctor's life going forward. They stated quite plainly that 15 is older, and that they're doing their recovery "backwards," but I hope we are given a better idea of what that means.

I'm currently interpreting it as 15 already knowing and feeling the recovery that 14 is going to go through, but it could easily be that they're going to have go on journeys of recovery and self-discovery completely independently.

(I saw some people also theorizing that 14 becoming the Curator, which would be interesting. I doubt they'd be able to explore it very much, but it would be a good idea for a couple of specials.)

#also the toymaker canonically having turned the doctor's past into something pieced together and nonsensical #is such a funny way to acknowledge and dismiss the decisions with Timeless child #but without actually retconning it #doctor who #ncuti gatwa #david tennant

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arodrwho · 5 months

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christ alive what an episode though

#overall i'm REALLY happy #but the bigeneration was a bad move and unless they come back to that and have 14 regenerate properly and/or fuse back into 15 i'm like #never gonna be happy abt that aspect #it's also just a bad LOOK. ur first (main timeline) black dr and ur just... gonna make his first scene all about the previous dr?#when the previous dr's actor has already had not one but TWO initial just-regenerated scenes??#like... why would you do that #the regeneration scene up TO the regeneration is for the outgoing dr #everything AFTER the regeneration should be all about the INCOMING dr. it's their introduction! it's a BIG DEAL!#and absolutely none of that was about gatwa's dr ALL of the emotional focus was on tennant's dr #not to say gatwa didn't shine! absolutely he did! but the scene wasnt about him. it was entirely abt tennant dr's emotional & narrative arc #AND. even that aside. it's just stupid to have 2 drs and 2 tardises #and it's ABSURD to just keep cloning the dr as a form of emotional resolution. rtd has done it TWICE now. what are they a LIZARD #if you want the dr in 2 places at once theres an easy mechanic for that. its a show about time travel. the solution is obvious #and also like. one of the central themes of the show is change & renewal what the FUCK are u doing. thats NOT change OR renewal #anyway uh. to conclude. bigeneration bad #HOWEVER. gatwa and tennant together in those scenes. INCREDIBLY good #it isnt the end result i dislike it's the method #also i am very excited for gatwa i love his dr so much already #dw spoilers #dr who

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mmolly-ringwormm · 4 months

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Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th doctor is brilliant and the send off with David Tennant was so wholesome. BBC always pops off with the holiday specials

#me #and they brought the doctor and Donna back together 🥹#this will pull me back in #dr who holiday special #15th doctor #ncuti gatwa #david tennant #10th doctor #bbc #dr who #doctor who 60th anniversary

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nat-20s · 5 months

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I am far from saying the 60th anniversaries were perfect BUT I already know I fundamentally can't relate to people who didn't like the bi-generation. You don't like David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa being silly together? You don't like Donna getting her bestie back? You don't like the physical embodiment of radical self love?? You don't like that we get to keep the same bitchin Tardis set but it has a jukebox and entry ramp now??? Where's your whimsy where's your fucking whimsy???

#dw spoilers #doctor who #AGAIN i am not saying doctor who is like immune to criticism or anything BUT #sometimes people complain about the things that are fun and i genuinely dont get it.#doctor who is not for the weak of whimsy imo

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thealogie · 5 months

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I haven’t watched yet or really seen clips/gifs but I will say RTD truly did All That not only to make sure he created a little pocket where he can later create more Tennant specials (not valid, daddy’s number 1 candy baby syndrome) but ALSO because he understood we need to see David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa acting together (extremely valid, justifies any convoluted plot point)

#doctor who

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paulrobinsonshotel · 3 months

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Steven Moffat

Gives Ten an equally important role to Eleven in his anniversary special, Makes RTD's Time War central to the episode's storyline, and resolves it in a way that doesn't undermine Nine and Ten's character arcs, gives Billie Piper a major role without infringing on Rose's storyline, gives Paul McGann the regeneration story he deserves, gets Tom Baker back on the show one last time, and gives us one very brief, tantalising tease of the next Doctor. And all this was while having no actors under contract, and BBC executives constantly interfering.

Chris Chibnall

Used his final story to bring back two beloved companions from the classic era, and gives them closure with their respective Doctors. Brings back several Classic Doctors and the Fugitive Doctor to aid Thirteen in her final battle, and revealed that companions from throughout the Doctor's life have been getting together and supporting each other, as they will now do for Yaz. And this was in the aftermath of the pandemic, and at a point when a new showrunner couldn't be found, with no idea what future the show had.

Russell T Davies

After getting near complete creative control of the show in time for the 60th anniversary, burns the Thirteenth Doctor's outfit away, immediately pivots back to his Doctor and his companion, with just some old villains to represent the other 55 years of the show. Doesn't bring back any other elements from the show's history until the third episode, and even then, has Mel and Kate play second fiddle to his characters. Doubles down on the self-indulgence of The End of Time by refusing to have Tennant regenerate at all, uses the Fifteenth Doctor's introduction to give Ten a happy ending rather than letting Ncuti Gatwa define his character on his own terms as every one of his predecessors has done. And writes the Nobles (his characters once again) as the one true found family the Doctor needs, as though the Ponds and River and Clara and the Fam were just passing acquaintances.

Two of these are constantly accused of trying to undermine the show and making it all about themselves. I'll let you decide which one it isn't.

#doctor who #anti rtd #60th anniversary #60th rant #i will forever be salty about this #pro moffat #pro chibnall #Can the 70th and/or 75th anniversaries please be devoid of RTD/Tennant era content?

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mizgnomer · 3 months

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Part 4 in the David and Catherine Laughing on the Set of Doctor Who gif series

Links for Parts [ One ] [ Two ] [ Three ] or my #Laughing with David tag

#david tennant #catherine tate #doctor who #no wonder they came back #they have so much fun together #rtdedit #60th anniversary #doctor who 60th anniversary #stuff i posted #laughing with david #ncuti gatwa #jemma redgrave #their reaction to jemma's laugh is the best #they're always so great together #I hope they can work together again soon #I love that I got to add another post to this set #dw spoilers

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canyousonicme · 3 months

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Despite only appearing in fifteen episodes over the show's more than 60 year history, Alex Kingston left an indelible mark on Doctor Who, bringing to life one of the most beloved characters in the entire franchise: River Song. Along with being the woman the Doctor married, River was a captivating character with a complicated history. She danced up and down the Doctor's life as their love story, which transcended time, saw the two constantly meeting out of order. Kingston's last on-screen apperance as River took place over eight years ago in the Christmas special, "The Husbands of River Song." The episode seemingly served as an end to her story, as she and the Doctor spent one last (twenty-four year long) night on Darillium together. However, that hasn't stopped audiences from hoping to see River again — and maybe fans just might get their wish.

Kingston stopped by MegaCon in Orlando, FL this weekend to speak on the "Women of Sci-Fi" panel. When asked which Doctor she would like to see River team up with that we haven't seen her with yet, Kingston enthusiastically named Ncuti Gatwa, calling him "a twinkly badass too," referring to a description she'd given her own character earlier in the panel. While there hasn't been any announcement made indicating a return for Kingston, she did indicate that perhaps we haven't seen the last of River Song: "It was such a wonderful journey and the journey may still continue," she said. "Who knows? I mean can you imagine just flying the Tardis and going to all those incredible different dimensions in time and space. I mean, it's been an amazing journey and I fly the Tardis better than he does."

Luckily, Kingston is no stranger to playing this character opposite a range of Doctors. Though the majority of her episodes were with Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor, the ER actress also appeared opposite David Tennant's Tenth Doctor and Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor. When asked if she felt that her character changed at all from Doctor to Doctor, Kingston said:

"No, I don't think my character differed, actually. She just sort of adapted to the personalities of each new Doctor. I mean, essentially, it's the same spirit but in a new body a little bit like when a snake sheds its skin. So it was sort of more like, oh hello. This is another facet of the person that I love that suddenly kind of opened up to me. And so I always found it's actually super exciting working then with a new incarnation of the doctor." [X] 📸Gerardo Morera

#Alex Kingston #River Song #Doctor Who #Ncuti Gatwa #Megacon #Florida #2024 #Stop Trolling Alex

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precedex-files · 3 months

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@xxsksxxx commented the above.

I don’t disagree with it, despite my position that “Existence” would have been an ideal end to the original Mulder and Scully storyline. I think that as long as Mulder and Scully are alive they are always out there looking for the truth. But part of that is also recruiting others on that quest. Mulder does that to Scully during the series, and together they get Skinner invested. By the end they pass the torch to Doggett and Reyes. The Apollo 11 keychain is symbolic of this and the fact that no one gets there alone. Mulder gifts it to Scully, who in turn passes it to Doggett. (As an aside, I thought it was weird for Doggett to give it to Leyla Harrison so quickly, but I realize that by doing this they are giving the Apollo 11 keychain to us, the audience. That we are part of the team that made the show a success.)

I don’t see the rather simple and domestic ending of “Existence” as mutually exclusive from the search for the truth. I see it as a resting point for our weary heroes, who certainly deserve it. We all know that Mulder can’t ever give up and that Scully will always choose to follow. Besides, the darkness does have a way of finding them. So whatever new conspiracy needs uncovering they will always be ready to jump in and help down the line. All the stuff that happened post-Existence could still happen. William could still be under threat, alien super soldiers could still need stopping, colonization could still be thwarted, they could still hunt down pedo-Priests and human medical experiments, all of the revival could still bring them back to the FBI. Existence would just have been a good, clear demarcation of Mulder and Scully stepping aside for a little while. Also it is heavily implied by the ending that the real truth to be found in everything is love - of family, both the ones we are born into and the ones we choose.

I liken this all to what they did in the most recent Doctor Who. David Tennant’s bi-generation into himself and Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor effectively passes the torch on to Gatwa. DT goes on to live an idyllic life with Donna, which he deserves. But we all know that the Doctor would never shy away from where ever he or she is needed. So when the time comes and it is necessary (for ratings lol) to pull DT’s Doctor from that life, you know the Doctor will answer the call. And so will Mulder and Scully.

#the x files #x files #fox mulder #dana scully #mulder and scully #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor

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penny-anna · 5 months

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DW spoilers hey ho!!

ok so i was initially down w the bi-generation, i thought having the 2 doctors get to meet face to face and hug it out was a really nice idea n a fun twist on it (would probably have been better to do it w Whittaker as she's the actual outgoing doctor but i digress)

however i figured it was gonna be resolved w them like. steven universe-style fusing back together and then it would be like ah yes Gatwa is the doctor now and we're moving forward. so i was just sitting there like haha how are they gonna get rid of tennant. where is tennant gonna go. where's he gonna go whens he gonna leave - wym he's still here

#doctor who spoilers

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