#the ghost monument

[quizmasterfred]

I just love this shot so much. It’s so intimate. The TARDIS really is a character on this show, who has her own behaviours and quirks and personality. And this is a scene between two characters who know and love each other in a way that’s just… slightly inhuman, but still so pure and obvious to any one watching.

A woman asking for forgiveness, a box saying “no need. I love you. Welcome home”, and not a single other thing in frame.

The TARDIS as a machine is great, but as a character is beautiful. “The Doctor’s Wife” is a great episode, but this gif is a perfect demonstration that you don’t need an actor to show her character and personality.

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #the ghost monument #the tardis

[evviejo]

the thirteenth doctor & gender

#dwedit #doctor who #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker #the woman who fell to earth #demons of the punjab #the witchfinders #spyfall part one #spyfall part two #fugitive of the judoon #war of the sontarans #the ghost monument #my gifs #thirteen*

[notyoujamie]

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #modern who #** #*dw #my gif #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #dalek #the age of steel #the eleventh hour #under the lake #the ghost monument #parallelmw #compilation

[ssaalexblake]

Jodie Whittaker as The Thirteenth Doctor

DOCTOR WHO (2005-)  The Ghost Monument

#dwedit #doctor who #jodie whittaker #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #the ghost monument #i created this #chibnall edit

[s-h-a-s-e]

the colours on thirteen's TARDIS are so pretty!!! the blue light!! the yellow windows!! the inverted signs!! aaahh i love her so much!!!!! (the TARDIS and thirteen both) ...although they did take away my precious st john ambulance emblem >:|

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#doctor who #the tardis #tardis #my TARDIS collection #<3 #new who #nu who #doctor who bts #doctor who series 11 #doctor who series 12 #the flux #the ghost monument #thirteenth doctor #yazmin khan #yaz khan #ryan sinclair #graham o'brien #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #tosin cole #bradley walsh #jodie and mandip #maybe #:)

[oreo102]

I was doing crafty bullshit today and put on 13’s era as background noise, as you do

And I, on my 4th rewatch of s11 ep2, realized that they mention the timeless child- like that plot line was PLANNED and I think that actually makes ppl who hate it even weirder (I’m sorry I don’t understand the hate- like nothing/very little has been done with it!)

#doctor who #new who #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #the doctor #the ghost monument #the timeless child #idk how I never realized #it’s cool tho

[billdecker]

Doctor Who Rewatch | The Ghost Monument

#doctor who #nuwho #the ghost monument #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #ryan sinclair #tosin cole #graham o'brien #bradley walsh #yasmin khan #mandip gill #tv #i made a thing #mine: dw #dwedit

[cansadodemais00]

For me, this episode has the best photography of Jodie's era. Probably the best of the whole show.

#doctor who #dr who #dr who header #header #the ghost monument #tardis #graham o'brien #jodie whittaker #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #thirteen's era

[diamondisunmemeable]

Probably a bad idea to post this now due to recency bias but...

#doctor who #an unearthly child #rose #the eleventh hour #the snowmen #the pilot #the ghost monument #the star beast #first doctor #ninth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

in honour of Mandip 'I asked them, "can I look at her like that?" ' Gill

#yasmin khan #mandip gill #i will never get over those DWM interviews #thasmin #lesbian #(i hc yaz as a lesbian bc i'm majorly projecting onto her lmao but all interpretations of her sapphicness are ofc valid <3) #doctor who #DWM #legend of the sea devils #the witchfinders #arachnids in the uk #the ghost monument #resolution #dw #ID in alt text #my attempt is at least... how does one learn how to describe images

[evviejo]

thirteen's face appreciation: 68/?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #chibnalldaily #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker #the ghost monument #13s face appreciation #my gifs #thirteen*

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Tosin Cole has great comedic chops, it’s a shame this talent tends to be underutilized in his time on Doctor Who

#doctor who #new who #new doctor who #nuwho #tosin cole #ryan sinclair #the ghost monument #the thirteenth doctor #thirteenth doctor #the 13th doctor #13th doctor

[thefiresofpompeii]

that was. not bad actually. certainly better than e1 and we’re starting to see a series arc building . shame the “ghost” part of “ghost monument” was just about it fading in and out of phase with time rather than you know. the tardis as a haunted house

#jamie catches up #the ghost monument #dw #jamie.txt

[thirteensfavoritetoy]

Gotta share this...

I was looking up the transcript for "The Ghost Monument" for something and at the very beginning was this gem:

(The Doctor and her new companions have just appeared in the vacuum of space where - according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - they'll have less than thirty seconds to survive, unless they get picked up by a passing spaceship at a probability of 2 to the power of 267,701 to 1 against. Possibly much higher. So it is no surprise to anyone when a spaceship promptly drops out of hyperspace and grabs them.)

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #the ghost monument #tgm #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[soundsmythart]

A few pieces I've put together in Photoshop for the first 5 episodes of Doctor Who Series 11! (a very strong run imo)

#doctor who #doctor who fanart #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #graham o'brien #ryan sinclair #tardis #the woman who fell to earth #the ghost monument #rosa #arachnids in the uk #the tsuranga conundrum

[doctornolonger]

Thoughts on the Vashta Nerada? In general I mean. I think they’re interesting. Though probably very hard to write for. In my mind (that hasn’t stopped Big Finish from trying, idk). What do you think?

If I wanted to write a story about living shadows accompanied by spooky people with skeleton faces, I'd just do another Faction Paradox!

In The Ghost Monument, there's a scene where the camera focuses on a normal-looking pool of water and the Doctor explains that it's full of "flesh-eating microbes, millions of them." This line may have ruined "microorganism swarm" villains for me permanently. Come to think of it, it's the same as midichlorians (The Phantom Menace's intracellular organisms which explain Force sensitivity). Something was undeniably lost when the Force stopped being – to abuse a term – ontologically simple: understood as a monolithic entity rather than something composed of parts. To give George Lucas some credit, I do believe that he would have redeemed midichlorians if the overwhelming fan backlash hadn't prevented him from elaborating further.

But I digress. In Silence and Forest, Moffat stops just short of "flesh-eating microbes". He's too much a poet for that. The Vashta Nerada are "microspores", an "infestation", a "the dust in sunbeams." He's combining ideas here, multiple angles for the old childhood terror / "familiar made uncanny" attack.* And – okay, he also says they're a "man-eating swarm". You can't win them all.

From a purely materialist perspective, a shadow isn't a thing in and of itself. It's the product of an object and a light source, and it cannot exist independently of either of those things. You might say that your shadow is "holding" something, but really that's just shorthand for "I am holding an object, so the shadow I have cast appears to be holding the shadow cast by the object in my hand." It's literally a trick of the light.

But in Peter Pan, shadows are objects in and of themselves. In that story they function not as they exist in material reality but as humans understand them: entities in their own right. Not a "light-object-patterns", a shadow. And in this lens, nothing stops them from existing separate from ourselves. This pivot from reality to the mind's understanding of reality – so to speak, from territory to map – is how ritual works across human societies, and it's what Faction Paradox is all about. In the territory, there were no days between 2 and 14 September 1752. In the map, there's enough to build an Empire.**

Even within the constaints he's built for himself, Moffat can't stop himself from having it both ways. On one hand, Vashta Nerada are allergic to light and hide in the shadows; on the other hand, they can actually encroach on the light and cast shadows themselves for spooky effect. The Doctor tells us, "Count the shadows" – a line straight out of Peter Pan. Or Interference.

*The FP series uses the same "familiar made uncanny" approach in the development of its mythology, but rather than the dust in sunbeams, its targets are the core elements of Doctor Who itself, and science fiction more generally.

**In fact, this is the only sense in which Faction Paradox can be said to be Faction Paradox. Lawrence Miles insisted that the Faction isn't interested in paradoxes at all; it chose the name Paradox not because of what paradoxes are in the territory but because of what the word means in the map: the opposite of the Great Houses' ideology of organized cause and effect.

Both of these bullets are actually the same point, and they're at the heart of what I tried to say in "Crimes Against History"…

***Apropos of nothing, a theory I'd forgotten I posted 6 years ago:

Or, since Faction Paradox may have been wiped from time at the end of the War, are the Vashta Nerada their now-person-less shadows?

#ama #faction paradox #the ghost monument #vashta nerada #idk what to tag this to capture what i'm saying here #silence in the library #steven moffat #interference #crimes against history #midichlorians #effortpost