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stompandhollar · 5 months

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i’ve literally just decided that the timeless child is the master & not the doctor. 🎀💗🌷like what’s chibnall gonna do i’m just choosing to live in the better timeline in my head and the man can’t stop me

#doctor who #anti chibnall #doctor who opinions #russell t davies 5ever #i’m half joking but really i’m not #timeless child arc #timeless child #i’m not even anti timeless child bc honestly like let people enjoy things but just personally i’ve decided to live in my own little world #personal #rosey rants #if anyone wants to tell me why it’s a good arc pls do i’m open to it #but like lowkey #would the master have not been so much better of a choice #i also just don’t know about living in a world where hartnell isn’t the first doctor ?? idk canon changes so much it truly doesnt matter but #something something it’s special being apart of a story that has so many variations #across generations #and can keep going and going because of how malleable it is #…still

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heavenb3nt · 7 months

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The cruelty that koschei suffered from the timelords, like. They drove him insane from childhood, and he still didn’t destroy the entire planet. You know when he did? When he found out what they did to theta. So. You know

#thoschei #anyways anyone ever think abt how it was done intentionally to him when he was 8 and the horror he must’ve felt growing up with it #aura’s posts #the timeless child was a bit questionably done as an arc imo but the master really sold it for me. I’ll like anything if they’re involved #I’m easy to please like that #I love referring to them w their academy names. knowing damn well the master would kill anyone on the spot for it #best enemies

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nat-20s · 4 months

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my general feelings on the whole "happy ending vs sad ending" debate I occasionally see is mostly "nice dichotomy idiot, what lies outside it!" aka an ending should make sense to a show. It should fit the context that has been given before it. I think neither happy nor sad endings are inherently better than the other and I LOVE a bittersweet ending. All that being said for me, personally, I do think a massively tragic ending requires more of a buy in for me. Heavy Plot Contrivances to make a sad ending tend to annoy me at best while Heavy Plot Contrivances allowing for characters to have fun and be happy I'm like hell yeah let's go. Escape the dooming of the narrative <3.

#again this is literally just my personal experience i get how that would not be the case for everyone #like idk theres a lot of shows ive seen with bullshit deaths #and not in like 'a pointless death is core to the type of narrative we're telling' kind of way #but in an oh well the actor wanted to leave we'll just kill em #and im like seriously????#i think this is also why the timeless child arc i was like ugggghhh but the bi-generation plot i was like yeah!! woo!!!!#tho..now that the doctor is being like forced to Reckon with the timeless child stuff more i am more intrigued ill give em that

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thetwilightroadtonightfall · 1 year

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At long last…

I was able to do something that I’ve always wanted to do…

Talk about Ephemera for 20+ pages straight!!!

(half of it’s actually images but it feels good to say 20+ pages)

I hope you learn and feel things while reading it 🥰

no images version | most of the images in the document

#ephemer #khux #kh union cross #kh analysis #YAAAY YAY IT’S DONE!! this started out as a mini project but of course it evolved the more I fell down the rabbit hole #I love ephemera dearly so it felt SO good to delve into this #honestly doing this made me love him even more #there’s more I could say but I wanted to really stay focused on the character arc itself #without going off into tangents about /everything else/ I love about him #I may also add a link to a version without images later for easier readability; it's about 10 pages #and maybe the powerpoint as well once I clean it up #aka all the images I included #(side note: my student side keeps kicking me for not using times new roman and proper citations for this lol; it’s been hammered into myhea #I'm going to get a good grade in ephemera; something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve #okay bye now love you 💖#timeless child #my posts #chi infodumps

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marlinspirkhall · 7 months

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The Doctor Who movie tried to no-homo thoschei by making them brothers, and in response, the public turned on them and cried out for yaoi

#thoschei #doctor who (1996)#if the soft reboot had succeeded we would have had an american season of doctor who where the doctor was half human #in my wildest nightmares this is how we solve the continuity of doctor who #the human race eventually evolves to be dimension hopping immortals and one day one of their half-children is sent back through a wormhole #who is discovered by a gallifreyan #and that's how the timeless child arc fits in

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cowlovely · 6 months

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every day i think of and get so angry about how making literally the TINIEST tweak and putting sacha dhawan’s master before missy in their personal timeline makes his incarnation of the character make SO much more sense and adds to missy’s character arc rather than taking away from it 😐

#ivy.txt #doctor who #IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY.#in my head the master’s timeline is like.#simm!master goes to gallifrey at the end of s4. gets restless after a bit and leaves. [cue s10 finale]#manages to make it back to gallifrey to regenerate—is already very pissed because of how everything went down with missy #regenerates into dhawan!master already unstable and is then sent totally over the edge by the timeless child stuff #(or take that out. idk i can take that arc or leave it tbh)#then! either into missy after a while of being dhawan OR. a couple more incarnations in between #so that their change of heart is more gradual #rtd can you retcon missy being before dhawan’s master. you could literally say he was lying to fuck with people or something 😭🙏

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nerdie-faerie · 4 months

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If the Doctor isn't a timelord then that means they potentially have different reactions to substances than they previously thought, ergo I just know that Thirteen, in all of her feral glory, runs around testing their reactions to things upon learning about their Timeless Child origins without her companions finding out

#dw posting #Thirteenth Doctor #Timeless Child #ginger has an intoxicating effect on timelords and aspirin is deadly to them but the doctor isnt a timelord so how does it affect them?#you really expect me to believe thirteen wasnt immediately shoving things in her mouth to test it out? the soil muncher?#she absolutely consumes a ton of ginger to see if shes been placeboing themself before risking the aspirin #cause that ones a little harder to hide from any conpanions if its backfires and she also digs up the chameleon arc manual from the library #to see if that might have affected anything maybe they ARE a timelord in the sense that john smith was 'human'#which leads to a separate research spiral that is ongoing alongside the substances experiment theyre concocting whilst people are sleeping #saw a post with ten3 correcting donna that theyre not actually a timelord and #i was hit with the realisation that the doctor must have a different fcked up unknown biology and we are not utilising that fact enough

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thebraxiatelcollection · 5 months

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I don't mind the idea of a bi-generation per say, but I do hope RTD expands on it further because I have so many questions as to how it works and what happens if Fourteen regenerates again. Do they merge back into one? Or do they straight up and die? Who knows?

I know Fourteen / Ten is also one of the most popular doctors, but I do feel for the other Doctors who went through just as much trauma as they did, but they never got their rest.

#doctor who #dw spoilers #i mean its better than the timeless child arc #im going to watch the commentary later as i believe RTD does expand a bit more

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neeneeeeeee · 5 months

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this 2-second scene sold

Hello, sexy.

Hello, healthy.

Hello, rebirth 😭

#doctor who #ncuti gatwa #I still have not finished Jodi's cause Dhawan's Master is such a turn off to me that I stopped mid Spyfall 2 lmao #I think I'm gonna rewatch Classic Who 1st Doctor before I can encourage myself to watch the Timeless Child Flux arc? I keep hearing about #New doctor is sexy as hell though #I guess I'm back to watching

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miraonpluto · 1 year

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rewatched the timeless children the other day and that episode is literally so good…it’s sad how many ppl hate the timeless child concept bc i think the arc was done very well. plus any episode with sacha dhawan’s master in it is immediately excellent imo

#doctor who #the thirteenth doctor #dhawan!master #thoschei #the timeless children #i’m a proud defender of the timeless child arc

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tinybookgirl · 5 months

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#doctor who #I say this as someone who does /not/ like the timeless child arc

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rachelbethhines · 5 months

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Speed-running Doctor Who - 13th Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

Kerblam! - S37E7

A good outing for the 'Fam', everyone has something to do and the plot is typical of the era. Politically aware, but perhaps not as left leaning as people would like. Features striking but understated design and has call backs to past stories with out being too continuity heavy

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development

The Woman Who Fell to Earth - S37E1 (first story to feature the 13th Doctor. Introduces Gram, his grandson Ryan, and Yaz. Also features the recurring villain Tzim-Sha, who becomes Gram's nemesis after he murders his wife Grace)

The Ghost Monument - S37E2 (the Doctor goes on a quest to get her Tardis back and the Fam have their first off-Earth adventure)

Arachnids in the UK - S37E4 ( we meet Yaz's family and are introduced to Robertson, a minor reoccurring antagonist)

Demons of the Punjab - S37E6 (character development for Yaz)

It Takes You Away - S37E9 (character development for Gram and Ryan)

The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos - S37E10 (Gram plans to kill his wife's murder, Tzim-Sha)

Resolution - 2019 New Years Special (Ryan dead beat dad turns up after years of being gone, oh and the Daleks are back)

Spyfall - S38E1&E2 (meet the Dhawan Master, oh and Gallifrey is destroyed again after just getting it back 🙄)

Fugitive of the Judoon - S38E5 (The start of the Fugitive Doctor arc, the return of Captain Jack, and foreshadowing for the season finale)

Can You Hear Me? - S38E7 (character development for everyone and the return of the Eternals)

The Haunting of Villa Diodati - S38E8 (introduces the Lone Cyberman and leads directly into the season finale)

Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children - S38E9&E10 (ending of the Lone Cyberman arc and introduces the controversial Timeless Child theory into the lore)

Revolution of the Daleks - 2021 New Years Special (Jack break the Doctor out of prison, Robertson joins forces with the Daleks, and it's Ryan's last episode)

The Halloween Apocalypse - S39E1 (start of the Flux arc and we're introduced to Dan, Karvanista, Vinder, Claire, Dan's girlfriend Diane, and the show's newest villains Swarm and Azure, who want to destroy the universe)

War of the Sontarans - S39E2 (The Sontarans have used the Flux disaster to alter time and conquer Earth, we also meet Vinder's wife Bel)

Once, Upon Time - S39E3 (The 13th Doctor regains some of her missing memories and we see how the Fugitive Doctor first defeated Swarm and Azure while working for the Division)

Village of the Angels - S39E4 (we find out what happened to Claire and meet Professor Jericho, the Doctor is captured by the Division)

Survivors of the Flux - S39E5 (the Doctor finally meets the leader of the Division, Tecteun; one of the founders of Time Lord society along side Rassilon and Omega. Tecteun claims to be the Doctor's adopted parent and the inventor of reintegration but the Doctor doesn't remember them. Tecteun is then killed off before the Doctor can discover the truth, meanwhile the Sontarans are still messing with time and working to undermine UNIT in the future)

The Vanquishers - S39E6 (The end of the Flux arc, Swarm and Azure are defeated, the Sontarans are overthrown with the help of UNIT, Karvanista is the sole survivor of his people and leaves the Doctor, blaming her for his misfortune, Vinder and Bel are reunited, Jericho dies, and Claire is returned to her proper place in time, and the Doctor decides that she doesn't want to know about her past anymore)

Eve of the Daleks - 2022 New Years Special (we get are first overt confirmation that Yaz is in love with the Doctor)

Legend of the Sea Devils - 2022 Easter Special (Yaz finally confesses her feelings for the Doctor, who returns them but says she's not interested in starting another romantic relationship and they agree to remain friends)

The Power of the Doctor - The BBC's Centenary Special (sixth multidoctor story, the return of Gram, Ace, Tegan, Kate/UNIT, and Vinder, Dan and Yaz both leave the Tardis, last episode thus far for both the Dhawan Master and Fugitive Doctor, and the 13th Doctor regenerates)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite for 13: Rosa - S37E3