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idk how this “prev tags” nonsense got started but i promise you i am not following a breadcrumb trail to find out what those tags were. if they’re that funny then share them with the class in a reblog like a normal clown this isn’t twitter

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the doctor wasn’t a time lord at all, because time lords didn’t exist; they were just some guy from the future with a cool time machine, going around the universe with his granddaughter, and he made the time machine himself (his granddaughter named it)

then they were a member of an unspecified time-active civilization, still possibly human, and the time machines were mass-produced

then, their time machine gave them the ability to change form when near-death

then, no, that was a thing their species can do, because they’re not human, they’re a time lord, from the planet gallifrey, and it’s part of time lord biology

this aspect of biology was something time lords could always do, but then, no, rassilon invented it, or the sisterhood of karn invented it (nobody was ever quite sure where it came from)

time lords can regenerate as many times as they need, but they’re not supposed to do it more than thirteen times. time lords can regenerate twelve times, and then they die. there’s no limit on regeneration at all.

then time lords weren’t born, they were loomed, because the pythia put a curse of sterility upon gallifrey

there was one founder of time lord society. there were two. there were three. as many as six. rassilon, omega, and the other(s)

their time machines. tardises. they’re grown, not built. they’re alive, a species evolved in parallel with the time lords.

and then, this other (or one of them, at least) threw themselves into a loom to be reincarnated as the time lord known as the doctor, because they had a plan

except no, the doctor is half-human, on their mother’s side, and they were born to a mother and father

no, wait, they were born to a mother and father, but they were both time lords

the doctor assisted the invention of the tardis in the pythian era. the doctor assisted the invention of the tardis in the rassilon era. the doctor extracted the first tardis from a time paradox in their second and fourth lives (simultaneously), allowing the tardis to be mass-produced (built, grown, doesn’t matter)

the child who would become known as the doctor was the progenitor of the entire species of time lords. regeneration was derived from their biology.

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I was watching the original Knight Rider on some TV channel the other week, and trailers for Bad Samaritan kept coming up during commercial breaks.

me, feeling my obsession with David Tennant playing serial killers/villains returning full-force: oh nooooo

(but I also want to watch this movie ASAP for screencap/iconing purposes)

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They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

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New reaction images dropped

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Is that stuff dangerous?

#[ what a dick. I love xem. ] #fire and ice and rage ( Teine )

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I am so happy that someone did the thing.

This was all I could think of when watching this scene, okay.

#( Bramble watches Doctor Who. ) #Youtube

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Finally caught up with both "The Giggle" and "The Church on Ruby Road".

The Giggle:

RTD really said "Fourteen needs therapy and time to heal, and he's gonna get it with Donna and her family."

Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker is alternatively hilarious and pure nightmare fuel, but this was perfect casting.

I cackled during the Toymaker’s recap of the Moffat era. I’m not a fan of the Moffat era, so that scene was hilarious to me and felt like a Take That for all the times Moffat was needlessly, maliciously petty about the RTD era and his OCs being better than RTD’s Doctors and companions.

The section with the creepy dolls and the man with his head on a life-size puppet's body. Nooo thank you. That was genuinely creepy.

The switch between the German accent and NPH’s natural American accent was great too, in a black comedy way. NPH is great at putting on a German accent, so I don't mind, and love that there were snatches of German throughout the Toymaker's dialogue. (Grammatically correct German, too, for the most part.)

The Toymaker making his entrance to UNIT with the Spice Girls was both hilarious and terrifying, and made even better by Fourteen's "you have got to be fucking kidding me with this shit" face. "First the Master dancing to Rasputin and now this, and it hasn't even been a full 24 hours."

I don't have a problem with the bi-generation, actually. Fifteen is great and I love him already, plus this gives Fourteen time to heal.

The Church on Ruby Road:

I'm liking the new companion Ruby Sunday so far. She reminds me of a mix of Rose Tyler and Sam Jones.

Fifteen in a nightclub with a white tank, long kilt, and a leather jacket? Yes, gimme.

I was half expecting “Magic Dance” to start playing when Fifteen and Ruby were on the Goblin ship, ngl.

I love Fifteen's burnt orange leather trenchcoat. And man, he is pretty. Very, very pretty.

RTD continuing to reference the Timeless Child thing, yes. Also love that Ruby was happily adopted and there's the mystery of her birth parents. She wants to know where she comes from, but that doesn't make her adopted family any less of her family, and she clearly loves her mum and gran.

Fifteen continuing the trend of the Doctor being sarcastic and sassy in danger, plus mild swearing first brought in by Nine and Ten. I love it a lot.

"I am learning the language of rope!" More of Fifteen being put in fantasy settings, thanks. I need this. (It wouldn't even be the first time. See: the novels feat Seven and Eight.)

#( Bramble watches Doctor Who. )

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Good day. I have an idea for a short story based off of your muse and your AU. Though not interested in Roleplay, I would like some pointers about the character.

The premise is Teine deciding to mess with a mentally unstable supersoldier who helped him fight the cybermen during his seventh incarnation.

Given the involvment of seven, I am curious about how your Muse relates to seven as a past incarnation.

In this specific story, I am using a slightly altered design of the Muse in that rather than being Nyarlathotep directly, instead he was a normal gallifreyan, but started to mutate/change during his seventh incarnation. He doesn't know why. This will be mystery played with in the story.

Anyway, Any pointers/tips about this story concept?

For Teine's Seventh incarnation, I primarily go with Seven's TV era + the Virgin New Adventures novels written by Dave Stone.

It's very heavily implied in Classic Who with Seven that the Doctor had ties to the foundation of Time Lord society, back before they were the Doctor. (This mostly comes up in Remembrance of the Daleks and Silver Nemesis.) Seven mutters "and didn't we have trouble with the prototype" regarding the Hand of Omega (before correcting himself when called on this by Ace), and flat-out tells Davros that he is "far more than just another Time Lord".

Lungbarrow by Marc Platt runs with this and reveals that the Doctor is basically the reincarnation (so to speak; it's complicated) of the Other, a Gallifreyan who might not have actually been a Gallifreyan, that was erased from Time Lord history and was one of the founding Triumvirate of Time Lord society along with Rassilon and Omega. After Rassilon became increasingly paranoid and power-hungry, the Other eventually threw themselves into the Loom and was reborn thousands (if not millions) of years later as the Gallifreyan who would go on to become the renegade Time Lord known as the Doctor.

The Seventh Doctor novels written by Dave Stone outright show that the Doctor is very much not an ordinary Gallifreyan and is this massive eldritch thing from another universe that goes exploring around the universe in a Gallifreyan form. It's heavily implied that the Doctor is Nyarlathotep, but this is never outright stated.

I go with Teine outright being Nyarlathotep because 1) I like eldritch cosmic horror in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft (without actually being written by Lovecraft, because fuck that guy); 2) it's fun for me to play around with.

Though, this was not how I originally wrote xem. I didn't find out about the whole Doctor Nyarlathotep concept until I'd been writing Teine for around a year, got deep into the expanded universe with the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels and Faction Paradox, and stumbled onto Dr. Nyarlathotep from there. Loved it, decided to incorporate it into my RP muse (and some of my Doctor Who fics). Before then I was primarily familiar with the revival series, the New Series Adventures novels with Nine and Ten, and some of the Classic serials with Four, Five, Three, and Seven that were on DVD at my local library.

In this specific story, I am using a slightly altered design of the Muse in that rather than being Nyarlathotep directly, instead he was a normal gallifreyan, but started to mutate/change during his seventh incarnation. He doesn't know why. This will be mystery played with in the story.

The Doctor has so much other stuff in their biodata at this point that this is totally plausible. Faction Paradox fucks around with Eight's biodata at one point and alters his history from when he was a Loomling; they go back and kill Three on the planet Dust way before Three regenerates in TV canon, etc. The Master in the 1996 movie exclaims at one point that "The Doctor is half-human!" (this was mocked to no end in the expanded universe and revival series). One of the EDAs has Team TARDIS meeting a group of wartime Time Lords that look like Elder Things. Interference has a freak show made up of a Gallifreyan priest's 13 incarnations, and the last one is a sentient timeline.

Going back even earlier, there's the Doctor's fight with Mobius, and a whole bunch of unknown faces flash onscreen that are all but stated to be previous incarnations of the Doctor that he has zero memory of.

One through Six had no memory of their previous lives from before they were the Doctor. Seven is the only incarnation that really seems to remember it. As for why that is... it's anybody's guess.

#Out of Gallifrey ( OOC ) #lennyinlordran

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Happy New Year!

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I had this dream before I woke up this morning that a dark!Ten Anti was following Teine and my dream-self’s reaction was “why??”.

#Out of Gallifrey ( OOC. )

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The Doctor: *exists*

The Master every few centuries: I want to crawl inside your body.

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the doctor wasn’t a time lord at all, because time lords didn’t exist; they were just some guy from the future with a cool time machine, going around the universe with his granddaughter, and he made the time machine himself (his granddaughter named it)

then they were a member of an unspecified time-active civilization, still possibly human, and the time machines were mass-produced

then, their time machine gave them the ability to change form when near-death

then, no, that was a thing their species can do, because they’re not human, they’re a time lord, from the planet gallifrey, and it’s part of time lord biology

this aspect of biology was something time lords could always do, but then, no, rassilon invented it, or the sisterhood of karn invented it (nobody was ever quite sure where it came from)

time lords can regenerate as many times as they need, but they’re not supposed to do it more than thirteen times. time lords can regenerate twelve times, and then they die. there’s no limit on regeneration at all.

then time lords weren’t born, they were loomed, because the pythia put a curse of sterility upon gallifrey

there was one founder of time lord society. there were two. there were three. as many as six. rassilon, omega, and the other(s)

their time machines. tardises. they’re grown, not built. they’re alive, a species evolved in parallel with the time lords.

and then, this other (or one of them, at least) threw themselves into a loom to be reincarnated as the time lord known as the doctor, because they had a plan

except no, the doctor is half-human, on their mother’s side, and they were born to a mother and father

no, wait, they were born to a mother and father, but they were both time lords

the doctor assisted the invention of the tardis in the pythian era. the doctor assisted the invention of the tardis in the rassilon era. the doctor extracted the first tardis from a time paradox in their second and fourth lives (simultaneously), allowing the tardis to be mass-produced (built, grown, doesn’t matter)

the child who would become known as the doctor was the progenitor of the entire species of time lords. regeneration was derived from their biology.

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I rather like that this is much less the vague "Cartmel Masterplan" "the Doctor has always been something ancient and mysterious," (Remembrance of the Daleks et al) and is a more sinister "the Doctor is turning/evolving/mutating into/WILL BE something mysterious"

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Say what you will about the Cartmel Masterplan, but in my mind it’s still better than “DOCTOR WHOOOO? DOCTOR WHOOOOOOO? DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOO?”

#[ THIS! ] #[ fucking this ] #[ I was so bloody sick of Moffat's obsession with the Doctor's “true name” ] #Moffat crit

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I am losing my mind at the OP of this video pointing out all TV references from Classic and NuWho retroactively hinting at the Timeless Children arc then having the audacity to turn around and say in the comments that the novels, comics, and Big Finish audios are not canon.

The BBC's official stance is that the novels, comics, and Big Finish audios are just as canon as the TV series, with the only caveat being that no televised Doctor Who story can make so obscure a reference to the expanded universe that the original material has to have been experienced to make sense. In other words: "Nothing yet everything is canon." All of it.

And people out here are really wanting to cherry-pick and say "only the TV series counts as canon!!!".

Uh-huh.

If you really want to play that game:

"Night of the Doctor" has Eight reeling off a list of companions from the Big Finish audios. The audios themselves explicitly state the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels & the comics are in parallel timelines + the audios even feature companions from both the novels and comics (Fitz Kreiner and Frobisher). If "Night of the Doctor" makes Big Finish canon, then by extension it makes everything else canon.

Rose mentions the planet Justicia in "Boom Town", the main location in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside.

Paul Cornell adapted his own Seventh Doctor novel Human Nature for the Tenth Doctor TV story Human Nature / The Family of Blood.

The Ninth Doctor TV story Dalek was adapted from the Big Finish audio Jubilee.

Marc Platt, who wrote the classic Big Finish audio story Spare Parts, got a writing credit for the Tenth Doctor TV story Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel & Spare Parts was later a major influence on World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls. (Moffat went out of his way to avoid contradicting the events of Spare Parts, acknowledging it and every other Cybermen origin story as true.)

The Toymaker, seen in The Giggle, is originally from a lost episode that was burned in a BBC Studios fire decades ago and no longer exists. Same thing for the Great Intelligence from The Snowmen originating in a lost Second Doctor episode.

For the longest time, the only way to access certain Doctor Who episodes was through the Target novelizations. Then BBC Books acquired the rights and began publishing their own Doctor Who novels (the Past Doctor Adventures and the Eighth Doctor Adventures) after Virgin lost the rights to the New Adventures and the Doctor Who license.

The expanded universe is canon. All of it. Even the contradictory bits. And Whovians who want to cherry-pick and say only the TV series is what counts are fucking weak.

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