...mostly classic who stuff

bobbie...they/he...23...classic who, spinoffs and blake's 7...there'll be all sorts of reblogs on here...main is @bobbiethepunkkid

[irrationalplanets]

I love the canon quantum superposition the doctor exists in at all times. a character that has at least five different origins, is married, is asexual, has children, a planet that exists and doesn’t, has a human mother, came out of a loom, is from another dimension, stories that have happened multiple ways in different mediums. and it’s not “time travel retconned that previous story” or “that happened in a different timeline” all these things happened together overlapping in imperfect and conflicting ways and yet it all works

[devilofwinterborne]

Jo Grant -> The Mind of Evil

[universtellar]

ᴘᴇʀɪ ʙʀᴏᴡɴ ɪɴ ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʏʙᴇʀᴍᴇɴ

[unwillingadventurer]

[irrationalplanets]

I do appreciate what lore welders do and don’t begrudge the fun in trying to make doctor who at least somewhat coherent but it does rub me the wrong way when newish fans then get misled into thinking popular fan theories are actual text

[irrationalplanets]

unpopular opinion but tardis.wiki contributes to this

[irrationalplanets]

and I’m not saying that to privilege certain parts of doctor who “canon” above others. I genuinely believe the “it’s all canon” and/or “doctor who has no canon” but like I say in my other post that goes around: no one is required to remember or incorporate all of it.

To use a tv show example: there are now two versions of The War Games. One where the War Chief is a time lord the Doctor knows and one where he’s all but stated to be the Master. Both of these are “canon” as far as I’m concerned, but to go on tardis.wiki and say definitively the War Chief is the Master would be wrong. It’s the quantum superposition I was talking about the other day. The War Chief is and isn’t the master and there are eu works that approach it both ways. The existence of one doesn’t erase or retcon the other and everyone gets to pick and choose what they want. Hell hold both in your mind based on whatever’s fun that day.

I think we do a disservice to new fans when we directly or indirectly imply that doctor who has a more coherent narrative than it does.

[universtellar]

ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴀ ɪɴ "ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴇᴄᴀʏ"

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Thinking about the idea of Fitz inheriting his mothers schizophrenia and something something altered perceptions of reality plus psychic powers being an actual thing in doctor who means he can now catch glimpses of the doctors higher dimensions, naturally he starts freaking out worried that he’s losing his grip on reality and is going to end up like his mother, the doctor reassures him that what he’s seeing is real and that time lords are just like that, Fitz is super relieved by this until after a few seconds the doctor adds ‘although you can probably see it because you’re schizophrenic’

[johannesviii]

this was supposed to be a quick drawing but I got way too invested in this idea

[natequarter]

i don't understand the people who want to retcon the timeless child. you literally don't need to retcon it, because you can't retcon doctor who. it doesn't have an established canon, so all that retconning achieves is bringing more attention to the thing you hate. doctor who explicitly stated that the doctor is half-human, and everyone just ignores that, because it's stupid. it's still canon. it happened in the show. but no one ever picks up on it. it's the same with the master and the drums. it's canon. the master has heard drums in his head since he was a kid. but also that's monumentally stupid so it's never been mentioned since the doctor falls, and that was only to acknowledge it happened then ignore it forever. because it's so fucking stupid oh my god

[devilofwinterborne]

Zoe Heriot -> The Wheel in Space

[white-bow-tie]

Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

[when-i-say-run]

put your hands up !

[ID: 18 gifs of the second doctor from Doctor Who surrendering by sticking his hands up, often comically high. From serials The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Invasion, The Seeds of Death, The War Games, The Three Doctors and The Two Doctors.]

[polarity-disturbed]

The literal Seventh Doctor hanging-off-a-cliff cliffhanger in Dragonfire is still one of the funniest things Doctor Who has ever done because that is just... entirely his fault.

Man climbs over the railing, hangs there by his umbrella over an enormous drop, and only then seems to realize this may have been a tactical miscalculation.

Congratulations, you vaudevillian rubber-hose rogue, that's the worst anyone has ever done it.

[universtellar]

ꜱᴀʀᴀʜ ᴊᴀɴᴇ ꜱᴍɪᴛʜ ɪɴ "ᴘʏʀᴀᴍɪᴅꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴍᴀʀꜱ"

[avontarrant]

classic who + text posts (5/?)

[mipper42]

kid named resentment:

[ocean-irl]

The Doctor’s companions in the early years tended to be “my beloved surrogate granddaughter” and “guy I found in a dumpster.”

[natequarter]

i sometimes see people suggest that the doctor speaks gallifreyan and the tardis translates it, but i tend to think that tardises don't translate gallifreyan. the time lords wouldn't want alien lowlifes sullying their precious language, you know. and also even if he was speaking gallifreyan at first, i think his years trapped with unit probably got him into the habit of speaking english. or at least not gallifreyan. i don't know, maybe he was speaking hungarian the entire show. he probably switches up languages to keep things interesting. but one thing he's definitely not speaking most of the time is gallifreyan.