Because rational planets are for Watchmakers...

...with no imagination or sense of humor. She/her, 33, mostly a doctor who blog. See the pinned post for whatever I’m currently on about. I like making clips of my favorite doctor who bits. Check them out under my dw clips tag. Formerly Seph-on-an-irrational-planet. I’m on AO3 as Seph_on_an_irrational_planet.

[irrationalplanets]

[measured-robshearfan]

Part of the reason I love Doctor Who lore as much as I do (which is not as much as some other people, but “not as much as some other people” could basically be the motto of any Doctor Who fan) is that it is actually basically irrelevant to the show.

[mastercantdecide]

why cant gay people ask each other out they always gotta do some shit like turn you into an old man and wheel you around while singing a song from a band called scissor sisters

[irrationalplanets]

the reason is probably an economic one more than anything, but it’s so embarrassing for Doctor Who (the show literally all about time travel) that Star Trek pulled off Trials and Tribble-ations in 1996

[irrationalplanets]

“We brought back characters from the 60s” yeah yeah yeah Star Trek time-traveled into an episode from the 60s and made it look so seamless I’m still blown away by it

[deep-space-9000]

Deep Space 9 really had the best time travel episodes of any Star Trek. It had the disturbingly close portrayal of the 2020s, Quark's family causing the Roswell Incident, and the senior staff sneaking onto Kirk's Enterprise where they promptly get in a bar fight (and also prevent the Enterprise from exploding). No one was doing it like DS9.

[wetslug]

remember that tos episode where it was suggested that scotty had CTE and killed three women but instead it was jack the ripper and he was an immortal formless alien and to fight him they gave the entire crew ketamine ?? we should start letting screenwriters do crack again i miss the good old days

[joey-regrets-nothing]

tng is so funny because picard has this random god whose for some reason obsessed with him not romantically not platonically not sexually but in a secret fourth way that is also all three at once and this god is like kind of an asshole and all the other gods hate him and also think he's an asshole. and everybody still has no idea why he's obsessed with this middle-aged french man but he likes putting him in situations and showing up in his bed. also he steals picard's girlfriend

[ndnbutch]

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

[penny-anna]

genuinely the doctor used to be vegetarian & went back to eating meat at some point during the time war. the more you know!!

[penny-anna]

more specifically the Doctor was a meat eater and then had a run in w a group of aliens who wanted to eat humans and was so freaked out he stopped eating meat and then being vegetarian was continuously part of their characterisation (mostly in the EU) up until the ninth Doctor era bcos Russell T Davies consciously decided to walk it back

[penny-anna]

my personal feeling on this on a characterisation level is that there is a logic to the Doctor going vegetarian and then at some point during or post Time War going 'fuck it' and resuming eating meat. & i do also think the Doctor being a hypocrite w inconsistent morals is simply a part of their character.

[penny-anna]

which isn't to say i don't think they should make the Doctor vegetarian or vegan again, its just that while i was reminding myself what the canon situation is i found some people saying its out of character behaviour for the Doctor to eat meat and im like i see what you mean but unfortunately i think the Doctor just sucks

[c-53]

I have a bisexual guppy and its funny as hell to watch because it seems like he’s only bi out of desperation. Like all of the female guppies are unimpressed by him, and dont accept his mating displays, and every time he fails, he goes over to a SPECIFIC male guppy (the prettiest male guppy in the tank) like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and that male guppy always lets him????

[domnika-deactivated20250923]

i would read that fanfic ngl

[c-53]

About my fish??

[graceful-not]

HELP?????

[everyfandom-girl]

YEAH THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY RECORDED

WOMEN LOVE GAYBOY

[tea-and-hockey]

FUJOSHI FISH????

[lerios]

Visit Original Link

clipping for the romana stans that aren't about to listen to a season and a half of dorian lmao

[irrationalplanets]

Like seriously I don’t see how this is anything other than conflating two very different characters that weren’t meant to be in text references to the other. Yes they are both Death but they are not the same and it’s creating continuity where there isn’t any imo. They can be on the same page talking about anthropomorphized portrayals of Death in doctor who but to say Burn Gorman is playing the role of the same character as in Timewyrm: Revelation and Human Nature is a misrepresentation!

[magnoliamyrrh]

the year is 2035. the new beauty standard is for women to cut their ears off, as ears are a masculine trait which make the face look too big and hearing isnt necessary as it doesnt align with being demure. evil feminists say perhaps this is unnecessary and ears are natural. women are agressively proclaiming they are cutting their ears off due to sensory issues

[irrationalplanets]

friendly piece of advice: if you want me to read your books, maybe don’t come yell at me about your misinterpretation of my perfectly normal opinion about a doctor who wiki page

[irrationalplanets]

and maybe it’s because I’m getting old but I’m overall losing interest in Lore especially Lore for Lore’s Sake.

Like I’m still a lore fiend but there’s gotta be a point to it. If it’s just filling in a gap or explaining something that didn’t need to be explained and the explanation is boring as shit like just leave it alone. come onnnn who carrrresss

[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

[irrationalplanets]

Rule 1: The Doctor Lies

Rule 2: ok so sometimes the doctor likes to say things that are obviously untrue to get a reaction out of the people around him and/or to amuse himself it’s not meant to be serious he just likes his little jokes he’s a little jokester please don’t put that in the tardis.wiki