#doccy thinks

[doccywhomst]

i think quantum and astrophysicists should be contractually obligated to dress like fancy old wizards at all times. same goes for (al)chemists and doctors and librarians and professors and engineers and electricians etc etc etc... different flavors of fancy old wizard

like, you know how judges get gavels and fancy powdered wigs and shit? STEM nerds should get to dress like gandalf

[doccywhomst]

i have a theory about why certain time lords regenerate with cosmetics: eye shadow, dyed/bleached hair, ear piercings, etc.

while the real world explanation is obvious, i love to canon-weld. here's my solution:

what if, hypothetically, what we call "regeneration" is actually a form of embodiment? what if regeneration is the selection of another person's body print from a semi-random point in time? if that person was wearing cosmetics, the Time Lord would get cosmetics. same thing for dyed hair, tattoos, scarification, piercings, etc.

this can be influenced, of course, intentionally (Romana) or unintentionally/subliminally (Twelve). but either way, regeneration could be a replication of another person's appearance.

this might explain why most Time Lords are humanoid, but can sometimes have non-humanoid bodies or traits - it's a bit of a bootstrap paradox. because Rassilon tried to wipe out most non-humanoid life forms, the pool of humanoids to regenerate into is much larger, and because Gallifreyans are mostly humanoid, Rassilon was racist/xenophobic towards non-humanoid aliens.

this might also explain why some Time Lords, including the Doctor, have such major personality changes after regeneration. the brain pattern of the original body probably transferred as well - and this effect might be stronger for the Doctor for any number of reasons. they always seem to have different hobbies and interests. though their core personality stays mostly consistent, the details always change.

maybe a small part of the original personality remains in some form, whether it's Commander Maxil's colorfully-plumed helmet "Ermintrude" and the Sixth Doctor's rainbow coat (and sass to match):

or Caecilius's curiosity and taste for decor:

or maybe not. but this theory is very fun because you could argue that the nature of the Doctor's character is that, well... they're a character. a role played by many different people. this is actually brought up in the show pretty often:

and in this case, the Doctor would be many different people that actually existed in-universe. the Doctor's core personality would shine through them like light through stained glass.

[doccywhomst]

i just started learning ASL and, as an autistic person, i'm absolutely loving it. i've started practicing signs by signing what i'm thinking when i'm alone, and it's slowly becoming one of my main stims. it's like thinking out loud, but silently, and i can turn nebulous thoughts into physical motions and symbols! this is everything i've ever wanted in a language.

[doccywhomst]

theory request

the doctor is a sausage

excellent. let's begin by defining what makes a sausage... well, a sausage.

the essential traits of a "sausage" include:

a cylindrical food item

a length of minced meat

encased in a skin, usually made from prepared animal intestine

typically raw before being grilled or fried

let's tackle these one by one.

is the Doctor a cylindrical food item?

depends on where you're standing, but overall, yes. i'd say that he's roughly cylindrical and much taller than he is wide. many species, including the Ravenous, have attempted to eat or consume him, making him quite edible.

is the Doctor a length of minced meat?

let's define the verb "mince," seeing as both of our sausage definitions included the word.

on one hand, we can read "mince" as referring to the act of cutting or grinding meat into small pieces. when the Doctor regenerates, his entire body is changed, atom by atom; this could be seen as "mincing" his "meat," in a quantum sense.

THIS definition, however, is even more accurate. while some Doctors are more often seen striding around with a long gait, others can certainly be described as "mincing," "camp," "waddling," and "foppish."

therefore, i'd argue that the Doctor is slightly more of a sausage when he's:

dying

being gay

which, let's be honest, both happen quite often.

is the Doctor encased in a skin?

yes! in fact, it's been suggested that the bodies of time lords may be dimensionally transcendental, containing organs and bones that shouldn't be able to fit within the outer dimensions of their bodies (enormous skulls, 27 brains, etc.). basically, he's a stuffed sausage skin.

is the Doctor typically raw before being grilled or fried?

yes again! not only is he raw, but he's also much colder than the average human, meaning that he's slightly chilled. you might need to defrost him before putting him in the deep fryer.

additional evidence of the Doctor being a sausage:

[doccywhomst]

pokémon go summer in america is a real historical event. centuries from now, when future scholars are talking about the late american wars and plagues, they'll have to spend twenty minutes explaining the concept of an archaic video game and how, just for the briefest and brightest of moments, it truly united us. and then disease ravaged the earth and the purge started

[doccywhomst]

i love the message behind making time lord society deeply, dysfunctionally bureaucratic and authoritarian.

whether it's the meaningless ceremonial behaviors or the systematic oppression of "inferior" groups, gallifrey has almost every single marker of a fascist government, and it's exquisitely blatant.

our champion of creativity and freedom, the doctor, is constantly at odds with them

the social order resembles a military structure in which every individual has superiors and inferiors, and this assignment tends to be based on family/house history - power attracts more power

the government is (more than) willing to sacrifice lives for military victory and scientific advancement

facts are routinely altered to raise confidence in the government and eliminate criticism of people in power (ex. borusa in The Deadly Assassin)

gallifreyan society is essentially "nationalist" and always strives to expand its power and influence over "lesser" groups

and So Many More examples, i could write a thesis paper on this single idea

high-level officials (namely borusa, rassilon, morbius, niroc, etc.) are able to play the system to their advantage, both revealing its:

tendency towards corrupting leaders by giving them power, which is nearly without limitation - "the president need apologize to no one, the president need thank no one," as a direct quote

inability to protect its own people from the will of its powerful elite

when the doctor operates from within the government as lord high president (mainly in "The Invasion of Time"), he's able to bring the whole system to its knees because of its inefficiency, linear mindset, and rigidity. not only is the government too strong to be controlled by its own people, but it's also too weak to prevent routine corruption, and it's also too rigid to combat a threat that thinks outside the box and uses the box's limitations to its advantage - in this case, the doctor. basically, gallifrey's government universally sucks.

this type of society is deeply unstable because it's transparent, inflexible, and artificial, like glass. it's extremely delicate. all it takes is some clever free-thinkers, and the whole thing breaks... it's no wonder that gallifrey keeps getting in trouble, even with such advanced technology!

and it's no wonder that the doctor, our clever free-thinker, saves their asses every time.

[doccywhomst]

Ok can we talk about the Timeless Child? I wanna talk about the Timeless Child. Not the first part, that's not important to me, I wanna talk about the CHILD, y'know, the one whose childhood was violently stolen from them by obsession and greed.

In your last gifset, the way Tecteun looked at them. The nose boop. God. Did they trust her, I wonder? For how long? Did they anticipate their first death at her hands, or was it a shock? They certainly seemed to pick up the pattern eventually. But how long did that take? Did they deny it at first? Did they beg her to stop? Did they ever try to escape, or did that option seem futile?

And god, how did it END? When were their memories first taken from them? How much did their body remember anyway? How much does their body STILL remember? Did they struggle? Or did they just endure it, like they'd endured so much else? What were their last words to their mother? Did they still consider Tecteun their mother by then? Did he smile and boop their nose before he murdered them one last time?

God. I'm going feral. I'm gonna bite someone. This post was made by Timeless Child Loveposting Gang

i think about this all. the. time. and i think about the doctor as they are now, and it makes sense.

i wonder if it was even painful to begin with... maybe it was like a butterfly leaving its chrysalis. just a transformation, like any other.

maybe the pain came with age, like when you get weak in the knees and your bones start to hurt; after a hundred deaths, maybe the edges began to fray. after a thousand, the seams started to rip. the thread holding the doctor together loosened and their sanity lost its acuity. memories became fuzzy. faces became unfamiliar - even their own, after long enough. even when you're immortal, how long can you live before you begin to die?

and then, nothing, and everything. reborn. reloomed. the fabric of that child - the Other, perhaps - is finally shredded and sewn back together. a new mind, but the knees are still weak. the joints still ache. the regenerations are painful again. the memories begin to slip, the sanity becomes questionable, and the stitches continue to unravel...

[doccywhomst]

something, something, the seventh doctor was killed by a gang war and by doctors, the eighth doctor was born in a morgue on the eve of a hopeful new millennium, he was born on his second and chosen home, he discarded the gun belt when he stole the clothes from the hospital locker, blah, blah, blah, the eighth doctor died in a cosmic gang war, he died on the moon of his first and abandoned home, he picked up the gun belt and chose to become a warrior, he died trying and failing to save someone who hated him, "i don't suppose there's a need for a doctor anymore" in both senses of the phrase, since he's dead now and no doctor could save him, back in the morgue,,,,,