#gallifreyan problems

[natalunasans]

thinking about ORGANIC material

the death particle. it kills all ORGANIC material only. 

now assuming the Master ducked into one of those spare TARDISes to escape, but didn’t manage to get any of his time-cybes (cybe-lords?) >:D in the door before it blew, okay, all life on gallifrey is now wiped out. down to the last tafelshrew etc.

HOWEVER. and please i need the classic who and EU kids to correct me if i’m wrong on this!!  but i think the Matrix is not technically organic. it’s more of a cloud backup for the timelords’ memories, if i understand correctly. and the data can be stored on non-organic backup drives (like those little cylinders we see in some classic and new who eps) ... 

SO. if we ever need the return of the timelords because there isn’t enough trouble in the doctors’ and the masters’ lives ... pretty sure some of the worst of them could be re-loomed from their biodata and memories stored in the matrix. (just because it’s called biodata, doesn’t mean it’s actually biological in its data form, right?) 

i mean obviously, also, the master has a bunch of that matrix data backed up inside his head, as well as the cyberium in there and yeah this could create loads of problems all on its own. but just in case (bit of a hoarder) ... the matrix also presumably still exists. 

[natalunasans]

doctor who fact #47

the doctor and the master left Gallifrey in part because those ridiculous robes were the Wrong Texture.

[natalunasans]

“Kids These Days: How to Avert a Looming Crisis”

competing in the category of most disappointing article as compared to its headline

(right up there with “ducks: how to make them pay”)

[natalunasans]

...

the main thing i disagree with in a lot of criticisms of the timewar in the 50th, and moffat era generally, is...

i do feel like it’s just (narratively, not ethically) wrong to have gallifrey destroyed. 

i liked when the doctor and the master and the rani and all those renegades had a homeworld culture to rebel against. i like when they have to team up against the council, or to at least keep them at arm’s length.

if we don’t have gallifreyan culture representing some of the worst elements of human cultures, then we’re left with the doctor, a superior alien, telling earth people what we’re doing wrong. and that’s... just colonialism all over again.  but if you have whichever protagonist notices any given thing calling out whoever when they’re being awful and everybody helping everybody else as needed... idk, it seems better that way. 

when donna or bill or other companions call the doctor on their hypocrisy, yeah. that’s good content. 

but completely aside from them being a flawed individual, we ALSO need the reminders that the doctor is still an alien in their own culture, that they’re not just an alien for us, they’re a neurodivergent “back home” too. people can be both. we can let our freak flag fly and ALSO need reminders not to be a jerk.

not sure if i actually arrived at any points here but whatever...

if anybody needs to shout at me please do it in messages not reblogs. i’m not up for shouting in reblogs this week. 

[natalunasans]

my phone autocorrects gallifreyan to failures

[natalunasans]

the vinyl stickers of rassilon?

does anybody have a way of printing mini stickers of the seal of rassilon, about 1cm or half-inch size? thanks in advance!

[natalunasans]

are gallifreyans allergic to paracetamol too?

... or only aspirin?

[natalunasans]

The Web of Time was the orderly co-existence of events within Time. It was not a necessary fundamental aspect of the universe, but rather a meta-structure created and imposed on history by the Time Lords. It could not exist until Rassilon built the Eye of Harmony and used it as what has been described as "the hitching post of chronology." (AUDIO: Neverland) This probably allowed Rassilon to choose what species developed, as he did when he imprisoned theDivergence, a possible rival to the Time Lords. (AUDIO: Zagreus) While not a fundamental universal aspect, the Web maintained a balance which reflected the holistic nature of Time. (TV: The Two Doctors)

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Web_of_Time OK so i have a question though when gallifrey was destroyed, where did they keep the web of time? because all the post-timewar doctors were still able to feel it. so where was it and how were they accessing it?!