#gallifreyans

[roseimtryingtoresonateconcrete25]

Love imagining non-human features on nine since it’s a bit boring for him to be fully human presenting. It also sorta links into the idea of Timelords being different from regular gallifreyans entirely (since I hc they’re like created for warfare and terror). Stuff like slightly webbed hands for swimming, having no fingerprints to not be easily tracked, cold water resistance etc

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

So if there’s Looming on Gallifrey, why didn’t Jenny work out, like genetically (if that makes sense)? Isn’t it essentially the same thing as what made her

Aren't Looms and the Progenation Machines the same thing?

No.

The Hath–human progenation machine used to create Jenny is essentially a battlefield cloning device that takes existing genetic material, accelerates growth, and produces a viable adult very quickly.

Looms, by contrast, are infinitely more complex. As well as copying DNA, they weave together biodata, genetic structure, and temporal identity, producing a fully integrated Gallifreyan with a stable place in the timeline.

So while both processes technically produce a new person from existing biological material, that's as far as the similarity goes. Comparing a Loom to a progenation machine is a bit like comparing a cathedral to a flat-pack shed, and frankly, Rassilon would be insulted by the comparison 😲

Related:

📺|🧶👶What is looming and how does it exist alongside natural reproduction?: Overview of looming and its place alongside natural reproduction in Gallifreyan society.

💬|🧶💰How to acquire a Loom?: Practical guide to acquiring a loom, legally or not.

💬|🧶👨‍👩‍👦 How do siblings work with Gallifreyans?: What makes a sibling for Gallifreyans when using Looms.

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[thekinglemingle]

LOOMS! JESUS F CHRIST THE LOOMS ARE CANON!

[vivvision]

One of my favorite Horrors in regards to the time war / the time lords is the idea of someone, something being wiped from existence. The idea of losing someone you love but having no idea you did because they never existed… during the time war, how many times do you think a gallifreyan or anyone else just stopped and thought “oh” because someone they loved was wiped from existance and/or brought back and the grief and longing they couldn’t place just clicks. How strong are the ripples throughout the cosmos when just one person, one friend, one lover, never existed?

[janestvalentine]

Now I'm not saying that this gave me a crack theory for why they don't look alike...

...No, wait, that's EXACTLY what I'm saying

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Who taught the Doctor how to swim?

Bear with me on this one. As we've seen, Gallifrey has a lot of desert, and I'm assuming it is quite hot there because of that. However, Gallifreyans often dress in many layer and are all covered up, probably for modesty purposes.

I cannot imagine they have swimming pools to teach these guys how to swim, especially since they would have to swear swim suits (the exposed skin *shudder*).

Now, I could be completely wrong (since it is physically impossible to consume the entire DWEU), but that gives me the impression that the Doctor didn't learn to swim on Gallifrey. He probably didn't until he came to Earth, the famous water world, but who would teach him?

In my headcanon, the ones who taught him were, well, teachers themselves. I think Ian and Barbara would have noticed eventually on their adventures that neither he nor Susan could swim and take it upon themselves to instruct them.

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Lately I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea that this is just openly what ancient Gallifreyans looked like? 

Like, y’know, endless variants of biotech insectoid armor-spacesuit-hazmat uniforms for altemporal states, adverse chronomenon, and darker horizons of time’s various dimensions. 

[higginsverse]

Post by: Leviathan

I feel extremely awkward posting something that isn’t a summary to the story from the beginning on a practically empty blog, but we guessed it’s gonna be something like this from the beginning and did intend the blog to be about like this, so I think I can do it

I’m about to post a described drawing of Kenossium and this is a follow-down to that, but also on itself.

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If gender exists on Gallifrey, it is evidently assigned on the basis of the body — which honestly is extremely weird for a culture that focuses on the domination of mind but let’s forget that for a bit I guess ok…

A transgender/transsexual Gallifreyan with the ability to regenerate and to control that regeneration to some extent can modify their next body upon regeneration, and it can definitely subconsciously go like that too; but in other cases, if you were originally assigned female, were a cis woman, and then regenerate into a body that gets assigned male and your gender is male now, you are now a cis man. And if your gender is still female, you’re a trans woman, even if you were a cis woman half an hour ago. Etc.

The lines said by Kenossium (the General) absolutely were just Moffat’s shitty joke. But if we death-of-the-author them (and only take one half), we see that Kenossium doesn’t seem to have enjoyed “being a man”. Being a woman again was “back to normal” for her; yes, newer incarnations of Gallifreyans shit-talking their previous ones is a classic, but.

In Higginsverse, Kenossium participates in the anti-government resistance and civil war.

“Fuck it, I don’t have to serve Rassilon” would also be the perfect time to decide “fuck it, I don’t have to be a man”!