#volcano day

[doctorwho247]

On this day in 2008, Karen Gillan and Peter Capaldi made their Doctor Who debuts as the Tenth Doctor visited Volcano Day in Pompeii.

[madmaninabluebox]

Donna Noble saved the Doctor.

The Doctor first meets Donna after losing Rose, someone he loved. Someone he thought would travel with him for the rest of her life. He was angry, heartbroken, distant. He thought he would never smile again after losing Rose. And then Donna Noble appeared in the Tardis after one of his darkest days. He didn’t want a companion. He didn’t want another ape tagging along for the ride. He had chosen solitude. Here comes Chiswick native Donna Noble cussing up a storm and screaming that she’s missing her wedding day. The Doctor got a mystery to solve to distract himself from the loss of Rose. Throughout the episode we see Donna ask one thing of the Doctor, help these people. Donna had her heart shattered into pieces by Lance and still stood in front of the Doctor to protect him from harm. Donna still mourned the loss of her would be husband even though he was using her. Donna Noble was the most human of humans and showed the Doctor that he shouldn’t travel alone. Later when she becomes his companion she’s loud and doesn’t understand many things in the alien world. But she checks her human privilege and opens her eyes to the new worlds laid out in front of her. The Doctor sees in black and white. “That’s the decision I have to make. Pompeii or the world Donna.” And Donna opens his eyes, “you don’t have to save them all. Just save someone.” And the Doctor does. His hearts mend just a little bit more with every life him and Donna Noble save. When the Time Lord/ human metacrisis happens creating Doctor Donna, we see the Doctor’s love for his best friend. He’s found on her front steps begging for help. He had to erase all of his existence of him from her mind to keep her safe. After he leaves Donna, he goes off to Mars. He dubs himself Time Lord Victorious and goes too far. He messes with the very fabric of time itself because he’s heartbroken that he lost his best friend.

In short, the Doctor loved Donna because she saved the world, but I love Donna because she saved the Doctor ❤️❤️

[rawyld]

By @marshcap

[sonictoaster]

Hello from Kilauea!

[doctorwho247]

We're in Pompeii. And it's #VOLCANODAY! 🌋

Tonight at 7pm BST, it's the live watch-along of The Fires of Pompeii featuring live-tweets from the cast Tracey Childs, Francesca Fowler and François Pandolfo, plus writer James Moran.

[doctorwho247]

"Our family had a guardian angel..." ✨

You can now watch 'The Descendants of Pompeii', a sequel to The Fires of Pompeii, written by James Moran and starring Tracey Childs and Francesca Fowler.

[doctorwho247]

NEXT TIME... The Fires of Pompeii! 🌋

Join James Moran (Writer), Tracey Childs (Metella) and Francesca Fowler (Evelina) as they live-tweet the episode.

Tweet-along using #VOLCANODAY on Sunday, 17th May at 7pm BST.

[pagerunner-j]

And so: 44 years ago, everyone in my neck of the woods was having a real interesting day.

I just watched a short video about Mt. St. Helens and heard a USGS geologist say that the eruption killed basically every living thing within 230 square miles of that volcano. I also still can't get over the fact that that mountain's 1,300 feet shorter now than it was when I was born, because that much of it got pulverized within a matter of seconds.

Hell of a thing.

Anyway, my favorite family story about it is still that when the eruption happened in the morning, my mom heard the thump of that concussive blast and initially thought Dad had fallen out of bed. 'twas a wee bit bigger of a thump than that, though...