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Goth office chairs, anyone?

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The temptation to order one of these just so I can set it up somewhere random and swivel dramatically to face anyone who approaches while patting a plushy bat toy is very strong. Like

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Had fun with these. There are parallels. Seriously I can just see Tecteun busting out with a “Mother knows best” style number.

Tempus edax rerum.

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noun

a confused jumble or medley of things.

Stolen by chance. Taken by a twist of fate. Held and used for the power they possessed. Alone and never truly accepted, but never let free. Yet despite the odds love finds it’s way into their world and compassion compels them. For perhaps love is chaos and chaos is boundless. The child, ever tormented by the truth of themselves. Are they the beloved princess or a monstrous beast? Perhaps they are both, or neither. The Doctor simply doesn’t know.

And the Doctor wondered was there anyone out there lighting a lantern, a beacon, a home fire. Waiting for her to come home.

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Thinking about that Yssgaroth!Doctor post and I just

Give me Theta, as a child, feeling more at peace at night and believing it to be due to their love for the stars

Give me an adult Theta, beautiful and terrifying at once, compelling without realising it

Give me the Doctor travelling, visiting alien planets with alien suns, barely flinching in their heat but coming away sunburnt

Give me the Doctor learning to cover up without realising why

Give me people flinching away from them, and the Doctor only noticing after the war

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I know some people have wondered if Chibnall’s “Swarm” comment is related to the Nucleus of the Swarm (John Leeson’s villainous character in The Invisible Enemy, which was of course also K9′s first story) but if it truly was a veiled reference to a returning villain (which I am unsure of) I think it may have more to do with the Great Vampires (Yssgaroth in some parts of the EU), Gallifrey’s ancient enemy.

After all, in their one and only TV appearance in State of Decay they were constantly described as swarming.

First one of the turned humans used the term himself:

AUKON: At the time of Arising, we servants will swarm. You could be one of us. FOUR: I could? Well, you know, I’ve never been a great one for swarming. It’s awfully kind of you to offer, but where were you thinking of swarming to? AUKON: Out of this universe and back to our own. ROMANA II: You know the way out of E-space? AUKON: That is the secret of him who brought us here.

Then later when talking about the situation Four and Romana repeated the term:

FOUR: There was once an old hermit from the mountains of south Gallifrey. ROMANA II: Did he lead a very sheltered life? FOUR: Yes. Yes, he did. He used to tell me ghost stories. I like a ghost story. Do you want to hear one? ROMANA II: No. FOUR: It’s about a race of giant vampires. ROMANA II: Vampires? FOUR: Mmm. They came out of nowhere, and swarmed and swarmed ROMANA II: What did they do, Doctor? FOUR: Swarmed. That was the word he used. ROMANA II: Oh. FOUR: They swarmed all over the universe. And they were so strong that one single vampire could suck the life out of an entire planet. ROMANA II: One single vampire could suck the life out of an entire planet? FOUR: Yes. ROMANA II: Rubbish. FOUR: Well, he wasn’t a scientist. There are other ways of looking at life, you know. Anyway, according to the story, we Time Lords hunted them down across the universe in a war so long and so bloody that we were sickened of violence forever. ROMANA II: So they were all destroyed? FOUR: One of them escaped, I think. ROMANA II: And? FOUR: Just vanished into thin air. Poof. ROMANA II: Like the Hydrax into E-space. (the scene cuts away elsewhere and then returns to them) When was all this supposed to have happened? FOUR: Hmm? When was all what supposed to have happened? ROMANA: The legend. DOCTOR: Oh, that. Oh, in the misty dawn of history, when even Rassilon was young.

Considering if they do explore the Great Vampires it would bring in Ancient Gallifreyan lore and Gallifrey’s founding fathers, it feels like it would be fitting for an arc following the Timeless Child reveal?

Obviously I am just wildly guessing here, who knows what we’re getting in Series 13, but hey, given the reaction the rest of the cast had to Chibnall’s word being “swarm” it clearly has some sort of outsized significance.

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Behold!! The dread Yssgaroth!!! Consumer of worlds, that immortal scourge that plagued the universe in its youth! Nigh unkillable, the budding civilizations of this plane were at their terrible mercy, until they were routed by the great Rassilon of the Great Houses! Re-awakened and deployed as weapons most obscene during the War, the Yssgaroth were just as capable weapons as enemies, and they say though they have all but disappeared, they shall return to wreak vengeance on the bloodlines that confounded them so!