doctor who side blog

Jenny deserves to come back

[ambertea]

I did that job once.

[pepsimayo]

What are your pronouns and would you like to join my union

[lactose-intolerant-nihilism]

i love how this is always showing up on my dash entirely free of the context that the ood’s response to this question is ‘the beast shall rise from the pit and make war against god’

[backwardsregeneration]

this is probably an unpopular opinion but I think interpreting the doctor as passively evil is an interesting character experiment. like, by human standards they’re pretty much an immortal, ancient, godlike entity. they travel all of time and space, saving or destroying entire civilizations on a whim. they travel with humans because they’re obsessed, almost addicted, to human mortality and naivety. sure, they claim to love their companions, but involvement in their lives almost always ends in misery, and then it’s onto the next. imagine the TARDIS filled with abandoned bedrooms, clothes on the floor, beds unmade, toothpaste in the sink. their things frozen in time, dust-covered and tomblike. and the doctor is drifting through space, surrounded by evidence of all the lives they’ve ruined. anyway, if anyone has evil doctor fic recommendations pls drop them below.

[dandelionjack]

“time lords are friends with each other. anything else is cradle snatching.” she had a point.

[gotyouanyway]

[renegade-time-lord]

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

Great job on your pfp cause it was very small and I wondered who it might be so I clicked on it and recognised Jenny instantly, that smile and that look leave no doubt. I was happy when I read your bio then and saw I was right haha

my pfp actually came from here and this post has the official art that op used!

but yea! i love jenny, shes my favorite one off character (not counting her audio drama and comic appearances) its been at least six years since i set my bio and i still stand by it.

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

Rewatching 'Rose' and had a thought. taking care of the money, at least in all the retail jobs ive ever worked, was a manager, or at the very least a supervisor/team lead's job. was Rose in management, or at least some kind of level below management position? bcbno place ive ever worked would leave that to a low level employee.

[ghost-bison]

I was i replacement at a cafeteria so very low in the "hierarchy", but it was always my job when i did the closing to count the money and take it to the safe. I don't think there's anything preposterous about Rose being charged with taking care of the lottery money!

I am french, though, so I can't speak for english people, but it doesn't seem like a stretch

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

thats a fair read. i was also in charge of counting up the change in the till when i worked in the cafeteria of a hospital as well, so she could have been trained to do that as part of her job like i was. though idk how much wanna use my non-retail jobs as comparison for a retail job.

@theheartsofheroes thats good info to add to this, though if anything it makes me feel more like it should be the managers responsibility. if its a group of employees pooling the money together letting it be an employee's job seems like it could cause conflict in interest. and i dont play the lottery, and i dont know how it differs between here and the uk, but the legal ramifications of lottery money going missing would make me refuse to do it if i wasnt a manager.

[theheartsofheroes]

[I would honestly recommend trying to get your hands on a copy of the novelization. It gives you a lot more context than I could from my memory alone. I picked it up on Audible, but I'm sure there's other ways to obtain it. It's a super fun read.]

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

ive got a few of the dw novels, i definitely want to get more. when i get the chance ill put that one near the top of my list!

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

Rewatching 'Rose' and had a thought. taking care of the money, at least in all the retail jobs ive ever worked, was a manager, or at the very least a supervisor/team lead's job. was Rose in management, or at least some kind of level below management position? bcbno place ive ever worked would leave that to a low level employee.

[ghost-bison]

I was i replacement at a cafeteria so very low in the "hierarchy", but it was always my job when i did the closing to count the money and take it to the safe. I don't think there's anything preposterous about Rose being charged with taking care of the lottery money!

I am french, though, so I can't speak for english people, but it doesn't seem like a stretch

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

thats a fair read. i was also in charge of counting up the change in the till when i worked in the cafeteria of a hospital as well, so she could have been trained to do that as part of her job like i was. though idk how much wanna use my non-retail jobs as comparison for a retail job.

@theheartsofheroes thats good info to add to this, though if anything it makes me feel more like it should be the managers responsibility. if its a group of employees pooling the money together letting it be an employee's job seems like it could cause conflict in interest. and i dont play the lottery, and i dont know how it differs between here and the uk, but the legal ramifications of lottery money going missing would make me refuse to do it if i wasnt a manager.

[thetimetravelinganomaly]

Rewatching 'Rose' and had a thought. taking care of the money, at least in all the retail jobs ive ever worked, was a manager, or at the very least a supervisor/team lead's job. was Rose in management, or at least some kind of level below management position? bcbno place ive ever worked would leave that to a low level employee.

[volcanicflowers]

i feel like i posted this before but for the life of me i can't find it in my archive

[maryoliveoil]

This is so fucking funny

[by-gray]

[aq2003]

imagine you need to get away from the house and your responsibilities for a hot second and there's this bus driver/tour guide you meet and he invites you on a one-time big sightseeing trip (what the bus driver is telling himself. don't worry about that). and at first you think it's like a date and he's into you but this dries up maybe half a day in when the sightseeing goes wrong and he starts angsting about his dead girlfriend. anyway the trip gets extended and he's still the worst most disappointing tour guide in the world so you do the emotional equivalent of poking at him with a stick and asking what the hell is wrong with him. bus driver relents and reveals that his whole family is dead and he's been trying to avoid thinking about it by being a bus driver. you listen to him as he talks about how nice his town was before it exploded and you suddenly realize that the bus driver is furiously grieving/homesick/depressed and you're like the only thing stopping him from driving off a cliff and into the sea. especially bc the next day you run into the mafia and the bus driver starts screaming at them to kill him. then he hugs an electric fence. and then he tells you to take the bus keys and leave him and screams at the mafia to kill him again. and like this is so obviously horrific but what can you do besides stay with him on more sightseeing trips and hope you're doing enough to keep him alive. bc one of the responsibilities you ducked from was your job of saving people and this stupid fucking bus driver is a person in need of saving so bad. even if he starts shutting down when he manages to catch that you're directly onto how unstable he is. anyway, on an unrelated note, ten and martha from hit tv show doctor who,

[natequarter]

clara's fatal flaw isn't that she wants to be like the doctor, it's that she is like the doctor, but she doesn't have the plot armour of being a time lord. steven moffat has explicitly described clara as what the doctor would be like if he were an english woman in her 20s from the 2010s. face the raven is a regeneration episode where the main character can't regenerate.

[slimedeamon]

my partner and their husband are cleaning, partly to get rid of stuff and partly to make room for me to move in, and they found their 10th doctor build a bear outfit. promptly gave it to me, then brought me to build a bear. anyways, heres Kasterborous!

[linguistwho]

So apparently there's an official Gallifreyan translator now.

On the one hand, I'm really excited that Sherman's Circular is becoming more and more canon. On the other hand, it feels weird that such major part of the fandom is now being kinda... corporatized. But this blog isn't for my opinions and I don't want to influence yours. All I will say with conviction is that I really hope they credit the original creator.

However, for those who want some more info, I did a comparison between the new "official" translator, the old translator that most people just getting into Gallifreyan probably used, and my own style.

The first image in black is the old translator, the second in yellow on blue is the new one, and the third in blue is my style from two years ago, and all of them say "Never Give Up, Never Give In". (Though only mine includes punctuation). The first and biggest difference between the computer-translated ones and mine is that mine has the various words interlocked. This is something that anyone can do when they write the Gallifreyan on their own, little practice required, but it cannot be done by the computer translators. They only ever put the words in fixed, equidistant positions. Another major difference is the curve of the connecting lines -- this is another thing that neither translator will do for you. The old translator does allow you to curve the lines yourself, but is very finicky about it. The dots are worth noting as well -- in both translators, they are quite small, while I make them big and pretty separated, for ease of reading. In other words, in terms of style and readability, these computer translators will never replace those created manually.

However, there are clear benefits to the translators. They are extremely helpful for those who are just getting into Gallifreyan and want to double-check their work. So long as you remember that what really matters for readability -- the shapes and positions of the circles and the number of lines and dots -- the rest is just stylistic flourishes. And both allow you to download the Gallifreyan as a .svg so that you can edit it in Inkscape or Illustrator or whatever vector editing software you prefer. As for the comparison between the two translators, the new one has more color customization, and will probably better match how Gallifreyan appears on-screen (though I find it interesting that the Gallifreyan on the new Sonic has the starting point of each word be at the furthest point from the center of the circle, while this translator has them at the usual bottom), but the old one allows for more in-engine editing, and as the lines actually connect to somewhere and the dots are slightly larger, it is easier to read.

TL,DR: Manually-made Gallifreyan still allows for far more stylization and is generally the most easily readable, but both translating websites can be useful, especially as both can be downloaded as editable .svg files. The old one is more readable and has in-engine editing capabilities, but the new one allows for color customization and may be more accurate to what is seen on-screen. And Sherman needs to be credited for its creation.

[polywhoniverse-deactivated20240]

me: i have no grudges

also me: doctor who cut this line, which shows how much the doctor and rose cared for jack and they decided to ignore jack’s existence the entire episode instead and the fact that he was abandoned on satellite 5 only hours ago 🙃

[riverlarking]

clara canonically thinking about men fucking each other 24/7. she was so cool

[mildlyinterestedcreature]

I would like to point out that Strax can’t tell gender, so there very well could’ve also been women fucking each other

[fanonical]

the doctor always has a huge phobia of the thing that killed them in their previous life. five fucking hates heights. four doesn't like spiders. ten is the exception because he is weirdly fond of kissing girls

[wehavebroughtyoulittlecakes]