Timebones

Doctor Who sideblog

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I really am tempted to write a Doctor Who fanfiction called Janitor What where the main premise is (while being a pretty major plot hole himself) another timelord who was friends with The Doctor and The Master when they were young on Gallifrey. Only, instead of running in fear or being driven completely mad when forced to stare into The Untempered Schism, he is compelled to clean time and is captive to this illusion that time doesn't have to be so wibbly or wobbly at all. He sort of works as the timelord who actually does his job. Only issue is that his two best friends have gone absolutely off their rockers and he spends most of his time cleaning up their messes. In other words, The Janitor is who patches up plotholes. How did Pete Tyler know to catch Rose in Doomsday? The Janitor. What ever happened to The Valeyard? The Janitor. How are there no Reapers before or after Father's Day? You can thank The Janitor because that's his daleks baby. And The Janitor always shows up in this shipping crate that says Fragile on the side and he's got a tool belt of bullshit like an Ultraviolet Spanner, a Gammaray Hammer, or the Sub-o-matic plunger. Of course, the even better gimmick of it all is when he lands and is asked who the hell he is. I mean it is the very last place one expects to have hired a janitor. Which always prompts a mind boggled, "Janitor? What?"

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[thetrashknightofbreath]

I was going to make a post about this guy but tumblr shat itself and the post autosaved as "this guy tries" and tbh i can't think of anything better than that

this guy tries

[cherry-waffles]

Moisturize me

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I am positive there’s already someone cooking up a LARP scenario based on this episode.

[charredcheddar]

You telling me this guy plays dnd enough to name himself after one of the classes but can't improv?

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Rogue has one (1) set of dice and it’s sitting around loose, I’m betting this is a case of “I just got introduced to D&D and I already love it”.

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Also incredibly funny move for the TARDIS to painstakingly translate every name in a way that preserves alphabetical order across languages. But not, you know, just number them or something.

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The fact that the TARDIS knew to translate all of the Finetime names in a way that preserved alphabetical order across translation. She probably has a whole module that jumps into the future purely so it can cheat on translations.

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When developing an AI, it’s important to make sure its training data incorporates a diverse set of perspectives. Once a model is trained, it’s very difficult to go back and fix any behaviors it may have learned from its human training data. For example, if you train it on a bunch of people who would throw their fellow humans to the slugs,

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The distant woman was sort of spooky, but there were 2 specific moments in 73 Yards where I genuinely felt the hairs on my neck standing up:

The campaign staffers talking about huge crowds and an event right after an election that’s “going to be wild”

Mad Jack commenting on Marti being a “boy’s name” after that eyeliner kid said “I’m the one he’d kill first, and you know why”

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Boom: and really, isn’t love the most powerful magic of all? ❤️

73 Yards:

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[vampirlor]

doctor who really be like "we have a time machine where you can go anywhere or see anything. this is cardiff wales your year

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73 yards away from. her house

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Love the dual imagery of the old woman. How she represents both the previous generations that dealt with Mad Jack the first time, and the current generation worrying what their future will be. Will the older version of me look on me kindly? Is that even the older version of me, does that person even survive? Or is it only the past, silently watching us walk into destruction?

The old woman appeared after the the circle was broken, yes, but also after Ruby became aware of her own mortality due to the Doctor’s slip of the tongue.

As a representation of the previous generations, the woman is distant and offputting. Not even the oldest folks in the pub are worried about Mad Jack anymore, and when Ruby tries to bring other people in, tries to let those now-dead generations speak, Ruby becomes the problem.

She’s left to embark on this (in retrospect) decades-long mission virtually alone, getting involved in politics, taking calls, holding coats, pulling every strategic lever available to her even if it means working for this terrible man. She has to, because she’s one of the few people who fully recognize the danger he poses.

And both the past and herself-from-the-future are watching.

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The Doctor loves to shit on human politics, meanwhile every time there’s an election they’re like “here’s Fairytale McWarcrimes, an ancient evil I just released, please don’t elect them prime minister teehee bye”

[macbethz]

How dare you assume it’s witchcraft just because you’re in wales. For unrelated reasons though your timeline is cursed and you will lose everyone you’ve ever loved

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WHAT (affectionate)

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British sci-fi does have some very specific moments where (and I say this with love) the writers don’t even realize how British they’re being.

The funniest one is when you can tell the writers heard that Ursula K Le Guin quote and took completely the opposite message from it. “By jove, you’re right! We HAVEN’T escaped the divine right of kings!”