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narvin · 1 year ago

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btw btw i think gallifrey has incredibly rich literary traditions. i think many of their stories are epic-length because time lords just have so fucking long to write their life's work. and i think courtly romance is a wildly popular genre for similar reasons to why it was popular in medieval europe, because it features an intensity of emotion that doesn't reflect their controlled and appearance-focused daily lives

#tell me they don't have a famous 50000-year-old 10000-page cycle about a soldier in the eternal war who's down so bad for his wife #that he rends apart spacetime and goes mad and is healed on a backwater planet and regains his memories and starts a civil war or whatever #the opera about it is twelve hours long and it's polite to cry quietly at three predetermined plot points

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