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what songs remind you of millennia

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In this scene Leela is practicing writing her name and the fact that the top "Leela" is much neater than what she's writing definitely means the Doctor wrote down her name to show her how to write it which I find so cute!

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The best part about watching classic who is never knowing if this bad costume and make up is because their budget is terrible or because it’s actually the Master

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truly never getting over the greatest loss streaming services caused: the disappearance of DVD special features. behind the scenes, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, I will never forget you, I will never stop missing you.

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diagram of using social media

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One thing I really like about evil morgana is that she isn't simply a girlboss. Like she's clearly going through it and she's helpless and pathetic. I mean sure ! She's powerful and all, and she's serving cunt! But she's also an absolute loser. She's completely alone and miserable and she's losing herself. Being alone with her thoughts pushes her more and more towards her feelings of hatred until she's completely consumed by them and it shows. Like not only psychologically but also physically as she looks genuinely like she's sick and hasn't slept in forever. She's completely miserable. And I love her.

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Funniest opening to a third doctor story ever was the doctor dreaming about the master and immediately trying to tell the Brigadier about it to which the Brigadier says "I do NOT want to know"

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I was attempting at just classic who doctors but oh well

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my favorite thing is when the doctor goes to hell dimensions. 

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he's so polite cat

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The stab.

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Ten: the master is my oldest friend and I want him to be a good person.

Twelve: Missy is my oldest friend and I want her to be a good person.

Thirteen: the master is a punk ass bitch and if I ever have to see him again I’m gonna tear his eyes out with my bare hands.

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I favour the novels’ idea of Time Lords being spun from Looms – the same way that characters are spun in stories.

– Sylvester McCoy (from the foreword of I, Who)

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this is my favourite image of any master ever btw

she is so hjhjhjhjhjhkkjhhbuv look!!! the creechur!!!!!!!!!!!

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continuing my grand tradition of depicting Merlin’s personal beef with a kid

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You know how some people have a “Roman Empire”—like, the thing they think about at least once a week even when no one brings it up? Mine is Delia Derbyshire.

This woman joined the BBC in 1960 and was so good at sound editing for classical music that she could literally see where the trombones were on a vinyl record. Like she’d just look at the grooves and be like, “There they are.” People thought she was doing actual magic. She basically said, “Yeah, I am,” and walked into the BBC Radiophonic Workshop like it was her birthright.

She didn’t wait to be assigned to the Workshop like everyone else. She just said, “I want this,” and got it. By 1962 she was creating entire soundscapes and electronic music for hundreds of BBC radio and television productions.

Then in 1963 she casually created the Doctor Who theme—one of the first pieces of music ever made entirely with electronics. It completely changed the landscape of TV sound design. She took Ron Grainer’s notes and turned them into something nobody had ever heard before using tape loops and pure experimentalism. When he listened to it, he literally said, “Did I write this?” And she, ICONICALLY, replied, “Most of it.”

He wanted to credit her. The BBC said no.

She was a woman in a deeply male-dominated space. And not just “wow, there aren’t many women here,” but like explicitly—officially—“women don’t get creative credit here.” Engineering was seen as men’s work. Sound design was men’s work. Women were allowed to assist, to type memos, to splice tape if a man told them where. But they weren’t allowed to author. They weren’t allowed to be the genius in the room.

So they handed all the glory to Ron Grainer.

She wasn’t paid royalties. She didn’t get a credit. She didn’t even get her name on-screen. Not for fifty. actual. years.

Delia also composed music for other BBC programmes, including the Blue Veils and Golden Sands, The Doctor Who story Inferno even reused some of her music that had originally been made for other productions—because that’s how good her work was. It got recycled because nothing else came close.

She hated the remixes of the theme they did after 1980 because they kept sanding down the weirdness, the dissonance, the edge—everything she had fought to put into it. 

So yeah. Delia Derbyshire is my Roman Empire. Every time I hear the Doctor Who theme, I think about her physically slicing tape by hand and looping it to build something no one had ever heard before—and I just sit there like: 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

(When I have enough time I'll make a post about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as a whole because it is so fucking cool.)

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there is some doctor who lore which i reject purely on the grounds that it is stupid. "some time lords only gain their second heart after regenerating" not true. begone.