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Hey, so remember my discussion of the "blue/red past/future" Doppler effect thing that we see in the RTD era (and arguably early Moffat era) time vortex and how a similar reference appears in Lungbarrow of all places (and how it can potentially link the Gate of the Past/Future to the Untempered Schism)?

Today I learned that an even more explicit example appears in The Infinity Doctors:

The Magistrate hesitated, perhaps because he realised that he could see the Station in which he was standing on the display, a tiny mote surrounded by raging energies. The history of the universe was represented by a long, spiralling line running up the screen. The past was marked in blue, the present and known future in green, the unknown in red. At this scale, the blue could hardly be seen, the green didn’t even register, and the red line accounted for over ninety‐nine percent of the total length. ‘Time moves in circles,’ the President noted. It was an old Gallifreyan proverb, one that was literally and metaphorically true. The display showed the time spiral, the map of time. Usually, the Time Lords only concerned themselves with the first few hundred coils of the helix.

Granted, this may just be a scientific display, but the implications are pretty wild. We've known for some time that Gallifrey's lording over time typically only extends so far (see noospheres, Utopia etc.), so the idea of an "unknown" future isn't that surprising.

But it's pretty notable that in seeing the time vortex in the new series, while we do see bits of green in the mix of red, it's less a single length of the vortex fully understood by the Time Lords and more just scattered remnants among the unknown.

Really just further sells the idea that the Time Lords' control of history / the Web of Time was completely shattered across the War in Heaven and Time War, the green being all that was left unaltered, which much more of the universe's future history now being up in the air and open to change.

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i think i might be giving my sister a skewed idea of what actually goes on in dr who

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Chibnall confirmed the kid on the cliff playing with the Doctor as children was indeed the Master and now life is good again and at the same time I feel sick I need a moment

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faction paradox comic / manga idea and notes

I had this idea since ages about making a comic using only the puns and word play from Book of the War

Basic plot is faction sibling has a macguffin and is chased by a nechronomancer and finally trapped by the sibling cuz turns out the parablox was used to cage an anarchitect

By that point i already ran out of puns, so i took some from "The Infinity Doctors" (Librarinth is actually in the Needle and not the BotW Labyrinth) and Iris Wildthyme (although Omnibus probably isnt a pun - also an underground train wagon is easier to fold into itself moebius style)

Terroriums are my own little pun from another worldbuilding thing of mine

I also wanted the MacGuffin to be called Chronolock or "Angel's Tear" but that and having biodata tattoos turn into shadow creatures is just lifted from Face The Raven (Series 9 of Doctor Who)

Also no idea on the design aspect, FP comics should look "grimdark"?

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Did you know the BBC wanted a young Doctor spin-off, but the Doctor Who production office shut it down, so all the ideas for it became the CBBC show Leonardo?

or,

You want a Deca spinoff? We’ve had one all along!!

It’s well-known that CBBC had planned a young Doctor spin-off before they commissioned The Sarah Jane Adventures. As RTD put it in The Inside Story (2006), “Children’s BBC approached us. They wanted to do a drama based around the idea of a young Doctor Who, but I said no to that. Somehow the idea of a fourteen-year-old Doctor, on Gallifrey inventing sonic screwdrivers, takes away from the mystery and intrigue of who he is and where he came from. So instead I suggested doing a series with Sarah Jane Smith, because she’d been so popular in School Reunion.”

But is it possible that CBBC didn’t throw out the idea, and “a fourteen-year-old Doctor on Gallifrey inventing sonic screwdrivers” became “a fourteen-year-old Leondardo da Vinci in 15th century Florence inventing new futuristic technologies”? Many thanks to my friend Poseidome for pointing me to this connection, which came from the same rumorhound who told me about the Dalek rights situation and abortive BritBox reshoot plans:

Leonardo is what the young Doctor spin off was going to be. “Fantastico!” as his catchphrase. The series would follow the Doctor, Master, Rani, and friends uncovering a conspiracy within the Academy and Time Lord society. The Doctor and the eventual renegades at the heart of it all. The Doctor’s ideas being stolen, his future has been foreseen, Time Lords trying to stop it, etc. All that kind of stuff. There’s even a Borusa stand-in played by Alistair McGowan!

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I'm low-key sad the Faction Paradox Protocols can never be seen on screen. Don't get me wrong, I think the audios are great, but I feel like since they do so much fighting and action, it would actually be so unbelivably cool to be able to see it.

Especially with all of the concepts they are introducing. Like hello?? I wanna see shadow weapons, please. I know technically there's not that much to see, but then again, I think there would be more than enough ways to portray them interesting, even if it involves a lot of dramatic lighting.

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Forever in love with the Idea that Romana, the Master and Morbius are all Cousins. Like House Dvora is just a wild house to be growing up with for Romana as she has to watch on the news every time her evil Cousin who ran away before she was loomed/born has blown up another planet and is having a weird relationship with the the Grandfather Paradox’s Cousin. No wonder she was so fascinated by the Doctor and as much about them as she did.

But Growing up In The Shadow of Morbius. The Imperator. The Master clearly took influence from him whilst Romana no matter how much tried always needed up back in politics driving her towards a dictatorship of her own and a war of her own. She is not just the Legacy of Pandora but also the Legacy of Morbius, Imperator and Imperatrix in one.

How do you think she felt when during the War she took the title of War Queen just as her older cousin take the turtle of War King.

Forever destined to follow her family into the void.

Romana fears to return to Gallifrey lest she become dictator and what does she do when she returns? Become dictator.

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Do you have any theories surrounding Lolita (the type 101 tardis)?

Lolita is a place where the line between "theory" and "just taking what gets said at face value" is a little fuzzy, so not entirely sure how to answer this.

Lolita is The War King's first Tardis, and if the War King is the Master, then that makes her the Master's first Tardis - which would be the Tardis he lost on Terserus during the events of The Two Masters, just before The Deadly Assassin. He's using Goth's Tardis after that for the rest of the classic series.

Lolita isn't related to any of the other humanoid Tardises - those were created and then retroacted into Gallifrey's history by Compassion - and is functionally a random element in the War.

I don't think Lolita is the Enemy. (I personally think the Enemy isn't of Gallifreyan origin at all, but that's another story), I just think she's a very dangerous rouge element early on in the War.

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Issue 2 is here!

This time we have an accessible pdf, so hopefully that'll work for everyone! Let us know what you think of this issue. We've already started planning the third one...

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"The great black sun stared outward, and their Enemy noticed and feared their own destruction, too old for the new order that was coming."

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loose stitches 🩸

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something that started as an idea for a doodle bc of something i saw on discord but I ended up liking the sketch a lot so...shurg. here it is.

^pose reference. (also a doodle for spacing)

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4: Grandfather Paradox's four Godfather-lieutenants

9: Homeworlds

10: Millions of years between the First and Second Wars in Heaven, and between the Ghost Point and the start of the posthuman period

12: Uhhh ... bullet holes in Blackghost's buckskin shirt?

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Very certainly not the first to notice but theres a sort of countdown (countup?) in the Book of the War, but I cant find half the numbers

13 - Thirteen Day Republic

12 - ???

11 - Eleven Day Empire

10 - ???

9 - ???

8 - Eighth Doctor as the Evil Renegade mentioned between the lines? Or the eight deleted entries unter the Enemys entry?

7 - Seventh Head Prophecy

6 - Sixth Wave Defection (see 8)

5 - Five Famous Space Battles

4 - ???

3 - Cousin-Thrice-Removed Anastasia, being three times her own imposter

2 - Second War in Heaven?

1 - "One", President Umbaste and Investigator One

Its probably just coincidence, nothing to worry about ...

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Oh hi Lawrence Miles, creator of Faction Paradox, good to see you here, in the comments section on part 2 of a video essay dunking on an archeological misinformation Tiktok channel. This might as well happen I guess

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Can’t wait for Rogue to rip out the Doctor’s heart and put it in his own chest.

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Real life kept me offline for most of the on-season period, but I made an exception to chat with Neo and Gig about "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" on the Who Cares? podcast. Show notes at whocares.fun as always!