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being an eighth doctor adventures fan is so hard. how do i explain to people that i want them to read an unfinished postmodernist series of 73 pulp science fiction novels from the early 2000s that's made up of a bunch of writers arguing about how to best fundamentally deconstruct dr who as a concept

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It's been a while since I posted anything from "The Keys of Marinus." Here's a digital painting by Svetlin Velinov.

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blehhhh why is digestion so persnickety? Things that screw up my digestion apparently include:

eating something unusual

eating something greasy

eating too much

eating too little

eating too fast

having a period

having a migraine

sleeping too much

not sleeping enough

getting overheated

Like seriously? Is it really that hard for my innards to just...not freak out all the time?

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We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.

And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.

A child.

Now that's too big, surely.

But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.

And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.

In normal circumstances.

Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.

No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.

And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.

But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.

"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"

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I need a way to say this character makes me feel insane amounts of lust but not in a sexual or romantic way

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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

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The Doctor never particularly wanted to Watch his own death, but here he is in a glowy white body made of transdimensional energy, and he has work to do before he can get on with regeneration.

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"Midnight" is one of my favourite episodes!!

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on may 1st

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Sixth doctor <3

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This makes his interactions with Mr Copper 10x funnier. They have the same special interest but read completely different books on the subject. They're both 100% convinced they know more about Earth than anyone else and that the other one is soooo wrong. In the end they're both just excited at the idea of Copper getting to live in a Human House.

I like to think that Earth was The Doctor’s special interest planet as a kid. On the same level as kids being obsessed with the Titanic/ancient Egypt/ Greek mythology. Little guy just thought it was really fascinating.

They would’ve been so excited to see that their granddaughter was taking a liking to it too!

It also makes it way more fun to think about how they definitely knew the exact date of the end of the planet, not through their travels after leaving Gallifrey or the TARDIS helping them out with their date(?) idea, but because it was in some “entire history of the planet Earth” book they read cover to cover 30+ times when they were young.

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Martha Jones was a fuckin med student when she ran off with The Doctor. If I were writing her she would've wanted to study him like a bug I KNOW my stem girlie would be trying to surreptitiously get him into an X-ray machine

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The Haunting of Villa Diodati where everything is the same except Paul McGann is in the background going on a rampage and screaming himself hoarse about Frankenstein

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~ Evening Dress and Jacket.

Date: ca. 1965

Designer/Maker: Zara Holt; MAGG (Melbourne)

Medium: Silk, cotton, plastic, synthetic fibres.

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Here's how I'm counting them:

Pratt!Crispy - the OG

Beevers!Crispy in Keeper of Traken - obviously the same incarnation as Pratt, but is he a separate Crispy? My heart says yes

Ainley!Crispy in The Velvet Dark - I can't remember how he got fried but he is and that's what counts

Ainley!Crispy in A Town Called Eternity - separate instance of crispification caused by the events of Planet of Fire

Post-Ainley Beevers!Crispy - first appears in Dust Breeding after losing his Traken body

Post-Roberts Beevers!Crispy - don't remember how he happened but he exists

Delgado!Crispy in Legacy of the Daleks - got shot by Susan. Meant to be Pratt!Crispy but this story has since been contradicted by Big Finish

Delgado!Crispy in Doorway to Hell - he gets badly burned at the end of this comic and tries to regenerate

Other possibilities that I didn't count:

Pre-Crispy Beevers - he appears in The Two Masters, but I didn't include him because 1. he's obviously the same version as Pratt/Beevers and 2. he's not crispy

AU Beevers in the Warrior's reality - again, didn't count him because he's not crispy

If I'm missing any Crispies let me know!