#and the timeless child stuff

[groblinboy]

Hey actually new doctor who is insane and I’m going crazy about it

[donutdrawsthings]

I just finished the Flux storyline and it makes me so upset they introduced this cool idea to us and then IMMEDIATELY took it away again the next episode!! The Doctor turning into a weeping angel would have been such a cool plot point!!

[dougielombax]

Toymaker: I made a jigsaw out of your history, Doctor. Did you like it?

Me: *overcome with sudden clarity, remembering the Timeless Childe, the TV Movie (half human), Lungbarrow, the 49th century, etc.* Oh?! Did you think I didn’t NOTICE?!

[twilight-zoned-out]

No space monster will ever be as liminally terrifying as Fourteen crabwalking in anger

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

THE ONE SOULMATE ASK IS MAKING ME BUZZ IN MY SEAT, imagine the one soulmate universe where your soulmate’s signature appears on your arm.

Like as a child you remember seeing “Ajax” written in a messy handwriting, one that always made you giggle when you saw it.

You knew the name was Snezhnayan, your parents having told you so. You often heard stories about Snezhnaya and the people from the nation, always curious what this Ajax would be like.

But one day it changed, not in the way you expected. You knew that the mark would change overtime to match your partner’s signature, but it didn’t change like that. One day you just woke up and your arm said Ajax and a second name.

You couldn’t read the name, it was in a language you didn’t recognize, only later in life learned it was Abyssal. You never understood why a second name, in Abyss, appeared on your arm or why Ajax’s signature eventually changed to Tartaglia.

It wasn’t until you finally got the funds to travel to Snezhnaya and eventually met Ajax that he could explain things.

It was awkward, the Harbinger stumbling over his words for the first time in years until he sighed and showed you Foul Legacy. You were scared at first, the Abyssal creature curiously sniffing you and trilling at you. You calmed when it saw the writings on your wrist, happily crooning as it showed your it’s own arm, your name written in a pale white so it could show up on the creature’s arm.

rambled for a bit too long but I JSUT OUGHHH had to get all my thoughts out, i hope i dont mind 🙏🙏🙏😭😭 (also will be forever upset that when I bought the genshin art book IT SIDNT COME WITH THE SIGNED CARD FROM TART) [📺]

THIS THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE IT

oh oh OH but could you imagine Ajax's reaction? when he first acquires Foul Legacy he's absolutely terrified of what his soulmate's reaction will be to his Abyssal side- he wouldn't be surprised if you screamed and ran away when he eventually met you. he knows his soulmate is probably concerned enough by the name change- what would you think if you found out he was not only a Fatuus, but also harboring a bloodthirsty monster from the Abyss? so for the longest time he hides his arm from Foul Legacy, focusing on working up the ranks of the Fatui until he becomes a Harbinger. he never understands why Legacy becomes so excited if he even so much as glimpse's Ajax's arm from inside his mind, chirping and chittering and urging him to show the name- Abyssal creatures don't have soulmates

right?

one day he's training in his Foul Legacy form, the beast allowing him to manipulate his stronger, armored body as usual when Ajax happens to glance down at his wrist. suddenly he gasps, everything but the arm vanishing back into his own mortal body out of shock as he stares at the name written in shining silver, identical to the one on his own skin. the armor dissipates into stars, leaving Ajax staring at the same name on his arm, the black ink standing out on his pale, freckled skin. Foul Legacy purrs soothingly in his mind, reassuring him that it's alright, he doesn't blame Ajax for wanting to keep his soulmate hidden from the Abyss, and Ajax wants nothing more than to give the monster a big, apologetic hug

when you finally manage to get to Snezhnaya and meet Ajax, staring firmly into his eyes, he's pleased to see that there are not one, but two names on your wrist; his own and one written in a script he recognizes but can't understand, and in his head Foul Legacy's singing, trills sounding similar to "that's me! that's my name!", and Ajax grins at you with the first genuine smile he's had in years

[nat-20s]

my general feelings on the whole "happy ending vs sad ending" debate I occasionally see is mostly "nice dichotomy idiot, what lies outside it!" aka an ending should make sense to a show. It should fit the context that has been given before it. I think neither happy nor sad endings are inherently better than the other and I LOVE a bittersweet ending. All that being said for me, personally, I do think a massively tragic ending requires more of a buy in for me. Heavy Plot Contrivances to make a sad ending tend to annoy me at best while Heavy Plot Contrivances allowing for characters to have fun and be happy I'm like hell yeah let's go. Escape the dooming of the narrative <3.

[bingqiv]

the master wanting to become the doctor so they are once again equals is something that can be so painful yet so accurate

[raspberry-gloaming]

I very much doubt there's much chance of this, but is there anyone out there who is a fan of both Doctor Who (and especially/possibly the Gallifrey audios) and the Nevermoor series? As I have many au thoughts but no-one to share/discuss them with.

(if you are please message me)

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

mom moments because we love Xenia in this household 😊

[ref for first pic]

[quietwingsinthesky]

(disclaimer: this guy doesn’t know shit about the timeless child stuff yet) but anyway. both the master & the doctor having terrible violating things done to them as children that were then covered up from everyone around them and themselves, am i right.

[cowlovely]

every day i think of and get so angry about how making literally the TINIEST tweak and putting sacha dhawan’s master before missy in their personal timeline makes his incarnation of the character make SO much more sense and adds to missy’s character arc rather than taking away from it 😐

[arcalian]

Wait so like. The vampire bit. The vampire bit and 14 getting a bad feeling about invoke a superstition. I know this could be argued to kind of be a scherzo adaptation but like rtd i think just invoked the spiral yssgaroth?????? Like i see no contradictions to this opening the door to the enemy as a reflection of the time lords fears again????

[twelvedimensional]

NOW THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

[spoonietimelordy]

Seeing other people's interpretations of the bigeneration and deciding to ignore them because I just don't vibe with it x) and yes this include RTD's own interpretation imao

[tea-earl-grey]

watched The Church on Ruby Road and i really really loved it. both Millie Gibson and Ncuti Gatwa hit it out of the fucking ballpark. i haven't felt that much genuine joy and whimsy in a Doctor Who episode since season 5 of new who (and maybe a bit of season 10) and i'm obsessed with it.

(i would also say if you took a break from the specials because of the RTD nostalgia of it all, i feel you and would definitely recommend checking back in if you want because this episode felt totally fresh and new.)

[moonlitlex]

taking a break from hating on chris chibnall and whatever is going on in the star beast to say matt smith deserved better. he genuinely did such a good job with the utter garbage half of his run was (looking at you season 6) he deserved to have some really fun and insane writing like he got in amys choice and the god complex and a town called mercy all the time why didn't they just let him go really insane constantly why does steven moffat hate me specifically why did that man (matt) look off camera in a way that put thousands of years on his face how did he do that