#circular gallifreyan

[circles-of-gallifrey]

PSE, but make it gallifreyan and queer 😌

If you're missing a particular flag, I'll be glad to add more :)

For now I'mma do these ten Tumblr let's me post in one go

[mypeople-skillsarerusty]

I admit, I don't know what came over me when I was painting this... but here is a crazy watercolour abstract Doctor Who painting from yours truly.

I really need to brush up on my circular gallifreyan.

[jessiarts]

I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry. Inspired by this post

[justgallifreyanthings]

The sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warrior

Because I’m a petty asshole, I took an hour and pulled together my own version of the proverb on the new Sonic Screwdriver. Let me know if any of y’all want this as a sticker or something, and I’ll digitize it when I have a chance.

ETA: now available as a sticker! Links are shared on my blog :)

[intuitive-revelations]

Random headcanon I came up with early this morning, because I’ve been thinking about Gallifreyan language recently:

The reason why so many Time Lord things are decorated with circular Gallifreyan, often too impractically to actually be read (eg. on the Moment), is because it’s a cultural touchstone that remains from pre-/early-Pythian Gallifrey’s use of magical runes and sigils.

Presumably it was more typically Old High Gallifreyan used in that time (though The Timeless Children does seemingly confirm circular Gallifreyan existed at least as far back as Rassilon's time, if not earlier), however. Twelve describes it as ‘the language of the Pythia’ in The Lost Magic, and as Eleven says in The Time of Angels:

ELEVEN: There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods.

This is obviously very reminescent of the Carrionites' (themselves from the Dark Times too) "word-based science" from The Shakespeare Code:

MARTHA: What did you do? TEN: I named her. The power of a name. That's old magic. MARTHA: But there's no such thing as magic. TEN: Well, it's just a different sort of science. You lot, you chose mathematics. Given the right string of numbers, the right equation, you can split the atom. Carrionites use words instead.

In other words, while they probably weren't actually intended as such and may have their own specific meaning, whether they be poetry, namesakes, histories, instructions, whatever... these are basically protective wards:

[ID: Five screenshots of Circular Gallifreyan in New Who.

1. Rassilon's Inner High Council meeting in The End of Time Part 2. The table and headrests are inscribed with circular Gallifreyan.

2. The Moment in Day of the Doctor. Gallifreyan writing bends round the edges of the wooden frame.

3. The 'whirligig' rotar in Eleven's second TARDIS, inscribed with individual Gallifreyan symbols.

4. Set photo of the glowing Gallifreyan writing on the steps of Thirteen's TARDIS.

5. Tecteun's laboratory in The Timeless Children. Circular Gallifreyan lines the light above her, and a door in the background.]

As a side note - if they actually are kind-of intended as a form of protection, perhaps this is why we were only introduced to Circular Gallifreyan in New Who, despite it seemingly existing through Gallifreyan history. Because it was retroactively inserted into Gallifreyan culture as a form of defense during the War in Heaven / Last Great Time War?

Regardless, this also opens up questions how many other Time Lord traditions are holdovers from the Dark Times.

For example, who's to say that the renegade naming tradition didn't begin as a form of protection from hexes - either from hostile forces in the pre-anchoring universe, or from oppressive magic-users back on the homeworld? This may also be connected to the change in Gallifreyan name format before and after the Intuitive Revelation (eg. ancestral -sti and -sor names), though shifting power structures, gender roles etc. presumably played a role too.

Heck, is this one reason why Gallifrey's own name has changed over its history? From Jewel to Gallifrey in Rassilon's time to try and protect it from vengeful Pythian curses. From Gallifrey to just 'the Homeworld' in the War to protect it from new rituals of alternative histories and paradox?

[bzlgrmpf]

"You were not born with venom in your veins"

Still on my writing in Gallifreyian Train

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

paul mcgann eats a rat .mp3 in circular gallifreyan

[autumn-doodles]

After I have no idea how long I FINALLY finished transcribing the tensimm speech in EoT into Gallifreyan oh my god-

For the design, i wanted to differentiate dr’s and master’s speech, so I made master’s writing white on black and doc black on white. You may not notice it but I also slightly altered the way I wrote for each of them. The doctor’s speech is full of curved lines and all the dots seen in his speech get larger/smaller in circles, I thought it was a bit more playful like the dr. The master on the other hand has super straight lines and similarly sized dots since master is a lot harsher.

The writing along the outside also reads “End of Time” bc I thought that circle needed something so I just wrote the ep title this speech was from in some weird improvised linear gallifreyan-

And this is how you would read it, each circle is read anti-clockwise from the bottom unless you see the little ‘start here’ symbol: —(•

(If you can be bothered tho lol, I know it’s a bit of an effort)

And now my watermark which I also wrote in gallifreyan for authenticity’s sake

Sadly I can’t post each of the sentences separately but if people are interested I could try sending them in the reblogs!

[shipwreckedshadows]

Doctor Who tag is like an A-plot of people who are screaming about how cute the doctor (Gatwa and Tennant) is, the messages about self love and healing, and then there's a like a B-plot of all the circular gallifreyen artists mad that they fucked up the spelling on the sonic screw driver

[unpredictable-probabilities]

"A hundred years, then?" - Dream of the Endless / Hob Gadling, The Sandman

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

do young time lords get given circular gallifreyan alphabet spaghetti

[circles-of-gallifrey]

Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth (Moon) -Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune - Pluto

(yes I can count, and had to add in two extra planets 😅)

[fictionaltrvlr]

Ooooo shiny! Also makes sparks, opens doors, and goes “brrrRrrzZz”

[tardis-technician]

Been creating some pride stickers in Sherman's Gallifreyan

(click for better quality)

[bl-sensei]

It took me a very long time but I finally finished my masterpiece!

I'm a new Doctor Who fan (been watching for 2 months now) and my favourite Doctor is 9! Never got over The Parting of the Ways...

I recently discovered that there was an official Gallifreyan alphabet, so, of course, I had to use it to write my favorite ship: Nine x Jack x Rose.

P.S.: If you're wondering, I wrote "Captain Jack Harkness" because I think "Captain" is a very important part of his name (the Doctor didn't like it when Rose called Jack "Captain").

Also, I noticed that people usually write "Tyler" with the consonant "y", which is, I think, unfit, so I used the vowel "i" instead. AND, I accidentally wrote Ro-SSe instead of Ro-Ze.

Also, the circles in "Doctor" represent the solar system, with the empty circle at the top being the Earth. The empty extra circle in the center represents Gallifrey.

I wondered if I should put them all in one big circle or not. I didn't do it because they didn't/can't stay together forever, they parted ways.

[mcytgallificated]

Can iiiii request "I hid my diamonds right here!!"

It's from a bit between Mumbo and Grian where they both went insane trying to look for diamonds🙏

What a lovely interaction that was! Absolutely hilarious to see them go insane