#rakaya

[claraoswalds]

When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind.

[causalityparadoxes]

The Pantheon of Discord | Doctor Who, The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[timelordgifs]

Can You Hear Me? // The Church on Ruby Road

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 233/?

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 12x07 - Can You Hear Me?

[da-ill-spot]

New Music: Brother Ali x unJust - Love & Service LP + "Gauntlet" Music Video feat. Roc Marciano

Salute to the almighty Brother Ali! Tap in with his new collab album, Love & Service, with producer/animator, Justin “unJust” Herman.

This analog release doubles as an animated film spanning over 13 tracks, featuring Casual, Aesop Rock, Rakaya Esime Fetuga, Quelle Chris, and Roc Marciano.

Tap in with Ali's store for your physical needs. Also below is the amazing animated video for the Roc Marci assisted “Gauntlet."

Check the official playlist for the full goodness!

[intuitive-revelations]

While I've got critiques of a few choices (eg. bigeneration, the Season One reset), one thing I've got to commend RTD for is that the story arc of things getting "more supernatural" / the universe shifting from sci-fi to fantasy is actually a pretty perfect way of continuing the shows overall myth arcs without actually requiring knowing all the backstory.

Not only does this follow on from the Time Lords currently being gone again (which itself was kind of built up from the previous Gallifrey arcs and the Master's character development), but also is more or less exactly what the Ravagers wanted to do in Flux. They wanted to undo the Anchoring of the Thread, recontexualised in terms of the Division's universal interferenc. While time and its laws have somewhat stabilised for now, we are indeed now seeing Rassilon's laws of rationality starting to collapse. I would strongly argue this started even before the 60th anniversary, between the time loop in Eve of the Daleks and the constellations literally rearranging themselves in the sky in Legend of the Sea Devils.

Even outside of the shows main arcs, New Who has already dipped its toes into the concept that there are older creatures which don't necessarily run on science in the same way as everything else, or that are from outside the universe / incompatible with it. Primary examples being the Carrionites, Racnoss, the Beast and Abaddon, Weeping Angels, Solitract, arguably even The Timeless Child. The Dark Times have also been prominantly featured in stuff like the Time Lord Victorious series and Titan Comics.

We've also being seeing entities like Eternals gradually returning (Zellin, Rakaya, maybe Time) who were originally established as leaving the universe in the wake of the Time War in RTD's Series 1 backstory in the DW Annuals. We've even seen quite significant emphasis put on the Sisterhood of Karn and their connection to Gallifrey, something primarily developed in the EU with the Pythia lore, which also links into the likes of the Visionary in The End of Time.

All this being said, none of this backstory is (for now) important for new viewers to know. All they need to know is that Fourteen fucked up in Wild Blue Yonder, and now things which were once outside the universe, like the Toymaker, are starting to leak into it. They don't need to know, for example, that the TARDIS may only have been able to access edge of universe thanks to the scale of the Flux's destruction.

Ultimately this feels a lot like his approach with the Time War. While it was a logical conclusion to the classic series (hence why we get so many time wars / destructions of Gallifrey in the EU), with Genesis, Revelation and Remembrance of the Daleks all particularly serving as build up for a Dalek attack on Gallifrey, and indeed were all included in said prior-mentioned DW Annual articles along with the tension de-escalating 'Act of Master Restitution', none of that was important for new viewers in 2005 to know.

This being said, I do suspect some past context will return in the future, just as it did over New Who. For example, we're bound to be reintroduced to the idea that the Time Lords established rationality in the universe, maybe name-checking the Division as part of their interference. I also stand by my previous theory that we're likely to eventually see Rassilon return after his exile in Hell Bent. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he served as the face of an effort to bring back the Time Lords in some form, opening up questions of their oppressive history (expect the Timeless Child's trauma to be emphasised) and whether the universe is better off without its fantastical elements suppressed, even if this does open the universe up to the dangers he fought like the Vampires, Carrionites, Great Old Ones etc. (Particular emphasis on the last of these, given it's sort of implied the only reason eg. the Great Intelligence isn't a full-power Cthulhu Mythos Yog-Sothoth is because of the Anchoring.) Perhaps the Sisterhood of Karn's newfound influence on Gallifrey in the wake of the Time War and Lungbarrow could play a role here.

[daughter-of-the-clayr]

gods and godlike beings who don't seem to be part of the pantheon, a list as best I know it:

(focusing on nuwho and spin-offs bc I know them best, please feel free to add)

- eternals, any of

- guardians, black and white

- zellin and rakaya (strange, though they do seem to operate differently to the pantheon, who need to be invited in)

- satan (makes sense, he's a devil, not a god)

- abaddon (same deal)

- the captain (the parrot)

- any of the other osirans? is it possible sutekh ascended beyond osiran somehow? or was he always different?

- death, as seen in torchwood - maybe, considering that an argument could be made that that death was an outreach of sutekh. maybe the gauntlets were originally his?

- Time (who is explicitly more of a sentient force than a being)

- the bad wolf

[omegas-reincarnation]

OOH BOY I am loving the hints at the other beings the Doctor describes as gods from beyond the universe we are going to meet! The names - the One Who Waits, and especially the Oldest One - absolutely fascinate me.

I love the way we are leaning more into this concept now, but I also love the way these episodes have been dotted around from the very begining, from the First Doctor meeting the Toymaker, to the Seventh meeting the gods of Ragnarok (whose domain was entertainment) and Light (whose domain was knowledge), to Thirteen meeting Zellin and Rakaya (whose domain was dreams).

Post-flux, with 90% of the universe destroyed and its balance changed, is the perfect to explore who these beings really are and all they can do, but I love that it's always been there, beneath the technobable and the Doctor's repeated assurances that everything is explicable when you understand enough about physics, this cord (all puns intended) of chaos and unknowability running through existence, just beneath the skin.

[denimbex1986]

'Bad Wolf, Torchwood, Saxon... now "The One Who Waits" appears to be joining the ranks of Doctor Who story arcs teased by writer/showrunner Russell T Davies.

The Giggle – the third and last of the show's 60th anniversary specials – saw the Doctor (David Tennant) once again face off with old foe The Toymaker (now played by Neil Patrick Harris).

The events of previous episode Wild Blue Yonder saw the Doctor unwittingly allow the Toymaker – an elemental force who exists beyond the rules of the universe – entry into our universe.

In The Giggle, the cruel Toymaker was able to provoke the Doctor into challenging him to a game – as the two prepared to match wits, the villain taunted the Time Lord with tales of his accomplishments.

"I came to this universe with such delight," he said. "I played them all, Doctor – I toyed with supernovas, turned galaxies into spinning tops, I gambled with God and made him a jack-in-the-box."

We even discover that The Master – last played by Sacha Dhawan in last year's The Power of the Doctor – fell foul of the Toymaker, losing a game to the villain and ending up trapped, apparently for all eternity.

But then, the Toymaker makes a confession: "There's only one player I didn't dare face – The One Who Waits.

"I saw it, hiding, and I ran."

The Doctor attempts to question the Toymaker further, but he shrugs off his earlier comments, telling his nemesis: "That's someone else's game."

So who is The One Who Waits?

The Toymaker is established as having power almost without limit, able to manipulate the atoms of the universe and conjure up his own magical domain – in The Giggle, we saw a shaken Doctor uncertain if he'll be able to best his enemy once again.

The fact then that, whoever or whatever they are, The One Who Waits is capable of striking fear into the heart of the Toymaker is pretty terrifying. Could an even more powerful being exist in the Whoniverse?

Interestingly, in a social media post made in October, the official Doctor Who account appeared to refer to the Toymaker himself as "the one who waits" – but it's made clear in The Giggle that he's referring not to himself but to some other figure.

Of course, the Toymaker isn't the only all-powerful, ever-living being to exist in the worlds of Doctor Who...

Making their debut in the 1983 story Enlightenment, the Eternals are a race of elemental beings of immense power, capable of manipulating matter and creating objects out of thin air.

These amoral creatures act purely for their own amusement, manipulating "Ephemerals" (read: mortal beings) for fun.

Then there are the Guardians, who first appeared in Doctor Who's 16th season in 1978, a series of interlinked stories which saw the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) on a quest to find the legendary Key to Time.

Transcendental beings who embodied aspects of the universe, immortal and indestructible, we met the White Guardian (Cyril Luckham) – who represented light, order and structure – and his eternal opponent the Black Guardian (Valentine Dyall) – the personification of darkness, entropy and chaos.

Most recently, 2020 episode Can You Hear Me? saw the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and friends lured into a trap by Zellin (Ian Gelder), an immortal "god" who was haunting the dreams of humans, all to feed his beloved Rakaya (Clare-Hope Ashitey).

Could one of these creatures, or something like them, be "The One Who Waits"?

It's also possible, of course, that Russell T Davies has invented an entirely new menace. In the episode The Star Beast, The Meep (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) revealed itself to be in the employ of a figure it referred to as "the boss".

David Tennant later admitted that he remains oblivious to the identity of "the boss", which suggested that this reveal would be held back until Ncuti Gatwa's time in the TARDIS.

The Meep's admission and the Toymaker's confession in The Giggle could be the start of something much larger and entirely unexpected...'

[seaweedstarshine]

Hi :D Would you like to sort 1) the Doctor's incarnations and/or 8) villains for the kmk triangle game? 👀

I am going to do the Doctors, because with so many villains, how can I narrow them down — but the villains would mostly get punched — except for the Master, who gets a big sloppy boop! xo Traveling with the Master means sooner or later they’re going to get bored and a boop is all they get :)

Okay… Mister Clever gets a boop too. And Svild the Sontaran. And Borusa. And the boss lady from Time Heist. And the Rakaya from Can You Hear Me. Oh and I’m totally traveling with the Meddling Monk/Nun, Rufus Hound/Gemma Whelan versions, I’d rather travel with them than the Doctor. See, I’d fail to narrow it down and they wouldn’t all fit on the triangle!

Massive disclaimer that 1) I haven’t watched all of Classic Who so please take this with a grain of salt 2) the physical placements aren't all accurate so they're not on top of each other 3) I enjoy all of the Doctors' incarnations, some of them just deserve to be punched more than others :) I mean twelve is my second-favorite Doctor (a very close second-favorite at that) and I rated him as one of the more punchable of them.

FUGITIVE DOCTOR ~ If only I could travel with her without ending up under the Division’s thumb! It's not her fault, but it won't end well (poor Lee). Which is too bad, as she’s good at pretending to know what she’s doing without being condescending — and that’s the kind of Doctor I think I'd get along with! My poor sweet girl gets a long, super tight, warm boop. For the road.

FIRST DOCTOR ~ Get me away from this irresponsible elderly baby! He’s one of the more punchable Doctors. I’ve only watched a few of his episodes, but his habit of dismissing his debatably-willing companions? I could not handle that. And yet, his habit of giggling waaaay too much does get him a very slight boop.

SECOND DOCTOR ~ Oooh lemme snuggle into that ratty ass coat for a nice warm boop! He’d be so fun to travel with too because even though he knows damn well he’s the smartest person in the room, he’s not the one to lord it over his companions (most of the time). He's so cuddly; I think we’d have a great time!

THIRD DOCTOR ~ If traveling with him means being his lab assistant and occasionally going for a ride in a partially-functioning TARDIS, that’s my ideal. It does make it an impediment for the Doctor doing their usual tactic of isolating companions from their “real lives” to make themself important to them :) which didn't help him get over Jo, but hey… what works, works. Three can be a bit uptight, but he's always not above apologizing, so I think we could work through things when it's important.

FOURTH DOCTOR ~ He gets an instant boop, partly because the scarf looks so cozy! But I only want to travel with early Fourth Doctor; not latter Fourth Doctor (who's just a bit punchable for his general lack of compassion. Adric was just a lonely kid going through a hard time. he could've been nicer to Leela for that matter, and I don't want to get in between him and Romana). How about I'm Harry's replacement in the Four/Sarah/Harry polycule?

FIFTH DOCTOR ~ Can he tone down the sarcasm as conflict avoidance, maybe? If he won't get along with his non-Nyssa companions, could he perhaps try a little harder to get Tegan to Heathrow? He's too emotionally constipated to have fun with! He's the least cuddly! Plus, Adric deserved better, but hey — I listened to Thin Time, I know he’s going through it. He gets the faintest of comfort boops. Like a hand squeeze level of boop.

SIXTH DOCTOR ~ Oooh I want to boop this man’s brains out — egomania to the point of camp is my jazz! That said… I love a bad girl me, but travel with her? Six would not take my opinions into account unless I put my foot down like Evelyn, and I'm a bit too much of a pushover for that kind of emotional drain. That’s precisely why will not be traveling with him.

SEVENTH DOCTOR ~ I want to boop this man soooo hard~ *points at my tumblr bio* I love a ditzy manipulator. Still, while he has his ditzy moments, they’re not quite enough for me to give him as big a boop as Six. These qualities make him unviable to travel with and punchable, too — he doesn’t tell Ace any of his schemes, and his manipulativeness unfortunately makes secretiveness worse.

EIGHTH DOCTOR ~ This poor sad wet thing… yet full of amnesiac charm. I'd like to travel him, but I’d need to be careful how I time it — ideally as far away from his Time War era as possible — but also keep me out of the Charley drama, I don’t wanna end up like C’rizz. I haven’t finished all his audios, but surely there’s some era that won’t end up semi toxic? I might just settle for booping him at midnight on New Years Eve.

SHALKA DOCTOR ~ All the Wilderness-era Doctors are so sad, wet and lonely, and I want to travel with this one. He needs more friends who aren’t the Master, but at the same time, I know having the Master in the TARDIS is helping him heal. And with me and Alison by his side? Shalka isn't perfect, but he's trying, and that's what counts. It's been a while since I saw this miniseries, but we'd be a power quadruple, and I just know we'd have such a great time!

WAR DOCTOR ~ What did I say about the Wilderness-era Doctors, but this poor sad sweetie could use a tight boop, because he’s waaaaay too hard on himself! He also could use a companion, but even if he didn’t refuse companions, I'm not about to survive the Time War, that's for sure! Maybe some other time…

NINTH DOCTOR ~ Oh look, it’s some other time! Sign me up for the Nine/Jack/Rose era! (Yes, I want Jack there too.) He’s a lil more punchable than some for refusing to get to know Jackie after he took her daughter away for a year… but he has such a big heart. Coward, any day. <3 Ima just make it clear I'm not tryna take Rose away from him and boop him too.

TENTH DOCTOR ~ Yeah, I’m not gonna travel with this fuckboy (gn). I'm not the one to deal with “you’re not replacing Rose” every five minutes! No, I am out. He gets a punch (for Martha and Mickey), but I’m also going to (faintly) boop him after, because he's gonna look at me with those big sad brown eyes, that mean he's not alright at all. <3 Maybe he needs to be a bit more ditzy about his egomania, maybe that would fix him.

ELEVENTH DOCTOR ~ Oh, his ditziness did fix him! So boopable! I think we’d get along so well most of the time, the thing is — do I want to travel with a guy with the guy who faked his death to his companions twice — the first time with pretty much no reason — and never apologizes for anything? This pathological liar is so cuddly though, gimme those forehead kisses… I will be strong and not travel with him for a steady boop supply.

TWELFTH DOCTOR ~ I’d love to travel with post-Clara twelve… but I’m not getting in the middle of Whoufflé drama. Accordingly, am-I-a-good-man era Twelve is deserves a punch for being so horrible to Danny, but after Darillium mellows him out a bit and he stops being jealous, I think I’d have so much fun traveling with him, Bill, Nardole, and occasionally Missy! Perfect dynamic! Just like with the third Doctor, being based on Earth is my ideal! Of course, Twelve doesn’t like hugs, so I’ll respect his space when it comes to boops.

THIRTEENTH DOCTOR ~ Oh she's so extremely boopable, but I want to at least feel like the Doctor I’m traveling with trusts me. Where Eleven deflects, Thirteen gets prickly, and I’m sensitive enough to push back when she treats casual questions as a personal attack. Still, I know it comes from a place of pain; if she can’t let me in, maybe a cozy boop will get through. She's so huggable. She’s much less deserving of a punch for not being above sincerely apologizing, which isn't the case for the more punchable Doctors.

FOURTEENTH DOCTOR ~ I want one of this sad man’s loving boops. I am going to boop him. Not travel with him, though, I'm not joining the Noble family as the next Mad Auntie Mel. Not when his next incarnation is right there in the same city at the same time!

FIFTEENTH DOCTOR ~ A dash of egomania without being condescending? My kind of traveling partner! But it’s too early to know how ideal he’d be to travel with; just guessing by the time-traveling to sabe baby Ruby, and the fact that he’s definitely going to avoid telling her about it and/or refuse to help her identify her mother, leads me to think he might be Eleven-like in terms of keeping secrets about his companion's past. A lot of this is based in my theories, haha, so I’m reserving judgement here. With the way he hugged his past self, so I really want to boop him!

CURATOR DOCTOR ~ One boop for the Curator coming up! He seems easy-going, mellow enough to an adventure through time and space that might even have periods of relaxation (the kind of guy to have scandalous affairs with Ohila of Karn) — if only he wasn't retired.

[esonetwork]

Timestamp #299: Can You Hear Me?

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Timestamp #299: Can You Hear Me?

Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me? (1 episode, s12e07, 2020)

A voice in the darkness is not always a good sign.

In Aleppo, Syria, circa 1380, a young woman runs through the city. An older woman named Maryam lets Tahira seek refuge, chiding her for stealing as a misguided attempt to improve her mental health. Tahira fears things that will attack as she sleeps, and (sure enough) a creature grabs Maryam after nightfall. The large, hairy, and claw-handed creature doesn’t surprise Tahira.

In Sheffield, 2020, the Thirteenth Doctor delivers her team home. They agree to reconvene the next day, and as the companions leave, the TARDIS shorts out as a bald man briefly appears and then disappears. As Yaz, Ryan, and Graham catch up with their lives, the Doctor chases the phantom man to Aleppo.

She touches down in Bimaristan, one of the oldest hospitals in the world that focused on mental health. Disappointed that she won’t be sharing this adventure with her companions, the Doctor finds Tahira and the creature. The creature doesn’t register on the sonic screwdriver and runs away.

Back in 2020, the companions have strange encounters: Graham sees a white-haired woman in chains; Ryan’s friend Tibo describes recurring nightmares with a bald man, the same phantom who then kidnaps Tibo; and Yaz encounters the phantom after a dream.

The Doctor calms Tahira as she investigates the hospital. Tahira has been in the hospital for a few weeks, seeking safety as an orphan. The companions each call the Doctor and she takes Tahira to retrieve them. Along the way, she analyzes a hair she found in Aleppo and the TARDIS tells her that the hairs do not exist. She uses the telepathic circuits to take them to the woman Graham saw.

The TARDIS lands on a space station in the distant future, but the location is not what Graham saw. The station is in a geostationary orbit in an area that is no longer populated, and as the Doctor explores, the image Graham saw appears on a monitor. Two planets are colliding, stopped by a small geo orb with the woman inside.

Yaz finds an area covered in fingers sending signals to the woman in the geo orb. A quantum fluctuation lock keeps the woman trapped by changing combinations trillions of times a second. As the Doctor analyzes the technology, Tahira wanders off. She finds the bald man, several trapped people (including Tibo), and the creatures (which the man calls Chagaskas, conceived from the prisoner’s worst fears). When the companions arrive, the bald man uses his fingers to trap them inside dreams. Yaz dreams of Sonya on a deserted stretch of road, Ryan sees an elderly Tibo and the Dregs from Orphan 55, and Graham finds himself going through chemotherapy with his doctor, Grace, who asks why he didn’t save her.

The Doctor continues to work as the bald man approaches her. He calls himself Zellin, which the Doctor recognizes as a mythical name from another universe. As an eternal, Zellin has been playing games to amuse himself, even name-checking fellow Eternal The Toymaker in the process. An alarm sounds, indicating that the woman in the prison has been freed, but this is all part of the game. The woman is another eternal named Rakaya and has been playing the same game as Zellin. The game involves the two planets, their populations, and a gamble of which will be destroyed first in the ensuing carnage. The populations trapped Rakaya as they each faced their own demise.

The Doctor is trapped as the Eternals begin a siege against Earth. The Doctor dreams of the Master’s Timeless Child story, waking when she somehow summons her sonic screwdriver and frees herself, her companions, and the prisoners. The Doctor realizes that the Chagaskas are elements of Tahiri’s dreams and works on a plan to defeat the Eternals.

The Doctor’s team returns to Aleppo and summons the Eternals to join them. Using Zellin’s floating fingers and Rakaya’s quantum lock, she traps the Eternals in prison to live with nightmares for eternity. She then returns everyone to their proper places and times.

Tibo finally sleeps well and attends a group therapy session after learning about Ryan’s travels. Yaz reflects on a bet she made with a police officer named Anita – Yaz had planned to run away three years earlier, but Sonya called the police out of concern. Anita made a deal that if Yaz’s life improved in three years, Yaz would pay her 50p. Otherwise, if Anita was wrong, she’d pay Yaz £50 – and then meets with Anita to pay her end of the bargain.

Finally, Graham confides in the Doctor about his fear of cancer returning. The Doctor has no idea how to respond, but Graham is happy to have talked to someone about it. Meanwhile, Yaz and Ryan discuss their mutual concerns about their lives with the Doctor. They’re interrupted as the Doctor gets excited about Frankenstein and sets course for a new adventure.

The family grows closer by confronting their fears, and even though the Doctor couldn’t display her concern to the satisfaction of some fans, the team is stronger for it. I found her response genuine: The Doctor is a beacon of compassion and empathy, but remember that her immediate predecessor needed cue cards to navigate human emotions. Many of the Doctor’s previous incarnations were more in touch with their companions, but even the First Doctor faced his granddaughter’s future by locking her out and saying goodbye through the TARDIS.

The Doctor may be an alien, but this echoes how humans handle major diagnoses and death. Reactions aren’t uniform, but they include shock, disbelief, anxiety, sadness, and loss of control, all of which (and more) the Doctor is processing in the wake of the Master’s revelation about Gallifrey.

Another tick in the plus column for this episode is the story twist. The woman’s voice in the darkness is a common trope involving heroes riding to the rescue of a damsel in distress. It’s a form of the Chronic Hero Syndrome trope, where every wrong in the line of sight must be righted, and it’s used to great effect against the heroes in this story. The eternal villains give credit to the Celestial Toymaker and the Guardians (setting up their power for fans of the classic era), and are defeated by their own means like so many of the villains in Doctor Who.

That resolution felt a bit rushed (as most Chibnall era resolutions have) but the coda showcasing the fears and growth of each companion was a good reason to shortchange the heroic huzzah.

Finally, in a meta nod to the story’s title, I loved the Doctor talking to herself at length with no one around. Can you hear me?, indeed.

Rating: 4/5 – “Would you care for a jelly baby?”

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The Timestamps Project is an adventure through the televised universe of Doctor Who, story by story, from the beginning of the franchise. For more reviews like this one, please visit the project’s page at Creative Criticality.

[jurnalexpose]

Kecamatan Ciomas Kabupaten Bogor Adakan Pesta Rakyat

Kecamatan Ciomas Kabupaten Bogor Adakan Pesta Rakyat

Bogor – kecamatan Ciomas, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat adakan pesta rakaya yang berlokasi area Kecamatan. Chairuka selaku camat Ciomas mengatakan kepada awak media., “kita mempersiapkan namanya pesta rakyat bagi warga masyarakat Kecamatan Ciomas di isi dengan kegiatan-kegiatan, mulai kesenian budaya ya kemudian termasuk kegiatan – kegiatan ada pemeriksaan kesehatan, sosialisasi agar ikut KB…

[evviejo]

every episode of the thirteenth doctor’s era:

can you hear me?

[cane-of-doom]

What is it with Chibnall and dyads? 👀

[magsdomino]

Classic foes and creatures in Modern Doctor Who (3: remake)