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Just watched the Robot Revolution.

At the end of the episode Belinda says, “I saw that box in space! Is that your TARDIS?”

How does Belinda know what a TARDIS is?

Up until this point, the Doctor has not mentioned that it is called a TARDIS. He refers to it once, calling it his spaceship.

Also, a minute or so later, when she fully enters the TARDIS, she says “Now get me home. 24th of May 2025, my shift starts at 7:30am.”

Which is a very odd phrasing if you do not know that you’re in a Time Machine.

Which Belinda doesn’t, considering that she is surprised a few seconds later when the Doctor tells her she’s in a Time Machine.

My theory? Something is wrong with Belinda’s timeline, maybe some sort of time fracturing mess like we saw with Clara or maybe she has met the doctor before but he has wiped her memory (except it’s in his future so he doesn’t know it)

It’s almost like Belinda subconsciously recognizes the Doctor and is remembering things without realizing it.

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simple doodle thing

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Stardust "Though I dream in vain In my heart, it will remain My stardust melody"

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I Know What The Midnight Entity Was...

Ok so I had an epiphany the other night and I’m pretty much 100% certain I know what the mysterious creature in Midnight was.  But first off, let’s review what we know about the Midnight entity.

It was able to survive at least in some form on the surface of the planet where the x-tonic radiation vaporized any living thing in split seconds.

It communicated by repeating what the people in the transport were saying, first with a lag-time, then instantaneously.

It was able to inhabit the body of a human.

It was able to take over the mind of the Doctor.

There was something about the transport that it was drawn to, but it had never attacked a transport previously.

So that’s what we know, and it’s not much to go on.  But there is one significant other entity in the Doctor Who canon who exhibits all these traits.  Ready for it?

The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.

If a Tardis were somehow to crash onto the surface of Midnight, one could assume that the x-tonic radiation would effect it in the same way as it would any other living creature, vaporizing it instantly.  However,  the interior of the ship exists on a different dimension than the exterior so we can safely assume that only the exterior would be destroyed, while the interior was preserved.  Without a physical exterior however, a Tardis would loose the ability to materialize in another location, essentially trapping it both on, and equally not on the planet.

Aside from It’s human form in “The Doctor’s Wife” we never hear the Tardis speak directly.  However, this is not completely true, in another sense we nearly always are hearing the Tardis speak… through the translation matrix.  Translation, a Tardis’ main form of communication, is in essence, simply listening to what someone says and repeating it after them.  Typically this is done in another language, however, if the Doctor’s Tardis was already translating instantly we wouldn’t hear this, instead it would just sound like an echo.  As the Midnight Entity, superseded the link of the Doctor’s Tardis, we would lose the echo first of the other passengers, then of the Doctor.  Once the mental link to the Doctor is fully established the translation would become instantaneous, however since the entity is still inhabiting a physical body it would be physically voicing the words as well.

In the Doctor’s Wife, we see that it is possible for a Tardis to inhabit the body of a human.  

We know that a Timelord has a mental link that enables him to pilot a Tardis.  However, a Tardis is an incredibly powerful entity and one would assume that were it’s motivations malicious, or were it particularly desperate, the same link could be taken advantage of to enable a Tardis to essentially “pilot” a Timelord.  In fact, it’s hard to imagine any creature besides a Tardis, having that sort of power.

So under the circumstances I’ve described, a trapped, and damaged Tardis would need two things to escape the Midnight planet.  Firstly, it would need an external hull that could withstand the x-tonic radiation.  This it found in the transport ship itself.  However, there would have been no point in attacking any previous transports until it found the second thing it needed to escape, a Timelord to pilot it.  In this light all the creatures actions make sense.  The first thing it does is remove the driver’s cabin, because it needs to sever the shuttle controls in order to replace them with itself.  Secondly, it finds a way to get it’s consciousness inside the cabin, it does this by taking over Sky’s body.  Next it forges a mental link with the Timelord, this process is complicated by the fact that he is already linked to another Tardis.  Once that is done, the entity would need to get the Timelord out of the transport and into it’s own interior.  I believe that while the exterior of the entity Tardis was lost, there would still be a non-physical portal of some sort to the interior.  This would be the shadow the Mechanic sees on the surface of the planet.  The if the entity could convince the crew to throw the Doctor out of the transport, then it could line it’s portal up with the door so that they were essentially throwing him into the ship’s interior.  Once that was done, then the final step would have been to take on the outer hull of the transport and dematerialize out of there. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out that way.

Anyway, so there you have it.  The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.

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Whouffaldi Pride & Prejudice AU - Part 1: Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet first meet.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

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Doctor Who text posts: Eleven edition – pt. 12

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Cyber Brigadier *seeing the Twissy kiss in the graveyard* : "Goddamn it, I owe Jo twenty pounds!"

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We have 4 of them now. Has anyone done the obligatory meme yet?

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Am I self-inserting correctly?

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The Abyssinia Trilogy is done! Masterpost || First || Prev || Next (Coming SoonTM)

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Little joke between @neon-psychopomp and @raspbel-art 🤍

Happy delayed Pokémon day 🤍

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well. i did finish the book. overall not very impressed, except with this line, which is up there as a strong contender for out-of-context dw lines of all time, to me

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Genuinely the best part of the I, TARDIS book was the many nicknames she gave The Doctor's companions!

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they're just. yeagh. the doctors so pleased with himself. they're so. hnnng

heres the whole book on internet archive also

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A lot of, if not all, names in the skulduggery pleasant series are like prophecies/ self fulfilling prophecies

Or like puns on some aspect of the characters beeing / personality

Unfun fact about translations

In the german version at least some names are translated ( and meaning is lost for example Valkyrie Cain translates to Walküre Unruh wich is factually a literal translation of how she picked the name from wagners "ritt der Walküren" and the saying about causeing trubble/uproar, raising cain, but takes away that Cain and Abel, first murderer meaning)

Or like the name gets just randomly changed for example Ghastly Bespoke becomes Grässlich Schneider ( wich would translate back to Ghastly Tailor)

I've been mad about this name changing for like 10 years ( when I first started reading the English versions)

Fuck me sometimes I remember that Valkyrie chose her last name because of a random idiom, and that Cain is the biblical lad who invented murder and killed his brother, and a core part of her arc is that she ended up killing her sister, and I scream