#doctor who eu

[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?

#Doctor Who #Gallifrey #Gallifreyan #Circular Gallifreyan #The Pythia #DW Theory #DW Meta #Doctor Who EU

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 47

The Third Doctor bought Sarah Jane her stuffed owl. (Novel: Interference - Book Two)

The "most detailed, informative, and in many ways insidious" information about the Doctor that the Daleks possess was taken by dramatized biographies made by the BBC starting in 1963. (Novel: Dalek Survival Guide)

The Master put together the Psychic Circus in order to exploit the psychic energy with the help of an amulet that the Gods of Ragnarok had given him. (Audio: The Psychic Circus)

The Ninth Doctor got himself banned from the York Central Library and possibly all other UK libraries. (Short story: Have You Seen This Man?)

According to some accounts, Time Lords gained the ability to regenerate due to a regeneration virus, which spread through contact. It only granted about 5% of individuals regenerative abilities, killed 10%, and left 85% unaffected. (Short story: The Scrolls of Rassilon)

The Council of the Great Mother is a Gallifreyan organization that specializes on the politics surrounding regeneration and some additional religious matters. (Audio: Spring)

While stuck in a dream on the verge of regeneration (while the Master was in turn trying to prevent that regeneration), the Fifth Doctor was unable to remember his wife's name or how many children he had lost over the years (he lost count after five). (Audio: Winter)

The Sixth Doctor once became the Valeyard, but this was temporary. (Novel: Millennial Rites)

On an unknown university campus, the Ninth Doctor was caught having an argument with the Seventh. (Short story: Have You Seen This Man?)

The Seal of Rassilon was designed originally to ward off evil. (Novel: The Pit)

"Gallifrey" translates to "they that walk in shadows." (Novel: The Pit)

The Seventh Doctor had a cat named Wolsey, which the Eighth Doctor eventually gave to Bernice Summerfield. (Novel: The Dying Days)

Braxiatel had a fiancee named Veronica Bland, who was actually a plant. She had been using a pheromone to attract people to eat, and after withering away, he kept some of her remains on his desk. (Audio: Braxiatel in Love)

In the above situation, Benny Summerfield was Braxiatel's best man. (Audio: Braxiatel in Love)

The Fifth Doctor once said that Gallifreyans from the Prydonian Chapter could not be trusted as they were far too cunning. Nyssa then had to remind him that he was Prydonian. (Audio: Spring)

The Third Doctor's address was listed as "The TARDIS, care of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT HQ." (Novel: The Time Lord Letters)

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[thediaryofriversong]

doctor who is so silly because, yes, it has a huge following, but, there is also a secret mini-fandom that lives off obscure books and worships Paul Mcgann.

#Slowing falling into the endless void that is the doctor who extended universe #doctor who #doctor who eu

[man049]

Ok, so I was looking for a Doctor Who comic to read online because I'm a pirate and I found this cover that oh my god.

They did it before the Barbie movie

#doctor who #nuwho #12th doctor #the twelfth doctor #bill potts #doctor who eu

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

8th dr who textposts + some Fitzie

#one picture is there twice because its from my other textposts post #doctor who #8 #fitz kreiner #8th doctor #edas #doctor who eu

[enbyeighthdoctor]

#doctor who #dweu #doctor who eu #edas #academy era #faction paradox #lungbarrow #bernice summerfield #eighth doctor #looms #liv chenka #anji kapoor #charley pollard #bliss doctor who #fitz kreiner #helen sinclair #compassion doctor who #bliss #compassion #molly o'sullivan #lucie miller #8 #.png

[clockworkouroboros]

sorry but we fucked up surgery on your boyfriend. yeah the anesthesia wasn’t safe to use on aliens. sorry. the surgeon was listening to opera while she operated. yeah he regenerated and lost all his memories. he’s now a prettyboy amnesiac who doesn’t understand gender. sorry.

#eighth doctor #dw movie #doctor who #doctor who eu

[partywithponies]

Something very funny to me is how The Eighth Doctor has amnesia during the Doctor Who TV Movie as a result of post-regeneration madness. You know, as had already happened in multiple regeneration stories previously. Because the TV Movie was basically just one extended regeneration story for Eight.

But because the TV Movie never made it to series, the movie itself was all anyone had to go on with regards to the Eighth Doctor's characterisation for the longest time. Which meant that a bunch of Extended Universe writers seemingly just decided that having amnesia was a key part of Eight's character and personality, and so it Just Kept Happening. Again and again. For years.

#doctor who #classic doctor who #doctor who eu #they really just diagnosed him with Forgetful Bitch Disease

[tardis-technician]

This is what eu fans sound like

#haven’t read it but of all the things on here I’ve absorbed through osmosis this is maybe my favorite #doctor who #doctor who eu #thoschei #paradox posts #the doctor #the master

[perfectlynormalbooks]

Binding of the technically-unpublished technically-unfinished Doctor Who novel, Time's Champion by Craig Hinton! This was a commission for a friend, and they've officially recieved it now so I can ramble about design choices. The book is a folio binding with rounded spine, which is something I've been working on learning for a bit now.

The book cover - obviously designed to look like Six's coat! I used this excellent blog post as a reference while tracking down all of the bits of colorful fabric I'd need, it was a lifesaver. There's a little cat charm on the ribbon, because of course there is, and (it's not really visible in any of the photos) hand-sewn headbands in black-and-yellow, to resemble the sleeves of that coat.

If the book itself is Six, then the case is the Valeyard! Because obviously, this book is all about the conflict between those two. The clamshell case was a last-minute addition, because I hadn't ever done one before and wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull it off. But I did, and it looks great - that's metallic silver HTV on the outside. 'Time's Champion' is on the spine using the WS Simple Gallifreyan font - I thought about using Sherman's, but it's a bit too circular. The writing around the front and back frame is in Assassin's Gallifreyan, aka the writing the Doctor uses in the serial The Deadly Assassin. It's the names of all of the gods of Gallifrey, who show up in the book itself - Time, Fate, Life, Pain, Hope, and Death - repeated over and over. The book fits snugly into the case, and I've got my fingers crossed that it managed to protect the book on the way over.

I kept the internal typeset simple - Alegreya typeface with Bernard MT Condensed chapter headings and highlights. These are the straightest margins I've ever cut in my life. I impressed myself.

And here's a few pages from my design notebook from when I was pulling it together:

There's a LOT more progress pics lying around, but Tumblr only allows 10 images per post - I'll have to add more later!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #my books #perfectly normal books #doctor who #doctor who eu #time's champion #sixth doctor

[romanathree]

timeladies!!

#gallifrey audios #my art #big finish gallifrey #big finish #dw eu #gallifrey #livia gallifrey #romana ii #romana doctor who #darkel #doctor who eu #dw fanart #doctor who fanart #classic who #dweu

[familyparadox]

The reason why Doctor who is going more towards fantasy is because with Gallifrey gone now Magic is coming back into the universe. Yes that right we are getting a live action adaption of the Adventuress of Henrietta street.

#the last bit is a joke #but go I want it #doctor who #dweu #faction paradox #doctor who eu

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Yesterday I asked a tipsy friend who has never watched the show about the Doctors etc etc

She knows they're all the same person but not much else.

#help me #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #first doctor #second doctor #third doctor #fourth doctor #fifth doctor #sixth doctor #seventh doctor #eighth doctor #war doctor #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #fugitive doctor #the valeyard #shalka doctor #the emperor #dw eu #doctor who eu #doctor who expanded universe #scream of the shalka

[magpiefrankie]

my boys!!!

bonus doodles below

#magpies art tag #doctor who #doctor who academy era #doctor who eu #dweu #theta sigma #koschei #koschei oakdown #the doctor #the master #thoschei

[doccywhomst]

i love that the three main gallifreyan gods (time, death, pain) are conceptual and lack other names or mortal accoutrements (as far as we know). they easily could’ve been named like azathoth or ieaiel or some sci-fi gunk but nope! humans tend to personify/anthropomorphize phenomena, maybe because we like to communicate through stories? to relate to our contexts? idk but the deification of a phenomenon itself feels reverently scientific. time, death, pain - effects that the universe has on life. on you. literally universal experiences.

with this theme in mind, may i present the new gallifreyan gods: hungry and sleepy. and taxes

#also why isn’t fear one ?? thought theyd jump at the chance #doctor who #classic who #dweu #doctor who eu #menti celesti

[vivvision]

It'll never not amaze me the depths and vast expansive-ness of Doctor Who spin-off content. Can any other fandom or show truly say that they have a 'universe' in the same way that Doctor Who does? You have decades of audio dramas, licensed, partially licensed, and unlicensed. Books about the main character, books about the main characters friends, books about timelines that never were or might have been! Movies with villains from the show and promotional shorts that occupy a secret third special place between plain fun and actual canon. Is all of it canon? Is none of it canon besides the show? Are only the bits we like canon? YOU decide, because you have decades and mountains and worlds to choose from.

Not to mention that this all gives fans the easiest in to make fan-content, fan doctors, etc and they do, hundreds of them! They have been for decades!

The Whoniverse is ever expanding, vast in a way that few can truly grasp onto, and you'll never be done discovering it. I'll never not be in awe of it.

#doctor who #doctor who eu #the whoniverse #torchwood #faction paradox #gallifrey audios #bernice summerfield #the Sarah Jane adventures #Forgotten lives #morbius doctors #iris wildthyme #jago and litefoot #doctor who vnas #virgin new adventures