#gallifreyans

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Looming vs. Natural Reproduction - what on Gallifrey's going on here?

As the first of the trending topics, GIL's noticed some confusion about the concept of looming vs. natural reproduction in Gallifreyans. Have no fear; GIL's here to help.

🧬 What is looming?

It's a bit like 3D printing, but for people. These Rassilon-created Genetic Loom Breeding-Engines weave new Gallifreyans from a mix of matter and biodata. Looms produce Gallifreyans of all genders, (though females are loomed slightly less frequently). Each House has its unique Loom, which embeds familial traits into its creations.

❓ Why is looming a thing?

The invention of Looms was Rassilon’s grand solution to a serious problem. Following the catastrophic Curse of Pythia, Gallifrey faced extinction. The Looms became lifelines, ensuring the continuity of Gallifreyan civilisation.

🔮 What is the Curse of Pythia?

The Pythias were a kind of magical matriarchal monarchy, with rulers known as Pythias ruling over ancient Gallifrey in succession. Pythia number 309 (out of 309) was elbowed out by Rassilon. She was, understandably, really hacked off. She condemned Gallifrey to wither and then threw herself into the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be, never to be seen again. This 'withering' is known as the 'Curse of Pythia'. It resulted in mass sterility of Gallifreyans - supposedly instantly killing babies in their mother's wombs, and preventing any Gallifreyan from reproducing naturally from that point forward.

🍷 So Gallifreyans used to reproduce naturally?

Yes. Before the sterility curse, Gallifreyans reproduced just like humans, with a little wine, a candlelit dinner and maybe an album by Barry White.

✨ So does this 'Curse' still exist?

No. The apparent lifting of Pythia's curse was marked by Leela's pregnancy (yes, THAT Leela), which hailed a return to natural reproduction among Gallifreyans. Others besides Leela have also been able to reproduce naturally.

🔄 So what method do they use?

This blend of technological and biological means of reproduction leaves Gallifreyans in a unique position. They could use both methods depending on social, political, or personal factors.

🧐It can't all be that simple, GIL ...

Wow, you've been here before, haven't you?

There are accounts that the supposed 'Curse of Pythia' didn't actually come from Pythia.

Self-inflicted: Some say it was a side-effect of a massive time tech experiment that went awry.

It never existed: Others suggest there never was a curse. Rassilon, seeking absolute control, concocted a narrative to enforce a sterile, controllable society, eradicating the unpredictability of natural birth and driving forward eugenics in his perfect society.

🏫 So ...

Thus, the plot thickens. Were Gallifreyans always capable of natural reproduction but held back by societal constructs and fear? Did Leela's pregnancy unveil a truth long buried or simply reawaken a dormant biological ability? That's up to you.

But of course, GIL denies this version of events, cos how else would we get the funding for all the biscuits in the canteen from the High Council? Praise Rassilon!

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[clowns0cks]

I was wondering what do you think about ages and gallifreyans/timelords

#doctor who #time lords #gallifrey #gallifreyans #thoschei #the master #best enemies #koschei #spydoc #the master x the doctor #the doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #classic who

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Who taught the Doctor how to swim?

Bear with me on this one. As we've seen, Gallifrey has a lot of desert, and I'm assuming it is quite hot there because of that. However, Gallifreyans often dress in many layer and are all covered up, probably for modesty purposes.

I cannot imagine they have swimming pools to teach these guys how to swim, especially since they would have to swear swim suits (the exposed skin *shudder*).

Now, I could be completely wrong (since it is physically impossible to consume the entire DWEU), but that gives me the impression that the Doctor didn't learn to swim on Gallifrey. He probably didn't until he came to Earth, the famous water world, but who would teach him?

In my headcanon, the ones who taught him were, well, teachers themselves. I think Ian and Barbara would have noticed eventually on their adventures that neither he nor Susan could swim and take it upon themselves to instruct them.

#i have galaxy brain #i dont know #im sorry #headcanon #headcannons #doctor who #dw #classic who #dr who #first doctor #susan foreman #susan #ian chesterton #barbara wright #gallifrey #gallifreyans #time lords #swimming #god what even is this #you guys are just getting brain vomit at this point #dw headcanon #doctor who headcanon #gallifreyan academy

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Lately I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea that this is just openly what ancient Gallifreyans looked like? 

Like, y’know, endless variants of biotech insectoid armor-spacesuit-hazmat uniforms for altemporal states, adverse chronomenon, and darker horizons of time’s various dimensions. 

#Time Lords #Gallifrey #Gallifreyans #the Great Vampire war would be like the Coppola Dracula prologue just Arc!Omega's Red Ranger equivalent

[higginsverse]

Post by: Revan

I feel extremely awkward posting something that isn’t a summary to the story from the beginning on a practically empty blog, but we guessed it’s gonna be something like this from the beginning and did intend the blog to be about like this, so I think I can do it

I’m about to post a described drawing of Kenossium and this is a follow-down to that, but also on itself.

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If gender exists on Gallifrey, it is evidently assigned on the basis of the body — which honestly is extremely weird for a culture that focuses on the domination of mind but let’s forget that for a bit I guess ok…

A transgender/transsexual Gallifreyan with the ability to regenerate and to control that regeneration to some extent can modify their next body upon regeneration, and it can definitely subconsciously go like that too; but in other cases, if you were originally assigned female, were a cis woman, and then regenerate into a body that gets assigned male and your gender is male now, you are now a cis man. And if your gender is still female, you’re a trans woman, even if you were a cis woman half an hour ago. Etc.

The lines said by Kenossium (the General) absolutely were just Moffat’s shitty joke. But if we death-of-the-author them (and only take one half), we see that Kenossium doesn’t seem to have enjoyed “being a man”. Being a woman again was “back to normal” for her; yes, newer incarnations of Gallifreyans shit-talking their previous ones is a classic, but.

In Higginsverse, Kenossium participates in the anti-government resistance and civil war.

“Fuck it, I don’t have to serve Rassilon” would also be the perfect time to decide “fuck it, I don’t have to be a man”!

#post by revan #kenossium #the general #doctor who #gallifrey #time lords #chronarchs #gallifreyans #higginsverse #higginsverse gallifrey era #don’t know if I should ‘maintag’ for trans hcs #swearing cw #I kinda feel like I should have written more in the last paragraph/after but let’s leave it like this for now

[northernfireart]

my most recent random thing ive been thinking about is the idea that Doctor flirts with Rose in gallifreyan the way some people flirt with their partners in their home language even though their partner doesn't speak it and i have been obsessed with this thought ever since

#doctor who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #rose tyler #dw fanart #doctor x rose #tenrose #timepetals #dr who #doctor who fanart #dw #also who cares what gallifreyan sounds like #it wont stop me from thinking about this #also the hc that it sounds musical just makes it cuter #gallifreyan #he says things in it that he would be scared to tell rose in english #ten x rose #northernfire art

[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.

#doctor who #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #ninth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #original art #my art #my artwork #tardis #watercolor #circular gallifreyan #gallifrey

[nipuni]

THE DOCTOR We had a pact, him and me. Every star in the universe, we were going to see them all.

My version of The Master and The Doctor in their Academy days 😊

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on april 1st!

#doctor who #thoschei #doctor x master #academy era #my art #My thought process for their appearances here was sort of an average between their incarnations #the doctor is mostly taller and has messier and usually lighter hair while the master is shown to have had black hair in a flashback #also since Hartnell had white hair as an old man and we are not sure what color his hair was I thought what if it was always white #I've seen most draw him as blond but couldn't find any sources for it so I just went with this instead because it looks cool #I had fun making Prydonian robes designs!! I would love to design a bunch of Gallifreyan fashion for each Chapter and House it seems so fun #I also wanted to draw a Gallifreyan night!! since I never see any depictions of it even tho the planet should have nights #even if it's a binary system since the orbits would have to be very large for gravitational stability both suns would set at similar times #anyway I'll stop talking lmao 🫡

[cryptid-crows]

Them <3

#my art #fanart #doctor who #doctor who fanart #thoschei #dhawan!master #13th doctor #please don’t try to translate the gallifreyan it’s just random doodles I thought looked cool lmao #this was supposed to be a quick doodle #it was not #click for better quality #art

[upon-the-snow]

okay this was meant for new years but I missed that deadline so here it is anyways!

#rolling up in January second with new years art based on a Christmas special: yeah I can plan ahead totally I didn’t rush this whatsoever #doctor who #tenth doctor #rose tyler #tenrose #time petals #the christmas invasion #fanart #my art #digital art #Procreate #artists on tumblr #Doctor who fanart #i forgot to add; the gallifreyan is just random circles #next time ill use a translator! i just couldnt find an accurate translation sheet 😭

[doccywhomst]

the actual literal meaning of TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension[s] in Space) is so funny cause it’s just…. a very succinct description of what the vehicle travels through? “hello i’m a human and this is my CAR (Concrete and Roads)” uh yeah i sure hope it do

#unrelated but ​i need to start writing otherstide cards for people #i’m about to go through a major life event but i kinda have some time to write letters in english and gallifreyan #i may do a little announcement about that at some point for anyone who wants a letter BUT first i need to know how much time i’ll have #but with my inbox complications getting addresses would be tricky and idk if ppl would be comfortable sharing them so…. ough. bah humbug #doctor who

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

This week we've been looking at Houses on Gallifrey. You may have already tried to guess which Chapter your House is in, but which one actually ARE you?

Take this absolutely 100% scientific Quiz of Rassilon to find out.

Which one was your outcome? Was it the same as your guess?

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[jessiarts]

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

#or am i? #i regret nothing #did you find all the easter eggs? #doctor who #color of the sky #fourth doctor #tom baker #tom baker scarf #fourth doctor scarf #circular gallifreyan #fanart #doctor who fanart #tardis #space #galaxy #digital art #digital illustration

[justletmeramble1701]

Do you guys subscribe to the theory that (at least, starting in NuWho) the Doctor can, somewhat, subconsciously control his regenerations?

Like, of course, 8 wanted to be a warrior, so he became the War Doctor (I know that he drank a potion for that, but that might’ve just been lemonade according to the Target Novelization).

War wanted to be the hero, to earn the title, the Doctor, again, so he became 9.

9 wanted to be someone who was the perfect partner to Rose (human), so he became 10.

10, in his vanity, wanted his final regeneration to be young, so he became 11.

11, after all the heartache, wanted to be more distant (and also what they said in series 8), so he became 12.

12 wanted a kind, fresh start, so he became 13.

13 wanted to open up to someone, so she became 14.

14 wanted time to heal, so he split off 15.

This is not an original theory, and I'm not even saying that I buy into it fully it, but it's interesting. It would be interesting if the Doctor had a tiny bit of control over their regeneration (Romana did, somehow) and most of the time his wants either backfire or only half work.

What do you think?

#doctor who #dr who #15th doctor #14th doctor #13th doctor #12th doctor #11th doctor #10th doctor #9th doctor #war doctor #8th doctor #regeneration #regenerate #rose tyler #fan theory #thoughts #food for thought #time lord biology #time lord #time lords #time lady #time ladies #gallifrey #gallifreyan #gallifreyan biology #nuwho #new who #revival who #Disney doctor who #rtd

[g1ngerbeer]

KING OF HEARTS

#id in alt text #my art #dw #doctor who #tenth doctor #funnypost machine broke heres another vaguely sad ten art from me. bless #(me @ myself) stop thinking about 'time lords have 2 hearts but ten says his companions break his heart Singular' or draw 25 #the gallifreyan is supposed to say “king of hearts” btw im not very creative lol #cw eyestrain #<- just in case. the red is rather bright

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

a trinket from the tardis

#I love these cast photos so much so have this #last art of the year folks! #doctor who #classic who #fifth doctor #Peter Davison #nyssa of traken #sarah sutton #tegan jovanka #janet fielding #adric of alzarius #matthew waterhouse #season 19 #the best tardis team #five and his kids <3 #minsart #my art #fanart #the Gallifreyan SHOULD say (and I’m using a translator here soz) ‘happier times’ #fivey makes me saaaaad