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i can kill ppl bcuz ive died before so i can reclaim killing

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sarah's pseudonym when crossdressing in the ghosts of n-space is jack smith, which sounds clever until you remember that jack can be a nickname for john

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Doctor Who will have you reading three different books watching five spin-offs rewatching nine different eras and listening to seventeen different audio series at the same time but somehow it still isn't enough

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BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

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update on personal life stuff

got hit by 12 cars and died. sory. all at once. no traces left behind. I think one of the cars was carnivorous

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if u say that the anti trans legislation that’s being passed isn’t going to affect or isn’t targeting trans men/trans mascs or intersex people, i am not going to take u seriously bc u are either stupid or transphobic. those are ur two options.

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so i've decided to watch through every episode that gallifrey appears in and take notes on them (not doing this for every episode a non doctor time lord is in because that's too many) for the purposes of either ranking them, figuring out the lore, or later comparing eu depictions of time lords to how they're shown in the show, i'll figure it out later. this little intro thing is basically just for myself to make a post where i can put the highlights of my notes (very much not putting all of them since so far its been an average of 1.5 pages of notes per episode)

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Sarah’s lucky her kitchen woes haven’t got anyone seriously hurt yet.

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at this point i wonder if doctor who should just stop writing post-doctor stories for ace, seeing as they seem to be incapable of calling her by her actual name

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thinking about nothingness as both representative of gallifrey and a prospect of torture. the white guardian threatening the doctor with nothing, forever, in the ribos operation. wynter and the sensory tanks. romana on etra prime, imprisoned with nothing and no one for company for days on end. the oubliette wiping people from history. zero rooms as a recreation of nothingness, so that nothing can impact the process of regeneration - nothing as the absence of anything else, and nothing as its own tangible, threatening presence. gallifrey is a culture in stasis, a stagnant world which never changes; nothing ever happens. the zero room is that nothingness in miniature, on proud display. to quote marc platt:

I like the idea that the Time Lords' exclusive power comes at a price. If Gallifrey is already slightly outside the continuum of the rest of the Universe, surely a good observation point, then the Time Lords' investment in the stabilising influence of Omega's Black Star has only made things worse. The power that neither fluxes nor changes is slowly, slowly grinding the whole of Gallifreyan existence to a halt. At this rate, the Time Lords will eventually be frozen in Time themselves and the rest of the Universe will come to look at them instead.

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“Better for us all that this strap business turns out to be nothing.”

i'm not going to laugh.

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Romana: The president of Gallifrey sent me.

The Doctor, anxiously looking around: Did I? I'm certain I didn't send for you. I'm so sorry, but you must be mistaken, er...

Romana: Romanadvoratrelundar.

Doctor: Yes, I definitely didn't send for you, you're far too short. And annoying.

Romana: ...you're the president of Gallifrey? You?

Doctor: Yes! That was literally last season! There was a whole invasion and everyone made a lot of fuss about it. Oh, my dear invasive presence, surely you remember...

Romana: No, it's not that. I just can't believe anyone would willingly vote you into office.

Doctor: Quick, get out! This must be the Black Guardian's work!

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having just finished the sarah jane adventures, the logical thing to do is to of course write three and sarah.

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The thing I love about the Doctor and both Romanas is how, because they are both timelords, the writers couldn’t just write it so he was explaining the plot most of the time. When you watch their interactions, it FEELS like they’re working together to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it.

No other companion dynamic is like this imo. There’s always a level of distance, that the Doctor knows more because he’s so detached from them. But not Romana. Because more so than any other companion, she sees through most of his BS. In fact, if Romana has no idea what the Doctor is talking about, chances are he’s BSing.

I still like the other companions a lot, but after watching basically the whole series I just WISH they’d do someone like her again, or just bring her back. Someone who is on his level of intelligence or even smarter to play off of. And not as a guest star or a recurring character. No. I mean as an actual companion.

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the keeper of traken: i miss my wife, tails... i miss her a lot

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A message we need this week

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[ID: greyscale art of Romana II from Doctor Who kissing the Fourth Doctor on the cheek. Both are blushing and he looks alarmed. The above ask is edited onto the image. /end ID]

UMMM IM SORRY IF THESE TYPE OF REQS MAKE YOU UNCOMFY! Your art is great!!

Four x Romana II smoochies pls? 🥺💜💜💜

OMG YES YES YES, THE COUPLE OF ALL TIME

City of Death for obvious reasons.... 🤭 I love them, your honor

🥺 👉👈 Romana has to drag her mans down to her level to give him a smooch. She's kinda smol. And he's fuckin

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