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Today is 11/11

or 11/11 if you are using a completely fucking barbaric system of keeping track of dates

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been working on my OC-SI timejumper doctor who fic finally. I got the idea 3 (three!!!) years ago but I've finally actually figured out the story of it. I wanted to write a timejumper fic that was different to all the ones I've read and I loveeee all the ideas for her origins I've come up with. shes not gallifreyan and shes not really human either, shes a ~mystery~ that she will find the answer to by the end of the first year in her 500 year diary. I've also decided to write it using the Doctors pronouns as 'the' (ie, just 'the Doctor', no he/they/she/etc) which is very hard!!!! passive voice is my best friend rn.

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PSA for fanfic writers

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i have a runny nose so im gonna stop by the pharmacy and pick up a curved greatsword to behead myself with

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Was anybody gonna TELL me about the abanodned 1991 doctor who cartoon series with a bunch of visual material, or was i supposed to once again fall into lore head down?

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everyone loves being disintegrated by my powerful beam

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it's sort of funny sort of fascinating how river consults the diary about Demon's Run in the show (and maybe another big event i'm forgetting) cause on one hand, it's for the audience, to let the audience know what's happening and that she's future river at that point, but on another hand...

i find it incredibly hard to believe that she wouldn't have everything about Demon's Run memorized. river's general feelings about That as a whole are pretty much up to interpretation as she's river and hides the damage and lies constantly (affectionate) and also they (the show itself) never give her time to do so, but that monumental event in her life? yes, i think it's not impossible to say she'd study it. but it's also pretty easy to tell that she uses the diary as a crutch in an emotional way

for her meeting/reuniting with a younger version of the doctor, it's sort of a shield, she's trying to use it to say "look! we have a future together where you trust me implicitly! i've lived it! trust me" (and here i'm thinking of flesh and stone and the library eps)

with the Demon's Run one, she uses it for herself, it's not a shield for the doctor, she even turns around from rory. she's using it to stabilize herself. but she could also be sort of checking through it, like she's double checking, making sure the information she remembers is right

her childhood was extremely up to whatever you could glean from s6 but to be somewhat raised in that orphanage with the Silence without an eyepatch to remember them, along with the fact that she didn't even remember Madame Kovarian makes me want to believe that she probably has memory issues. it sort of adds up, the diary itself, the reason why she "has pictures of all of his faces" and uses that to justify why she always knows it's him (so late in her personal timeline, she should already know all versions of him it's not that hard. also she was raised to kill him. im sure they taught her that too Imfao)

i'm just saying shit atp but i thought that was interesting to think about. you're a time traveller with memory issues, a husband that doesn't know who you are yet, a past you can't remember, and a future that's all out of order. what can you trust if you can't trust your memory? well, what you have written down, i suppose.

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I think one of my favorite Doctor Who stories is that Lalla Ward was doing a play and one of the actors working with her gave her a little bit of a hard time for doing a Sci-Fi TV series and she at the time was like "I like Sci-fi." But it became incredibly hilarious after the fact because the actor was Patrick Stewart

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coupons used to mean something now deals are like HURRY NOW! get 3 free napkins when you spend $75+ 😋

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LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

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30 minute recipe? Psh. I can do it in an hour and a half

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the selective breeding of music to get shorter and shorter for tik tok has resulted in devastating negative long term health effects on the songs

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HOWLING at this clip from the 10th dr audiobook im listening to rn

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just had an absolutely atrocious thought