#High Council Of Gallifrey

[unrenderedfuture]

Sketch of President Borusa and Chancellor Flavia being shady because they are shady.

[seefasters]

its so funny how he has all these titles but he does absolutely fuck all with them

[gotyouanyway]

wait so if narvin answers to matthias when he's appointed cardinal + some chancellery powers then wh

[thebraxiatelcollection]

Braxiatel wanted to get rid of Chapters and Chapter Houses speaks volumes about his beliefs and policies and yet people still call him a bad guy or suspicious....

[cosmik-homo]

The thing is there are 2 Types of Evil Timelords:

- Some kinda guy whos a bit too into the whole, campy horror thing

-Goverment atrocities so severe they could be in warhammer.

[voidisverytired]

LMAO ??? THEM NOT EVEN LISTENING TO THEIR OWN PRESIDENT ??? THAT IS HONESTLY SO FUCKING FUNNY ???

DHJWJDJQIDI THIS IS SO ???

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

TTC shower thoughts: maybe just like how Gallifrey wasn't actually in Ireland, Susan isn't actually The Doctor's "grandaughter".

A fobwatch scrambles your memories. But you get echoes. This is why the The Doctor's backstory pre-renegade era is always contradictory and incomplete in the expanded-universe. Their name "being lost" is because it's truly lost to them as well. (and the names we know or The Master and River know could not even be a real name either, but something like an echo of the name the lab The Child was trapped in)

[cipher-fresh]

💬 suffering-academy-student Follow

does anyone else wish u could regenerate but not change and not use up a regeneration. just like do a hard reboot

#i'm gonna call myself The Sufferer

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💫 constellationon-kasterborous Follow

what is it even like to not be a time lord do you like get impaled by rebar at 45 years old and just die. couldn't be me

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🚀 silvertraveller Follow

_____👶 timelordtoddler Follow

_____playing with a roentgen radioactive brick in the nursery rn

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🔉 gallifreyballifreyshmallifrey Follow

i love this website because its the only place you can say you have interfered with the natural flow of time and you won't get investigated by the CIA

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😉 winkles-wonderland Follow

who up lording they time

#no I don’t need to add any extra tags thanks I trust my audience will find it

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👦 theresponsibilityavoider Follow

I was skipping school hanging out in a clearing and some guy exited a portal from a CONFESSION DIAL 😭 and he was like “Go to the city. Find someone important. Tell them I’m back. Tell them, they know what they did. And I’m on my way. And if they ask you who I am, tell them ‘I came the long way round’” 😭😭😭 what the hell

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💬 oneofthegreathouse Follow

if you have a fetish for people being born through bodily reproductive systems KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!! nobody needs to see that on their dash

__♻️ callmeweaver Follow

__Ok Puriteen you need to get on my level. sexualize looms OR ELSE!!!!!

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💫 thecurator Follow

the high council of gallifrey: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the timeless child” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some pre-Hartnell doctors

My buddy the Master pacing: the Time Lords are lying to us

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🏠 somegrandolgallifrey Follow

I heard some kid crying himself to sleep in a cabin. COULD not be me

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♾️ thatacademygraduate Follow

Went to a museum today! I saw a lot of really cool stuff but something I couldn’t stop thinking about was this horrifically busted up Type 40 TARDIS that literally looked like it was held together with duct tape, chewed gum and prayers 😵‍💫😵‍💫 girl kill that thing I’m so sorry….

#i think it was even still alive. please put it out of its misery for the love of rassilon

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🥽 howsitgoinghowitgoes Follow

Bruh my best friend and I tried to play a prank on my brother but it went wrong and he hit his head so badly he REGENERATED i need to go into hiding

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😐 the-hybrid Follow

Who am I

#please for the love of god help me

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🔹 thetasigma Follow

Koschei and I skipped school today and went stargazing. We agreed to visit every single one together when we leave this stupid planet. I love them so much. We're going to be together forever.

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💭 siblingofkarn Follow

Why do I keep having nightmares about Gallifrey being destroyed in like 5 different ways, that could literally never happen

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🤖 pompousandstuffy Follow

I literally hate children soooo much like today some ninety year old tried to speak to me. KILL YOURSELF THIRTEEN TIMES ‼️

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👽 cheapandnastytraveltime Follow

For a Time Lord I have such a bad sense of time. if chamelon arches were real i would make myself literally any other species

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😍 starstartwinkletwinkle Follow

I have to stare into the untempered schism tomorrow. Any advice?

[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?

[natequarter]

Even More Stuff that happens in gallifrey:

the horniest meeting of two different versions of the same time lord that you ever did see

"i hate school" "yes you're supposed to hate school. that's the fucking point"

ace calls narvin "narv"

k9 bitch-off

baby romana debates failing her exams just to feel something. and also walks down to the most dangerous part of gallifrey for fun

a character getting his fingers stuck in a door is an important plot point

brax gets rejected in his own romantic daydream

vampires

narvin calls someone a bigamist

romana beats the doctor out for Most Suicidal Time Lord, an award that the high council desperately wants her to win

[idkaguyorsomething]

the fourth funniest part of the five doctors is when the high council of gallifrey brings the master into their meeting room and he goes “hehehe, try and force me to do your bidding at your own risk 😈” and then they tell him that someone’s been kidnapping different incarnations of the doctor so could he pretty please maybe go on a rescue mission and he literally says “a universe without the doctor scarcely bears thinking of 🥺”.

then every single version of the doctor that he tries to rescue is just like “¡yeah right, sayonara bitch!” and leaves him for dead.

[unrenderedfuture]

In honor of TikTok getting banned here is my recent fave Timelord TikTok I made

[songforten]

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “the time war” youll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever I don’t feel anything

me five minutes later: dude i swear i just saw some daleks out in the forest

my buddy Philiploritreludar pacing: the high council of gallifrey is lying to us

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

One more list of things that happen in Gallifrey:

Upon discovering that her (arguably) best friend is secretly the presidential assassin, Romana is deeply offended that she found this out too late to use him to kill people

Narvin spies on Leela (because he misses her)

A character helps to investigate who a horribly disfigured mystery man with an alarming warning is, and it turns out to be himself from the near future

There is an episode set on a private resort planet, half of which is just Romana and Leela’s competing ideas of what a relaxing vacation means

They hold a time travel science fair

Leela essentially becomes a mayor

Oh there’s that time Leela was President for like 10 minutes and the power of being High Chancellor went to K-9’s head and she had to fire him

Braxiatel is also President for like 10 minutes

K-9 is qualified to be legal council

K-9 is qualified to officiate marriages

Diplomacy is plan A. Killing oneself or someone else is plan B for nearly every situation

[thevalleyisjolly]

One has to imagine that Gallifrey's version of Buzzfeed has, at some point, published a "Would you fuck a regeneration of yourself" article. Although quickly banned by the High Council for heresy, it still circulated so widely on Gallifrey that there isn't a single Time Lord who hasn't covertly read and considered it at least once per regeneration. Each regeneration, naturally, has a different response to the central premise. It used to be a joke among the more irreverent young Time Lords that Rassilon invented time travel because he was so on-board with regeneration-fucking that he had to find a way to meet himself somehow. The joke is erroneous solely because Rassilon didn't actually invent Gallifreyan time travel. He's absolutely used it for those purposes though.

[leelarots]

DECA STUFF

this is a master post about my au/fic canon for the deca. i will link this in my deca posts in future, so i don't feel like I have to explain stuff every time. thank you so much to this sub-fandom for making me feel so welcome!

current lineup:

7/10 drawn, design ages frozen at 18-25

to do: vansell, mortimus, jelpax

basic info from left to right:

Magnus | 6'4 | Oakdown | hazel eyes, black hair

Ushas | 6'0 | [?] | 'black' eyes, dark brown hair [portrait]

Koschei | 5'7 | Oakdown | blue-grey eyes, black hair [portrait]

Theta | 5'8 | Lungbarrow | brown eyes, light brown hair [portrait]

Millennia | 5'3 | Brightshore | hazel eyes, blue hair

Rallon | 5'10 | Stillhaven | brown eyes, black hair

Drax | n/a | [?] | 'black' eyes, orange (dyed) hair

[other info on the fic(s) below cut]

current word count: 2.3k

the fic:

will be separated into different 'books', each focusing on a select few characters and one main plot each.

will have theta as a regular gallifreyan instead of half human or another species. however, it's worth noting that for the narrative, I am going to make all 'freyans have some human genes due to past inbreeding

(with luck!) will be partially illustrated

won't be an attempt at following the incredibly messy canon. godspeed to those who try.

won't be centred around thoschei. as much as I wish it was, writing worldbuilding for gallifrey and fleshing out other members of the deca is also enjoyable to write about

other notes on my worldbuilding:

at this point in time, time lord households do not refer to parents or siblings. the hierarchy goes from bottom to top cousins -> aunts/uncles -> granny/grampas -> kitriarch

theta may not be half human/the timeless child, but I aim to still make him 'adopted'. he knows who his father is, but his mother is not of rank, and left him as a baby outside of the lungbarrow household. the connection between him and braxtiel is that they were both left with a note in the same handwriting, addressed to their father.

koschei's 'hypnotic' nature and high telepathic ability is a rare genetic condition. most gallifreyans have a weak latent touch telepathy, trained up in the academy. hypnosis is a different story, but koschei can carry off a potent version of hypnotism without training. he is only in the academy because of his condition.

related to the above's last sentence, becoming a time lord is somewhat class locked due to the initial exam for joining the academy requiring training only supplied by expensive tutoring. if you are not born into a time lord family, it is very difficult to get in.

a main theme of the fics will be around the stagnation that occurs when people in power do not change. as the occupants of the high council live for so long, they have the ability to enforce only their beliefs/beliefs of a small bubble, refusing to move with the times or address changing circumstance.

looming has only just come into existence during the fic canon. none (or at least most) of the deca are not loomed.

'shobogans' are the occupants of the capitol's surrounding slums. this may change.

religion is banned/illegal, but I aim to portray that as being hypocritical—time lords started out as a religious sect. the cloisters are indeed remnants of the original religious building, buried underneath the capitol.

a large portion of gallifrey is not optimal for human-like life. the largest part of the planet's gallifreyan population is centred in the glass globe cities, such as arcadia or the capitol.

humans regularly trade with gallifrey, although the trade lines go: widespread human trade lines -> undocked spaceships around gallifrey -> permanent human settler-traders on the planet. it is not permitted for anyone to go to and from gallifrey freely without a specific, hard to obtain permit. time lords can obtain a permit more easily.

related to above, this is my reason as to why gallifrey has cats and other human items. some human plants and animals are considered invasive.

human-gallifreyan marriage is somewhat taboo. theta is commonly rumoured to be half human without basis because of his being 'different'. once again, the fact most gallifreyans are part human is to show that they are hypocritical.

I could go on, but I won't lol this is long

I am aware of how ambitious this project is. for that reason, I can never promise that the whole fic series will be completed. drawing and sharing my headcanons is enjoyable for me, though, as the deca is my current favourite thing. it's been years of me tinkering about with them in silence, I'm rather hoping I can find others who like my ideas.

my ao3 is soupsmog

want to know something specific? want to talk? pop me an ask, comment on my deca related posts, or join this academy era server, where I'm pretty active. dms are not really open because they make me anxious, sorry!