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Doctor Who as tweets/textposts pt.4
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#doctor who#10th doctor#9th doctor#jackie tyler#martha jones#jack harkness#rassilon#11th doctor#Reinette is bizarre but makes more sense when you take it in context that Moffat is just doing The Time-Traveller's Wife AUs#the about face the Doctor does from Rose to Reinette in TGITF and the stupid lol so random 'heres a horse' stuff is whiplash#but between fireplace blink and everything with river#moffat is just writing AUs for one of the bestselling novels of 2003#frequent daily reminder that moffat hides none of his fanfic heritage he is deeply unprofessional#oh this is an anti-moffat blog if unclear#he's objectively and subjectively just bad#and i had my debates when s5 was airing im not interested in arguing objective facts about quality
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#said with love of course#tbf one time it was actually the master 😅#maybe this time lads#THIS time it’ll be the ra- *gun shots*#doctor who#spoilers#the church on ruby Road#oooo just seen another punter with the meddling monk#if we keep this up we’ll get through the whole deca#other names I’ve heard in the last 15 minutes#romana#rassilon#tecteun#iris#Brax#never change nerds
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Something I find really interesting in both Doctor Who and its expanded universe is how the character of Rassilon is handled over time. When the character is first introduced in comic story The Tides of Time and then shown onscreen in The Five Doctors, he is seen as a benevolent figure, if a harsh one. Then during the 90s, there start to be seeds that Rassilon might be a bit more malicious then he's been presented as so far in the books, but as far as I can tell, its just that - some small hints. He's still presented as a mostly acting in the interest in Good, but his actions are presented as pretty sketchy. (These hints show up in The Virgin New Adventures and the Doctor Who Magazine Comics, and I'm pretty sure also the Eighth Doctor Adventures as well, but I haven't read those). Then, in 2002, the Big Finish audio story Zagreus presents Rassilon as tyrannical xenophobic power-grabber, explaining the benevolence as a façade. It's a pretty big departure from how he's been presented prior, although the writers of Zagreus do a good job of making it feel in-line enough with everything that's been presented prior.
And then that is Rassilon's characterization pretty much from then on. In the expanded universe and tv proper both. I've never seen such a complete reversal of characterization happen so gradually or naturally.
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when time lords are kids, they make them look into the untempered schism and maybe go mad from it
and i tell you
the amount of restraint it took for the high council to not call that fucking thing the hole of rassilon is impressive
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Okay, a fact we all need to get straight is that Time Lords are walking around saying "Thanks, Omega" (meaning the same of "Thanks God") without knowing what ABO is. Oh, the blessings of being an alien.
#doctor who#omega#doctor who omega#doctor who expanded universe#doctor who eu#dweu#doctor who comics#classic who#newho#rassilon#the other#time lords#gallifrey#time lord culture#the master#the doctor#thoschei
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Bringing back this series of Big Finish Gallifrey series stickers I designed, because they haven't seen daylight in a while.
#art#artists on tumblr#Big Finish#Gallifrey#gallifrey big finish#Doctor Who#Doctor Who fanart#character design#sticker designer#cartoon#Narvin#Leela#Ace#irving braxiatel#Braxiatel#rassilon#Andred#big finish fanart
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#first doctor#william hartnell#1st doctor#second doctor#patrick troughton#2nd doctor#third doctor#jon pertwee#3rd doctor#fourth doctor#tom baker#4th doctor#fifth doctor#peter davison#5th doctor#sixth doctor#colin baker#6th doctor#seventh doctor#sylvester mccoy#7th doctor#borusa#cardinal borusa#rassilon#doctor who#classic who#classic doctor who#doctor who memes
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Narvin doing this on a report that he was happy to have sent to the Gallifrey War Council...
(image description: the Oversharing At The McDonalds Drivethrough meme format where the oversharer is Narvin saying "my beloved Leela..." and the server is Rassilon)
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who don't believe in anything
#userveronika#userangelic#useraurore#usertennant#dwgifs#dwedit#timelordgifs#moffatedit#what is this 2013..........#twelfth doctor#rassilon#ashildr#lady me#doctor who#twelve#but also i'm sorry it fits so well so like idk#riotgifs
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some doctor who userboxes I made today
#USS Shran || my userboxes#doctor who#doctor who userbox#userbox#userboxes#my userbox#fourth doctor#tenth doctor#rassilon#the empty child#toymaker#the toymaker#dw#nuwho#classic who
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As I've mentioned in a previous post, I've been thinking a lot about the exact chronology of ancient Gallifrey, and specifically I've put a lot of attention on the Caldera and the Citadel, plus related things like the Eye of Harmony, the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be, the Untempered Schism etc.
All these things seem to be located in the same place on Gallifrey, albeit some at different times, and often overlap in nature. After some thinking, I think I've worked how everything goes together, as well as the order of events. At some point I want to create a fully history, but for the sake of this we'll focus primarily on the subjects above, with some other major events sprinkled in for context.
A Very Brief History of the Capitol
[ID: Surviving parts of the old Capitol, in an illustration from Lungbarrow. Crystal-like towers and walkways stand over a waterfall. The TARDIS, in pyramid form, dematerialises.]
Pythian Era - The capital city is built near the Mountains of Solace and Solitude (likely, in antiquity, a stronghold against the Gin-Seng cats to the south). Beneath the Pythia's temple, in the centre of the city, is the Cavern of Prophecy. Within the cave is a deep, deep opening known as the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be, which holds, in the astral plane, something known as the Gate of the Future, a tear into the time vortex far greater than the similar natural rifts that occur elsewhere on Gallifrey. Time flows out from it, from the future, to the past Gallifrey. In times of meditation, the Pythia sits in a hanging cage above the Crevasse, breathing in the rising vapours, which aid her in her clairvoyance.
[ID: Gif edit made by me, featuring the last Pythia sat in a small cage slowly swinging in a chasm as a mist slowly rises around her.]
The Intuitive Revelation - The Neotechnologists, led by Rassilon, bring a revolution. The Pythia curses Gallifrey with sterility and cuts the ropes holding her cage, falling into the abyss. The Gate of the Future inverts, forming the Gate of the Past. Visibly, the Doppler-effect like colouring of the vortex changes - no longer red, flowing towards the viewer, but blue and flowing away (ironically directionally the reverse of the real Doppler effect). Time from the new future flowing into the chaotic past.
The new government take control of the Capitol. A new age of space exploration arises, with the Shobogans taking on the name, for now, of "Space Lords". One of these first individual explorers, semi-authorised predecessors to future Time Lord renegades, is a woman named Tecteun.
The First Attempt - The stellar engineers, including Rassilon and Omega, make their first attempt at capturing the energy of a collapsing star, recieving the energy on Gallifrey using an obelisk, like that later used to channel energy from the Eye of Harmony, in the middle of the city, using the nature of the Crevasse.
The experiment is a catastrophic failure. A hole is punctured into the Spiral Yssgaroth, unleashing Vampires through openings throughout the universe, fracturing out from the experiment.
[ID: From The Book of the War, an illustration of the "Eyes of the Yssgaroth", human-like eyeballs looking through holes punctured into spacetime.]
Part of the Old Capitol is destroyed in a great blast, destroying the Cavern of Prophecy and opening up the Crevasse, leaving a giant crater: the Caldera. It is likely that many are killed. Left behind in the middle of the crater, is the Gate of the Past, now manifest in the physical world: an open gap in reality. In this form, it becomes known as the Untempered Schism.
(I also suspect this is when Rassilon is forced to regenerate for the first time, to the shock of on-lookers, having secretly previously recieved Tecteun's genetic modifications - I plan to expand on this theory in a future post.)
The Vampire War / Rebuilding of the Capitol - The exact circumstances of the experiment are covered up. Rassilon, leaving to fight the Vampire hoard, swears Omega to secrecy regarding the project during the Arcalian High Council's investigation.
[ID: A gif, rotating around the Citadel is constructed over the Caldera, from part of the (likely partially-symbolic) time-lapse in The Timeless Children.]
Though some of the city survives, including parts of the Pythian temple, a new colossal city-complex begins construction in the place of the old one, suspended over the Caldera, the centrepiece of the new Capitol: the Citadel. It is built as a defensive structure, both for the war, and to protect the new, growing elite, surrounded by a great circular wall named "Rassilon's Rampart". The "core" of the structure, on which the towers rest, reaches down deep into Caldera and the deeper Crevasse.
Meanwhile the Untempered Schism is taken out of the city by those fearing further destruction, to a place in the nearby hills that will one day be known as the Weeping Field, where prospective Time Academy students are initiated.
[ID: The Untempered Schism in the Doctor's time, as seen in The Sound of Drums. It sits in a stone frame on red grass, with the Seal of Rassilon in front of it, and flames on either side. Within it, the blue "past" variant of the RTD1-era time vortex flows away from the viewer. The Citadel's lights are visible in the background.]
(Side note: it's possible the Untempered Schism's 'ring' is deliberately designed to evoke the Caldera. Note how it's lined with pieces sticking out. Look a bit like the battlements on Rassilon's Rampart, don't they? Surrounding the hole into the vortex just as they surround the crater.)
The Anchoring of the Thread - Several centuries later, once the Vampires are more or less defeated, Rassilon returns home. He coups Pandak I, forcing him to resign, and takes the Presidency.
By now the Citadel is more or less completed, though for the next few centuries it still lacks its characteristic dome, likely added during a later founding conflict.
[ID: Gallifrey, around the time the first TARDISes are grown, from The Lost Dimension. In the background past a small outsider village is the Citadel, new and gleaming, but undomed.]
The Triumvirate retry their experiment at Qqaba / Polyphilos, attempting to capture the collapsed star. When the experiment goes wrong once more, Omega's ship falls inside, as spacetime threatens to crack open again. With temporal energy flowing though him (a la the Bad Wolf), Rassilon reshapes the laws of physics, forming an event horizon, and black holes as we know them.
The black hole is dimensionally captured and suspended in the moment it collapses and the event horizon is formed, creating the Eye of Harmony, controlled using the Obelisk of Rassilon storied in the Panopticon Vaults. Meanwhile, the black hole itself is suspended within the temporal singularity of the Caldera, deep below the Citadel.
Harnessing the power of the Eye and the Caldera rift, Rassilon "anchors" chronology around Gallifrey, creating the Web of Time and placing it under the control of the Gallifreyans, now Time Lords.
Future Developments - Over the years, many changes come to Rassilon's Gallifrey.
Over the years, the more and more of the old city is replaced with new towers, forming the new Capitol around a now domed Citadel. Interweaved with these buildings over 28 square miles is much of the new Time Academy, such that the Academy is sometimes considered a whole city itself annexed to the Citadel.
While the remnants of the Pythian Temple are eventually torched by Rassilon, hunting down dissenters, many old buildings remain intact. These continue to be inhabited far into the future, in a community known as "Low Town" or the "Lower Len", as opposed to the "upper" city above. Shanties surround the surviving buildings, some climbing up Rassilon's Rampart.
Another such community is based around the "Old Harbour", whcih once sat on the coast of the now recessed Sea of Time. Nowadays, it likely sits on the shore of the small (possibly designed) lakes near the Capitol, where streams from the mountains presumably once drained directly into the sea.
[ID: From Hell Bent: a screencap as Rassilon turns from looking out the window from an Inner Council chamber high above the Capitol. In the background can be seen some lakes between the mountains, with some signs of what might be buildings on their shores.]
(Side note: I reckon this shot above might actually give us a glimpse of Old Harbour. I might just be imagining things, but there's some small features around and on the lakes I reckon could be docks or buildings? Interestingly, this also comes as Rassilon asks about the Cloister Bells ringing, and Old Habour is well known for the bells in its clocktower, which might explain why Rassilon was looking out at it from the window.)
In the space around the Eye in the Caldera, the Cloisters, the core of the APC net and later the Matrix, are constructed. The structure itself is, externally at least, relatively small, but it generates an entire 'micro-universe' on the Astral plane once accessed by the Pythia. Indeed, just as the Crevasse once allowed the meditating Pythia to see the future, so does the Matrix create its own prophecies.
[ID: From Hell Bent, the Doctor and Ohila converse in the entranceway to the Cloisters, a dark space with glowing optic fibres running across cobwebbed columns.]
In the Matrix is a "womb-like" null-space is where most TARDISes are grown, taking advantages of the Caldera's spatio-temporal properties. Budding within the Citadel Cloisters, a TARDIS's "Cloister Room" is one of the first parts to grow.
By the time of the Time War, though possibly earlier, the sealed Caldera also forms the resting site for many dying Battle TARDISes, the Under Croft, where they presumably decay and fertilise the growth of new time ships.
#Doctor Who#Faction Paradox#Doctor Who EU#Gallifrey#Timeline#The Caldera#The Capitol#Rassilon#Canon-Welding#DW Theory#really weird thought that I was debating whether or not to share but might be worth doing so here in the tags#but to be a bit Freudian#with all the weird gender stuff around the Intuitive Revelation (eg. CoaRP's “feminine” vs “masculine” descriptions)#the Citadel being built seemingly reaching deep into the Crevasse almost seems kinda crude in retrospect doesn't it?#like how people joke about monuments being a phallic symbol#I dunno#maybe I'm reaching#feels like an accidental combination of deep lore and CGI artistry that could be turned into commentary in a weird FP story or something#especially if you combine it with the 'womb' description of the Matrix space where TARDISes are grown#and the 'Mother'-ness of the Matrix to the TARDISes in stuff like Toy Story
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Doctor Who as tweets/textposts pt.5
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"Get off my planet."
The episode ‘Hell Bent’ first aired on this date nine years ago.
#Doctor Who#DW#Peter Capaldi#Twelfth Doctor#Donald Sumpter#Rassilon#Series Nine#The Universe Loves Peter Capaldi
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Here we go again, as the Doctor would say: another plot bunny, absolutely unasked for :) I happen to have watched Here Comes the Mirror Man with John Simm—and now I have this idea of another human AU, with the homeless Master who escaped from a dubious cult (because Rassilon and his acolytes look very much like a cult to me, with all their ceremonial robes, rituals, and delusions of grandeur).
The Master is not quite right in the head (maybe because the cult used some hallucinogenic stuff, like the Children of Light in Deadly Reunion), and the social worker who tries to help him (the Doctor of course) isn't entirely sure the Master can be trusted. Other homeless people who knew him keep disappearing. Is he the one to blame?
#doctor who#tensimm#thoschei#tenth doctor#simm!master#dw novels#the end of time#rassilon#the doctor and the master#the doctor x the master#simm master#here comes the mirror man
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the doctor is the first time lord ever to have an 100% disapproval rating on gallifrey. they didn't even hate rassilon that bad
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Hey, I'm new to The DWEU, what are the looms?
LOOOOOOOOOOMS
What are the Looms???? The Basics
First, the Great Schism was an important event on early Gallifrey where Rassilon and his supporters and Pythia and her supporters went to war. Pythia was defeated, but she cursed all of Gallifrey with sterility. Accounts differ on whether or not this included all Gallifreyans or if some could still reproduce sexually.
This posed a massive problem for the future of Gallifrey. The Great Houses used devices called Looms to churn out some new Gallifreyans.
Looms had a many chords in them as well as semiotic fluid. Individuals - often soaking wet - are yanked from the Looms by another Gallifreyan. Each chapterhouse has their own Loom. This makes Gallifreyans of the same House related to each other laterally (everyone is a cousin). Many of the loomed Gallifreyans are "born" in a fully grown adult body, but this is not always the case as we have heard about children and teenagers on Gallifrey.
Basically, imagine if a population had suddenly gone sterile. To perpetuate the species, an individual would have to create some sort of device the create the next generation (and the next and the next and the...). This is in essence what a Loom is for Gallifrey! Of course, there are a lot more details in EU lore, but I figured I'd drop some basics (rather then send an overwhelming wall of text).
#doctor who#dw#dr who#classic who#new who#doctor who eu#dw eu#doctor who expanded universe#looms#looooooooms#the doctor#lungbarrow#i think this is about my space babies post?#rassilon#pythia#time lord#time lords#gallifrey
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