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Wait. Saw someone in the tags of that Jacob Anderson as Inston Vee Vinder gifset say that they thought Vinder was the Doctor's father (and therefore Bel who is pregnant during Flux their mother). Wait. It kinda could make sense? We don't know much about the civilisation Vinder and Bel come from except that it's an old, bureaucratic and unstable one that got decimated by the Flux + Vinder appears through a wormhole in the Power of the Doctor episode (when Thirteenth regenerates). And the Timeless Child is found under a wormhole. Imagine the little family of Vinder, Bel, their child going to explore wormholes, getting lost through time (the association wormhole/time travel is an old one) and Vinder and Bel getting lost/dead/etc trying to find their way back and only their child survives. And because the child was exposed to wormholes since their birth or maybe the people Vinder and Bel come from have some particularities but that's why the timeless child has regenerative powers. And maybe that's why Thirteenth comes across both of them during the Flux despite all probabilities, because they're her parents in the future that is her past and the fabric of space-time continuum knows they have to survive and the best odds of survival are with the Doctor. And maybe that's why Vinder comes across the Doctor once again when he's starting to explore wormhole technology, because the universe knew he needed the Doctor's saving and expertise to lead him to continue his exploration and along the line to the timeless child.
I'm way too tired to make it more logical but there's something to explore here. And in any way, I would very much love to see more of Vinder and Bel in future episodes.
#doctor who#inston vee vinder#bel doctor who#dw the flux#timeless child#the doctor#rapha talks#rapha is being a whovian#why did i not think of that theory before i am loving it
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yknow i’m just happy to know that the oodsphere survived the flux
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the doctor: 🥺🥺🥺 by any chance do you happen to know anything about my life since we've been separated? maybe? i might want to talk about it, but only if you know every single detail already. if that were the case i would consider opening up. oh no? you don't? that's not a problem. i'm sure wallowing about it for the next million years won't be too bad.
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ncuti gatwa wear the orange spacesuit in s2/15 fifteenth doctor put the orange spacesuit on for a mission challenge it’s a rite of passage it’s important. wear that orange thang and watch your life slowly fall apart around you
#dw#doctor who#the waters of mars#kill the moon#flux#hide#i must be missing some#fifteenth doctor#fifteen#ncuti gatwa#kitty.txt
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It's over, Doctor. It has been ever since we let a virus into the experiment.
#dwedit#rtdedit#chibnalledit#timelordgifs#doctor who#dw spoilers#ncuti gatwa#15th doctor#fifteenth doctor#jodie whittaker#13th doctor#thirteenth doctor#barbara flynn#tecteun#original#*gifs#welcome back flux 2.0
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that's how that scene went, right?
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ppl complaining about the master showing up too much in nuwho are wrong. personally i don’t think they’re around enough. they should be in at least one episode a season doing gay arch nemesis shit and every time they should die in increasingly bizarre and improbable ways and every time the doctor should buy it 100% and be baffled when they show up perfectly alive in the next season
#less of the master being the big series bad. more of them doing saturday morning cartoon villain of the week shit#i do think dw is at it’s best when it’s more episodic. it’s my biggest issue w flux bc a lot of the stories are bangers but the series arc.#well. bit shit innit. universe ending plots tend to suck in most media. bc you know they’re not going to end the universe#some of the stuff flux did w it like the false prophet part and the vinder stuff i liked#but you coulda done that without. the Universe Ending#idk just thinking out loud. tags mostly unrelated to the post again i fear#doctor who
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I just finished the Flux storyline and it makes me so upset they introduced this cool idea to us and then IMMEDIATELY took it away again the next episode!! The Doctor turning into a weeping angel would have been such a cool plot point!!
#LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE#you could have so much fun with that#like how long is the doctor willing to go hungry to save humanity#how much would it hurt her if Yaz couldn't stand her starving herself and offering up someone else OR EVEN HERSELF#The SHAME the GUILT#not even the TARDIS wanting anything to do with her#jodie whittaker#13th doctor#doctor who#doctor who fanart#dw art#dw fanart#the flux#the timeless child#weeping angels#weeping angel#the weeping doctor#weepingangel!doctor#man idk how fandom people tag stuff#weeping angel doctor#fanart#the doctor#doctor who flux#weeping angel 13#donutdrawsthings#bad wolf#angel#digital art#artists on tumblr#doctor who series 13
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DOCTOR WHO: FLUX Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse written by Chris Chibnall | directed by Jamie Magnus Stone ››› Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor
#jodie whittaker#doctor who#dw#13th doctor#tvedit#dwedit#doctorwhoedit#scifiedit#you could never make me hate the flux era#or the chibs era tbh
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Re the Doctor talking about destroying half the universe. Was the Flux never undone? Did I misremember it as being undone? Like it just happened. Half the universe poof, gone forever.
SPEAKING of destroying half the universe. Was the destruction of half the universe in the 4th Doctor episode, Logopolis, ever undone either? Cause if Nyssa's home planet stayed destroyed, then I dont think it was.
Sooo.... if the Doctor destroyed half the universe...
And then later destroyed half again...
Has the Doctor destroyed 3 quarters of the total universe? Because damnnnn, picture of their face next to genocide in the dictionary indeed.
#my sibling pointed this out and im fucking CACKLING#doctor who#dw spoiler#60th anniversary#wild blue yonder#logopolis#the doctor#the flux
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The Doctor: I am life
The ghosts of every race he's committed genocide on:
#fifteenth doctor#doctor who#empire of death#dw spoilers#the doctor#my guy you eradicated three entire races in flux#like I don't think you're in a position to talk about life#my posts
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Things that will always leave me a bit frustrated: how the first episode of The Flux is really solid, laying down some fascinating storylines, and yet the rest of the series don't go all the way to it.
I really think Chibnall should have dropped the Sontaran part, though meeting Mrs Seacole was nice. She was interesting, the Sontarans are boring and a waste of time.
And less Sontarans mean more Vinder, Claire and especially a satisfying end to Swarm and Azure.
I'm not disliking the entire series 13, because overall it has really good parts, but only taken separately. As an ensemble, a continuous storyline, it leaves too many things unresolved, and not in the fun, "imagination is your power", way, but in the frustrating, "what does it even meaaaaan" way.
Here's hoping RTD gives us some closure, the way Moffat did for some things started before he got in the chair. Though with the way series 14 is being branded as "season 1" (uuuugh *spits*), a soft reboot... Welp. We shall see.
#doctor who#rapha talks#rapha is being a whovian#dw series 13#the flux#dw the flux#the halloween apocalypse
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Hold on to that hat. 🤣
thirteen’s era appreciation: 230/?
#the doctor#thirteen#thirteenth doctor#13#13th doctor#tecteun#survivors of the flux#the flux#dw series thirteen#dw series 13#dw the flux
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"Wild Blue Yonder" dealt with some of the emotional fallout of the Flux, so I want to rewind a bit and look at what that means for the Doctor.
I know that the Timeless Child and the Flux are contentious topics. I'm not here to argue either way. But now those storylines have decisively not been retconned, and with both of these fresh in my memory, I feel the need to offer some context for anyone who may not have seen it, and to recontextualize it for myself and anyone who has.
NotDonna: You don't know where you're from. The Doctor: How do you know that? How does anyone know? How does Donna know?
In "The Timeless Children", we find out that the Doctor was discovered as a child alone under a wormhole, and adopted by a woman named Tecteun. There was an accident where the Doctor fell from a cliff and regenerated, and subsequently Tecteun performed "experiments" on them to try to understand regeneration. The show minces words about this but she killed a child a whole bunch of times is what happened. Her experiments created the Time Lords and allow them to engineer their regeneration properties. The Doctor has no memory of any of this, and only finds out via the Master and information stored in the Time Lord Matrix.
The Doctor, predictably, doesn't tell anyone about this revelation. She makes a speech to the Master about how this makes her more, we get a single shot of her looking a bit tired in the TARDIS, then she immediately gets thrown in prison.
Ultimately, the Doctor doesn't know where they're from or who their parents are. And the very fact that they're not from Gallifrey is information that no one in the universe should have. Everyone who knew is now dead.
NotDonna: I saw it in your head. The Flux. The Doctor: It destroyed half the universe because of me. We stand here now, on the edge of creation, a creation which I devastated, so yes I keep running, of course I do! How am I supposed to look back on that? NotDonna: It wasn't your fault! The Doctor: I know!
A fun fact about the Flux is that the Doctor did not cause it. So why does he blame himself? Because the person who caused the Flux was Tecteun.
The reason why Tecteun wanted to destroy the universe is because the Doctor interfered with things too much. Too much morality. Too inspirational to people. She calls them a virus. So her solution to the problem of the Doctor is to destroy the universe, with the Doctor inside, and take her ship to a different universe to start fresh. She also was the one to steal all the Doctor's memories of previous lives in the first place. She's dismissive and patronizing and clearly does not care about the Doctor on an emotional level at all. Tecteun is a piece of work, and the implications of her actions and how they've shaped the Doctor have the potential to go deep.
Thirteen doesn't get too much of a chance to react to any of this, because there is plot going on. And shortly after they reunite, Tecteun gets killed by a different villain. So there was no emotional closure in the moment, and there's now no possibility for the Doctor to make sense of her actions. The Doctor does not tell any of her friends about any of these events. She keeps promising to tell Yaz but does not.
"Wild Blue Yonder" is the first time we, as the audience, hear the Doctor discuss the Flux. And their perception of events is skewed at best. The Flux wasn't caused because the Doctor made a mistake and a lot of people were killed, which is what you can argue for many other situations. The Flux and the devastation of the universe was caused by their mother, who promptly turned around and told them it was their fault for being such an interfering nuisance. We know that the Doctor is often an unreliable narrator, but this is beyond that. These are the words of an abused child who has internalized the narrative that the abuse was their fault.
So the Doctor being able to talk about this with Donna, who has seen what happened, who knows him, and tells him that it's not his fault — it means so much to him. He wants it to be her so badly. And then NotDonna laughs in his face. You can see the devastation. He thinks for one moment that he can finally talk about this with his best friend, and it's snatched away from him. He gives himself a moment to break down in the corridor, and then you can see the walls rebuilding as he suppresses it all again.
At the very end of the episode, back in the TARDIS, he's trying very very hard to be nonchalant. I'm curious. The NotDonna could remember all these things that happened to me while we were apart. Can you? Just wondering. Things happened, but I'll be fine. In a million years. It's not a joke.
He wants so badly to be able to talk about this. You can see it in all the lines of his body language. He's keeping himself together but is prepared to fall apart in an instant. He doesn't want to actually tell anyone, but if Donna just magically knew already, and could tell him it wasn't his fault — well, that would make the world of difference. But she doesn't know, and he can't bring himself to tell her. And so the cycle continues.
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It’s been a long day and we know everyone is going to process these events a little bit differently. Here’s a message from the Thirteenth Doctor, for anyone who might need it right now 💙💙
We’ve decided to still post Flux 2.0 fanworks tomorrow in case anyone needs a distraction. We post to Ao3 at 11am GMT/6am EST ✨
If you’re feeling helpless and would like to put some good out into the world, this project is raising money for the Congo and hurricane relief in Asheville, NC. All digital downloads, and we have donation options as low as $1. The link is in our pinned post 🫶
#13th doctor#doctor who#thirteenth doctor#jodie whittaker#dw#mandip gill#thasmin#yasmin khan#doctor who flux#flux2
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FLUXES [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "DOCTOR, The"
[Image description, courtesy of @quailfence: a series of pictures of text, alternated with screencaps and gifs from Doctor Who.
1: Text: Fluxes: [Celestis: Engineered Participants/Technology] Individuals transposed backwards in time but not too far in space, using a very high chaotic limiter setting and tied to their home period by a thread of biodata
2: The Eleventh Doctor stands in the future corpse of his TARDIS, looking and a pulsing stream of light that has replaced the console. He says, "That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe. My path through time and space."
3: Text: He raised a finger. 'Look. There.
Now she could just make out the thread in the moonlight. It was just a faint reflection, maybe a foot or two long, about a metre off the ground. A taut strand of spiderweb hanging in the air, not attached to anything.
'What is it?' Fitz asked.
'It's only partially rotated into three dimensions,' he said. He pushed his finger right through the glimmering line, without affecting it. 'That's why it looks one- or two-dimensional. The rest is still perpendicular to what we can see - woven into higher space, or the time vortex…'
'Yes,' said Fitz, 'but what is it?' 'It's what your friend mistook for a ley line.' The Doctor was scuttling around the silver thread, peering at it from every angle, getting more and more agitated. 'It's part of the fabric of space-time itself. What DNA is to your genetic code, this stuff is to biodata. And it's all just exposed here now. Personality, history, memory, perception, all vulnerable…'
'I'm going to have to ask you again, aren't I?' said Fitz.
The Doctor said, 'It's me.'
4: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth doctors in the TARDIS. 14: "But you're fine?" 15: "I'm fine, because you fixed yourself. We're Time Lords, we're doing rehab out of order."
5: Text: The subject is turned loose in his or her own history, and the limiter setting allows tiny actions taken by the future version to have considerable effects on the past version. The biodata link then transfers these changes to the future version, which alters it, and thus alters the changes made to the past version. Therefore, the individual's history is kept constantly in flux.
6: The Fugitive Doctor says, "Let me take it from the top: Hello, I'm the Doctor."
7: Text: Let me finish. Think back to that time when you went to see your previous selves.
8: Ten, Eleven, and War talk to each other. Ten: "You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?" Eleven: "We change history all the time. I'm suggesting far worse."
9: Text: 'Maybe there's no one home on Gallifrey,' said the boy softly. There was just the one of him.
The Doctor looked at him, cupping the small white cube in his hands. The boy said, Maybe they all left. Or maybe the whole planet's being destroyed, and undestroyed, and destroyed, and you just caught them at the wrong moment.
10: The TARDIS by the ruins of Gallifrey
11: Text: 'It's impossible,' said the Doctor. 'It's impossible for my people. Our past is unreachable. What's written can't be unwritten.'
'Who said your history can't change?'
Another boy answered, 'Someone from his history.'
And another: 'Maybe it's the second-biggest lie in Time Lord history.'
12: Dhawan!Master tells Thirteen, "You are the Timeless Child."
13: Thitreen stares at a ruined house. Swarm whispers in her ear and tells her, "All the memories you've lost, all the people you've been. It's all in there, contained within that house."
14: Text: And it was like the Doctor's home. As if his ship understood the loss of the House and had compensated to fill the emptiness. Shadowy corridors, alcoves and stairways, a secret at every turn. Like being in the Doctor's head. Like his life, for that matter, the details of which were strewn like flotsam across the floor.
15: Text: 'Sweet,' said the little boy. 'That's my favourite of your origin stories, too.'
The Doctor opened his eyes. He had been laughing, he realised, he felt that lightness in himself. The boys had all moved away, behind him, leaving him facing the empty dark of the warehouse.
'What do you mean?' he asked. His voice sounded very small.
'Is this the version where they banned all mention of his name, and yours, for consorting with aliens? Or the one where he got every record of himself deleted from the files?'
'Feel free to believe either of them,' snapped the Doctor, 'or both of them, or neither of them. If you're curious about my past, I want there to be as many wrong answers as possible.'
16: The Eighth Doctor tells someone, "I'm half human. On my mother's side."
17: Text: 'Well he's a hybrid, you know that. A Gallifreyan not born of Gallifreyan, the one who unites the two races and brings good old human niceness into their alien society. Aliens need that, y'know.'
'A human hybrid? She saw the contempt in his curling lip. 'Pseudoscientific nonsense. There's no evidence,' he repeated.
'He's allowed to be different. He's got a prophecy and everything.'
18: Lady Me says, "By your own reasoning, why couldn't the Hybrid be half Time Lord, half human?"
19: Text: Someone giggled. 'Let's play pin the tale on the donkey.'
'Maybe you didn't use to have a father.'
'Maybe you're living in the middle of a time war. Maybe there's an Enemy out there -'
The Doctor shouted, 'I'm not listening!'
'- who's rewriting you when you're not looking!'
'Maybe you weren't always half human.'
'But now you've become always half human.' 'Maybe you weren't always a Time Lord.'
But now you've always been a Time Lord.'
'Maybe you originally came from some planet in the forty-ninth century. Fleeing from the Enemy who'd overrun your home -'
'I said I'm not listening! Laa laa laa laa laa -'
'- and you've just been written and rewritten and overwritten, ever since.'
'Pin the tale!'
'How d'you know it's not true?'
'How could you know it's not true?'
The voices crowded in. 'How would you know, huh?'
'How would you know?'
'How would 'How would you 'How 'How would you know? you know? you know? know?'
'Why would I care?' shouted the Doctor.
The boy fell silent.
20: Lady Me asks, "Am I right? Is it true?" Twelve replies, "Does it matter?"
21: Text: However, the one group from the Homeworld which has excelled at flux-engineering is the Celestis.
22: Two asks the Time Lords, "Now then… what about me?"
23: Tecteun tells Thirteen, "Which is ehy we engineered the Fluyx: Shut the universe down and you within it."
24: Text: Even Mictlan itself can be considered a kind of enormous flux, an endlessly-shifting realm so cortosive to the rest of history that its heartland has to be kept on the outer skin of the universe
24: The Fourteenth Doctor tells Donna, "I invoked a supersition, at the edge of the universe, where the walls are thin and everything is possible."
25: The space station from Wild Blue Yonder
26: Text: There are suggestions of a stable middle-ground between the two fates, in which the physical matter of the flux is lost but the meaning of the subject/ victim is retained, a series of memetic connections with no flesh to support it. Yet this entity exists only on a purely theoretical level, relying on the perceptions of others to survive at all.
27: The Twelfth Doctor walks up to the TARDIS console. He says, "Can't wait to hear what I say." Glancing at the viewer, he adds, "I'm noting without an audience."
28: Text: You know what Sam represents. If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? Stop me if I'm getting too abstract here, but if a Time Lord saves the world and nobody witnesses him doing it, does history care? She's your witness. The thing you need to make you whole.
29: The First Doctor looks at the viewer and says, "Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!" End description.]
[Plain text: Fluxes [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "Doctor, The". End plain text.]
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#Doctor Who#DW Meta#DW Theory#First Doctor#Second Doctor#Eighth Doctor#Tenth Doctor#Eleventh Doctor#Twelfth Doctor#Thirteenth Doctor#Fourteenth Doctor#Fifteenth Doctor#Martin!Doctor#Tecteun#The Division#The Flux#Faction Paradox#Doctor Who EU#The Book of the War#Unnatural History#just some random thoughts#linking together some of the parallels and headcanons over the years into a chain#actually was spurred by me thinking about the 'destruction of the universe' line in Class and connecting it to the Flux#but had to cut it#as well as a lot more#due to the 30 image limit#so consider also the Solitract; the Great Old Ones from the previous universe; the Doctor as a 'virus'; “once upon several times” etc.#DW Spoilers#Doctor Who Spoilers#for Tennant and Gatwa together
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