#i am aware that im inhabiting a plane of insanity that normal people wouldn't so much as visit

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having thoughts about the way doctor who is sustained by the fans. it's more than a show really, it extends beyond television into other media and its central ideas go beyond media and into legend. the whole "everyone says the doctor's name at once to bring him back to life" thing going on in "last of the timelords" is ridiculous but. if you believe in something enough you can make it real. or give it a level of reality it could never have otherwise had. in the form of legends and mythology. and suddenly it doesn't matter if it were real at all - because it's so much more than that