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[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Do you think Timelord-specific disabilities exist? Like Timelords who always regenerate into the same body, or something else?

Do Time Lord-specific disabilities exist?

Absolutely. Time Lords already deal with some unique disabilities or conditions:

👽 Existing

Regenerative Dissonance: Imagine your past selves just won’t shut up. Multiple personalities from past incarnations do not shut up when you regenerate, resulting in a constant board meeting inside your head. This condition has such a severe impact on mental health that afflicted Time Lords end up committing suicide, although there is Gallifreyan technology that can help control it.

Regenerative Vulnerabilities: The few seconds in which they are regenerating are extremely vulnerable, compromising their immune systems and leaving them open to viruses, paradoxes and other forms of biodata corruption through foreign materials, resulting in severe allergies or even changing species.

Whoops, that regeneration went wrong: Can be sub-categorised into areas including (but not limited to) - Whoops, I only have half a new body now; - Whoops, I regenerated my body but not my liver; - Whoops, I've turned myself inside out; - Whoops, I've gone back to being a time tot; - Whoops, I've turned into a creature from Stranger Things.

Regenerative infections: Multiple regenerative illnesses exist, one of which is the Dogma Virus, which is a condition that lies dormant until a Time Lord regenerates, then turns the new incarnation into a violent, mindless being.

Dark Design: Dark Design is a rather special form of insanity reserved for Gallifreyans only. This renders the Gallifreyan unable to stop thinking; hampering their ability to sleep or take care of themselves, causing severe irritability and anger, hallucinations, and an inability to process reality. It is usually suffered by exceptionally clever Gallifreyans and results in them becoming corrupt geniuses. It is incurable, and sufferers spend their lives in Gallifreyan mental institutions (or you know, being President).

Retro-regeneration or Degeneration: Reverting to previous incarnations can happen and has its own set of potential issues.

+ many more besides.

💭 Speculative

Given these existing complexities and potential pitfalls, it's entirely feasible that there could be lots more Time Lord-specific disabilities. Some speculative examples might include:

Chronic Regenerative Inhibition: A condition where a Time Lord can't regenerate at all despite having all the necessary physical gear, living just one mortal life.

Regenerative Looping: A condition, as you suggested, that forces the Time Lord to continually regenerate into the same form, never moving on to a new one.

Retro-Regenerative Confusion: An inability to correctly channel past incarnations even when they are needed. Maybe this is a skill set, or a set of memories. And we're not just talking 'I can't quite remember what happened on this planet last time' to 'wait, how does walking work?'

Environmental divergence: Maybe regeneration is required in an atmosphere with no Oxygen. If the body successfully adapts to this environment, then maybe the Gallifreyan can no longer breathe Oxygen and requires exclusively space dust-9 atmospheres to live?

Chrono/psionic dementias: Maybe a Time Lord can no longer perceive time in linear order? Maybe they can no longer control their psionic abilities, hearing everyone's thoughts all the time?

These are just a few ideas - the list is potentially infinite.

Related:

Can disabilities persist through regenerations?: The nature of inherent and regeneration-specific disabilities.

Factoid: What’s the ‘Dark Design’ in Time Lords?

Regenerative Dissonance vs Disassociative Identity Disorder - what's the difference?: How RD and DID compare.

What counts as a safety hazard for regeneration?: Risk factors in regeneration.

Hope that helped! 😃

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Hi, I was wondering if we were supposed to get a confirmation email for the Trey postcard after we filled the form? I just want to make sure you received it

Yes, we've received yours! With every form we receive, we add it as a note on the order, but it's visible only to us so there isn't a confirmation email unfortunately.

For anyone who hasn't filled out the form and has reblogged one of our posts, here's a reminder to fill it out if you want to get a free Tre postcard!

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[notthetraveler]

it might just be leaves covering the water but i get the impression that you're a bit mad about doctor who no?

Me? Insane about Doctor Who ? Never. (Always)

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[mintyimperiatrix]

so I have no clue how much attention this is going to get BUT @locheye and I have made a discord server for the Forgotten Lives books/The Morbius Doctors! we also have other channels for discussing the other pre-Hartnell Doctors like the Fugitive Doctor and the Timeless Child so if you’re interested in that end of Doctor Who lore feel free to join :D

invite link: https://discord.gg/TVYhWwTsc2

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[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Thanks for the tag!!

Egg: literally anything, but fried or scrambled is my fav

Steak: don't really like steak but well done if I'm forced to eat it

Milk: skimmed or oat, but I only have milk in hot drinks

Alcohol: none

Warm drink: mocha or herbal tea

Potato: proper British chippy chips (not the puny fries you get from mcdonalds)

Spice tolerance: unfortunately not very high - I love spicy food but I then need a gallon of water

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[galliversary]

Hello, I was wondering if we were supposed to receive a confirmation email for the Trey Postcard? I just want to make sure my form was submitted-

Once you click submit on the form, and the form shows as submitted, you’re good! There isn’t a confirmation email for the Google form.

And for your specific case, I see a link with the Tumblr url “locheye”—so presuming that’s also you, we definitely have yours!

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[notthetraveler]

👋 for the red dwarf ask game !! :3

"Favourite side character" - Does Ace count as a side character? If not, probably the skutters

[bananonbinary]

@locheye: Okay I'm going insane here, which episode is this from? I can't seem to find it (also the "you go home cause I'm sick" one?? My memory is awful today)

the bit i'm referencing is in MAG53:

MARTIN I just worry. You needed five stitches after you “accidentally” stabbed yourself with the bread knife. If you’re still claiming that’s what happened– ARCHIVIST I am.

which is in reference to jon's Mark from michael. we don't get to hear what jon actually said about the bread knife, which is why it's so funny to me to imagine how it might have gone.

and the other one is from when jon's about to confront the Not!Sasha in MAG78:

MARTIN Are you ok? You look awful. ARCHIVIST I’m… I’m coming down with something, I think. Listen, you should take the rest of the day off. Tomorrow as well. MARTIN Are you sure you – ARCHIVIST Don’t want to infect anyone else. Best you stay home. TIM Wouldn’t it make more sense if you went home, then?

this darling man has NO idea how to come up with a cover story. i adore him. note that in both these cases zero people actually believe him and he KNOWS that but sticks to his guns anyway.

jon's bread knife lie was always wild to me because a) i always pictured that scar like, in his upper arm or something, which is a wild place to stab yourself with a knife, and b) bread knives typically have blunted or rounded tips, they just don't really stab very well.

anyway i just remembered jon "you need to go home because i'm sick" sims cant lie for shit, so the conversation was probably less "ive just stabbed myself with a bread knife" and more

martin: jesus christ jon! what happened?

jon: i was stabbed.

martin: stabbed!? hang on, should i phone the police?

jon: No!

jon: it's fine.

jon: i stabbed myself

jon: with

jon: a knife

martin: it's jagged??

jon: a...bread...knife.

martin: in your office??

jon: ....yes. goodbye.

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