#solitract

[variousqueerthings]

I am once again delighted by the frog

[donutdrawsthings]

I didn't expect this scene to touch me as much as it did

[doctorwhocontext]

DOCTOR WHO S11E09 It Takes You Away

[hellosweetie99]

My tattoo of the solitract!

I got this tattoo for a few reasons. First of all my forever obsession with Doctor Who. I loved this show since I was 10 and in my life, I’ve made some really dear friends because of it. But also because this concept of the Solitract is SO COOL! A conscious universe that changes its shape at will because it wants to be loved.

The Solitract is in It Takes You Away (S11,E9) AKA a Jodie Whittaker episode! I wanted to have a tattoo specifically from a Jodie episode because her being the first woman Doctor is so important to me.

So yeah love you forever doccy who. Welcome The Solitract to my body! I have a Tardis tattoo on my back so now The Solitract can be in the same universe as The Doctor

Here’s my tardis that I got like 5 years ago

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 240/?

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 11x09 - It Takes You Away

[dwimpossblog]

It Takes You Away

The Thirteenth Doctor and her companions find a blind girl left home alone by her father in today's #TBT 'It Takes You Away'!

[cynicalclassicist]

So sweet! 13 and the Solitract!

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[intuitive-revelations]

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.]

@dw-described

[jupiter049]

I did not expect to enjoy 'It Takes You Away' as much as I did. There's something so strange but beautiful in seeing The Doctor have to teach someone about not letting grief consume you.

It's the type of continuity driven development that Doctor Who should strive to do. Good in a vacuum and understandable for new viewers but if you're crazy enough to see the rest of the show then it becomes so rewarding and satisfying to watch.

Some of my favorite characterization for 13 coming from this one, Jodie really got into the character here. She is older than you, she has seen and experienced more things than you, and because of it she is simultaneously incredibly silly and incredibly mature. Becoming friends with a sentient universe to save another universe from collapsing is probably just a weird little thursday for her.

[whoify]

i’m rewatching it takes you away for the first time and it’s batshit insane that they tried to tell us this was on par with heaven sent. on what metric does it remotely hold up

[lasttree-garsennon]

The solitract likes frogs?

What is it aroace or something?

[doctorwhocontext]

DOCTOR WHO S11E09 It Takes You Away

[huevobuevo]

The Solitract’s final conversation with The Doctor breaks my heart like oh my gods Doc is just absolutely enamored by this scientific marvel of a frog that she’s only heard in stories as a child

A whole sentient universe wants to be her friend?????? The runaway timelord whose main purpose is to travel and seek the wonders of her own dimension?? Of COURSE she’s gonna fall in love with the Solitract like that’s practically a dream come true for her !!!

Meanwhile this amphibian FUCK yearns to behold the beauty of creation and is just desperate to love and to BE loved, then here comes a stranger with the stars written inside her head whose willing to stay with her as long as her friends are safe

But they can’t be together, they could never be together, their love will only end with the death of both of them. Now The Doctor has to bid farewell to their friend forever . Holy fuck. Can this freak have a relatjonship that ISNT self destructive please????

[evviejo]

requested by @saywhatyasee >> the thirteenth doctor and the solitract + it takes you away

[sandymybeloved]

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