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Alright, since I'm 80% sure Doctor Who starts tomorrow, I'm locking in my crazy guesses on who Mrs. Flood is for the season. This is based off of nothing but vibes.
1. The White Gaurdian
My reasoning? Eldritch being in white. We've seen last season that Davies is pulling from Classic Who a lot, so why not someone pretty important to some of the otherworldly aspects of old Doctor Who?
2. Kronos
I'm still really bitter about the whole Sutekh and Ruby's mom thing tbh. I convinced myself that there was evidence that Kronos was Ruby's parent (they're a God, they don't really have a gender.) And since Sutekh called himself the God of Death, it would be funny if Davies brought in another being from Classic Who that was more neutral in their title of God of Death. And as you can see above, their form while on this plane of existence is white.
Also, it's almost 100% a thing that Flood's the one that took the gold tooth that housed The Master. In The Time Monster, Kronos was about to torture the Master for all eternity if the Doctor hadn't pleaded with them to show mercy. So maybe there's still some hard feelings?
And yes, both of these rely heavily on the fact that Flood was wearing all white for about thirty seconds in the Season 1 finale.
Finished the Gunfighters.
I love how the Doctor said Steven was a singer for the sole purpose of annoying him and it ended up devolving so quickly. Also the Doctor casually revealing he's a film nerd is so real.
How I imagine the 3rd Doctor saw the Brigadier when he first started working for UNIT:
So I was reading the Terrance Dicks novelization of some of the Second Doctor's stories to see what descriptors for him are used, and I really love in "The Web of Fear" one that Dicks gave us an actual scene where the Doctor and the the Brigadier have their meet-cute.
Because as much as I really like Web of Fear, I think one of the main problems with it (other than the fucking missing episodes) is that for such an influential character for the Doctor, they basically meet off screen. Like, this is the first time we see them together:
Which will eventually turn into this:
And since this was written in '76, there's even a little paragraph explaining that this character will eventually become a really big deal to the Doctor. Idk if Lethbridge-Stewart was originally going to be such a big character, so I just think it's kinda cool that he retroactively gives him a slightly better introduction, even if the original one is still pretty fire.
I know that I've made this joke before, but the fact that the second Doctor's hat is almost always slightly off-screen always gives me big Doug Dimmadome vibes.
But to be fair, the actual length of his hat is also too funny for me to take seriously anyway.
Ok so like silly idea, tell me if I'm wrong in any way
But 11 Amy and Rory land somewhere and 11 runs off at some point to go do something and so Amy and Rory go exploring and run into two more people, these people being Jamie and Zoe who are here with 2 and are currently looking for him or something and they all keep looking around then stuff starts happening. I may expand idk just an idea
Happy Birthday Christopher Eccleston!
I love her
DOCTOR WHO The Power of the Doctor
🏰 Gallifreyan Legends and Fairytales
Most Gallifreyans would have you believe that myths and fairytales are either historical records distorted by time or pointless escapades into fantasy. And yet, woven into the very fabric of Time Lord culture, legends persist—some as warnings, some as bedtime stories, and some as fragments of very uncomfortable truths.
Here are just a few of the stories passed down through Gallifreyan history.
📜 Lady Patience and the Paradoxica Cards
Long before the River of Time became what it is today, it was merely a small tributary flowing down Mount Perdition. The people of the Capitol had achieved great power, but they had severed their connection with the past and future. Their society was frozen in stasis—sterile, dying.
Lady Patience, a noblewoman, desperately desired a child. Every night, she searched for a wizard or soothsayer who could grant her one, but none could help.
Finally, she found a Stranger—a man working to expand the tributary of time. He gave her an old bag and told her to fill it with water from the Sea of Life. When it was full to the brim, she would find the child she sought.
But the bag had a hole. She tried to fill it, but the water ran out every time. For months, she tried, attempting to patch the bag, but the patches always fell off, spilling the water upon the shore.
With every failed attempt, something strange happened. The wet patches stiffened, forming cards, each depicting all of reality. These became known as the Paradoxica—cards that could chart the shape of existence itself.
She continued her task until the entire Sea of Life was drained. At its emptied depths, she found a child. And in that moment, the curse was broken, restoring Gallifrey's past and future.
🎴 The Paradoxica Cards
According to legend, Lady Patience's discarded patches became a tool of great power. The Paradoxica deck was said to:
Chart the shape of reality—some cards held the past, others the future, and some the forever-present.
Be capable of transportation through time and space—if used with the power of a TARDIS.
Induce amnesia or disorientation—especially in lesser beings with low artron energy. (Time Lords included, on occasion.)
They are exceedingly rare—but if you ever find one, be very careful what you deal.
🦢 Other Tales of Gallifreyan Children
Gallifreyan nursery stories offer a variety of explanations for where children come from:
🪻 Infants are found beneath gooseberry bushes at the bottom of Rassilon's Garden.
🕊️ The Great Gallifreyan Stork delivers them (though, considering Gallifrey's atmosphere, that's one resilient bird).
🧚 The Loom Fairy blesses certain Houses (or curses them, depending on perspective).
Of course, none of these stories hold up under scrutiny—but that never stopped a Time Tot from believing.
📕Cautionary Tales for Gallifreyan Children (and arguably adults, too)
⛓️ The Story of the Rock
Two Time Lords, traveling through a scorching desert, came across a massive red stone cube.
Chained to the rock was a man, thin, starving, his teeth sharp and yellow, his chains rusted with age.
'Please,' he begged. 'Come closer. Look at what's behind the rock.'
One of the Time Lords, curious, stepped around to the other side.
And vanished.
The other waited in the sand for a week, listening to the Chained Man's whispers. But they never gave in.
The first Time Lord was never seen again.
🦇 The Toclafane, the Watchmaker, and Other Gallifreyan Nightmares
I won't lie—many stories told to toddlers aren't exactly The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and many of these bogeymen actually exist.
💀 The Toclafane – A general term for scary creatures Time Tots were warned about.
🔧 The Watchmaker – A time-warping entity that exists to remove all time anomalies, including bringing death to Gallifreyans who have been touched by paradoxes.
🐦 Pandora's Ghost – The first Lady President of Gallifrey, executed via D-Mat dispersal, is said to haunt the Vaults. On Gallifrey, her soul lingers in the Matrix. On Earth, her legend became Pandora's Box.
🕷️ The Shakri – Live in an adjacent dimension known as Darkspace; they are said to exterminate species before they spread too far. Time Tots were told to behave, lest they attract their attention.
🌌 Koltroxa – The story of a being trapped drifting through time until she died of old age.
🧙♂️ Malador – the immortal, indestructible evil eventually imprisoned by the Ancients, who created an army of living statues called the Melkur. (Which, by the way, are still out there. Waiting.)
🧛♂️ Great Vampires – Gallifrey's history with vampires bleeds into their kids' bedtime stories, warning Time Tots of their terrifying power and their lifelong genetic obligation to kill them on sight.
🔵 Blue Fire (Mi'en Kalarash) – A Great Old One who lives in the 'wasteland between realities'. It stimulates a sleeping victim's limbic system and feeds on the artron energy produced by fear and nightmares.
🩸 Zagreus – Zagreus sits inside your head Zagreus lives among the dead Zagreus sees you in your bed And eats you when you're sleeping
➕ Others – Others include the Fendahl, the Fendahleen, Salyavin, the Krafayis, and the Weeping Angels.
🙀 Slightly Less Terrifying Stories
Thankfully, they do have a few 'nicer' ones by comparison.
🏙️ The Lost City of Altrazar – Said to appear once every thousand years in normal space on the planet Nirvana.
⏳ The Time Sprites – Legends claim there's one trapped inside every TARDIS.
🪱 Time Vortex Leeches – Said to hijack timeships and take them to their crew's lost lovers.
🌠 Higher Evolutionaries – Dimensional pioneers said to have woven the web of parallel timelines.
🌇 The Lost City of the Archons – A city belonging to the last of the Great Old Ones, existing in the Great Desolation.
👶 Humans – Some stories talk about the species 'wearing the skins' of Gallifreyans and abandoned Gallifreyan children being raised by humans.
📖 Classics – Gallifreyan children also know The Three Little Sontarans, The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes, and Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday.
👑 Benncuig III – Possibly Gallifrey's only intentional children's author, Benncuig III wrote Lullabies for Time Tots, including stories about Rassilon and the story of Rassilon's Tower in the Dark Zone.
🏛️ What Do These Stories Tell Us?
Gallifreyan fairytales aren't just stories for kids—they're warnings. Warnings about curiosity, interference, and the dangers of straying too far from order ...
(Assembled from ROOG + TARDIS Wiki)
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Ever since I found the theory that the 9th Doctors leather jacket used to belong to Fitz I can't help but imagine senerios where Jack mistakes a confused Fitz for The Doctor because he recognized that leather jacket.
Never forget that the Doctor's aunt, High Chancellor Flavia, was named Acting President by the Doctor, who wanted to run away from his own Lord President duties.
She adopted an intelligent cat as an advisor while Acting President. She named this Gallifreyan cat....the Doctor.
So notorious little shit of the family, Time Lord Renegade "the Doctor," ran away from Gallifrey, dumping all of his responsibilities on his aunt, and she responded by replacing him with a pet cat.
The Master about the Doctor when they're not around: *heart eyes, but with panic in his voice as he thinks about the Doctor possibly dying* A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about...
The Master to the Doctor's face: *points a weapon at them* Killing you once was never enough for me, Doctor. How, how gratifying to do it three times over.....
And it's in the same fucking story.
Day Thirty: A story that I don't think is spoken about enough
I can think a lot of Doctor Who stories that isn't spoken about enough, but today I will say about is Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the second serial from Season 11
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
(Enjoy)
The War Chief is not the Master! The War Chief is not the Master!
Someone enters a dark room and turns on a single spotlight. It is a BBC representative and I’m stuck in a chair.
“Agree that the War Chief is the Master,” they say.
“Never.”
“Can you deny this?” They play clips from the colorization of The War Games with the Master’s score playing over scenes of the War Chief.
“Easily,” I reply, “you just put that there right now. It wasn’t there before.”
Various torture methods are employed, trying to make me break. But I have gone years ignoring the fan theorists and will not bend just because the BBC has given them a bone. I sit up, battered and bruised but not broken.
“Say it.”
I spit blood back at them. “Never.”
Day Twenty-Six: Favourite Planet
I love Peladon! The middle age(ish) aesthetic of the two serials is so good!
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
(Enjoy)
Happy birthday to Matthew Waterhouse! (AKA: Adric)
To celebrate I decided to dump all the photos of Adric/Matthew I have
I think most of these are either from Pinterest or @fuckyeahadric
Enjoy!!!
Day Twenty-Three: Two classic companion outifits that I like
Both Romanas' outifits are very good, and I really like the white dress from The Ribos Operation and the suit from Destiny of the Daleks.
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
(Enjoy)
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
There's too many one time characters to made a choice, but two of my favourites are Will and Jane, from The Awakening, the second serial of Season 21.
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
(Enjoy)
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Of course is the ending of The War Games: Jamie and Zoe losing their memories about the Doctor, and the forced regeneration of the 2nd Doctor by the Time Lords
(I'm not ready to see this colourized)
Other saddest moments i can think are: The Ponds dying in The Angels Take Manhattan, Adric's death in Earthshock and Donna losing her memories in Journey's End
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
(Enjoy)