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This broke my heart

I know everyone is talking about Opportunity, but I was always sad to see everyone forget about her older sister, the first pioneer of loneliness, sojourner.

all aboard the no-sleep train

like what if the vashta nerada and the weeping angels teamed up and the vashta nerada made it dark so the weeping angels could get you and you couldn’t run from the vashta nerada because you can’t stop looking at the weeping angel

i am never sleeping again

I saw a post recently about the DW episode “Silence in the Library”, but I can’t for the life of me find it again. Basically, it was saying that the Doctor had only done one thing that he considered unforgivable at that point. However he tells the Vashta Nerada to look him up and, even though it has been established that the Doctor really can’t do anything to them, they still back off. It all boiled down to: what the fuck did they find?

Dude! He legit decided (or thought he decided) to destroy an entire species. Two, actually. And this to stop a war. Now, the Daleks were bioengineered for war, so it’s not likely that there were too many innocents in their ranks. But on Gallifrey… That’s a big planet. And this is the species that has bigger-on-the-inside technology. Meaning that in the same amount of space, they could probably fit ten times the current world population. Or more.

This decision he made, by comparison, would be like me deciding to destroy the planet to end fighting in the Middle East. Yeah, sure, problem solved, but billions of people who had nothing to do with any of it died at the same time as everyone else. In just as much agony. And the Doctor had an exit strategy.

From the Doctor’s point of view, that is survivor’s guilt layered together with the guilt of committing a genocide of his own people in the pity-party cake from the seventh circle of Hell. That doesn’t just go away, and just because the war is Time-Locked doesn’t mean that people didn’t know that it happened or how it ended. There is probably a whole wing (a continent the size of North and South America combined) of the library devoted to scholars and scientists studying the repercussions of that decision.

And that’s just the WORST thing the Doctor has done. There’s a reason that the Doctor says, “Just this once, everybody lives” in The Doctor Dances; it’s because the Grim Reaper is the Doctor’s constant and unwelcome wingman. And this happens both if you’re fighting against the Doctor or with him. Think about the Doctor’s recent companions: how many of them had HAPPY endings? Even Sarah Jane Smith didn’t get what could be called a good departure from the TARDIS. All of these exploits probably have a wing of their own as well because he travels throughout time and space, impacting a lot of things along the way.

In fact, the actions of the Doctor have affected developing civilizations, brought about the fall of others, caused the rise of empires, revolutions, and coup-d’états. There probably ISN’T a book in that library that DOESN’T have some reference to the influence of the Doctor, no matter how obscure. His reputation gets so bad that the Doctor has to delete his timeline from the memory of the universe. In A Good Man Goes to War and Let’s Kill Hitler, we can see the impact of NOT the worst thing he has ever done—they stole Melody Pond and turned her into a weapon to kill him. Because the greatest weapon against a Timelord, as they learned from the Doctor, is another Timelord.

So what could they find in a library that was so bad?

They could find everything.

I thought it was gonna be something wholesome. I was not prepared.

Click the light bulb for some inspiration :)

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Juliet: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Romeo: I'm right here, Juliet.?

Juliet: "Wherefore" means "why" not "where."

Romeo: Misunderstandings like these are what define our relationship.

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Something that’s always interested me is why Serpine betrayed Mevolent in the Leibniz universe, but not in the main one. Since what differences the two is the continuing existence of Lord Vile, this shouldn’t really affect his opinions on Mevolent, should it?

But Lord Vile surviving isn’t the only big difference.

Unlike the Serpine from the main universe, who never lived to see the faceless ones actually returning, the Serpine from the Leibniz universe did.

[Tl;dr at the bottom of the cut]

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A character whose power is generally labelled 'seeing the future' by other characters, but is actually just fourth wall breaking and a very good knowledge of tropes and storytelling.

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"Okay, so we have to get in there to save the hostages, but there are armed guards everywhere and the building will blow up in three minutes. Any ideas?"

"Send in Stormgirl."

"… Er... Jessica? Stormgirl is the weakest and least experienced one on the team. I'm pretty sure her secret identity is literally a high school student. She got her powers last week."

"Exactly! They're not gonna kill her off now, are they?"

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"Hey! Red Shadow, how are things between you and The Black Cat?"

"Same old same old."

"Are you ever going to get round to asking her out?"

"No. Jessica says that if we ever progress beyond 'will they won't they' unresolved sexual tension, one of us will be killed."

"Fuck. Bad luck mate."

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"Why is Jessica crying over Torpedoman?"

"He had an unexplained coughing fit like five minutes ago, and now she says he's gonna die within the week."

"Shit. Poor guy."

"Yeah, we just got his merchandise set up as well."

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"Okay, Sharkageddon, that all seems to be in order. We'll be glad to have you on our team— although you are going to have to change your costume."

"What? Why? Is it too similar to another hero's or something?"

"No, no, it's… it's our clairvoyant, Jessica. She gets very upset if any of us wear red shirts out in the field. Best not to ask why."