The Celestial Omnibus

[ID: Digital art of the Eighth Doctor, shown from the waist up, looking at a butterfly perched on his hand, smiling slightly. Butterflies fill the air in the background, and there are a few on his jacket and hair. end ID]

the mushka experience

Missy’s Tardis

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After the new Sea Devils episode, got to think "So what would the Doctor's outfitting really look like if it were traditional Chinese clothing from the getgo?"

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

All that is gold does not glitter

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost,

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola