we're the only ones left

I actually remember all of these. If not, I would have assumed this was a shitpost

These are just from new who as well. I didn’t even get into classic who and such iconic villains as bioengineered rats from space and the vampires that can be repelled if you believe in communism hard enough

[ID: a tumblr tag which reads: #don’t forget the christmas tree of death // End ID]

I only know of the Adipo. Tell me more about the vampires

I think it was a seventh doctor thing or something? I dunno. They were aliens that were basically vampires and you repel them if you focus on your true belief in something. Basically trying to explain why vampires get repelled by crosses I guess. One of the minor characters in that episode was a Russian Soviet military guy who focused on his belief in the communist party to repel them.

Doctor Who is simultaneously an “everything can be explained by science” show and an “a wizard did it” show so you have a main character who is an atheist that has met the devil and seen proof of the existence of the afterlife and the separation between the mind and body who brandishes a magic wand and meets Scrooge from a Christmas story but in space

"Why would they lie?" Why. Would. They. Lie? Why would the time lords lie? Why would the time lords lie. Girl every Time Lord loomed after the anchoring of the thread can't truth, all they know is charge they matrix, forsake the primitive temptations of the flesh, torture the Doctor, execute the Doctor, abuse the Doctor, eat hot chip and LIE.

Companion concept: Xenobiologist who is actually in it to study Time Lords as a species and the easiest way to do this is get adopted by the Doctor as their current pet friend. The adventures are just what one must go through for primary sources.

The obvious issue here is that the Doctor is complete bullshit and lies about everything, especially themself, but there is still much that can be figured out by observation alone

Entire books about Gallifreyan mating displays could be written based on the notes taken during an interaction with the Master

anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF

to this day i’m not actually sure how we were supposed to interpret strax’s “a lot of muscular young men doing sport” line in deep breath but is that fujo clara is canon to me #ToMe. i think in high school she was writing fanfic about torrid secret love affairs between ancient roman philosophers.

i think the “clara has no idea how the internet works” thing in bells of st. john is stupid. but if we accept that episode as canon and not a mass hallucination then i must assume clara wasn’t doing fandom stuff online in the 00s, and i’m choosing to believe she invented ancient philosopher slash rpf out of her own beautiful mind. i think in 2002 she was 16 and writing fanfic about marcus aurelius by hand in a spiral-bound notebook.

9th doctor era was simply The Best One im sorry. shaved head leather jacket doc martins telling people to kill themselves. sweetie pea retail worker universal union organizer who became god for him. their stray cat horny little boytoy bottom who becomes an unkillable eldritch horror because of their love. did i mention the first guys a dilf and the other two have daddy issues.

[ID: four gifs of the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams talking. The Doctor says, "This is their empire. This is kicking the Romans out of Rome." Rory says, "Rome fell." The Doctor says, "I know. I was there." Rory says, "So was I." /end ID]