#all doctors

One: Granddad kidnaps teachers

Two: Hobo loves Scots and recorders

Three: Flamboyant scientific advisor gets ignored

Four: Bohemian likes making others conform

Five: Dad needs a break

Six: Clown needs dressing down

Seven: Question marks signify moral scruples

Eight: Twink constantly forgets crushing trauma

Nine: Northerner likes chips and blondes

Ten: Twink constantly remembers crushing trauma

Eleven: Baby is a war criminal

Twelve: Granddad actually ponders on morality

Here it is, right on time! I hope you like it <3

for most of the show, it was necessary to have one. the tardis needed to be locked like an ordinary police box, and if locked, it was incredibly difficult to get into.

(unless you steal the whole-ass lock, which the sensorites totally did. we like to pretend that it can't happen again.)

anyway: this meant that companions needed to receive keys to the tardis in case of emergencies. thus, the key-giving ceremony began to crop up, and it's very, very soft.

part of the significance of this is that it represents vulnerability. the tardis is an extremely powerful bit of kit and it's the doctor's only home. she's their wife, even, in a roundabout way. plus, the tardis can technically be summoned with the key alone, so you can imagine how important this thing is. in the wrong hands, it can do a lot of damage on many levels.

and here's the real kicker: technically, the key isn't completely necessary anymore, and i really like this. it gives the tardis a new sense of agency. rather than being a pure machine - something to lock and unlock, something without a voice - she opens up to people when she chooses to. the key remains a rite of passage for companions, and it's still an important symbol of vulnerability, but now the tardis gets to make the choice as well.

After showing off my old version of the "doctor mapping" on the Doctor Who Discord, Bongo50 showed me this app, DrawExpress. I subsequently spent 5 hours of the next day creating this, and the next week slowly adding to it. The PNG here is very poor quality, but I have a PDF attached which is amazing quality (as Tumblr doesn't allow files to be uploaded afaik, I'll attach a drive link).

Here's the link!

Anyway, the incarnations I think I added since last time are:

All three incarnations of Intrepid instead of just one

The Nth Doctor and his predecessor from Audio Visuals

The Stranger and the Professor from BBV Productions

Doctor Omega, El Jefe, and Dr. Who (King Kong Escapes)

The Doctor As Things My Family Have Said

First Doctor - "I understand why you don't understand, I just don't care to explain to you. Get used to it. It's called being dumb. Which you are."

Second Doctor - "I play a musical instrument, I don't need you."

Third Doctor - "Chemistry makes me feel clever because I know it and I don't need to try and know it, I just know it."

Fourth Doctor - "YES! ... Trees."

Fifth Doctor - "I'm really not as nice as you seem to think I am but okay, I guess."

Sixth Doctor - "Shut up! Just admit I'm better than you so we can go and get hot chocolate!"

Seventh Doctor - "No, I'm not manipulating you, I make suggestions and you listen to them... Oo, look, custard slices..."

Eighth Doctor - "Aha! You cannot escape me, I know your tricks, you sneaky snake."

War Doctor - "Why does everyone expect me to do everything they don't want to do?"

Ninth Doctor - "Earlier I was thinking maybe everything will turn out okay and one day I'll be a bit happier... And then I dropped my jacket potato on the floor and I realised I was wrong."

Tenth Doctor - "This is not fair, this is not healthy AND I HAVE PROBLEMS!"

Eleventh Doctor - "What did the man with the shovel in his head say? An ambulance, quickly!" *silence* "Okay, I forgot the punchline and had to come up with something and it was the best I could do. Realistic though."

Twelfth Doctor - "You are less significant than the dot above the letter 'i' in the word shit."