📬 MAIL FROM A TEMPORALLY CONFUSED FAITHFUL VIEWER ⏳🎶
“Dear… whoever’s steering this thing — is there or isn’t there a six-month time jump between ‘Space Babies’ and ‘The Devil’s Chord’? Ruby says ‘June, July,’ and that seemed pretty clear, but then you said it’s ‘complicated,’ and now we’ve got a short story that says it’s been a week?? Are we drifting in time or just in the group chat??”
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Ahh, my most loyal of lore-seekers 🌀
Thank you for noticing. No, really. THANK YOU.
Only in Doctor Who would a one-line “June, July?” spark months of spiralling fan chronology spreadsheets. Bless your beautiful overclocked brains.
So, let’s clear it up. Or… swirl it further. 😈
Here’s the (wibbly) truth:
There was never a six-month time jump.
That line in The Devil’s Chord? It’s not a narrative ellipsis.
It’s TARDIS Drift™.
A temporal effect. A psychological shimmer. A little in-universe brain fog sprinkled in by the vortex gods. 🌫️
You spend more than five minutes in the TARDIS, and “June 2024” becomes more of a vibe than a timestamp.
Sarah Jane thought she was from the ‘80s. She wasn’t.
Ruby thinks it’s summer. It’s not.
Meanwhile, in “Night of the Shreek” — now that’s canon on caffeine ☕
“The last week – had it really only been that long?”
Bingo. That’s your in-universe confirmation.
The week from Space Babies through Devil’s Chord to Lucky Day is the same mad week.
But remember:
Linear time is for Time Agency desk clerks.
In the TARDIS? Time is ✨vibed✨.
So: no six-month jump.
Just a perception ripple.
Blame Maestro.
Or the Goblins.
Or the TARDIS, who keeps forgetting to update her calendar app.
💙 Yours across confused timelines,
Someone who definitely hasn’t changed the canon again recently 🫣
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