Thinking Again About The Idea That Gallifreyan Would Have Temporal Pronouns That References An Individual

thinking again about the idea that gallifreyan would have temporal pronouns that references an individual time lord ‘in general’ as opposed to referencing a specific rengeneration. and how the gallifreyan language probably has complex verb tenses or conjugations around not when events take place in the timestream but also tenses relating to where two time lords are in relation to each other.

in this vein, i love the idea that gallifreyan has three conjugations or words for the concept of “i can’t do or tell you that”:

“i am physically unable to do that / I don’t have the info you need”

“i am choosing to withhold this information and/or not do this / i promised i would not do or reveal this”

“i cannot tell you or do this because it would violate the laws of time / it gives you too much foreknowledge / it’s likely to cause a paradox”

while #1 and #2 can intersect, it makes sense to me that #3 would be its own separate concept or word. that it’s not just that you’re choosing to withhold something: you are bound by the laws of time to withhold it. you may badly, desperately, want to help this person change their future, but you know doing so could cause incredible damage to the timestream. “i’m so sorry. if it were up to me, i would tell you, but the universe won’t allow me to say.”

When I was in 1st grade, the sandbox in the playground had two weird old metallic pillars that were at least four meters high, because that school used to be a factory. All the kids wanted to climb on them, and that was obviously dangerous, but that certainly didn’t stop us.

So yeah, those metallic pillars in Eight’s TARDIS really remind me of the playground.

boys who would kill for each other (and have) and would also kill each other (also have done that)

"NOT WITH ME! DIE WITH WHOEVER COMES AFTER ME! YOU DO NOT LEAVE ME!" god she's so selfish i love her (normal people usually just say i love u but that works too ig)

"I told you we'd get caught!"

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I don't usually hop on to trends like this but the moment I saw it I thought oh yeah. That's totally them. I've not seen an academy era version yet but I did see a tensimm one which coincidentally was the other way around.