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I'm visiting "home" right before the hay harvest and have ended up with a bunch of headcanons on gallifreyan grassland biodiversity, I need better coping mechanisms than Doctor Who brainrot please

I am one more missed day of meds from making an animated version of "Red Flags" that is Theta and Koschei (we all know who is who)

Koschei would've been that kid that acted all mature and tough and cool as much as possible to an almost ludicrous extent around the other young time lords, but the moment any authority figure asked him if he was ok he would've immediately burst into tears

I kinda headcanon the Deca were less of a special class for the mega geniuses of the academy, but rather a "special class" for gifted, but behaviourally challenged students, who to stop them burning down the school for the insult were told it was bc they were so very very clever

tumblr? tiktok did not like this video.

but y'all?

i think y'all will know what to do with it.

Me trying to write a deca fic for the hundredth time in a row: ok I can write their personalities well enough!!! Bruh…wtf is going on with the timelines…what canon should I follow…was this fact fanon or was this something I read somewhere in the novels…should I use this storyline from the tv show regarding the academy even if it doesn’t make sense within what’s canon to EU…what the hell is going on with their appearances…are they teens? are they children? do they look like fifty years olds? If they’re all time lords why the title that the academy gives them is also time lords couldn’t they pick another name 😩? Is this description of this character accurate or is this just how I pictured them in my head and now they’re someone else 😭 fine I’ll write nothing as always

If the toymaker really is the villain of the 60th special this just means that our chances of having a Rallon & Millenia mention increased from 0% to 0.5%

I want the Deca spin-off right now I’m so serious

"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.

I wonder if there's any long angsty academy fics with thoschei-centred? like the whole thing from their first meet to the final fight between them so after you read it all you just get a deep depressed feeling like a void was placed inside of you because you just know what happend to them after all of these academy years????? slowburn friends to lovers to enemies with some silly adventures and then /snaps fingers/ it's angst and depression

please im begging slap me with some links of this

cause you know what happens to a fanfiction writer when they can't find the thing they want to read.

oh shit i might actually write it.

YES EXACTLY.

the tragedy of deca group is one of the most uncovered topic in dw imo, and yet it remains as one of the most depressive ones

I think one the things about liking the deca and the academy era as a whole is the tragedy of knowing it doesn’t last, you find out it doesn’t last before you know it exists

Happiness have hit her like a bullet in the back,

Struck from a great hight,

By someone who should know better than that!

THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER. THE DOG DAYS ARE DONE.

- florence and the machine - the dog days are over

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«...I stand on the threshold and involuntarily look back in all senses - both material and mental. The TARDIS patiently waits for me, setting all navigation systems before its first flight with me on board. It's all going to end now, I think, catching the subtle line between what was and what awaits me ahead. And now, as I literally tear these words from my heart, vainly trying to figure out how to properly end this story, I look at the TARDIS in the yard, and it kindly flashes its light at the top, agreeing with the overwhelming nostalgia of the past, standing in this very present, into which I dove headfirst, like into a black hole. My days at the academy were over, and somehow, after everything that happened to me, it brought only a vague smile to my lips, not bitterness nor regret. Freedom was beating in my chest, and I could hardly believe that I had really managed to break free from the shackles and leave my whole life in Deca behind. I was sad, yes, that cannot be denied.

But I was free. I had longed for freedom for so long, I wanted to traverse the expanses of space without the label of Time Lord. It was all behind me - Theta Sigma's life was reaching its last moments before it would return billions of years later on the pages of this paper. The strange boy from the academy, who accidentally was picked into the group of top students and got involved in a ton of things, disappeared, leaving only a ghost of memories in the mind as a reminder. Now there was only the Doctor, who would save and protect, burying Theta's name as deep as possible in history. I didn't like Theta, and at the threshold, I felt a sharp aversion to everything I had experienced - there was no turning back, I understood that when I realized how much I hated the academy. Not in a bad way, of course, but having realized the true freedom at the doors of the TARDIS, I would prefer it to the academy.

Therefore, when I stepped over the threshold of the TARDIS and began my endless running through the Universe from one corner to another, I warmly smiled, watching the disappearing landscape of red Gallifreyan fields from a small screen, as if a burden had been lifted from my shoulders. I was not born on Gallifrey - even then I felt it, and it was not my fate to rot here until death.

The Doctor will be a wanderer. Running from planet to planet, studying and investigating new and new things. I did not know that so many adventures awaited me after the escape, but I was glad to meet any circumstances with open arms. Theta was not fond of surprises, but the Doctor craved them every minute.

Now, it seems that the Doctor's days will soon be counted. I begin to run away from him, and I realize that running is what I do best...»

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just a random idea that popped into my head while I was working on a fic

like how would Doctor, now fully aware and actually free from his duties(let's say, 14th for example) would perceive himself in the past? I mean, I'm really curious about how actually 14th Doctor feels when... Welp, he doesn't have to be the Doctor anymore. There's so much to it for exploration honestly, not only his trauma healing process but finally making his mind up and proceeding everything what happend to him in the past, including his academy years (INCLUDING KOSCHEI ima make another post for this one later)

And I was thinking that maybe Donna would recommend him to start writing some kind of diary just to settle everything down in order in his absolutely chaotic memory. And he would start writing, realising so many things that he always feared, that he always wanted to run from, all the mistakes he never wanted to look onto again - and he will look, not with the eyes of Doctor, because Doctor would never look so openly back, but with eyes of someone else. Of someone who's now fully understanding. Of someone who's finally free from saving the Universe every Tuesday.

gotta take my meds now brb/hj

so let's look actually realistically at thoschei ship

and in realistically I mean looking with all the EU stuff that happend between them, because yeah that's basically the main conflict stuff

be careful there's a lot of words that I wrote without thinking twice lmao

why thoschei isn't canon yet?

so from the doctor's point of view I think the main reason is that he just cannot morally accept master as the way he is, not only due to his cunning nature which just cannot flow in the same stream with him, but also due to doctors morality codex which is fully conflicting with masters

and what hurts me even more is that it's fully doctors fault. which doctor also feels guilty of, but he never acknowledges it nor wants to because welp, doctor is a coward and that's it. he's afraid that it will eventually turn him into something else than doctor - doctor is supposed to save others, not running around with local universal criminal with weird principles

when we look from the master's point of view it's very different. master is just STUCK with doctor. he doesn't have anyone to kneel on, just no one who would be actually interested in him and no one who would give him admiration and understanding. it's so fucking horrible to be honest.

only doctor was able to do so, they had similar paths, and master was fully trusting him, and then doctor did a lot of things which resulted in betrayal. and master just didn't turn evil. hot take: master NEVER was evil and NEVER will be evil. It depends on from which eyes we're looking for.

if we're looking from the doctor point of view yeah, master is evil thats it. he's immoral and evil.

evil and good is a question of perspective.

so master did not turn evil for EVERYONE alright, he was just evil towards the doctor because of betrayal, and if you think about it - everything what was master doing eventually led to doctor

was it intentional? yeah, at the beginning of it

but with time that line just got blurred and he's doing everything instinctively.

and when there's no doctor around for thousand or so years, master isn't so «evil» anymore. he's just... koschei.

so with this I can say that the identity of master was created by doctor himself. there's SO MUCH more to it that I could write a fucking essay thirty pages long just describing all the shit they caused to eachother lifes (please god just let them reduce to atoms I swear-)

so for the thoschei to be canon(i mean healthy and almost fully established) we need a doctor who's not considering himself a doctor anymore.

luckily we have one! it's 14th :DDD

and we need a master who's not in need anymore to get admiration and awe from doctor using rage and a lot of killing in process involved

which could be anyone if doctor is able to redeem himself in eyes of master, redeem all this betrayal, give up his title

and then master will not have to run and kill everyone on sight because well... doctor-not-doctor-but-a-friend-from-distant-past is here. he's available and free™

and then they'll be able to start again from almost scratch

but through giving up themselves and building up again together.

so the main point of all this shit: saxteen is canon XDDDD

but actually I'm going to explore this deep further later in my fic for sure.