(via dapurinthos)
“Missy. Short for Mistress. I can’t very well keep calling myself the Master, can I?”
I’m not fluent in Gallifreyan but
Presume for a moment that the Doctor and Missy were speaking to each other in Gallifreyan, and the Doctor didn’t realize it because they’re so used to the TARDIS translation circuits. Presume Gallifreyan is casted, not gendered. What did they really say, without the obviously faulty English translation the audience heard?
“Short for [Master+suffix for former Lord Presidents]. I can’t very well keep calling myself [Master+suffix for renegades], can I?” [I was the frigging War King]
Or
“Short for [Master+suffix for time lords restored to their natural bodies]. I can’t keep calling myself [Master+suffix for Trakenites and goo snakes and weird electric blond people], can I?”
Or presume they were speaking to each other in English (or some other gendered language) and the Master’s mastery of the language only goes as far as “human pronouns are apparently based on gender presentation so I guess ‘she’ would be best now.”
And prove to me that I am not mistaken in m i n e
Took a while but I completed my Doctor Who pumpkin. What do ya think? :)
(via cesiousblue)
I must come clean, last week I sketched dark!clara because I thought dark/evil clara would be interesting and edgy but then deep water previews happened and now I regret it deeply
Eighth Doctor fans, fans of BBC books or the Eighth Doctor Adventures, or random whovians who know both books above.
Out of these two, Hope and The Domino Effect, which is the more standalone-ish? I haven’t read any EDAs yet, but I know probably neither one is in the category that you would call a standalone. But still, if you had to choose, which one is more enjoyable read on its own? Which one represents the Eighth Doctor’s era more? Which one is less confusing if you don’t know anything that’s happened before?
Having thought about it, I’d say Hope. It’s not part of an arc as much as The Domino Effect. I wouldn’t say it’s particularly representative, but at the same time it’s not unrepresentative either. It’s a good book. Objectively it’s probably better than The Domino Effect (which has a bad reputation - I love it though). Ultimately, The Domino Effect is much more arc-heavy, and I think it might be a bad one to start with. So go for Hope.
