stygian2night
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this stupid fuck has been rotating in my mind so im here to share it w yall
Dazai doesnt belong in the pm. he never did. heres why
in the pm, dazai calls chuuya his "dog". akutagawa is referred to as "the rabid dog of the port mafia". when we first meet akutagawa, he calls higuchi "a useless cur" (cur means an agressive dog or one in poor condition). we can see that the port mafia is full of dogs.
in The Day I Picked Up Dazai, oda refers to seeing dazai as a stray cat (i think). almost every headcanon associates dazai with being a black or stray (or both) cat.
and then we have the ada.
one of their employees litterly turns into a tiger. the president is obsessed with cats.
in the pm, dazai was a stray cat in a den of dogs. thats why he fits in/cares about the ada. he fits there, feels at home.
No idea what to do for his eye so I kinda scribbled😭
The Doctor: *exists*
The Master every few centuries: I want to crawl inside your body.
The Eighth Doctor was born in a mortuary cooler, and regenerated whilst undead at the behest of the remains of the long-dead old order of Gallifrey. Fascinating how he had so much life to him when he was so surrounded by death.
Imagine if you knew of a population of semi-wild hamsters that live communally near to where you live. They don't run for their lives and bolt into their nests for safety when they see you, they'll just kind of go "aw fuck there's that guy again" and just kind of lazily trot off - they know you're not really a predator, just an inconvenience. But some of them don't flee from you, they're a bit weird you guess, but those are your favourites. So every once in a while when you've got a task you really don't want to do alone, you can just walk up there, grab a hamster, pop it into your breast pocket and now you've got a little emotional support buddy for the day.
That's Gandalf's relationship with the hobbits.
funniest thing about time-flight is that they've now spent the entire season trying to get to Heathrow airport, and then the very moment they decide to give up and go somewhere else... they land at the Heathrow airport.
second funniest thing is The Doctor's reaction to this happening
[Image Description: Screencap from Time-Flight episode 1, when they are inside the TARDIS. The scanner shows an aerial view of the Heathrow airport, which Tegan is running towards. The Doctor is facing away from the scanner and has a shocked expression on his face, complete with wide eyes and an open mouth. End Image Description.]
One of these episodes Jamie is going to sit on the doctors lap and no one will remark on it
two: *constantly getting horribly injured*
the brigadier: oh dear. do not like this.
three: *constantly getting horribly injured, spent his first few days alive absolutely spaced out, really bad balance because he's not used to being 6'3"*
the brigadier: right. must have a doctor on hand.
four: *constantly getting horribly injured, spent his first few days alive absolutely spaced out*
the brigadier: aha! i know this one! here, doctor, have a doctor.
four: thanks, alistair! *steals him*
the brigadier: fuck.
🏰 Gallifreyan Legends and Fairytales
Most Gallifreyans would have you believe that myths and fairytales are either historical records distorted by time or pointless escapades into fantasy. And yet, woven into the very fabric of Time Lord culture, legends persist—some as warnings, some as bedtime stories, and some as fragments of very uncomfortable truths.
Here are just a few of the stories passed down through Gallifreyan history.
📜 Lady Patience and the Paradoxica Cards
Long before the River of Time became what it is today, it was merely a small tributary flowing down Mount Perdition. The people of the Capitol had achieved great power, but they had severed their connection with the past and future. Their society was frozen in stasis—sterile, dying.
Lady Patience, a noblewoman, desperately desired a child. Every night, she searched for a wizard or soothsayer who could grant her one, but none could help.
Finally, she found a Stranger—a man working to expand the tributary of time. He gave her an old bag and told her to fill it with water from the Sea of Life. When it was full to the brim, she would find the child she sought.
But the bag had a hole. She tried to fill it, but the water ran out every time. For months, she tried, attempting to patch the bag, but the patches always fell off, spilling the water upon the shore.
With every failed attempt, something strange happened. The wet patches stiffened, forming cards, each depicting all of reality. These became known as the Paradoxica—cards that could chart the shape of existence itself.
She continued her task until the entire Sea of Life was drained. At its emptied depths, she found a child. And in that moment, the curse was broken, restoring Gallifrey's past and future.
🎴 The Paradoxica Cards
According to legend, Lady Patience's discarded patches became a tool of great power. The Paradoxica deck was said to:
Chart the shape of reality—some cards held the past, others the future, and some the forever-present.
Be capable of transportation through time and space—if used with the power of a TARDIS.
Induce amnesia or disorientation—especially in lesser beings with low artron energy. (Time Lords included, on occasion.)
They are exceedingly rare—but if you ever find one, be very careful what you deal.
🦢 Other Tales of Gallifreyan Children
Gallifreyan nursery stories offer a variety of explanations for where children come from:
🪻 Infants are found beneath gooseberry bushes at the bottom of Rassilon's Garden.
🕊️ The Great Gallifreyan Stork delivers them (though, considering Gallifrey's atmosphere, that's one resilient bird).
🧚 The Loom Fairy blesses certain Houses (or curses them, depending on perspective).
Of course, none of these stories hold up under scrutiny—but that never stopped a Time Tot from believing.
📕Cautionary Tales for Gallifreyan Children (and arguably adults, too)
⛓️ The Story of the Rock
Two Time Lords, traveling through a scorching desert, came across a massive red stone cube.
Chained to the rock was a man, thin, starving, his teeth sharp and yellow, his chains rusted with age.
'Please,' he begged. 'Come closer. Look at what's behind the rock.'
One of the Time Lords, curious, stepped around to the other side.
And vanished.
The other waited in the sand for a week, listening to the Chained Man's whispers. But they never gave in.
The first Time Lord was never seen again.
🦇 The Toclafane, the Watchmaker, and Other Gallifreyan Nightmares
I won't lie—many stories told to toddlers aren't exactly The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and many of these bogeymen actually exist.
💀 The Toclafane – A general term for scary creatures Time Tots were warned about.
🔧 The Watchmaker – A time-warping entity that exists to remove all time anomalies, including bringing death to Gallifreyans who have been touched by paradoxes.
🐦 Pandora's Ghost – The first Lady President of Gallifrey, executed via D-Mat dispersal, is said to haunt the Vaults. On Gallifrey, her soul lingers in the Matrix. On Earth, her legend became Pandora's Box.
🕷️ The Shakri – Live in an adjacent dimension known as Darkspace; they are said to exterminate species before they spread too far. Time Tots were told to behave, lest they attract their attention.
🌌 Koltroxa – The story of a being trapped drifting through time until she died of old age.
🧙♂️ Malador – the immortal, indestructible evil eventually imprisoned by the Ancients, who created an army of living statues called the Melkur. (Which, by the way, are still out there. Waiting.)
🧛♂️ Great Vampires – Gallifrey's history with vampires bleeds into their kids' bedtime stories, warning Time Tots of their terrifying power and their lifelong genetic obligation to kill them on sight.
🔵 Blue Fire (Mi'en Kalarash) – A Great Old One who lives in the 'wasteland between realities'. It stimulates a sleeping victim's limbic system and feeds on the artron energy produced by fear and nightmares.
🩸 Zagreus – Zagreus sits inside your head Zagreus lives among the dead Zagreus sees you in your bed And eats you when you're sleeping
➕ Others – Others include the Fendahl, the Fendahleen, Salyavin, the Krafayis, and the Weeping Angels.
🙀 Slightly Less Terrifying Stories
Thankfully, they do have a few 'nicer' ones by comparison.
🏙️ The Lost City of Altrazar – Said to appear once every thousand years in normal space on the planet Nirvana.
⏳ The Time Sprites – Legends claim there's one trapped inside every TARDIS.
🪱 Time Vortex Leeches – Said to hijack timeships and take them to their crew's lost lovers.
🌠 Higher Evolutionaries – Dimensional pioneers said to have woven the web of parallel timelines.
🌇 The Lost City of the Archons – A city belonging to the last of the Great Old Ones, existing in the Great Desolation.
👶 Humans – Some stories talk about the species 'wearing the skins' of Gallifreyans and abandoned Gallifreyan children being raised by humans.
📖 Classics – Gallifreyan children also know The Three Little Sontarans, The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes, and Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday.
👑 Benncuig III – Possibly Gallifrey's only intentional children's author, Benncuig III wrote Lullabies for Time Tots, including stories about Rassilon and the story of Rassilon's Tower in the Dark Zone.
🏛️ What Do These Stories Tell Us?
Gallifreyan fairytales aren't just stories for kids—they're warnings. Warnings about curiosity, interference, and the dangers of straying too far from order ...
(Assembled from ROOG + TARDIS Wiki)
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Ever since I found the theory that the 9th Doctors leather jacket used to belong to Fitz I can't help but imagine senerios where Jack mistakes a confused Fitz for The Doctor because he recognized that leather jacket.
imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.
The perfect addition would be a "none of the above" option.
"the doctor was completely colourblind for his first two incarnations" is hilarious for many reasons but at least partly because it implies the third doctor just woke up one day suddenly able to see in colour and immediately decided to start dressing like a gay parrot
Never forget that the Doctor's aunt, High Chancellor Flavia, was named Acting President by the Doctor, who wanted to run away from his own Lord President duties.
She adopted an intelligent cat as an advisor while Acting President. She named this Gallifreyan cat....the Doctor.
So notorious little shit of the family, Time Lord Renegade "the Doctor," ran away from Gallifrey, dumping all of his responsibilities on his aunt, and she responded by replacing him with a pet cat.
Using my drawing class to draw Merlin fanart
If the hexcore dropped them in a different timeline
Chishiya is that one doctor who if during a flight there is a call "is there is a doctor available?" He just goes back to sleep/read/listen to music.
Cops and Robbers by The Hoosiers
ATTENTION
If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)
Sinners by Lauren Aquilina is what The Captain deserved.
Assigning (some) BBC Ghosts characters songs with no explanation (Based on my playlist), to feed my hyperfixation.
Captain: War of Hearts-Ruelle, Little Miss Perfect-Taylor Louderman, Let me Down Slowly-Alec Benjamin
Allison: Vampire-Olivia Rodrigo
Fanny: Labour- Paris Paloma, Nymphology-Melanie Martinez, Family Jewels-Marina and The Diamonds
Thomas: Average-Sushi Soucy, The Knife in my Back-Alec Benjamin, Cry Baby-Melanie Martinez, The Lakes-Taylor Swift
Kitty: Candy-Robbie Williams, The Family Jewels-Marina and The Diamonds
i wonder if Sampo assumed that The Nameless were Masked Fools at first
i thought this whole beginning spiel he does was just him thinking the Nameless were Underworlders -> but that doesn't make sense when later it's revealed that literally almost everyone on Jarilo-VI knows who the Silvermane are
this isn't even five minutes into introductions and Sampo's already treating them like they're all part of one big- and pardon the pun- inside joke. i wouldn't even put it past him if he was purposefully using double entendres in case he was wrong -> "pricing your stock" can also refer to attributing your strong points//talents -> "same side" "same line of work" "charade" "vigilance" "sincerity" "an art to it all" Sampo frequently refers to their 'shared job' with entertainment monikers
i think he realizes relatively soon after this entire conversation that the Nameless are, in fact, not Fools though- so he doesn't ever hedge closer to the subject aside from calling himself a "senior in the field"
also he changes his phrases so that they're more reminiscent of his conman occupation rather than his Fools occupation
im also pretty sure he immediately pegged us as offworlders too?? -> this is after saying Jarilo-VI was uninhabitable anywhere other than Belobog
Headcanon time
Thomas can feel the cold.
I'm new to the fandom so I'm sorry if this has already been discussed before but when Thomas is in the lake we can see his breath when he exhales. The only way that's possible is if his body temperature is similar to that of a living person since condensation only happens when warm, moist breath meets cold air.
Taken that into account, I don't believe it's too far-fetched to think that in turn, temperature has an effect on him as well, meaning he can feel the warmth of a fire or the cold of an autumn wind. We even sort of see that in the show. In the beginning of 3x03, it always seemed to me that Thomas looked a bit uncomfortable, like he was cold and wanted to hunch his shoulders against the wind. I realize that's likely just Mat freezing in that thin shirt of his (I always feel bad for him because everyone else is at least dressed somewhat warmly) but it does fit nicely with the headcanon that Thomas is affected by temperature.
So what if that's Thomas's ghostly power but he never realized it? What if he always thought the other ghosts can feel the cold too and thus never mentioned it? Just imagine if one day, the others or Alison noticed him shivering - or he mentioned it in an off-hand way and everyone's just like, "Uhm, no. We can't feel the cold, mate."
So much chaos and drama would ensue. And Thomas would probably go and drown himself in the lake again.
(Perhaps I should turn this into a fic: 5 times Thomas felt the cold and 1 time someone noticed.)
if someone held me at gun point and forced me to tell u this persons gender id either be a goner or say all of the above
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