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My name's Kel, I'm a Junior at University and I'm from Texas.
This is just a personal blog, posting what I feel like and re-blogging what I like. I'm a fan of Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Sherlock, The Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Fullmetal Alchemist, Assassin's Creed, The Elder Scrolls, Top Gear, philosophy, British culture, and good literature.
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April102013
March302013
David Tennant and Billie Piper returning for 50th Anniversary!
WHAT IS BECOMING OF MY LIFE?!?!
Also, is is sad that I can tell than David and Billie’s photos were taken for different episodes, since that’s what he wears in Tooth and Claw and what she wears for the Girl in the Fireplace…?….. I need a life.
(via afhyer)
9AM
Doctor Who Announces All-Star Cast for 50th Anniversary
The BBC has today revealed some of the all-star cast that will mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. David Tennant and Billie Piper will join current Doctor and companion, Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman, while John Hurt (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alien, Harry Potter) will also co-star.
Last seen as the Doctor on January 1st 2010, this will be the first time Tennant has reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor. During his reign as the Time Lord, Tennant appeared in three series as well as several specials. He was first revealed as the Doctor in the 2005 series finale, ‘The Parting of the Ways’.
Meanwhile Billie Piper, who played companion Rose Tyler for two series following the reboot in 2005, will appear in the show for the first time since featuring in Tennant’s last episode, ‘The End of Time’ in 2010.
Also confirmed to join the cast is John Hurt who will also co-star in the 3D anniversary special that will form part of blockbuster celebrations, set to take over the BBC. Produced by BBC Cymru Wales for BBC One, the 50th anniversary will be written by Steven Moffat and Directed by Nick Hurran.
Filming for the 50th anniversary starts this week. Meanwhile a brand new series starts on BBC One (30 Mar, 6:15pm), BBC America (March 30, 8/7c), SPACE Channel (March 30, 8e/5p), and ABCTV (March 31, 7.30p) this weekend for a run of eight epic episodes, which officially introduces the Doctor’s newest companion, Clara Oswald, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman.
………..guys?
GUYS?!?! !?! SERIOUSLY GUYS!!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!
I had to look this upon the official BBC site before I believed it. This is… ohmygoshwhatisthis?!?! I… Actually don’t know what to think about this.
While I of course LOOOOOOVE Tennant, and BIllie, and Ten and Rose, (and maaaybe it’s TenToo?!?!) I’m actually raaather nervous about this. I REALLY want to see more of them, yes, I want them back. But ESPECIALLY if it IS TenToo… Ijustreallydon’twantMoffattomessthemup! There, I said it. I simply do NOT trust the Moff with my OTP. Through my fanfiction, I’ve become QUITE invested in the lives of Ten, Rose, and especially TenToo. And I don’t want to have to start putting “written before the 50th came out” disclaimers on my stories, I don’t want to have myself “proven wrong”, if you will, by NEW canon.
But at the same time DAVID TENNANT IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No I’m not going to calm down.
(via vaurienscapegrace)
February212013
How I came to understand and accept that TenToo is the Doctor, and why I believe Rose did too.
I have made a few posts on TenToo. Most of them outbursts of sheer frustration at him being named or people just generally being awful about him.
But I’ve been wanting to make an actual post on why I love the Meta-crisis Doctor and why I truly believe that he IS the Doctor. As well as why I
knowbelieve Rose came to accept him as such.This subject fasinates me to no end.
**Any gifs used aren’t mine, and are just used to enforce a point.
Warning: This is LONG.
So here goes.
Thank GOD someone made this. If you hadn’t, I would have! This is a fantastic post, and I agree with it 100%.
I don’t mean to simply reiterate, but if I may say a few things:
(Source: ohtentoo)
February42013
See I think this whole thing is really weird. I’m not trying to knock on the Hunger Games, but can we just play a quick game of “one of these things is not like the other”?
First, the most obvious: Everyone would like to be a Demigod, a Wizard, or a Time Lord in some sense. No on WANTS to be a tribute. Everyone wants magical powers, telepathy, the ability to regenerate, and a time machiene. No one WANTS to be forced into an arena where you have to kill other people for the enjoyment of viewers. (Or if you do, you’re sick).
Second: To be a Demigod, Wizard, or Time Lord you must be BORN that way. Demigod by virtue of one of your parents, Wizard by virtue of birth (though not necessarily parents) and Time Lord by species. Tributes on the other hand are made (usually forced) into tributes. No one is “born” a tribute.
Related to this is that being a Demigod, Wizard, or Time lord has a psychological effect on you, it makes you “super human”. Now in the case of Wizardy you are still human, but have a supernatural ability, Demigod are only half human, and Time Lord you’re not human. Tributes are still human beings.
This all gets really sad when you realize the combination of these things: The one of these four that we are all closest to being ourselves in real life is the only one that none of us actually WANT to be: The normal, human being who is forced into becoming a tribute. I’m willing to bet none of us on tumblr were born Time Lord (if you were what the heck are you doing online? Get up and have an adventure! Save the world!). A demigod or Wizard is “more likely” but I of course use that phrase in a tounge-in-cheek manner. And hopefully, none of us will become tributes.
(Source: i-am-such-a-fangirl)
2PM
doctor who meme: five brotps [4\5] → Three & Jo Grant
Jo: “Doctor, stop being childish!”
Three: “What’s wrong with being childish? I like being childish!”
This is the reason I need more Classic Who. Not because I feel I “should” to be a “True Whovian”, but simply because the show is THAT awesome.
(via heartoftardis)
December272012
A late at night reflection upon the Meta-Crisis Doctor
See I think this is interesting, but very different from my own views on the matter.
After all, what is it that makes a person who they are? That’s the real question. One of the most important factors of personality is, of course, memory. I’m not going to try and get overly philosophic or whatever, I have no experience in the areas of memory loss or anything like that. But here are a few observations:
Everyone always acts as if 10 and 10.5 are completely different people. As if 10.5 is a fake, a shadow, an ‘also-and’, a replacement. And this whole thing about “people he never met, things he never did, places he’s never been and a life he’s never lived” Is only reinforcing this. 10.5, if we want to call him that, does NOT have memories of things he never did - he has memories of things he did do - he, himself. I honestly believe that he really is JUST as much of the Doctor as 10 or 11 are.
When 10.5 woke up on the floor of the TARDIS, I imagine he was completely convinced that he was The Doctor - THE Doctor. Because he IS. Then he remembered what happened, he saw Donna, and he felt a few things - things about himself - that he wasn’t used to. He realized his connection with Donna, and his single heart. But before all of that, he is THE DOCTOR. He dosen’t just remember the Doctor’s life, he LIVED it. First hand. All of his adventures, from a child on through 9 regenerations, through the time war, all the time he spent with Rose, when he lost her, with the Master, with Martha, with Donna, all the way to his reunion with Rose. He LIVED that. HE did.
And while I’m add it, I’ll mention this: While there are human aspects to 10.5, he is NOT “half-human”. Because, as we know all too painfully well from Donna’s departure, there has never been a Time Lord - Human metacrisis: Because there can’t be. This almost kills Donna, but it does not bother 10.5. This is because he is far MORE Time Lord than he is human. His regenerative ability and his second heart are the only recorded differences - The only things used up by the other 10th Doctor during his partial regeneration. I don’t want to say exactly how human 10.5 is, but I can assure you it is far less than 50%.
10.5’s love for Rose was real and YES, he did have a choice in it. I don’t think 10.5 did ANYTHING just because his counterpart did. 10.5 loves Rose because he loves Rose. He always has, since they first met in that basement. Because yes, that was him. He didn’t “have” to love Rose any more than 10 or 9 did. He chose to.
(Source: lastlordoftime)
November142012
when people say a serial killer is hot
Reblogging because the list of serial killers is getting….interesting. 0.o
dude like all my crushes are serial killers
Guys I think we need to redefine “serial killer”. Serial killers almost always have a series of victims, and the murders are always separate instances, often with a systematic or pattern-creating “down time” in between. The victims normally all have something in common, associated with some kind of psychological “thing” (if I may use the term) the killer has - something about them, and the killers actions towards them - gratifies him, often in a way that is described as sexual (even when rape is not involved). Very “advanced” (eg crazy, smart, and dedicated) Serial killers are often very methodical in action and symbolic or metaphoric in thought.
I can’t speak for Dexter OR Dean (I’ve never watched either show), but let me address the others:
Loki: No. All of Loki’s killings are part of a greater plan. They all have purpose outside of killing for killing’s sake. Loki wants something they have, and they are in the way.
Moriarty: Yes. His is interesting, though, because it’s not about the victims for him, not the ones he kills anyway - it’s about Sherlock. While he is a serial killer, he’s a lot more besides.
The Doctor: NO. The Doctor is a genocidal mass murderer, but he’s not a serial killer. The best argument you could have against this is, of course, the Dalek: But if you’ll note, there are several times in which the Doctor does NOT kill the Dalek. Intentionally. It’s the whole point of the episode. Also, when he does kill a Dalek it is normally in self-defense, and when it’s not, then it’s not a series of killings in which he seeks out victims. It’s one terrible moment where he wipes them all (*cough* “all”) out.
October32012
Did you know that in Doctor Who, the Doctor’s bow tie is red if the episode takes place in the future, and blue if it is in the past?
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan:
It’s true for the tenth Doctor too. His suit was blue if they went forward in time and the brown if they went back in time.
WHAT
Woah. This is weird. I don’t know about the bow-tie, but now I’m going through my memory of each of the episodes, considering what Ten was wearing. It’s actually a little weird how much I know about his wardrobe changes… There are some episodes where they niether go forward or backwards in time - Smith and Jones he wears blue, AoG/Doomsday, brown. Ok, now I have to create a catalouge…. Yes, I looked some of this up….. not much of it.
The Christmas Invasion (neither) - Blue Jim Jams. Then Brown.
New Earth (forward) - Brown
Tooth and Claw (back) - Brown
School Reunion (neither) - Brown
The Girl in the Fireplace (um… both.) - Brown
Age of Steel/Rise of the Cybermen (sideways/a bit forward) - Brown and Black Tux!
The Idiot’s Lantern (back) - Brown
The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit (forward) - Brown and Orange Space Suit!
Love and Monsters (neither and he’s not in it much) - Brown
Fear Her (forward) - Brown
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (neither) - Brown
The Runaway Bride (neither) - Brown
Smith and Jones (neither) - Blue
The Shakespeare Code (back) - Brown
Gridlock (forward) - Brown
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Dalek (back) - Blue
The Lazarus Experiment (neither) - Black Tux!
42 (forward) - Blue and Orange Space Suit!
Human Nature/ Family of Blood (back) - Brown
Blink (weeeelll neither for us, back for him) - Brown
Utopia/The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords (forward-ish) - Brown
The Voyage of the Damned (forward) - Black Tux!
Partners in Crime (neither) - Brown
The Fires of Pompeii (back) - Brown
The Planet of the Ood (forward) - Blue
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky(neither) - Blue
The Doctor’s Daughter (forward) - Blue
The Unicorn and the Wasp (back) - Brown
Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead (forward) - Blue
Midnight (forward) - Blue
Turn Left (um, probably forward, but he’s barely in it.) - Brown
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End (niether-ish) - Brown
The Next Doctor (back) - Brown
The Planet of the Dead (forward) - Brown
The Waters of Mars (forward) - Blue and Orange Space Suit!
The End of Time (neither) - Brown
Conclusions: 1.) I don’t know about Bow Ties, but as for the Suit, this is a load of rubbish. 2.) The Doctor’s affinity for his blue suit grows throughout the series 3.) The first time he wears Blue is his first episode (besides the runaway bride, which the same outfit as AoG/Doomsday) after he lost Rose. 4.) Rose likes the brown one. (I have a feeling TenToo will change colours when he can get to a clothes shop :P) 5.) That black tux and orange space suit are worn more often than you’d think!
Now someone else make one for 11’s cool tie. I’m supposed to be writing an essay!
(Source: balanophagist, via ahithertounknownworld)
September302012
I just thought of something really sad…
Do you think the Doctor had to go and tell Brian?
(also, did he ever find out about his granddaughter?)
11AM
How… how does this even happen?
I’ve been staring blankly off into space and making inhuman noises for the past two or three minutes, unable to form more than five coherent words.
What… just happened? I mean really. I was soooooo not ready for this.
I have lost the ability to can more than I ever have before.
That seemed really short.
And… practically unfinished.
They could have done so much more. SO. MUCH. MORE!
I already have little headcannons and ficlets forming in my mind.
That was… exceedingly sad.
I regret every bad thing I ever said about Amy.
I didn’t even hate River in that episode.
HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEE?!?!
I will post a more rational response when - or if - my mind ever returns to me. It seems the angels took it.
September252012
Diagram showing relations of opened heart to front of thoracic wall
Ant. Anterior segment of tricuspid valve
A O. Aorta
A.P. Anterior papillary muscle
In. Innominate artery
L.C.C. Left common carotid artery
L.S. Left subclavian artery
L.V. Left ventricle
P.A. Pulmonary artery
R.A. Right atrium
R.V. Right ventricle
V.S. Ventricular septum
How sad is it that I saw this and immediately thought “Where’s the other one?”
(via heartoftardis)
5PM
Wow. Even though I’ve heard this before and watched the episode a dozen times, I never really thought about how this line applies to the Doctor. Recently I’ve started to see everything said about the villains of Doctor Who in the light of the Doctor’s own ‘villainy’ (I’m not calling him a villain myself, I think that in his deepest, darkest times, the Doctor thinks himself a villain. And some other characters might think him one). In short, take every line and say “how does this apply to the Doctor, if at all?” not that that’s what the line is about, but they all should have some relation.
Anyway, this one is pretty striking. Because I think the Doctor is exceedingly lonely. And more than anyone would like to believe, very, very afraid. Ever since he was a child, those have been two constants in his life: Loneliness and fear. And his friends banish it for a while - his companions, all the way back to Koschei, do their best. They give him a reason to be brave, and someone to talk to and share his life with. But in the end, it’s still there. So the question remains: have some of the worst acts of the Doctor’s life come from this?
Fear, Loneliness, and terrible acts are things that the Doctor knows a lot about.
(Source: dontgiveachuck, via afhyer)
September12012
Innitial reaction to Asylum of the Daleks:
I couldn’t liveblog this, because our internet was down for a while.
In one word (no really, just one this time): Annoyed
August292012
“The Doctor has been dropping in on the Ponds for some years now, and he’s barely even noticed that his little Amelia Pond is now wearing reading glasses. Surely nothing has to change now? Surely this can go on forever? Has the wandering Time Lord at last found a family and the nearest thing to a home he could imagine? But out there in New York the Weeping Angels are waiting for them all, and a very different destiny is falling into place. Not even River Song can save them from the terrible events to come. Heartbreak is always a terrible thing. But imagine if you had two of them…”
Steven Moffat on ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’. (via waiting-for-the-tardis)
Translation: Steven Moffat is TRYING TO KILL ME!!! Steven, you do not write lovely sentences about how the Doctor’s found a home and a family, and then imply you’re going to TEAR THEM AWAY FROM HIM!!!! I know we’ve had a whole year to prepare for the leaving of the Ponds, but summaries like that DO NOT MAKE THIS EASIER.
(via fictionadventurer)
Actually, despite all of the tags surrounding this being about feels (and believe me, there are LOTS of feels), the first thing I noticed about this was something rather beautiful, in a sense. You all know I’m not a fan of Moffat, but IF he did this intentionally, it was brilliant (if not, it’s a brilliant coincidence, as I’m not always sure authors are aware of everything us fans see while they are writing)
Picture this:
A man (who no matter how old he is, he acts like he’s still a child) shows up in a young girl’s house one night. After meeting him she grows up telling stories about him, tells them to all her friends, and cherishes them. She believes in him. One night, quite some time later, he shows up again and whisks her away on adventures and to new worlds. He enjoys impressing her, and at first she thinks she is in love with him, but time proves otherwise (but they are still best friends). But eventually she must return home. He, however, ever young and ever old, visits her often. He shows up now and again, just to check in and say hi, and make sure she’s still alright. They still go on adventures sometimes, but she never stays as long. She has a life now, back on earth. She even has a family. Each time he visits she is older than last time they spoke, but he doesn’t seem to have changed. He doesn’t notice at first, and honestly believes that she is just the same girl that he knew, and that at any moment they might be off again to a new world. There are some things that should never change - a constant in his life of adventure - and she is one of them. Until one day he comes to her and realizes that she is no longer a young woman. And he’s missed it. He’s missed so much that he can never get back. And he can’t believe he didn’t notice. And he can’t believe that his best friend can’t come with him any more. She can’t run with him into new worlds and new adventures. He must find a new companion. And it’s all terribly sad.
Do you recognize the story? Because I actually wasn’t talking just about Doctor Who. I was talking about Peter Pan.
Ever since little Amelia found a strange box crashed in her yard and stayed in the garden all night waiting for it to come back, (and especially since “The God Complex” when we saw her watching for him out the window) I’ve loved the fan-made image of the Eleventh Doctor as Peter, which of course makes Amy Wendy (remember that Wendy doesn’t marry Peter. I’m not shipping Amy/11, I like Rory waaay to much for that). However, if this is going to be Peter and Wendy we’re talking about, well… all adventures come to an end.
As I said, it is VERY sad, don’t get me wrong, but if Moffat intended this, or even planned it all along, then… well this is the biggest compliment I can give the man, seeing as I’m not a fan of most of what he’s done in the last series - it is BRILLIANT. And, well, beautiful. What was that line he wrote? Sad is happy for deep people? I think he honestly believes that.
I absolutely LOVE literary references like this. sometimes I think I just make them up, but I think this one is VERY clear. Perhaps by the end we can rename series five “Amy’s Adventures in Neverland” :) I mean really, all that’s left is for the Doctor himself to say it (I would love this!):
Second star to the right and straight on ‘till morning.
(Oh, I almost forgot to mention: Both Peter and the Doctor end up traveling with their respective companion’s daughter, Jane and River, respectively. But I’ll admit that River’s story is a bit more complicated.)
(via tomorrowsong)
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