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Meme from calapine, which I made her do in the first place mwahahahaha. It is My Gallifrey Fanon, and so:
1. The magical glass city is not in fact the only settlement on Gallifrey. For example, all the family houses are outside it. Since most buildings are bigger on the inside, the planet has a population of about 20 billion. Overpopulation is not as big a problem as you might think, because most of the Time Lords find children distracting and silly. You have to wait entire years for them to be old enough to talk to, and they keep trying to eat their own feet.
1a. Despite or because of this, the Doctor had two children and the Master had one. They felt all exciting and rebellious for doing this.
1a(i). Both of the Doctor's children died before the war, but the Master's was alive until Someone Blew Up Gallifrey. But the Master had sort of forgotten about his child by then and was worryingly undisturbed by the whole death thing.
2. Despite appearances, Gallifrey was never a proper patriarchy. The equivalent of a surname carried through maternal lines, the head of most families was a woman, and pretty much the women couldn't be bothered with politics because they already had everything good anyway.
2a. The name thing is the reason the Doctor, being born to a human woman, never actually had a proper Gallifreyan name. As if the whole "someone shagged an alien" thing wasn't scandalous enough, he was officially part of his father's family, which was mildly embarrassing to all concerned.
2a(i). The Master came from a much posher family and was slumming it a bit with the Doctor.
3. The gods of Gallifrey were indeed Time, Death, and Pain, the three aspects of the uncontrollable facts of the universe itself. No one really worshipped them as such, because the Time Lords had long ago made their gods sort-of real mostly just because they could. It seemed silly to believe in something you knew existed, but there was still an awful lot of tedious ritual.
4. Romana was the worst possible President because she meant well and wanted to make the planet a better place. She caused the Time War by actually caring about the outside universe and wanting to Get Things Done.
4a. The start of the Time War is generally held as that time when the Time Lords tried to get the Doctor to genocide the Daleks in Genesis, with the destruction of Skaro escalating things quite a bit. But until Romana took over the official position was that the Doctor was a rogue element and so the Time Lords weren't going to take sides. This is despite the occasional person asking why exactly the Doctor was allowed to nick off with various WMDs that would be quite useful against Daleks. Time Lords planned ahead quite a lot.
4b. Had things gone differently, the Master would have been a really good President.
4c. What none of the renegades ever quite realised was that Time Lords were obssessed with their own politics because getting involved with other planets was messy and sometimes went very wrong. Boring is safe.
4d. Yes, people gossiped about Borusa's record of turning out renegades.
5. The Doctor's family house was huge and confusing with an old TARDIS in the middle running the whole thing. Everyone called her Grandmother and she claimed to know the entire future of the planet despite that being Not Allowed. She was distantly related to that old Type 40, which may be significant but probably isn't. It is generally best not to ask what a TARDIS knows, because that way lies paradoxes and so on.
6. A few people thought the whole Untempered Schism thing with eight year olds was cruel, but no one ever listened to them because they were probably filthy hippies. It was the height of bad manners to reveal what you saw in it.
6a. The Doctor did indeed run away from it and wasn't found for a whole two days. He can't remember what was in it, which is pretty much a good thing.
7. Omega was framed.
7a. Rassilon was a compulsive liar and a raging egoist. Despite this, he was not related to either the Doctor or the Master.
8. Gallifrey was big on dynastic marriages, though marrying out of love was not that uncommon and people were fine with it. It was just a bit rude to whoever your parents had planned to marry you off to. Leela fitted in fine once it was shown that her archery skills made her really fun at parties.
8a. The reason aliens were banned from Gallifrey was partly the scandal over the Doctor's father shagging an alien. The ban being lifted was one of only three things the Doctor did while President. Everyone agreed that it had made them look like horrible racists and so obviously it was never spoken of again.
8b. The Doctor did indeed really properly love his wife, even though it was an arranged marriage. When he was growing up he always just sort of assumed he'd marry the Master.
8c. The Looms thing was just a lot easier than carrying a baby about in your own body, but mostly was for same-sex couples to make their own babies. MPreg happened as well, though. Just because.
9. The Gallifreyan language has a lot of time-sensitive grammar, including very understandable ways to explain that a future event is due to something you did in a previous body, precise phrasing for how you would have done something in the past had you not retconned it yourself in a possible future, and various ways to explain paradoxes. "Timey-wimey" is not an acceptable term in polite company and there are plenty of accurate pronouns for talking to yourself.
9a. "Time Lady" was invented by the Doctor out of eccentricity, as "Time Lord" in the original is not gender-specific. "Time Tot" is also not a proper term.
10. A few Time Lords escaped the war by various means. The Doctor knows this is possible, but doesn't want to get his hopes up.
Other people should do this meme, for it is Something To Do.
1. The magical glass city is not in fact the only settlement on Gallifrey. For example, all the family houses are outside it. Since most buildings are bigger on the inside, the planet has a population of about 20 billion. Overpopulation is not as big a problem as you might think, because most of the Time Lords find children distracting and silly. You have to wait entire years for them to be old enough to talk to, and they keep trying to eat their own feet.
1a. Despite or because of this, the Doctor had two children and the Master had one. They felt all exciting and rebellious for doing this.
1a(i). Both of the Doctor's children died before the war, but the Master's was alive until Someone Blew Up Gallifrey. But the Master had sort of forgotten about his child by then and was worryingly undisturbed by the whole death thing.
2. Despite appearances, Gallifrey was never a proper patriarchy. The equivalent of a surname carried through maternal lines, the head of most families was a woman, and pretty much the women couldn't be bothered with politics because they already had everything good anyway.
2a. The name thing is the reason the Doctor, being born to a human woman, never actually had a proper Gallifreyan name. As if the whole "someone shagged an alien" thing wasn't scandalous enough, he was officially part of his father's family, which was mildly embarrassing to all concerned.
2a(i). The Master came from a much posher family and was slumming it a bit with the Doctor.
3. The gods of Gallifrey were indeed Time, Death, and Pain, the three aspects of the uncontrollable facts of the universe itself. No one really worshipped them as such, because the Time Lords had long ago made their gods sort-of real mostly just because they could. It seemed silly to believe in something you knew existed, but there was still an awful lot of tedious ritual.
4. Romana was the worst possible President because she meant well and wanted to make the planet a better place. She caused the Time War by actually caring about the outside universe and wanting to Get Things Done.
4a. The start of the Time War is generally held as that time when the Time Lords tried to get the Doctor to genocide the Daleks in Genesis, with the destruction of Skaro escalating things quite a bit. But until Romana took over the official position was that the Doctor was a rogue element and so the Time Lords weren't going to take sides. This is despite the occasional person asking why exactly the Doctor was allowed to nick off with various WMDs that would be quite useful against Daleks. Time Lords planned ahead quite a lot.
4b. Had things gone differently, the Master would have been a really good President.
4c. What none of the renegades ever quite realised was that Time Lords were obssessed with their own politics because getting involved with other planets was messy and sometimes went very wrong. Boring is safe.
4d. Yes, people gossiped about Borusa's record of turning out renegades.
5. The Doctor's family house was huge and confusing with an old TARDIS in the middle running the whole thing. Everyone called her Grandmother and she claimed to know the entire future of the planet despite that being Not Allowed. She was distantly related to that old Type 40, which may be significant but probably isn't. It is generally best not to ask what a TARDIS knows, because that way lies paradoxes and so on.
6. A few people thought the whole Untempered Schism thing with eight year olds was cruel, but no one ever listened to them because they were probably filthy hippies. It was the height of bad manners to reveal what you saw in it.
6a. The Doctor did indeed run away from it and wasn't found for a whole two days. He can't remember what was in it, which is pretty much a good thing.
7. Omega was framed.
7a. Rassilon was a compulsive liar and a raging egoist. Despite this, he was not related to either the Doctor or the Master.
8. Gallifrey was big on dynastic marriages, though marrying out of love was not that uncommon and people were fine with it. It was just a bit rude to whoever your parents had planned to marry you off to. Leela fitted in fine once it was shown that her archery skills made her really fun at parties.
8a. The reason aliens were banned from Gallifrey was partly the scandal over the Doctor's father shagging an alien. The ban being lifted was one of only three things the Doctor did while President. Everyone agreed that it had made them look like horrible racists and so obviously it was never spoken of again.
8b. The Doctor did indeed really properly love his wife, even though it was an arranged marriage. When he was growing up he always just sort of assumed he'd marry the Master.
8c. The Looms thing was just a lot easier than carrying a baby about in your own body, but mostly was for same-sex couples to make their own babies. MPreg happened as well, though. Just because.
9. The Gallifreyan language has a lot of time-sensitive grammar, including very understandable ways to explain that a future event is due to something you did in a previous body, precise phrasing for how you would have done something in the past had you not retconned it yourself in a possible future, and various ways to explain paradoxes. "Timey-wimey" is not an acceptable term in polite company and there are plenty of accurate pronouns for talking to yourself.
9a. "Time Lady" was invented by the Doctor out of eccentricity, as "Time Lord" in the original is not gender-specific. "Time Tot" is also not a proper term.
10. A few Time Lords escaped the war by various means. The Doctor knows this is possible, but doesn't want to get his hopes up.
Other people should do this meme, for it is Something To Do.