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[timey_wimey]

Is this really how time works for normal people? You know... everything going by slowly, in the right order, with big long periods of nothing?

How on earth do any of you cope?

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[areyoulovers]

Have you finished the jobs that Papa gave you already?

[timey_wimey]

About... oo, maybe an hour ago?

[areyoulovers]

But some of those were design issues he's been working on for weeks! And two of the schematics should have been physically impossible to design without violating at least two laws of physics!

[timey_wimey]

Oh come on, violating laws of physics? I was doing that before I could ride a bike!

... Which admittedly isn't saying much in human terms because I didn't learn how to ride a bike until after I was about a century old or so, but that's still a kid by Time Lord standards, so the point still stands.

[peoplesprincess]

Generally we just find ways to get rid of the "nothing".

[timey_wimey]

The problem is I go through most of the ways to get rid of the nothing too quickly.

[peoplesprincess]

Find something more time-consuming then, I suppose?

[yeah she doesn't know about the whole DOCTOR = BASICALLY A GENIUS thing]

[timey_wimey]

I am trying.

[smilingtransfer]

Usually, we have to resort to bizarre human rituals called "hobbies".

[timey_wimey]

Really? I never would have guessed.

[smilingtransfer]

Have you thought about learning to train cats? Building ships in eyedroppers? Teaching Tieria the finer aspects of humor?

[timey_wimey]

Can't say I've got much of an interest in trying to train cats, but the last two ideas aren't bad. Actually, scratch that, the last idea sounds good in theory but'd probably backfire spectacularly on me in practice, so out of the three building ships in eyedroppers would be the best bet. If I could scrounge up bits tiny enough to do it, that is.

Actually I was trying to build myself another screwdriver, but Ian won't let me near where he keeps all the parts.

[gh0st_girl]

its n0t that bad really
messing with the cl0sed time l00ps and all
and trying n0t t0 accidentally d00m myself 0r destr0y the universe
is a l0t m0re c0mplicated
i alm0st miss the 0ld way t0 live

[timey_wimey]

Wait, hang on, messing with closed time loops, more to the point messing with time at all? You can do that, Aradia?

[gh0st_girl]

it appears i can n0w yeah
my r0le in this game is the maid 0f time apparently
s0rry i guess i didnt menti0n that bef0re
is it imp0rtant?

[timey_wimey]

Well. From one time traveller to another, yeah, I'd say it's important. Sometimes it helps to keep tabs on each other, especially when you're trying to interfere in a stable time loop because that's one of the things that you really, really shouldn't do unless you've got a very good idea of what you're doing.

Back up for a minute though, what do you mean it's your "role in the game"? What game?

[carriesparasol]

I've never considered the things I do as coping.

What exactly makes you different to ask for "normal people"?

[timey_wimey]

Well, to make a long story short, until the end of last year I spent most of my time flying around time and space in a big blue box and finding trouble and adventure around every corner.

Thing is, I'm grounded now, and after hundreds of years of all that, trying to do things normally is... well, it's a bit boring.

[carriesparasol]

How curious. I imagine such a shift would take some time to adjust to.

What is keeping your from traveling as you had before?

[timey_wimey]

I had a bad day. It was a very bad day, actually. And... well, when I finally recovered I'd. Kind of lost my ship, in a way. Like I said, it's a long story.