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@daughterofheartshaven

Heartshaven | she/her | Autistic | Highly Social Whovian | Expanded Universe expert | modern Big Finish defender "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold! Come on, Ace — we've got work to do!" Thanks to @the-worms-in-your-bones for the header image and @blufruity for the profile pic
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Welcome! I'm Heartshaven (she/her)

I'm a big Doctor Who expanded universe nerd, so if you're looking for analysis and discussion about the Whoniverse, you're in the right place.

I also do reconciliation of different Doctor Who EU stories. If you two (or more!) Doctor Who stories that contradict each other, I would be delighted if you would send them to me so that I can figure out a way to reconcile them within the Whoniverse. I've linked some of my reconciliations right here - please do check them out!

My big large-effort Doctor Who EU reconciliation essays:

(two quick notes - one, not every reconciliation is gonna be that long. Those are just the ones I am proudest of. And two, the audio story The Kingmaker contradicts way too many things even I am not touching it)

Plugging different parts of the Who EU:

Other things I wanna share:

Almost everything on this blog is either a post I made or something I have relogged with a reply. If you want to see reblogs that I don't have anything to add to, check out @heartshavensreblogs.

I love interacting with fellow fans, so feel free to leave comments or asks! And that's basically it! Welcome to the blog - I hope you have a good time here

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To all my fan fic writers out there who like to torture Romana yall ever think about writing a story where she is forced to go to therapy? Cuz you know she would hate it. Like she’d actually have to talk about all the shit that’s happened to her. And like the fact that she’s pretty much suicidal. But she actually has to acknowledge it

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I can just hear Leela going, "Romana, you will keep seeing the therapy-person or else I will cut out one of your hearts"

#I feel like threats from Leela are the only thing that could get her to do it
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Nyssa: I can't see Traken. I can't even see Mettula Orionsis

Rewatched Logopolis and damn Sarah Sutton brings so much grief and so much fear to that line while still staying completely composed.

#doctor who#nyssa of traken
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Some random Doctor Who incarnation/storytelling rankings. For point of clarity - I don't really distinguish between Doctors in terms of thinking about the character, but I do for storytelling arcs, storytelling styles, and most importantly how the character is handled within the narrative.

Tv exclusive:

  1. Patrick Troughton
  2. Peter Davidson
  3. John Pertwee
  4. Jodie Whittaker
  5. Matt Smith
  6. Ncuti Gatwa
  7. Slyvester McCoy
  8. Christopher Eccleston
  9. Peter Capaldi
  10. Colin Baker
  11. Paul McGann
  12. William Hartnell
  13. Tom Baker
  14. John Hurt
  15. David Tennant

EU exclusive:

  1. Paul McGann
  2. Slyvester McCoy
  3. Colin Baker
  4. Peter Davidson
  5. David Tennant
  6. Patrick Troughton
  7. Tom Baker
  8. Matt Smith
  9. Christopher Eccleston
  10. John Pertwee
  11. William Hartnell
  12. John Hurt
  13. Peter Capaldi
  14. Jodie Whittaker
  15. Ncuti Gatwa

Combined:

  1. Paul McGann
  2. Peter Davidson
  3. Slyvester McCoy
  4. Colin Baker
  5. Patrick Troughton
  6. David Tennant
  7. Tom Baker
  8. John Pertwee
  9. Jodie Whittaker
  10. Matt Smith
  11. Ncuti Gatwa
  12. Christopher Eccleston
  13. William Hartnell
  14. John Hurt
  15. Peter Capaldi

You'll note that my EU preference influences a lot more than my tv preference. And, for the record, I don't have anything against the Twelfth Doctor - I just haven't really found any EU stuff with him that's ever clicked with me, and his tv run wasn't strong enough with me to rescue that

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@kovacs-on-ice this is what I was talking about! Also I dunno why I decided that the Fifth Doctor was played by "Peter Davidson" instead of Peter Davison but whatever. I think I still stand by this mostly, but I would bump Gatwa above Whittaker in the EU section bc he has now had at least one really solid EU story (via titan comics) and she... kinda hasn't yet. (That will probably change in the summer when Big Finish releases their stuff)

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kovacs-on-ice asked:

how does the “who’s your favorite doctor” conversation escalate and complicate in relation to being an EU fan

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Excellent question!!

So that is already a little bit of a weird question for me, since I don't really distinguish between different incarnations of the Doctor that much. Plenty of people consider them separate characters, but I consider the Doctor to be one very distinct character, so claiming a "favorite Doctor" doesn't really make sense to me as a direct question.

So, when I'm talking about my favorite Doctor, I'm not really talking about which Doctor is my favorite. I'm talking about which Doctor's era is my favorite.

And so I actually have a favorite TV Doctor (two) and a favorite EU Doctor (eight). And I tend to go with Eight if I need to pick just one, because I spend most of my time with the EU.

I did a whole post with my rankings maybe a month ago, I'll reblog it and tag you on it so you can see that.

Thanks for the ask!

#ask heartshaven
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I love tardis wiki. Why does this need a wiki page we don't know anything about it it doesn't even have a name

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Event_(The_Robot_Revolution)

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For the record, while this page exists, we don't yet have a page for the planet that this story takes place on

(no I'm not fixing that bc a) I don't know how to edit the wiki and doing so would make me anxious and b) it's funny)

#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers
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Watching the new episode of doctor who with the subtitles on and I noticed that every time the robots said Belinda’s name they say it as one word missbelindachandra. Then when she goes I’m The nurse my brain just went

Ho is you a time lord??

I don’t actually think she is but I just thought it was funny

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Watch her be like Romana's daughter or something

#I don't think this is going to happen#at all#buuuuuuuuuut#it would be funny#am I trying to start people speculating so I can watch it for my amusement?#maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#belinda chandra
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i kind of wish "killer robots who can't hear our every 9th word" had been saved for its own episode tbh. such a fun idea, right out of season 10, but it ended up being kind of nothing because the episode it's in had to be about so much other stuff

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Yeah I kinda agree with that. My biggest criticism of the episode (which, to be clear, I really liked) is that it had more things it was trying to do then it had runtime for, and so there were a few ideas - this being one of the most prominent - that just didn't get played with that much

#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers
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belinda chandra belongs to the "what the fuck is wrong with you" variety of medical professionals who have travelled with the doctor, which she shares with molly sullivan and rory williams. the second most common type of medical professional companion is "generally intelligent but exposure to the doctor turns them into a total idiot": harry sullivan and grace holloway. and then there's a secret third (worse) thing: "i want to rail that idiot", i.e. martha jones

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Gonna be real I think Grace also falls into that last category, but that might just be me.

Oh and add Hex to the "what the fuck is wrong with you" list

#doctor who spoilers#i guess?
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