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So… I’m starting a new non-fandom linked RP account and I’ve never done Tumblr RP before though I have some narrative RP experience. Any advice for beginners to get our names out there?

//Wow! I’m honored you’re asking me, really!!! ❤ 

Congratulations and I hope you have FUN and as cliched as that sounds I’m prefacing this with how important that is.  Do what you do with the intent to enjoy yourself, and never let those who have lost sight of the fact that this is a HOBBY suck you into a state of feeling obligated to a certain rate or skill level of reply.  These are people with whom you should not associate.  They do not have a healthy grasp of a balanced lifestyle.  And there are unfortunately a lot of them here, and everywhere on the internet.

That said:

–Go into blog settings and make yourself a few “pages.”  These should include an about section briefly describing your muse; and a rules page (stating what you are and aren’t comfortable with writing, including potentially triggering content).  Some people eventually also make relationship pages describing meaningful relationships between their muse (character) and that of writing partners.  If you make a relationships page, you may want to decide if you are going to be “exclusive” with any muses of canon fandom characters.  Meaning you will not write with other versions of those characters. This can be a sticky issue so talk it out openly with your partners. 

–Make your blog eye-catching but also accessible.  No tiny fonts, no graphics that convolute your layout so much that people can’t find your about or rules pages, or your askbox.

–Make, or ask a friend to make, a promo.  You post this as a photoset, with links in the post body to your askbox, rules, about, and verses (if you wish to be “multiverse,” which means you have multiple discrete storylines that don’t overlap, with multiple character relationships, sometimes with duplicates of the same characters.  Most blogs are multiverse because it avoids territorialism and hurt feelings among your partners).  

–Communicate, communicate, communicate. Out of character or “ooc,” communicate with your partners constantly, via asks or im’s.  Always be mindful of personal emotions leeching into characterization.  Always be mindful of what you’re comfortable writing. If you don’t like what’s going on in an rp, talk about it privately with your partner. Partners worth having will respect your needs. 

–Don’t be discouraged. Fandomless OC’s can take time to get traction.  Post brief “open starters” (meaning short posts that get the ball rolling for action, that many different kinds of characters can approach) and TAG those starters with multiple fandoms that interest you, even though you are fandomless.  It will put you on the radar of lots of different kinds of blogs. Tagging posts on Tumblr is a super strategic way to get noticed.  

I hope this helps and you are of course welcome to approach any of my muses for stuff! 

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The Doctor + The Master – last and first looks.

IM CALLING IT ALREADY THE TIME LORDS WIPED THE MASTERS MEMORY AFTER THE EVENTS OF ‘END OF TIME’ BECAUSE THEY JUST KNEW THE MASTER AND THE DOCTOR HAD RECONCILED IN THE TOP RIGHT AND LEFT GIFS AND THAT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF THEM BECAUSE THE REBEL TIME LORDS BESTIES WERE FUCKING BACK.

AND THEY KNEW THAT TOGETHER THEY COULD BURN EMPIRES.

SO THEY WIPED HIS MEMORY

SO HE WOULD FORGET THAT THEY FORGAVE EACH OTHER

THAT THEY SAVED EACH OTHER

THAT THEY REALISED THE REAL SHITS THAT KEPT FUCKING THEIR FRIENDSHIP OVER WERE ALL THE FUCKERS IN THE CITADEL.

That’s why we saw Simm the way he was in the Doctor falls. Because he was the one who forgot.

And missy is the one who remembered.

#DontmindmeIlljustcrymyselftosleep

^ I like this headcanon because his behaviour in the Doctor Falls feels so wrong to me

@bluesuitandsandshoes @decimaquodmedicus I may be adding this to my canon. XD

That’s definitely one extremely good theory and yes I think the root of all of it is that the Time Council fears what the two chief renegades of their age would do if they joined forces.  

My theory is more complex: 

–The Master went into the Timelock trying to kill Rassilon.  He failed and was apprehended.
–Rassilon imprisoned him in a sensorial deprivation chamber on Gallifrey during the Time War for 70 years (the same amount of time, coincidentally, that Missy was being “rehabilitated” by the Twelfth Doctor),  complete with the manufacture of the “Drums” sound that the Master had shaken off, as well as PARTIAL memory erasure so that should he encounter the Doctor again, the “facts” the Doctor offered would still add up.  During that time relentlessly bombarded him with information about everything the Doctor was doing at different points in the Doctor’s timeline after the Master went into the Timelock, without trying to come after and save the Master.  It culminated in information that the Doctor would at some point visit Gallifrey again…but still not go looking for the Master (events in Series Nine).  
–By the time the Master was released, and free again of the Drums and all the psychological conditioning, he was convinced (partially, at least consciously) to retract his forgiveness.
–Rassilon played him like a puppet, giving him ostensible political power, then framing him to be exiled from Gallifrey (the so-called “mutual kicking out” the Master refers to in The Doctor Falls).
–The Master stole a TARDIS and crash landed on Mondas. 
–Twelve’s obsessive preoccupation with “saving” Missy–which, out of context, to the Master, would look like brainwashing–and his obvious horror at seeing the Master again, only seem to confirm the lies Rassilon has told the Master.  

I also love how there are several Simm Master muns in this thread and despite our varied portrayals of this muse, we all agree that Series Ten Simm!Master was totally ooc.  

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Gallifreyan Houses and their Occupants (Part 1)

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[OLDBLOOD HOUSES]

BLYLEDGE

A Founding House, and one of the most important Houses of the Prydon Chapter.

  • Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon, the Time Scaphe’s second officer.

(from Virgin New Adventures: Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible; Virgin Missing Adventures: Cold Fusion)

BRIGHTSHORE

A Prydonian House. Its Cousins were not celebrated intellectuals, but rather respected for their power and wealth.

  • Millennia, a member of the Deca. Despite her House’s reputation, she was an accomplished Temporal Engineer.

(from BBC Past Doctor Adventures: Divided Loyalties)

DELLATROVELLAS

One of Gallifrey’s oldest Houses.

(from BBC Past Doctor Adventures: World Game)

JADEDREAMERS (or JADE DREAMERS)

A Founding House. It was so ancient that some of its Cousins were members of the Sisterhood of Karn.

  • Cassandra, High Priestess of the Sisterhood.

(from Big Finish Audio: Zagreus)

LUNGBARROW

A Prydonian House, with a quota of 45 Cousins. Founded as a direct response to the Curse of the Pythia, the House of Lungbarrow was one of the first Houses to be brought into existence under Rassilon. It gradually fell from favour in Time Lord society and eventually, 350 years after the Doctor’s Looming, Lungbarrow was deleted from the Matrix records as punishment for exceeding its Loom quota. It was later reinstated. It was located halfway up the western side of Mount Lung, from which its name derives, and overlooked the Cadonflood river.

  • Almund.
  • Arkhew, an unusually gentle Cousin, but prone to gambling and caving in to peer pressure. He owned a pet scrubber.
  • Celesia.
  • Chovor.
  • DeRoosifa.
  • The Doctor, renegade Time Lord.
  • Farg.
  • Glospin(ninymortheras), an exceptionally malevolent Cousin, who intended to become the House’s Kithriarch. Possibly a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency.
  • Innocet, (eventual) Housekeeper, tasked with the upbringing of a new House. A very intelligent woman, and a childhood friend of the Doctor. She was a talented telekinetic.
  • Irving Braxiatel, Lord Cardinal of the High Council of Gallifrey. The Doctor’s brother.
  • Jobiska, an elderly Cousin.
  • Luton.
  • Maljamin, who vanished under mysterious circumstances.
  • Owis, the Doctor’s illegal Replacement and the House’s youngest Cousin. Unable to attend the Academy, he was immature and lacked an education.
  • Quences(setianobayolocaturgrathadeyyilungbarrowmas), Ordinal-General and 422nd Kithriarch of Lungbarrow. He requested that the Doctor be enrolled in the Academy.
  • Rynde.
  • Salpash.
  • Satthaltrope, Lungbarrow’s Housekeeper for over 900 years.
  • Tulgel.
  • Ulysses, the Doctor’s father.

(from New Virgin Adventures: Lungbarrow; BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: Unnatural History)

MIRRAFLEX

One of the smaller Oldblood Houses, and the provider of most of Gallifrey’s generals and tacticians. Cousins of Mirraflex were known to be versatile and well-discipled, yet also had a reputation for ruthlessness and extreme xenophobia.

  • General Mirraflex, founder of the House and a veteran of the Eternal Wars.

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Other Oldblood Houses – with no known occupants or Cousins – include:

  • ARPEXIA, known for its Cousins’ belief that reason and logic would always triumph over emotion. This House produced several impressive but overcomplicated models of Time Capsules.
  • CATHERION, an extinct House maintained by a line of Caretakers.
  • EFFESTON, a presumably Prydonian House for which Romana is custodian.
  • FORDFARDING, a Founding House.
  • IXION, used as a base for the organisation known as the Order of the Weal. Like House Catherion, it was maintained by Caretakers.
  • LINEACRUX, a Founding House revered for its knowledge of Gallifrey’s history. Its Cousins appeared deceptively frail.
  • NECHRONMANCY, the records for which have been deleted by its own Cousins, who rejected the existence of Time.
  • SCARLET, a Prydonian House.
  • STILLHAVEN, a Prydonian House.
  • XIANTHELLIPSE, a minor House that rose to power during the War in Heaven. They experimented with the very nature of the Houses themselves to create monstrous ‘war forms’.

(from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War; Faction Paradox: In the Year of the Cat)

[see here for a full list of Gallifrey’s Great Houses]

Great Houses

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The Great Houses were the oldest living things on Gallifrey. They were sentient structures, home to the various Gallifreyan Families. Their interiors were generally plant-like in appearance, with trees and roots forming the walls, as they were cultivated and grown from seeds. Each House belonged to one of the six Chapters, and would supply its Chapter’s Academy with Time Lord Initiates.

The furniture within the Houses was disproportionate to their inhabitants and often towered above individual Family members, in order to remind younger Time Lords that they were still inexperienced and had much to learn. Occasionally, the furniture could also become sentient itself, and gain mobility. All Great Houses were fitted with a transmat, which enabled them to be reached from the Capitol and, presumably, other Houses. At the very centre of each House was a Loom with a unique genetic core, responsible for birthing new Cousins (members of a Family). Each house had a specific quota of Cousins which it was not allowed to exceed – for example, the House of Lungbarrow was punished for exceeding its quota of 45 Family members. The Great Houses could move walls and doors around and shift their interiors, in a manner similar to that of a TARDIS. When a Cousin ultimately died (in that they could no longer regenerate), they would be buried in a vault beneath their House.

Within each House, a Family member was designated the Housekeeper. They would be the only Cousin permitted to ‘speak’ directly to and regularly with the House, while Drudges – huge, wooden servants – would provide more personal interaction with the rest of the Family. The Housekeeper’s responsibilities included tending to the House when it grew sick, as any ill health would also affect the House’s inhabitants. A founder of a new House would be referred to as ‘Grandfather’.

The Houses had their own army, known as the House Militia, which was largely separate from the Chancellery Guard and was governed by the War Council of the Great Houses.

The Houses may also have been split into two categories: Oldblood (Founding Houses and Houses created by Rassilon) and Newblood (formed much later in Gallifrey’s history).

KNOWN HOUSES

  • House Arpexia

    • scientific fundamentalists
  • House Blyledge

    • the most prominent House within the Cerulean Chapter, and older than Rassilon
  • House of Brightshore
  • House of Catherion

    • a House that became extinct
  • House of Dellatrovellas

    • one of the oldest Houses
  • House Dvora

    • alternatively referred to as the ‘House of Devouring Hounds’. The most powerful of the Newblood Houses.
  • House of Effeston
  • House of Fordfarding
  • House of Heartshaven

    • Romana’s House
  • House Ixion

    • a House made up of dissenters from other Families. It later became the headquarters for Morbius’ Order of the Weal. They were rumoured to tamper with the Looms of other Houses
  • House of Jadedreamers

    • experts in Gallifreyan history and law. Its Cousins were regarded as contributing greatly to Gallifreyan society
  • House Lineacrux

    • believed to produce the ‘typical’ Time Lord, i.e. calm and reluctant to involve themselves
  • House Lolita

    • it had only one member – an evolved TARDIS with the same name (possibly the Master’s TARDIS)
  • House Lucia
  • House of Lungbarrow

    • the Doctor’s House. Lungbarrow was one of the original Founding Houses, yet later fell from favour
  • House Mirraflex

    • credited with producing many of Gallifrey’s military heroes
  • House of Nehcronmancy

    • known for shunning gender and titles, and refusing to accept Time as an entity
  • House of Oakdown

    • the Master’s House, and one of the most respected in all of Gallifrey’s history
  • House Paradox

    • illegal experiments were conducted within this House
  • House of Redlooms

    • well-known for producing members of the Chancellery Guard
  • House of Scarlet
  • House of Stillhaven
  • House Tracolix

    • known to produces reckless, ambitious Cousins, despite its weak position in terms of influence
  • House of Wildthyme

    • presumably the House of Iris Wildthyme
  • House Xianthellipse

    • its Cousins experimented with artificial evolution

Gallifreyan Holidays

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Listed in alphabetical order. Source: TARDIS Wikia

A

  • Anmers-Tonastide, also known as the Festival of the Timewright. During the last year of the 508th Pythia’s reign, she did not bless the Festival as was usual. She had withdrawn after losing her ability to see the future. (PROSE: Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible)

F

  • Feast of Omega. It was held in celebration of Omega, who was one of the first Time Lords. (PROSE: Happy Endings) 

O

  • Otherstide was an annual Gallifreyan celebration honouring the figure known as the Other, who was part of the foundation of Time Lord society, along with Rassilon, Omega and three others. One Otherstide coincided with the Doctor’s naming day and it was on another Otherstideeve that the Doctor left Gallifrey, becoming a renegade. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)

T

  • Thirteenth Night was a ritual performed once a year, on the thirteenth day after Otherstide by a cult of Gallifreyans which had been conceived on the thirteenth day after Otherstide. Members of the cult would perform Mimesis during the day. (PROSE: Managra)