WHERE DO WE GO NOW? - CH. 2 | 14th Doctor

Chapter Two: All Our Best Years Are Behind

Summary: With the TARDIS out of control, you three end up stranded on a spaceship. Unbeknownst to you all, you're not the only one on board.

Pairing: 14th Doctor x Fem!Reader

Warnings: Hurt-to-Comfort, Angst, Fluff, Possible Plot Holes, Vague Background, Aliens, Mild Horror, Violence, Past Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Timey-Wimey Stuff, Star-Crossed Lovers, Second Chance, Character Death, Mention of Su!c!de, 

Word Count: 11.7k

A/N: Tbh, this chapter took a while for me to write because of all the holiday shopping I needed to do tehe! Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter and as you know I thrive for feedback, reblogs and comments. Thank you for all the love you've given so far to this series and I can't wait to start writing the next chapter because I have a bunch of ideas swirling around in my mind hehe. Also, please note that English isn't my first language, please forgive me for any grammatical errors or wrong spelling etc. Love you loads!

Song: anything (demo) by Dodie

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ENGLAND, 1666 — MORNING

The TARDIS collides with an unknown object, sending you and Donna tumbling through the room. Donna clings to the railing for stability, but you, unfortunately, lose your balance. As you teeter on the edge of falling, the Doctor swiftly intervenes, grabbing your waist and pulling you close. Your bodies collide in the chaotic scenario as flames and sparks whirl around the console.

The Doctor gently cradles your head with one hand, conducting a swift but thorough assessment for any injuries. Satisfied with the examination, he presses a tender kiss to the top of your head. With a determined look, he retrieves a piece of the console, swiftly making his way to the TARDIS doors. His focus shifts to triangulating your current location and time, a sense of urgency evident in his movements.

literally scratching at the walls begging for 14th doctor x reader fics

I know there's only been one episode out but i NEED 14 x reader fics. smut, fluff, angst ALL OF THEM IDC GIMME CONTENT BESTIES 😭

oh my goodness I need him I I I if I speak I'm gonna be taken away but just let me have a lil nibble. a little gnaw. a tiny bite. PLEASE

(I'm totally normal and sane) xxxxxx

This is the oldest piece of music known to humankind. It’s engraved in cuneiform on a tablet from 1400 BC. And it was a hymn to their goddess Nikkal.

I wasn’t actually expecting something serious.

That was, um, actually unexpected.

What is this grand old instrument? It is almost ethereal to my ears!

I wish more ancient music was written down. It’d be interesting to study it!

Only 15th century BC kids will remember this bop

It would’ve likely originally been played on a sammûm, a bit like a lyre, in accompaniment of a singer.

Whilst its the oldest piece of music, it’s not complete (I believe the oldest complete song is the Seikilos Epitaph), so it’s transcription is controversial; there are a few differing decipherments.

The fact that this recording exists is nothing short of miraculous when you consider all of the background work that you have to do before you put a lyrist in front of a staff-notation transcription.  This article will tell you about it in exhaustive detail:  https://musicircle.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Babylonian-Notatin-and-the-Hurrian-Melodic-Texts_Music-and-Letters-1994-WEST-161-79.pdf

In short, here are some of the things a musicologist would have to do in order to get to the point where you can start looking for someone who plays an ancient Mesopotamian lyre (yes, the sammûm is a type of lyre):

1.  Find the tablets. 2.  Know enough cuneiform to identify the language, the culture, the time period, and the fact that this is music notation, which was vanishingly rare in a culture where people wrote with a stylus on wet clay. 3.  Know what instruments people played and how they were used. 4.  Figure out how many strings this instrument had and how they were tuned.  This is harder than it looks because, while instruments can sometimes survive millennia, strings tend not to survive, and as any string player knows, tuning often doesn’t survive a single performance. 5.  Figure out the tuning system – our Western even-tempered scale is a recent invention.  J.S. Bach composed the Well-Tempered Clavier to show off even-tempered tuning in 1722.  The octave is a creation of physics; dividing the octave into pleasing individual notes that can be put together to make music is a creation of culture, and there’s no reason to assume that ancient Mesopotamians used modern Western scales. 6.  Learn the corpus of music theory that supports the structure of this piece of music.  If you know the theory, you can figure out what the music is doing; if you don’t know the theory, you have a random string of notes, not music. 7.  Because this was only a semi-written culture, music was heavily improvisatory.  You have to know that what’s written down is more of an outline or a suggestion.  The real art is in filling in the rest of the pattern.  A lot of traditional non-Western music works like this (and up until fairly recently, quite a bit of Western classical music also incorporated this aspect; even today, the art of playing a cadenza is a Thing), so if you’re not an ethnomusicologist, you’ll want to bring one in, preferably one who works with contemporary West Asian folk and/or classical forms. 8.  Ahhh!  At last!  You’ve gotten to the point where you think you can figure out what this piece is supposed to sound like.  Now you have to transcribe it all into Western staff notation (which isn’t designed to handle music like this). 9.  Unless you are also an expert on building and playing ancient Mesopotamian lyres, you must now go and find someone who is.  Fortunately, there are one or two of these people around.  Give that person your music, and book the recording studio! 10.  The next time anyone asks you why studying music is important, now you know.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAA IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT ALL MY LIFE

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We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.

Question.

I’ve rebogged bread.

What?

I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.

Where, where have you been sending it?!

I love how there are more reblogs than likes

This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.

… Is your Kid name Bread ?

Reblog if your kid is named bread

I am in 2020 and I Do Not Like This Post

Oh my gosh… Did I ??? Oh no … Did I really just reblog bread?

Oopsies

I reblogged bread

I reblogged 😳

ah shit…my hand mustve slipped

whoopsie daisy 😅🤣

“I can’t talk right now, I’m doin hot girl shit”

*reads fanfiction for 3 hours*

*daydreams about my favorite characters and actors*

*takes a nap*

This is literally the last month you can reblog this joke

op u were wrong you can reblog this any month of 2020

Last month you can reblog this joke

Last day you can reblog this

Last day to reblog

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

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Gotta do it

I don’t care what news I get I just want this stupid potato dog on my dash

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How do you tattoo “if a man talks shit then I owe him nothing” on you subtly

A BIRD FLEW INTO HER FACE I CANT FUCKING BREATHE

I HIT YOU LIKE BANG

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IT IS JUST SO FUNNY I AM SCREAMING

This would literally happen to me i can’t believe

This era keeps delivering the goods

Never forget