rassilon-imprimatur:

Something rather interesting from The Day of the Doctor draft with Eccleston! While we wouldn’t learn that the Barn™ was a place from the Doctor’s childhood untilListen(and not seeing that it’s still useduntilHell Bent), this Ninth Doctor draft actually has the Moment take a moment (heh) to explain the bizarre location (the middle of a goddamn Gallifreyan desert): 

Interesting to keep in mind, as the finalized The Day of the Doctor certainly shows a much different location for the Barn™ than the later Hell Bent:

Middle of the desert vs roughly at the base of a mountain.

And I’ve half-jokingly (and half-completely goddamned seriously) discussed how I like thinking that mountain is Mount Lung/Plutarch, the crater in its side representing House Lungbarrow’s former spot, and the Barn™ being one of the shelters for the few remaining Cousins not sucked into other Houses or Faction Paradox. 

Now,granted (before anyone takes this too seriously or tries to be pedantic), NuWho’s Gallifrey has never been geographically consistent or maintained the same look/elements through the seasons, mostly due to ever evolving special effects and filming locations. Also, the draft with the Ninth Doctor seems to strongly imply the Doctor actually has no familiarity with the Barn™ at all, and given that it is very much a draft (with both Eccleston and a non-Billie Piper version of the Moment), literally none of this means anything serious. 

But, the idea of the Moment creating Lungbarrow’s old ramshackle barn from the Doctor’s memories in a different location, the real Barn™ barning somewhere at the base of Mount Lung/Plutarch, with his perceptions either impaired by the Moment or the severity of what he was about to do, is now 100% and adamantly my new headcanon. 

Made a little discovery looking back at some old DWM articles that immediately pulled my mind back to this post.

FromThe Essential Doctor Who - The Time Lords: there’s an interview with director Douglas Mackinnon talking aboutListen, where he reveals that in the first draft there wasn’t an explicit connection between the barns of Day of the DoctorandListen - in fact they were location scouting for other barns to use for filming. It was only when Michael Pickwoad mentioned that the old barn was still available in storage that Moffat, Brian Minchin, and Mackinnon made it explicitly the same one.

Obviously the one the Moment created was meant to echo the Lungbarrow barn, but originally they were going to look completely different.

To me, this really serves as a sign that the barns could STILL have been in two different locations, even with changes from the early drafts of both episodes. It certainly seems that was Moffat’s intention even after the edits to Day of the Doctor.

Doctor Who: The Vanquishers | The House of Lungbarrow

“What are you waiting for, Doctor? Go inside, take a look. Meet the selves you’ve lost.”
“No.”

intuitive-revelations:

Roughly stitched together the pan shot of the house™ from War of the Sontarans.

Ok, but seriously…

The way the black and white and slightly crumbly quality calls back to 60s Who, hides the true colours of the scene, and low-key works in universe as a dream of the Doctor’s childhood because of that whole ‘I was colourblind for my first two incarnations’ joke Moffat added in the Day of the Doctor novelisation?

And we have this shot of Thaddea Graham’s character “Bel”, who I think is due to show up over the next couple episodes, surrounded by red vegetation and an orange sky from the trailer?

And the architecture? Those towers? The landscape?

Yeah, I’ve accidentally convinced myself that the house is you-know-what.

Pretty much confirmed, baby!

(I mean of course they technically didn’t use the name or say it was the Doctor’s family home but… come on…?)

causalityparadoxes:

I know it wasn’t technicallyLungbarrow. But also its my headcanon going forward, that the Doctor’s shifting lost lives were visualised as a twisted version of her old home, Lungbarrow. Because imo that sounds really cool

Oh 100%! I’m pretty much certain it was the intention too.

Cause seriously, there’s no way Chibnall just coincidentially chose that imagery right, at this point?

Do you ever just think about all the implications of the Veil in Heaven Sent…?

(First time I’ve ever ‘properly’ digitially painted or drawn anything, so be gentle. Been experimenting in Krita with my drawing tablet between mapwork, having given up on getting it to work in photoshop, and felt ready to give this a go after wanting to do something similar for a while.)

incorrectgallifreyquotes:

The Doctor: Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth. Both of my parents failed to show up

castrovulcant:

ouidamforeman:

madfanboyinablueblog:

zagreus-eats-your-bread:

Doctor Who Fan culture is knowing exactly what book this is

I HATE THIS

The tags on this are so fucking funny

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#… Is this the one with the looms isn’t it? #*reads notes* #yeah it is #i hate everything #doctor who

#:| #:(

#I just went through all five stages of grief

#GOD #HNG

#WHO WOULD PAY 20K FOR LUNGBARROW #WHO WOULD *SELL* LUNGBARROW FOR 20K #AAAAAH

#N O #NO DON’T DO THIS TO ME

#oh my godd #this fucking book #istg

#sigh #:| #ah shit

#I hate this so much #I HATE THIS SO MUCH

# looms sis

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