#Ruby theories
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I don’t wanna sound like a Negative Narvin™️ but almost every theory I’ve seen about Ruby has her ending up being the daughter of either the Doctor or a companion of New Who significance (River, Rose, etc) and the absolute dread that fills in me at the thought of that being the twist is almost incalculable. The thought of it is just so boring and so uninteresting to me that if the final twist is something along those lines I will be so deflated.
Personally, I don’t have many theories yet but I stick with my original one and that is that Ruby is what I will call a Paradox Baby™️. This means that the woman dropping her off at the church, her “mother”, is actually herself and we never truly learn the origin of Ruby Sunday.
She doesn't trigger any sort of paradoxical effects by holding her infant self because she was always the one holding her infant self. The reason snow appears when they discuss Ruby’s origin is because reality can’t handle looking too closely at the paradox that is her existence. The Maestro was so unsettled by the (Christmas) song in Ruby because the song is representative of her paradox. It’s why the TARDIS makes strange noises around her every once in a while. Hell, it could be why the whole butterfly thing happened (regardless of what the Doctor said). She is able to exist because after Flux and everything with Swarm and Azure, time and space are nowhere as synchronous as they once were.
Finally, it all lines up with her line from the trailer, “It’s taken me all this time to realize what I’m meant to do. I’m going to save the world.”
Realizing that she has no past to speak of beyond that Christmas on Ruby Road, she needs to look forward to her future, her purpose.
And in a way this all sort of parallels the Doctor’s story with his past. He’s an “adopted” child with no idea of where he’s really from, but that just means all he can do is look forward to the future and what he’s going to do with it.
Hell, not to get too conspiracy theory, but it would also explain the music choice in the primary trailer. Changes by David Bowie is about how you can’t change time but time changes you.
That’s my working theory, at least.
#DW spoilers#my thoughts#15th Doctor#Ruby Sunday#Ncuti Gatwa#Millie Gibson#The Maestro#RTD2#Series 14#I refuse to call it series 1#Ruby theories
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Okay absolutely off the wall Doctor Who theory time.
They are trapped inside a television show. An outrageous claim I know buuuut I do have a fair bit of evidence. First something kinda unsubstantial, the sonic screwdriver literally looks like a TV remote, and in the episode the Doctor hit the Mute button.
Second: the key art for the penultimate episode "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" features a TV set
Third: The sheer amount of fourth wall breaks in the past four episodes trumps what we've seen in the whole of the revival.
Fourth: At the end of "The Devil's Cord" a music number saying there's "Always a twist", and an actress that has been popping up all over this new era is 'Susan Twist'. She keeps popping up, because 'There's Always a Twist'.
Fifth: The Doctor mentions that he thought the music was "Non-diegetic", meaning he could hear the music in the scene and assumed it was just part of the show, until Ruby mentioned she could hear it. Implying that whenever we hear the Non-diegetic music in the show so can the Doctor.
Thank you for listening to my absolute crackpot theory.
#doctor who#doctor who season 1#15th doctor#fifteenth doctor#ruby sunday#doctor who theory#ncuti gatwa#millie gibson
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exactly the face i made when i heard her say that line. Kate, what does that mean. did you intend to say “this event may be suspended along your timeline” and misspeak? “along your event” that’s just words. they don’t really click together into any kind of cogent sentence.
unless… is ruby’s life an event?
makes me think of the doctor referring to himself as a “complex space-time event” in boom. ruby’s timeline seems to be getting more unravelled by the minute, what with all the changes and erasures and rewritten histories and alterations to her past and future. she’ll out-complex him if she doesn’t watch out
#dw#doctor who meta#doctor who theory#doctor who speculation#kate stewart#kate lethbridge stewart#ruby sunday#doctor who series 14#fifteenth doctor#ncuti gatwa#millie gibson#russell t davies#73 yards#boom#doctor who#steven moffat#kitty.txt
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Anita Dobson as Mrs. Flood
DOCTOR WHO | “The Church on Ruby Road”
#doctor who#dwedit#doctorwhoedit#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#the church on ruby road#mystuff#anita dobson#mrs flood#flood as in...pond and river?#possibly??#give me all the theories#1k
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#this is directed at us btw
DOCTOR WHO
S01E03 Boom
#dwedit#doctor who#usertennant#userteri#userdiana#usertreena#fifteenth doctor#ruby sunday#*#idk how i feel abt the tv theory#in terms of whether or not i think it's true OR whether or not i want it to be true lol#but he is NOT talking to ruby here. he's looking into the camera and he's talking to Us.#have YOU figured it out yet.#it's giving dora the explorer tbh
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there is a perception filter on the old woman. people see her, but they don't really notice her. they don't see what's wrong about her.
until ruby points her out. ruby says "look at her. do you see that woman?" and they do. the perception filter falls away.
and the woman says "look at her. do you see that woman?" and they look at ruby, and the perception filter is gone. and they see her for what she truly is.
and it's beyond their brain's ability to comprehend.
#idkkkkkk#still hung up on maestro calling ruby a creature#WHAT IS SHE if it's so horrifying that no human brain can comprehend it#also explains why all of unit's psychic training was useless against it#psychic training doesnt prevenr you from perceiving the truth it's meant to do the opposite of that#dw theory#ndw.2#dw#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#73 yards#lavender thoughts
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DOCTOR WHO | The Church on Ruby Road - Behind the Scenes
Once upon a time, late on Christmas Eve, a stranger came to the church on Ruby Road. She carried in her arms the most precious gift of all: a newborn child. A baby girl. Just before midnight, she left her daughter on the steps of the church. The child was taken in, and they named her Ruby after the place where she was found. As for the mother, she was never seen again. No one ever knew her name until that night a time traveler came to call. A traveler known as the Doctor.
#doctor who#dwedit#fifteenth doctor#ruby sunday#timelordgifs#dailydw#ncuti gatwa#millie gibson#russell t davies#rtdedit#userbbelcher#tvedit#dw spoilers#denim rose graphics#laksfajsfkjsk it's been so long i almost forgot to add my thoughts#i'm so excited for this season!!#another lost child plotline in doctor who?? ready for all the theories#i've already seen a couple#honestly i'm just so here for this arc
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Ok, but what did Old Ruby tell her mom to make her freak out like that? Was that even Old Ruby the first time around, or was that someone else? Because whoever that was seemed to have information about Ruby that Ruby herself never learned.
And also, whatever The Woman [I'm fairly certain it was NOT Old Ruby the first time around (I mean, for the majority of the episode) so I'm just gonna call her The Woman] was telling everyone seemed to scare them a lot, but they weren't able to tell anyone else. They had to keep it to themselves ("ask her."). So what was that information?
Also, what was the goal of The Woman? It clearly wasn't to get Mad Jack out of office, otherwise she would have went away after that happened. That means her goal was to wait til the end of Ruby's life and make her like her, in order for her to tell herself to not step on the fairy circle.
So what's so important about the fairy circle? I mean... what happened after they broke it? Nobody died, nobody got hurt, no monsters were unleashed upon the world...actually, a really bad politician was stopped from nuking something jusg because. So really, them stepping on the fairy circle was a *good thing*. (Other than the doctor disappearing?? Idk what that's about)
So why did the show writers disguise this good thing as something bad? What was the intention behind this episode? WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US???
#doctor who#doctor who season 14#ncuti gatwa#doctor who spoilers#73 yards#73 yards spoilers#millie gibson#ruby sunday#ruby sunday theory
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#i have seen so many theories#from normal fucking to mitosis to russian dolls to zeus-and-athena shit#and more#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers#spoilers#doctor who#dw#dr who#new who#fifteenth doctor#ruby sunday#the devil's chord#the toymaker#maestro
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In reference to the theory I’ve seen going around that Ruby is secretly part of The Pantheon
The Toymaker= the living personification of games
The Maestro= the living personification of music
Both of them have the ability to warp reality specifically they often warp it to fit the rules of their respective concepts. The Toymaker makes the world run on the rules of a game, The Maestro makes the world run like a musical. And reality continues to warp around Ruby BUT it does so in very specific ways…
The space station adheres to the rules of a children’s story, the rules of time travel change to incorporate the butterfly effect based on stories she knows and coincidences or connections continue to pop up around her and the plot of a story is often built on connections, often coincidences that turn out to be anything but. So…
Ruby Sunday= the living personification of stories
What do we think, tumblr?
#also there’s a pattern forming here#they’re all goods of childish things#???#who would create a pantheon of childish things#very interested to see where they came from#doctor who#dr who#dw#dw spoilers#dw theory#dw headcanon#whovian#ruby sunday#the toymaker#the maestro#the pantheon
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next on doctor who: ruby steps on a sidewalk crack. they find her birth mother by searching for people with broken backs
#it's the 'making reality weird' thing AND the 'stepping on a plot device' thing. i see you rtd#doctor who#ruby sunday#fifteenth doctor#doctor who theory
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Multicoloured, wildly unsuspecting and secretly magic I love them
#This really challenges my colour theory and idk if I came out in top or not#also switched up a couple outfits#I’ve been really loving this campaign setting#had to hold off for a bit after ep 7 it got intense#but I love political intrigue settings sm#lapin cadbury#king amethar#theobald gumbar#jet rocks#ruby rocks#liam wilhelmina#illustration#a crown of candy#dimension 20#d20 quotes
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hey insane doctor who people. remember the snowman scene in the church on ruby road? there was no baby in the pram 👀 instead of a baby it was “shopping” . tags i left on a gifset then realised fuck it, it deserves its own post
gift-wrapped baby that’s not a baby. saved by the doctor from imminent mortal danger but the snowman was hollow on the inside too…
#starting to think when the season is over we’ll be coming back to these moments and marveling at all the hidden foreshadowing that was#obscured by the on-the-nose heavy-handed Wait For The One Who Waits bs#dw#doctor who theory#doctor who meta#ruby sunday#the church on ruby road#doctor who series 14#fifteen#fifteenth doctor#ncuti gatwa#russell t davies#doctor who#space babies#the devil’s chord
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This is recent history. Ruby Bridges is 68yrs old and she is still alive.
Emily Conklin is thee definition of a racist Karen, and she is trying to whitewash the history white children learn by erasing a rated PG Disney movie that has already been shown for years in Pinellas County schools, usually as a part of Black History Month.
Two immediate thoughts that come to mind are:
“The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”
and
“IF BLACK CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE RACISM, WHITE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT IT”
Look, Ruby Bridges was six years old when racist white parents (men and women) threw rocks and hissy fits because she was trying to get an education. A full year younger than most of the white children who are now being “protected” from learning the truth about what their grandparents did.
I guess these delicate snowflakes are so triggered by the racism of their elders that they need to get the Republican governor to whitewash away the truth.
I’m almost 40yrs old and I used to wonder how it was that in college, white kids my age genuinely believed that Martin Luther King, Jr. died of old age. But somehow, every single Black person my age knew the truth. How does that happen?? This is how it happens. This is a prime example of precisely how that happened and still happens—because to “protect” them from the truth, white kids weren’t taught that he was assassinated. It’s literally no different than raising generations of white kids to believe that 2+2=5. There’s going to be serious problems when they hit the real world. But what can I say? Conservatives like ‘em dumb and ignorant.
Anyway, this is how you get generations of fully grown white adults who truly honestly believe foolishness like “racism is over,” or “Martin Luther King basically ended racism,” or, “we don’t need affirmative action because there is no more racism; if anything it’s white people who are more discriminated against now.” (The majority of white people polled said the same thing in the 1960s too, btw).
Keeping as many white people as possible ignorant of the truth does not happen by accident. It’s very intentional. And that’s not to say that ALL white people are ignorant of the truth. Some of them, like Emily Conklin, know the truth, but just do not care.
And make no mistake: The same white people who want to keep their white children “pure” and “innocent” have ZERO problems criminalizing and sending young Black children directly to jail for even the slightest misbehavior in a classroom.
Evil, racist cowards (redundant, I know).
#politics#emily conklin#republicans#ruby bridges#whitewashing history#erasure#north shore elementary school#black history#crt#critical race theory#book banning#florida#floriduh#ron desantis
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DOCTOR WHO (2005-)
#dwedit#doctor who#usertennant#userteri#userveronika#userdiana#usertreena#donna noble#ruby sunday#fifteenth doctor#splice alison vater#mundy flynn#john francis vater#*#normally dw is SO careful to have the dates more or less line up with our present day#so this is. interesting#and of course i had to throw in the donna scene for all the tv theory fans#anyway! that's enough for me today. goodnight <3
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Proposals for what 15 and Ruby have been doing for 8 months instead of visiting alien planets:
Rewatching the April 8 solar eclipse over bodies of water in the TARDIS
Karaoke bars
TARDIS wardrobe fashion shows
Petting dogs at Territorio de Zaguates dog sanctuary in Costa Rica
TARDIS swimming pool days
Renaissance faire
Viewing the Earth from outer space
Free museums, which the Doctor keeps wondering why certain artifacts aren’t housed (they haven’t been uncovered by archeologists yet in 2024 but the Doctor has visited this sane museum in the future)
Getting into concerts for free by parking the TARDIS at a venue days in advance
Re-enacting John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) in Antarctica
#doctor who#updates from cipher#15th doctor#ruby sunday#Gatwa doctor#I’m basically playing Devil’s advocate about season long plot theories here
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