okay these are all the doctors in chronological order in the current canon
everything was normal until John Hurt, who was a secret incarnation of The Doctor introduced retroactively in 2013
this incarnation didn’t call himself The Doctor during his life, because he didn’t feel like he lived up to the title
so despite Christopher Eccleston being the 10th incarnation of the Doctor, he was still referred to as The 9th Doctor
THEN
during one of David Tennant’s episodes, he gets shot by a dalek for the first time ever and is forced to regenerate, but decides not to change his face by siphoning the regeneration energy into his own disembodied hand which is a fucking long story
the short of it is that David Tennant regenerated into himself
so
David Tennant, known as the 10th Doctor, was actually the 11th and 12th incarnations of The Doctor, but was still known as the 10th Doctor for his whole tenure
so now we’re on Jodie Whittaker right
who
is known as the 13th doctor, because John Hurt wasn’t called The Doctor and David Tennant was still called the 10th Doctor even when he was the 11th and 12th
but technically she is the 15th incarnation of The Doctor and could just as easily be called the 15th Doctor
PUT SIMPLY,,,,,,,,,,,,
Jodie Whittaker plays the 15th incarnation of The Doctor, who has the 14th unique face of The Doctor, but is called the 13th Doctor because John Hurt and the David Tennant Two: The Re-Tennanting don’t count in the number order
i know it’s silly
but you’re both right
Reblogging in support of the perfectly Doctor Who answer of “you’re both right”, as well as the verb “re-tennanting”, which I look forward to seeing in the Oxford English dictionary very soon.
Oh
RE-TENNANTING
“The short of it is that David Tennant regenerated into himself”
I love that this implies that David Tennant himself is a time lord
Random thought but Oscar but the sass and dead inside-ness turned up to MAX.
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Ozpin: Hello, there. I’m Professor–
Oscar: Shut the *&% up. It’s 6 am. I haven’t had my coffee yet. And you don’t want to deal with me when I haven’t had my caffeine.
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Yang: You turned my mom and uncle into birds! What’s wrong with you?
Oscar: So you’re okay with Ozpin randomly jumping into bodies but two people consenting to having the ability to turn into birds freaks you out?
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Oscar: *to the tune of Old Macdonald’s* I am so stressed that sunlight hurts! I am the gods’ mistake!
Jaune: Are you okay there?
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Oscar: Wait, wait, wait … Lemme get this straight … We want Ruby to train her hand to hand skills but we don’t want her to train the thing Salem wants her dead for? What the *&(^ are we even doing in this house for?!
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Oscar: *straight up chugs coffee like a shot of tequila*
Nora: I put salt in there
Oscar: I know.
Nora: …
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Oscar: *SWEARING PROFUSELY*
Ozpin: Language
Oscar: Eat *$(#.
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Oscar: Lemme guess, you keep smiling because you wake up every morning, walk to the mirror and lie to yourself that everything is going to be fine when it clearly isn’t?
Ruby: No, I don’t!
Oscar: …
Ruby: Okay, maybe a little.
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Ruby: You’re not a little freaked out that Salem and Ozpin used to be married?
Oscar: I already knew that Salem hated Ozpin. Now I just know that they *#&$ed. And why the moon is shattered. A god literally just yeeted themself off the planet.
Ruby: What about the fact Ozpin doesn’t have a plan?
Oscar: To be honest, I just kinda expected it. Didn’t want it to be true though. I mean, it’s been 3000 years. Neither of them are dead yet. I don’t even think Salem has a plan to take over the world if it’s taken this long.
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Oscar: *at Qrow* Okay, I know you’re pissed and all that Ozpin has been wasting your time but did it merit PUNCHING ME IN THE GODDAMN FACE AND THROWING INTO A &%*ING TREE?
After putting my writing on hold for several weeks, I decided to jump back in. I expected to find all sorts of problems with my story–inconsistencies in the plot, lack of transitions, poor characterization–the works. But what began to stick out to me was something to which I’d given little thought in writing.
Filter words.
What are Filter Words?
Actually, I didn’t even know these insidious creatures had a name until I started combing the internet for info.
Filter words are those that unnecessarily filter the reader’s experience through a character’s point of view. Dark Angel’s Blog says:
“Filtering” is when you place a character between the detail you want to present and the reader. The term was started by Janet Burroway in her book On Writing.
In terms of example, you should watch out for:
To see
To hear
To think
To touch
To wonder
To realize
To watch
To look
To seem
To feel (or feel like)
Can
To decide
To sound (or sound like)
To know
I’m being honest when I say my manuscript is filled with these words, and the majority of them need to be edited out.
What do Filter Words Look Like?
Let’s imagine a character in your novel is walking down a street during peak hour.
You might, for example, write:
Sarah felt a sinking feeling as she realized she’d forgotten her purse back at the cafe across the street. She saw cars filing past, their bumpers end-to-end. She heard the impatient honk of horns and wondered how she could quickly cross the busy road before someone took off with her bag. But the traffic seemed impenetrable, and she decided to run to the intersection at the end of the block.
Eliminating the bolded words removes the filters that distances us, the readers, from this character’s experience:
Sarah’s stomach sank. Her purse—she’d forgotten it back at the cafe across the street. Cars filed past, their bumpers end-to-end. Horns honked impatiently. Could she make it across the road before someone took off with her bag? She ran past the impenetrable stream of traffic, toward the intersection at the end of the block.
Are Filter Words Ever Acceptable?
Of course, there are usually exceptions to every rule.
Just because filter words tend to be weak doesn’t mean they never have a place in our writing. Sometimes they are helpful and even necessary.
Susan Dennard of Let The Words Flow writes that we should use filter words when they are critical to the meaning of the sentence.
If there’s no better way to phrase something than to use a filter word, then it’s probably okay to do so.
Want to know more?
Read these other helpful articles on filter words and more great writing tips:
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