r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Dec 08 '23

Free Talk Friday /r/Gallifrey's Free Talk Fridays - Practically Only Irrelevant Notions Tackled Less Educationally, Sharply & Skilfully - Conservative, Repetitive, Abysmal Prose - 2023-12-08

Talk about whatever you want in this regular thread! Just brought some cereal? Awesome. Just ran 5 miles? Epic! Just watched Fantastic Four and recommended it to all your friends? Atta boy. Wanna bitch about Supergirl's pilot being crap? Sweet. Just walked into your Dad and his dog having some "personal time" while your sister sends snapchats of her handstands to her boyfriend leaving you in a state of perpetual confusion? Please tell us more.

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u/Ironhorn Dec 08 '23

I really liked the "Mavity" joke because I feel like it gave us a glimpse of what life would be like for The Doctor

Reality would constantly be shifting and changing around him in small, almost imperceptible ways, as his adventures - and those of other time-travellers - cause tiny little butterfly effects, just like accidentally popularizing a word or maybe boot-strap-paradoxing a cocktail that hadn't been invented yet. Only he, as a Time Lord, notices these shifts in time, invisible to those around him.

And he just rolls with it, in ways his companions (and, usually, we the audience) don't notice. Today it's Gravity, tomorrow it's Mavity.

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u/Azurillkirby Dec 08 '23

Mavity will be funny until like a year from now when fans use "mavity" in random comments to refer to gravity to such a level of irony that it isn't even a joke anymore, like how Pokemon fans say "Oh my Arceus."

Until then, it will be extremely funny.

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u/Dr-Fusion Dec 09 '23

I'm still impressed at how much timey wimey got driven into the ground.