{"id":129500,"date":"2015-10-29T04:12:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:02:31","slug":"tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-129500 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/attachment\/129501\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho5_r1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho5_r1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho5_r1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/attachment\/129502\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho4_r1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho4_r1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho4_r1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/attachment\/129503\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho3_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho3_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho3_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/attachment\/129504\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho1_r1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho1_r1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwwifkxQbt1rmgvpho1_r1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tillthenexttimedoctor.tumblr.com\/post\/132047093432\" target=\"_blank\">tillthenexttimedoctor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201cAshildr, I think I\u2019m very glad I saved you.\u201d &#8211; \u201cOh, I think everyone will be.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>Lady Me\u2019s stories have turned into a library full of diaries diaries, played out, abandoned and barely remembered. That of a queen was full of boredom, that of a soldier only kept her attention till the war was done, that of a healer met by little gratefulness. And among them, the smaller personal stories scream in pain. The lover turns into a ghost, the mother grieves her children. Her tales could not keep anyone safe, in the end, until she swears not to tell some of them, ever again<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Becoming \u201cMe\u201d is in many ways the antithesis<br \/>\n to what \u201cthe Doctor\u201d did when he chose his name. <b>A name might be a<br \/>\npromise here too, but it\u2019s a promise of her own solitude, her merciless<br \/>\nindependence<\/b>. And yet they\u2019ve both lost a family and were left with a cot, they\u2019ve both gone through the centuries to witness the death of people they cared about again and again. What room has the Doctor to judge, when he could no longer remember how many innocent lives were lost when Gallifrey burned? When Madame de Pompadour and the Great Intelligence are get lost in his past, memories turned to smoke like hers? When the question of his own age is slipping his grasp?\u00a0 He sees himself in her for a good reason, not out of judgement, but fear. And she cannot keep herself from caring any more than he can, forever destined to fall off the wagon.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><i>\u201cYou are an extraordinary woman, Ashildr,\u201d<\/i> he tells her and she smiles at him, knowingly. All her<br \/>\n other names died with whoever knew her, until only she was left, but there is someone who knows<br \/>\nher now. She\u2019s no longer singular, without an attachment, nothing at all<br \/>\n to describe her. Instead, she has chosen her path: to protect the world and the people the Doctor abandons in his stumble through history.<b> The antihesis to the Doctor once again.<\/b><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><b><\/b>She isn\u2019t a villain or a hero, neither good nor bad. She\u2019s as unfathomable as the Doctor himself (the idiot with a box, the man who saves people). When<br \/>\n we first meet her, she was Ashildr,<br \/>\ndaughter of Einarr. In our more recent encounter, she was Lady Me,<br \/>\nnothing to nobody. It will be interesting<br \/>\nto see who she is if we see her again. And what name she will go by.<br \/><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tillthenexttimedoctor: \u201cAshildr, I think I\u2019m very glad I saved you.\u201d &#8211; \u201cOh, I think everyone will be.\u201d Lady Me\u2019s stories have turned into a library full of diaries diaries, played out, abandoned and barely remembered. That of a queen was full of boredom, that of a soldier only kept her attention till the war was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/tillthenexttimedoctor-ashildr-i-think-im\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12384,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129505,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129500\/revisions\/129505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}