[The computer room sure is popular these days, isn't it? But whenever Arianna wanders in, the Doctor is sitting at a terminal, surrounded by pages of scribbled notes- which he is currently ignoring in favor of some kind of news blog with an aesthetic best described as "90's Spacecities".]
Wrong. Wrong- oh, this one's half right, it was Martian, not Venusian. And it's just a hair dryer.
[Approach and see what he's complaining about, y/n?]
["Just a hair dryer," he says, as if the gun that shoots warm breezes was not Amazing Future Technology.
Nevertheless, Arianna is intrigued. What is the Space Internet so wrong about? And... how could it be wrong on such a page with such a pretty background and so many little animated pictures?]
[Oh Arianna, the space internet is wrong about so very many things.]
Ah, Arianna. Armchair historians is what it is.
[He gestures at the screen, still frowning.]
I've been tryin' to work out where exactly this universe's history diverged from ours- well, mine, anyway- an' stumbled across this.
It's... there's this theory on my Earth that people from other planets've been visiting for years, all through human history, see? And that's right, but people go too far an' say that all kinds of old technology and architecture must've been made by the visitors instead of just figuring out how it was actually done. Turns out that's one more thing our worlds have in common, looks like.
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[The computer room sure is popular these days, isn't it? But whenever Arianna wanders in, the Doctor is sitting at a terminal, surrounded by pages of scribbled notes- which he is currently ignoring in favor of some kind of news blog with an aesthetic best described as "90's Spacecities".]
Wrong. Wrong- oh, this one's half right, it was Martian, not Venusian. And it's just a hair dryer.
[Approach and see what he's complaining about, y/n?]
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Nevertheless, Arianna is intrigued. What is the Space Internet so wrong about? And... how could it be wrong on such a page with such a pretty background and so many little animated pictures?]
Sir Doctor? What is it?
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Ah, Arianna. Armchair historians is what it is.
[He gestures at the screen, still frowning.]
I've been tryin' to work out where exactly this universe's history diverged from ours- well, mine, anyway- an' stumbled across this.
It's... there's this theory on my Earth that people from other planets've been visiting for years, all through human history, see? And that's right, but people go too far an' say that all kinds of old technology and architecture must've been made by the visitors instead of just figuring out how it was actually done. Turns out that's one more thing our worlds have in common, looks like.
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[yeah about that]
Then, you know the history of all these places?
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[Doctor please, Caledonia is one of the worlds you really DON'T know the history of.]
I know what their histories are in my universe, yeah. I'd be a pretty poor time-traveler if I didn't.
[l o l]
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[For instance, all of them are apparently full of bisexual people.]