patrexes:

the context of the last post is that the dr.who expanded universe has a berenstain problem. for years we’d all known that the six chapters were the prydonians, the arcalians, the ceruleans, the dromeians, the patrexes (hi), and the scendles.

but it’s actually, apparently, when you check the source text, “scendeles”. we’d all just misremembered it for the last nearly 20 years.

of course, what we know about the scend(e)les is that they’ve been bankrupt ever since funding their section of the capitoline panopticon (i propose it was because they really went all out on the plastic alien plants), despite the fact that gallifrey is a hive planet and as far as we can tell hasn’t used money in millions of years.

there have been jokes about this for ages. their robes are boring off-white because they buy cast-offs in bulk from the other chapters and bleach them, they’re deeply involved in a gallifreyan black market, etc etc. one obvious joke, when we thought they were scendles, is that they sold off the singular form of their name for pocket change.

the cool thing about dr.who canon? it’s super malleable. officially it’s never been defined. it’s this kind of descriptivist disaster of the widely-agreed-on, for the most part. and that means its completely reasonable for me to say that the scendles were indeed once the scendeles, and there once was such a concept of a singular scendel.

but they sold an e for pocket change.