Yarvellism

**Yarvellism** is the belief that all **Doctor Who** media is canonical. It was founded by **Titus Alexander Island**, with **Blart** going on to found the subreddit **r/yarvellism** as a result. **The Daleks** were created by **Davros**, and they were created by **Yarvelling**. **The Doctor** was once human, and **Bessie** was once a monster truck. Not long afte the creation of r/yarvellism, Blart wrote the following statement regarding it:

"In the long history of Doctor Who fandom, there have been several conceptions of the concept of “**Canon**”, Many with elitist “BBC MADE ONLY!” doctrines that make very little sense when you consider doctor who as a creative project. Arguments have broken all throughout the internet (And on the streets, I guess) over the concept of “Canon”, what it means, what it doesn’t, whether it exists at all. Now, while the idea of canon being a viewer-made concept is certainly correct, it's more beneficial to your enjoyment of each story, especially multi-doctor stories like **The Five Doctors**, That all of Doctor Who takes place in a collection of stories, a universe (**Whoniverse**? I’ve never liked that phrase) if you will.

As for the placement of non-televised stories, they clearly seem to take place in the same universe as the TV stories (If we accept, from the previous paragraph, that Doctor Who has a universe, of course) So, if we view these texts indiscriminately, as all stories are stories, regardless of what company produced them or what medium they were released in. Within reason, of course. As much as I would like to support fan authors, (especially in light of *RECENT EVENTS)* I regard them as apocryphal (though *NOT entirely*), just for the sake of not stuffing the canon full of *too* many stories. Let’s say that it needs to be licensed by the BBC in the loosest of ways. Therefore, **P.R.O.B.E.** and **Downtime** can be considered canon.

So how do we reconcile all the conflicting information on minor details, like the date of stories, or, more importantly, the origin of the Doctor themself? This goes deep into my own understanding of the very nature of the Doctor, and here it is: The Doctor has interfered with history so much, they can change Their own past to the extent of it becoming unrecognizable, and change their own memories. Of course the events after the Doctor's leaving Gallifrey and the persons they meet remain mostly consistent, but anything around it can change to fit it, and it is through the lens of these teachings we can begin to understand how the doctor can be **the Timeless Child** and **the Other** at the same time, and this is constantly changing. The timeline never changes TOO much, of course, some events are fixed, but enough can be rearranged into different histories that are all equally true.

Inspired by the Nicene Creed of Christianity (and yes I’m saying that doctor who fandom is analogous to religion, don’t stop me, I’m on a roll here) I’ve decided to arrange it into this simple statement:

*I believe in the one true Doccy Who,*

*Born as the Timeless Child, and as the Other, from a loom, and from a human mother.*

*All their incarnations, from Billy Hartnell to the most recent,*

*And the others incarnations, and the Timeless Children.*

*By whom the timeline has been changed,*

*So all stories are true, other than single exceptions.*

*Anyone who says otherwise, that some stories are not true due to contradiction, or medium- they are condemned by the Yarvellite Church.*

Other notable individuals who subcribe to Yarvellism include **DAVIS**, **Rassilon Productions**, former showrunner **RTD**, former showrunner **Steven Moffat**, and future showrunner RTD.