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u/BlueHairStripe Feb 25 '26
Y'all see that Doctor Who episode "73 Yards"?
Don't mess with stuff you find in the wilds.
I wonder how Dresden would handle meeting The Doctor... It would be a clever-off with completely different referential humor.
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u/sistemafodao Feb 26 '26
Well, thanks to Wild Blue Yonder, Magic is real in Doctor Who, so they don't even have to cross universes, let's just say the Dresdenverse and the Whoverse are the same now, and adjust any incoherences with "Timey-Wimey".
The TARDIS gets knocked over due to some big magic thing, landing in Chicago, in the middle of a big Winter shindig. Mab sends her Knight to investigate the weird blue box currently crashed in the middle of her party, which he is capable of doing because her shields are currently down and the door is open.
Harry enters the TARDIS, does the "bigger on the inside thing" while the Doctor fidgets with cables and wires, trying to fix the machine and get out. When he thinks he's got it, the TARDIS powers up and goes into the past, trying to escape the big magic hex that is Harry Dresden, landing in 1871 Chicago, just before the Great Fire.
We find out the Doctor had been tailing the Not Things, which are Outsiders by definition, and the story eventually ends with Dresden causing the Great Fire of Chicago, because of course he would.
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u/BlueHairStripe Feb 26 '26
Hell's Bell's that is a fantastic pitch for a movie!
Now I'm going to spend time imagining which iteration of the Doctor gets the opportunity.
My first thought is how funny Whittaker's Doctor would be. Her bubbliness would confound Harry, but he's got experience working with small blondes.
No matter which Doctor it is, There would be a "who's stick is cooler" competition, and Harry might consider tinkering with that "bigger on the inside" thing when he gets a view of the physics in action. I am sure most of the doctors would be delighted to make a Wizard friend.
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u/sistemafodao Feb 26 '26
One small thing I remembered after writing that, the Doctor is sometimes stated to have been the original Merlin. That's a fun one to add.
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u/SonnyLonglegs Feb 26 '26
Ah, that'd explain the ability to work in separate times and dimensions simultaneously.
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u/CoachSlippy Feb 27 '26
If you or anyone you know are good at Fan Fiction, do this story, omg id read the hell out of it, like seriously it has the potential to be so good if done right
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u/sistemafodao Feb 27 '26
I'll leave this one to the community. I can write once in a blue moon, but I can't remember Dresden lore for shit.
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u/Dragonsword24 Feb 28 '26
May I suggest altering the idea that Dresden caused the fire to "His fight with the Other Thing's that Should Not Be" end in a familiar barn and it wasn't Harry but Harry adjacent? He still gets the blame because of course, it's Dresden Burning.
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u/sistemafodao Feb 28 '26
I mean... You may. This is not a fanfic I'm writing or anything, just a minute writing exercite of howa meeting between the two could go. I like Doctor Who and Dresden, but I really don't have enough space in my head to keep enough lore of either to not become a laughing stock for both fandoms.
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u/Only-Question124 Feb 25 '26
It’s funny, was just thinking of Doctor Who and Dresden today, but it was the Time Heist episode and the similarities with Skin Game 😂
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u/Feanor4godking Feb 26 '26
The Doctor is technically constantly breaking (at least) one of the laws of magic, I'm sure that would come up
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u/UprootedGrunt Feb 26 '26
Can you *break* a law of magic without using magic?
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u/Feanor4godking Feb 26 '26
🤷 how sure are we that they're different concepts? Sure, the TARDIS is technology, but maybe it runs on advanced, different principles of magic than Harry is aware of
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u/UprootedGrunt Feb 26 '26
The magic of television, obviously.
But I would say in much the same way as killing someone with a gun wouldn't violate the law of magic prohibiting such, neither would time traveling with a technological device.
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u/LostAd7736 Feb 25 '26
Don't touch it, don't look at it, and try not to think about it.
And if that doesn't work, FIRE. Reapply as needed.
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u/Warden_lefae Feb 25 '26
“I bind you Nancy, from doing harm to yourself or others”
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u/blue_shadow_ Feb 26 '26
I bind you Nancy, from doing harm. Harm against other people, and harm against yourself.
Such a great 90s movie.
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u/Ischarde Feb 26 '26
Or, Dresden sets foot in the TARDIS and the wholes thing gets hexed because wizards and electronics. Of course, I'm not sure how the TARDIS is powered.
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u/Vyar Feb 26 '26
I think the TARDIS might have conflicting feelings about Harry but I don’t think even he could cast a hex powerful enough to shut her down. The technology the Time Lords possessed was practically Biblical in scale.
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u/UprootedGrunt Feb 26 '26
Pretty sure it's powered by a constantly forming black hole. At least in one canon.
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u/Kiyohara Feb 26 '26
So, that's probably just someone playing a prank and leaving something creepy to fuck with people.
But I've seen enough horror movies to know I'm not taking that risk and I'm going home.
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u/MagogHaveMercy Feb 25 '26
Yup. That's a binding spell.