Think about it – the block was human compatible, not Time Lord compatible. He had accepted he had to part from her. That whole memory loss bit was him putting on an act to make it easier for her to run.

randomthunk: Clara said she messed with it so while I want to also go conspiracy theory on this and say “is it still human compatible and I mean they were alluding to the Doctor being part human maybe??”, I’m going to say that he probably did draw the short end of the stick and got …

well

antennapedia: I am okay with this ending in many many many ways. All the fic is possible. All the reunions are possible. All the Doctor!Clara x Ashildr adventures are possible. Twelve’s memories are there somewhere. They both had full agency and chose to roll the dice together. And Whouffaldi is canonically universe-wrecking-ly intense.