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is it too delusional to say i think we COULD get a christmas special with 14 and i know that’s a controversial thing to actually want but a christmas without doctor who isn’t christmas and this is my last christmas as a teenager so i’ll take whatever i can get atp

(this physically cannot happen because it wasn’t commissioned)

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how the fuck is there not an episode of wednesday titled ‘all’s fair in love and woe’

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toasted breadcake is an underrated snack

also, i only accept breadcake and bread roll, bap, cob, bun, muffin, barm, and stotty are not right

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nearly cried yesterday when my nail tech told me, and i quote, ‘i’m not the biggest fan of david tennant’

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i went out last night and spent one hundred pounds i am literally penniless now

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allons-y, alonso

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doctor who 150th anniversary special: the ghost of david tennant is haunting the tardis and it’s up to the doctor and blonde teenage girl whose name begins with ‘R’ no. 24 to set him free at last

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trying my hardest to break in some dr martens please pray for me and my feet in this difficult period

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campbell, they are not going to let you threaten to jump off the hospital roof for the mental health week open day

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unpopular opinion but they should not have ever introduced any other time lords to doctor who EXCEPT the master, and having the rani or omega was a bad idea, and having the doctor being ‘the last of the time lords’ only to discover the master whom is the opposite of all the doctor represents, is genuinely one of the best parts of nuwho. it pmo when the doctor is like ‘i’m the last of the time lords’ when bro literally isn’t. when it was just the doctor and the master i felt that was like kind of justifiable because of how abhorrent the master’s views are and i guess that kind of how we might view our society’s most despicable as ‘sub-human’, the doctor might view the master as ‘sub-time lord’ but that doesn’t really work when there’s like loads of time lords running about and half of them are completely evil sorry if it’s just me.

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sobbing now i’m so glad i could make a positive difference to someone like that, especially with something i made during one of the worst times in my life - when i made this i made it alone in my university’s library where i had to take breaks to cry in the restroom because i felt so lonely, and since then i have improved a lot, and knowing this helped someone brings a smile to my face 🩷

rip ten you’d have loved wild geese by mary oliver

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sorry for like practically disappearing guys i’m fine i swear i just forgot how to be funny for a sec

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i agree totally, they need to chop a significant portion off that sfx budget and put it directly into advertising and promo. they’re not wise with their money whatsoever.

hot take: the problem with doctor who is NOT that they brought billie piper back, it is NOT that ncuti left early, it is NOT that 15 never faced a dalek or a cyberman, and it is CERTAINLY NOT that it’s ’too woke’

the problem with doctor who is that they have forgotten how to engage an audience without utterly confusing them. if i were a writer, this is what i’d change:

1. i would lower the stakes

my biggest issue with dw in recent years is that the stakes are always SO high - it’s always ‘we need to sort this out or else the ENTIRE UNIVERSE WILL END. this rarely happened at the start of nuwho. of course, there were instances where galaxies and universes were at stake, but there were also plenty of instances where the doctor solves issues to A. save his own skin, B. save his friends, and C. to save smaller populations of people and/or generally do what is morally right.

prime example is in new earth. the world isn’t really at stake, he has a couple of objectives: get cassandra to piss off, free the test subjects, stop the infections from spreading. he doesn’t spend the hour worrying that if he doesn’t help then the world will end, he sees a problem that’s morally corrupt and he solves it for the sake of that group. the payoff is just as good, and actually IMPROVES the payoff for episodes where a bit more is at stake, like the poison sky, for example.

2. i would stop plots from spilling over across seasons

i’d like to remind everyone that, although there were things that kind of linked into each other and were mentioned again, generally for the first 4 seasons of (new) doctor who, an overarching issue was built up, climaxed, and resolved throughout a single season. for example: bad wolf in s1. this has gotten worse and worse over time but has honestly been a problem since rtd1 ended, and for some reason when he came back it got WORSE than it’s ever been!!! there’s just way too much overspill across seasons, things even span accross different doctors more recently which is just too much at times. when it’s little things it doesn’t matter, but it’s not. again, this has been an issue before this finale, but this finale is a good example since there were a hundred and one loose ends before he regenerated. when nuwho began, they literally stated each regen would be treated as a soft reboot and their neglect of that has been a downfall.

3. i’d make doctor who dirty and grungy again

it’s too clean futuristic ultra modern sci-fi these days. the tardis doesn’t look like he stole it. what happened to those fun tardis scenes where the entire thing would shake as it took off and landed? why is everything so light and clean? it should be dim and cozy and imperfect.

4. i’d make the companions’ family members more prominent and interesting characters again

doesn’t take much explaining, really. picture jackie tyler, now picture carla sunday. who has a stronger presence and personality in your head and why is it jackie tyler? (there’s bound to be someone who disagrees and that’s fine but i don’t rlly want to hear about it tbh)

5. i’d re-inject some british whimsy

please don’t mistake this as me saying doctor who ‘isn’t british’ or something weird and gammon-y like that, i love when dw explores different cultures, the story and the engine was one of my highlights last season, i just mean like - let him save the world with a jammy dodger again. let him be brought back to life by a good cup of tea. it makes it enjoyable.

there are lots of things, but those are my main ones.

EDIT: thank you to everyone who has weighed in on this - i’ve found it really interesting to see everyone’s perspectives on this because honestly i could talk for king and country about it, but also i just wanted to say that it makes me kind of sad that one of my only negative posts about doctor who is my most popular post :( if you’re reading this, it’s your sign to do something positive today, if i can help to make just one person’s day better then that’s a win to me :)

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romeo by conan gray i loved you from the first note i heard

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it makes me yearn for better times, and the thing is, i KNOW i could just choose a different search engine but i wont??

rewatching doctor who and seeing Rose google the doctor and get actual search results instead of umpteen ads and a bullshit ai overview 😭

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thanks kids crying

apple trend!🍎 this was my first heartbreak and i never got over it