#Ben/Polly

[twojamie-o-clock]

Their wiki page is combined DON’T talk to me rn..

[headcanonsandmore]

The thing about Doctor Who couples is the variety.

Ian and Barbara are the cosy straight couple that you would assume to be boring but are actually really cool.

Tegan and Nyssa are the married bliss sapphic couple who spend their weekends baking bread and enjoying each others company.

Ben and Polly, meanwhile, are inappropriately horny all the time and do not care if you walk in on them getting frisky (as much as you wished they would).

Ace and Mel doubly so, with the added danger of actual explosives going off by mistake.

[the--highlanders]

“Tell me you’re seeing someone, then,” he said. “Or that you’ve been able to stay with someone, since you left me.” She opened her mouth, clearly ready to snap back some fresh argument – but no words came out. Instead, she raised her cup to her lips, hiding her face behind porcelain and steam. Gotcha. “I tried,” he went on. “I really did, Pol, but -” And he’d never told this to anyone, he couldn’t have, but who could he tell other than her? If he couldn’t tell her, then what was the point of it all? “I’d always get to a point where – they weren’t you. It didn’t matter if they’d seen those things or not, because they weren’t you.”

Ben and Polly's relationship fell apart after leaving the TARDIS, twice over. Eight years after leaving the Doctor behind, Ben wants to try again with the girl he never really got over.

[rosessmile]

ppl on tumblr write beautiful analysis of ben and polly's relationship and i just reblog it like yeah AND she calls him a good boy and ties him up

[p12lysanderdelanne]

zoes on map duty bens got the bags and the doctor is off in the b plot experiencing halloween horrors beyond comprehension dressed as a wizard

[mxxnpills]

I'm rewatching the second doctor's era and I CAN'T help thinking that the dynamic between him and Polly is one you can find between two teenage girls

not now Cyberman, they're too busy yapping ab their cute outfits and their cute boyfriends to pay attention to you

[carefulzombie]

ideal pb&j dynamic

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 69

One time while escaping from a cell, Romana commented that it would be child's play to unlock the door with her sonic screwdriver. She then said it was literally child's play as doing so had been a game back on Gallifrey. (Audio: Subterranea)

One of Jamie's distant relations became a spy during World War II and used the name "the Doctor." (Audio: Operation Werewolf)

On his report, Borusa gave Theta Sigma a 7 in the subject of "Physical Inactivity." He commented that his pupil seems to think he is a mountain goat. (Short story: Report on Term's Work)

Memory lanterns are Time Lord devices that resemble paper lanterns but record an individual's thoughts and memories. During the Time War, many Gallifreyans released these lanterns as a desperate ploy to not be forgotten, as they thought they would all die. (Novel: Engines of War)

Ben, Polly, and Jamie played with a ouija board on the TARDIS. This caused a dark cloud from the time vortex to slip inside Jamie's mind, affecting his behavior. The Second Doctor banished the cloud by reading a recipe for Bajaxx stew written in Ancient Gallifreyan. (Short story: Something at the Door)

Jarra To killed the previous overseer of the Axis. Eventually, a Time Lord came to investigate, but they killed them. By the time the Fifth Doctor and his companions landed there, they described the corpse as "rank" with oozing flesh and insect larvae. (Audio: The Axis of Insanity)

After leaving Nyssa, Tegan, and Marc behind, the Fifth Doctor had several adventures on his own. Eventually, he encountered his Eleventh self, and he decided to return to his companions because he didn't want to be like him - companionless and disparaged in 1892. (Audio: Thin Time)

Time Vortex leeches live in the time vortex, and the Doctor had thought they were a myth from Ancient Gallifreyan songs until one of them clung to his Eleventh self's TARDIS exterior. (Comic: Space in Dimension Relative and Time)

One time, a man called Gaylord Lefevre played a game of cards against the Toymaker. He cheated and used a needle to mark cards, but the Toymaker was aware of this and altered his cards to be a hand full of jokers when Gaylord wasn't looking. The Toymaker claimed he wasn't cheating but instead following a new rule that Gaylord had introduced - that cheating was acceptable. (Comic: The Greatest Gamble)

Gallifrey has a transtube, which is basically an underground train. It has a central station under the Capitol. (Novel: The Ancestor Cell)

One time after the Seventh Doctor was knocked out, he drowsily told Ace that he had had a terrible dream. A man with ringlets had been reaching out to him, saying, "Come in, Number Seven, your time is up." He was talking about the Eighth Doctor. (Audio: The Silurian Candidate)

Maria Mazzini once commented on how powerful the Fifth Doctor's thighs were - after slapping them. (Audio: Serpent in the Silver Mask)

One time, the Fourth Doctor decided to take Sarah Jane to Geshtinanna. The journey in the TARDIS took nine weeks, during which both became bored and tired. While traveling in the time vortex, the clocks in the TARDIS all stopped, and the Doctor then detected the remains of another TARDIS in the vortex, trapped their because the pilot had made the mistake of locking their course. They were worried that they too had fallen to the same fate and were unable to change course, but when the day of materialization finally came, they successfully materialized. The Doctor realized that the TARDIS had stopped all the clocks out of respect for her fallen fellow TARDIS. Even after nine weeks of travel, they materialized nowhere close to Geshtinanna. (Short story: Eternity)

The Seventh Doctor has shifted his genetic makeup enough to disguise himself before and mimic someone else. He admitted that he learned this trick from the Master, who frequently used regeneration as a disguise. (Novel: Original Sin)

On Gallifrey, there are two hundred and eight tenses in their languages. They don't translate well. (Novel: The Crystal Bucephalus)

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[felicitykings]

Polly smiles and speaks the oldest and most powerful incantation of all. He replies in kind, "I love you, too".

[nkp1981]

Picture Taken While Shooting "The Power Of The Daleks"

[whiloww]

[twojamie-o-clock]

I wish I had something intelligent to say about Ben & Polly but I think everything about them has somewhat already been said. That they are forever connected to one another in ways that don’t have to fit into relationship binaries, that they ruin each other, that they help each other, that some part of them will always be dissatisfied with the nature of their relationship but if they went about it any other way it would be ignoring so much that is essential to them.

I just finished reading “Do You Dream In Color?” by Gary Russell from the “Ghosts of Christmas” short trips collection & I’m floored. I think it’s the best writing I’ve ever read about Ben/Polly and I mean that in the purest most honest way. It’s all told from Ben’s perspective but Polly bleeds in wonderfully because of how connected they are — I love you’s spoken out of earshot & bitterness and jealousy and love so deep it doesn’t matter that the forms it takes don’t match on either end, Polly loving the travels she had & wanting more of them, Ben feeling like he can’t escape them but maybe that he doesn’t want to, this shared love for the Doctor & Jamie, not in fond reminiscing - because they both hold some ‘wounds’ from their time traveling - but in their desperate fear calling out for a hand to hold from someone who has always been there, always with danger, yes, but always there.

They have their own lives & they are bound together forever by their time whether they want it or not but the way they see their pasts & the way they mark their futures with one another is so different it hurts because like Polly says “I need people.” & “I needed you” and maybe Polly doesn’t need Ben in the same way anymore, the way Ben needs her now but if they stick together it will only make things worse; if they leave it will also deteriorate and. AGH. the thing is it doesn’t feel like an unhappy ending with them just because Ben has to say “I love you” when Polly can’t hear and Polly has to say “I love you more than I’ll love anyone else” to clarify that they cannot drag each other down, they cannot live without one another. They’re contradictory & human & there’s love but it doesn’t always work out even if there is love, even if Ben’s dreams of marriage and a child called Jamie don’t get fulfilled, or Polly’s dreams of traveling the world & calling on Ben whenever she may wish can’t.

I don’t. I cannot. Articulate. Here are some lines that punched me in the gut.

[the--highlanders]

Drawing in a deep, shuddering breath, Polly dropped her hands to flex her fingers at her sides, like she was bracing herself for something. “Everything was so much simpler,” she said. “When we were at the Inferno.” Despite himself, Ben let out a hollow laugh. “Was it?” He was pushing too far, letting his frustration grow – but it was burning in his chest, and the only thing that brought him any relief was to keep fanning the flames. If he tried hard enough, she might catch fire, too. She’d stop looking at him like that, all wet and sad and pitiful, like he’d wronged her. “You knew who I was from the start, you knew I wasn’t all high and mighty like you -” “It’s got nothing to do with that!” Her face was contorting in frustration. “It’s not about who you are, or who I am -” “Well, what’s it about, then?” Ben very nearly shouted back. “It’s because it’s not just a silly little crush anymore, that’s why!” she cried.

When Polly breaks from the Doctor's plan to free Ben from imprisonment, all Ben wants is for her to be honest about her feelings for him - but the answer he gets isn't the one he expected.

[bipolarediaz]

[p12lysanderdelanne]

girls gays and theys

homework doodles im rather happy with