#Fourth Doctor

[pizzacade]

From the Doctor Who: Lockdown short: "Sven and the Scarf."

"Seven years in space."

"Could potentially be a haven for alien artifacts."

"First up; postulates, a remnant of an alien glob-like organism..."

"Or... perhaps could even be... bubble wrap."

"But I am an optimist."

Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you

[natequarter]

the fourth doctor is operating on levels of adhd that people who don't have adhd can only dream of. i get it though

[blufruity]

A commission featuring the Fourth Doctor and a commissioner's late father who was a big fan. This was really lovely to do and an absolute honour💙

[unifiedintelligencetaskwhores]

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

[pizzacade]

Don't worry, the book is the only indication of Clara overwriting others in the Time Stream, as even Clara herself doesn't mention them in the sections dedicated to her splinters in The Companion's Companion.

Also considering the book was probably written alongside The Name of The Doctor, it may have been from an early point of development.

According to The Doctor: His Time and Lives, several background and supporting characters were converted into splinters of Clara Oswald after she jumped into his timestream (which was illustrated by Jenna Coleman's likeness added onto preexisting photos). They include:

Anne Chaplet from The Massacre (original actress: Annette Robertson).

Gia Kelly from The Seeds of Death (original actress: Louise Pajo).

Bettan from Genesis of the Daleks (original actress: Harriet Philpin).

Rachel Jensen from Remembrance of the Daleks (original actress: Pamela Salem).

and Sarah Clark from Father's Day (original actress: Natalie Jones).

[aziraphaleapologist]

i’ve only seen a few episodes of four’s era but i found this outtake and i’m fuckinf crying because of it. why does he say it as if that’s his actual line

[notyoujamie]

And we didn't stop for a second to say, "What the hell?"

[fanonical]

the doctor always has a huge phobia of the thing that killed them in their previous life. five fucking hates heights. four doesn't like spiders. ten is the exception because he is weirdly fond of kissing girls

[thepsychiccircus]

Just a few Doctor Who textpost memes I made :D

[claraoswalds]

THE DOCTOR + first words

[weedle-testaburger]

this will always be the greatest moment in the history of doctor who documentaries tbh

[dandelionjack]

We Invest Things With Significance, or: Why Sutekh Isn’t Sutekh, But Death Itself. alternative title: Fear Is the Mind Killer.

the Doctor Who Series 14/1 thesis statement

i don’t think that sutekh has literally been attached to the TARDIS since Pyramids of Mars. i think that the salt at the edge of the universe — the grievous mistake that caused all myths to become a reality — was what made him appear. and he’s not the same character as sutekh the osiran, a powerful alien that delusionally believed himself to be a god. he *is* a god. nuwho-Sutekh is Death Incarnate.

ergo, this version of Sutekh is the literal psychic manifestation of the Doctor’s deep-seated, guilt-motivated fear of the idea that his arrival brings death wherever he treads. this death-anxiety was turned into a physical presence, haunting the TARDIS all through the Doctor’s timestream, because of the salt. that’s the reason why the Doctor didn’t spot any Susan Twists before Wild Blue Yonder…

there are two timelines in Doctor Who — relative time and universal time. universal time is the history of the universe. relative time is how the Doctor experiences it. in universal time, Sutekh has supposedly been hitchhiking through the vortex for millenia. in relative time, he has only been doing so since Fourteen accidentally invited myths back into the world.

the Doctor was insecure and afraid and believed the above quote (from the very first episode!! spoken by the very first named character in nuwho to die on screen, no less!) to be true. but until WBY it had only been true on a symbolic, metaphorical level. myths, legends, concepts and stories becoming real after the salt caused the Doctor’s anxiety about being a death-bringer to take the shape of a black dog — a universally recognised symbol of death — wearing the name and voice of his most formidable enemy, Sutekh.

in a way, this plotline mirrors The Woman from 73 Yards similarly being a manifestation of Ruby’s worst fear — that of being abandoned by everyone she loves for something intrinsic and incorrigible inside her that she cannot change. Ruby fears being left completely alone, so “The Woman” causes everyone in her life to leave her. the Doctor fears that his coming always heralds mass destruction (“maybe i’m the bad luck”), so “Sutekh” makes sure that the TARDIS literally becomes an altar of death.

ever since Wild Blue Yonder, stories in doctor who have become sources of immense power. the worst, most potent stories we tell ourselves are the lies that our sick brains whisper to us — secret anxieties that we’re not good enough, that all our loved ones will inevitably leave, that we carry nothing but bad luck in our wake. what better clay to mould a monster from than the protagonists’ own neuroses?

and if anybody’s still in doubt, here’s the plain text, all laid out below:

we invest things with significance. that’s what the salt at the edge of the universe really meant. that’s what almost every episode this series has been about, thematically — the imaginary kastarions, the cosplaying chuldur, the bogeyman written into life because kids need a scary story. myths become real to us because we believe in them, love and death and monsters too.

[natequarter]

more forthcoming

[toweringclam]

Alternative responses to "I Love You," expanded Doctor Who edition:

[stephadoo]

Classic Who // New Who Parallels

[lonelygodinthetardis]

Doctor Who Empire of Death