#bi mccoy

[jim-kirks-bubble-butt]

why did no one tell me that the first canon bi characters in star trek were the tribbles

[urghblergh]

"Shore Leave" (S1 Ep 16) had such cute McKirk-Vibes. 🌞🩵💛🌌

[self-made-purgatories]

when Jim ARE THERE MEN ON THIS PLANET Kirk

and Leonard IT SEEMS THEY'RE BISEXUAL McCoy

run away with the Enterprise and it leaves THIS wake pattern at warp speed

Coincidence? I think not

[1nt3rnalpu7ref4ct10n]

s4e13

[lokilenchen]

Happy Pride month from my two favorite space boys!!

This is a redraw of the Jim and Bones at Pride drawing I made two years ago

[calicohyde]

I have forgotten to post this anywhere for three years, but @cubyrop were talking about seeing MBMBAM/Sawbones live today and so! Behold! Bisexual Pride Sydnee McElroy collage from June of 2020. (My journal theme for that month was newspaper, so that's why everything is so desaturated.)

© Calico Print 2020. Do not repost or redistribute.

[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

Watching Star Trek TOS spending all my time staring at Bones when he’s onscreen and I can’t tell if it was an acting choice for McCoy to check out every attractive woman in front of him or if it was just Deforest Kelley🥲

Also I love lesbian uhura, whenever there’s other women she just spends her time admiring them and i love it.

[denimbex1986]

'Doctor Who fans were left stunned when, for the first time in the show's history, the Doctor "bigenerated", splitting into two rather than having the new Doctor replace the old.

But it appears this game-changing moment in 60th anniversary special The Giggle might be even more momentous than we first suspected.

In the official Doctor Who podcast, showrunner Russell T Davies suggests fan watch the BBC iPlayer in-vision commentary for The Giggle to hear "astonishing revelations about the entire lore of Doctor Who" and learn more about "the creation of the Doctorverse in the moment of that bigeneration – it’s much bigger than you think and I hope could lead to all sorts of things."

Diving into said commentary, we hear Davies explain that when David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa split into two, "a whole timeline bigenerated".

The writer then suggests that each previous regeneration was impacted by the bigeneration, with every 'old' Doctor now surviving his demise in a splinter timeline.

"I think all of the Doctors came back to life with their individual TARDISes, the gift of the Toymaker, and they're all out there travelling round in what I'm calling a Doctor verse.

"Sylvester McCoy woke up in a drawer, in a morgue, in San Francisco… and Jon Pertwee woke up on the floor of the laboratory," he says.

"Colin Baker got up and sorted the Rani out," adds Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson.

'They all did," Davies confirms.

These revelations follow a reference in spin-off series Tales of the TARDIS, which saw Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor provide an explanation to Sophie Aldred's Ace as to his appearance, saying: "Time streams are funny things. In some, I regenerate. In others, I don't. It's all a matter of perspective."

In companion show Doctor Who Unleashed, Davies expanded on the concept of bigeneration, insisting that both the old and new Doctor are the real deal.

"Bigeneration, we discover, is an ancient myth of the Time Lords where instead of a new body taking over from the old body, the new body separates from the old body and both are left alive.

"David [Tennant] is parked. For once, we’ve got a happy Doctor who is no longer saving the universe, but is parked with Donna (Catherine Tate) for a happy life, while the Doctor – which is always the next Doctor, and that’s always true of Doctor Who, the Doctor is the next Doctor – is out amongst the stars."

Following The Giggle, then, it seems all the old Doctors survive and are out there, somewhere, in the universe, and with Davies suggesting this moment could "lead to all sorts of things", it doesn't seem like a stretch to assume we might be seeing some of them again before too long...'

[hoyt-and-cavanaugh]

[hug-me-brutha]

My dad was watching Star Trek so I decided to tell him about a bit of an interview I'd seen with William Shatner about what he thinks of the Kirk/Spock shippers and before I could even tell him the part I wanted to he started talking about how that ship was ridiculous and there was no chemistry at all and I thought "ah, he's an old straight man, of course he doesn't see it" but then he started talking about how Spock/Bones is a much better ship because with the way they were always snarking at each other its sort of like "get a room already" and now I have to live with the fact that my father ships Spock/Bones to the point of thinking that the infinitely more popular Kirk/Spock pales in comparison

[self-made-purgatories]

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Giggle - Part One

Excerpt from DWM 599 - Benjamin Cook's interview with David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa:

Typical. You wait ages for a Doctor to come along, then two turn up at once. It’s 22 June 2022 – so many twos! – and I’m seeing double. I’m in the captivating company of not one, but two Time Lords: Ncuti Gatwa and David Tennant. (It’s really, really them! Completely them.) We’re sat in the shadow of the enormous UNIT helipad set at Wolf Studios, on which the Doctors have been busy bi-generating. I’ve nabbed them during a recording break – on The Giggle, the third and most extravagant of Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary Specials. But reports of a bigger budget might have been exaggerated. Money must be tight, because David and Ncuti appear to be… sharing a costume?! It’s a twist worthy of one of the Toymaker’s games. Who got the better deal, do you think? Ncuti got the shirt and tie, socks and Converse, and underpants, but no trousers. (DWM has never interviewed a Doctor in his pants before. Wish us luck.) David is wearing the trousers and – who knew? – the Doctor’s under-shirt. He also got the waistcoat, but he’s shoeless. (DWM has never interviewed a barefooted Doctor before either. WikiFeet will lose its mind.) Before we know it, the two Doctors will be called back to the helipad. So let’s ask them some questions – quick! – before they finish bi-generating. Right now, they’re still cooking. They’re fizzing with residual bi-generation energy. (Try saying that when you’re drunk.) DWM has got ’em while they’re hot. Well, relaxing on canvas chairs in the Cardiff sunshine. Now, someone tell me what the hell is going on here… DWM: Hi Ncuti, hi David. You’re members of a very exclusive club – only 14 actors have played the lead in this show. But a surprising number of you are Scottish. What makes Scots such great Doctors? Ncuti: “The madness.” David: “The chippiness.” Ncuti: “Chippiness, ha. And we’re always up for an adventure. Heh heh. Why is it, though? It’s true, there’s been a lot of Scottish Doctors.” David: “What is the ratio?” Ncuti: “Four. There’s four. Mm. Four out of fourteen. Fifteen?” David: “Yeah, how many Doctors are we now saying there are, ’cos some extra ones have joined the gang. John Hurt. Jo [Martin].” Ncuti: “Which are the Scottish ones? Sylvester McCoy. Peter Capaldi. David and me. Lots of Scots. Yeah, we’re doing pretty well.” David: “We’re punching above our weight.” Ncuti: “We’re just trying to hold down the fort, for the Scots.”

I'll post additional parts in the coming months with the  #whoBtsGiggle tag. The full episode list is [ here ]

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Some of the characters Reader wrote for X-Men: Rebirth, and their personalities-

Scott Summers/Cyclops-

• an old friend of (redacted) who's missed them for years. Now that they're back in town, he's ready to get to know them again and prove hes a good friend

• obsessive and controlling yandere

• shy and dorky at first, takes a 180 when something goes wrong

• knows a secret or two that's relevant for later

Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler-

• a regular who sees (redacted) at their job, and who frequents the same abandoned church they visit. He hopes to make a new acquaintance, one who won't fear him or abandon him...

• delusional and scrunkly yandere

• sweet, goofy, and inspiring, but would do a lot to keep things the way they are

• has a hidden shrine or two

Logan/Wolverine-

• a teacher at the Xavier Institute, he sees (redacted) in need and does bis best to offer guidance and steer them away from the wrong choices. He wants to be the father-figure they never had...

• possessive and obsessive yandere

• gruff yet soft for (redacted), but once feral or angered, there's no stopping him

• has a few buried secrets

Ororo Munroe/Storm-

• a teacher at the Xavier Institute, also a regular to (redacted)'s job, she is motherly if not authorative, wanting to help (redacted) make the right choice, even if they wonr choose it themself...

• controlling and strict yandere

• calm and collected, yet will unleash her inner tempest if her loved ones are in danger

• talks with Xavier late at night, but about what?

Anna-Marie/Rogue-

• a charming co-worker of (redacted) and student of the Xavier Institute, she hopes to overcome her obstacles in life with (redacted) and her team by her side...

• obsessive and possessive yandere

• sassy and closed off, anger her or attack her friends and you'll regret it!

• keeps a hidden diary

Remy Lebeau/Gambit-

• a charming gentleman thief, he likes to tease (redacted) and drag them into mischief. He considers them a partner in crime, who he'd be d*mned if he ever lost...

• possessive and manipulative yandere

• suave and laid-back, he hides a cunning mind and many schemes

• has a box full of odd, yet familiar knick knacks

Charles Xavier/Professor X-

• the head of the Xavier Institute as well as its founder, he hopes to help young mutants in need to hone their skills and become family. When he and his team discover (redacted), he hopes to help them grow into the person he knows they can be...

• manipulative yandere

• friendly and intuitive, it's hard not to feel at ease around him

• has an inaccessible file on Cerebro for staff only, but for what, and why?

Hank McCoy/Beast-

• the resident doctor and scientist of the Xavier Institute, he keeps everyone healthy and invents things designed to help them libe with their mutations. When he finds out about (redacted), he hopes to help them, too...

• delusional and manipulative yandere

• studious and inquisitive, he adores meeting new residents of the Xavier Institute, just be wary if stepping into his lab...

• has various journals and diagrams depicting some being, the one thing he won't talk about...

Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat-

• a student of the Xavier Institute and co-worker at (redacted)'s job, she hopes to find a new best friend in them! But she tends to keep a few team secrets, especially ones worth knowing...

• cunning and cute yandere

• sarcastic and witty, she loves reading books about nature and science with (redacted)

• has a drawer full of photos of (redacted), most at odd angles

@sugar-soda @thewickedweiner @crow-crystal @crowwithguns @vivid-bun

[denimbex1986]

'Should David Tennant die? That is a far more controversial question this week than it was last week. Last Saturday, Doctor Who viewers, who have few certainties to rely on at the best of times, sat down with the unshakeable confidence that, one way or another, they were going to watch Tennant’s take on the Doctor meet a tragic end, again.

Yes, if forced to guess, we would have bet that his ending would be a bit more uplifting than he saw at the end of his last run (“The Doctor doesn’t want to die and thinks that the next version of him is an imposter” is apparently a legacy Davies only likes to leave for other showrunners to pick up). But none of us could have foreseen the regeneration splitting the Doctor in two, like a bacterium, or Captain Kirk when the transporter is having an off day.

“Bigeneration” is a plot choice that has drawn mixed reactions – especially as Russell T Davies has gone on to say that this process has affected all the Doctors, leaving Tom Baker lying on the floor underneath Jodrell Bank while Sylvester McCoy is banging on the inside of his drawer at the morgue. One must imagine Patrick Troughton’s Doctor has pretty mixed feelings about surviving the Time Lord’s enforced regeneration only to discover himself floating in the vacuum of space surrounded by a bunch of dead Cyber Time Lords.

This also leaves us with the frightening prospect of not one, but potentially four David Tennant Doctors wandering around the Whoniverse (The Tenth Doctor, the meta-crisis Doctor, the post-meta-crisis regeneration Tenth Doctor, and the Fourteenth Doctor, for those keeping score at home).

But aside from all the fun to be had watching Doctor Who canon completely explode, again, bigeneration is a game changer, and it doesn’t necessarily change the game for the better. A key part of the Doctor Who mythos is that the Doctor dies. It is important thematically to the show – as Peter Capaldi himself has pointed out.

As Capaldi puts it, “People always ask me what is it about the show that appeals so broadly. The answer I would like to give that I’m discouraged from giving because it’s not useful to the promotion of a brand is that it’s about death, and it has a very, very powerful death motif in it which is that the central character dies.”

Happily Ever After?

There’s no denying the truth of Capaldi’s argument – and Russell T Davies himself made sure to have lots and lots of character deaths in his Doctor Who from the start. But Doctor Who is also a kid’s show (yes it is), and while we all know children’s stories can go to surprisingly dark places, you have to come out the other side eventually. Kids want a happy ending, and that is a difficult ask for a story that has been running continuously across various media for 60 years and looks set to keep going for at least 60 more.

This was a big part of the Fourteenth Doctor’s arc, as the Fifteenth Doctor points out by reeling off all the adventures, tragedies, bereavements, and struggles the Doctor has been through since Ian and Barbara wandered into his TARDIS back in the first episode. Anyone who actually lived through all that would be an emotional wreck.

But whatever happens, the Doctor always resets to zero, the figurative “Mad man (person) in a box”, which means giving them any kind of lasting closure is a tough job. Yet, that is what bigeneration gives the Fourteenth Doctor. Weirdly, his ending is most reminiscent of the end of a The Fast and the Furious movie – a found family of characters sitting around an outdoor table for a celebratory meal, the one character whose actor has passed away ostensibly just off-screen.

The Fourteenth Doctor gets everything the Doctor might want – a chance for quiet, for rest, a family, a home, and a spare TARDIS waiting in the wings if he wants to pop out for a Big Finish box set (or future TV special) when nobody’s looking. It is the happiest ending the Doctor could hope for, and not for the first time.

The Many Endings of the Doctor

In many ways, the Fourteenth Doctor’s ending is a shinier version of the Tenth’s the last time the Doctor and Donna travelled together. In the epic two-part franchise-sized crossover story, “The Stolen Earth”/”Journey’s End,” the Doctor is forced to regenerate, but instead of changing his face the regeneration energy is transferred into the Doctor’s own dismembered hand (it’s a long story) and Donna herself, creating the DoctorDonna (leading to her mindwipe ending) and a new, one-hearted Tenth Doctor clone that his previous companion, Rose, could take back to her universe to grow old with.

The original script even had Davies give the Doctor clone a bit of TARDIS coral to grow his own TARDIS later down the line. But even here, the Doctor clone is all angry and warlike, while the original Doctor is left looking sad and wet and alone in his TARDIS when the credits roll.

Other writers have also taken on the job of trying to give the Doctor a happy ending.

Paul Cornell, the writer of classic NuWho episodes “Father’s Day” and the “Human Nature/Family of Blood” two-parter, also wrote a piece of fan fiction all the way back in 2009, “The Last Doctor” that attempted to give him an ending. Appropriately, it is a Christmas story, which sees a final incarnation of the Doctor warming a community of refugees with the heat of a dying TARDIS at the end of the universe. Either through parallel evolution or, frankly, because Moffat probably read it, the Matt Smith regeneration story “The Time of the Doctor” bears more than a passing similarity to it.

In “The Last Doctor”, the Doctor doesn’t get a happy ending as such. This Doctor’s best ending is to keep fighting against the dying of the universe until the last possible moment (as River Song says, nobody knows that everything must die better than the Doctor, but he’ll never accept it), and then to be present when the new universe is born. When your character’s defining trait is a need to fight injustice at any place or time in the universe, going down fighting might be the best happy ending they can hope for.

Steven Moffat has had a go as well. With his own anniversary special, he gifted the Doctor three happy endings. First, he gave the Doctor his home planet back. Secondly, he hid it in a pocket dimension so that the Doctor still had adventures to come and also didn’t need to deal with all those pain-in-the-arse Time Lords. But finally, he introduced the Curator, who closely resembled Tom Baker and suggested the Doctor might revisit some old faces in his future (You don’t say?!). This character was all but said to be a future incarnation of the Doctor, a Doctor who had retired from saving the universe to look after an art gallery. Fans are already suggesting this is the Fourteenth Doctor’s post-bigeneration fate.

But this is not even the first future Doctor that Steven Moffat has introduced! In the story that gave us the Doctor’s non-linear love interest River Song, “Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead”, the child whose brain runs the Library supercomputer is cared for by an AI called “Doctor Moon”, played by Colin Salmon.

Moffat envisioned the “last scene of Doctor Who” while creating that two-parter, deciding that the River we meet in those episodes is not only his wife but his widow. Moffat explained in Doctor Who Magazine (via Radio Times) that “Somewhere in the terrible future, on a battlefield, the 45th Doctor dies in her arms and makes her the same promise she once made him – it’s not over for you, you’ll see me again. So River buries her husband and off she goes to have lots of adventures with his younger selves and confuse the hell out of them.

“Until, of course, she ends up in the data core of the Library Planet, and realises she’ll never see him again. And then she starts to wonder why anyone would call a moon ‘Doctor.’ Ahhh…”

Later Moffat would write that even before the 45th Doctor and River Song ended up happily ever after in the Library computer, River Song and the Doctor had another happy ending. At the end of the Christmas special, “The Husbands of River Song”, Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor and River Song are given one last night together, before River must go and meet her “death” in “Silence in the Library” and complete their timey wimey bootstrap paradox.

But at the end of the episode, the Doctor reveals that on this planet one night lasts 24 years. For all the Fifteenth Doctor says about the Doctor never stopping, he stopped here for a while – as he did on the planet of Christmas in “The Time of the Doctor”, growing old and protecting children.

That is what all these endings have in common. The Doctor stops travelling. He stops, he settles down. The Ninth Doctor proudly proclaims, “I don’t do domestic”, but all of these “endings” imply a bit of domesticity is just what the Doctor is missing.

The End…Until It’s Not

While the Fifteenth Doctor can happily fly off into space because the Fourteenth Doctor “did the rehab”, and is next seen dancing in a nightclub in the upcoming “The Church on Ruby Road” Christmas special, we’ve got to ask, how long before this Doctor’s trauma meter is so filled up that they need to go and find another domestic happy ending somewhere?

Because the idea that the Doctor needs to “settle down” is, frankly, at odds with the entire nature of the character. The Russell T Davies version in particular is an escape from a certain preconceived notion of domesticity – frankly, straight domesticity. Rose, Donna, and Torchwood’s Gwen, they all start out trapped in dull lives with useless boyfriends, yearning for something more (Steven Moffat’s take on Who is, obviously, a good deal more sympathetic to useless boyfriends).

The Doctor is about freedom and adventure, and doing what’s right even when it’s dangerous or painful or socially awkward, and the happiest endings, the ones that leave you punching the air when the credits roll, are the ones where the TARDIS is already flying off to its next adventure as Ncuti Gatwa does at the end of “The Giggle”.

If one day Doctor Who does actually need an ending, an actual, proper, canon ending that brooks no return, the fact is they will have a hard time topping Sylvester McCoy’s speech at the end of “Survival”, the last story broadcast before the classic series of Who was unceremoniously cancelled:

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace. We’ve got work to do!”'

[quailfence]

[Image description: Digital drawing of Spock, Kirk, and McCoy from Star Trek: The Original Series. Kirk is grinning and has his arms around Spock and McCoy.Kirk is wearing a harness with a pan Starfleet delta pin on it, and black pants with a black belt. Spock is wearing a gray sleeveless shirt with an ace delta pin, a gold necklace, two leather bracelets, and black pants. McCoy is wearing a red flannel shirt with a bi delta pin, and blue jeans. The background is a blurred photo of a pride parade. End description.]

@startrekdescribed @polyamships

I misread “Kink at pride discourse” as “Kirk at pride discourse” and my instinctive reaction was “wtf, let him go there”. Anyway don’t take this too serious, i found it amusing anyway

Happy Pride month everyone

[imaredshirt]

While he does not 'enjoy' cross stitch, Spock finds that he does appreciate the logic behind the techniques involved in it - each stitch and every color is mapped out, the stitches are quick and efficient (even the more advanced stitches,) and it is interesting to see the resulting image become clearer with each completed row.

It is his craft of choice during the Enterprise's bi-weekly fiber arts meetings in the Rec Room that he has recently been attending. His current project is a portion of Mayall's Object, the first of fifty that he will combine to form a complete image of the galaxy.

It is a project that will take months to finish, a length of time that he is willing to commit to - all the while sitting across from Dr. McCoy, engaging in conversations and the sort of debates that only the Doctor can provide. These debates and conversations do not distract him at all, however much Dr. McCoy claims that his 'winning' is throwing Spock off.

The human does not need to know that Spock’s actual distraction comes from a different source - his trying not to stare at Dr. McCoy's hands moving quickly and surely as he works on knitting a multitude of 'baby beanies' to send to Joanna and her wife before their first baby is born. It takes more effort than he would ever admit, but he does not mind committing the extra months it will take to compensate for the botched patterns.