#clara bones

[whiskeyswifty]

the way clara bow is written both with the optimism she once had and the hindsight she has now, layering both often at the same time. you'd be picked like a rose both in how in the moment she felt beautiful, chosen as the most beautiful one adored by all, but she knows now that cutting her stem froze her as she was, never allowed to grow further, only slowly fading until she's a dried, dull husk of what she once was, pressed between the pages of someone else's book. also the crown is stained but you're the real queen both in how she felt holier than thou once crowned, and the mistakes of the fallen monarchs were markers of their own unworthiness but she is the real queen; she is different because she is pure and true and deserves it. but writing it now, she knows that the crown was stained not just from previous owners, but with blood shed by her own hands, and how it will never be scrubbed clean because of horrors she had to endure to get it that she will never entirely suppress and what she will have have to continue to do to keep it. however my favorite is I'm not trying to exaggerate but I think I might die if it happened to me... Die if I made it.... both in how as a young dreamer she felt so small and it felt so impossible, the shock of knowing she would achieve fame and fortune would nearly kill her. but she knows now the grim truth in what was once hyperbolic, how when it did happen, the breaks didn't come gently and the beast that is beauty tore her to shreds. parts of her at least, and perhaps the most significantly that little dreamer who scribbled that unintended prophecy in her diary decades ago. she made it and slowly and brutally and quietly without fanfare, she died. it harkens back to the lucky one, when she was just embarking on her rocket to fame and fortune, and she pondered another name goes up in lights. You wonder if you'll make it out alive. clara bow seems to answer that question with no, you won't, but nobody before you made it out alive either, not fully, not whole. the machine grinds ever on and on and there was never any other way.

[mndvx]

— This Clara person, you must really like her. — Why do you say that? — You killed a man. You don't seem the type. DOCTOR WHO — Hell Bent (S09E12) directed by Rachel Talalay | written by Steven Moffat ››› Peter Capaldi as The Doctor ››› Ken Bones as The General / Kenossium ››› Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald

[paapurup]

In our world, we hide in the dark, behind monitors. That’s the only place we feel safe.

Why do we hide behind our masks? Why do they hide behind their masks? We’re not asking you to be friends. We’re asking you to turn on the flashlight. Take a look under the bed. Because monsters are real and you’re looking in the wrong place.

[doctorwhoincorrectquotes]

12: It's stupid!

Clara: Hey, nothing we've done so far has been un-stupid, and we're still alive, aren't we?!

12: I can't really argue with that, but I feel like I should.

[fennelwasp]

my favorite headcanon for Clara is that she’s just a little freak creature. we know she’s inhuman, so i love to lean into her being, well, not human.

Clara having claws and sharper teeth.

Clara having stronger senses than humans (which is a double-edged sword because it can be really overstimulating, especially during the Plague where everything smells AWFUL)

Clara making little vocalizations.

Clara purring.

Steppe creatures are just cats.

These ideas are truly delightful !! I always imagine her as a very Shiny Human if that makes sense

Her teeth are very big and bright, she has this super unsettling grin like she knows more than you do too. But all of it kind of just melts away when she is in pain or at a disadvantage, and you see that she’s also just as scared and confused as everyone else.

Driven by purpose, yes, but completely overwhelmed with her task

[saguaroooo]

Grumpy on the verge of crazy x elegant/calm that is actually a looser x hot person used for fanservice must be my favorite ship dynamic

[hewwio]

Nerves, blood and bones

[taiturner]

The evolution of Taissa with Van's bone necklace from Lottie

[surrealismhorror]

Daniil in the Changeling route: you are an annoying little freak, stop getting in my way

Also Daniil in the Changeling route: Here's some money in case you need it. Also don't worry about the inquisition, if they arrest you I'll make sure you're safe, even if you are the plague I'll get you out of this hellhole

[lesbicosmos]

i edited some of my favourite sapphics for pride!!

[leather-field]

Changeling doll

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

if i had a nickel for every time i shipped:

a man that's an impossibly old creature that has a dark past and deals with problems in a harsher way than usual due to understandable circumstances and who is highly competent and charismatic (and who has a soft spot for dogs),

with a younger woman who is just new to the world of adventuring with (literal and figurative) wide eyes and a softer heart than most and who is skilled in her own way but grows to make the tough decisions in the end,

and they're both narrative foils of one another, both morphing into a little bit of each other....

AND the antis are calling it a father-daughter relationship

I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird thay it happened twice.

[meirimerens]

I am shell and I am bone.

[pociondeodio]

heehee

[plethomacademia]

The Emmrich doesn't pull hair post came back onto my dash so I'm going to write him pulling Clara's mouth off his dick by her braid later thanks