#doctor who making me feel real

[ineffabeatlemindpalace]

What a time and space to be nonbinary.

[puppppppppy]

id fumble him so bad

[lackadaisycal-art]

Love the energy of the new doctor who episodes, love Ncuti Gatwa's charisma and the show's willingness to take risks. That being said I'm a bit sad we don't seem to be getting the old character focus of the og RTD seasons. I really like Millie Gibson's performance but on a script level Ruby Sunday doesn't feel like a real person to me. What drives her, what are her flaws, what's her socioeconomic background and how does that inform her behaviour, what are the unlikable parts of her, what does she want most? What's her relationship to her mother like beyond aspirationally and non-specifically positive? How does she dress when she's just sitting around at home? What might she butt heads with the doctor about???

[horror-aesthete]

Apparently The Terror producer David Kajganich stated in an Q&A what jobs he thinks the characters would have if they lived in the modern day, and I just…

These are all so fucking funny. Love that one of the show’s producers seemingly has peak Terror brainrot

[secondtolastart]

@carlandrea and i have been discussing how jo fits into the roleswap au i've been messing with, and i ended up doing some quick sketches to try to explain this version of three and jo's dynamic

(while the master doesn't work for unit, they are surveilling this alien who's set up shop in england--or, well, they were attempting to, up until jo went and made friends with him. the brigadier now has a load-bearing nepo baby)

[thetorturedlovergirl]

I don’t understand when people say Clara doesn’t feel like a real person, that she’s written as only a character, with no real emotions a human could have.

Honestly for me she feels written very real. She has guilt, she has anger, makes lots of mistakes and she tries to be something she’s not for the sake of society and for them to not look her different. She is manipulative but she does it because she cares and loves so much and she doesn’t want to lose anything. And when everything starts to fall apart she’s erratic because she doesn’t know what to do.

Human reactions for a girl who tries not to be, but will always be one.

[yazzy-khan]

just found out that Sonya is older than Yaz. need 3-5 business days to process this

[ociels]

i think i got very lucky with my parents :,)

[paxbe]

steven moffat has a lot to answer for in his poor writing of women but his worst crime is what he did to river song

he took a very cool and interesting woman with an unexplored plotline that had limitless potential and turned her into another of his two-dimensional sexy-woman-who-could-shoot-you archetypes. her plotline also falls victim one of his repeated attempts to craft an exciting mystery with a plot twist which ended up being needlessly convoluted and somehow condescending almost, by neglecting to give river her own meaningful journey and centring her existence around creating puzzles for the doctor to solve

[hurglewurm]

bro when u are trying so hard to curate ur life experience so u don't go insane but the insanity comes from within

[marigoldbaker]

“What sort of teacher sits round, making tea for a servant? We don’t live in a world like that.” “What sort of world do we live in, then?” says Doctor Smith. (AU: John Smith takes a shine to a conflicted, heartbroken Martha.)

this fic was written in a burst tonight after my watch brought me to human nature/the family of blood & i had to sit through Putting Martha In The Torment Nexus For No Reason. so i, uh, put martha in the torment nexus for no reason? i guess? but exploring this notion felt a little more compelling to me than just sitting with "the doctor isn't in love with martha and never will be" repeated for the 17th time this season.

anyway: martha jones queen of my heart <333 u do deserve the world.

[insufferablemod]

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[whatsfourteenupto]

No but for real tho how did y’all live with the end of season 4 for fifteen years? I mean like fuck

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I feel like it could be fun to try and make a Gallifreyan cook book but I have about zero idea how to start

[dukeofthomas]

BTAS Batman feels like a normal human who's really trained and skilled and manages to pull off amazing feats

Comics Batman just feels like a superpowered human

[songforten]

can you elaborate on gender with the twelfth doctor... im spinning she/her pronouns for twelve around in my head so much it gives me life. even if you dont feel like/dont have any further elaboration i want to thank you for introducing me to that concept

because she's a girl...? i don't understand the question she's just a girl