#dr who reblog

[beezlebub-lord-of-the-flies]

nothing could’ve prepared me for elton to fuck a pavement stone.

there are those who understand that love & monsters wasn't a bad episode, it was fun and experimental and more for kids than some others and unfortunately placed in the position of being right after impossible planet/satan pit which was big budget high-concept scifi versus the comparatively silly and low-stakes monster-of-this-week (except of course for the mains the stakes are very high and in fact over half of them don't make it out alive), as well as being the first of these kinds of episodes that feature less of the doctor, as well as being based off a kid's competition, but also it's an excellent study of the people caught in the shrapnel of the doctor's life, from LINDA to jackie, and it's a love letter to people who take doctor who (and scifi and nerd stuff) quite seriously and really care and over-analyse it, and it's a wonderful example of some things they could do on low-budget, and it hearkens back to those wobbly-sets days of yore when sometimes a dalek could be defeated by hitting it with a wrench or pushing it really hard, and a bunch of self-important doctor who adult fans back in the day shouldn't have been allowed to cast verdict on it

[opikiquu]

iknow my comics are ugly please just hear me out

[yescking]

i cannot regret you

[g1ngerbeer]

created by love & unmade by it

[beezlebub-lord-of-the-flies]

i hated the whole john is still inside me somewhere bit. like no, he was a misogynistic racist who had no redeeming qualities. you should be ashamed of how you acted.

he treated martha with slight more respect than every other racist person at the school, he deliberately let another student punish someone, he never protected his students from the whole attack, literally nothing about him was something someone would want. the doctor should know better especially if he sees as much of the future as he does. why would he even like joan after he came back to himself. why would he want to subject martha to her?

it feels so obnoxiously out of character for someone like the doctor who has seen so much of time and space that it’s ridiculous that he even entertains the idea of a racist housewife aboard the tardis and he doesn’t immediately turn to protect martha

the way it has clearly never occured to doctor who fans how black fans feel about 'human nature' and 'the family of blood.'

joan agreeing wifh martha a couple of times later in the episode doesn't make up for her racial prejudice. watching martha constantly be reinforced to her face that she will never be good enough is not happy viewing. it's supposed to be a reprieve actually, to show in another world they wouldn't work. but clealry these knuckleheads didn't realise that thay DOESN'T WORK when you have positioned her in a RACIST time period. martha and john don't work because he sees her as his LESSER not because they just don't gel together. and john smith despite being referred to as being "kind" to martha and viewing her as his "favourite maid' doesn't come across at all. he is indifferent and barely acknowledges her and is racially prejudiced too.

the cast is amazing but i am not rooting for john or joan and it's almost funny that the narrative expects me to. literally felt nothing at that 'life he could have had' montage. i was too focused on martha, because dammit someone has to be.

[gabberblabber]

I want more aventio/ratiorine fics with Ratios inner monologue about Aven. Of him being hopelessly in love with Aven like he is. Especially ones that contradict how he speaks out loud or makes him sound like the softie that he is or sounds like the aventurine fans talking about him lol like "god hes beautiful" "hes so out of my league" "i want him" "i hope our children have his eyes" and then hed go "WHY WOULD I THINK THAT '^'!!!"

[aq2003]

tenjack is so funny

[justice4spacedogs]

when you're too broke for merch so you make your own 😔

[thisisnotacreativeusername]

now i'll never know if i was right

[friday411]

🌟 🍿This time for sure!*🍿🌟

There once was a [Person] from [Place]

There once was a genius from London Whose mind-palace was really uncommon. When he learned something new For each factoid and clue He deleted an old, then moved on…

-=<+>=-

*Repost of yesterday's premier (which had technical issues)

Don't miss out on these template-inspired rhymes on AO3:

"Doctor from Gallifrey" & "Officer from Vulcan"

Thanks for the love!

LMK if you want on or off the limerick list!

@stellacartography @totallysilvergirl @calaisreno @keirgreeneyes @peanitbear

Inspiration below the cut...

Sadly - genius author unknown to me...

There once was a [PERSON] from [PLACE] Whose [BODY PART] was [SPECIAL CASE] When [EVENT] would occur It would cause [HIM OR HER] To [BREAK A LAW OF TIME AND SPACE]

[stickybasementobject]

Misconceptions:

You know it occurs to me that in today's world Boris Karloff would as a quarter Indian biracial actor probably be called woke casting? Not that this is a widely known fact. But in regards to him playing such roles as Jekyll and Hyde, Mycroft Holmes and nearly Cagliostro and Bluebeard. Don't believe me? Look at the reaction to actor Rupert Laight as Isaac Newton in Dr Who. Even in some more left-wing circles. It's coming to something when an ethnic actor gets less grief for such casting in the early twentieth century than one in the modern age?

I've also seen him wrongly described as a white actor doing yellow face as Fu Manchu. Not that such portrayals were ever forgivable of course. But another example of the fact that people are quite ignorant of racially mixed actors having had a presence in the history of media. Just look up the name Acquanetta as another example. See image below.

Just a few short words I wanted to get off my chest on the matter. (-;

[beezlebub-lord-of-the-flies]

this makes the entire two episodes slightly better if only he didn’t invite joan of racism to join them in the tardis and never actually set the record straight oh how he treated martha and apologize

doctor who, 'human nature and the family of blood' but from the angle that the doctor thought a better idea than confronting the family was to invent a man just to kill him at 3 months old, the lifespan of a mayfly.

the tenth doctor is truly unhinged you guys just don't understand. he said i will kill this man, he's not real he is just a mayfly, using technology that not only made john smith believe he was real but also have full blown menty b because he thought he was real and wanted to live but was told he was just fanfiction and thus needed to off himself to finally click out of ao3.

maybe it really is a good thing he was the last of the timelords because what the fu-

not even touching the horror of how easily the doctor slipped back into john smith and wore him like a costume because when it comes down to it, john smith means nothing to him because he is a falsehood and just a 'little man,' because he really was just a story.

i need to lie down.

[beanwood]

this is what on-screen chemistry looks like btw

[duskodair]

ok if we're in the doctor who fanservice era, can I have the master back please? I'm fucking obsessed with thoschei divorce, and I think Gatwa and Dhawan could do it so sexy for me. I want to see what they had and what they've lost and then watch them rip each other apart again. toxic 4 toxic otp. I want to see them in the silly time lord robes. I want to see them at the academy. I want to see their breakup in all its messy messy mess. please and thank you

[tinkerbitch69]

Someone better debase themselves like a grovelling insect next episode or I want my money back! >:(

[dandunn]

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