#dw 60th anniversary

[gooodomens]

#eternal sobbing

[i-like-media]

but is it really any wonder the 14th would break like brittle bones at the mention of the flux and the timeless child stuff.

I think most of his faces have held a sort of pride towards the timelords and Gallifrey, choosing to honour their memory and have his people be remembered fondly despite all their flaws. But I feel this face, when it was the 10th, spoke of it with the most heart. At least, more grandiosely! When he spoke about Gallifrey, it was like a legend. A promise. A promise to never rid anyone of their homes and family ever again.

And I feel the reason the 10th clung to his origins like he did is because compared to all the other doctors, he longed for a family the most. Not a companion, but a proper family. A place to belong. A fatherly shoulder to rest his head on, a sister to ask for advice, a partner for life and a mother to scold him for mischief. which he used to have. All of it.

And he was forced to let go of all of it.

Then what do you do. You die and move on, now warry of ever opening up your heart that far again because deep inside a face of you knows how much it hurts to open it all the way. And still, the doctor has Gallifrey and his identity to hold onto. His only constant. A belonging lost to time yet with an unwavering connection that remains. What do you do when you lose that too, and get your old face back?

you break!

Throughout the 3 specials, the doctor is so so scared of losing Donna again. He would be any day, but now with his old face back, it's the only constant he's got left. the only slither of family he was able to save AND the only one that still remains. If she dies, that face has truly, completely, lost and ruined everything he ever dared to open his heart to back then.

Which is why the 15th knew it was so important for the 14th to stay. They may not have a solid origin anymore, but there's still a family waiting for them. And he knows very well the 14th can't carry on and leave all of it behind with the knowledge he has now.

He has to heal so the doctor can thrive. He has to come home, so the 15th can play outside.

[blakbonnet]

no one touch me or speak to me :)))

[fischyplier]

If only The Doctor could whisk me away...

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

can you imagine how fucking funny it would be if the big plot twist for the 60th anniversary is that the first doctor fully never escaped the toymaster. and the entirety of the show from that point on just never actually happened. like they shouldn't do that but I would laugh myself to death lmfao

[clairedelune-13]

[xcrowfeathersx]

Not-Thing Fourteen was sexyfine and I’m not apologising.

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Ok but now Wilf gets to have the Doctor around for the remainder of his life 🥹😊

[artists-wonder-emporium]

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I finally watched the 60th anniversary and I won't spoil anything in case people haven't seen it yet but I loved it and I'm so happy for them~ 💕🥺💕

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[gooodomens]

what if i never stopped crying huh?

[adder24]

I know Doc, I know.

[i-like-media]

I imagine Donna to still eventually ask what the doctor has been up to. Maybe she does so while they're stuck doing a chore together like the laundry or dishes. And the doctor will try to avoid it like he always does, but caves under Donna's stare. He'd still keep it vague, speaking more about the companions the toymaker spoke of and cautiously daring to honour their memory like that while keeping himself away from the hurtful bits. He even jokes a bit about who he ended up becoming. He'd admit he had an obsession with bowties and had sonic sunglasses once, and Donna would laugh and say she'd LOVE to see that.

Then, after a pause, Donna asks if he's ever stumbled upon her with a different face, and with a hushed breath he admits he hasn't.

She grows a bit silent, grieving a thought she wished were reality. And then the doctor pipes up again.

"This isn't actually the first familiar face I've gotten...-WELL not another one of my OWN faces, but certainly something familiar."

Intrigued, Donna stops what she's doing and listens to him explain further.

"When I first got it I couldn't place where I'd gotten it from. I just, knew it was familiar...... -I didn't linger on it as long as I should've and I moved on rather quickly."

"Why?" Donna asked, a bit bewildered at the thought of it.

"I was careless and angry and sort of... Scottish.-ANYways one day me and Clara were dragged to this viking village that had gotten itself into trouble, and we helped them. But this village girl had, uhm... Well she didn't make it. I was so angry -I remember that anger really well. And Clara kept on asking if there was something I could do..."

"Well, was there?" By now both of them weren't doing their chores anymore and all they could hear was the singing of a couple of starlings outside.

"...Yes, but it would've broken some rules."

Donna already knew what exactly he meant by that. She would figure that's the end of it, yet the doctor kept on talking.

"But then as I was rotting in my defeat, I remembered this important day I shouldn't ever have forgotten. The day we were in Pompeii... And only then did I realise that face, MY face, was a reminder of something very important you told me. To just, save someone."

"...So you mean, your face..." The doctor nodded, and Donna couldn't help but finally release the breath she'd been holding with a smile.

"I did save her and she ended up living a long, long, longlonglonglonglong life... But even after hundreds of years, when I doubted myself and needed it most, Donna Noble... Your impact on the world and my life, persisted."

And I imagine the doctor to give her a big, proud smile, before Donna pulls him in for a big hug he wasn't expecting to receive. Because maybe, just maybe, that was exactly what she needed to hear that day.

Then once they return to their chores, I imagine Donna to think about it a bit longer and make a comment. "Well you better never take on my face!" And the doctor would dissolve into a pouty ramble about how he has no control over it while also being a bit disappointed she's said no.

[aquilacalvitium]

So I picked up the novelisation of The Giggle from Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, and I have noticed two interesting things

1) All of the chapters are titled "Move [number]" instead of "Chapter [number]". Because to the Toymaker, everything is a game.

2) Chapter five is a maze in the shape of a human brain. That's it. That's the chapter. The next page is move six which continues the story as normal.

I'm interested to see if this goes anywhere because I am half expecting the author to play with some unreality because let's be honest the Toymaker can do whatever the hell he wants including messing with people reading a book about them.

[fischyplier]

BONUS

Part 1: (x)

[actual-changeling]

thinking about this post by @the-bastard-king

because we know the bomb and the plan behind it were real, it went off, it destroyed the space station. we also know that the captain died before the not-things/nothings (?) could fully copy her.

what we don't know for certain is how she died. the likely option is that she killed herself, and maybe she did. but why was she that far out anyway? what happened to the rest of the crew if there ever was one? WHY was that station so gigantic? what was it supposed to be doing?

the thought about the vashta nerada tickled my brain, because maybe it was something else lurking where nothing else can be.

i haven't rewatched the episode in a week or two, so i don't know if they ever say, but either way, i am 100% sure the not-things were running from something, not just towards the universe but actively away from something else.

what is so scary that two beings who do not have form or matter run from it?

then i realized something else: in the other two specials, we are introduced to something by name, and i think it is the same being referenced with two different titles AND the being that the not-things ran from. that way all three episodes tie into each other.

the boss as a cryptic threat from the meep.

the one who waits—the ONLY existence the toymaker is too scared to play with.

a presence out in total nothingness at the edge of the universe, scaring everyone and everything while it patiently sits and waits. a presence known to few, but maybe to the captain's species. a species that then decided to build a station—a watchtower—at the edge of everything light, waiting for centuries and keeping an eye on the creatures in the dark.

the species begins to die, maybe sickness or other races, maybe the creatures caught up with them, maybe it was simply time, and a once bustling station is now nothing but empty corridors and one last captain; refusing to leave her post until the bitter end.

maybe it is more than that. we are introduced to goblins and chance and coincidence—and there is mavity. one tiny change with potentially world-ending consequences. a tiny ripple, probably more we haven't seen yet, and the one who waits does exactly that.

it waits.

[vangoghschair]

As absolutely devastating as everything in the 60th anniversary specials was, one thing I keep coming back to which completely hollows out my heart every time is the doctor yelling about how he devastated creation and Donna yells back in the rawest, most desperate voice imaginable "It wasn't your fault!" And then it wasn't even her. She still doesn't know, doesn't understand.