#dw rewatch time

[ninthdoctorr]

yeah, "alien" is definitely the word they were going for

[spockvarietyhour]

Doctor Who "Twice Upon a Time"

[grandkhan221b]

More DW stuff

[cowlvent]

obsessed w the doctor fully turning his back on clara after this statement (physically and emotionally cutting himself off) and, feeling unmoored, pulling the console lever to exert some kind of control over the situation. he then continues to put space between himself and clara only to spin around, having undone several jacket buttons, and specifically shows off the red lining interior—symbolic of his emotional vulnerability in this moment. he asks her what she thinks of him (as a person), disguising it as a question about the new outfit.

[harbek]

Rogue. (Played by Jonathan Groff, in Doctor Who.)

The first full, realistic portrait I've done in years.

Spent all weekend on this. Still room for improvement, because I'm a perfectionist. And I could tweak it forever, but in 5 hours I'm getting on a train to start the first week of my master's degree in art.

Detail shots and sketch:

Bonus: Comparison with a very old drawing I did of Jonathan, back in the days of Spring Awakening. If you wanna get better at drawing, just keep drawing, you'll get there. ♥

[ohhamlet-art]

magician-shaped

[guardianspirits13]

I can’t believe he invented bisexuality in 2005

[camellcat]

"cordelia could you please drive me home?" "of course" OF COURSE she replies to buffy, softly, without hesitation. even if she goes right back to harping on about the world ending, of course she'll help buffy. head in my fucking hands

[unwillingadventurer]

[userrosetyler]

DOCTOR WHO

-> SERIES 1, EPISODE 13 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

[thelegsnoserobinson]

[ninthdoctorr]

"ladies, gentlemen, multisex, undecided, or robot" ran so "male presenting timelord" could fall flat on its face

[spockvarietyhour]

Doctor Who "Twice Upon a Time"

[foolishlyzephyrus]

clara’s theme playing when 12 decides not to wipe bill’s mind? cruel, evil, uncalled for

[nerdie-faerie]

Idk I've seen people comment a couple of times that Rose was always a damsel in distress that she had no character development in series 2 and it just confuses me every time I rewatch. Because Rose Tyler? A damsel in distress? What like in Tooth and Claw where she freed the prisoners after learning of the werewolf's plan? Or in Satan's Pit where she took charge against the ood after the Doctor was left stuck in the pit? Or in Fear Her when she had to figure out how to get the isolus home and everyone back after the Doctor got taken and his gadget got destroyed? And then how to save Chloe and her mum from the drawing of her abusive dad? Okay

[intyalote]

the thing about doctor/river is that the blatant romance is a defense mechanism. it’s playacting it’s how they sketch out the boundaries of their relationship because they can never be sure of how the scales of intimacy are balanced - they love each other, sure, but they are so rarely in a place where they both know enough about each other for mutual trust. so you get these really interesting juxtapositions like how eleven is in full flirty mode for impossible astronaut/day of the moon to the point where it feels like they’re about to make out every time they’re in the same frame but at the same time he dismisses her with “trust you? seriously?” and is shocked when she actually kisses him goodbye. in let’s kill hitler they flirt like hell when she is literally trying to murder him but not at all when they save each others’ lives. in the wedding of river song kovarian complains about them being lovey-dovey in front of her but right after that the doctor attempts to reset the timeline and river has to drag him kicking and screaming into respecting her enough to tell her the truth. in angels take manhattan we get both “just you wait till my husband gets home” (flaunting their relationship to grayle) and “never let him see the damage” (she doesn’t trust him to love her as a flawed, mortal person). they’re out of sync all the time, so sincerity is off the table except when it’s a necessary shortcut to trust that doesn’t exist yet - river whispering his name to him in the library when he doesn’t know her yet, their literal wedding being a tool the doctor uses to convince her to let him “die.”

the thing about “hide the damage” in particular is that river was responding to the doctor’s own fear of seeing the damage. she lied to him because she was trying to give him what he wanted, even if he couldn’t admit it. and it applies both to the broken wrist and to their relationship in general. every time he looks at her all he can see is the pain of her death, and she can see that he’s holding back even if she doesn’t exactly know why. this was always going to be a barrier to true intimacy between them unless they could be linear for long enough to know and see each other as they are, not as they’re going to be or as they were.

that’s why husbands of river song is such a perfect resolution for them. the only way river would ever be honest enough to let him see her insecurities is if she didn’t know who he was, so it had to be twelve and not eleven. and it specifically had to be twelve fresh from losing his memories of clara, so that he’d stop running away from confronting her death and just give them those 24 years together on darillium to really get to know each other, to see the ugliness and the imperfections and stay together anyway. it makes perfect sense that after that they could reach the level of love and trust river has for “her doctor” in the library, in a way that just isn’t possible with a relationship built on whirlwind dates done out of order and nothing else.