#give her a break doctor

[thatwasntaquestion]

Captain/Admiral Janeway trying to escape doctor's osteopathic methods since forever. (VOY s04ep07 - STP s02ep12)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

An unbothered queen has entered, and subsequently left.

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[thewingedwolf]

there IS something romantic in confiding in someone that you got an abortion without consulting them and being given immediate forgiveness and i think more shows should lean into it.

[anteroom-of-death]

It always drives me insane, but especially now, how people dismiss 12 and Clara as romantic canon or eventually subtextually romantic. We've seen the Doctor in Canon romantic love. We've seen the Doctor in Canon best friends situations.

With his arguably biggest (based on how insane the fandom and writers, especially rtd are/cling onto) nu who love interest, Rose. When she's in danger he's fawning and doesn't bend. 10, especially isn't furloughed in morals as much as 12. (Or 9, but this is a different talk for another day.) He's not laying awake thinking if he's good or evil. He just accepts and goes.

When Rose and the whole Doomsday plot happens, all 10 does is burn up a sun to say good-bye. (Then treat Martha like shit until uWu Donna time.)

With Clara, he frequently goes to the next level. Hell, most his words in seasons 8 and 9 is her name! He's jealous in a way he never was with Mickey at Danny. He's constantly at odds with himself. He feels and acts legitimately threatened.

When she is finally dying. He loses all pretense, gives into his urges and threatens genocide, holds hostage, coups and kills. He is willing to undo his past of saving Gallifrey from falling, to save her. Keep her. Hold her.

It's only when Clara reels him in does he think differently. Go a different route. Be nicer. Chose a shard of kindness to the rest of the universe.

They both brought out the best and worst in each other until the bitter end.

"Friendship" my ass. That's real, toxic, deep all-consuming love.

[expelliarmus]

[spooky-kakashi]

if they commit to the Damian becoming some type of doctor storyline, it would be the perfect reason for Damian to become closer to Harley, a psychiatrist, and study under her. i think this would be soo beneficial for him because so far iirc he’s been with the league and his dad, which have opposing ideologies, but having him hang around and learn from someone who doesnt operate in a black and white mode but instead in a million shades of gray is gonna do awesome things for his character

[doorstovenus]

sarah jane smith edit for the soul

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

No.1 Clara Oswald defender

If there’s a million Clara Oswald defenders, I’m one of them. If there’s one Clara Oswald defender, it’s me. If there’s NO Clara Oswald defenders, I’m dead but best believe I’m gonna do the impossible and come back from the dead to defend Clara Oswald.

[avirxy]

beauty and beast au but Claire’s the one cursed because she’s the only one I can see literally pissing a sorceress off enough to get cursed. (If we’re going off the original movie Jim would probably offer them a hot meal and a room for the night, knowing him he’d make everything super accommodating)

[house-of-maximoff]

She’s Human Too.

[quietwingsinthesky]

no wonder missy is insane about him. she just mindmeld trauma bonded with him and got confirmation through him that she was right the whole time about the thing that happened to her, AND then they traded life-saving moments. of course she wants her friend back. she needs him to see her again, as clearly as he did in that moment. she needs him to be like her, because among time lords, she is alone, but with the doctor, she isn’t.

[alrightsnaps]

not even a hardcore thirteen era stan but it's been pretty bizarre watching doctor who fans brush off the same weaknesses and flaws they spent years criticising chibnall for now that it's rtd who's in charge

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Thinking about skin of the sleek and thief who stole time again……………… romana I would have been your friend

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

whump episode of all time look at this poor baby

[marigoldbaker]

also, because i have been thinking about this for a hot minute -- this is obviously not the reading that the show wants us to go with, which is good, because what the show wants us to go with is so categorically ridiculous that there are 27 million different ways the fandom has come up with to easily circumvent it, but i think there could be something really compelling about the doctor specifically choosing not to save river from the library because he knows it would be the easiest thing in the world for her to save herself.

like, ok, consider: the doctor's influence on river's life is such that the person she became would not even exist without him there! she was literally molded into who she was To Kill Him. taken away from her parents because of their connection to him. and when she tried to reclaim her agency by choosing to love him, she was forced to kill him again, spending the rest of her life in prison for a crime she didn't really commit (once again about him) and then when she gets out she is essentially a dead woman walking anyway. always has been, to the doctor. i don't think he'd be in any hurry to reconnect with her when she's centered her entire life around him -- i actually think he would see it as an act of love and grace to allow her a way to separate herself from him. a death that isn't permanent and doesn't have to be. all the books in the world to help her figure out a way forward without him.

but also, this is the doctor, so of course he does not TELL HER ANY OF THIS, and river, who loves him, sees this as being abandoned! i think there could be a really compelling story about an embittered post-library river who has figured out a way to leave and has not forgiven the doctor for leaving her to rot in the library, because river and the doctor are always always talking past each other. or, potentially, a post-library river with a different face who has decided to give the doctor a (loving) hard time about his terrible decisions by popping up everywhere, deliberately in the Right order this time, just to be flirty and vague and ridiculous. idk. food for thought.

[pookachuka]

Twin!!! Where have you been!!