#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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[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]

[ganondoodle]

so with echoes of wisdom .. i havent watched any of the trailers beyond the very first one and the thumbnails/screenshots and what others have said about it-

but with the world inside the rift being called "Welt des Nichts" aka "world of nothing/void" in german ('still' in english, for some reason) and demises title in french being "avatar of nothing" ... yeah my anxiety is shooting through the roof again

(hopefully you can be a little more forgiving for me being anxious/weird about it bc demise is my blorbo)

i had similar worries with totk, that werent proven true thankfully, but the darn book is making it all worse again with all those weird lore things the game doesnt even so much as hint at AND potential retcons- im in for a really rough time huh, not just stress in real life (more in tags.. its alot) but now about my specific hyperfixation from two things even (AND artblock still..)

weird as it may sound, i dont want demise to get more lore, partly bc i dont believe theyd do anything with him that i would like (given their track record) but much more importantly- the fact that he has this little lore about him is precisely one of the reasons why i fell in love with him, i tend to like characters that are neglected by the narrative, and his story being both so flat and already done meant i can be very creative with what i come up with for him without necessarily contradicting anything in canon (which is ... or was a big point of how i wrote destiny's story and lore, working with canon in a way that reframes it all without straight up ignoring it ... but i suppose i urgently need to let go of that and accept i spend alot of time working things that will go to waste :( ) AND not having to worry that there will be more stuff with him that would massively change not only what im writing but also potentially how i feel about him since the game he was briefly in was the oldest chronologically and ended with his death- i didnt expect them to mess with anything that far back and thought theyd just go forward and leave the timeline behind and wouldnt mess with it again, given how botw seemed to be a sort of 'fresh start' that seemingly regarded the past as the past that needs to rest and that the timeline was finally no longer a discussion if everythings unified through botw and one thing going forward

but i suppose i was very wrong with that .__.

right now the only thing that motivates me still is the left over determination and spite to work on my zelda comic, since i have never gotten this far and really want to get something done for once, but i cant lie that im feeling like i should pause all work on it too to wait and see waht the book and the new game will do .. either to determine if i still have the will to keep working on it after those things are out (my love for tloz has been taking alot of hits lately ..) or if i have to change stuff (mostly bc of my lore problem trying to not ignore it ..)

[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)

[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.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

whump episode of all time look at this poor baby

[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

[pookachuka]

Twin!!! Where have you been!!

[jennycalendar]

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.

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

Doctor Who?

The idea first came to Romanadvoratrelundar the day after exams finished. The other students, happy to be free and excited to be nearing the end of their school days, were acting wild and silly below her window. She pulled the curtains tight and turned back to finishing her makeup. It wasn’t her fault she actually valued her studies, or that she was good at them. It wasn’t her fault that the tutors could see her potential. One day, the others would regret this, one day when she was President and no one dared speak against her…

Of course, one day seemed like a very long way off when she got scowls between classes and her attempts at friendliness got her called cold. She had only offered advice, and she knew that friends did that. She could go down right now and sit in the filtered sun among their picnics and games, but it would do no good. She was doomed to at least another century of excelling and being hated. She could fail instead if she wanted, but she suspected it wouldn’t help.

Which was when the thought came to her: maybe she should just leave.

[deva-arts]

You know what? fuck you. *unbloodies your strohl*