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shoutout to my favourite doctor who blooper ever
Doctor: Martha, you trust me don't you?
Martha: Of course I do.
Doctor: Because it all depends on you.
Martha: What does? What am I supposed to do?
David Tennant, breaking character and returning to his natural Scottish accent: Well there's a watch, but I've lost it.
transcript from @suz-blog
#doctor who#martha jones#tenth doctor#10th doctor#tenmartha#david tennant#freema agyeman#bloopers#human nature#the family of blood
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Wardrobe // Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) // Doctor Who Seasons 3 & 4 (2007-2008) + Torchwood Season 2 (2008) + specials
#doctor who#torchwood#martha jones#freema agyeman#gifset#doctor who season 3#doctor who season 4#torchwood season 2#wardrobe gifset#smith and jones#the shakespeare code#gridlock#daleks in manhattan#evolution of the daleks#the lazarus experiment#42#human nature#the family of blood#blink#utopia#the sound of drums#last of the time lords#the sontaran statagem#the poison sky#the doctor's daughter#the stolen earth#journey's end#the end of time#reset#dead man walking
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Doctor Who as tweets/textpost pt.1
<- | DW | ->
#doctor who#10th doctor#rose tyler#9th doctor#12th doctor#martha jones#joan redfern#jack harkness#the absolute chokehold human nature/family of blood still has on me#I'd read the novel but Tennant sobbing in a wet tweed suit has a special kind of magic
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If I was Martha, I would have let the Doctor eat nothing but pears.
#doctor who#martha jones#for his crimes#pear everday#its what he deserves#Marthas better than me#human nature/ the family of blood#stuck in the labyrinth
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"Run."
Human Nature/Family of blood [redraw]
Old one from last year under the cut 👍
"It's empty!"
"Wheres it gone?"
"You tell me"
"Oooh, I think the explanation might me youve been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection. A little bit like ventriloquism of the nose. Its an elementary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. But it has got to be said, I dont like the look of that hydrokinometer. It seems to be indicating youve got energy feedback all the way through the retrostabilisers feeding bAck into the primary heat converters. oH! Schh. Cause if theres one thing you shouldnt have done, you shouldnt have let me press all those buttons.
BUt, in fairness, i will give you one word of advice.
RUN! :D
#doctor who#doctor who fanart#dr who fanart#10th doctor#tenth doctor#the family of blood#human nature#you dont understand the impact of this scene on my brain#i am physically incapable of not quoting that monologue#silly man#silly and angry#redraw#david tennant#david ten-nant
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Platonic Hanahaki AU: Natsume is cursed by a youkai to cough up flowers. He's told that the curse is caused by one-sided love, and so he resigns himself to slowly and painfully succumbing to a disease he can't explain to the humans around him.
In actuality, the curse is being worsened by Natsume's inability to see how deeply the people around him love him. The sicker he gets, the more his friends and family (both human and youkai) come out to show him just how much they care :')
#natsume (coughing up blood and petals): 'i love my new family and friends too much but they naturally don't love someone like me as deeply'#meanwhile he has a literal HOARD of humans and youkai coming by his house to deliver acts of kindness and gifts and teary well wishes#nyanko-sensei is going to bite this stupid brat#natsume yuujinchou#my posts#au ideas#fic ideas
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thinking about human nature/the family of blood as an overarching metaphor for the intrinsic connection between the conservative nuclear family structure and racism. it definitely wasn’t intentional but the more i think about it… yeah it was right on a message level that they went back to the edwardian era and the events were set specifically in the pre ww1 period. the prejudice and discrimination martha suffers is juxtaposed with the so-called carefree life in the oft-idealised, oft-romanticised ‘golden age’ of the english village that john smith gets to experience. it works. im pivoting on my perception of this story tbh. it should be read as social horror, a parable about the way (white, male) privilege literally erases a person’s compassion and free-thinking tendencies (their humanity) in favour of conformity (what does a chameleon do? it blends in). and it works!!
#family abolition#doctor who#doctor who meta#doctor who analysis#dw#human nature#the family of blood#paul cornell#russell t davies#doctor who series 3#martha jones#tenth doctor#ten#kitty.txt
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srry for Once Again bringing up that viktor's actor was baines in doctor who (human nature/family of blood) but the "do you like them? :) i made them myself :) i'm ever so good at science sir :) my own private army sir :) ever so good sir :)" is so viktor arcane glorious evolution adjacent if you're just neurodivergent enough to Believe
#og#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane s2 spoilers#arcane#doctor who#viktor arcane#the machine herald#human nature#family of blood#jeremy baines#son of mine#arcane viktor#harry lloyd
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human nature
#doctor who#doctor who fanart#fanart#dw fanart#10th doctor#tenth doctor#martha jones#joan redfern#human nature#the family of blood#the episodes🔥#masondrawing
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Okay, but consider this - during her trip up and down the Doctor’s timeline in preparation for her big birthday surprise, Missy accidentally lands in 1913, where she runs into a certain John Smith. Can you imagine the jokes at John’s expense, like his stereotypical name? How relatively okay he is with children being trained as soldiers? Maybe Missy even asks what John wants for his birthday so she can have advice for what to get her best friend? Meanwhile John Smith is baffled at what a random woman is doing on the school grounds and why she’s winking and talking like she knows him until suddenly a strange look comes across her face and she whispers to herself “oh, it’s not a deep undercover thing, it’s a Chameleon circuit…” then she smiles at him sadly and waves goodbye, with her only excuse being “I really shouldn’t interfere…”
#doctor who#modern doctor who#new doctor who#new who#nuwho#human nature#family of blood#tenth doctor#missy doctor who#the doctor#the master#thoschei#koschei#theta sigma#my ideas#plot ideas
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the tenth doctor's super power has to be the ability to not get embarassed because if i were him and i had woken up from a three month coma only to find out i had fallen in love with a racist in front of my black companion you would have to put me back under.
#doctor who#martha jones#tenth doctor#10th doctor#tenmartha#racist redfern#human nature#the family of blood
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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?
ROUND 2 MASTERPOST
synopses and propaganda under the cut
Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Synopsis
In England in 1913, school teacher John Smith experiences amazing dreams of living an incredible life as a mysterious adventurer called "the Doctor", fighting monsters and seeing far away worlds.
Propaganda
Martha goes through the worst time and deserves more praise for her phenomenal devotion in this episode, David Tennant shows off some amazing acting skills with the John Smith/Doctor switch. Plus we get to see him fall in love. Also, the video they sped up in the TARDIS with his instructions is hilarious. (nikMONSTER)
The End of the World
Synopsis
The Ninth Doctor takes his new companion, Rose Tyler, to the year 5,000,000,000 to see the sun expand and destroy the Earth. The observation deck space station, Platform One, is holding an event with the richest beings of the time observing the Earth's destruction, but mysterious metal spiders gifted by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme to the other guests are secretly infiltrating and sabotaging the station.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
#round 2#i have long resigned myself to being the only human nature/family of blood hater#but can we at least make this close#its so boring#and martha is treated abominably#which would be tolerable if the episode took any interest in what her life has been like the last several months#sorry#its fine#i understand its going to win#doesn't mean im not salty
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This may be stretching the concept of work's intent and possibly conflating it with reader's intent, but I think if you scratch to the absolute bottom of chameleon arch in s3 the ultimate difference between the Doctor and the Master becomes being people oriented vs. goal oriented. Like, if you go beyond the question of "could the Doctor have been something of a bad person* and the Master a good person", and ask "under what circumstances would they be like this", it looks like the Doctor - or, what aside from a body (with all its mind-indepented memories) was left of them in John Smith - was. well. being oriented towards people around him. And. that's what had One go from crotchety man willing to kill over his secrets or even a freaking lighter into the Doctor that is. Meeting all those wonderful companions, starting from Ian and Barbara that would just tell him fuck off you're crossing a line and I will not have it. And no, I don't think it's a matter of "wanting to be liked", but rather seeing "oh my Omega, I actually hurt this person". And in the main story that worked out for good, and in fact I would say that when it comes to "origins of morality" and "how to live" questions, that is the more reliable way to go! But when that same mindset is surrounded by all the bigotry - as well as just living a nice life as it is provided to you! - of edwardian era, it results in... well, obviously, the way to deal with those evil guys is to FITE! and this is what all those teenage boys have been trained to do, should the need call (ah, the hanging cloud of knowledge a need will in fact call them so soon in this two-parter...)! And this... competent. but ultimately underdeveloped through no fault of her own maid needs to just have the distinction between fiction and reality explained to her, the poor thing probably thinks the invention of writing is only to be used for things that are absolutely true... Yeah, punch him.
I use the term "goal-oriented" for the Master, but I suppose I should clarify, because we all know that if it was pure goal-orientation, then there are infinitely easier ways to take over the world that *checks notes* man-eating sofas. Yes, the Master is absolutely into over-convoluted plans to the point where they become a goal in itself. But what I mean is, no, they can't just hang around seeing the universe, they need a goal to achieve, there has to be a point to all this, and survival and power are arguably the two most basic goals there can be, once you scratch happiness as a bit too indefinite. And obviously, that's the exact opposite of "how to live". In many ways its a much more animalistic and base motivation than anything a conscious mind might want. Kind of existence vs. life distinction. BUT? In those last few decades of universe's existence??? Where there is literally no other goal left than survival? Not necessarily your own survival, but rather survival as an abstract concept, survival of ANYTHING? That mindset, combined with brains, makes you the most wonderful person that could possibly be! You're there, doggedly pursuing the only goal left in the universe, putting all of the resources you have left, MAKING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OUT OF FREAKING FOOD, and if anyone has any shot at surviving it is indeed thanks to you! There are two apparent contradiction to this (as of course there have to be in a story that's honest and not just making a point). The first is Yana keeping up the hopes of other people even while knowing it's likely false, and the second is him being willing to sacrifice himself so others will reach Utopia. But if you think about it. Both of these things are, in a way, utilitarian. Yes, hope is often framed as the ultimate irrational ideal, but once it's gone from everyone else, then... what is there to do? That's the end to the only goal left. So long as others hope you can get them out, you can go on tinkering just in bloody case. And while giving up your life for others tends to be framed as the ultimate act of good... there's a level at which Yana just freaking calucates himself as the easiest to expend. He's old and tired. The people who managed to reach the silo are either children or young and strong, there's a lot ahead of them. This is cynical and absolutely not the perspective to hold. But. at the end of the universe. This cynicism leads to sacrifice.
THAT IS NOT SAY YANA ISN'T JUST PLAIN NICE AND SHOWING MORE CONSIDERATION FOR OTHER'S FEELINGS THAN THE MASTER IN ANY FORMAT EVER DID! But I suppose when you're goal-oriented and everyone around you literally has no other goals than yours... why not just be kind** indeed?
Yes, there's a great tensimm fanfic about this:
*I admit I think one of the most interesting aspects of John Smith was precisely making him not a good person but hardly the worst man there ever was maybe it's because I've read edwardian era books that makes me think his paternalisation of Martha really wasn't the worst way for a white man to treat a poc even without outright violence. But if he was a really good person then that would just tell you making him give up his existence was bad because he's a good person whereas as it is the question is what makes the subjectively real existence of this particular not very good but not really worse than millions of people like him man that devloped subjectively very real bonds with others more expendable than any other's?
** Gosh my mixed feeling for Twelve, like I love him, he's up there with 2,3,4 and 10 as character-defining for me, but why just why have him always turn out to be ultimately right about his absolute morals, he's kind of the antithesis to time lord victorious, so long as you do the kind thing then there's always an unforeseen ex machina to prove you right, you'll never fuck up REAL bad, a real dilemma is not between making the choice that's subjectively or objectively good, it's between two objectively bad choices once again Simm!Master fell where he stood no less than Twelve.
#doctor who#meta#doctor who meta#dw meta#the doctor#the master#tenth doctor#john smith#jacobi!master#professor yana#doctor who human nature/family of blood#doctor who utopia#philosophy in doctor who
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So you know John Smith's "Journal of Impossible Things" from Human Nature/The Family of Blood?
Years ago, I got a small copy of it at a nerd store and it's got every page from the journal in it. I'm sure these all exist out there already but here's some of my favorite pages and what text I can make out for those who haven't seen some of these
There's lots of repeating text and jibber jabber, I assume to fill space, so I won't write down stuff twice or the random stuff he tends to write over and over
I find myself wanting to draw a perfect rose, over and over although I cannot find a rose anywhere!
In my dream, I keep asking a girl where to find one, and she is dressed in the most extraordinary immodest way.
She will not answer me, and she keeps walking away.
I remember this girl I have drawn her although(?) I know her well in my dream
(The rest is stuff from the previous page and more jibber jabber)
I am a father in my dreams, I am certain, and a grandfather. A great sadness at these thoughts. As if they had not just died, all my (I can't tell), but had departed in a way somehow more final than death.
I am the last for some reason I am terribly afraid that my watch is broken.
I can't remember what they look like (idk) see shadows (idk)
The skies are a burnt orange. And the leaves on the trees are silver.
I know a man who lives on a hillside there. And the city has towers! And I dance(?) in my robes, and my collar I can never get it right. I am so ill suited for it and yet they tell me I am in charge! Ha ha ha!
(Repeating)
(A page about Capt. Jack Harkness)
I am traveling with a man in the military, only he isn't what he seems, and so I leave him behind after a battle, and he is stranded in no man's land, so alone and so far away from home.
(More repeating)
(Page about Martha, next page is immediately next to this)
She wants someone close to me someone I think I know in the waking world. And she is a doctor. She wants to heal me. Why is being a Dr so important? To her and to me. I wish she could turn around so I can see who she really is.
(More repeating)
The girl with the strange spikey hair is trying to take someone away from me
She dresses strange different
Her features are unclear
I don't know what she looks like
Black hair
(Lessgo badwolf rose)
A woman with the universe(?) poured into her and she becomes a lady!
Such grace!
She judges the living and the dead.
Everything changes as she (idk)
She judges(possibly) everything and everyone that she meets
She judges all that come in her path all and more.
She has gold eyes the universe is inside her
Powerful
Gold eyes
I have seen the opposite of a star. A darkness rather than a light on the void
There is a world that lives there, terribly close to disaster. It feels most like a vision, a prophesy. Like something out of astrology, that the placing of these stars is important.
(Jibber jabber)
And further into the nightmare, there was a pit. And there was a voice from the pit. And it wrote itself onto mens faces. It sought an escape into the world of men.
It was the beast, I am sure. The thing inside is all that we must not let out.
A broken clock or a broken mirror will let it out.
(Can't make out the last bit)
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Hit the photo limit but I'm not done! I'm reblogging with the rest, here's the link to that)
#doctor who#human nature/the family of blood#tenrose#tenmartha#nuwho#tenth doctor#10th doctor#rose tyler#martha jones#captain jack harkness#gallifrey#the impossible planet#satan pit#even as a human hes so down bad for rose like the badwolf page is so great#'she becomes a lady!' 'such grace'
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Making another post bc I refuse to let this go. Rewatched Jodie and Jo's interview clip about the Fugitive and her relationship with Thirteen and the parallels with Martha are sending me over edge look at this:
'She has a strong sense of self'
'she will not suffer fools gladly'
Jodie on Thirteen then says 'Jo's Doctor always has a kinda higher status because I'm kind of chaos'
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And then they both go onto explain Thirteen and Fugitive's relationship to one another and listen:
'...which has forced her to question a lot of things and to not know one's identity is so important'
'every bit of information she was giving, even though we had no idea how we were intertwined... was of leading us to something'
Then Jo on Fugitive's weaknesses '...and she feels like she has to be strong all the time which is a blessing and a curse'
'which is a blessing and a curse'
#I'm yellingggggg#martha jones#fugitive!doctor#fugitive doctor#thirteenth doctor#tenth doctor#tenmartha#doctor who series 12#doctor who series 13#doctor who#nuwho#rtd era#chibnall era#fugitive of the judoon#human nature#family of blood
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Doctor Who S3 as Penguin Classics
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#doctor who#penguin classics#the runaway bride#smith and jones#the shakespeare code#gridlock#daleks in manhattan#evolution of the daleks#the lazarus experiment#42#human nature#the family of blood#blink#utopia#the sound of drums#last of the time lords
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