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[awinchestershell]

don’t look at me

[starrysilverweed]

Not to be totally insane but Rogue grabbing 15’s hand and telling him to run and 15 complaining that he’s usually the one who says that is such a brutal parallel to Clara grabbing 11 and dragging him away and him saying “That’s always me!” and we all know what that relationship turned into. And River used to grab him and run too.

Apparently the Doctor is just attracted to people who steal his job

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Oh

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[awinchestershell]

watching x files for the first time is going great

[starrysilverweed]

I always come back to Doctor Who when something horrible has happened in my life and I’m starting to lose my faith in humanity and goodness and all that.

I think it’s because this show was the first time I remember genuinely seeing how gorgeous the universe is.

The way the doctor sees such unspeakable darkness and horrible suffering and they still believe undyingly in the goodness and the light of the universe and its creatures.

Every little thing is worth awing at, even a snowman or a potted plant. Every “monster” is truly beautiful and worthy of attention and understanding. Every individual life is important and beautiful.

I try so hard to see our universe the way the doctor sees theirs. And when that’s hard to do I just find myself back in this show, back listening to the doctor rant about the forever growing and changing universe around them. And it works every time.

[awinchestershell]

I nearly choked on spit cuz of u

a dead scene kid is trying to contact me through captcha

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i love that dan compares them to two turtles staring into the sunset and says phil is such a natural part of his life that he feels like a piece of furniture in his house but when WE make a cute little post about them being the eclipse and the solar flare he gives us crap about it

like babe the call is coming from inside the house

[starrysilverweed]

“Ready for you.” Is still one of the craziest, most out of pocket lines in the entire whoniverse. Like they spent that whole episode building up the Pandorica prisoner as a goblin, ‘the most feared being in all the cosmos’, some irrational monster that would ‘drop out of the sky and tear town your world’, a ‘nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies.’

They emphasized over and over the fear that went into the box, that even the Doctor and River were concerned about what might get out of there.

And then then we’re talking about him the entire time. He spent the entire episode calling himself a terrifying goblin soaked in blood and horror, and he didn’t even realize it.

And with Rory a mindless plastic drone, Amy surely killed by the Nestene Romans, and River dead any second in the exploding TARDIS, (at least as far as he knew) he had no reason to believe he would ever get out of the Pandorica.

Which would’ve been fucking horrifying. Because not only was it an eternal prison, but as he says later when they’re saving Amy, you can’t even escape it by dying.

It’s still so off putting to look at the Doctor in general, but especially early seasons Eleven with his boyish hair and sweet smile and never ending energy, and remember that he’s still the oncoming storm. That people throughout the universe, more than one even, will turn tail and run at even the mention of his name.

[awinchestershell]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

The real writer experience is standing in the shower and coming up with the most authentic dialogue with perfect phrasing and raw emotion in your head, then stepping out and drying your hair, putting on some clean pajamas and opening a word document to write down all your perfect ideas only to realize everything has evaporated. 

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a second homoerotic foot photo has hit the phentagon

[starrysilverweed]

In hindsight it makes so much sense for eleven and 12 to be so attached to their versions of themselves and be so fucking exhausted because all of first doctor to eleven being “born” is about 900 years. 11 lives in 900 years, all pretty short in their version of things. Then eleven is 1200 or so by the time he dies, so just his cycle alone is one third of his entire life in one life. Then twelve is over two thousand years old at the start of Bill’s season, god knows how old at the end, not to mention the extra four and a half billion years that didn’t age him but he seems to remember at little a bit. He spent 50% of his life being the twelfth doctor and that cycle was brutal to say the least. It’s not hard to understand why eleven and twelve feel so much older and wearier than ten and previous. Because they’re not just older, in comparison, they’re practically ancient.

[awinchestershell]

what the fuck ubisoft

[starrysilverweed]

Honestly everything about season four scratches the many itches in my brain. First there’s the extremely satisfying build up to the climax of the plot.

The throwaway mentions of various planets having disappeared in various episodes, and the Doctor questions it in each individual episode but never connects the disappearances until the climax.

The several nods from Donna to the bees disappearing and the Doctor once again questioning it every time it comes up but forgetting seconds later.

Donna herself being imo a perfect companion. She’s sassy, she’s funny, she matches the Doctor’s exuberant and bubbly personality. But just as much she’s soft and kind and gentle.

The way she treats the Ood in POTO, so caring and not understanding why they subject themselves to mistreatment.

And the way she cares for the Doctor. She’s so good with him when he’s hurt or upset. I have so many examples but the few on top of my head are Midnight when she slowly walks up to him all concerned and just silently hugs him after what he went through on the bus, The Poison Sky when she smacks his arm after he teleports back but then just leans against him and holds his arm silently, glad he’s okay, and my favorite, Partners In Crime when he’s panicking because he can’t save the humans and he very calmly and clearly interjects his ranting with “Doctor, what do you need?” and solved the problem.

Oh and let’s not forget that she’s a boss ass bitch. Never afraid to shove it in the Doctor’s face when he’s wrong and needs to be told. The Doctor is an easy man to let take the reins and just follow his lead but she never did. She made it clear from the start they were equal.

Oh and her immediate respect and mutual rapport with Martha? Unparalleled. Despite not being in love with the Doctor she still could’ve gotten jealous, best friends get jealous. But nope, she was just happy to meet her, gave her a warm smile, and started cracking jokes. And she noticed her engagement ring when the Doctor didn’t.

My absolute favorite part about her though is that she wasn’t in love with him. No hate to Rose and Martha, but as an ace fan it’s so relieving to have a season without the romance drama of literally every other season. Especially since she loved him just as much as they did, simply in a different way.

I mean every single episode is just gut punch after gut punch, 10/10 after 10/10 you can’t say a bad word about it. I could rant and rave for hours.

And we meet River, in such a scrumptiously complex and confusing way, that in hindsight is so fucking wonderful I can’t get enough of that two parter, and will never get enough of River or Alex’s acting in that episode.

And the big reunion in the finale with Rose’s family, Jack + Torchwood, Martha, Sarah Jane! Ooh it’s just so good. And even Davros. Like the little clips of Rose scattered throughout the season just barely out the Doctor’s reach are so fucking sexy from a writing standpoint like UGH IT MAKES MY BRAIN TICKLE like you know he’s standing right there and she’s right there and he can’t see her.

And then we finally get some Rose closure (let me tell you I will never not weep at their reunion, just that euphoria on Tennant’s face ugh), in End Of Time we get even MORE Rose closure, Mickey AND Martha closure (can I just say I’m obsessed with this pairing idea gg Russel T), Ten has a deservedly beautiful send off with the Ood singing him to sleep, and then we’re gifted with Eleven.

But honestly like season four is a solid 10/10 and the best of Ten’s era. There’s not a single episode I don’t like and it’s literally the ONLY season where I can say that.

And don’t get me started on Wilfred. That man is a gift to this show and to the Doctor and to his family. His absolute giddiness at seeing Donna in the TARDIS with the Doctor in PIC, his speech to the Doctor about taking the gun and not wanting him to die, him saying he’ll look to the stars every night for the Doctor, him stepping into the machine to save some man he’d never met, him telling that woman that never having killed a man in the army wasn’t a bad thing, his undying dedication to the Doctor no matter what because he saw all the good in him, like ugh I’m sobbing what a man

Oh and the running bits throughout the season, like people assuming the Doctor and Donna are married, and Donna constantly getting taken/disappearing and the Doctor not even noticing, her never ending use of the nickname ‘Spaceman’ for the Doctor, mostly mockingly although sometimes affectionately.

Like AHHHH TEN OUT OF TEN

[awinchestershell]

Badass

Oh gawd every time you think it's over it gers BETTER

🙌🏻 🙌🏻 🙌🏻 🙌🏻

[awinchestershell]

they went and got chicken and fries after their own wedding im gonna slam my tongue in a car door

[starrysilverweed]

I’m so curious about the missing time with 11 between the Daleks puppet woman shooting him and him meeting up with Amy and Rory in the cell in the Parliament. Why was he being held away from them? What was he doing until Rory woke up? He wasn’t just chillin out making friendly conversation about the state of the latest local galactic political controversy with the guards.