#it's been the year of david tennant for me

[princeloww]

happy birthday to takin over the asylum!!!

this show holds such a special place in my heart. i've only been a david tennant fan for a year, but this show somehow feels nostalgic. it was the second show i properly got into after the DT-disease kicked in, and i completely fell in love with it. the characters, the settings, the music, the themes - franceschild's work is beautiful, really. it manages to be funny and light yet also tackles such serious, stigmatised themes in incredibly mature and nuanced ways.

last september-december, this show was a gigantic part of me and my life. it still is, although to an admittedly lesser degree. the takin over the asylum discord server, in it's prime, really aided this. I met so many lovely people and made so many lovely friends. i owe so much of my happiness and mindset to that server. sure, there were a few bumps - but I'll forever remember the good.

TOTA takeover, a small event me and my friend jay (who isn't really in the fandom as much anymore) ran here on tumblr, was also a product of the server. it was amazing to see people coming together to create and celebrate this show. it really deserves it. it's inspiring how a largely forgotten programme like takin' over the asylum can continue to live on and flourish, with the aid of an amazing, kind and respectful fandom.

to everyone I've met thanks to this show, to everyone who's been involved in this fandom and created, shared or written - and to everyone who's bothered to get this far in my ramblings - stay loony, stay proud. don't forget that there are always, always people out there who will love you and care for you, regardless of how impossible that might feel. if this many people can band together to support a little (admittedly, Scottish BAFTA-earning) programme from the 90s, people will support you. sometimes you've just got to find the right people.

we are loonies, and we are proud, 30 years on :)

[jeanne-de-valois]

doctor huh??????????

(on my current rewatch of new who I'm still stuck in 10 zone, and thus have to admit to something terrible. Apparently I am a Doctor multishipper to the degree that I've clowned myself into shipping Doctor/Donna romantically. I won't apologize for it, they protested too much and made me think about it. )

[freemaagyemans]

Legend says the Face of Boe has lived for billions of years. What happens if I live for a million years?

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

all UK white actors exist on a scale from 'handsome squidward' to 'cow from barnyard' and 'rat' to 'frog'

[smoosie]

Cosmic Bond

[expelliarmus]

[nat-20s]

i think the structural nature of doctor who makes it so i cannot relate to people who are consistently obsessed with it nor can i relate to people who are exclusively casual fans the entire time. Doctor Who is one of the ultimate pieces of media that's like BUILT for having it consume your every thought for like two years and then you forget about it for a decade. And then it comes back around. But that might just be the perspective of someone who like comic book characters lol

[ingravinoveritas]

It never ceases to amaze me that despite everything Michael and David have been doing for the last five years and Neil himself saying they are in love, people are still assuming (or just not wanting to believe) that two middle-aged men might possibly love each other in a non-platonic way...

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Michael Sheen playing Aziraphale as cockhungry as possible VS the Good Omens fandom and Neil Gaiman and the Lord himself screaming for Aziraphale to be asexual

[saltylizzardsposts]

[edgarallennope]

I work very hard internally to resist the thrall of parasocial relationships, I work to keep a distance (almost a professional distance) between myself and the people's who's work and art I admire, to remind myself that I do not know them and that to presume I do so is odd and invasive.

My friends I am working overtime right now not to get myself emotionally attached to multi award winning actor, family man and outspoken queer and trans ally David Tennant in this particular rough patch I'm going through I am fighting so goddamned hard.

[hoarder-of-dragons]

Crowley: Now I know this is all sudden and you can say no if you want- Aziraphale: Yes Crowley: No angel listen, I know it's been a short while since Armageddont and I know you really aren't for risks but- Aziraphale: Crowley yes for heavens sake! Crowley: Angel are you really sure Aziraphale: FOR MY OWN SAKE CROWLEY YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO ASK FOR CENTURIES Crowley: You been... waiting for me to ask you to drive the Bentley Aziraphale:

[nicholasmoorethetwittermigrant]

Something I’ve come to appreciate watching RTD1, Moffat, and Chibnall’s eras in such quick succession (with RTD2 airing as well) is how much each era really feels like it’s own show, but also the same show.

Doctor Who is just such a tonally, stylistically, aesthetically malleable show and it doesn’t really hit when you’re watching it spaced out over decades.

[freuleinanna]

I have rarely related to any doctor more than 13 because for someone having soo many feelings she's so chronically emotionally unavailable and scared of intimacy EVEN THOUGH SHE WANTS IT, honestly she's like a half-drowned cat hissing at air because it dares keep her alive, it's pathetic how she exudes second hardest sopping wet vibes after 10 (also second hardest gramps is not okay vibes after 12)

that being said, she gets go have a lifetime of healing. and maybe one day I'll find that I've dragged my feet forward enough to come home too

[greg-montgomery]

okay so i have a request i wanna write where aaron is jealous of a hot actor you’re into lmfao so what i’m asking is. which actor should it be? i was thinking pedro pascal bc literally every single person here loves him 😭

[angels-in-overcoats]

Somebody skipped 9…