#like clara started with twelve that it

[jstorfancam]

I know it’s been over a decade but i refuse to acknowledge eleven and clara’s arc

[claraoswalds]

So what's wrong with Clara, then? There's nothing wrong with her. Why haven't you made her immortal? Well, look how you turned out.

[tardxsblues]

[seaweedstarshine]

Listen is so great you don't understand. It's an episode about mental illness. And some people point out that some of the things that happen (the kid under the blanket, the airlock mechanism triggering) are on the surface unlikely, but that's the exact point. The Doctor is not an objective narrator, I mean this is the episode that starts with him sitting on top of the TARDIS in space speechifying, we see it in the way he frames it, so we see these ordinary things (a mischievous child, a dead ship breaking down) in the uncanny way he sees them—

—and because he is the Doctor, because he is the person who bad guys pause their plans to listen when he talks, because he is charismatic and impressive and the Oncoming Storm—

—because he's the Doctor, Clara (and baby Danny and Orson) start to believe him, until they arrive on Gallifrey, until Clara sees the root of his trauma, and she understands.

And it doesn't matter if this creature is a delusion or not, it only matters that it scares him, because fear is a superpower, and the way he responds to the reality he experiences is why he's the Doctor.

What. an. icon.

[yesokayiknow]

hey do you ever think about how the start of a good man? (~40s in) sounds a little like clara's melody. almost like he has literally built his whole self around her. isn't that neat and by neat i mean i can't think about it too hard or else i will scream 👍

[aq2003]

i think twelve and clara are starting to make sense to me but i don't think it's what moffat intended or how the ppl that like them see their dynamic

[asclexe]

hhey guys. i think i mayy be experiencing a hyperfixation 4 the first time. not sure. sorry

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinks about time lord biting again with eleven & clara. thinking about eleven nipping victorian!clara because he got overexcited, regretting it, and then trying to hold onto the fact that he did it and nothing bad happened yet and maybe she can come with him- oops. eleven trying so hard for so long to keep it to himself when he finds clara again. lets her in but never lets her close enough. but thinking about it, always.

and most of all, imagining eleven finally breaking, and when clara lets him bite her, it’s all that fresh loss and need to keep her safe and burgeoning trust and restraint falling away at once and- he bites too hard. apologizing to clara as he patches her up. it leaves a scar. and scars don’t regenerate. her first doctor, dug into her skin even after he’s gone. permanent.

…and now i’m thinking about twelve tentatively placing his teeth against that scar, pulling away, and giving clara a brief nip somewhere else, somewhere safer. (and clara, annoyed, dragging him in so that she can bite him back hard. even more annoyed when he won’t scar the way she wants him to, the way she did for him, the way he’d forever have to keep and remember.)

[soyboysace]

"But I can remember, Clara. You don’t understand, I can remember it all. Every time. And you’ll still be gone. Whatever I do, you still won’t be there." | Sorrowing Old Man (at Eternity's Gate) by Vincent Van Gogh (1890)

[spoofymcgee]

um??? 2.5k in one sitting who???

[heatwa-ves]

Talking to the wall about twelveclara

[capaldiera]

it's soooooo embarrassing that my mum knows i like twelveclara. and she was in the room for last christmas which is embarrassingly close to being explicitly romantic. keep that shit more unsaid please

[dandelionjack]

inspired by fifteen trying to say shit and getting censored by the nanny filter, here’s a complete table of every doctors who and whether or not they use strong language

1 - no

2 - yeah

3 - rarely, but accurately and directly, in a dignified and sarcastic fashion

4 - ABSOLUTELY all the time. the tardis filter barely copes. we’ve all seen the K-9 clip, that’s what the character sounds like without the kids show censorship

5 - no. does he look like a man who swears to you? maybe some esoteric combination of words like fuckadoodle shitnozzles

6 - yes. duh

7 - he doesn’t enjoy it, but occasionally, sparingly, when the situation calls for it

8 - definitely . not too frequently, though. for emphasis, or for a laugh

9 - that man is a working class northerner from the 2000s and a jaded war veteran. draw your own conclusions. he knows elaborate insults you’ve never heard of

10 - cheeky little ‘fuck’ here and there with rose & martha, ALL THE TIME with donna, and swearing like hell when he starts going off the rails in the s4 specials

11 - lol no. well… he’s got an example to set to the companions that he treats like children. he’s a storybook character and he wants to be perceived as an imaginary friend, a kind almost victorian whimsical gentleman in a bowtie, and a person like that wouldn’t use crude language. with river song though? now THAT’S a whole other story

12 - the scene in dark water with the psychic paper tells us everything we need to know. twelve in series 8 was straight up pg13ified malcolm tucker. shuttity-up-up-up without the tardis filter sounds like fuckity-bye. he swears liberally, frequently, unsparingly and unceremoniously, at everyone without distinction, including clara’s students at coal hill. personally i think that’s one hell! of a fucking! bird!

13 - no. she’s all famalam hipster mum cringy kindergarten teacher. it doesn’t fit her ~vibe~. the master makes fun of this trait in the timeless children when he’s goading her about her superiority complex. says it’s such a step down from her previous self, at least that one was honest about his emotions

fugitive - she gives no fucks and takes no shit

14 - yes from time to time, like a normal human being would, nothing excessive. donna does bring it out in him though. his mouthy side

15 - this guy says cunt and serves it

[seaweedstarshine]

Thinking about the convolution of Eleventh Doctor's expressions of love for River Song in Season 7B. He does not trust Clara. He is utterly (wrongly) convinced that he and Clara are playing a grand manipulative game together. “What are you, eh?! A trick? A trap?!!”

So naturally, the last thing he should do in this game is to clue his opponent in on something that could be used to hurt him. Something like River, so painfully near the end of their time together, whose data ghost he can always see, who “it would hurt too much” to acknowledge. He can't let Clara know of the loss which constantly floods his senses; (“You are always here to me. And I always listen, and I can always see you,” he professes, once Clara has vanished into his timestream).

And yet. River fills his every moment (irregardless of any sneaking out for dates with increasingly-young Rivers while Clara is asleep like he did while the Ponds slept, which would explain his absence when the TARDIS is hiding Clara's bedroom). Even though it's not strategic, he can’t help but tell Clara about her. The best defense he can manage is to phrase it as if River isn’t as important to him as she is. Not only is avoiding her first name in his grief; he's also completely avoiding pronouns; which seems extreme given that he's still mentioning her as often as: “Oh yeah, of course he has! Professor Song! Sorry, it's just I never realized you were a woman.”

Leave out the emotion — leave out the details — don't show the cracks in the armor — play the part — win the game.

“Well, there's no point now. We're about to die. JUST TELL ME WHO YOU ARE.”

[dandelionjack]

charley being turned into a conduit to the anti-universe without her consent while she is the cause of anti time leaking in the first place / lady me being manipulated by the time lords into luring clara onto trap street so that her death would lead twelve to confess about the hybrid while she is initially the cause of the hybrid prophecy in the first place

girls that are ghosts but never quite dead. always more alive than they’re told they should be. girls who refuse to be dead because the narrative* (*the doctor, those terms are synonymous) cares about them too much to lose them. what’s a planet. what’s a civilisation. what’s a space-time continuum compared to one person you love

Listening to Neverland for the first time and GOD I need 8 and 12 to meet just so they can talk about Charley and Clara

[grandadtwelve]

s10 twelve is twelve at peace. post-heaven sent clara is clara at peace. with their mutually obsessive link broken, twelve is free to love and care for others without clara eclipsing everything else just by being near him. without the restraints of twelves morality and her own mortality, clara is free to live recklessly, to keep going forever. the people they are at the end of their story don’t work together, but they only BECAME those people because they were put together.

at the start, clara is a schoolteacher trying to maintain a committed relationship. at the start, twelve is afraid that he is heartless. they want to become more like the other. and they succeed.

swap! twelve is a schoolteacher who reestablishes a committed relationship with his wife (as well as makes a different kind of commitment to missy). and clara is, functionally, literally heartless.