#make a good dalek

[sparrowlucero]

dr who is (apparently) redesigning this turtle from the classic series to be just a green human elf lady instead and twitter is eating it up because "no one would take the show seriously otherwise" and "the audience isn't able to empathize with something that doesn't look human". another fascinating data point in the psychology of doctor who fans.

[lonelyzarquon]

DOCTOR WHO | The Witch's Familiar

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

[idkaguyorsomething]

learn your fucking history

(IMAGE ID: A man sitting in a pew in a church labeled “Modern Who is too political”. Behind him is a person with a gun labeled “Vengeance on Varos’ election subplot”. Behind them is another person with a gun labeled “Genesis of the Daleks’ fascism allegory”. From a hidden corner is a sniper pointing a gun at that person, labeled “Barbara saying trans rights in The Aztecs”.)

[slimeandsadness]

It's funny that there was chatter about Becoming YouTube and Benjamin Cook yesterday. I almost mentioned in the tags that Ben Cook is also relatively well known in the Doctor Who fandom (mainly for his work in Doctor Who Magazine and being RTD's correspondent in the book The Writer's Tale), then in The War Games in Colour (released today) he's credited as the editor.

[dandelionjack]

AN ENEMY IS A MIRROR

[doctorwhomstttve]

this one wasn't a gif yet so here we are :3

[tinkerbitch69]

“As hard as this is for you to understand, this isn’t about you, it’s about the daleks”

“Please stop using that word, it has no meaning.”

“Yes, it does! To millions of people dalek means hate.”

I think remembering the daleks were always intended to be a very obvious and unsubtle nazi allegory is integral to properly appreciating this exchange.

This is actually good writing from chibnall.

[angstinspace]

dalek is such a good ep, i think i might have to do 2 gifsets for it??

[mariocki]

Patrick Troughton lays down the law as Italian police Inspector Guido Gambetti in The Saint: Interlude in Venice (5.2, ITC, 1966)

[brokenhardies]

Two Birds AU Aesthetic

"Two birds on a wire/One tries to fly away/And the other/Watches him close from that wire/She says she wants to as well/But she is a liar"

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

watching good man goes to war and the balls they dropped having 13 grapple with gender feels like an actual physical injury right about now

[frogofalltime]

last night i dreamt that i went to a big swimming pool with four different species of shark in it which you could pet and play with. they liked to swim in circles around people but in a cute friendly way. it kinda freaked my dad out but i had a great time and yea anyway i just. want to cuddle a shark at least once in my life. i mean a real life shark because i sleep cuddling my blåhaj every night. but yea. that would be so neat

[idkaguyorsomething]

¡Time has come full circle and we’re getting a historical episode set in the era that the show began! ¿What AO3-song-as-the-title type option do you think would work best?

[weedle-testaburger]

it's just dawned on me that i fucking love endings where there is an alternative to just Killing The Bad People because if there's one mentality that's more toxic to humanity than any other, it's the idea that some people are Just Bad and deserve bad things to happen to them, and how people use that belief to justify doing bad things to people in turn. seeing that cycle get broken in media and forcing people to stop doing awful shit rather than just get killed thinking they were right along is way more cathartic and compelling to me

[kayzero]

YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK MY BELOVED