#now back under my rock

[shamelessliarkickapow]

The King's Pet or The King, ch 39

AO3 and ff.net

[captainsamerica]

[youngmoviemaker]

It could be real . . . @bamsara

[scheelesgreem]

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[WIP] i wanted to draw all the cast the way they appear in my head before the new series started but i didnt get to finish everyone in time.... so i will simply post anyways.

I am so excited for s6 that i feel ill. rotating them in my head as we speak. i feel normal. im regular.

+bonus half finished lizzie and joel bc I like them :) Happy Life Series Eve everybody!

[aspen-charminghearts]

No GlassHeart thoughts today just thinking about Kylie’s TikTok and how her PR team must be crying together in distress about the breaking of the internet Kylie is doing.

[buwheal]

Yessir, boss man! See you on the other side. o7

[thirdeyeblue]

“Nine would have treated Martha better than Ten did”

I need to talk about this argument that never seems to stop circulating.

Note: Not a venomous/anti post. There’s more than enough of that across fandom spaces as is, and this is supposed to be a place for ✨sweet, blissful escapism✨

When making this argument, people seem to envision a scenario in which Nine never met Rose.

While I can appreciate a good hypothetical, recognizing Rose's significance to the Doctor (Nine and Ten) is essential to understanding why things with Martha played out the way they did in the first place.

In the third series, the Doctor is grieving. This grief is deliberately threaded into nearly every script, whether spoken aloud or not (and these are just a few examples):

He's burning in Rose’s wake the entire time Martha travels with him, which is why it’s so frequently called upon: It’s 100% deliberate in framing his grief. He grieved as Nine too, of course— having been fresh on the heels of the Time War — but then he met Rose, which changed everything.

Back then, he was still a rude, traumatized pain in the ass, but we watch Rose soften more of those jagged edges with every episode as they grow closer; as he lets his guard down and forms a deep connection with her.

He falls in love (against his better judgment) and it's game over.

And yes: provided S1E1 had been titled 'Martha', one can realistically assume things might have unfolded similarly to how they did with Rose. However, it wouldn’t have been that way just because the Doctor was Nine and “Nine was different” — it would be because he wasn’t already in love with someone else. The same can't be said for the start of S3.

Think of it like this: if Rose AND Martha had been in that cellar — if Nine had taken both of them along with him in S1 — we’d eventually be looking at the most melodramatic love triangle ever, what with him living in close quarters with two brilliant, gorgeous, compassionate young women... But Doctor Who is plenty “soap opera” as is with just one woman in the TARDIS.

(I certainly wouldn’t object to reading that fic, though)

Now, regarding the unrequited elephant in the room…

His inability to be romantic with Martha isn’t because he thinks her lesser, nor is it for lack of compatibility. It isn't because Rose is any better than her. It certainly isn’t just because he’s Ten.

It’s really only for one reason, which can't be denied — and now I’m a broken record:

He is still in love with Rose.

(cut from a tenrosedaily gif)

Nine is Ten, and Ten is only such a mess in S3 because he’s just lost the love of his life. Martha merely got caught in the crosshairs of a volatile Time Lord in mourning, and yes — it sucks. Absolutely.

But it also feels dismissive to chalk Ten and Martha’s relationship up to little more than some sort of mindless dance of pining, jealousy, and toxicity.

Ten trusted Martha with his life over and over again — and hers, with him. He constantly praised her brilliance, happily carting her around time and space with no intention of letting her go. In the BBC’s extended universe of novels/comics/cartoons/etc, there’s so much depth to their relationship: love and trust and trauma and sacrifice. They had their own special bond as mates, their own complexities — so it’s a bummer that it's forever overshadowed by the other things.

I’m not denying that there was a lot of stuff that sucked/was for sure toxic about Ten's S3 behavior, but so many of the things I've seen him catching flak for can be directly attributed to being A Clueless Fucking Alien Idiot (not a trait that’s unique to Ten) — as well as his flat-out obliviousness to Martha’s feelings.

So yes, I agree: if Rose never existed, he would have treated Martha differently as Nine. He also would have treated her differently as Ten. Certainly.

But Rose did exist, and when discussing canon, it matters.

“He tells me that he absolutely, 100% loves Rose... He tells me how my daughter; my wonderful, beautiful, clever little girl saved him from himself before… And he says that’s all because of me! I made her into the Rose Tyler that saved him.”

-Jackie Tyler, Flight Into Hull!

Martha got the short end of the stick in S3. She came round at the wrong place and time, but that doesn't mean it was all bad. It doesn't mean the Doctor didn’t adore her. It certainly doesn't mean the time they spent together was wasted or worthless. They were brilliant!

Sure, he could be a twat, but let it be known that he was a twat with Rose as well, both as Nine and Ten. I’m sure Tentoo can be plenty infuriating, too. So while I'll defend Ten (and Tentoo) into the ground forever and ever and ever, I'll concede that he's fucked up.

The Doctor is a certified Pain In The Ass. It’s one of the things I love so much about this character — dynamics.

But never forget that Martha was goddamn tough as nails and overcame every bit of it. She moved on with her life, and the Doctor moved on with his. One can only pray that, when they inevitably drag her back onto the show (which feels inevitable if I'm honest), we see at once that she's been living her best life for all these years.

[akiraal]

he got arrested :/

[fisherrprince]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

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[klmutie]

artfight attack for ~Sirulyn/@akashicblade's norinne!

[kris-side]

sorry to be That Guy right now, but can we just take a quick second to just look at the way Odile holds her book?

idk, is it just me?? im like, ma'am...

[beautyofsorrow]

it is my lot in life to love characters with slightly odd or punctuated names and then to get irrationally annoyed when fandom does not properly capitalize or punctuate said names, anyway after reading a lot of Official Printed Material and coming to terms with the fact that this is how it's gotta be i'm going back to capitalizing the second 'a' in la'an get ready

[lastoneout]

I wrote a bit long ass post about this but basically, I just find it so odd that people are acting like they can no longer like Taylor Swift's music because she isn't gay bcs like....y'all know you can like whatever you want, right? As a certified raging queer I am here to tell you that you can do a queer reading of fucking anything regardless of who made it. Like the guy who wrote Ender's Game is a raging homophobe but lots of gay people saw themselves in the book he wrote. In most cases, authorial intent doesn't matter all that much. She could be straight enough that you could use her to level a table and that doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying her music.

Just like....idk I'm losing my mind here why does it matter if she's gay or not!! Like if you really want to listen to queer artists then go do that, and if you just really wanna listen to her music you can do that too. You're not invalid or whatever. Just enjoy her music.

[aro-carpenter]

My god

[judasiskariot]

Just checking in...anybody wants to admit that they have a crush on me?

None?

For sure?

Ok, just wanted to make sure...