#otp: time and space

[expectiations]

Someone: *mentions River Song and the Doctor*

Me, vibrating with the effort it’s taking to not talk about something no average show watcher would even have heard of: oh yeah cool couple

[thinkdoctorriver]

The Doctor: There are 20 letters in the alphabet, right?

River: Nope, there's 26.

The Doctor: Ah, I must have forgotten U, R, A, Q, T.

River: Aww, that's cute, but you're still missing one.

The Doctor: You'll get the D later ;).

[expectiations]

So. This discussion has come up once again.

Yes. River has shown protective maternal tendencies in the show (if you don't want to consider the audios canon). She's fiercely protective of Amy (see: Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone) and before popping the Doctor's ego, makes sure to comfort Amy first (see: A Good Man Goes To War). She also has shown being at ease with being the mother figure for the children in the data core (see: Forest of the Dead) like she's done it before.

In the audios, River has an adopted daughter, Rachel. She also took another young man into her care (whose name I unfortunately cannot remember).

The Doctor is also good with kids and has already had a stint as a father and grandfather before (I also don't agree with how he left Susan behind but nothing we can do about that now).

Oh, and now I remember that Susan had taken a liking to River when they met and wanted to know if they'd meet again in the future. Oh, I love that story.

Anyways, they'd definitely be the coolest parents ever.

Not perfect. But cool. Definitely cool.

Saw a poll about "could your otp raise a child"

So can River x Doctor (any #) raise a kid?

— @doctor-who-binge

oh god i feel horrible for that kid /lh

[alto-tenure]

post by @horatiocomehome / Zero Escape: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors (2009)

[angelic37]

DIMENSION HOPPING | Right universe, wrong Doctor

[expectiations]

i respectfully disagree. The Doctor has been shown that he gets jealous and possessive over River.

In s5 Time of Angels/Flesh of Stone, 11 gets all jealous when he thought River and Father Octavian were engaged "in a manner of speaking". (There needs to be more GIFs of this scene)

In the Christmas special "The Husbands of River Song", 12 huffs and puffs every other moment at seeing River around King Hydroflax and Ramone.

Later as they're trying to keep the ship from crashing, they have a discussion on his jealousy and River reminds him of his other marriages and he's like "but I never told them my damn name Rivah! I never dressed up and took them on dates! I never offered them to come travel with me several times twice only to be turned down! I never preen every time before I go see them! I don't seek them out! I don't wear a wedding ring to commemorate those marriages! I don't let them assume I'm some random nobody but immediately introduce who I am! And I definitely don't let them drag me around on a 'whatever it was you had going on' spree!" Oh we didn't see that happen but they definitely had that conversation offscreen.

anyways, some people argue that they have an open marriage. it depends on who you're asking really. considering that the Doctor's line of thought is "River + marriage = love" and got all despondent watching River manipulate one guy after the other and thought oh perhaps i'm not really that special but he is the idiot he is. but River, on the other hand, is "not a marriage person" and Moffat once said she married every single species out there. at the end of the day, no matter how many others River may have dated, flirted, banged, even married with, the only person who holds her hearts is the Doctor as she once told Jack when he made her choose between him and the Doctor (i refuse to speak on how he didn't respect her 'no' and chased her all over the universe instead and even tricked 12 into leaving Darillium just so he could have River. like Jack, no. fucksake no. BigFinish whatthefuck? that's the farthest thing from being romantic. but i did say i refuse to speak on that.)

what was my point again? oh yeah, River does have other spouses but the Doctor definitely gets jealous (even gets jealous over their other selves lol) and they haven't cheated, considering that they barely know how to interact with people at times. (notice how 11 ups his flirting game during s6 onwards for and because of River? yeah)

anyway, i'd just like to do away with the notion that the Doctor does not get jealous over River Song's other spouses, including his other selves.

The Doctor x River Song:

And I love ‘em for it <3

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

Sophie Shepard & Kaidan Alenko (ME2) 1/?

MIRA'S MORE CANON ME2 "The wrong place at the right time..." AKA: The aftermath of Stealing Memory. Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition (2021)

[adelaidedrubman]

—LOCAL CRINGEFAIL MASS MURDERERS WALK INTO SEX THERAPY. (template found here. | credit to @derelictheretic for both oc portraits used!)

was alerted to the existence of this incredible meme by dearest @henbased and obviously had to do it for the flop couples and try starting off a game. below cut is blank template (+ full res johnjess version for easier reading because tumblr decided to be difficult with me on preserving transparency) and tags to play if you have any failsex couples to share!

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[okmcintyre]

"It's been 2,199 days since Praimfaya"

[queen-scribbles]

Date Night Letters! 💖

[expectiations]

I do hope people realize it was Eleven who sulked with otters for a month and it was Twelve who relayed that absolutely rare sneak peek into their marriage to River to us.

[leslieseveride]

i've been so patient and so brave about the rookie hiatus i deserve an award.

[notdexterousatall]

I'm probably not going to watch the new Harry Potter HBO series when it comes out. Or, at least, it would take some pretty incredible reviews to get me to pirate it.

BUT. If I had creative control over this series. If I could make one (1) change to the story and worldbuilding. It would be to nerf apparation.

As a functional plot device for the DH storyline it is obviously extremely necessary. I get why it was introduced later in the series (even though all the prior books make it obvious it was a retcon.) But I stg instantaneous teleportation for every adult witch or wizard with VERY few limits is SUCH a terrible thing to introduce to a story that already has so many other creative magical transportation options. WHY isn't this a Voldemort or Dumbledore level skill??? HP wizards are so overpowered. It could have been limited to only one of the trio being able to apparate, and not well. DH does still function as a story with that change. It's like putting a speedster in your superhero movie. You just have to kill them I'm sorry. I'm beginning to think that all of my HP fic ideas are born out of my incredible need to put hard limits on apparation. (If she didn't want me to hate apparation she shouldn't have given me flying broomsticks and magical trains, I'm just saying.)

(If I had the power to make many many changes to the new HP series, I would completely overhaul the magical world's economic system. It makes NO SENSE. WHY would a post-scarcity society function like this. WHAT DO YOU MEAN there is a duplication spell. Aaagggghhhh it gives me hives. This is the source of the rest of my fic ideas.)

[alto-tenure]

I talked about this before on Twitter but every time I look at this box art I get captivated by the sheer amount of yearning captured in it. the depiction of Zero as the thing that comes between them lives rent-free in my mind

[angelic37]