#professor River Song

[doctorkinktraveller]

An interesting snippet for you all. At the time of production of Silence In The Library and Forest Of The Dead, Moffat privately intended Dr. Moon to be a future Doctor.

In a 2008 email to Russell - Moffatt wrote, "In my head (and ONLY in my head, this will probably never appear on screen, or be confirmed in any way) River's not just his wife - she's his widow.

Somewhere in the terrible future, on a battlefield, the 45th Doctor dies in her arms and makes her the same promise she once made him - it's not over for you, you'll see me again.

So River buries her husband, and off she goes to have lots of adventures with his younger selves and confuse the hell out of them."

"Until, of course, she ends up in the data core of the Library Planet, and realises she'll never see him again. And then she starts to wonder why anyone would call a moon 'Doctor.' Ahhh..

"Yeah, some version of that could still work" Moffat continued. "The Doctor worrying that she'll get lonely in the library, and popping his dying mind inside a moon. God, look at those words. I actually typed those words!!!!"

"I can't believe you didn't remember!" Davies replied. "I've never forgotten that Doctor Moon thing, it's so clever

"Every time I watch that story, I think, it's him, it's the Doctor, and no-one knows!"

(REF: Showrunner Showdown)

[shiveringfrogspawn]

i have a (mildly) whovian friend that couldn't think of the word 'companion' the other day and referred to river song as an 'accomplice' instead and i'm still thinking about it...like that's literally what she is...an accomplice to all the doctor's war crimes...but fuck if that's not the cutest substitution i've ever heard

[smallerontheoutside]

River never met Jack on screen because the writers knew that the cameras couldn't handle the level of flirting and would just shut down

[thinkdoctorriver]

And die with a smile

[rubysundaymondaytuesday]

A Fifteenth Doctor/Professor River Song Moodboard 🔑 for @melodyandpond

[littlesparkleshark]

Thirteen and River should have met

Specifically in a historical episode with Sappho.

[heyitsspaceace]

rivers speech about loving the doctor while 12 stands there without her knowing never fails to destroy me. she loves him so much and doesn’t believe he loves her back, imagine hearing “it's like loving the stars themselves. You don't expect a sunset to admire you back.” and knowing it’s about you, how do you not break into tears. his soft smile and the look on rivers face when she finally realizes who it is, the way they slip back into their easy banter, the way they’re both ready to sacrifice themselves for the other so readily? i love them dearly, they make me ill

[expectiations]

the Doctor: I'm not that in love with River Amy: You doodled your wedding invitation the Doctor: No, that's our joint tombstone Amy: My bad

[nemoo-m]

🌸👑River Song 👑🌸

Hello Sweetie 💋

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

cw for discussion of religious trauma

The silence story arc in Doctor Who works weirdly well as a metaphor for religious trauma. The Silence are explicitly a religious order. They are tied to men in black imagery that loosely associates them with the American government and the FBI and CIA in the same episode where a man is kicked out of the FBI for being gay. They create repressed memories that have negative consequences even though you don't know they're there.

They try to control Amy's pregnancy and take her baby away. They raise River, who is canonically bisexual even though it's only mentioned in passing, to hate herself, and she escapes from their grasp through falling in love with someone she was taught from birth to hate. I wish this subtext had been explored and brought to the forefront more, because it lines up insanely well and as it stands I'm not even sure if it's intentional.

[doctorkinktraveller]

Steven Moffat very deliberately didn't tell anyone other than Alex Kingston the true identity of River Song while filming 'Silence In The Library'.

This worked to great effect, as nobody knew how to react, and David Tennant's confusion in particular is entirely genuine.

According to Moffat, Tennant assumed the River Song was a future incarnation of the Doctor. He made absolutely no effort to correct him.

[c-o-z-m-o]

DOODLES!!!!!!!! YAY

Please reblog my art instead of just liking it.

☝️also if you're confused on who "Penny" is in the first image I headcanon Petey to be transfem so I call her Penny. Yay

[thelibraryofalexandriastillburns]

[grimoireguardian]

river song saying « an archaeologist /is/just a thief! » in dr who was soooo real of her like yeah absolutely

[holymusicalmothman]

11: *to Amy*: That woman (River) is not dragging me anywhere.

Me: *stoned on my couch*: She literally drags you everywhere? And you like it???

[thoscheienjoyer]