#queer dw

[inhonoredglory]

Is that who I am now?

This is so powerful because queerness has always been in Doctor Who and FINALLY the Doctor themself can say it out loud. But at the same time, the way it's phrased in a way that makes their orientation and preferences always malleable, always changing.

Because the one thing the Doctor always is? QUEER. 🏳️‍🌈

The Doctor is ace (as said by David Tennant and Matt Smith and Jon Pertwee). They are demi. They are gay. They're bi. They're pan. They're fluid. Their orientation is all and both and neither. They are INEFFABLE at the core of their romantic and sexual being.

[inhonoredglory]

Oh yes!! Doctor Who was always left-leaning.

"Doctor Who is all political now!"

Me, remembering the episode adressing immigration and terrorism in 2015: Ah huh...

"It wasn't so woke before!"

Me, remembering the pansexual companion who was flirting with and kissing men on screen in 2005: I see...

"They turned it into left-wing propaganda!"

Me, remembering the classic serial criticizing capitalism and how it traps people in debt from 1977: If you say so...

[alexinthetardis]

That's what they are to me

[doctorwhommm]

about to throw hands with l*ndy pepper bean

[inhonoredglory]

#RTD IS LITERALLY FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINES FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS (via @bisexualbailorgana)

every single terf worldwide found DEAD

[worfs-glorious-hair]

Ninejack walked so that Fifteen x Rogue could run

[grandadtwelve]

I know that donna was like “haha yeah doctor you’ve always been kinda gay” but it’s better 2 me if the doctor actually meant “oh I say that shit out loud now” the same way he said that about verbalizing his feelings/saying “love”. bc do I think the doctor was completely unaware of any and all attraction they’ve ever had to men? nah not at all. do I think the doctor has ever seen an attractive person and immediately gone “yeah. smash.” out loud? no sir

[redshoes-blues]

RTD said I’m going to give the gays what they want: existential horror and Fourteen being Donna’s gay best friend

[politicalprocrastinator]

The fact ncuti gatwa's doctor can't park I love gay representation

[deadeyedfae]

Sort of a proof of concept for myself, I think there is some great body horror related to being queer and hiding it that can be applied to the Cybermen. I might take this somewhere, I might not! Let’s just see how it goes and if the ideas come together ^^

[inhonoredglory]

Happy Asexual Awareness Week from the Tenth Doctor!! 🖤🤍💜 (quote)

Usually it's not a sexual thing with the Doctor. He's a fairly asexual character. –David Tennant (source)

[franklyimissparis]

rtd i am in your walls this is so fucking gay

[suolane]

the newest and brightest doccy who 💙

[sadcoms]

until i recently read posts on here about how there is an inherent queerness to the doctor and rose's relationship in how it's unspoken and filled with yearning that i'd never really considered that element, despite knowing for ages that RTD is gay but. man. it's just reframed a lot of the series for me, like the idea that you have this lonely man who's just watched his people die and is self-destructive and misanthropic and traumatised and he can love again and he wants to but it has so many risks.

but especially S3 and how it adds even more weight to the doctor's grieving widower status. how he tells martha that he and rose were together but martha refers to rose as a friend to tallulah; the fact that he can only say they were together once she is gone; how the only other person that both can feel how he feels but also understands the depth of his feelings is jack, a queer man himself. and I've been thinking to myself lately oh, it's ok, the doctor and rose probably accidentally got married on at least one planet or something but also the point is that there was no official title that could convey to people the extent that they meant to each other, that the doctor can really only tell donna that rose was his friend even though it is so wholly inadequate and she comes to see that by the end of the episode (and martha too of course). how people who saw the doctor and rose together assumed they were a couple, like on krop tor, but once there's no more physical evidence of the relationship it becomes more vague (and simultaneously clearer).

anyway something about how christopher eccleston said he based his portrayal of nine on RTD and something about RTD saying that his husband is "in every good man i write now" and how the doctor and ruby seeing each other in the club mimics his first meeting with his husband aka the one moment he would use a time machine to go back to hmmm

[butchdykenormallen]

was gonna vent but. rodger is stronger

[queermania]

i think deans plays gay closet chicken with sam which means that he does/says increasingly gay things while trying to figure out where the line is that finally makes sam go "wait a minute"