#shabby nasty little dirtman and his coatless bleeding husband

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Please ignore the quality lol, just doodling these during lectures

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Tenth Doctor, twirling his hair: Babe... would you still love me if I was a bug?

Simm!Master: Let me remind you that I literally died to avoid staying anywhere near you.

Tenth Doctor: 😔

Simm!Master: All of which would have been avoided if you were a bug.

Tenth Doctor: 😊

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The notes discussion on what they're arguing about got me to think ot started with the Master putting every single pear on the stall in his bag and the Doctor, instead of just calling him a bastard and moving on, tries moralising about how he should leave some for others, and the Master retorting that he just ensured good income to a long chain of farmers to distribution, the Doctor getting angry about his sophistry and ranting about waste* (they're cashing out now), and the Master pointing out it might have gone to waste anyway, and so they move onto alienation of use value and exchange value, free market vs. communism, collectivism vs. individualism, the historical good and evil role of money (they're switching to gallifreyan now), the social determination of usefulness, biological and pre-biological evolutionary processes, and then the tumblr discussion is stopped by Shaun being delighted because he was just thinking of trying out pickling, and now he has enough pears to experiment, last their family a few months, share with neighbours and donate to a food bank 👍

*Because of course the Master doesn't like pears either, they'd eat them just to piss off the Doctor and then need to throw up

Retired Timelords 😃

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That's the saga of how the Doctor got the Master sick. I might make some more doodles of them both sick in bed watching telly (the master hogs the remote and it's playing teletubbies on repeat, they tried peppa pig but found it too unsettling to nap to).

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The thing about human au tensimms is that they will inevitably end up being either a 90s romcom about divorcees finding out they're still in love or a Green Day song

And which it'll be depends entirely on whether the Master is wearing a slick suit or a ratty hoodie with badly bleached hair

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Working on a lil something for my au!! I just need them to kiss more

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Thinking a moment ago of how RTD made it clear Lucy being blonde is very much meant to mirror Rose and started wandering how much of this is doylist and how much watsonian. Like, on the doylist level it's really there to amp up the foiling between Doctor and Master but in-world?

There is of course the idea the Master took his sweet time reading the Doctor's diary, but it would be kinda more interesting if he did in fact just fancy Lucy, because that would play ideally into the who two sides of the same coin thing. As in, both Ten and Saxon have a thing for blondes but at the same time Rose and Lucy are very different in many ways (corresponding to working vs. higher middle class).

Also never shutting up about Ten's reaction to seeing Saxon for the first time just look at him the fanon he's lowkey jealous is wonderful bc it doesn't downplay abuse of Lucy but rather underscores just how effed up the Doctor is at this point just look at him being like The Master has a wife? The Master looks like this and knows I exist and has a wife? Jail for the Master, jail for a thousand years!

“does he still have that rubbish beard?” “no! no beard this time. well– a wife.” —time crash (children in need 2007)

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kitty cuddle pile

Aaaw, wook at the two eldritch horrors, embracing their deepest need to nuzzle at each other's fur 🥰🥰🥰

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theyre both the animal

"Thoschei are friends to enemies", "thoschei are enemies to lovers", wrong, thoschei are two cats on different sides of a door, and they would like to be together on the same side, but just switch places when the door opens, and then go back to meowing and pawing until it's open again, and this is what the companions have to put up with in the middle of the night.

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You know how in s4 there's the running gag of everyone assuming Ten and Donna are married and they both react with that slight confusion? And you know how tensimm fics tend to feature people assuming the Doctor and the Master are married and they react with awkward denials and shy glances?

Well, I think it stands to reason Donna+Tensimm aus should include them arriving to a society where polyandry is the dominant family model, so everyone keeps congratulating Donna on her two husbands. Until she ends up picking a local up by their collar and yelling in their face that she wouldn't touch either of those wet weasels let alone both, while the Doctor makes shy but meaningful inquiries about lifestyle in such relationships and the Master scoffs because he already speedred through the bestseller "My husbands are fucking and I like it!".

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we popping the biggest bottles when the tensimm reunion happens in the Specials <- delusional

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This was intentional. RTD told me personally.

Also you don't just give David Tennant a trenchcoat and sticky-uppy hair so noone will think he looks like Bowie.

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Aaaawwww, wook at the wittle kitty cats, being all careful and nice in their playtime 🥰🥰

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With a slight delay caused by my own travels, I can finally thank @belgianreader2 for The Game print that finally got here, currently guarding my dvd collection and making looking at my to-dos slightly less painful 🥰🥰

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To be perfectly clear, yes, my dumb brain did in fact go to the image of the Doctor strategically scattering artron energy wrapped in dough across the TARDIS to do something about the Master's electroskeletoning.

It's super effective.

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trying to explain to my friend how much i like the get out of the way part of teot in a way that involves less keysmashes and more "see how much emotion ten's face shows and the conflicting emotions he's feeling and how he almost wants to kill the master but at the same time he cant and doesnt want to" but this requires me rewatching that part of the end of time and it's actually killing me, which then brings me onto my point: the master's FUCKING SMIRK when the doctor says "get out of the way"

Gif courtesy of themastergifs, because this smirk needs to be gazed at, contemplated, analyzed, squished, put in formaldehyde and can't be ranted about enough!!!!

This is seriously everything. This is a moment when they are finally on exactly the same page, they and only they in the whole wide universe. This moment of pure understanding and connection when the Master is affirmed in his belief of the Doctor's care for him, that he wouldn't put him down even when it is morally, emotionally and pragmatically allowed. The knowledge that this isn't about Doctor's ethics and moral comfort, but about him, just rendered expendable by the preseident-god of their civilization.

As you wrote, the Doctor's emotional journey in this scene is bloody stunning, but there's even an element of wider ethics, as in what a doctor should do here. The Master's just been framed as nothing short of a sick tissue on the body of the universe and the notion of killing him got a stamp of moral approval by Wilf. There is literally no other reason for Doctor not to kill the Master than love, and this little smirky still having a jot of sleeziness smile says that the Master fully recognizes that. And, damn, I am amazed by the way Simm does "smile not quite reaching their eyes" but not in a "eyes are sad" way but "eyes are smiling but differently". And this here is one of the very few moments when his whole face expresses just one unveiled honest thing and it's that he knows that he's still loved by his sun and stars.

Like. Yes, both the Doctor and the Master have some ulterior motive to save one another in TeoT, general ethic stance still present in the first case and revenge in the second, but there is this idea that they both firmly assert who they are in this moment. So, maybe, just maybe, their feelings for each other constitute an essentail part of that being who they are.

Yeah, if the Master wasn't pulled to Gallifrey, he and the Doctor would just start making out right there on that floor covered in broken glass right in front of trapped Wilf's salad <3