#the doctor and river

[aflawedfashion]

The Doctor & River | Doctor Who 6x08

[expectiations]

Bill: Doctor, where’d you get that bruise? the Doctor: *flashback to walking into a pole while looking at his picture of River* the Doctor: i'm in a gang, Bill

[aleck-le-mec]

Song: only if for a night by Florence and the machine

[the-hufflepuffle]

Somewhere, be it the TARDIS or if there's a Dirillium house, River has a coffee mug that says "archeologists will date any old thing" because a student bought it for her and it's her favorite mug and the Doctor, aka an old thing, hates it.

[faithandbuffy]

when the doctor is talking about the darillium towers but he’s really talking about river and how much she means to him 😢

[sanguento]

the husbands of river song (2015)

[josketches]

queens of pride month, i don't make the rules

[aflawedfashion]

The Doctor & Amy | Doctor Who 6x00

[expectiations]

I've seen takes on the Doctor being a hyperactive five-year-old unable to keep their focus on anything for too long or being too absorbed in something that captured their attention.

But I believe I have yet to see a take on River being a hyperactive five-year-old unable to keep her focus on anything for too long or being too absorbed in something that captured her attention.

[fedzzzart]

COMPANIONS

aaaaaah looking at them all together is so satisfying!! and i’m so proud of actually finishing this🥰

[nipuni]

Ten visiting River in the Library hard drive 😊

[fuckrealityfictionisbetter]

I love that the doctors choice in friends is brilliant, kind, will sacrifice themselves for the universe, compassionate to a fault, and his type in romantic partners is I carry a GUN and am INSANE and have committed untold WAR CRIMES

[ngatwa]

ALEX KINGSTON & KAREN GILLAN + TIKTOK COMMENTS (x)

+ bonus

[heatherfield]

When I say I enjoy content focusing on a specific doctorriver dynamic, I’m not saying I like one dynamic over the next. Because I don’t. 10, 11, 12, they’re all the same person at different stages of their life. Consequently, shipping the Doctor and River is like reading the most beautiful, devastating trilogy. Each book holds a different arc of their story.

When I say I want more 10River, I mean I want to see when the sparks began to fly. I want to place under a microscope the moment that burning ember of curiosity morphed into genuine friendship and intellectual and (begrudging) physical attraction. I want to listen and read of their adventures and watch how the Doctor begins to see River as a person in her own light. Not as the dead companion of future him, but the radiant, funny archaeologist he now dares call friend.

And when I say give me 11River, I mean I want to immerse myself in the early and middle stages of their marriage, the good, the bad, the rough, the smooth, as they, like many newly wedded couples, wrestle in their early years to learn how to make this marriage w o r k. I want jealous Doctor, I want the Doctor who caves to his desires and kisses River back as if she’s the only oxygen left on the moon. I want to cackle with glee as the Doctor abandons the idea of ever running away from her because it’s already too late to run. He started falling a long time ago.

And when I say pile on the 12River, I mean I want to see the latter years of their marriage, when they act like that couple that’s been married for 50+ years who says they’ve finally figured out the key to marriage because THEY HAVE. They went through hell, through darkest pits of marriage, through the miscommunications and misaligned expectations, and made it through to the other side. Instead of trying to paper the cracks, they smoothed out the rough t o g e t h e r. They relinquished every survival instinct and exposed their jugulars, their deepest fears and pains, and let themselves be completely naked and vulnerable with the other. They finally did what 10 asked River to do all those centuries ago in the library… they stayed with each other.