#tillthenexttimedoctor

[nobleriver]

I was tagged by @doctortomyriver a loooong time ago, but I never saw it til now because I was on hiatus. But it’s too much fun to pass up because I love the questions lol

Out of curiosity I’ll tag @benoitblanc @thebadtimewolf (love reading your tags btw) @beingshakespeare @autisticwho and @wibblyowzah

Tag Game: Doctor Who Edition

The rules are simple - answer the questions, then tag other Whovians to get to know each other better/find new people to follow, message, etc. If there are any questions you don’t have an answer for, feel free to skip them!

Doctor you started with: Nine. Ten. Eleven. Long story, but I watched all of them in same month or two. 11 was airing once a week. 10 and Martha were marathoning. And a friend gave me the Series 1 boxset which I devoured in a day because 9′s her favorite doctor. It was such fun to experience Who that way. Would do it again. I got them all at once.

Favourite Doctor: The Doctor

Favourite companion: None

Favourite episode: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. The Girl in the Fireplace. School Reunion. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE Sarah Jane and Moffat wrote a classic when he did The Girl in the Fireplace. Those two eps are why I love S2 so much. I can literally quote from each of these episodes:

“Are you alright?” “I’m always alright.” “Say it.” “Goodbye...MY SARAH JANE!” 😭😭😭😭😭😭 She’ll always be important to him! HELPPP! And of course, “Stay with me. C’mon! You and me, one last run!” That’s the title quote on my blog!

DW OTP: Doctorriver

Favourite line/quote: “Stay with me! You can do it! Stay with me! Come on! You and me, one last run!” - 10 to River 

ALKHSFASJHKFJHSLJFALJF I’M A PUDDLE ON THE FLOOR.

Favourite character that isn’t the Doctor or a companion: River Song. She’s my favorite period. She pulls me back to the show again and again.

BrOTP: 10 and Martha. If found family counts, Doctor x The 3 Ponds and River x TARDIS

Favourite DW fic (if you have one): None. Just started last year. Haven’t read enough. I am writing one though. And if we count Big Finish as official fic, then, The Tenth Doctor and River Song. It’s insane how good that is.

Favourite DW fanart/blog (if you have one): Currently @expelliarmus and @tenriver 

But special shoutout to 3 of the greatest colorist I've ever seen @borntosavethedoctor @doctorwhoblog (aka @amywiliams ) and @tillthenexttimedoctor The way they color remains an inspiration. 

If you could pick anyone to be the next Doctor, who would it be? (Why, if you feel like explaining.): This question is outdated because I received this before the new Doctor was announced. Now, we have two new Doctors lined up to go, and I’m excited for both of them!

So I think I’ll change the question to 

Who are you most excited to see in the next series? The Duchess! She’s screaming female Time Lady and I’m curious, curious, curious.

[borntosavethedoctor]

Amelia Pond. Like a name in a fairy tale.

[gwil-lee]

Steven Moffat Appreciation Day 2018

[sweetswed-blog]

[sad--gittarius]

And we keep living anyway We rise and we fall And we break And we make our mistakes

[magnumrevolver]

“I know her name was Clara. I know we traveled together. I know that there was an Ice Warrior on a submarine and a mummy on the Orient Express. I know we sat together in the Cloisters and she told me something very important.”

[clara-is-brave]

tillthenexttimedoctor replied to your post “[[MOR] Its really hilarious that Clara as a character has no...”

It's just so unnecessary? The same goes for Rose and River as well - all three of them take on such iconic roles that it's ridiculous to think you need to pull other characters down to prop them up. "Better/more important than so-and-so" is not even in the top 100 reasons of why Clara Oswald is amazing.

Exactly. They are all amazing in their own rights and are important to the show’s narrative, so I just fail to see why one has to be put down to make another appear better. I just wish all of us fans can either get along or stay in each other’s lanes when it comes to them because all of this propping up and tearing down does nothing to help celebrate and show love for these characters. Thats just wishful thinking, it seems. 

[astudyinimagination]

Favorite Doctor Who characters (1/?): Clara Oswald

The most important leaf in human history! It's full of stories. Full of history. And full of a future that never got lived. Days that should've been that never were... Passed on to me. This leaf isn't just the past, it's a whole future that never happened. There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day that we live; an infinity! All the days that never came! And these are all my mum's.

For @tillthenexttimedoctor, for whom I promised to do this literally a year ago.

The timing also happily coincides with Moffat Appreciation Day. Thank you so much, Steven, for giving us some truly amazing female characters—especially Clara Oswald. She has meant so much to me.

[abossycontrolfreak]

tillthenexttimedoctor replied to your post: While we're vaguely on that topic, do you have any...

Now I wonder what else her pupils end up sharing on social media. ‘Today our English teacher implied she has kissed Jane Austen’ is probably the least of it.

Someone (*cough*Tania*cough*) has a blog called todaymyenglishteachersaid. It starts off as comedy but ends up as a conspiracy blog trying to work out what the hell is going on with Miss Oswald who says she kissed Jane Austen and gets called out of class by the President and has no clue about pop culture at all.

The prevailing theory is that she’s an alien. 

[scriptscribbles]

Friendly reminder that River Song exists because Moffat tried to come up with especially rude episode acronyms and ended up with "A River Song Ending".

God. Bless.

[alphacentauriiswatchingyou-blog]

Russell T Davies on Steven Moffat

We do not know how lucky we are.

When asked to consider Steven’s finest moments, I was overwhelmed by images. Heores and villains. Battles and beauty. Monsters and children. Then I realised that I’d only got as far as 20 minutes into The Empty Child -round about the joke about Marxism and West End musicals - and had to sit down for a cup of tea.

I think, as fans, we can focus on the detail - Mondasian Cybermen! - at the risk of missing the bigger picture. That picture being, in Steven’s case, that we’ve just seen one of the greatest sci-fi body-horror thriller action-adventure romances (plus comedy) of our entire lives, beamed on to our TVs for less than 10p, written by a world-class master of his craft who’s now so in command of his talent, he’s riffing on ephemera from 1966 and turning it into gold, whisky, sex, whatever turns you on best. We truly do not know how lucky we are to have a man of this calibre writing our favourite show.

Since leaving Doctor Who, I’m approached, now and then, by strangers who remember my withered husk from Doctor Who Confidential. There’s a glint in their eye as they say, “What d’you think of it now?” An awful lot of those people are dying for me to trash it. I think, genuinely, they’re trying to achieve an intimacy. I think, nastily, they want me to say something bad so they can take it online and have some strange sort of fun. And when I say, “I love it!” they often think I’m lying.

I love it. I love every episode the man’s written. I love the other episodes he’s rewritten and I think few people know how many that is. I love the detail, I love the scale, I love the people, I love the jokes. I love the fact that Steven himself is quite down on The Beast Below. The whole of the UK on a spaceship? The whole of the UK is a spaceship? I’d retire there and then, complete. Nope, for him, it just wasn’t good enough.

I love the man, in truth, I love his mind, I love his standards, I love his rigour, his darkness, his kindness, his ambition, his love of TV. I love the man who wrote the very last line of Coupling, which shows what a lovely human being he is.

I love his women. Consider, in bad fiction, which is most fiction, how women’s roles, which have suffered so many years of neglect that they can be summarised as ‘women’s roles’, fall into the same old categories. They are reduced to the Mother, the Wife, the Daughter, the Bride. Agents of sex and childbirth, nothing more.

But then look at what Steven does with those categories. The Bride stands tall at her reception - literally in her wedding dress - and summons the Doctor back itno existence with an Old Maid’s rhyme. When the Bride has a Daughter, it’s a vital part of a galaxy-spanning revenge. The Daughter then becomes the Wife, a woman of such swagger and joy and tenderness, the Time Lord finally falls in love. We’re not done yet. A lesser category pops up, the Dominatrix, complete with eye-patch, but don’t worry, the Bride who’s the Mother of the Daughter who’s the Wife kills her stone dead! Then a lesbian travels the universe and everyone adores her. And nestling at the heart of the show is Doctor Who’s very own problem category, the Companion, a title inherently subordinate to the Man. Until Clara comes along! Companion to every single moment in the Doctor’s life. A woman so strong that in her first appearance, and her last, Death itself cannot stop her. A decade before Wonder Woman, Steven started weaving his own vast female mythology across the stars, in a funny old children’s show on Saturday teatimes.

I could mansplain all day, but the other thing I love in Steven’s writing is the complexity. I’ve heard some tiny, distant rumours that some people might have a problem with that. But I think it’s the very thing that will ensure Doctor Who’s logevity. You see, in the old days, us older fans fell in love with this show because it was porous. It had gaps. It was cheap, it was rushed, it was lovely and brave and unapologetic, using three walls in Lime Grove to create an entire Dalek invasion of Earth. All those gaps allowed us in. We imagined the offstage armies. We embraced the wobbles and bumps. If Sutekh had a secret hand on his cushion, we hooted, or invented a reason why (Clara!). But we either imagined it better, or saw how good it was underneath. Which is exactly like falling in love.

Now, the modern show has a lot more money. You can see those armies centre-stage. Gallifrey is so gorgeous, it has a spare city. Cyber-fleets can explode behind Rory’s head as a throwaway joke. And sometimes, a lossy show allows the mind the slide off. But Steven has created a brand-new porous surface. He invites us into the plots. He gives us stories which vault and somersault and double-back and trick and trap and treat. It’s not so much porous, it’s more like a great big spinning double helix and we’re clinging on, spinning for our lives, and yelling with joy. Yes, it’s complicated, but that’s wonderful. It will keep people thinking about the show forever.

Okay, my favourite moment? It’s my favourite joke. A Good Man Goes to War. Rory approaches River Song in the Storm Cage, and she says she’s been on a date with the Doctor, to the frost fair in 1814. “He got Stevie Wonder to sing for me underneath London Bridge.” And for a second, there’s that lovely shiver as you anticipae the punchline. “Don’t tell him.”

That’s a small momnt from a man who’s created empires. But a favourite joke is a beautiful thing. I just looked up the line and it turns out, I’ve long since paraphrased it, but that’s even better - like I said, Steven makes us part of the text, and now I own it! The point is, I think of that line every few days. Literally, a couple of times a week, every week. Every now and then, when I’m washing up or watching TV, or walking into town, or whatever, it pops into my head. “Don’t tell him.” And I laugh. I laugh, every single time. It’s been making me laugh for six years and it will make me laugh for the rest of my life. Very few people can write a line capable of that.

We have been so lucky.

[whifferdills]

tillthenexttimedoctor replied to your post “quick Salt Thoughts, sponsored by Diamond™ Tumgler has literally never...”

I feel like there is a space somewhere inbetween doing things for yourself and making a living/gaining influence/whatever counts as "serious". A couple of years ago any blog posting anything in a popular tag would have immediately have that post seen by a large number of people. There were pretty much no barriers of entry. "Putting in the work" could be picking a decent hour and knowing what would work well with your audience.

i mean ‘no barriers for entry’ is crap, gaming tumblr has always been about getting the attention of popular blogs for maximum reblog potential. fandom has been about that since i was a wee sprog. no-name blogs have always been disadvantaged. there’s for def a space in between - like, i do what i want, but i also know that some posts i make are more likely to be reblogged by, say, the official DW tumblr. people will look at your thing, but is it the right people? and ‘decent hour, works well with the audience’ is a big part, for sure, but i can’t think of anything outside fandom that relies on one single website. and the ‘why don’t you reblog my posts you ASSHOLES’ posts just put all the blame on the consumer, outside of fandom no one acts like that.

the tags and etc are for sure janked up but if you give so big a damn you feel like shaming yr readers for not interacting properly. find other websites or learn how to work the site yr on. there’s deffo a space in between but yr getting shitty abt people not adequately enjoying your fanwares - get a better product on a better platform or deal w/ not doing much

i think i agree with you just my brain’s on sideways rn so

[borntosavethedoctor]

I’m the Doctor. Doctor Oswald. But you can call me Clara.

[gwil-lee]

Twice Upon a Time | Doctor Who Specials

You wait a moment, Doctor. Let's get it right. I've got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first. Never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never, ever eat pears! Remember, hate is always foolish. and love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Oh, and you mustn't tell anyone your name. No one would understand it, anyway. Except children. Children can hear it sometimes. If their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too, children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else, ever. Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. Doctor, I let you go.

[sweetswed-blog]

The new intro.

[magnumrevolver]

He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful.