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"And it's snowing! I love snow!" :D
me rn
Donna's introduction is hilarious to me because it's so jarring like girl we were crying over Rose a whole two minutes ago and now they're just yellin "WOT"
"She obviously fancies him. Look. Look at the way she's looking. She'd remember." — John Simm
i love you rose tyler for your never ending compassion for beings of all origins, and your beautiful unwavering humanity. i love you martha jones for your curiosity, wit and your insatiable need to help everyone you come across. i love you donna noble for your fierce loyalty and your ability to stand up for others and your unwavering moral compass. i love all RTD companions so much and i hope to carry the best bits of them with me.
oddly specific
decided to watch good omens, proceeded to get obssesed with david tennant. decided to watch doctor who (bcs of him), proceeded to get obssesed with doctor who. thats my life now. a 16 yr old obsessed with david tennant and episodes of doctor who that are older than me.
Here’s the full version of Dr. Goodfriend’s explanation of why Rose Tyler is the most important companion to the Doctor and why he’s in love with her. You’ll have to open the images to read the full text.
This is part of a book called Doctor Who Psychology and this particular chapter is by Dr. Wind Goodfriend who is a social psychologist and university lecturer who has written multiple textbooks of her own, including one on intimate relationships. Needless to say, if anyone knows who the most impactful companion the Doctor ever had was, it would be her. There’s also other aspects of the Doctor’s attraction to Rose explained in this chapter, but I felt this was the most important.
timepetals + bad wolf / religion
donna tartt (the secret history), hozier (take me to church), euripides [transl. anne carson] (hippolytos, grief lessons: four plays), hozier (take me to church), hozier (sunlight), percy shelley (ozymandias), clementine von radics (in a dream you saw a way to survive; "angie"), ovid (metamorphoses), kate cayley (lent)
the end of time is so funny because while the doctor is grappling with his impending mortality and immense loneliness, the master is just a feral rat man that’s shooting lightning out of his hands and eating people
Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:
the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good
but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe
and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)
(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)
but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with
and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is
jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS
(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)
Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him
and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him
and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto
BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM
Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man
Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER
AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE
jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone
because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift
jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE
there is no more human character than jack harkness
Do you think in 2012 Martha and Mickey were watching the Olympics on TV and they saw Ten carrying the Olympic flame? Do you think it hurt? Do you think Donna saw him too and Wilfred had to hold back from screaming in joy and that he excused himself to go shed a silent tear in the kitchen?
moon-coded martha [x]
little did he know it, but sad tenth doctor in the rain was in fact the prototypical poor little meow meow
“You don't get bored of stories. None of us, as human beings, we just—we never get bored of stories. And I get to tell stories. And each story is new and different, so it's a continuously renewing thing. And hopefully you are constantly getting better at your corner of the storytelling process, and you can—with each new challenge, you sort of have to find a new sort of corner of yourself. And it keeps being difficult, and it keeps being challenging, and it keeps being exciting. And fun as well, if I'm absolutely honest.” — DAVID TENNANT (born April 18, 1971)
'just ask them out, the worst they could say is no' WRONG the worst they could say is that's why i left you behind. it's not easy even just looking at you, jack, because you're wrong. you are. i can't help it. i'm a time lord. it's instinct. it's in my guts. you're a fixed point in time and space. you're a fact. that's never meant to happen, even the tardis reacted against you, tried to shake you off. flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you.
FAVOURITE DOCTOR WHO EPISODES
Midnight Directed by Alice Troughton Written by Russell T Davies
sun-coded ten [x]
so tiny... the littlest guy to ever exist
Thinking about how Doctor Who took the comforting sentiment that is "you are not alone" and turned it into a threat.
David Tennant in Doctor Who ↳ 'The Christmas Invasion'
DOCTOR WHO Ten at Christmas
"We can go off together"
We were all thinking it, when this scene appeared in the 60th Doctor Who episode "The Giggles"
"Context:
This image depicts the demon Crowley played by David Tennant from Good Omens sitting next to his "husband" the angel Aziraphale played by Michael Sheen from Good Omens. They are watching the 14th Doctor from Doctor Who deliver a line that Crowley repeatedly asked his Angel.
It's a cute show."
My sketchbook: htttp: www.ko-fi.com/beanart
I just rewatched David Tennant’s doctor regeneration into Matt Smith scene and I totally forgot that the Ood sing him a song as he goes. It’s one of the first times in a long time where he’s alone it’s Christmas, he’s scared and struggling to stand and “the universe sings him to sleep”. Even when he doesn’t have a companion the whole universe sings him to sleep, he’s never truly alone the universe is thanking him for his sacrifice and care in his last moments.
The kiss 💙 prints
Been seeing people saying "Rose got her own Doctor, Donna got her own Doctor, Martha must be pissed" and I get it, but also...Martha's arc over her season was her realizing that she *didn't* need the Doctor. She was the one who was able to move on, who could say "Come visit sometime, but also don't let the door hit your ass on the way out." And I think that's important to remember.
when the Doctor goes to the Powell Estate on New Year’s Eve as he’s dying, he asks Rose what year it is. all of the other visits were so calculated. he saves Mickey and Martha on a distant planet, just in the nick of time. he swats Luke out of the road before a car comes. he goes back in time and finds Geoffrey Noble, borrowing a quid, and gives Wilf a winning lottery ticket worth millions. he caught Donna’s wedding, just as she stepped out of the church.
But Rose. Oh, with Rose.
the Doctor says: “what year is this?” because he doesn’t even know.
do you think he just jammed his hands into the telepathic circuit as his body failed? do you think he just dreamt of her, desperately, the one face he was dying to see? do you think he hoped, prayed, that somehow he’d end up on her doorstep?
and the he’s in an alleyway full of snow. in London. and he knows that building, knows those stairs. and it’s finally snowing, for real this time. and he sees her, doesn’t even mean to speak to her, too afraid of timelines and paradoxes as putting her at risk…
but he’s in pain, and he grunts, and Rose—always ready to help someone in pain—turns around.
and the Doctor says: “what year is this?”
and when Rose says it’s 2005…oh, how his face lights up. It’s all ahead for her. And for him, too. I bet—he says—you’re gonna have a really great year...
The Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors with the wonderful Donna Noble too
Parallel portraits
the doctor plot: woahh idk who i am anymore my personality is hidden in this little watch
martha jones plot: