#the fourteenth doctor

[starkdirewolflove]

“What’s that?”

The greatest use of a Spice Girls song ever.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #the fourteenth doctor #donna noble #mel bush #kate stewart #the toymaker #shirley anne bingham

[fandom-witchling]

David Tennant watching in horror as Neil Patrick Harris causes chaos while lip syncing to Spice Up Your Life wasn’t on my 2023 bingo card but holy stars and planets above, it totally should have been.

#the fourteenth doctor #doctor who #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #neil patrick harris #the giggle

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

I love how every time David Tennant plays literally any previously established character they just get a bit softer and a bit sadder and a bit more joyful and a bit more mentally ill

#David tennant #doctor who #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #good omens #crowley #bbc casanova #Don Juan in soho #shakespeare #hamlet #benedick #macbeth #around the world in 80 days #Phileas fogg

[variousqueerthings]

the doctor being a part of the noble family has the energy of an addams family cousin -- imagines rose being in a school play and the doctor fixing up some gizmo to open up a tiny gap to some part of the universe where stars shine particularly brightly for midsummer night's dream, and accidentally almost levels the school by misjudging how close they are to this one very dense planet (people in the audience confusedly waving at aliens who are just as confusedly waving their tentacles back from a thousand years in the future a million light years away. everybody afterwards talks about the great special effects, but they're not sure what it has to do with the story)

people trying to figure out who this "the doctor" person is and why he's living with the nobles, and always trying to catch out that there's something going on, but the doctor's answers to all their inquiries are so lowkey bonkers as to bamboozle any further attempts (so where are you from again? oh just this place, well, I say place, planet, well, I say planet I don't actually know these days, but somewhere certainly... is Ipswich a place? how do you know mrs noble again? we travelled together for a bit, and then, well you know how it is when you get hit with a face full of radiation, ey *snort-laughs at his own joke* and what's your name again? doctor, the "the" is a pronoun, it can get confusing I know, but people on this planet choose their names all the time, you'll catch up)

just this house gremlin in a setup that nobody from the outside understands, toddling about, showing up at every event that rose has going for her, wearing little pride pins that might be partially for himself as well as for rose (gay??? one of those trans ones????), always seems to be talking about strange places that nobody has heard of but doesn't want to admit to, occasionally goes eerily still and unnerving around people who are cruel and mean, knows a lot about history, but peppers it with facts that can't possibly be true, gets on very well with shaun who always answers questions with "the doctor's part of the family, youknow?" they do not know, but at this point it's too rude to keep asking

#doctor who #dw #dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #as someone who IS a resident house gremlin with my partner/her husband #i have had had some Reactions to our setup from places ranging from the bank to nosy neighbours #doctor who meta #the fourteenth doctor #the doctor #rose noble #donna noble #shaun noble

[mindibindi]

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎" + 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 [𝚙𝚝. 𝟷] [𝚙𝚝. 𝟸] >>> “𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚈𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛” | “𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚝” >>> 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚡 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 [pt. 1] [𝚙𝚝. 𝟸]

#dw #dr who #doctor who #dw 60th #doctor who 60th anniversary #dr who special #dr who spoilers #the giggle #the 14th doctor #the 15th doctor #the fourteenth doctor #the fifteenth doctor #the doctor x donna #14 x donna #15 x donna #donna noble #rose noble #sylvia noble #shaun temple #melanie bush #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #catherine tate #bonnie langford #yasmin finney #tennant x tate #textpost #just couldn't contain this ep to one post #dw textpost meme

[alice-blogs-things]

Thinking about Ten standing in front of that glass booth at the end of The End Of Time part two, listening to a man who has only ever treated him like family, who is the only friend he has left, who has never stopped believing in him, tell him that he isn't worth saving, to leave him to die.

Thinking about Fourteen standing on the other side of that glass barrier in The Star Beast, listening to that same man's granddaughter, one of the most important women in his many lives, the soulmate he never expected to find again, tell him that she doesn't matter, that her life isn't worth nearly so much as everyone else's.

And thinking about Fourteen sitting across a dinner table and seeing this kid, the next generation of a family that's meant so much to him, a girl who's already been through so much... and deciding to take her on adventures, to be her weird uncle, to refuse to let another generation of this family go on thinking they're not good enough.

Wilfred Mott didn't think he was worth it. Donna Noble didn't think she was worth it. But the Doctor will be damned if he lets Rose Noble grow up to think the same, to stand on the other side of a divide and tell him not to bother with saving her life.

#doctor who #the tenth doctor #wilfred mott #the fourteenth doctor #donna noble #rose noble

[thesilverrarrow]

David Tennant, filmed & posted on TikTok by BAFTA! doesn't he just look WONDERFUL???

#david tennant #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #good omens #the doctor #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #crowley #anthony j crowley #around the world in 80 days #phileas fogg #kilgrave #jessica jones #inside man #harry watling #takin over the asylum #campbell bain #broadchurch #alec hardy #casanova #bafta awards #bafta 2024 #fright night #peter vincent

[deviatedfromtheplan]

bro had to SKEDADDLE

#he saw his new tardis and got the zoomies #doctor who #david tennant #catherine tate #the fourteenth doctor #doctor who spoilers

[robiniswriting]

donna noble consulting at unit is hilarious to me considering she’s got the doctor living in the tardis in her backyard and he’s actively trying to temporarily retire from the whole “saving humanity from the current existential alien threat” business.

the doctor asking about how her day went and donna just staring him down trying to decide whether or not she should let on that there’s some kind of invasion happening.

the doctor and donna having staring contests where they both know that he wants to go do something about the problem but donna is absolutely not going to let him.

rose comes home after school to find the doctor and donna sitting on the couch opposite each other forcefully drinking tea and engaging in the most intense version of small talk that has ever existed because they both know that if donna relents he will absolutely get involved in whatever unit-fuckery is going down on any given day.

but he’s committed to living life the slow way round (for the most part at least) and donna’s his best friend so she’s gonna help him goddammit, even if it means forcing him to sit on sylvia’s floral-patterned couch while he’s mentally bouncing off the walls with the desire to be useful.

poor rose, shaun, sylvia, and wilf are forced to bear witness to this battle of wills for the next ten to fifteen years before donna’s point — which is that we can manage without you sometimes, you idiot, you’re not the center of the universe and things don’t necessarily always fall apart just because you weren’t directly involved — finally sinks in and the doctor manages to find some semblance of chill.

(donna absolutely never admits to him how many of those crises were averted by other versions of him. she doesn’t want his ego to reinflate. they’ve been doing so well getting it to go down.)

#I love them #they are THE best friends #doctor on his therapy arc but also absolutey insufferable sometimes I REMEMBER THE POWER OF THREE. #tell me he wouldnt go crazy for a while. u cannot. #doctor who #the doctor #donna noble #donna spends all of her spare time during the doctor’s retirement making sure he stays retired #doctor who 60th anniversary #the fourteenth doctor #david tennant #catherine tate #russell t davies

[thatnerdyqueer]

HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE PEOPLE REALISE

IF DAVID TENNANT COMES UP TO YOU IN A TWINKY OUTFIT AND ASKS YOU TO RUN AWAY WITH HIM TO THE STARS

FUCKING SAY YES

BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU DONT

#doctor who #good omens #the toymaker #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #Crowley #anthony janthony crowley #ineffable husbands #the master #aziraphale #literally how many fucking times guys #14th doctor #10th doctor #when will we learn our lesson

[smoosie]

Cosmic Bond

#doctor who #donna noble #the fourteenth doctor #doctor who fanart #david tennant #the doctor #catherine tate #doctor who art #fanart #mine #tardis #I WISH THEY COULD LIVE LIKE THAT FOREVER #also it's been like 10 years since my last full digital drawing ugh it was not easy ! #that would make such great icons for me and my bestie aaaah #I'm calling the police on myself #with that funny looking police phone box hehe

[missingmoonflowers]

so I kind of liked the special

#doctor who #dw #dw 60th #the star beast #david tennant #dr who #doctor who 60th #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who special #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #14th doctor #60th anniversary #60th anniversary specials #doctor who 60th specials #dw specials

[wispedvellichor]

fucking ICONIC how David is nominated for not one but THREE BAFTAs (different categories but hes in em) and they ALL involve him being a depressed canonically genderfluid neurodivergent noodle like the BAFTA bitches were like THIS guy is getting a bafta for the first time cuz hes SO GAY and SO SAD and we love them for that

#doctor who #good omens #like of all the roles this guy has played #the doctor and crowley are the most similar #and they both get nominated?? #like ok girl we cracked the formula now #david tennant #baftas #bafta 2024 #crowley #anthony j crowley #tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

On David Tennant and Aging

So, I’ve seen a lot of posts in response to Tumblr users’ habit of affectionately calling their favorite middle aged dudes “old men”, David Tennant in particular, saying things like “clearly you’ve never met an actual old person”, “omg you talk about these guys like they’re 80”, “please be normal about people aging”, etc. And on one hand, all of these statements are objectively right and true! But as someone who’s always been really fascinated by and found a lot of beauty in getting older (which I’ve explored in some of my writing on A03 because nobody else is going to do it for me), I’d like to provide a bit more nuance on how I think this label applies to David in particular.

David, obviously, in literal terms, is not “old”, at least not to me- I don’t personally consider people old until they get past 60. 52 is middle aged, simple as that. And yet, when I see David stuck with the “old man” label, it still somehow feels weirdly right, for a number of reasons.

It annoys me so much when people say David “hasn’t aged a day since Doctor Who”, because, well…

He clearly has. A lot. He’s got forehead creases, deep crows’ feet and eyebags, and I think that post-Fourteen we’re gonna see him rocking the grey temples a LOT more. He also has the voice of an older man now, his upper range is still there but the default is much more deep and rich, with a gravelly, rumbling quality that just goes straight through you. I personally think Broadchurch was when David finally started to embrace looking his age- Alec Hardy just wouldn’t have been served by Ten’s fresh-faced boyishness.

Obviously, these are the kinds of changes you’d expect any 52-year-old man to have, but something about David just makes it all seem a bit more… intense? The expressiveness of his face combined with his almost gaunt frame makes his wrinkles very prominent, and when he works his voice to its emotional extremes, his lower register can sound positively ancient, to devastating effect.

David, I think, is someone with an old soul- I don’t think he could be as good as he is at playing ancient characters like Crowley and The Doctor if he weren’t. He has lived so many lives, given so much of himself to so many characters, often incredibly tragic ones, and I think it wears on him. David also has five kids. FIVE. Do you know how exhausting it is to be one of the hardest working actors alive and be a present, loving father to even ONE child? But David somehow does it anyway! Nowadays I see him and my heart breaks because he looks so tired, so weary and fragile. But he’s all the more beautiful for it to me because I know that that is because he is kind. He’s a deeply empathetic person who feels and lives to the absolute fullest, and that story is written so clearly on his face, along with every other story he has ever been a part of.

There’s other things about David that make the label endearingly fitting- his utter hopelessness when it comes to technology, for instance. And he’s just got that warm, wise, grandpa energy too sometimes- look at that above Fourteen picture and tell me I’m wrong!

I once showed my friend who’d only seen David in Doctor Who and Harry Potter a picture of David from Around The World in 80 Days. It was a particularly emotional scene, and his face had just the most beautiful expression of compassion and sadness, every wrinkle on full display. And she said, in a less than complimentary fashion, “he looks so old!” Which, of course, offended me quite a bit at first. But to me, referring to David as old almost feels like a badge of honor, something he’s earned by living fully and selflessly, working hard and being wise and compassionate beyond his years. I think David himself is secretly more than a little insecure about the fact that he’s getting older. There’s sadness behind every jovially self-depreciating remark he’s made about his age in the past year, particularly in comparing himself to Ncuti Gatwa. I know how much David struggles with his impostor syndrome and how people perceive him, and I can clearly see in his eyes the fear of being discarded, the anxiety he feels about if he’ll still be as loved as he was back in 2007 now that he’s closer in age to King Lear than he is to Romeo. So I hope David knows it’s a privilege to watch him grow older, to watch his soul and talents deepen with the crinkles around his eyes. If I, in my silly goofy tumblr girl-ness, call David Tennant an old man, it’s because it’s a label that suits him beautifully- even if it isn’t TECHNICALLY an accurate one yet.

#David tennant #doctor who #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #good omens #crowley #shakespeare #around the world in 80 days #phileas fogg #pro aging #growing old

[variousqueerthings]

it's just so !!!!!!!!! that DT is currently in the niche of 50-something year old guy playing genderless/full Creatures that are running around with limbs that can't possibly be that long and crawling up walls and having simply the worst days of their lives expressed through heartbreaking yet muppet-like expressions and being set on fire, what have we done to deserve this blessed state of events?

#david tennant #doctor who #good omens #the fourteenth doctor #the doctor #anthony jemima crowley #crowley #i think he should do this again in some constellation i think he's found the ultimate role

[mindibindi]

The Doctor (having yet another mid-chase identity crisis): If you take away my arrogant certainty, my fix-all sonic screwdriver, my magic TARDIS, my regenerating Timelord genes, who even am I?

Donna (used to mid-chase identity crises now that she has all her memories): My Favourite Martian? My new housecat? The skinny weirdo I let live in my garden in exchange for him putting the bins out? I dunno. Come home, have a decent meal and we'll figure it out.

#dr who #doctor who #dw #dw 60th #dw specials #dw spoilers #the 14th doctor #the fourteenth doctor #the doctor x donna #14 x donna #donna noble #catherine tate #david tennant #who'd have thought this was not just another moment of the doctor being insecure #they DID take away all those things (sort of) and now he gets to figure out exactly who is without them