#*DW

[northernfireart]

you guys ask and i provide:]

#more goddess Rose it is #finally something i kinda like out of all the things i did this month #was thinking of alphonse mucha when making this #feeling a little regretful about rushing this and not spending at least a few days because i think i could make the details work #but eeeehhh whatevs it looks good anyway just in a different way #trying to have fun again #doctor who #dw fanart #dw #dr who #doctor who fanart #Rose Tyler #bad wolf #northernfire art

[gallifreyanhotfive]

for a hot second I did mistake your icon to be those bitches from good omens XD

LMAOOOO

#this brought me much amusement thank u #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #fifth doctor #anthony ainley #ainley!master #good omens #aziraphale #crowley

[doverstar]

it will always bother me that in the year of our Lord 1963, Susan said she made up the initials for the TARDIS, but that apparently every single other person on her planet and all over the universe for some reason call all of those ships TARDISes. they don’t have another name for it. Type 40 TARDIS. stole a TARDIS. did Susan name all of them? was Susan there at the conceptualization of the first one? why. why-

#use your writing powers to EXPLAIN THAT please chibnall. rtd. moffat. #can we stop trying to explain the doctor’s origins and start tying up 60-year-old loose ends that actually matter #let the TARDIS take priority people #she carries this show on her back #susan foreman #doctor #doctor who #the tardis #tardis #classic who #nuwho #new who #dw #opinion piece #text post #doverstar’s thoughts #first doctor #first doctor era

[thefiresofpompeii]

thank god the effects are still terrible the beatles look nothing like themselves and the new DWM cover looks like it was designed by a 12 year old in clip art. ncuti is out there in a new teaser proclaiming himself the last of the time lords. a street in cardiff was recently plastered with incredibly obvious DON’T WORRY TRUST THE GOVERNMENT posters and some fascist guy named conrad demanding the people keep their heads up. bird monsters are infiltrating regency england. anyone feel 2005 in the air tonight? disney money can’t touch a thing <3

#you can’t scrub the crap from the shitshow babes xx #doctor who #the devil’s chord #fifteenth doctor #fifteen #ncuti gatwa #ninth doctor #christopher eccleston #russell t davies #dw #doctor who series 14 #jamie.txt #ruby sunday #rose tyler

[cheeseakaironbird]

#dw #8th doctor #doctor who #doctormaster #roberts!master #thoschei #eightroberts

[mndvx]

bbcdoctorwho "I would love it if you came with me" ❤️❤️

#dw #doctor who #ncuti gatwa #millie gibson #14th doctor #ruby sunday

[majormisunderstanding]

Original sketch for K-9 by BBC Visual Effects designer Tony Harding, 1977.

#doctor who #k-9 #k9 #dw #fourth doctor #bbc #dr who #dr who art #science fiction #doctor who companions #sketch

[dooweeedooguy]

alr i noticed this whole ago i thought id share it with y'all anyone notice that the 13th doctor's coat for her tux looks a lot like it couldve been one of the 12th doctor's old coats, in-universe? like it has the iconic red lining of his and not to mention it being a bit oversized for 13

(here're two more pics of 13 from her first ep in 12's coat and 12 from The Lie of The Land for comparison)

#doctor who #the doctor #the 13th doctor #the thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #the 12th doctor #the twelfth doctor #spyfall #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #dw #dooweeedooguy

[doctorfriend79]

Blink

#Doctor Who #DW #David Tennant #Tenth Doctor #Weeping Angel #Weeping Angels #Series Three #Tennant Tuesday

[interestingturnofthetables]

Do you think that one night in the Temple-Noble household, curled up under a blanket on the couch with half empty mugs of hot chocolate cooling down on the coffee table, Donna and The Doctor got to talking about all the things she’d missed in the others long life? In the time they spent without her? In the time they spent before her?

Do you think Donna asked about all the people they knew before they’d met each other? All the other Martha’s and Melanie’s, and Rose’s?

Do you think they told her about what happened to them all? How they left them, how they lost them?

Do you think when they got to Jamie and Zoe, Donna felt a sudden deep sorrow in her chest? Because she knows how they felt after losing someone you can’t possibly remember. She knows how that empty space festers within your mind and how it spreads to every part of who you are until you’re not even certain if there was ever a time this *thing* wasn’t missing?

But she got to remember all of it. And she knows that they didn’t. She knows that they spent the rest of their lives with that deafening black hole within themselves. Not knowing how to fill it to satisfy its all encompassing abyss. Maybe they remembered on some level. Maybe their memories of their time together, even erased from their grasp, impacted the way they acted, the way they treated life. Or maybe they really were just snapped back and left with a festering nothingness that they tried to ignore the best they could, like there was something there all along.

Do you think she chooses not to tell The Doctor this just yet? Because their hot chocolates are getting colder, and they’re falling asleep on her shoulder mumbling of all the happy times and adventures they had with those two all those centuries ago. And she couldn’t bare to take that from them. Not now. Not tonight.

She’s partially sure they know anyway. That they’re choosing to pass over that detail of their departure for her own sake. That they’re the one who chose not to tell. Not tonight. Maybe not ever.

#idk what this is #but I made myself really sad #I just think Donna and Jamie & Zoe have a lot in common #and she would see that and feel sorry they couldn’t get the ending she did #donna noble #14th doctor #fourteenth doctor #jamie mccrimmon #zoe heriot #doctor who #classic who #dw

[thedemonastrophel]

My assessment of the doctors (Nu Who) based off cat/dog vibes

9- Silly, loves everyone, verdict: Golden Retriever

10- Has the zoomies, not a thought behind those eyes, verdict: Australian Shepherd

11- Also very lovey to people, this man could blow up the universe (I mean they all could but he might actually do it) verdict: German Shepherd

12- Likes very specific people, will antagonize their friends, verdict: Black cat

13- So very silly, no brain cell/aff, verdict: Orange Cat

14- A bit grumpy, loves his people, verdict: Tuxedo cat

15- Friendly, very silly, verdict: Siberian husky

Although if anyone has different opinions please tell me I'm very curious

#my little space weirdo <3 #doctor who #ninth doctor #9th doctor #christopher eccleston #tenth doctor #10th doctor #david tennant #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #matt smith #twelfth doctor #12th doctor #peter capaldi #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #fourteenth doctor #14th doctor #david tennet #fifteenth doctor #15th doctor #ncuti gatwa #Dw #Dog/cat vibes

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

the thing that kills me about this upcoming beatles episode is that in all those 'proof doctor who is real!!!!' compilations they ALWAYS include that pic of the beatles with an unidentified man who kinda sorta looks like matt smith, and like, if they don't reference that at all, then what was this all for

#dw #doctor who #matt smith #11th doctor #15th doctor #molly mumbles #lmao

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The Haunting of Villa Diodati where everything is the same except Paul McGann is in the background going on a rampage and screaming himself hoarse about Frankenstein

#doctor who #dw #dr who #new who #eighth doctor #big finish #big finish doctor who #big finish audios #thirteenth doctor #paul mcgann #yasmin khan #ryan sinclair #graham o'brien #mary shelley #mary's story #they had an opportunity to bring back 8 here and they didnt

[millerdoc]

#peter capaldi #doctor who #twelfth doctor #12th doctor #the doctor #twelve #dw #black & white #black and white

[thefiresofpompeii]

the doctor arrives in the middle of a warzone and says: “give it time, everywhere’s a beach eventually” . and suddenly his inconceivable age becomes evident: he’s more of a geological process than a man. erosion is an inevitability

the gentle tide will lap at the landmines on the sand and smooth them into seaglass. no conflict lasts. that profoundly alien, eternal perspective demonstrated in just one line — ruby realises this person has seen everything and knows better than any of us that in the end all is sand and water and story and stillness

as you’ve probably already figured out, this is from BOOM. once again moffat appreciators how are we doing this fine evening

#licks the crumbs of pre-released dialogue from the palm of DWM like a wild horse #sorry for dramatising 1 sentence i’m insane (positive) #also the. anyone else getting a thasmin-in-lotsd vibe from this exchange? ‘you promised me a beach’ #doctor who #boom #doctor who series 14 #doctor who season 1 #ncuti gatwa #millie gibson #steven moffat #ruby sunday #fifteen #fifth doctor #dw #doctor who magazine #jamie.txt

[reachexceedinggrasp]

Danny 'I don't do weird' Pink frustrates me as a character, because I'm honestly not sure whether he was supposed to have an arc or not.

His primary role is as a foil for Clara's arc and, in aid of that, as a mirror to the Doctor. A solider with survivor's guilt and a man of action who can't stand by when people need help etc., in some ways he and the Doctor have a lot in common, but he's also a very grounded and circumspect personality versus the Doctor's being fantastical and adventurous. Danny isn't curious and doesn't want to pursue new things or experiences, instead he wants to be fully present with and grateful for what he already has. The Doctor is incorrigibly curious and always interested in new things.

Danny is someone who desires nothing more than an ordinary life, and looks for beauty and satisfaction in the normal things and people around him. He wants his world to be small and quiet, he values the mundane things others might take for granted. He's normal, patient, dependable, simple, honest, etc. His reaction to trauma hasn't been to disavow the things which lead him to that event, or to seek out stimulation to avoid thinking about it, it's to be thoughtful and cautious and somewhat rigid so he can always apply the mindset and skills he retained from before he was traumatised.

He's very firm and unbending in his worldview and in his self-image. He doesn't seem to ever reassess people once he's decided what he thinks of them. He's not unreasonable or unwilling to compromise, he is in fact maybe too reasonable, but he is implastic. He's extremely even-tempered except for around his identity as a soldier, which he's prickly about, but still pretty quick to let it go as long as he's not being deliberately antagonised.

So anyway Danny represents this other path, and this opposite response to the horror of war and making a catastrophic mistake, but he never learns, he never grows and he and Clara are never much on the same wavelength about anything. He's supposed to be stability, the things she 'should' want, the 'person she's supposed to like', the safe choice, the presentable life which Clara feels like she has to have. He's orderly and ordinary and that's what she wants from him. She has to control her image, her future, and her options.

And their simple relationship, once it exists, functions well as the contrast to her complicated and tumultuous relationship with the Doctor while the companion power dynamic is being dismantled and rebuilt so they can be emotional equals. But like, the set up is confusingly executed.

Listen- they have zero chemistry, they have nothing to talk about and have to resort to talking about work, every conversation goes instantly off the rails, they rub each other the wrong way, there is never any reason for them to keep reconciling and trying again to connect. Like. You are not hitting it off! and keep offending each other bc you're not compatible! Quit!!

Clara is forcing it, that makes complete sense with what she's going through, she's trying to take control of her life and her emotions, trying to prove to herself she's not pining for the Doctor and at the mercy of his whims for her life to be full and complete. She doesn't want to need him or to be dependant on him. She doesn't want to be the heartbroken sadsack whom he abandoned at Christmas or who will take whatever scraps he'll throw her. She wants to control his position in her life and control how she feels about him. Hence her assigning him a specific day and confining their adventures on her own terms. She's trying to keep the Doctor compartmentalised. Having an Appropriate Human Relationship means she's successfully put the Doctor in his box (lol) and neutralised the chaotic power of her feelings for him. I mean, obviously not, but that's what she tells herself.

But what is Danny doing? Why does he keep pursuing this when it's so clearly not a good match?

Again in Listen, and much more so The Caretaker, Danny illustrates that he does not know who Clara is, he's wildly wrong about her and what she's like, and he's very high handed about it as well. He's convinced that the Doctor is taking advantage of her, that the Doctor is domineering in their relationship, that she is not a person who wants to be put into challenging or dangerous positions, that the Doctor is pushing her to takes risks and become a leader where that's not her nature. None of this is true. Clara was always a decisive, assertive, strongly driven person who seeks out new experiences and naturally assumes a leadership role any time that's necessary; she relishes being challenged and facing the unknown. Her blow up with the Doctor wasn't about him 'pushing her too far', it was about him failing to support her when she needed him and condescending to her as a human rather than treating her with the intimacy and equity their bond and history together demands. It's personal and it's about their emotional relationship. It's not about making hard choices, it's about having to make hard choices without her partner being honest with and emotionally available to her.

Clara was always an adventurous person, willing to be spontaneous as long as it's on her terms, and excited by the prospect of authority and responsibility. The danger and challenge isn't an unfortunate side effect or a risk she has to take to see amazing sights, it's part of the appeal. She lied to Danny by omission when she said she went off in the box to 'see wonders', not just because the real reason is that she's in love with Doctor, but also because she doesn't just want to be a tourist. She wants to get involved and save people, she wants things to sometimes go pear shaped. She enjoys and craves that part of it too.

Danny is also wildly wrong about the Doctor, but this is understandable and would be fine except that he's never corrected? He never learns better? What's the point?

In Death in Heaven Danny goes out still wrong about the Doctor, still condemning him cruelly and unfairly while knowing nothing about him. He had a point with his original rant, there was actual insight there, but it's buried in assumptions and bitterness and then Danny keeps tripling down on the assumption. The one which doesn't understand that the very thing he's shitting on the Doctor for (being willing to lead and make hard choices which must be made in order to save people) is something the Doctor has in common with Clara. And always has. The Doctor didn't change her or push her into that, that's who she's always been.

What is the point of Danny calling him a blood-soaked general and mocking him, calling him an officer as a pejorative again, and again because the Doctor is trying to save the planet. Like, memory check, that's what Danny is mad about. The Doctor doing everything in his power to save literal billions of lives. Doing it for no reason, out of altruism. Doing it while always trying very hard not to fight or kill anyone.

I don't understand how we're meant to find Danny sympathetic in that moment, because he comes off like a complete dickhead. And it's all the more frustrating because in the intervening episodes Danny has been eminently reasonable. As I've discussed before, we're exhaustively shown that Danny is 100% okay with what Clara claims is going on, that he doesn't want to get in the way of her friendship with the Doctor, that if it really were only the relationship she's pretending it is, there would be no conflict. He's the one who encourages her to make up with him after Kill the Moon! He tells her to go on travelling and it's fine!

Even when he discovers she's been lying to him and cavorting with the Doctor behind his back (again despite him telling her it was fine!), he's calm and repeats for the millionth time that all he wants from her is honesty. The truth. Which is the one thing she can't give him because Clara knows their relationship is built on the lie. The truth is, as Moffatt said, that Danny never stood a chance. There is a conflict between the two relationships and she's always going to choose the Doctor.

And that does come out, she gives the whole speech to Danny, not knowing it's him, finally being honest. And he seems unsurprised by it, which makes sense because on some level he definitely always knew ('do you love him?' 'no' 'really sick of the lies'), but then nothing comes of it. Clara just soldiers on and he allows her to pretend. He goes off on the Doctor, but not in a way he actually deserves at all, and just sweeps her confession under the carpet. Letting her get away with it again. True to form, I guess! he always did. But shouldn't we make progress?

And it's like... I hate that he dies on that note. It feels like he dies in denial. I guess you could argue it contributes to his decision to not come back, but that feels like a disservice to the character. Saving the kid is important to Danny, it allows him to atone but he didn't need to change or grow to accomplish that and it doesn't provide closure to his actual role in the narrative, which was as Clara's foil. Clara is off the hook, free to go on lying to herself about their relationship. It's not addressed in Last Christmas, either, it's only hinted at.

#clara oswald #whouffaldi #dw #twelfth doctor #dw meta #I feel a constant need to remind people that the first thing Danny asks after Clara explains who the Doctor is #is 'do you love him?' #it's that transparent #and he asks already knowing the answer and immediately calling bullshit when she denies it #and apparently accepts this as not a threat to him on the basis of the Doctor being an untouchable alien incapable of loving her back #like as if she had a crush on a dragon or the Great Wall of China #I can't tell if that speaks to his lack of self worth or if it's just really patronising #I appreciate In the Forests of the Night so much for the scene where he finally realises he should be jealous #but then he's just Extremely Reasonable about it again #he has total faith in his idea of who Clara is- utter conviction #and it's completely misplaced #I feel owed the psychological fallout from this is all I'm saying #calling this meta is being very generous bc did I even say anything #but whatever it's a bunch of words I'll put it in the box with the other words #I've realised 95% of my whouffaldi meta is in tags on gifsets so