sorry sorry sorry i'm just thinking about torchwood-era jack during boom town.
imagine there's this guy that you're in love with, and for the first time in 150 years you know exactly where he is. imagine there's also this girl you're in love with, and you know that if you don't see her right now, you might never see her again. when you last saw them, you sort of hoped that you would, that maybe you'd pick back up exactly where you last spoke. but surely if they wanted to find you, they would have by now, right?
so there's this guy and this girl, and you're absolutely fucked, because there's nothing you want to do more than run up to them and hug them. grab the guy by the shoulders and snog him senseless, and then maybe knock him on his ass. you want to grab him and beg him to help you, because you've been pegging all your hopes on this one guy, thinking maybe he can save you. but if he can, he probably can't just yet, because the thing that fucked you up hasn't even happened, and even if he could fix you, you can't cross paths with that timeline because that might cause the universe to end or something – you never know with these things.
and what you really really want to do (because by now, you're used to the dying, used to the living, used to the useless longing) is to ask them why the hell they left you behind. you want to think it was an accident – because like i said, if it were deliberate, they would have come for you – but that doesn't stop you from being scared that it wasn't. and even if it was, would you even fit with them anymore, these people who you love so fiercely? you're older now, with new loves and new metaphorical scars. you're terrified that these past versions of the people you adore would look at you like a monster. so you can't possibly go to them, and you can't possibly ask the question. they wouldn't know the answer anyway.
and anyway, it's all academic, because alien-catching is hard enough without the impending end of the universe to take into consideration.
so there's this guy that you're in love with, and for the first time in 150 years you know exactly where he is. there's nothing you can do about it except hope it doesn't take another 150 for him to come round again. it's one of the worst days you've had in a while.
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The way that Jack, Rose, and Nine feel far more like a poly trio in late Season 1 rather than any sort of love triangle is INSANE. The vibes are FERAL and IMMACULATE. The kisses in Parting of the Ways. The sharing-story banter in Boom Town. The flirting. "Buy me a drink." "Continue on with whatever you were doing." The dancing. Jack dancing with Rose. Rose dancing with Nine. Nine offering Jack a dance. Everything Ninerose related. "Before you, I was a coward." The fact that Jack only makes sure that Rose is safe before dying for them, Rose brings him back to life, Nine's every interaction with either of them in the finale...honestly the way that Ten interacts with Jack in Utopia (ESPECIALLY the scene in the radiation room/Jack's reaction to hearing Rose is alive) makes even more sense if you realize that he and Jack are exes and that they once loved each other and Rose equally and then the Tenth Doctor WRECKED that by leaving Jack behind
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reducing jack to just bad queer rep is so wild to me like were u guys alive in the 2000s. here is a time travelling faggot he is hypermasculine and shamelessly effeminite and has one of the most bitterly brave death scenes u have ever witnessed in ur young life oh wait he can never die. they invented a poof who could never die
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literally its fucking crazy that they introduced jack and were like "yeah so his former employer stole two years of his memories. also thats not his real name" and not ONCE in the entire time he was on tv over the course of 54 episodes did they ever think of explaining literally a single nother detail about any of that
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‘fourteen is the first canonically bisexual doctor’ captain jack harkness did not have a tender kiss with both nine and rose for you to slander his name like this
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