#ten/simm

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

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

#jack harkness #captain jack harkness #meta #tenjack #ninejack #ninejackrose #ninerosejack #nine x jack x rose #ten x jack #the face of boe #tenth doctor #ninth doctor #thirteenth doctor #thirteenjack #thirteen x jack #i still have a lot of feelings about this man #janto #ianto jones #his story SHOULD BE TRAGIC and in a lot of ways it is but it also beautiful and optimistic about the strength of love and the human spirit #jack devoted himself to the doctor and was spat out but he welcomed it #simm!master

[mobius-m-mobius]

#thought that sounded familiar 💀

#fourteenth doctor #the toymaker #simm!master #dwedit #doctor who #david tennant #john simm #neil patrick harris #doctor who spoilers #wasn't expecting to gif anything BUT #the part of me that will always be tumblr user johnsimms watched him give this exact speech to the toymaker with a hand over my mouth lmaoo #like the biggest part of ten that carried over was being a hussy huh 🤧🤧 #and when my dude is a TOOTH?? golden but still 😭 #seen enough dw to know teeth probably have ears so the doctor's gonna deserve that welcome home cheater banner waiting in the wings #fourteen #the master #dw spoilers #dianagifs #jsimmedit #dtennantedit

[neptunefairytales]

Timelords can communicate by telepathy for long distances! This way they don't have to be close!

Those two specific Timelords at every possible occasions:

(*somewhere Rassilon is clutching their pearls* XD)

#doctor who #otp #thoschei #ten #twelve #thirteen #the master #missy #david tennant #jodie whittaker #peter capaldi #sacha dhawan #michelle gomez #john simm #fandom #lgbtq #lol #life #my art #random

[nethnad]

thinking about time lords and their fucked up little society again and i just realized how devastating the revelation of the drums in the end of time is in relation to the master's character.

because of all the renegade time lords in the universe, i think it's the master who most exemplifies the philosophical outlook that the time lords have towards the rest of the universe. they're stuffy observers, administrators, yes - but this position is one they've decided for themselves because of this concept of supremacy over other life forms. imposed and upheld this idea that other species that lack a time sense are less-than, primitive. and the master buys into this hard.

and i mean... compared to the doctor, the master is good at being a time lord. he buys into these supremacist concepts, this idea that every other species (and especially humans) is practically a meaningless ant in the grand scheme of the universe. takes it to the extreme, yes, but its the same underlying principle. he's a good student (despite whatever chibnall might think) - that one time lord from terror of the autons (identity forever a mystery) (its brax) even says "he did receive a higher degree of cosmic science than you." the master could play their game if he wanted to. he's remarkably comfortable with being on gallifrey/the idea of gallifrey(in eot/tlotl) than the doctor ever is. where the doctor avoids the subject of the lord presidency like the plague, the master is like "well if you kill the president you ARE the president! and then you have all of gallifrey!" and when the doctor destroys gallifrey (nominally), the master tries to rebuild it in the sound of drums/last of the time lords. tries to emulate their society. honor them in his little fucked up way. he brings them back from the time war!

and what does he get for it? how did the time lords treat him in response?

they decide to implant the sound of drums in his head, stretching back until he's a child. puts this insufferable noise, this splitting headache, in his head for his entire life. all so that they may live while he dies. because he is diseased, because of them. he has swallowed the pill, bought their propaganda, he has followed the rules, he tried to rebuild them he tried. and in response he is chewed up and spit out like trash so that rassilon's god complex can survive while the universe crumbles.

how crushing must that be to someone? to have your whole worldview - that you are better, you are chosen, you are special - come crumbling down in a few short moments? to see the revered founder-god of the civilization you have so desperately tried to revive look at you and say "you are diseased," even though he was the one to poison you in the first place?

and as his heart is torn to pieces... when rassilon says "no more," and charges his gauntlet, the master - who has spent countless lives fighting death with his bare hands - does not move.

part of me thinks he does not want to.

#and this is why i think if the master didn't get vacuumed into the time war in eot he would have had a mid-mid-mid-life crisis #and then probably just traveled with the doctor to do some gay soul searching #you gotta hold on to something when your entire worldview just got smashed to pieces. might as well be your sad wet cat of a boyfriend #he burns down a small village one day and ten is like finally... nature is healing... #i have an essay due uhhh negative a week ago but this thought grabbed my brain and would not let go #simm!master #the master #doctor who #dw #time lords #tensimm #<- mentioned in tags #may be lowkey incomprehensible i wrote this at one am

[spacerelativity]

nine!simm!master

#horrific: the time war turned you into your own worst enemy #this version of the master would be so full of rage it would be Actually fucking scary. i think simm!doctor woukld piss himself #can you guys choose if his doctor would be simm or ten? #my art #doctor who #ninth doctor #simm!master #the master #swap au #fanart #dw #also new pfp for me i think

[ten-simm]

Time Lords and humans having essentialy distinct ways of displaying intimacy.

This is just a personal headcanon of mine. But considering one of the fundamental characterizations of Time Lords surrounds intellectuality, psyche, the construction of the mind, etc, it's reasonable to infer that their way of establishing affinity and how they percieve relationships and bonding in general is likely tied to the same principle - as such, physical contact almost not being used as a form of expressing affection, since they value much more the mental aspect and its understanding when related to another person.

Following this sense, forming a psychic/telephatic connection with another Time Lord can possibly be seen in Gallifrey as a much more intimate contact than what kissing is to humans. Or something else.

#this is just my long-winded way of saying in this scene they were fu- #also the master pressing their foreheads when he could have just placed his fingers on ten's temples #totally not sus #on the original script is also written that the master pulled him in “gently” #can they just get a room #tensimm #thoschei #best enemies #doctor who #10th doctor #tenth doctor #simm!master

[icecappen]

Just the two of us

#We can make it if we try- oh wait #tensimm #doctor who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #simm!master #simm master #doctor who fanart #icey art #thoschei #I still like tens expression lol bro is in emotional agony #but what else is new

[unnamednarrat0r]

#doctor who #simm!master #thoschei #tensimm #ten #tenth doctor #the master

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

You could stop this right now. We could leave this planet. // So come with me. Leave this tiny world.

+ bonus:

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #the master #the toymaker #david tennant #john simm #neil patrick harris #ncuti gatwa #ten's insanity moments tho. and the shift between him thinking he 'won' vs 14th and 15th winning

[notsimplysusurrus]

My toxic trait is if the Master tried to kill me, I’d find it hot

#mod fiver #ten!simm #thoschei #the master

[libakarm]

#doctor who #dr who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #rose tyler #tenrose #simm!master #tensimm #thoschei #meme #shitpost #doctor who meme #i can be your angle or yuor devil meme #the doctor is genderfluid obvs #but i also think ten's gender changes depending on his partner's <3 #2024

[mintedwitcher]

Honestly I think Missy should've told Simm!Master that she made out with Twelve. There's absolutely no narrative purpose for it, but I think it would've been funny to see Simm!Master react to that.

#doctor who #twissy #thoschei #doctor x master #simm!master missed out by dying on ten #i mean... ten was obviously down for it.... #missy #simm!master #gomez!master

[mobius-m-mobius]

#Sir Derek Jacobi is just gonna keep getting away with it huh 😔 (insp)

#doctor who #good omens #david tennant #john simm #michael sheen #derek jacobi #aziraphale #crowley #tenth doctor #the master #the metatron #good omens 2 #bless text posts bc this popped into my head while watching too but i often forget i can gif any ridiculous things i want lmao #would've loved more of jacobi!master except him immediately finding ten hot like oh OKAY two can play at this game is so valid 🤧 #don't get me started on the horrifying look from the metatron btw it gave me actual chills #(and no john didn't really need to be in this but previously being user johnsimms lives on in my heart so yes he did 💖) #good omens spoilers #dwedit #goodomensedit #dianagifs #gos2spoilers #flashing cw

[avengedbiologist]

The girls ✌️

#ever since i saw that lame ass ten+simm post i had to do this #i want everyone to know that the TCE makes me want to beat the shit out the master #girl it looks phallic and u know jt #anywho #the girls 🫶 #doctor who #classic doctor who #fifth doctor #peter davison #the master #doctor who the master #ainley!master #Anthony ainley

[frvmewxrk]

high school tensimm au except they’re both unbearable losers.

ten is a science geek that spends 23 hours a day in a laboratory, sucks at every subject that isn’t a scientific one but somehow manages to pass the classes, teachers and students hate him because he’s just always raising his hand to say shit and sometimes he doesn’t even do that, he just says stuff out loud when someone else is supposed to answer AND ITS NOT EVEN ALWAYS CORRECT. he chainsmokes cigarettes when he’s working, he wears glasses even though he doesn’t need them because he thinks they give him a hot look but he looks even more nerdy than before, he wears a suit to school and cmon who does that?! yet somehow all the girls seem to fall for him, at least to flirt and kiss him, just to get dumped after the first month of dating.

the master is just the rich petty kid you have in your class that somehow manages to get good grades even if he’s subtly insulting the teachers in their faces, there is no subject he’s not good at. he looks down on people for dressing badly (although he mostly wears a black sweatshirt to school too), he thinks his family name opens the door to everything in his life, he tries to do everything to get extra credits, he insults people who aren’t good at subjects he redeems as “easy”. he fucks people when he’s bored, he drinks alcohol right after school and calls it a “pre-party” for the evening, he likes the feeling of getting beat up, he has a thing for trying to make pathetic older men submit to him.

and together they just make the most insufferable couple. they spend a day literally sucking each other’s face off in class and then the next day they avoid each other like the plague - just to make out against a wall in the garden at the end of the school day both with a black eye and a few more scars. they skip classes together and fuck in the janitors closet, they smoke in the bathroom and blame other kids if the alarm goes off, the master sometimes puts ounces of vodka in the doctor’s water bottle so he microdoses for like two weeks before the master takes it off and leaves him feeling odd for a month, the master seems completely aware of the doctor’s past stories with other girls but makes comments that have people thinking he’s going to murder them soon, the doctor once went on a full hour rant at a party about how he is the only one the master will ever need and he’ll fix him up by curing him and making him a sane person with his infinite care (and then threw up on the ground). they’re just silly.

#tenth doctor #10th doctor #ten doctor #david tennant #john simm #simm master #simm!master #the master #tensimm #thoschei #high school #au #alternate universe #they’re crazy #don’t blame me #my pookie

[bugbugboy]

I get it.

#im (not) sorry for my behaviour recently ive been rewatching ten #he is a cutie #when he's blonde #the trim before was not it luv #doctor who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #the master #dw #david tennant #john simm #simm!master #tensimm