nuwho’s toxic companion&doctor relationship level: if you don’t bring my boyfriend back from the dead i’ll throw this key in lava and lock you out of your home forever
classic who’s toxic companion&doctor relationship level: i will run a scientific experiment on you without your knowledge or consent that you could’ve died during and defend myself when you threaten to leave me. okay let’s never talk about this again
big finish’s toxic companion&doctor relationship level: i despise you for following me to the place i went to die alone. you are nothing to me but a reminder of mortality because i, monster that i am, need it. let’s hold hands so tight and for so long our skin begins to fuse, because i can’t live without you, because i want to no longer know what is you and what is me and be comforted by our sole identity, because i love you
ME ACTUALLY TWEAKING RN WHEN I SAW A WHOUFFALDI EDIT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE AND REMEMBER THE DOCTOR SPENT 4 AND A HALF BILLION YEARS IN HIS OWN PERSONAL HELL FOR CLARA AND I JUST FORGOT ABOUT THAT????? FOR ALMOST A MONTH???? I MOVED ON WHEN HE DIDNT.
Feeling sick thinking about all the times in Doctor Who that someone denies the laws of the universe because they loved another person....Rose saving her dad after being warned about what it could do, her dimension jumping to find the Dr again, the Dr throwing himself out of the universe so Amy can have her family back, Amy remembering him (and everyone else) back into existence, River refusing to kill the Dr, 12 refusing to let Clara die...saying this love will destroy the universe time and time again...
Controversial Character Tournament Round 2: Natsuki Subaru from Re:Zero vs Clara Oswin Oswald from Doctor Who
(remember that these characters are fictional and your fellow tumblr users are real. i will block you if you harass others in the notes, please consider sending your unhinged harassment to my inbox instead)
Propaganda under the cut, may contain spoilers:
Natsuki Subaru:
LOVE:
- "look his only crime is being somewhat annoying and starting on that incel mindset at the beginning of the story (he gets better, but I won't deny his view of women in the beginning is bad). But he's also a fucking kid going through so so much, and actually being really heroic and growing as a person and unlearning all that toxic shit and learning to love himself and interact with others in a healthy way to build good relationships and he's doing his best ok! He's endearing and wonderfully kind at heart and if you hate him your wrong, ok?"
Clara Oswin Oswald:
LOVE:
- "Clara is a brilliant character because she is an immensely flawed person. Yes, she is kind and smart and generally trying to do the right thing. But she is also vain and self-righteous and overconfident and incredibly selfish when it comes to people she loves. And the thing is, it's not only her, but she rubs off on the Doctor, too, making him selfish in turn when it comes to her. There are a number of people who hate her character because they describe her as a 'pretty lady who can do anything and thinks the show is about her' and you want to shake them and say 'that's the point! You fell for it, now see that!'. Because 'pretty lady who can do anything' is exactly what Clara thinks she is. And she also thinks the show is about her. But it's not who she is. Yes, she is good, brilliant even. And yes she is very much like the Doctor (if only because she is just as good at bullshitting). But she's still human and humanly fragile to go with it. And that's her downfall in the end and God this character is just brilliantly executed and extremely consequent (at least series 8 and onward) and you could technically tell where she will end up from the beginning but you can't because she blinds you. Like, I don't even know whether I LIKE her but I want to put her under the microscope and study her like a bug. She's fascinating."
HATE:
- "I just don’t like her"
tbh clara could be split a billion times across the doctors timeline and id be like yeah this fucks it's literally only annoying bc she exists to "save the doctor" like there couldve been so many other reasons most importantly why couldnt it just be a mistake. can we pls explain big plot things with mistakes again i love mistakes. fucking. what was the entire buildup of bad wolf for oh yeah rose saw the tardises pussy and became god! ! ! !! uh oh ! oopsie doopsie ! ! this is poetic cinema
the impossible leninist church as yet another one of the twelfth doctor's mirrors
these two shots from before the flood come back to back. one after the other
he is unwavering faith and belief in the impossible and repentance and strict moral code and guilt and confession and trust and foresight and transcendence and surrender
he is rationality and control and conscience and materialism and skepticism and historicity and atheism and truth and dignity and survival and victory (the red block lettering on the poster says "pobedim" — "we will be victorious")
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the friend inside the enemy and the enemy inside the friend. the scientist and the magician. the priest and the folk hero and the reluctant politician. call him doctor dialectics