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vaelerius · 1 year

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Thirteen in ‘Kerblam!’

I think you came here with a plan, but you didn't expect to fall in love. But that's what happens.

#doctor who #dw #dw edit #dwedit #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #va-dw #i know a lot of people don't like this episode but i love it #13 fez supremacy crew unite #the way 13 looks at yaz at the end of the episode in the tardis melts my heart 🥺#va-gifs

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rearranging-deck-chairs · 4 days

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looking at the 13 era books and audios like do we have to do everything our fucking selves around here

#at the same time. yes let me do everything my fucking self bc if they let real writers do it theyll get it wrong #they dont get them like we get them #but at the same time also. 3 books 6 years ago #helloooo #i want more 'sorry abt his outfit :/' dan yaz shenanigans pleaaaaseeeeeeee #we've got at least 10 months of yaz and 13 solo and at least 6 months of them with dan #all of which was Extremely Tense Times in super interesting and different ways #like come ON #big finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LET ME WRITE #i can do it i learnt audio drama from wolf 359 the only guys who ever did it right (hyperbole)#i can Use the Medium (probably)#and i have 3 years of experience of writing In Love And Fighting Instead Of Talking About It thasmin i can do ittttttttttttt #give me a couple of boxsets no idont have a cv i have a lot of Thoughts tho and thats enough im sure thats enough #i dont think mandip and jodie are hard to convince to record a couple of boxsets for us come onnnnn #let!!! me!!! write!!!!!!!! it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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toocabaret · 1 year

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how homoerotic does your friendship need to be to convince an entire audience that your characters are in love, and then subsequently the showrunner too?

#like that’s a lot #i think about that sometimes #how chemistry translates #and she keeps bringing it up like yeah the love between us is real #i wonder where the line is drawn #this is a post about jodie and mandip btw #doctor who #dr who #dw #thasmin #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #13 x yaz #yasmin khan #thirteen #thirteenth #pretty damn homoerotic i’m guessing

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handdrawnfantasma · 1 year

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tonight i am meditating on the nature of fusion AUs bc having spent years trying to perfect the art of engaging and interesting fusion AUs that aren’t just straight-up shoehorning the characters from canon A directly into the roles/story of canon B with no thought for how the characters’ personalities, foibles, backstories etc would translate into the new setting

sometimes i just have to admit. some “characters from canon A mapping directly over the roles from canon B” fusion AUs are just straight-up fun to think about precisely BECAUSE every so often there is a fusion AU where that DOES work. absolutely impossible for me to actually be satisfied by writing such a thing ofc, but dang it’s fun to think about.

#specifically. what prompted this post was the 13 era/bifrost incident AU that i occasionally like to think abt as of abt a year ago.#no redeeming qualities no original things to think about just the pleasure of shoving the characters into the exact roles with no changes.#it's low-hanging fruit enough that you don't even have to reach for it!!#(like super low-hanging. 13 = loki yaz = sigun tecteun = odin dhawan!master = thor. SUPER low-hanging.)#(vinder would be lyf ig??)#actually it's funny how many fusion AUs i have for 13. some of them more well-developed than others but.#i have a LOT of fusion AUs for her.#fel livebagels the space hobo show

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poppiesforthirteen · 1 year

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went back and tagged all the posts from the past few days and you are all so smart and talented i'm so impressed

#it's been too long since i've been in a fandom where characters i care about Actually Die #i'm legitimately grieving and it's. weird. doesn't feel like i should be #for right now everything's a painful memory and so i've been quick reblogging a lot because i KNOW i don't wanna miss out #but i can't engage #so sorry for dropping off the face of the earth everyone to my brain 13 is still alive and yaz is still there and i'm just struggling a bit #& if you see this thank you beloved for having been around ilysm 💕💕#need a stronger support system where's all my irl dw people lol #haven't been able to make myself rewatch yet even though i think it'll help #sorry for the rant had to get that off my chest ghhh

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lesbiten · 2 years

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i think 9rose/10rose has permanently altered some ppls perceptions of doctor/companion romances in this show. bc the doctor and rose are VERY openly flirty and affectionate and even in s1 rose is referred to as "the woman [nine] loves" and its like. all very clearly set up as romantic. so when a doctor/companion romance ISNT that apparent people go "this came out of nowhere!" no guys its just different and less apparent ways of showing affection but i digress

#u can probably apply this to 12clara but i am mostly talking abt 13yaz #like 13 is in general a lot less touchy and affectionate towards people compared to other doctors #shes like if 12 was more repressed but less grouchy #i think if u take her overall personality and the fact that yaz also seems to be not great at her own emotions into consideration #it didnt come out of nowhere its just two ppl who suck at communicating their feelings Finally Communicating Their Feelings #yknow #idk #but i think using doctorrose as a baseline is not helpful theyre like. an outlier #simon says

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frogmascquerade · 11 months

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Potd spoilers in the tags :D

#i really thought yaz was gonna shoot the master :///////#having vin do it confused me so much ????#there was so much set up w 13 telling yaz to take then gun and then the master hamming it up by going you should have shot me earlier #like it felt like it would have been easy for yaz to figure out vulnerability during regeneration was something she could capitalize on #shoot to injure #spark the regen #or the degen ig #and let it play out the same way #its the chronic thing of having too many characters and not focusing on the core relationships :(#vinder being there made no sense either but again its okay 🙏👋 not my show not my circus not my monkeys its fineeeeee #the master going completely ballistic is always fun though #i liked his arc a lot these episodes and it felt more fitting than some of his other stories #and the actor is great too i love the way he plays off of jodie #hmmm i did not really fully understand the plot #i rarely do though #i loved the visuals of 13s regen #it was nice to have it not crash the tardis for once LMAO #and it looked electric like lighting but also a little like fireworks #i will miss her !! honestly she might be my 3rd favorite incarnation atm cause 12 was amazing and i love 9 but i really liked how much #of an engineer and scientist 13 was like oo it felt right idk #oh waitni forgot about the kid! the kid in the cybermans ship #what was that even #i thought it was gonna be a timeless child callback #i wonder if the doctor will ever open that fobwatch #that might drive me cwazy until they reference it again lmao #filming it must have been NUTS tho omg #like from an actors pov like omg

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13thdoctorposts · 5 months

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Sometimes it’s important to know when to let a show go.

When 13 regenerated into 14 and had her clothes burnt off like a witch on a stake, sending a horrible message about women and gender RTD came out and said he did it to protect David from right wing media. Then the fans defended David coming back and that RTD would address why he had that face and why the clothes also regenerated, although I was upset with 13s regeneration I thought ok I’ll wait and see how this get handles. Because even though I don’t like the real world messaging maybe the in world messaging will be enough to make it ok.

But then what happens? We get a trans story for the very first story with very positive messaging for trans issues which is great but undermined by the fact RTD wanted to protect David from gender critiques by the right wing but didn’t seem to want to protect Yasmin Finney. So first David can’t wear Jodies costume for protection but then RTD has Yasmin live through being deadnamed in the show which she herself has said made her uncomfortable and then also gave her character the line of telling the Doctor to not assume pronouns… which any of the characters could have done but RTD chose Rose and then what happen? What always happens with the right wing, the pronoun line and the male presenting line are the ones that the right wing all go on about in every video, in every article… they deadname the character and then misgender and say horrible things about Yasmin… so RTD protects the 50+ year old white man who’s worn way more feminine things then 13 outfit in his career the media could use if they wanted to go after him but don’t protect the 20 year old Trans Woman? How people aren’t talking about how fucked up that is I don’t know.

Then we get no reason why the Doctor has that face and why the clothes regenerated on them. Then in their own regeneration… they don’t! They bi-regenerates and this time Ncuti does get the Doctor clothes, well half of them… why didn’t 15 regenerate with their own clothes? No instead we have the new Doctor walking around with no pants on… and why is it that 15 has to go pantless and not David? are we protecting David again? Perfectly fine to have a bunch of pics of 15 in his tighty whities and no pants but again David could not be seen in 13s full gender neutral outfit.

Then to top all this off theres no mention in the loves lost of Yaz… even though the Doctor chose to drop her off in a park 3 days ago after telling her if they could Date anyone it would be Yaz… is that not love lost? Was saying good bye to Yaz not an emotional trigger? Now people are saying thats because only the dead were brought up… Rose is not dead unlike Yaz Rose is not only alive in another Dimension but also got herself a Doctor… Yaz currently is mourning the Doctor while they cant even seem to remember she existed despite dropping her off 3 days a go… so they weren’t all dead… however Rose was over 1000 years ago and Yaz 3 days ago… what hurts more the lost of someone you loved but who is still alive from 50 years ago or the one you lost last week? What makes logical sense is the love you lost most recently hurts the most… and people dont need to die for you to hurt losing them from your life if you love them.

Now we have 2 Doctors and people are already saying they can’t wait for David Tennant episodes, so if you think the 10th Doctor overshadowed the other Doctors when he was no longer the Doctor how overshadowed do you think the first main Doctor of colour is going to be when lots of peoples favourite white Doctor ever is also a legitimate Doctor in universe existing at the exact same time with a TARDIS? Ncuti doesn’t event get to be the only Doctor during his tenure he has to share it with David.

The lastly no mentions of Yaz at all… seems shes completely forgotten and at the very end the Doctor says they are finally with their family the happiest he’s ever been… what a diss of every TARDIS team ever that the Doctor has found family with… your last crew you literally called your ‘Fam’, the Ponds you actually married into… Susan was your flesh and blood… but no this family you haven’t seen in 1000 years, of which only one of who was part of your TARDIS team are the ones you finally found family with and make you the happiest you’ve ever be? Literally at the exact same time the Doctor is sitting at that table saying all of that, Yaz is mourning the Doctor and not wanting to have left the TARDIS, but she doesn’t get a mention because for some reason if it’s a wlw relationship it means nothing and can be ignored completely.

Honestly by the end the Doctor just seems like a complete prick, and not in a 13 I’m dealing with internal trauma and I accidentally snapped way but just in a I’m a shit person way. Talk about compromised morals, people wouldn’t shut up about it with 13 but the Doctor just left a young woman to mourn them while being the “happiest they have ever been” grabbing themselves a new family and pretending Yaz doesn’t exist. Talk about shit morals. People say Chibs didn’t know anything from 12s era, which wasn’t true it directly affected the way 13 kept the fam at arms length but after watching this clearly RTD didn’t even know what happened in the episode 14 regenerated from 13 in and the previous episode Legend of the Sea Devils, because surely if you did, you wouldn’t not mention Yaz at all and give a reason why the Doctor wouldn’t go see her while she’s mourning them and just grabbing a new family and claiming to be the happiest you’ve ever been in the 2000 years of life you remember. Because that would make the character look like a prick, not a hero, which is exactly what happened. If RTD is the amazing writer people claim, he could have come up with a Yaz mention and a reason why the Doctor wasn’t going to see her.

I know not everyone was happy with the wlw representation with Thasmin but you know what’s way worse? Not even mentioning it or even acknowledging Yaz’s existence.

And to top it off I am so very very over the double standard of the fandom… this episode, had plot holes, had important things that weren’t explained… like why that face and why did the clothes regenerate… things that weren’t explained that weren’t so important like where did the sonic screw driver come from, why can it do all the things it now does… it had racism from both the Toymaker and Donna… what on earth was that line about ‘do you come in every colour’, was paced poorly, it clearly should have been longer and decided to mess with lore by creating bi-rengeration out of thin air and not explaining how it would effect things going forward or why it even happen, like a true WTF… if Chibs had done even one of these things, or wrote this episode the exact same way the fandom would be coming for him instead they are praising the genius of RTD not caring about any of those things, all the sins they claimed Chibs did and some of them on a bigger scale in this episode but the treatment of RTD is the polar opposite.

It’s unbelievably hypocritical, and makes the fandom look even worse for being so hard on the first female Doctor because none of this was acceptable for her but its not only fine but great with a male Doctor.

So I think it’s time for me to let this show go, and know it’s time to bow out. Because unlike the people who have been horrible about 13 for the last 6 years I understand sometimes you have to step away from something you love when its no longer for you and leave it for other people to love.

Im out with 13.

#13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #thirteen #13 #yasmin khan #thasmin #yaz #yaz khan #13 era #dw

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thegirlfromperivale · 5 months

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{ out of character } i’m still obsessing over this hand kiss in the PREVIEW of wild blue yonder. fourteen is already so much maturer and in tune with his emotions than ten from saying he “absolutely loves [donna]” to shirley. this moment where he kisses her hand to comfort her nerves just channels eleven and twelve to me - particularly with clara.

david said in the commentary for the star beast that of course he’s not playing the doctor completely differently because if he did, there’d be no point in bringing him back to play fourteen. but he is also aware of how the doctor has been three people since he was last ten, there’s clearly differences and to me, and others on twitter, there’s a clear signal that this a maturer version of ten who can say things like “i love my friends” and showing comfort through physical intimacy in the way the doctor showed it during the moffat era, specifically.

i am someone who doesn’t have ten as their favourite doctor, but fourteen is becoming one of my favoured in modern who. twitter described him as 10 after therapy and i really see that. the fact that he has 11, 12, and 13 in his memory means this is a man who knows of the significance of people like river, clara, yaz, and even a surrogate daughter like bill. they’ve had a lot more intimate relationships with their companions since being 10 and i absolutely love how david is playing it this time around.

#thegirlfromperivale #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #the star beast #wild blue yonder #david tennant

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nightmanatee · 8 months

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things mean a lot in 13's era btw.

she has sheffield's sonic (and btw yaz has been called "sheffield" through s13), yaz has pulse shaped rings on both of her hands as a nod to 13's heartbeat. her heart-shaped earrings in eotd when she confesses (and also as she becomes the doctor more and more), 13 has an earring meaning her connection to space and humanity. her watch that contains her past. demons of the punjab explaining how echanging things mean a lot. and then yaz buying thirteen her clothes: her gay t-shirt, her coat, her earring etc etc. and then (presumably but most likely) yaz getting a yellow coat from her. the hologram. no. TWO holograms???

so yeah. things mean a LOT. in her era and i love it.

#a lot to unpack and mostly just a wave of thoughts #thasmin #13th doctor #yasmin khan #doctor who #dw

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oreo102 · 1 month

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Yaz is cool as fuck and people don’t appreciate her enough, a very long ramble

TLDR because this is so long: yaz is really cool and a compelling character and not enough people talk about how good of a character she is, both with and without the doctor, enough

In the first episode we learn as soon as we meet her that yaz wants to help people. She is tired of getting parking disputes and wants something more serious, and after meeting the doctor immediately starts helping her even if she isn’t supposed to be, and later it’s implied (I don’t think it was ever confirmed?) that she originally became a cop because one helped her when she had ran away/was suicidal, maybe?

Throughout season 11 we see her be the most empathetic/caring (episode 3 with the racism Ryan specially was facing, episode 6 with her grandma’s first husband, episode 7 with dan from kerblam, 8 with the kid who’s grandma was killed for “being a witch”, 9 with the blind kid), and is also very loyal almost immediately (“more of the universe.. more time with you!” “No. I’m with you, whatever happens” and more I’m forgetting)

She also has a very similar sense of justice to the doctor, practically immediately and comes to share her view on a lot of topics (she was hesitant to take the gun in TPOTD, she wrote wwtdd(which is adorable btw) on her palm, she defended Tesla, stands up to the master, once again more I’m forgetting probably)- hell, when seperated from the doctor without instructions/for a long time she takes 13s place as leader

Circling back to loyalty: she spent 10 months obsessively trying to find the doctor, she slept in the second tardis, she probably (I think it’s implied?) neglected her own health, social life, and job (if she still had one at this point) just to obsessively try and figure out how that tardis worked, to figure out how to get back to the doctor

And that was after she walked into a portal to an alien planet, not caring about danger because it’s what the doctor would do if it were one of them (she was already half way there by the time Graham finished asking who was going first, walking quickly and had a very determined look on her face. I really do believe if it had come down to facing the master or cybermen she would’ve to ensure 13s safety), which btw, is one of my favorite scenes in the show

And then s13. Gods I think I could talk about yaz in season 13 and those last 3 specials for days. A) Dan is more her companion than docs, let’s be very clear- they spent 3 years trapped in an unfamiliar time together with yaz acting as the leader (see above about her taking on the Doctor’s role when the doctor isn’t there to)

She handles 13’s outbursts and venom astonishingly well through the whole series but esp in s13, when she is double guessing her identity and even more unwilling to share than before, like it’s downright elegant that yaz is able to ignore 13s jabs sometimes, cuz personally I would’ve thrown hands. Although she doesn’t let the doctor walk over her, she doesn’t just accept the bullshit, she argues with the doctor quite a bit (telling her she is fully at fault for the situation at the beginning of s13 ep 1, telling her to stop leaving them all the time, shoving her when she shows back up after the 10 months)

As mentioned before the “what would the doctor do” being written on her hand is a really good touch and it does well to show just how much yaz looks up to 13 and how much she loves her (a very much amount, like infinitely)

This is getting very long so I’ll try to wrap it up somewhat quickly. Anyway, I really love yaz’s coming out scene (although I detest Dan outing her), it feels very natural and is filled with a lot of great emotions that we don’t see her have very much- like, she cries! Yaz, while shown having emotions, isn’t shown sad very often (which considering she was depressed as a younger teen and might still be, could just be her repressing those emotions) and is shown as scared much less, it’s nice to see those emotions on display

Speaking of emotions on display: “stop leaving us” is one of my favorite scenes/lines. Getting to see just how anxious yaz gets when the doc leaves, just how much she hates being separated from her, is a really nice insight to how she thinks- the doctor has already left her twice before (neither times were her fault, though) so who’s to say it won’t happen again? Easier to stay by 13 than to be crushed by her disappearing without warning

(Also side note but after that the two don’t separate much/if at all, showing that the doc did genuinely listen to her)

I’ve heard people say that they didn’t enjoy Legend of the sea devils that much but personally I love it- both because holy shit they’re so gay, but also because it again demonstrates that yaz is genuinely so smart and capable and there’s really no wonder 13 fell for her so hard (because she did. 13 fell so hard) I also like that this episode shows that the two play off each other and trust each other a lot, even if they aren’t always in sync

And finally onto the power of the doctor! Yaz’s best episode by far and my favorite of the entire series!

Yaz. Is. So. Fucking. Amazing. In this episode. She really shines so much which is saying a lot because she usually shines anyway. She looks so ready to punch the master if only he’d give her a reason, ready to shoot him (maybe not fatally… maybe) if he threatens the doctors or her own safety

She openly defies him, she leaves him stranded on a planet and if not for the plan she might’ve never came back for him, she flies the tardis! All on her own! We can assume that the doctor helped teach her but how much of that knowledge is from those 10 months? (I like to think that the first time yaz helped fly it was completely by accident)

Do the doctor holograms share knowledge? Cuz if not, that implies that she figured out it can change interface on her own and used it in their/her plan.

She saves the doctor! Multiple times! Runs out towards a fucking laser to make sure she’s safe (another favorite scene), she flies everyone home while the doc rests and recovers, she is just so cool in this episode!!

And honestly, I hate her ending. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic that she survived, really truly fantastic, if they had killed yaz I’d have balled my eyes out and sworn doctor who off for a second time, but her ending? No.

I do not think she should’ve stayed with the doc, I believe she loved (romantically, she’d love every doctor platonically but) 13 only, she’d be traveling the stars with 14 or 15 but I think over time she would’ve slid into that grief, that the doctor is still there but hers isn’t. But just having to go back to normal life? Go back to her family and job and life? That’s bullshit

Graham and Ryan got the psychic papers, yaz could’ve too (which btw that’d make a fun spin off I think), or she could’ve gotten the doctors coat (which would’ve been the cutest thing ever), or even her sonic! (Least likely) but- nothing? Nothing? No!!

She and 13 should be allowed to be immortal space wives together (with river, maybe) and nothing bad should ever happen to them

#doctor who #new who #13th doctor #thasmin #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #yazmin khan #outing yaz is bs #she’s underrated #this is so much longer than I meant for it to be #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #she’s great #she is so cool

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picnokinesis · 4 months

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plottier / character focused thirteenth doctor fic recs

Ipseity by WalkerLister (43k, 10 chapters, gen) summary: Eight months since the Doctor sacrificed herself on Gallifrey, and Yasmin Khan is still struggling to move on. However, when she comes across a familiar face who is not acting like herself, Yaz may finally get the answers she has been looking for surrounding the Doctor. However, those answers will be revealed in a way a bit more dangerous than she had been anticipating. //Okay, so no one is surprised that I like the amnesiac!divisioned!13 fic, but in my defence, it's absolutely fabulous. This one was written waaaaay back in mid-2020, so we all knew that 13 was in prison and everyone was pretty sure that Jack was coming back due to some bts detective work, but that was about it - so, for obvious reasons, it doesn't align with ROTD, but it's such a fun one, guys, I love it a lot. Also, y'know, thirteen in a leather jacket and snarling at people? What more could you want?

don't have to make it to the moon by Ymae (28k, 7 chapters, gen/thoschei) summary: After New Year's, Ryan decides to stay traveling in the TARDIS for another little while. Only, the Doctor's rarely alright, and between experiencing the wonders of the universe, Ryan wants to figure out what's happening to his friend, too. //I love Ryan so much. He's such a wonderful character and I always love it when fics focus on him, or have him as the pov character. Unfortunately, fics like that are a bit few and far between, but this is one of them, and it's absolutely fantastic. It really delves into his character, but also his dynamic with the Doctor (especially after he talks to her in ROTD and she admits that she's scared and angry), and it's just auuuuuuugh so good!! And, it's also go some great whump and psychic content, with the Master showing up to cause trouble, alongside some gorgeous world-building, so I enjoy it very very much.

Ghost War by riptheh (25k, 1 chapter, gen) summary: All the Doctor wants to do is pass the time, and help a friendly face. So when a young man with a strange tattoo and a psychic wound shows up, she dives right into the mystery - and finds herself flung far into the future, mindwiped and alone, fighting a war that by all rights, shouldn't exist at all. A war she could help end, if only she could figure out who she is. //Oof, this one. It's absolutely stunning. This author really has a way of taking some absolutely fascinating and mind-bending concepts and just running with it, and just nails it each time. I feel like the less I say about the plot of this one, the better, because it sort of unfolds as you go, but please just trust me when I say that it's absolutely fantastic.

Lifelines by Sue_Denham (40k, 11 chapters, gen, wip) summary: Lifeline: a thing on which someone or something depends, or which provides a means of escape from a difficult situation. Set just after the events of Spyfall, the Doctor has a few things to work through. //Okay this fic is one of my favourites that's been posting over the last year or so - it's a brilliant exploration of Graham and Thirteen, and how different races deal with loss, guilt and death. I honestly think the best kind of sci fi takes concepts that we sort of take for granted, and then shows them in a completely new light. That's what this fic does. Also, Graham is just wonderful for the entire thing - though, as a note, Yaz and Ryan do end up somewhat side-lined, so bear that in mind if you're particularly looking for fics about those two, but I forgive it because it's such a great look at Graham and the Doctor. It feels like a character focused tie-in novel, y'know? Also it's pretty angsty in places, naturally, but that's what I'm here for haha.

Disordered by Echo (44k, 7 chapters, jack/13) summary: Messing with memories is always a risky business. Messing with your own memories, now that's just asking for trouble. The Doctor is very good at asking for trouble. And Jack is very good at finding it. //Ohhhhh okay so. This has been one of my absolute favourite Doctor Who fics for a long while. Definitely the shippiest of this list, but it's so lovely and such an excellent look at the Doctor facing the consequences of trying to get back her Division memories in the aftermath of s12, as well as the relationship between the Doctor and Jack across multiple regenerations. It's just so so good, flowing smoothly from very angsty to very soft, and the Doctor and Jack's voices are just spot on (especially considering that we see different versions of the Doctor, this is a particularly impressive note). Highly recommend!

The Trial of the Doctor by wreckageofstars (20k, 5 chapters, gen/thasmin, wip) summary: Haven is a planet at the edge of time, on the brink of destruction. Ravaged by the Time Lords and a war that time forgot, its people are desperate for justice before it’s too late, and the Doctor might be the only being left in the universe who can provide it — because she was the one who started it. So why can't she remember doing it? //Okay okay so, this one has only recently started posting but I've known about it since about 2020 and ohhhhhhhhhhh my goodness, GUYS. If you're not following this one, you need to be. It's a mix between Doctor Who at it's finest, Kafka at it's most unsettling, and Douglas Adams at it's most absurd, and it's delightful. There's so much in this one, and as always this author is just spot on with all the characterisation - especially Thirteen, who suddenly finds herself being prosecuted for a crime that she can't remember, and is forced into a situation where she's physically incapable of telling a lie. It. Is. Marvellous. Also there's a cockroach lawyer, whom I adore HAHA

lighthouse keeper by BlueLillyBlue (57k, 12 chapters, gen) summary: The Doctor is missing, and the fam is concerned. Featuring Yaz being a badass, Ryan being a cutie, Graham being a granddad, Jack being Jack, and the Doctor's complicated moral code. Also: space prisons, galactic war, the Doctor's time war trauma, the Doctor caring about people in her own weird and repressive way, and, most importantly, Thirteen wearing Jack's coat. //Oh, this one is such a favourite of mine. It's very angsty, so if that's not your schtick then - well, then you're kinda scuppered for all of my recs, to be honest, but this one is a bit on the dark side. Oh, but it's fantastic. Again, this one feels like a tie-in novel, and this author (as I think I've said before) is just incredible at crafting these very vivid worlds and really hard-hitting stories. The situation is pretty dire and desperate, and the Doctor is often faced with the fact that not every plan works out, and sometimes the only choices are bad ones. It's just really excellent guys (also! Thirteen in Jack's coat!!)

angel ellipsis by SleepyMaddy (36k, 8 chapters, gen/thoschei) summary: When the Doctor and Yaz find a planet in ruins, they’re only half surprised to discover the Master is responsible. But when his plan backfires, suddenly they have no choice but to work with him to stop his former allies from tearing the universe apart. It goes about as well as one might expect. //OKAY SO. This one is SO much fun and SO great - in particular, if you like the Master being a tricky bastard, but also getting screwed over by his own plans? You'll love this one. Everything about it is so vibrant and brilliant, and aaaaaahh man it all comes together in such a satisfying way. As with many of the authors on this list, this author just really gets these characters and how they tick, with some absolutely beautiful prose, and it's just such a joy to read.

nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light by river_of_words (6k, 1 chapter, thasmin) summary: Two weeks since Yaz got the most confusing rejection she ever hopes to get and the Doctor seems to have decided to blame Yaz for every single one of her furiously conflicting emotions. At this point she’s sort of asking to get hit. And at this point Yaz is sort of curious to find out what the Doctor is going to say that’s going to make her meet that request. //These next two fics are a lot shorter compared to the others, but I really wanted to include both of them because they're great and SO interesting to me. With this one, it digs into the Doctor and Yaz's relationship in the aftermath of LOTSD, and the ways that the Doctor does not actually talk about anything but does also tell Yaz more than anyone else. It's about the frustration that builds between them and the way that they're still finding more comfort in each other than anyone else. It's also a little feral, which as a thoschei shipper, definitely had a lot to do with why I liked this one haha. Anyway, it's really fantastic - really quick paced and emotional, and packing a LOT of punches with mostly dialogue in a very effective way. Go read it!

we'll do it right by daring_elm (3k, 1 chapter, gen) summary: She's never really noticed Yaz's perfume before. Shoulders relaxing, nausea subsiding, the Doctor inhales again, filling her lungs with jasmine and sandalwood, steel and glowing crystals and her box out of time. She can be back with Yaz within minutes of her leaving. She can save the child, change the foundation of Gallifrey and still return to have a picnic on Soria T4. //Okay so I loooove love love this one because I just adore it any time someone explores the Doctor's reaction to the Timeless Child stuff after the fact, and this one is just so wonderful. The characterisation is just fantastic, and then just the progressive spiral of the plot as we follow the Doctor on a mission that is doomed to fail by the nature of her own timeline. It's about how by trying to change the past, all you do is mess up your present and your future, and I love that a lot. Augh, it's a gut punch and a half - highly recommended!

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rearranging-deck-chairs · 7 days

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the beach conversation is insane actually im always being so mean to 13 for how closed off she is but it's insane what she does here like "ive never been able to", "it's what my life is", "not because i dont want to"

shes like sorry yaz i cant give you much but lets play doctors and students and reenact the anatomy lesson dr nicolaes tulp you be the doctor and the students and i'll be the body hang on let me hold up a lamp so you can see what we're doing

shes like sorry yaz i cant give you much i locked my hearts in this rusty vault and lost the keys but if i had a spare i would give you it i swear i promise i know thats not enough but i'd give it to you

"i cant fix myself" is how she starts. "i'll be fine, in the end, hopefully" she says like an hour after regenerating after describing just how much it fucks her up and how scary it is and how painful and how much of a gamble, really, how much of a leap of faith and hoping for the best, hoping for that net to appear because if it doesnt......... theres no backup

are you alright, doctor? are you okay? yaz has asked a hundred times without getting an answer. and now she finally does and it seems to recontextualise every dodge that has come before. stop asking, it's not the end yet, theres still time, a little more patience, i will figure it out, i will be able to give you a yes eventually im sure of it.

but now it is the end, regeneration looms again, time is running out, and this endlessly delayed answer sounds like a resignation. i cant do it. not in time. maybe not ever. but definitely not before the plane crashes and i take you down with me. i broke the universe and i cant fix it. it's too late. i dawdled too much.

and what this could have been, but isnt, because neither of them take it this way, think of it this way, because theyre too much alike, and not like this at all, but what this could have been, in intention and reception, is a request for help. i give up, i cant figure this out, but can you? the doctor doesnt mean this, and yaz has always been too attentive to the limits, too respectful of the doctor's boundaries (from "who, me? no. never doubted. don't know what you mean" in ghost monument to "can we just live in the present") to misinterpret it this way. so theyre on the same page. a page, as always, decided on by the doctor. but it does make the perfect set up for the finale

because i do think, sort of, that yaz fixed it. not you know the millennia of trauma but the specific inability of 13 to trust people. the clara/river/missy/bill my-friends-die-or-are-not-what-they-seem-or-both cant-hold-anyones-hand-but-my-own inability to trust her friends are her friends and they will not like explode into gore and viscera if she touches them (which now that ive said it i bet is what she has nightmares about. perfect match with what i think yaz has nightmares about which is the doctor exploding into gore and viscera and not being able to do anything abt it. actually the best idea i think ive ever written abt what yaz has nightmares about is "or you take off your coat and youre wearing dynamite", but i digress) that, i think yaz sort of fixes when she saves the doctor and saves the world and i think if 13 had lived she'd have trusted yaz after that in a way she couldnt before and maybe even that realisation of "you saved my life" in that weird malleable state of post-pseudoregeneration might have had a hand in why 14 is the way he is

#anyway #Them #sonya voice: i still think abt it #can you believe its been 2 years since sea devils???what the fuck #woughhhhhhhhhh #i miss them #i miss writing thasmin in like................that space #i love writing yaz/14 it's very cathartic #like hello lets Talk About Things #yesterday i wrote 14 saying 'it's new! i love new. new is great' which was so nice #my 14 is a lot more 13 than 10. theres no 10 at all honestly i dont care abt him #yaz/14 is just.........thasmin Continued #but anyway i do miss writing them all.............never saying anything #that got tiring after 2 years and its nice to like catharse all that tension now with yaz/14 but #doesnt mean that tension isnt an interesting place you know?#but anyway change is part of love #its fun giving them new problems too fhgkghgjhjh

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toocabaret · 1 year

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i’m thinking about yasmin khan spending ten months in a cold tardis, teaching herself to fly it, sleeping and eating and living in it, obsessed with finding her doctor, obsessed with bringing her home, all of her human-ness written out on post-it notes

she’d never just leave. she would never leave the doctor alone without a fight. i think that’s why i’m dissatisfied.

#doctor who #dr who #dw #i just saw a gif set of yaz’s notes #she taught herself to FLY THE TARDIS #and then they just like. call it a day.#a lot of yaz was well written but her ending was not #and now i can never rest because it’s not consistent #thasmin #13 x yaz #yasmin khan #thirteen #13 #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor

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handdrawnfantasma · 3 months

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you've heard of the concept of blorbos-in-law, now get ready for squatter-canons: where all of your friends are experiencing the canon to such a degree that you, the only one who is not, still finds a way to start making a fusion au out of it

#anyway. thasmin tavstarion au. is this anything. (even if it isn't my brain is already about 10 miles down the rabbithole sooooooo!!)#(yes yes i know bg3 is technically just forgotten realms which like. i play a lot of dnd. i know forgotten realms stuff. but ALSO.)#(this happened bc ya boy (gn) listened to the bg3 soundtrack and had Thoughts)#(anyway i admit i also just think the fam as a dnd party searching for a way to get the mutant tadpoles out their heads would be the most--#chaotic thing and therefore on brand in all possible ways)#anyway formal apologies to yaz i am that person who with every new au finds a way to make her dynamic with 13 as abnormal as i can manage i #but like. that's just how they are. i cannot change this.#au warlock shenanigans

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doctorwhohugh · 8 months

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What I particularly love about the progression of Thasmin.

I love a lot about their relationship, but namely how it shows that characters don't have to be physically affectionate for their relationship to have meaning. Its about the connection, which is heavily built upon throughout the era with a natural progression.

In series 11 they become friends, 13 shows Yaz the ropes, in the finale she has a really defining moment where she stays with the Doctor instead of returning to the safety of the TARDIS.

Then later on she puts her mind at risk to save the human race.

Continuing to Series 12, they have become closer, now more best friends. One notable moment being of course, here

But more that those feelings for the Doctor begin to develop for Yaz, shown in little moments like :

Yaz's response in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror.

The conversation in Haunting of Villa Diodati

And of course in Revolution of the Daleks where Yaz spends almost a whole year relentlessly searching for the Doctor. With the whole episode showing how much she missed the Doctor, and how much it hurt to lose her. That episode itself is such a vital moment for their relationship, especially with Yaz staying on.

Then in Praxeus, on the side of the Doctor, we see Yaz's independence in the field becoming a notable point of conflict, showing an increased level of care surrounding her safety.

Then in Series 13, feelings develop on both sides, with the Doctor's past acting as a weight on her shoulders, making her cold and distant. Once she moves past that, the feelings become more and more clear for both of them, but especially the 13th Doctor.

Then in the 2022 specials, the reciprocated feelings come to ahead. The Doctor says she can't pursue it due to the nature of her life. They are shown to still greatly care for each other, even when the doctor regenerates with the mutual acknowledgment of their time coming to it's end.

So yeah, I think overall the progression of their relationship is really natural and realistic. And the way it moves forwards worked really well for me. I think their ending worked really well.

Disclaimer: If anything I said came off as ignorant please let me know so that I can do better and apologise, as my #1 priority for this account is creating a safe-place for fans to share our love of this show.

#thasmin #doctor who #tardis #yasmin khan #mandip gill #jodie whittaker #13th doctor #whovian #new who #nuwho #dr who #whoniverse #doctor who flux

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