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Tenth Doctor x Reader; Eleventh Doctor x Reader; 14th Doctor x Reader (David Tennant Version)

Prompt: inspired by the song Snap by Rosa Linn. The Reader deals with the aftermath of being the Doctor’s companion and unrequited love. Also, with the announcement of David Tennant’s return, I had to include his “14th” Doctor in this as well!

Word Count: 5490

Warnings: brief mention of depression (nothing in detail)

Note: [Y/N] = Your Name; [D/N] = Dog’s Name. I apologize in advance about the Dalek section as I am not overly familiar with their history and am basing them/their lore off of the couple of episodes I’ve watched.

It's 4 AM

I can't turn my head off

Wishin' these memories would fade

They never do

I rolled over in bed, restless, unable to sleep. Visions of space, a smiling man, and a blue police box swirled in my head. It felt like a dream, one that was just out of reach, and yet so raw and real at the same time. It had been six months to the day that the Doctor, a time travelling alien from Galifrey, had left. Six months since he decided I’d never see him again. Six months.

The darkness outside reminded me of my own smallness in the universe. As a human, I was one of the most delicate species across the cosmos – and yet the Doctor somehow made me feel bigger than life. When I was with him, I was whole. We’d traveled all over the universe – from dangerous planets to places more beautiful than I could describe. The Tardis became my home. The Doctor became my life.

Flashback

“[Y/N]! Come this way,” the Doctor’s chipper voice rose over the crowd of people around us. I looked up from the tapestry I was admiring and locked eyes with the Doctor. He sported his brown trench coat and modern looking suit, standing out like a sore thumb amongst the busy medieval market. I smiled and made my way to him. He took my hand, the warmth spreading from my fingers right to my heart.

“I’d like to show you something,” he said, gently leading me through the throng of shoppers.

“Is it a famous historical figure?” I asked, jokingly.

“We already met one of those today! I can’t go around having you meet every important figure and confusing the history books,” the Doctor chuckled, looking over at me.

“Honestly, at this point I think we’ve done enough time travel to confuse every history book in the world,” I responded, only half-kidding.

The Doctor shrugged, laughing. His eyes crinkled and I smiled up at him fondly. How I loved him.

“Anyway, [Y/N], I wanted to show you this,” the Doctor helped me climb up a small embankment and pulled me to his side. I was so close to him I could hear his twin hearts beating in tandem.

“Oh my – Doctor this is beautiful!”

Before me was a huge field of wildflowers, surrounding the giant castle overlooking the kingdom. Flowers long gone in my day stood bright and tall in the morning sun. Pink, yellow, and blue hues rippled across the fields as the breeze blew so slightly. The castle, a massive and elegant building, stood solemnly in the distance. It was like a fairytale.

“Isn’t it just lovely?” the Doctor said.

“It looks like a storybook come to life!” I exclaimed. Though I had seen many incredible sights with the Doctor – from other planets to history-changing events, little things like this always made me pause in awe and admiration. The Doctor figured this out and now, every place or time we stopped in, he made a point of pausing with me to admire these views with me.

“A storybook with a beautiful princess,” said the Doctor, giving my shoulder a small squeeze. I blushed, looking away and trying to calm the nerves in my chest. I had to remind myself that no, he was not a human man, but an alien who was extremely old – romance was forbidden. Even then, I couldn’t stop the thundering in my chest.

End Flashback

Turns out people lied

They said, "Just snap your fingers"

As if it was really that easy for me to get over you

I just need time

Click. Click. Click.

I sat, absentmindedly typing away on my laptop. It was quiet in my office today. Most people were working from home, which left me with plenty of in-office tea. Though I enjoyed working at home too, that sometimes seemed to make my mind wander far too much, so I volunteered to come in more often than my colleagues. The job itself was fairly easy – a simple data entry job that consisted of me filling out spreadsheets and attending a meeting here and there.

Mundane.

Boring.

Normal.

I stopped typing for a moment, staring off into the distance. It had been a year since I’d seen the Doctor. My wonderful, incredible Doctor. It’s funny – even though I knew it was a year for me, for the Doctor, he could jump into any part of my life and it would seem like just a second. Time was so confusing now. Was a year really so long?

I went back to typing, hardly noticing what I was doing. I had gotten this job a couple months ago after my parents begged me to try to do something with my life. After the Doctor had dropped me off, I spiraled into a depression. I felt nothing and everything at the same time. It was paralyzing. I wallowed for months, unsure of how to continue. I’d just been traveling through space and time, for goodness’ sake! However, as life began to move on without me, I realized that I couldn’t sit in my flat all day with nothing to show for it. My friends carefully pulled me back out into the wider world again, treating me gently and acting like I’d just experienced the worst break up of my life. In fact, they had met the Doctor a few times. To allay suspicion, he introduced himself as my boyfriend (though that made my heart race just thinking about it) and now that he was no longer coming around, they assumed (rightly so) that we’d broken up. Pretty accurate, I suppose.

“You’ll be able to get over this hump,” said one of my friends on a particularly difficult night for me. “Life is full of mysteries and heartbreak, but I know you - you’re strong. And you have us.”

I was forever grateful to my friends for sticking by my side. It must have been odd – the Doctor had dropped me off during a time that was just a couple of months after he’d shown up in my life, so my friends probably thought I had fallen in too deep with a guy I’d known for a short time, even though to me, I’d known him for years. I smiled wryly. What a mess this was.

“Hey [Y/N]! Did you want to join us after work today for dinner?” one of my coworkers called from across the office, pulling me out of my reverie. “Boss said she’d pay!”

I thought about it for a moment. It had been months since I’d gone out, much less socialized with a large group of people. I suppose I was feeling brave today. I smiled at him. “Sure, why not.”

Trying to re-learn how to live a ‘normal’ human life was hard, but I was trying. Though I missed the Doctor more than life, I knew that my time as his companion was over. One step at a time.

Snapping one, two

Where are you?

You're still in my heart

Flashback

“You look incredible, [Y/N]! I think you’ll definitely fit in,” the Doctor said, nodding in approval. I looked down at the huge, puffy dress, wondering if the Doctor needed his eyes checked. A large, powdered wig perched atop my head like some massive vulture. The Tardis hummed in approval, and I felt even more ridiculous. If the Tardis approved, then I knew I looked positively ludicrous.

“Doctor, I know that this period of time involved this type of – fashion, but you don’t need to lie to me,” I grumbled, trying to keep the wig from toppling to the ground. “You can just tell me I look like an overstuffed cupcake.”

The Doctor laughed. “You’re too much! I’m being serious – I think you look perfect.”

I rolled my eyes. “While I appreciate you, I also refuse to believe you.”

The Doctor chuckled and walked over to me, poking my nose and smiling. “You always look perfect, sweetheart.”

“Stop buttering me up and let’s get a move on,” I said, crossly.

“As you wish,” he said, bowing and holding out his hand as we started towards the Tardis’s exit.

I took his hand, trying to balance the wig and giant dress, while also attempting to be graceful. We managed to get outside – the Tardis had parked in an alleyway in 18th century Paris. I saw ladies in very similar attire as me walking about in the main road, their giant wigs seemingly glued to their heads. I envied how smoothly they walked across the cobblestone streets.

“See, [Y/N]? You look like a French elite,” said the Doctor. “Told you that you look perfect.”

“Well they look lovely, but I – whoa!”

The heel of my shoe caught on a loose area of the cobblestone alley and I went tumbling. The wig, dress, and the many layers of undergarments went flying. The Doctor, caught off guard, came tumbling down next to me. We both hit the ground with a resounding oof.

Panting, I laid there a moment. The wind had been knocked out of me.

“D-Doctor are you o-okay?” I gasped.

I heard some grumbling and movement next to me. “Don’t worry, I’m good, it’s all okay,” he grunted. “I think your dress broke most of my fall, in fact.”

“Oh so now I’m just a pillow for when you fall over?”

“A very nice pillow, yes.”

I laughed, though it came out more as a pained grunt. Pretty sure I landed on my tailbone – that would be sore for a couple days for sure.

“Can you help your pillow up, please? I think I’ll change – era accurate fashion be damned for this trip,” I mumbled.

The Doctor jumped lightly to his feet. Surprising considering how far he’d fallen just moments ago. He held his hand out to me.

“Come on there, let’s get you changed up and then we can explore,” he said cheerily. “And I promise to never make you wear anything quite so… cupcake-like again.” He winked and I groaned.

“You never cease to amaze me,” I said, grabbing his hand and getting on my feet. The wig lay forgotten on the cobblestone street. “It’s like you know exactly how to make me feel better and worse at the same time!”

He smiled, kissing my forehead. “It’s the power of the Doctor!”

I smiled back at him. “A special power indeed.”

End Flashback

Snapping three, four

Don't need you here anymore

Get out of my heart

'Cause I might snap

It was a cold winter day. I was wrapped up like a little present against the cold. My puffy jacket, hat, and scarf were working overtime. My dog, a little corgi, shuffled ahead of me. I held on to her leash, keeping my hands shoved deep in my pockets. My parents had gotten her for me about two years ago, right after my first-year anniversary at my job. I was so excited – she was just the spark of joy I needed.

“Come on, [D/N]! I know you love the snow, but it’s freezing out here,” I said as she stopped to sniff another light post. “Let’s get ourselves home and warm, shall we?”

[D/N] looked up at me and wagged her tail. Though it was cold outside, my heart warmed me fully just looking at her little face.

“Ok, fine, you can sniff a little longer,” I laughed, giving her a little more lead of the leash.

[D/N] started to dig intensely in the snow, her face almost completely covered. I shook my head in amusement. Dogs were so silly sometimes.

“Right, I’m sure there’s something really interesting in there, but I think you should probably stop digging on public land,” I said, giving her leash a little tug.

Suddenly, [D/N] popped out of the snow, a book in her mouth.

“What’s that you have there?” I said, kneeling down and carefully taking it from her. She wagged her tail and smiled at me, proud of her find.

I looked at the cover. The Angel’s Kiss was embossed on the front.

“Huh, The Angel’s Kiss, eh? Looks like one of those weird romance novels,” I joked to [D/N]. “I suppose we can put it on that bench over there. Hopefully someone can find it again.”

“Excuse me! Excuse me I think you might have my book…”

A cheerful voice suddenly rang out in the quiet winter air. I turned around to see a very tall man walking up the path. His hair was brushed over to one side of his face and his bowtie was slightly askew.

“Oh, this romance novel is yours?” I asked, holding it up and fully facing him.

I noticed him do a double take, his face clouding over for a second, before the serene smile returned. “Ha, it’s no romance novel, but yes, it is mine. Well, kind of, I suppose,” said the stranger, reaching out for the book hurriedly. “But I can take it off your hands now.”

I was startled by his sudden reach and the book fell back into the snow. “Oh, what’s the rush? Perhaps it is a spicy romance novel,” I said, half-joking. The man looked at me again for a long moment, before saying quietly, “No it isn’t,” as he leaned down and picked the book up from the snow.

“Thank you very much,” he said, and quickly turned away back up the path.

As I watched him walk away my brow furrowed. He seemed so familiar to me. Though I didn’t remember ever seeing him before, there was something about him… I couldn’t quite put a finger on it.

I looked down at [D/N]. She sat patiently, looking at me. “Well, I suppose my imagination can get out of hand sometimes, can’t it?” I said. “Come on, little one, let’s go.”

As I turned away, back towards my flat, I heard a woman’s voice cry out “Doctor! Where have you been?”

The Doctor? No, surely not here, not now…

I whirled around. The man I’d just been speaking to was standing with two others now, a little farther down the path. A woman with red hair and a brown-haired man. The woman was tugging at the book I’d just handed back to him. Perhaps I’d misheard, maybe it was a mistake…

“Doctor, what’s wrong? It looks like you’ve just seen a ghost,” said the woman.

No, I hadn’t misheard. The familiarity, the odd comfort – it was the Doctor. Indeed, it wasn’t my Doctor, at least not as knew him, but it was still the Doctor. A rush of emotions hit me. I felt anger, sadness, pain, and hope all at the same time. Had he forgotten me? He didn’t seem to recognize me at all. And he had two new companions? When he’d left me, he swore he’d never take another person with him again – what was this hypocrisy? Was I not good enough?

I felt my legs begin to move without me. I wanted to sprint to him, to demand answers, to figure out what was going on. Why did he look so different? Why did he act like he didn’t know me – was this another one of his kind? No, he said there were no Time Lords left. My brain was spinning. Four years. Four years. And he chose to show up now. Right as I was starting to feel whole again.

“Doc –“ I began, but then, as though on cue, a massive gust of wind suddenly stirred up, causing the snow to dance into the sky and obscure my vision. I covered my eyes and quickly grabbed onto [D/N] to ensure she didn’t get lost in the gust.

The snow settled and there was no sign of the three figures. Still holding [D/N], I ran over to where they had been, hoping against hope I’d see one of them or the Tardis hidden amongst the bushes. Nothing. I blinked back tears, feeling an overwhelming sense of sadness and heaviness descend on my chest. I’d always wanted to see the Doctor again, but this felt wrong. He had new companions. He didn’t acknowledge me. He even looked completely different. The bubbling of emotions in my chest suddenly ripped through and I wailed in anguish. This feeling felt as fresh as the day he left me.

I'm writing a song

Said, "This is the last one"

How many last songs are left?

I'm losing count

Flashback

I was shaking with fear. The Doctor stood in front of me, his arms spread to protect me. I could see his body quivering just a bit, but his voice held steady as he tried to reason with the Daleks in front of us.

“You don’t want to do this,” he said. “She is innocent – “

“Exterminate.” Said the robotic voices, ignoring him.

“D-Doctor please, you need to g-go and save the others,” I whispered. “I can’t move and there are others who need you right now – please.”

“Don’t speak, [Y/N],” he commanded. I could hear the fire in his voice. “I will protect you.”

The Daleks had their blasters pointed at us, slowly closing in. I felt sick. This was all my fault. I had accompanied the Doctor on this mission to rescue some space travelers who had been captured by the Daleks. The Doctor tried to make me stay in the Tardis, but I insisted. Instead, all I’d done was gotten hurt and now the Doctor couldn’t continue with the rescue mission. I tried to stand but hissed in pain. A large gash on my leg prevented me from being able to move comfortably.

“Don’t move, [Y/N], I don’t need you to be more hurt than you already are,” said the Doctor, his voice stern. Almost angry, I thought.

I looked around wildly, wondering if somehow, I could help distract these beasts. We were pressed up against a wall, cornered. I felt the wall behind me. It was smooth metal. Hardly anything – wait! My hand hit a large bolt. It felt loose. I carefully began to untwist it, hoping to not draw attention to myself as the Doctor continued to speak to the Daleks.

Buy me a few more seconds, Doctor, I thought.

Bingo! The bolt came off in my hand. Summoning all my courage and strength, I chucked it hard at the Dalek closest to me. It hit the dome of the robotic and it short-circuited. The other Daleks were momentarily distracted, so I grabbed the Doctor’s hand and pushed myself to move as quickly as I could despite the searing pain in my leg.

“[Y/N]!” the Doctor yelped, surprised. “You’re brilliant.”

“I try to be,” I panted, concentrating on not falling as we made our escape. The Doctor grabbed me by the waist and half-dragged, half-carried me through the Dalek ship.

“Listen to me, [Y/N], I am going to get you back to the Tardis. Do you understand?” he said as we made our way back to the Time Lord’s ship. I nodded, weakly. On a normal day I’d protest, but with my leg and the mess I’d already caused, I accepted his judgement quickly.

We made it back to the Tardis in one piece. The Doctor quickly got me inside and sat me down against a wall. He then typed something into the ship’s main interface.

“Protective force field,” he said, without looking up.

After he was done, he quickly came over to me. He gently grabbed my chin, raising my eyes to meet his. “Listen to me, [Y/N],” he began, his voice the most serious I’d ever heard. “You need to stay here, you need to stay safe, and you will not leave the Tardis. Do you understand me?” I nodded; eyes wide. The Doctor was rarely this serious.

“Good.”

And with that, he left me there. The Tardis hummed nervously, and I did my best to patch my leg up as best I could. I hated sitting around while he was in danger, but I knew in this case I’d be nothing more than in the way.

It felt like ages, sitting in an empty Tardis, anxiously hoping the Doctor was going to come back to me in one piece. My mind started to race. What if the Doctor came back injured? I’d never treated him for any wounds before – would I know how to? What if…he didn’t come back? I’d only operated the Tardis a handful of times and wasn’t sure if I’d be able to escape. I pushed that dark thought out of my mind. He was the Doctor! Of course, he’d come back.

“Run!”

I jumped as the Tardis doors swung open and the Doctor plus four spacemen came tumbling inside. The Doctor was furiously scrambling to the controls, shouting commands, and telling everyone to hold on. The chaos outside the Tardis swiftly disappeared as the ship started to whirl and we were off.

The breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding was let out. The four spacemen huddled together, looking forlorn. I remembered the Doctor saying there had been eight.

“[Y/N], are you ok?” the Doctor was by my side, arm wrapped around my shoulders. “I’m so sorry you got hurt like this and I had to leave you. So sorry.”

He looked at my leg, which was still seeping blood from under the bandage I hastily wrapped around it. I smiled wryly at him. “Just a scratch.”

He shook his head and did not smile. I saw him gently touch my leg, though at this point the adrenaline that had been coursing through my veins was beginning to wane. The Tardis was getting darker and I felt my head start to fall to the side,

“[Y/N]? Hey! Stay awake, [Y/N]! Stay with me. Please, stay with me!”

I could hear the Doctor’s panicked voice but could not muster the strength to open my eyes again. I fell into a cloud of darkness, the world fading away.

***

I woke with a start. Disoriented, I looked around the room I was in, vision blurry. My mouth felt so dry, and my head was pounding.

“[Y/N]? [Y/N]! You’re awake, good god, you’re awake,” the Doctor’s voice burst through the haziness and once again he was by my side. “Sit up slowly now, you’ve been asleep for a while.”

“Sleep? What?” I mumbled, still trying to get my bearings. “Where am I? What’s going on?”

“We’re in the Tardis,” he said. “Your body has been recovering from that wound on your leg.”

I blinked a couple of times to get the Doctor into focus. His eyes were lined with worry and his hair was more tousled than usual. He looked haggard.

“You look terrible,” I murmured. The Doctor shook his head, giving me a weak smile as he handed me a glass of water.

“Happy to see you too,” he said quietly.

As I drank the water, the Doctor studied me intensely. His gaze burned my skin and I shifted uncomfortably under this scrutiny.

“Doctor?” I began with uncertainty. “What’s wrong?”

The Doctor looked away, running a hand through his hair. He seemed to be steeling his nerves. Was he going to berate me for how I caused a massive problem on the Dalek ship?

Suddenly he snapped his head back to me and smiled widely. “Nothing, nothing at all, [Y/N]. Just glad you’re feeling better. Your leg wound should be all healed up after I cleaned and treated it. Since we’re parked near your flat, I figured you could get some rest in your own room once you finish your water.”

Confused, I stared at him. Just moments ago he was incredibly somber and now he was acting as though nothing was wrong. I continued to sip my water, brow furrowed as I studied the Doctor. There was something up with him, but I decided not to press it for now.

About a half hour later, the Doctor asked me if I could stand. I did so, carefully, noticing that my leg didn’t pain me any longer, but I still favored it. I was definitely sore.

“So, how does the leg feel?” asked the Doctor. “Up to take a little walk?”

I groaned as I stretched. “Fine, a little walk. After I get some things from my flat I want you to take me to the nicest alien spa there is in the universe.”

The Doctor made a noncommittal noise and simply turned his back to me. “Come on, [Y/N], let’s go.”

He guided me out of the Tardis. We walked a short way to the entrance of my flat. The Doctor got us in using his sonic screwdriver as I’d left my keys in the kitchen. As we entered the flat, I could tell there was some energy in the air that I could not quite put my finger on. There was something the Doctor wasn’t telling me.

“Doctor,” I said, suddenly turning around and staring at him straight in the eye. “What are we doing? What’s going on?”

The Doctor avoided my gaze. “Can we please sit down in the living room to talk, [Y/N]?”

I frowned but obliged. As we sat down together, his hand resting gently on my knee, the Doctor looked me straight in the eyes and said, “[Y/N] you need to stay here now. This last trip I almost lost you, and I can’t lose another person.”

The words seemed to echo in the empty flat, bouncing off the walls and assaulting my ears.

“Sorry, did you say stay here? As in, you’ll leave and not come back for me?” I asked, trying to understand what he was telling me.

The Doctor looked down. I felt his hand squeeze my knee slightly.

“Yes. I promised myself that if one of my companions ever got hurt, or was close to getting terribly injured, I would never, ever, lead them to danger again,” he said. “And you, [Y/N], are the most important person in my life. Seeing you almost – seeing you pass out in my eyes I just – “

The Doctor’s voice hitched. Instinctively, you reached out to comfort him, but he stopped your hand, gently lowering it back down away from him. “I refuse to be the reason you get hurt. I do not deserve to have a companion. You will be my last, [Y/N]. I hope you know how special you are to me”

“N-no, don’t say this. You haven’t even asked me if this is what I want,” I choked out, tears welling in my eyes. “When we first met you said that we’d go everywhere together. You can’t just throw me away like trash.”

The Doctor shook his head vehemently. “You are a treasure, [Y/N]. A treasure worth protecting. A treasure worth keeping far away to protect.”

“Doctor no, I’m not delicate, I can help you – “

The Doctor stood up suddenly. He didn’t look at me in the eyes as he said, “Goodbye, [Y/N]. Please stay safe. And don’t wait for me.”

I grabbed for his hand, but he brushed it aside as he marched out toward the door of my flat.

“Stop! Doctor! DOCTOR!” I shouted, going after him. He paused for a moment in the entrance of my flat, and I hoped against hope he would stop. He turned to face me, a pained expression on his face. His mouth formed the words:

“I love you.”

And he was gone.

Since June twenty-second

My heart's been on fire

I've been spending my nights in the rain-

Tryna put it out

“Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, dear [Y/N], happy birthday to you!”

I smiled, surrounded by my friends and family as they sang to me. My birthday hat sat askew atop my head and a modest cake sat in front of me, the birthday candles glowing.

“Go on, blow them out and make a wish,” said my mum.

I thought for a moment, then blew out the candles. Ten years older. How time flies.

“Well are you going to tell us what you wished for?” one of my friends asked, grinning.

Chuckling, I said what I repeated every year, “But then it wouldn’t be a real wish, would it?” My wish was silly – childish even, but I wished to see the Doctor one more time every year. At this point, it was a tradition I had to keep. The only soul who knew was [D/N] because she never judged.

My friends and family shared the evening together, laughing, joking, and enjoying each other’s company. I endured the usual teasing of ‘when are you going to get a man? You can’t just work forever!’ and my mum and dad joking (with a hint of truth) about how [D/N] would be their only grand-pup. I was used to it by now and it didn’t bother me anymore. Yes, I threw myself into my career. It paid off as I was doing quite well for myself. Unfortunately, my job didn’t really give me a lot of time for dates, but I did try. It just seemed I was very unlucky in the dating scene. Nothing ever worked out. They all simply didn’t fill a void that seemed to constantly be in my heart.

“You know, [Y/N], I have a new coworker who is super cute. I bet you guys would get along,” said one of my friends, whipping out her phone and showing me a picture. “Look he’s just your type!”

I laughed. “Oh come on, you know I don’t have time right now! Besides, [D/N] and I are doing just fine, the two of us. She’s my best partner!”

As the party started to wind down and people began to leave, I gave let everyone give one last pat to [D/N] on their way out. Her little tail still wagged furiously, though not as energetically when she was a pup. The grey around her muzzle was beginning to show more prominently, and I made sure to give her extra attention on days like today.

“Hey girl, don’t think I forgot about your birthday treat,” I said once we were alone. I went the pantry and pulled out a little cake-shaped dog treat. [D/N] snagged it happily and curled up in dog bed, happy to gnaw on the treat.

I smiled.

“I’ll be right back,” I said to her. “Enjoy!”

After tossing a few more things in my trash can, I tied up the full trash bag and I headed out of my flat. It was quiet outside. Peaceful. The summer bugs sang an evening song as I walked towards the trash receptacles in back of the complex. Street lamps illuminated my path. A man passed by me, his face obscured by the darkness.

“Good evening,” said the man.

“Evening,” I said back, without much thought.

“Headed anywhere special?” he asked.

Annoyed, I responded, “Yes, the trash. Isn’t that obvious from the trash bag in my hand?”

The man laughed. “You never change, [Y/N].”

“Sorry, do I know y –”

My breath caught in my throat and the trash bag dropped from my hands. The man stood under a street light, revealing his face to me.

“Doctor!” I exclaimed. I wanted to run to him, but I felt cemented to the spot. I was shocked. It was my Doctor, not the version I’d seen so many years ago. He looked almost identical to what I remembered, except that he was sporting a different color suit and looked a touch older.

“I – you, what are you doing here?” I fumbled over my words, not knowing what to say or how to feel.

“I need you, [Y/N]. One last adventure for us to share,” he said. “I’ll understand if you say ‘no’, of course, but I –”

I didn’t let the Doctor finish. I sprinted to him and wrapped my arms tightly around him. His familiar scent and warm embrace filling the empty space in my heart.

I heard him laugh, the wonderful sound giving me life. “I’ll take this as a yes.”

The familiar sound of the Tardis filled my ears and the Doctor, my Doctor, pulled me to his side once again.

“Allons-y!”

So I'm snapping one, two

Where are you?

You're still in my heart

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'Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies reveals that the regeneration between David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa in the 60th-anniversary special "The Giggle" was almost a much more visually chaotic and violent sequence than what would be seen on screen. The final episode brought the show's milestone celebrations to a close, as Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor battled the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) over the fate of the human race. In the final act of "The Giggle," the Fourteenth Doctor is shot by a beam of galvanic radiation, but rather than changing into his Fifteenth incarnation (Gatwa), the Doctor is divided into two beings by the fabled bi-generation, as both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors stand together.

With Doctor Who's shocking 60th-anniversary bi-generation twist taking audiences by surprise, Davies revealed more details about it with producer Phil Collinson and Tennant during BBC iPlayer's "The Giggle" commentary. He said the sequence could have almost had a more drastic visualization. When discussing the back-and-forth on how they brought the bi-generation to life, Collinson stated that the separation would have initially seen the two Doctors physically torn apart in the process, something Davies and Collinson agree would have been too violent. Check out Davies, Collinson, and Tennant's full explanation below:

Russell T Davies: "Oh my god, the fussing over this special effect was..."

David Tennant: "Was it difficult?"

Phil Collinson: "Oh, it was really difficult. Well, this particular shot, as well. It’s quite funny. It’s like a bubble, isn’t it? Like an amoeba. And there were versions where you kind of ripped apart."

Davies: "It was too violent!"

Collinson: "Some violence."

Davies: "It was too liquid sometimes. It was… It was too thin."

Collinson: "I wanted to put a popping cork on, but they wouldn’t let me."

Why A Calmer Regeneration Works Best For Doctor Who's 60th-Anniversary Storyline?

Doctor Who has seen several regeneration processes where the transformation has caused pure chaos — sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. In Tennant's final Tenth Doctor adventure, "The End of Time," the Time Lord regenerates inside the TARDIS after a farewell tour, leading to the vessel sustaining heavy damage from the regeneration energy, sending it crashing into a garden in the village of Leadworth, and requiring time to repair. Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor would weaponize this energy against a Dalek saucer in "The Time of the Doctor," and Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor would also damage the TARDIS in his regeneration, which left Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor separated from her ship.

With so many violent, destructive regenerations, the handover between Tennant and Gatwa not only marks a welcome change, but it works better for the tale "The Giggle" and prior Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials. The Fourteenth Doctor is faced with the question of why he is still running and not taking the time to come to terms with his previous travels, which bi-regeneration will allow as the Fifteenth Doctor continues the adventure. As such, the two Doctors taking a moment to work together and compartmentalize these two phases of their lives by pushing each other apart is a fitting encapsulation of what this moment means for the Doctor.

Bi-generation is a never-before-seen scenario that has raised dozens of questions about what the future of Doctor Who could be. As such, not only is a more peaceful process fitting with the 60th-anniversary specials' story but having a less violent separation between Tennant and Gatwa allowed audiences to be fully shocked by the mere implications rather than its visuals. While Gatwa's Doctor Who adventures will begin in the Christmas special, bi-generation will remain one of the show's pivotal moments.'

#Bi-generation #David Tennant #Ncuti Gatwa #Jodie Whittaker #The Giggle #Russell T. Davies #The Toymaker #Neil Patrick Harris #Phil Collinson #BBC iPlayer #Matt Smith #Peter Capaldi

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Good Omens 2: Fastforward Rewatch

Thoughts (positive, negative, and general analysis) below the cut, this one is long and FULL OF SPOILERS.

You have been warned.

2:1

The opening was perfect. Loved the scene in Heaven, loved the mystery with Gabriel, and Shax's introduction.

Why was Crowley living in his car?

Hell is much less intimidating than in Season 1.

Why are the demons on half-rations? Is this just a general "Hell Sucks" thing? Or does this tie into the supposed manpower issues later on and if so, why is Hell having manpower issues?

Where is Hastur? I miss him (and Ligur, even though I know he's dead).

They definitely needed to make a bigger deal about the Book of Life and Aziraphale's possible erasure from existence. This kind of got glossed over at the end of the episode and therefore wasn't as much of an existential threat to both Aziraphale and Crowley as it should have been and felt. It mostly just seemed like an afterthought.

This was overall, the best episode of the season.

2:2

"I knew the angel you were." I don't love the fact Aziraphale remembers Crowley's angelic form. Like, I get how that could fit in with later events, Aziraphale just not wanting to be seen associating with the newly-donned Crowley. I can buy that they worked together as shown in the first episode. But when Crowley fell, I would like to believe his identity changed and Aziraphale would no longer be able to recognize him, leading us into the opening Eden scene from the first season.

Some of the visuals in the Job scenes were a little wonky.

Gods, I love when David Tennant gets menacing.

Heaven and its representatives didn't feel quite as threatening this time around, which really detracted from the tension around the whole hiding Gabriel issue.

Okay, so Crowley doesn't destroy the goats...this is fine (I guess). And yes, mostly in character for Crowley. But it also seemed to be pushing the "I'm really just good guy" Crowley line a little too hard? I mean, he is a demon. He got demonic moments in Season 1 (see below).

ON THE OTHER HAND, the scene with Aziraphale and the ox meat was a little disturbing, the way Aziraphale desperately pounded that stuff down after Crowley essentially tempted him into it. Apple analogies, anyone? The musical cues and Crowley's look just seemed to spell out that this was some kind of corruption, which was very cool.

The angels can't be that dumb with the restoration of Job's kids? Right? I mean, the theme of the first season was that a disconnected bureaucracy didn't keep tabs or care, not that their highest representatives would come down and be so easily boondoggled.

Oh my gods, Hamm's wig hahahahah.

Loved the scene where Aziraphale thinks he's going to hell.

2.3

There's an interesting conceit here with both Crowley and Aziraphale trying to manipulate humans into falling in love, which is kind of analogous to the situation with their respective deities trying to manipulate humans for their own causes (like Job, for instance).

LOVED LOVED LOVED David Tennant getting to rip with the thick Scottish accent.

Aziraphale saying people get a choice in Edinburgh while not giving Nina and Maggie a choice is an interesting contradiction.

I just need to note that Aziraphale was listening to Danse Macabre in the Bentley (a piece which, appropriately for this setting, begins with a series of tritones in the solo violin, aka the "Devil's Interval." Take from that what you will).

The Edinburgh scenes were very effective, overall, but a) Aziraphale's diary is mentioned, like, 1.2 times and never brought up again b) probably needed some cutting just to make it tighter and c) Aziraphale seemed a little too naive in this sequence?

Also, Crowley having a Scott Lang set of moments was funny but also...a choice.

This all being said, the Edinburgh sequence ending in the manner it did (Crowley abruptly getting dragged back to Headquarters) leads you to believe Crowley got the shit tortured out of him in hell after that whole stunt.

2.4

Conversation between Shax and Aziraphale in the car was perfect.

But again, the whole risk of Aziraphale's destruction due to his hiding Gabriel was still wildly underdeveloped and didn't feel real or threateningly imminent.

Unpopular opinion. The whole set of post-bomb magic scenes weren't entirely necessary.

I suppose if Crowley had missed with his shot, Aziraphale would have to explain his discorporation to Heaven which could get tricky if they started to ask more questions about how that came to be. But it wasn't going to kill Aziraphale. Would have been messy, though.

This being said, the magic stuff was very entertaining and fleshed out more of the Aziraphale-Crowley relationship, and I loved the whole photo-blackmail angle and felt that maybe it was resolved a little too quickly?

Nazi zombies? I mean, okay. I personally felt it would have been better to leave them buried in the ruins of the church and be done with them.

Sometimes too much information detracts from the original material. The first 1941 scene we got in Season 1 was perfect. I almost prefer we would have left that as is and done the magic bit in another era.

2.5

The whole 10,000 (700) demon march on the bookshop was just kind of...weird? Like, I get Beezlebub authorizing it to find Gabriel but then they attack the bookshop and it all got a little muddled.

The demon designs/makeup/costumes were so much better in Season 1, as was the hell set.

Gathering the shopkeepers for the meeting felt like filler material.

The Crowley/Gabriel scene was A+, especially when Crowley ordered Gabriel to jump out the window.

Crowley keeps telling people he's not nice but always acting nice. How much leeway does he get as a demon?

IT WAS WEIRD AND KINDA CREEPY that Aziraphale pulled a Wanda Maximoff and semi-mind controlled everyone into his little utopian Jane Austen fantasy.

"Surrender the Angle" hahahhahahahaahhaha

The demon attack sequence was not my favorite.

2.6

Crowley's Heavenly costume change was awesome.

I'm sorry but I can't deal with the Beezlebub/Gabriel pairing, it's just so RANDOM to me.

And this relates to the way I think one of the larger issues with this season is that the plot hinges on Gabriel just...suddenly not being a massive dick anymore and all that development happening offscreen. I mean, mazel tov to ineffable bureaucracy shippers and all (and I do like the notion of this season being smaller in scope and not depending on yet another end-of-world situation) but it just felt so...undeserved?

Also, the line, "Beezlebub is my Heaven" is just...*shivers* Come on, guys.

Very glad Nina and Maggie didn't end up magically together. I also felt their "heart-to-heart" with Crowley was extremely forced and very fanfiction-y.

The Metatron manipulation here was Class A. He obviously despises Crowley and was playing Aziraphale like a damn lyre.

I dearly dearly hope all the "spiked coffee theories" are false, because it would take away from all the fantastic character development and regression moments that center around Aziraphale's decision. It makes sense, what Aziraphale did. But Metatron is out here playing 5d chess while everyone else is playing checkers.

Tempting Aziraphale with redeeming crowley to angel status? So Aziraphale can "fix" him and stand him up as another toy character just like he did with his Austen reenactment? oh boi. Yeah, I'd be pissed if I were Crowley. Forget the trauma of his fall and not wanting to go back to Heaven (which kind of got sidelined this season), but the fact that your best friend and possible romantic interest of several-thousand years is basically saying "you're not enough as you are" by implying Crowley would be "better" as an angel (although i know that's not necessarily Aziraphale's intention)? That's a yikes.

David Tennant is so, so good at being nervous and heartbroken here. Great speech.

"Nothing lasts forever, Crowley." OUCH.

So, I may get flamed for this, but I feel like the kiss may have been a little forced. I get the romance angle, and I think that was well-deserved at this point, but I'm not sure how I feel about Crowley just going in for the kill there like that. Unpopular opinion, I realize, but between that and the stereotypical rising string soundtrack, it was a little much.

Final Overall Thoughts

This season felt like it had maybe 3ish episodes of material that got stretched into 6.

Hell was nowhere near as frightening/gross/built out as it was in Season 1. And the costuming/makeup was much more drab in comparison to the first Season.

Crowley, I hate to say, got a little "woobified" in this Season. Remember, in Season 1 he delivers the Antichrist, does actual demonic work, causes a bunch of paintball players to think they're shooting real guns for a solid twenty minutes, and literally annihilates another demon with holy water. I realize escaping Hell may have softened him a bit, but I missed some of his more present edge from Season 1.

Along these lines, Aziraphale also felt more naive than he was in Season 1. He's persnickety and idealistic, but not necessarily wide-eyed.

Maggie and Nina had great chemistry. I kind of wish they had leaned into the whole "Crowley and Aziraphale manipulation of their lives" angle a little more, as it's a great thematic parallel with the duo's complaints about the agents of Heaven and Hell.

The angels and demons conveniently became much less competent for plot purposes. Kind of lowers the stakes when your opponents can't seem to plan all that well? Saraqael was the only one who seemed like they had their shit together this time around.

Also, the infighting as to the vacant Archangel position really could have been expanded upon, as that would have been a very interesting plot thread to follow, especially as it relates to Shax and Furfur's little administrative battle downstairs (which would bring back the theme of bureaucratic nonsense from Season 1).

Also, Shax went from a legitimate, compelling threat and character to kind of petering out by Episode 6. That was disappointing. her early scenes were fantastic and I get the feeling they didn't know quite know what to do with her character.

This all being said, there were a lot of great character moments and themes and the payoff with Aziraphale's decision to go back to Heaven was perfect. I'm very curious where this goes in Season 3, if we get a Season 3 (I'm assuming it will end in South Downs, but how we get there will be another...ah ha ha...story).

Overall, I'd give this season a 6.5/10 or 7/10.

#good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #etc etc etc

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Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like I think shipbaiting and queerbaiting are at all the same. I just think it's funny how of all the times I've seen David Tennant kiss in a TV show there's always something to it so it doesn't really lead to anything like it's to save a life or it's not really his character or the other person was bodyswapped or it's a one off character. I know it's not connected at all, but I thought it was funny since it I don't think this kiss will count either. Obviously, the choices on dw have nothing to do with the good omens thing. It was a random thought, and I shouldn't have mentioned it. Sorry for the confusion

oh yeah sure, that's fair. i don't think there's anything wrong with mentioning it, i just thought you were using that as some kind of evidence. although i probably could say a lot about ten and kissing on doctor who (well i could say a lot about doctorrose and kissing, and i could also say a lot about the fact that for like ten years every single doctor had kissed every single one of their companions (i believe up through eleven and clara)). anyway yeah thanks for clarifying, i promise i do not hold your wording or my misinterpretation thereof against you <3

#asks #lifeblogs

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andynortonuk · 25 days

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ALAN THE INFINITE from Parabella on Vimeo.

Alan’s excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8– a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realises that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely more tricky than he ever could have dreamed.

CREDITS Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band

CAST ALAN - Dan Ojari GARY - Baker Terry PREA - Theodora van Der Beek SUSAN - Jessica Rayner NEIL - Rob Carter SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear

Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset

DOP - Simon Paul Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead

Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe

Puppet Design - Mikey Please Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara Rigging - Robin Jackson Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder

Set Design - Dan Ojari Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson

Modelmakers - Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost

2D facial Animation - Mikey Please Additional 2D - Mathias Sgard & Elliot Dear

Lead Compositor - Mikey Please Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight

Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien 3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX Production Support - Ali Albion

Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter

Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth

THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios

A Parabella Studios & Blink Industries Film

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kartikdutt · 2 months

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ALAN THE INFINITE from Parabella on Vimeo.

CAST ALAN - Dan Ojari GARY - Baker Terry PREA - Theodora van Der Beek SUSAN - Jessica Rayner NEIL - Rob Carter SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear

Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset

DOP - Simon Paul Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead

Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe

Set Design - Dan Ojari Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson

2D facial Animation - Mikey Please Additional 2D - Mathias Sgard & Elliot Dear

Lead Compositor - Mikey Please Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight

Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter

Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth

THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios

A Parabella Studios & Blink Industries Film

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mori-no-majou · 9 months

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I need to tell you guys about the Doctor Who nightmare I had last night

okay so I dreamt that I was travelling with the Doctor (specifically David Tennant), and we wound up in one of those situations where the Tardis takes the Doctor somewhere randomly because he’s needed there. so when we got out we didn’t know what year it was exactly, but the Doctor was like ‘well, based on the taste of the air I’d say we’re in 18th-century Paris.’

you can see where this is going. I didn’t.

instead I'm like ‘oh sweet, this is the time period where men's fashion peaked, and I’m in Actual Paris! I am creatively obligated to go all out on this!’ (I have a special interest in historical fashion) (because I’m autistic) (you can see where this is going) so I put on just the fanciest court suit I can find. embroidered waistcoat, velvet frock coat, the works. I walk out of the Tardis having never felt so fabulous in all my life. (you can see where this is going)

so then the Doctor’s like ‘welp, better go and look for whatever the Tardis thinks I need to see.’ and we both head off, but we round a corner and immediately get separated in a crowd (you can see where this is going) so I have to try and find him again

so I’m wandering around 18th-century Paris alone, in my extremely fancy outfit, looking confused and freaked out and generally autistic (YOU CAN SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING)

and then I run into a bunch of revolutionaries and they’re like ‘MON DIEU, C’EST LE ROI’ and I get FUCKING ARRESTED and the Doctor is still nowhere in sight

and so I’m being marched up to the guillotine and I’m like ‘no you don’t understand! I’m not the king, I’m just a regular autistic person! I hate the monarchy too! DOCTOR WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU’ and they’re yelling at me in French and neither of us can understand each other (which leads me to believe the Doctor just straight up ditched me since the Tardis wasn’t translating it)

and uhh then I woke up. the end

#urusai majou #and I never did find out what the monster of the week actually was #I am HOPING it was a two-parter episode and I didn't wake up because I was actually about to die for my fashion crimes #but I'm trans and it's the bbc so who knows

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hellooo merryana ☺ do you have any favorite rom-coms?

oh HELLO! i very much do 🥰

leap year (2010) - god-tier rom com. has all the best tropes, does them to perfection AND has amy adams. this is the romcom by which i measure all others. what more do you want?

broken hearts gallery (2020) - this movie makes me cry for no other reason than it makes me so so happy and there's not a single thing i don't love about it. (other than the two leads being aussies and having to pretend to be american)

george of the jungle (1997) - everyone talks about brendan frazer in this movie as they should but never forget leslie mann is literally the most loveable woman in this. also they have insane chemistry they're so in love and so funny

top end wedding (2019) - classic culture clash rom com written by and starring Aboriginal actor Miranda Tapsel, about a Blak woman who comes back home to marry her white boyfriend only to find her mum has disappeared. really beautiful!!

destination wedding (2018) - winona ryder and keanu reeves play two cynics who argue their way into being in love while at a mutual frenemy's wedding. its very much a movie that runs more like a play, but the dialogue is SO FUNNY. and winona and keanu have such great chemistry.

watching the detectives (2007) - lucy liu plays cillian murphy's manic pixie NIGHTMARE femme fatale. this movie is a perfect noughties nostalgia comedy that also pokes fun at film bros with unrealistic expectations of women. excellent.

single all the way (2021) - i genuinely loved this gay christmas rom com so much its so funny and all the tropes were done so well.

love birds (2011) - this new zealand rom com about how a man adopting a duck helps him meet the love of his life, a woman played by sally hawkins, is literally one of the most wholesome romcoms in the universe.

ali's wedding (2017) - aussie rom com about 2 muslims falling in love by accident. top tier pining. top tier longing!

the princess diaries 2 (2004) - i say this with zero irony. this is one of the most romantic films ever made. the comedy is wholesome and the romance is genuinely compelling. i think about princess mia and her husband nicholas everyday

roman holiday (1953) - its a classic for a REASON. its literally so SO lovely (ignoring the classic hollywood age gap). its the blueprint for so much of the modern romcom films.

much ado about nothing (2011) - speaking of blueprint, shakespeare literally wrote the perfect romcom when he wrote this shit and the 2011 production starring catherine tate and david tennant is much ado at its PEAK.

friends with benefits (2011) - on paper this movie has no business being good but fuck it!! it is! justin timberlake and mila kunis remain one of my fave on screen pairs ever. this script is really funny even though some parts of it are a little dated but damn it i love this movie!!

saving face (2004) - there aren't many lesbian rom coms that are good and genuinely funny. this is one of them!

music and lyrics (2007) - i just love drew barrymore and hugh grant in this movie they're so funny and every single conversation they have is gold. the music industry comedy commentary in this movie is also so funny!

none of these movies are perfect and all have their hiccups but they're also so powerful they make me wanna love the concept of being in-love, a concept i find genuinely terrifying. so enjoy!

#rom com #films #anon #film recommendations #/#rom coms

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mizgnomer · 3 years

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Collection of David Tennant in Group Shots from Quiz/Panel Shows

Featuring: - Comedy World Cup (2012) - Room 101 (2015) - Ask Rhod Gilbert (2010) - Blankety Blank (for Comic Relief - 2011) - Have I Got News for You (2019 is pictured, but he’s hosted 7 times) - Bring the Noise (2015) - Through the Keyhole (for Comic Relief - 2011) - Just a Minute (2015) - QI (2009) - Nevermind the Buzzcocks (2009)

#david tennant #and lots of other people too!#panel shows #quiz shows #oh the life he leads #so many people #stuff i posted

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While I absolutely won’t diminish the obstacles he faces as an out actor, I still do think Jonathan Bailey probably stands to have the best post-Bridgerton career. He was the most established and accomplished (Olivier) before the show. He’s played both gay and straight roles. He is, imo, easily the best actor on the show (in a cast of talented people). He’s worked with prestigious creators already—something no one else in the cast really has. Michaela Coel and Phoebe Waller-Bridge both regard him well still since they’ve each given quotes about him for interviews. Of the leads so far, I think he has the best foundation and the most talent to parlay Bridgerton into something better.

Oh I completely agree but I think with the way the internet collectively exploded when RJP appeared on our screens and with many people thirsting over Simone Ashley and calling for more interviews with her, there's a very high chance that those two could also have the same success.

I also think that if they ever give him anything outside of comedy and sex scenes, Luke Thompson has just as great a chance as JB. He already puts so much nuance behind Benedict with what little he's given and I think in terms of the Bridgerton siblings he's the closest to JB in skill and unpacking his characters imo. Although Claudia Jessie is also fantastic.

You forget that Jonathan Bailey worked on West End for years before Bridgerton, so he had the opportunity to work with people like Samantha Barks and Marianne Elliot along with his TV credits in Doctor Who and Broadchurch, which directly puts him in contact with greats like Peter Capaldi and David Tennant. Jonathan Bailey is gonna succeed after Bridgerton because he's a smart working actor and knows how to make connections and spread out his resume. Bridgerton merely launched him into the public spotlight much like RJP.

So yes, he's gonna have a great post-Bridgerton career not just because he's talented but also because he spent most of his life working to ensure that he had those connections and enriching his resume to the point where anyone would be an idiot not to hire him.

#bridgerton #Jonathan bailey

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couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name · 4 years

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Ya know, I truly hope Miss Renesmee Carlie Cullen fully dedicates herself to just....being as out there and iconic as possible

first things first- ANYTHING with the loch ness monster on it, she owns. Posters, shirts, jackets, shoes, folders, buttons, iron-ons, there is always at least 5 pieces of Nessie merch on her at all times

once she gets old enough to start high school, the cover story is her and Edward are siblings that Carlisle and Esme took in, and sometimes her classmates will ask her what her biological parents were like and she will flat out be like 'oh, they're vampires' and Edward and Bella are like. 5 feet away trying not to scream

every Halloween she'll show up to school in an elaborate Nosferatu costume

goes out of her way to photobomb people in increasingly ridiculous ways so there will Always be a photographic record of her and in like 100 years she can get a huge kick out of teens on the internet trying to make a conspiracy about her

joins as many school clubs as she can, even if she has no interest in them- she just Really wants a concrete record of herself to exist lmao

ICONIC at school theater though. One of those demon theater kids that come to rehearsal purely to cause chaos and nothing else, but her voice is incredible so she secures every lead. One time she somehow managed to star in a show while also playing in the school band for it- her classmates still have no idea how she pulled it off

Always brings blood out in public in a CLEAR THERMOS and it stresses her family out so much but everyone else thinks she's just like, weirdly into tomato juice so the Cullens can't stop her

to everyone's surprise...her biggest chaos enabler is Jasper lmao. everyone thought he'd be a logical, responsible uncle but they're just. A Problem together. He'll 100% assist her in any prank she wants to pull, he gets her fake id's when she wants to sneak into a club with friends, he bails her out of jail without telling her parents, they figured out if she gets high and he reads her feelings he'll get high too and it's. So fucking funny.

she's always carrying some random instrument around school- like for a while it's a guitar or a harmonica, fine, but then she'll start lugging a cello around, a tuba (she doesn't even play, she stole it off a guy who was annoying her) and it escalates until one day she's wheeling a piano around the building. no one's even sure how she got in in the doors of the school. She keeps running kids over in the hallway with it

You know the Catherine Tate Lauren Cooper skit with David Tennant? Where she's being a terrible student and then perfectly recites Shakespeare? 100% Nessie

when she starts getting dates Jacob keeps trying to wing man and be over supportive and give her a ton of girl advice and it's embarrassing as hell so one day when he was on a spiel about How To Woo A Lady she looks him in the eyes and goes 'oh really? did that work on my mom?' and the Cullens fucking LOSE IT. Jacob had to go live in the woods for a few days because he couldn't cope

Emmet and Jasper: arrive to school in their jeep. Rose and Alice: arrive in a convertible. Edward: arrives in his dumb volvo. Bella and Jake: arrive to school on motorcycles. Nessie: arrives to school on a unicycle while juggling

one year she ended up getting nominated for prom queen and Edward read the minds of the teachers tallying the votes so he knew she won and he and Bella were so excited!! they're like we're gonna take so many pictures of our baby looking like a princess! And then she emerges from her room, actually drenched in pigs blood. Like she just did it to herself and went to the dance and accepted her crown like that

she regularly commits crimes against fashion. If she comes out of her room and sees Alice contemplating turning herself over to the Volturi, she KNOWS she's picked a great look

somehow gets ahold of Aro's cell number and sends him selfies of her blatantly breaking vampire laws captioned 'whatcha gonna do'. he keeps blocking her but she keeps managing to get through to him somehow

she illegally sells soda out of her locker and does people's homework for cash, while also paying other people to do her homework for her. she organizes every single senior prank. she's never gotten a detention in her whole immortal life because every teacher just Adores her for some reason

had 100% used her powers for deserved evil before. Like, if someone's being a dick at school, she'll sneak into their room at night and give them nightmarea threatening them to be a better person lol

sometimes she'll show up at the hospital unannounced and ask Carlisle, in front of his coworkers, 'yo can I raid the blood bank?'

her bedroom looks like a library. every wall, floor to ceiling books.

she's been publishing trashy romance novels under a fake name for almost 40 years now and no one in her family knows

one birthday Jacob takes her on a trip to vegas and they get wasted, at some point they were laughing about how ridiculous their lives are and they're like 'wouldn't it be fucking hilarious if we had a baby'. they then black out, hangover style, and wake up like a week later with a payment on her card to a fertility clinic. Jacob's like 😱 and Ness is just like 'you get to be the one to explain this to my parents'

Their kid is absolutely hilarious, they were correct, and at some point they realized 'wait...drinks blood..doesn't sparkle...can shape shift...we've somehow created a classic pop culture vampire' lmao

Edward had to threaten them to get them to not name the kid Vladimir

Also to be clear: Nessie and Jacob have the EXACT same dynamic as Will and Grace. that's canon.

says its her goal to star in a live action all female production of mamma mia and Carlisle is like 'honey you know you can't do anything on broadway or in hollywood' and she's like, 'no, in real life. I'm gonna go to greece and attract a bunch of women with abba songs' and he's like,,,,,ah

she loves all music but she goes out of her way to Only play stuff she knows Edward hates lmao

one day she remembers she doesn't need to breathe and can see under water and just. books herself a ticket to scotland and Finds The Loch Ness Monster

she actually personally finds a lot of monsters and cryptids like her hybrid aura just attracts all kind of weird shit and she LOVES it. She stops writing trashy romance novels and starts writing autobiographies of her traveling and hanging out with paranormal beings and everyone just assumes its fiction so she becomes a best selling fantasy author lmao

100% she's very into witchy stuff and only like...half in a trendy way. She's like what if on top of everything I've got going on I can cast spells? Think I deserve that power

when she's a couple decades old she catches Edward looking grossed out one day and she asks him what's up and he's like 'I really dont need to hear what creepy teachers think about my daughter' and she's like. oh. Dad we are gonna get SO MANY pedophiles arrested shdndjdn she gets him to expose teachers and she baits them then calls the police. queen.

She finds out she can get tattoos but they fade completely out of her skin within 5 years so she's always getting crazy tats

posts selfies on social media of her just like. hanging out with mountain lions or chilling on top of the space needle. her classmates think they're all photoshopped obvi but it drives her family insane

imagine you're 15 and you're on a nice hike in the woods and you come across your one classmate half naked, sacrificing a bear in some ritual, blood dripping down her face, bigfoot chilling on the rocks behind her filming the ritual on her phone...like on one hand, what would you do, but on the other hand. you've known this girl for a bit and you aren't surprised at all

anyway. stan Nessie Cullen.

#twilight saga #renesmee cullen #nessie cullen #breaking dawn #twilight #molly mumbles

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'Well now, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. Clearly wanting to end the 60th anniversary specials with a bang, the latest episode from returning showrunner Russell T Davies, titled The Giggle, saw David Tennant's Doctor and Catherine Tate's Donna Noble take on the Toymaker, played by Neil Patrick Harris.

Their battle against the villain took many unexpected turns, which all built up to the moment everyone was waiting for - the regeneration into Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor, who will be captaining the TARDIS from here on out. However, it's safe to say that it was far from your usual regeneration... Oh yeah, Davies is having fun, and not only with that, as a few clues are littered throughout the episode too that hint at what's coming next.

Naturally you will be left with many questions but never fear, as we've got the answers...

So… what is bi-generation?

The Giggle just completely changed the history of Doctor Who with the introduction of bi-generation, a new concept for the beloved show. As the Toymaker challenges the Doctor to a third game, as they are playing for best of three, he decides he wants to play against a new face, blasting the Time Lord with the galvanic beam, causing him to regenerate.

Companions Donna and a returning Melanie Bush (portrayed by Bonnie Langford), each hold the Doctor's hands, who of course chooses his famous catchphrase "allons-y" for his last words. However, after glowing with light nothing happens - the Doctor still has David Tennant's face. Saying that it "feels different this time", the Doctor asks his friends to "pull" his body each way, and in doing so they yank Ncuti Gatwa out of him. And so, standing in front of us are two Doctors - Tennant's Fourteenth and Gatwa's Fifteenth.

Both are clearly initially puzzled, but soon realise that they have "bi-generated", something we are told was previously only thought of as a myth. This means we now have two Doctors, each with the same memories and abilities, but able to co-exist in the same world, leading separate lives. And if you were worried about them sharing a TARDIS, Gatwa's Fifteenth reminds us that after winning the Toymaker's game they are still due to be given a prize. And so, he hits the TARDIS with a fairground hammer causing it to duplicate. Tennant's Doctor now has his own, as does Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor - notably his comes with a jukebox, which is rather fabulous!

What happens to David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor?

After banishing the Toymaker (more on that below), David Tennant's Doctor admits that now there are two of them, he's unsure how everything is going to work. As the Doctors discuss their life so far, it's noted that not for one second has the Time Lord stopped for a breather, always going from adventure to adventure, battle to battle. Donna believes this is why his previous face came back and reunited with her - the Doctor's body was telling him that it's worn out and needs to process all the pain it's experienced over those many, many years. And how better to do that then spend some time relaxing with best friend Donna Noble?

Which is exactly what the Fourteenth Doctor does, going on a journey they have never been on before - resting. After saying goodbye to Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor, we catch up with Tennant's Time Lord at Donna's home, where he is sat enjoying lunch with his new found family - which includes former companion Mel. Smiling at everyone, he says he has "never been so happy" in his life.

However, we doubt that this restful time will last as the Doctor can't resist adventuring. In fact, we learn that he has already taken Yasmin Finney's Rose and Langford's Mel for a spin already in his TARDIS. With the launch of the new 'Whoniverse', the official home for all things Doctor Who, and a deal with Disney+ internationally, we can easily see Tennant's Doctor getting his own spin-off show. Allons-y!

What happens to Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor?

After comforting an emotional Fourteenth Doctor, it's time for Ncuti Gatwa's Time Lord to go on his own adventure. Saying goodbye to Donna Noble and Tennant's Doctor, giving the latter a respectful salute, the Fifteenth Doctor sets course for a new destination in time and space, beginning their travels in the TARDIS. Just like us at home, Donna asks the important question, "where's he going?" The Fourteenth Doctor's answer is quite simple, "everywhere". He then wishes the Fifteenth Doctor "good luck" on his journey, which is an emotional handover between the two characters.

Words appear on the screen right at the end of the episode telling us that the "destination" is "Christmas" - with a trailer playing after the credits have rolled for the upcoming Christmas Day special The Church on Ruby Road.

What happens to the Toymaker?

After losing a game of catch against the two Doctors, it is decreed that the Toymaker will be banished from existence for forever. Shrunken into a box, UNIT's Kate Lethbridge-Stewart asks her colleagues to take the Toymaker down into the deepest vault, where he will be trapped.

Just before he is punished to banishment the Toymaker warns that his "legions are coming" - whilst we think this is a desperate, empty threat, you really do never know with Doctor Who. Maybe the Toymaker will pop up again in the future...

Who is 'the one who waits'?

One character that we definitely know is coming is "the one who waits", a character the Toymaker mentioned earlier whilst in discussion with the Doctor. He confessed that whilst he has faced many foes - including the Master - there was one "player" he could not play against, cryptically saying: "I saw it, hiding, and I ran."

Naturally the Doctor questions who the Toymaker is referring to, but the villain shrugs it off by replying with: "That's someone else's game." Presumably here that "someone else" is Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor, who will at some point face-off against this currently mysterious enemy.

But who is the one who waits? Given that Doctor Who has a long history, there are plenty of villains to choose from, but it has to be someone so terrifying even the Toymaker didn't want to take them on.

One possible answer is the Eternals - and no, we aren't referring to the Marvel characters here, but instead a race of powerful, element beings who were first introduced to Doctor Who in 1983. Able to create things out of only thin air and manipulate matter at their will, they would be a formidable foe.

We have also met similar powered beings in 1978, this time called the Guardians (again, not a MCU reference), who each embodied different parts of the universe, from light to darkness.

Of course, we will have to wait and see, but perhaps this is the "boss" the menacing Meep mentioned in the first Doctor Who 60th anniversary special The Star Beast. We were told that character would be revealed during Ncuti Gatwa's upcoming season, so maybe it is the same being as "the one who waits".

What happens to the tooth containing the Master?

Not all of the Toymaker is banished into that box though, as we see his gold tooth lying on the floor. Of course, that isn't your typical tooth though, as we learnt earlier that inside it is the Master. That's right, the most famous Doctor Who villain of them all played a game against the Toymaker and lost - his punishment was to be "sealed for eternity" inside that tooth.

Intriguingly a hand wearing red nail polish picks up the tooth, indicating that someone is going to bring the Master back. But who does the hand belong to? Our bet is that it's the character Ru Paul's Drag Race star Jinkx Monsoon will play. All we know so far is that Monsoon will play a villain against Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor, an enemy that is said to be "the most powerful" one yet in Doctor Who history. Intriguing...'

#The Giggle #Bi-generation #David Tennant #Catherine Tate #Donna Noble #Ncuti Gatwa #The Toymaker #Neil Patrick Harris #The Master #Doctor Who #60th Anniversary #Jinkx Monsoon #Russell T. Davies #Bonnie Langford #Melanie Bush #Yasmin Finney #Rose Noble #The One Who Waits #Eternals

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LGBTQ+ Movies I Watched Recently (Part 2)

Happiest Season (2020) dir. Clea DuVall

Short Summary: Abby plans on proposing to Harper when they visit Harper’s family for the holidays. Her plans get derailed when she learns that Harper hasn’t come out to her family yet.

Why you should watch it: Not gonna lie, Mackenzie Davis drew me to this movie; I’ve been in love with her ever since San Junipero came out. Add Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza and Dan Levy to the mix and I’m sold. If you want a sapphic romance with a happy ending, this one’s for you.

Été 85 (2020) dir. François Ozon

Short Summary: Alexis recounts his six-week love affair with David during the summer of ‘85.

Why you should watch it: If you love 80s aesthetic and music, you definitely should watch this. The movie made me nostalgic of that decade and I wasn’t even alive back then! It’s a whirlwind summer romance reminiscent of Call Me by Your Name but with a more devastating twist.

Getting Go: The Go Doc Project (2013) dir. Cory James Krueckeberg

Short Summary: An obsessed college boy pursues his internet crush through the pretext of making a documentary about him.

Why you should watch it: The script and the acting are the one-two punch of this film. The writing is incredibly genuine, and both of the actors’ performances made the lines feel even more natural. I’m not the biggest fan of mockumentary-style films, but this one felt like it was a recording of my own life. Hyper-obsessive college grad with a Tumblr blog? Might as well have called out half the population of this damn site.

Pihalla (2017) dir. Nils-Erik Ekblom

Short Summary: Miku and Elias find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside.

Why you should watch it: I’m a sucker for gays in the countryside™ and although this one is not quite up there with God’s Own Country and Call Me by Your Name, it still makes for a good watch. Miku as a character and his relationship with his parents was chaotic and fun. His relationship with Elias felt really natural and dreamy.

You, Me and Him (2017) dir. Daisy Aitkens

Short Summary: Olivia, a mature responsible lawyer, wants to have a baby, but her girlfriend Alex isn’t ready for the responsibility. Things get even more complicated when their flirty neighbour, John, joins the picture.

Why you should watch it: It is one of the most feel-good lesbian romcoms I have seen in a while. But I warn you, there are some dark parts that can really sneak up on you. Yeah, it’s hilarious, but damn it made me ugly cry, too. Oh, and if you want to see David Tennant as an alpha male douchebag, here’s your chance. (CW: **spoiler alert** p̶r̶e̶g̶n̶a̶n̶c̶y̶ ̶l̶o̶s̶s̶ )

Giant Little Ones (2018) dir. Keith Behrman

Short Summary: Franky and Ballas have been best friends since childhood, both on the swimming team, both incredibly popular. But after an incident during Franky’s birthday, they quickly fall apart and Franky falls from grace.

Why you should watch it: I think the film captures just how tumultuous coming-of-age stories are. Franky is going through his own journey of self-identity, and I’m happy that the movie didn’t rush in with labels. The conversation Franky has with his dad at the end also hits hard. (CW: physical assault, allusions to sexual assault)

Our Love Story (2016) dir. HyunJu Lee

Short Summary: A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.

Why you should watch it: It’s a very intimate love story that isn’t rushed or dragged out for too long. We definitely see Yoon-Jo and Ji-Soo’s relationship bloom from start to end, but it’s not mind-numbingly boring to watch. Raw and unembellished, I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a realistic portrayal of wlw romance.

Die Mitte der Welt (2016) dir. Jakob M. Erwa

Short Summary: The film follows Phil and his relationship with his family, his best friend, and a newcomer at his school, Nicholas.

Why you should watch it: This is technically a second watch for me, and I’m glad I rewatched it, because I was able to catch some glaring red flags that I missed the first time. I love this movie in spite of all the heartache it caused me. The story, especially the deal with Phil’s family, struck a chord in me. And the shots! Visually stunning as well!

Les Amours Imaginaires (2010) dir. Xavier Dolan

Short Summary: Marie and Francis’ friendship is put to the test when a beautiful boy called Nicolas comes between them.

Why you should watch it: Watch it for the visuals -- the colors, the costumes, the cast. Seriously, the actors included here may as well be kept in the Louvre: Xavier Dolan, Neils Schneider, Monia Chokri, hell, even a cameo from Louis Garrel! Dolan said it himself that this is a shallow film, but it’s worth the watch just to see Neils Schneider wearing heart-shaped glasses.

Closet Monster (2015) dir. Stephen Dunn

Short Summary: A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Why you should watch it: Right off the bat, I am going to say that this film is dark. I tried watching it back in college but tapped out within the first ten minutes because something traumatic happens. Then I tried again about a week ago, finished it this time. It’s actually a very moving film. It’s violent and gory in some parts, but also ridiculous and wholesome in other parts. IT HAS A TALKING HAMSTER NAMED BUFFY! BUFFY WAS THE STAR OF THIS MOVIE FOR ME. (CW: gay bashing/sexual assault)

Straight Up (2020) dir. James Sweeney

Short Summary: Todd and Rory are intellectual soul mates. He might be gay but she might not care.

Why you should watch it: The dialogue in this film is undeniably sharp and witty. Loved the fast-paced back and forth between the two main characters as they discuss relationships, sex, gender, and more. James Sweeney and Katie Findlay’s chemistry just pulled you into the screen. It was funny, it was sweet, it was heartwrenching, it was great! (CW: allusions to sexual assault)

Latter Days (2003) dir. C. Jay Cox

Short Summary: A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliché, and catastrophe.

Why you should watch it: I saw this in santiagonex’s top 20 LGBTQ+ films with happy endings, and I honestly thought it was gonna be a feel-good watch. Instead, I got a rollercoaster melodrama filled with early 2000s gay culture, religious guilt, buttcheeks, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Needless to say, I got more than I bargained for. (CW: self-harm, conversion therapy)

The Old Guard (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Blythewood

Short Summary: A covert team of immortal mercenaries are suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.

Why you should watch it: Okay, I was debating whether I should include this here, because it’s not necessarily an LGBTQ+ film as much as it is an action film with queer characters. I decided to include it, because JESUS! I have never seen such respectful and well-written representation of queer characters and relationships. Joe and Nicky are the most unproblematic couple in history. PERIOD. Pray for sequels, everyone. This is the kind of representation we deserve in mainstream media.

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#Queer Cinema #queer films #LGBT Films #lgbtq #Movie Recommendation #kristen stewart #mackenzie davis #summer of 85 #the old guard

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lulu’s super long doctor who notes, part one!!

from rose, to the runaway bride; also general notes and overall consideration of ten’s character arc

-yes! i watched nine and ten!! -it is very unlikely i could be persuaded to watch eleven although i do have an interest in twelve, and thirteen looks like she's having a great time but wtf is going on with the timeless child??? (cultural osmosis continues.) the thing is i also have a Long-Standing Beef with moffat and like, i don't want to deal with him????????? i just???????? don't????????????????????????????????????? -not that rtd was TOP TIER EXCELLENT SUPERB DID NOTHING WRONG, he definitely did things wrong too, but rtd is on vaguely thin but decently substantial ice for the most part. moffat is on sight, however. -on. sight. -i did my time in bbc sherlock many years ago and again, i witnessed the heyday of this fandom on here and the, sort of decline of it, and the very valid moffat criticism, and i just do not want to engage any more than i have already had to -yes!!! watching this was embarrassing to admit!!!!! why?????????? -i did see the heyday. i saw the cringe. i don't like calling it ~cringe~ but like, some of the......posts.................. (-which still very much exist on pinterest.) -it's weird bc it's like. the......"cringe" sort of obsession type of passion about a fandom. like it very much comes from a place of love?? doesn't it?? i remember feeling that way about stuff and throwing my whole self into a piece of media when i was in high school and wanting to talk about it with everything and make everything about it and on one hand i think there's something to be said for loving something so wholeheartedly and so completely and not being ashamed of it, especially when you're......in a place in your life when you need something to fill that space for you -on the other hand though??????? -not everything (every. single. thing) has to be about it.......you don't have to make it your whole personality.........do not submerge................................................ -god almighty but i have seen enough teens reacting to doctor who to last me a lifetime -i'm 27 and thinking 'i was so passionate about shit when i was a teenager!! and that's not bad!!' and also 'i just want to pleasantly enjoy this thing now because some of that shit was absolutely out there' -but a lot of times that just leads to me not talking at all about new interests. -ANYWAY

-i did try to watch doctor who in high school!! i made it up to (and including) the doctor dances. my brain just wandered away from it at the time, as it does, yknow. -oh but i did watch ahahahaha i watched the wedding of river song bc the guys on academic team my senior year of high school were super into the show and bc of the tumblr cultural osmosis i was like 'i kind of want to know what happens???' -the guys on academic team: you watched the wedding of river song without context???? me: boys i have context you can't even imagine although i did not say that because it was 2011. close enough vibe, though. -i also watched a decent amount of the first doctor in......also high school??? college???? i'm??????? somewhere in there.

-there is a small story about why i decided to watch doctor who now and it boils down to 'occasionally i get Mildly Invested in david tennant's filmography, because he is unfairly handsome and also just a phenomenal actor, and i have felt that for, forever.' in 2019 after gomens i watched broadchurch and debated watching doctor who but did not. november 2021 i was back in one of my very brief but VERY INTENSE hamlet phases and finally watched the 2009 hamlet. and then decided to watch doctor who.

-anyway i'm happy i watched it now! i was able to have a really good time!! i really liked it a lot and i liked being able to approach it now instead of when i was younger -like, i'm gonna complain a lot, but i really did have a good time and i really enjoyed watching it!!!!! no regrets. (-i did initially watch some of broadchurch in 2013 but my brain wandered away from that, too. missed one episode and couldn't go back. anyway i watched peaks in the meantime (eventually) and i feel like that was the ideal experience for really appreciating broadchurch, at least for me.)

-now for actual show+episode thoughts, vaguely in order nine: /regenerating me: no my boy :((((((((((((((((((( ten: /exists me: GASP me: M Y B O Y !

-i loved nine so much :( with my whole entire soul -i 👏 am 👏 not 👏 immune 👏 to 👏 the 👏 sad 👏 boys 👏 (-thinking about sad boys as an adult, though, i would like to point out that so much more of it is just........it's not the sadness it's the hope and the feeling IN SPITE OF the sadness) (it's not the hurt!! it's the comfort!!!) (it's the moving on!!! it's the slow clawing yourself out of trauma!!! it's that it's not easy!!!! that sometimes you make mistakes and you fall back and you do things wrong and it hurts!!!! it can be terrible!!!! it's that sometimes it's just small things that make it better!! sometimes it's people!!!! it's the human connection you can make in the face of trauma that makes it possible to endure!!!!!!!!!!! there is so much else and you're allowed it!!!!!!) -I 👏 AM 👏 NOT 👏 IMMUNE 👏 TO 👏 THE 👏 GROWTH 👏 -anyway --

-the end of the world, dalek, father's day, and boom town were my top top nine favorites (even if boom town overall is...........uneven...........everyone was just out to have a good time!!) (i love nine and jack and rose as a squad!!!!! i love nine and jack and rose and mickey as a squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (margaret turning into an egg was weird but possibly an interesting precursor to the idea of regenerating) (i didn't like her just staring into the heart of the tardis either but i liked establishing that the tardis is a living thing and she has an opinion and of course that's a precursor to bad wolf) -dalek stood out to me in high school and i was SO excited to watch it again and boy howdy did it live up to my expectations -i love nine trying very hard to not be the person who ended the time war, trying to be someone better than that, someone who is capable of different choices (both nine and ten adamantly insisting they have to give their enemies one chance), and still being unable to ever not be the person who ended the time war -and how it's because of that that he refuses to wipe out the daleks again in parting of the ways -it's not bad, that he's still that person, and nine takes such happy satisfaction in where he's been able to get himself -god but you were fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-oh, even with moffat i DO really like the empty child/the doctor dances. i think they're fine and pretty enjoyable and the nanogene gas mask was still high-key scary -i think there's moments of real genuine love from moffat in those episodes. compared to the absolute ego in silence in the library/forest of the dead

-even when i wasn't watching it i thought a lot about that tumblr post from an age ago about how nine was born out of war and ten was born out of love because it was such a striking thought -ten has the most frenetic energy and it makes the episodes so entirely different, and he's just, so often bursting with love and excitement which makes the silence and anger all the more harsh and vicious and violent -goddddddddddddd and then he doesn't get to stay with rose -he!! was!! made!! to!! love!!! her!!!!!!!!!!!! and they can't be together!!!!!!!!!!!!

-every day of my LIFE i think about nine saying "i'd make a very bad god" and then ten's, entire existence -the tastiest negative character development. tastiest!!!!!!!!! (-i am not immune to the growth. i am also not immune to negative character development!!!!! i am not immune to already nonlinear recovery looping back on itself into absolute hell!!!!!) (a well-done negative character arc is one of my favorite things.) -this was why i was interested in watching ten, david tennant aside, the promise of this massive downward spiral because i was very curious to see how it would turn out here

-it's important, again, that the doctor is never not the person who ended the time war -- for nine, his guilt means he would not do it again, he can't, he tried but he wouldn't; for ten, his growing anger and loneliness means he swings around wildly between 'i'd die before i did it again' and 'i could do it again' or both at once!!!! -which eventually starts to manifest into 'no one can ever die now and it's my responsibility!!!!!!!!!' -he could do it again (the runaway bride). he'd never do it (the evolution of the daleks). he couldn't, but he can punish (family of blood). but he'd never (last of the time lords). and now he can't lose anyone, not anymore (voyage of the damned). but if it's a fixed point, he has to lose them, but make it his fault -- but he could save someone (the fires of pompeii). (and then he'd do it and take himself out again (the poison sky). and he'd never (the doctor's daughter).) so that, the next fixed point he gets to -- -ten is not a god and doesn't want to be and hates the suggestion that he is for the time war (the sound of drums) but he could be one and hold the whole of life and time in his hands according to his whims if no one was there to stop him trying to stop his own pain, everybody lives and it's bad (the waters of mars). -(I have points down below about character beats with rose and mickey that get repeated instead of truly resolved, but I don't think that's what happens with ten here, i feel like his are more, something else falls into place each time and twists further until he has to really, finally face himself in the waters of mars)

-some christmas invasion fics tend to take out ten saying "don't you think she looks tired?" and i hate that, that's such a pivotal line!!! not only in terms of "no second chances, i'm that sort of a man" because that's obvious, but because it heralds ten having the potential to be darker than nine was (and eventually fully realizing that potential)

-sure, nine didn't give second chances, but always in terms of something completely working against him, but ten destroys the entire political career of a woman whom he considered something like a friend, he was so happy to find out she was elected, he was so happy to see her again, harriet jones was someone who understood the world and wanted to protect it because it was the right thing to do -and harriet jones is not wrong, on one hand!! the doctor is not always going to be there!!! she has to do what she can!! it's exhausting to think of saving the world in a situation like this over and over again if the doctor isn't there!! shouldn't have included destroying the sycorax wholesale, though. and ten takes such an issue with it because that was literally the thing nine just refused to do again!!! -especially bc the sycorax were retreating!!!!!!! -he did indirectly threaten the earth though by telling the sycorax to talk about how powerful earth was, though, didn't he. and just completely stops what nine said would be "the golden age"

-despite how many gifs i had seen over the years somehow i had just blocked out that david tennant was gonna occasionally wear those glasses -fuck those glasses. i love those glasses. god fucking dammit

-i love the emphasis!! on what it means to be a companion!! on what you give up (your life!!! for better and for worse!!!!!!), on what you leave behind (your family!!!!!!), how terrible and overwhelming and dangerous it is, how there's so much you can't talk about and how your world moves on without you (or should mickey you deserved better), how it's not for everyone (adam), and then with ten and sarah jane, the discussion of what happens when your time as a companion is over, how you don't necessarily get a say in that ending, and the warning about how it has to end eventually -repercussions and consequences and aftermath shit are my absolute goddamn fucking jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -and then love and monsters!!! I love outsider perspectives, how their lives are affected when they aren't the main character but still in a position to be affected because they're living too, everyone's story is bigger than just them, especially the doctor's (-and more emphasis on jackie being left behind, especially now that mickey's gone, and how lonely she is) -and elton doesn't even do a damn thing!!! and loses everybody!!!! and now ursula is a face in concrete......... -AND THE DOCTOR DIDN'T EVEN ACTUALLY COME TO HELP FIRST IT WAS SO ROSE COULD YELL AT ELTON -hey, how old was elton, though -i love the heavier stress in ten's first season (and there were moments of this with nine too) on 'even if it's worth it, the doctor is inadvertently and purposely the most dangerous and deadly being possible' -and knowing all of this has to lead up to rose in the parallel world....... (-some things are paced and foreshadowed so well!!! and some things (sometimes the same things) make me go 'are you fucking for real')

-nine saying to rose "everything has its time and everything dies" about cassandra and then sarah jane saying to ten "everything has its time and everything ends"- :( -THEN THE FACE OF BOE COMING IN HOT WITH "everything has its time" -these are my preferred arc words. i'm never letting go of them -oh that goes very nicely into the ood saying "i think your song must end soon. every song must end."-even with nine regenerating, so much of nine is about Beginnings; ten is about Endings but in such terrible terrible ways -oh speaking of sarah jane!!!! i'm happy that she and rose were able to respect each other and the places they have/had in the doctor's life -mickey's joke about the missus and the ex though was. i hate to say. fucking hilarious

-oh also it's like. it's like murder she wrote syndrome yknow -CABOT COVE SYNDROME (-okay digging around on tv tropes apparently this is more a, plot magnet/doom magnet situation) (-although. you could make a good case that london has cabot cove syndrome) -the 'what is a story if not something happening' with 'why are you literally always involved in a murder, jessica' -maybe subverted though in the way that he IS again also inadvertently and purposely bringing it with him. he does not MEAN to run into these things. but he does. (and it's also good that he does???? rightfully pointed out many times how he's stopped a lot of shit. whole point of turn left!) and the cost of his help is not always easy, even if the doctor wants nothing more than to help and for everyone to live, and he hopes so much it'll work out but deep down knows better (the amount of times ten apologizes in the most resigned way)

-aaaa when i find myself in times of trouble jean renault comes to me speaking words of wisdom 'maybe you brought the nightmare with you'

-and like, look, jean renault, coop was actually not the catalyst of a GREAT DEAL of twin peaks -- ben and catherine and josie were already in cahoots, harry was already working on the drug bust, leo and jacques were, also already in cahoots, hank was already up for parole, jean renault himself orchestrates a lot of nonsense!!!!! -- but coop definitely comes in as a presence to help and fails spectacularly and frequently at that goal not to mention the trail of death and destruction and bob following coop up to that point, until twin peaks becomes the culmination of all the points of coop's horrorlife -similarly, the doctor helps with things happening (mostly) independently of his presence -- but are then exacerbated by his presence and his opposition -- he succeeds a lot, but at a great life cost in most if not all episodes (i did keep a death count per episode and most of the time it was just me writing 'uhhh well that was a lot') -- and this happens over and over again, with the doctor leaving or running away afterwards, not to mention the doctor's own trail of death and destruction and what he's physically capable of following behind each time, and the doctor is conscious of it, he runs from it like coop does but he is much more knowingly conscious of what will happen when he arrives -with, yet again, the waters of mars being the culmination of all the points of ten's own horrorlife (his pride, his trauma, his very presence) -you know, is it a tumblr post by lulu whoslaurapalmer vandelay if i don't talk about peaks

-oh me watching this is just me picking out what reminds me of other shows jesus christ -"theme song is whistly like x files" "oh we're in monster of the week territory" "oh the jb fletcher paradox" "oh no is this a coop" -the amount of times early on where i tried to think of the theme song and just wound up getting the x files theme song -one cell of the tardis in rise of the cybermen: /turns on me: ahh they're passing around the one (1) brain cell

-doctor: /consistently complains about rose wandering off doctor: /regularly wanders off from rose anyway me: hey

-rose gave ten the little cupcake with the dragées.........!! 💕

-i like jack, he really grew on me (I thought he was just okay in the empty child but afterwards I liked him more), but then finding out about john barrowman was very, souring -god and then noel clarke what the absolute fuck -what's most upsetting to me about the girl in the fireplace is that the premise of the time windows is so GOOD, that has so much potential!!! windows into time!!!!! -and then it's somehow...............not good -big agree with the general criticism; mickey deserved an episode that actually focused more on him as an actual companion, the doctor just LEFT ROSE (and mickey!!) STRANDED AGAIN, reinette should not be revolving her life around a man she met like max five times -shout out to that tumblr post with the doofenshmirtz meme that was like 'if i had a nickel for every time moffat wrote about a girl meeting the doctor when she was a kid and then meeting him as an adult and kissing him i'd have two nickels, that's not a lot but it's funny it happened twice' -it is, moffat. it is. -it's not necessary. (-no it's not grooming but it's still not necessary) -the mind reading thing fucking gets me. reinette does not deserve the backstory lore -also, reinette specifically says she wanted no part of the doctor's world, and then suddenly wants to go with him??????? it would've been so much more powerful if she turned him down -WOULD'VE JUST BEEN NICE IF HE HADN'T STRANDED ROSE AND MICKEY, TOO -moffat the ice is already very thin for you boy

-oh hey i know this is for plot convenience, which immediately makes it dicey bc doing things for plot convenience alone isn't really okay, but i think rose specifically, of all companions, after season 1, should know how to pilot the tardis -i can't decide if i think she should innately know how to pilot the tardis after bad wolf, or if she feels like she should know and remembers a little but she can't, OR she and mickey sit around and figure out how to pilot it themselves since mickey's a mechanic -bc clearly ten is not gonna teach her how to do it (he won't do it out of pride/ego/being the leader/the tardis is his and his alone and at the end of the day it's all he really has (which ten says outright!!) or is ever going to have and it's the only one left/if a companion knows how to pilot the tardis, do they need the doctor?) (does the doctor even actually know how to do it, though.) -sigh. well, you know -the real problem here is that the doctor just keeps leaving people places

-the use of. the most absurd pop songs as legendary earth hits. beautiful. absolutely beautiful. i love love love jokes like that

-rose in fear her: who's gonna hold his hand now? me at the end of doomsday: WHO'S GONNA HOLD HIS HAND NOWWWWWWWWWWW (oh you know i think ten actually held rose's hand less, as a matter of fact)

-while i think some character beats are hit really well, i think some are also............repeated again and again instead of getting resolved -especially in the places where they should've been resolved!!! -and then the way they ARE resolved is like. fucking yikes -mickey has to say way too many times how much they undervalue him, (and rose gets away with undervaluing him every time) (on one hand rose gets to be very flawed and make mistakes and hurt herself and other people and i love that, on the other hand she almost never learns to do better or treat mickey better, she always falls back into the same pattern with him) and solving that means STAYING IN THE PARALLEL WORLD?????? I'M????????? that's not a resolution -and rose makes the same mistakes with her father!! she's never allowed a real resolution there!!!! -me: does every poc get this kind of treatment on the show. oh, likely me: hey, what happens to bill? me: /googles me: .....................................i shouldn't be surprised but i am. no, i don't think the oil thing makes it any better.

-i do love that rose is not perfect, and that one of the reasons she and the doctor vibe so well is that they both have such a firm and very angry sense of justice and what's right and a desperate need to help-that's most companions though, isn't it???? they're not going to be any other type but strong-willed and fierce with that completely unselfish desire to help, but the desire comes from different places -and to be something, someone, to go somewhere else

-i'm glad that mickey is so much more confident and secure in army of ghosts/doomsday, and he and rose are almost on equal footing, but i still don't think mickey's character development should've been accomplished by going to a parallel world (-WE SHOULD'VE SEEN MICKEY'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!! his COMPLETE character development!!!!!) -does it work out???? well i GUESS because THEY ALL END UP THERE BUT UGGGG

-agree with rtd that the only thing that would keep rose successfully away from the doctor is her physically not being able to see him by being in a parallel world. it would have to be something that enormous and meaningful -i just don't know if i think the parallel world was the best way to do it????? idk!!!! something doesn't vibe right but idk what, really -i LIKE the way it was done bc i think it connects a lot of things, pieces fit together, there's proper payoff and consequences, but i still don't think it was perfect -it's difficult bc there's a lot going on here!!! jackie is devastated at the thought of never seeing rose again -- and even if rose picks the doctor, not being able to see jackie, who not only becomes a grounding presence for her between adventures but is also just her fucking mother, that would've eventually destroyed rose too (-especially when she did get older and her time as a companion would have ended; with everyone else in the parallel world and rose having spent all her time with the doctor, who would be left?) (everything! has! its! time! and! everything! ends!!!!!!!!) -yeah, rose wants a life that is not just being a shop girl where nothing exciting ever happens, especially after exploring all of time and space, and jackie's right when she says rose has changed, and rose has changed for the better!!! -but having that place to come back to???? that clearly means a lot. they always come back -and if rose stayed with ten she never would've been able to get that again

-oh hold on. briefly. the cybermen and the daleks were the funniest fucking things holy shit -"daleks have no concept of elegance" "this is obvious." i'm -beautiful

-ten makes SUCH a big deal about how parallel!pete is not rose's dad in rise of the cybermen/age of steel, but doesn't seem to care at all about that in army of ghosts/doomsday, since he dangles pete and jackie in front of each other!! -potentially i guess you could make the case that he knows the outcome of trying to stop the cybermen and the daleks and that it's going to come down to them being separated and he won't do that to rose, even if it means losing her, and he makes them all care earlier -but, idk -one of the other big thematic points though is the doctor not forgetting that he promised jackie he'd keep rose safe, and saying it directly to her here, and that was why nine sent her back before, that's why ten doesn't initially give her a choice (which was very... >:( ), and this time there's no way to come back -everything has its time and everything ends :( -so, i do think they found a way to make it track okay and i respect that but i'm still not entirely vibing, idk -you know i think it would've been nice if bad wolf found a way to make an appearance BUT i also have no problem with it not, because rose is normal and it's good that rose is normal, it's okay -i had seen doomsday in gif format SO MANY TIMES that actually watching it was like!! wow!!! better than the gifs -it hurt. -sometimes, gifs cannot do total justice.

-top top fav rose+ten episodes -- new earth, tooth and claw, school reunion, the impossible planet/the satan pit, fear her

-oh!! so my GRANDMOTHER was at one point a new who, not fan because i don't think my grandmother would describe herself as a fan of anything, she is a passive enjoyer of television, but it was a show she watched and enjoyed (-but not one she ever talked about as 'lulu, you should watch this' which she does with, you know, game shows) -she and my aunt and my uncle would watch it when it was airing!!! i think they tapped out somewhere around.....asylum of the daleks???? -my uncle likes classic who better. -THE POINT HERE BEING i had seen a small snippet of the runaway bride before, when i was over my grandmother's house.

-the tardis just spinning down a road!! good for her!!!!!!!! look at her fucking go

-donna shouting "AND THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR YOUR MOTHER!" i'm love

-nine refusing to eat dinner with rose and jackie, ten letting himself have christmas dinner with rose and jackie and mickey, ten refusing to eat christmas dinner with donna :(

-the doctor really does need someone :( -goddddd but the concept of the companion, especially here in the revival -it's just an endless kind of tragedy??? -sorry i'm gonna go off again

-look, like, the doctor does not start out seeking a companion, because he leaves gallifrey with susan, and then WHOLESALE KIDNAPS IAN AND BARBARA, so they just sort of happen, after, because he likes company and he likes being clever and he's learned to be kinder, and because he lets susan go, because he sends ian and barbara home, he's alone now and he's clearly not going home and it's lonely to travel by yourself and why not show someone else the world, someone who hasn't seen it before? -and in new who after the time war, he doesn't intend to find a companion, but then there is rose, just on accident, and he appreciates someone keeping his head on straight, he needs someone to do that, the doctor didn't intend to live after the time war and now he is, and that's okay, he needs rose and rose wants him -the human connection ~ -and rose was supposed to be it, that's all, no one else, AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN -i mean there are other people the doctor whisks along with him, mostly women because Oh We Cannot Have A Show Without Romantic Potential, like lynda with a y, i'm ignoring reinette, but i want to think of that as, the doctor just really loves people. he complains about humans a lot but he loves them. who else is he going to take with him?? he can't take another time lord, 1) it's not the same now 2) the time war, and there is the thrill of showing someone new what the world is like out there, that so much more exists than you can possibly think of, and he wants to show these people who have this bright spark that he very much admires!!! humans have courage and ambition and curiosity!!! they're beautiful and stupid and regularly impossible and living!!!!!! -(something like this is brought up in the impossible planet/the satan pit and i liked that a lot) -you can run from your problems if you have something to do, someone to talk to, someone to be clever to!! somewhere else to go, something else to see!!

-but!! -the doctor, winds up being a bit like the pied piper -again!!!! i was through this already!!!! being a companion is dangerous!! you're completely uprooted from your life and your home! you get to see the wonders of the world and it's amazing and the trade off is you almost die, many many times, you leave things behind, you fall in love with someone you cannot keep and who cannot keep you, and the heartbreak when it's over and he can move on and do it again, practically kidnap someone else and change their life for better and for worse (-however, it does not always HAVE to be a tragedy, though, @ the writers. it really doesn't.) -and the doctor's mental state is a GREAT DEAL to put on someone -but the doctor REALLY DOES NEED SOMEONE THOUGH and he has no options and isn't it so terrible to be that alone, for so long, and no one can really stay (which ten addresses in school reunion), and the doctor never really gets used to the heartbreak either, but how can he do anything else -oh, twelve has some points about this with clara, doesn't he, and even eleven too re: just in general being happy because you'll be sad later

-even trying to stop having a companion doesn't really work out!! that's how ten meets martha!! and he still technically has a companion in each of the specials!! -and with ten, especially, ten needs a companion with him so badly otherwise he's gonna go off the rails -and from the companion's angle, how could you not go?? even donna regrets not going and tracks ten down!! how can you know all of time and space and history is out there and just not go and see?? just because you can???? how could you go back to "normal" after knowing you are not alone in the universe???? after seeing all these amazing things!!! after being a part of something!!! after helping, being able to help, make a tangible difference!!! becoming someone new!!!!!!! -it's worth it, on both sides. somehow it is -anyway i don't intend to have an answer here and there isn't one, i don't want one, these are just thoughts that exist about these relationships

-oh, re: ends, though, and a lot of this, there's the baccano take, which is the peak take in like all media -"cast aside the illusion that there is a beginning and end to the story. the story has no beginning and it has no end. all there is, is a performance of people connecting, living, influencing each other, and departing." -that's it............. -anyway. martha time ~

#lulu talks about doctor who #there's gonna be 3 of these posts and all of them are like. a little over 5000 words #this section includes 'okay. but is the doctor a dale cooper'#wondering if london has cabot cove syndrome #and i quote baccano and it will not be the last time i do #i started more detailed-ish notes in martha's season so i feel like these notes are not as detailed as others but. still are important

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