when the Doctor goes to the Powell Estate on New Year’s Eve as he’s dying, he asks Rose what year it is. all of the other visits were so calculated. he saves Mickey and Martha on a distant planet, just in the nick of time. he swats Luke out of the road before a car comes. he goes back in time and finds Geoffrey Noble, borrowing a quid, and gives Wilf a winning lottery ticket worth millions. he caught Donna’s wedding, just as she stepped out of the church.

But Rose. Oh, with Rose.

the Doctor says: “what year is this?” because he doesn’t even know.

do you think he just jammed his hands into the telepathic circuit as his body failed? do you think he just dreamt of her, desperately, the one face he was dying to see? do you think he hoped, prayed, that somehow he’d end up on her doorstep?

and the he’s in an alleyway full of snow. in London. and he knows that building, knows those stairs. and it’s finally snowing, for real this time. and he sees her, doesn’t even mean to speak to her, too afraid of timelines and paradoxes as putting her at risk…

but he’s in pain, and he grunts, and Rose—always ready to help someone in pain—turns around.

and the Doctor says: “what year is this?”

and when Rose says it’s 2005…oh, how his face lights up. It’s all ahead for her. And for him, too. I bet—he says—you’re gonna have a really great year...

Everyone is assuming Rose Noble named herself that because the Ten part of her, inherited by the metacrisis, loved Rose so damn much. And yeah, that might be true or part of it, but let's not forget how significant Rose was to Donna. Because ROSE was the one following Donna from day dot of her adventures with the Doctor. ROSE was the one who sought Donna out in an alternative reality in which Donna had forgotten the Doctor (for the second time, if you count her experience being saved by the Library). ROSE was the one in that reality to tell her she was brilliant and important and belonged with the Doctor, NEEDED to be with The Doctor, AND he needed HER. And ultimately, it was Rose who helped her to get back to him. Rose told her she was brave and capable and could find a way. So while it's possible that Rose Noble named herself after Rose Tyler because Ten loved her so much, it's equally possible that the metacrisis part of Donna that Rose Noble inherited was trying to remind herself/her mother of the weird blonde woman who stalked her across dimensions, insisted that she remember (The Doctor, their adventures together and HER own importance) and returned Donna to her rightful place at the side of The Doctor. The suppressed memory of Rose Tyler inherited by Rose Noble is another indication that Donna Noble wanted to remember, (re)remind herself and return to the Doctor again.

Been working on this for awhile, but here’s a painting of a screenshot from one of my favorite doctor who episodes ever!

i know plenty of people have pointed this out before but it’s so heartbreaking to see just how self-destructive the doctor got immediately after losing rose. like he would always put his life on the line to save humanity but with rose around he tried to be more careful because he always wanted to come back to her. without rose he’s literally begging every episode for someone to kill him to save others.

🌌⏳🛸🕰️commission!

Another reason why Rose is the greatest love the Doctor will ever have is that he was domestic to her. Seriously. The Doctor claimed that he was not the domestic type, and that he would not let Rose bring about this change. Yet that’s what he became. We literally see him spending time at Rose's house, with Jackie who they visit. God, the first thing he did as Ten was spend Christmas with Rose and her family. Their family. Note that after the RTD period, we never again saw the Doctor do such a thing with a companion's family. When Eleven moved in with Amy and Rory, he could barely sit still for a few hours, that's saying something. But with Rose, he was a domestic. He wanted to settle down. He was tired of traveling. After her in the series, that was no longer the case. And somewhere, in another universe, the Doctor is with Rose, living a domestic life. The one he always wanted from the moment he met her.

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I refuse to give any context to these whatsoever.

Being a doctor who fan is hell because I love the show so much but I am unable to explain it to anyone else. The pitch for the show is “ok you need to watch almost 55 years of media, and then get back to me”. No one’s going to do that for me, I started watching when I was 9 years old I’ve had time. I’m rotting in my Dr.who hyper-fixation hell.

it's been 18 years and we need answers.

evidence to consider:

"𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚆𝚑𝚘" || 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚡 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 [𝚙𝚝. 𝟷] [pt. 2]

working on my own little “the master doesn’t die and joins the doctor after lotl” au so here’s voyage of the damned outfits if i got to do the costume design [plus a couple silly bonus sketches under the cut]

i love that ten’s last acts before he regenerates are to save martha’s life, visit rose one more time, and help jack get laid.

"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy." is ten's best quote. It's permanently housed inside my brain.