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nuwho doctors + text posts
+ bonus eight :)
#I really enjoy these#I have a master one coming up too#btw for the ten one I am in fact referring to the ‘i could do so much more’ speech and the love in question is the tenth doctor himself#I also considered doing nine for that one just bc he only got one season but then I forgot and posted it#but I’m still happy w it#twelfth doctor#tenth doctor#eleventh doctor#thirteenth doctor#twelveriver#eighth doctor#doctor who#mios#500#1k#dw + text posts
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i know loads of people talk about what aziraphale would/will look like when/if he falls
BUT
what about what crowley would look like if he never fell
i feel like he's a hopeless romantic, wishing he could be a normal person able to fall in love without a problem, to have a family, to be able to meet new people.
i feel like he tried to meet humans and once met someone that he loved (platonically) and even made himself look older to be able to carry on being with them. but then they withered and died, and crowley had to watch someone he loved leave(/ref), crowley was never the same and vowed to never become close to a human again. but he kept a photograph of them as a reminder of what happens when you become too close.
#good omens#crowley#angel crowley#crowley never fell#headcanons#crowley needs a hug#david tennant in suits#the reference is tenth doctor btw :)#angst
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Good friend, I ask of you because I trust you, what are these "The Mechanisms" you are so fond of?
Okay I tried to type out an incredibly long summary but tumblr deleted it so you're getting a semi-sane version instead
The Mechanisms are a band of immortal, space-faring pirates travelling the universe singing about the tragedies they witness for our entertainment!
There are nine main members you'll hear about, with the tenth - Dr Carmilla - having left much earlier and making her own music 👍 ( there is technically an eleventh but they're more of a mystery easter egg than anyone we know things about )
Quick lore thing: the mechanisms immortality works from the mechanical part(s) they each have. They can die and get injured, but they'll revive whenever the narrative wants them too. All logic in this universe functions off of Would It Be Good For The Story
The cast is:
Jonny D'Ville (he/him) is the ship's first mate ( don't let him tell you otherwise ) and he's got a mechanical heart
Nastya Rasputina (she/her) is the ship's engineer and girlfriend! Yea the ship - Aurora - is alive btw. She's got me hanical blood
Ashes O'Reily (they/them) is the ship's quartermaster and best arsonist! they've got mechanical lungs
Drumbot Brian (he/him) is the ship's pilot and the only one with a moral code. It's controlled by a switch which flips between Means Justify Ends and Ends Justify Means with no nuance. everything is mechanical except for his heart
Ivy Alexandria (she/her) is the ship's archivist! Pretty chill, cares more for books than violence but that doesn't mean she disapproves of the latter. she's got a mechanical brain
The Toy Soldier (it/its) is the mascot and whatever else they tell it to be! it just wants to be involved. will follow anything you tell it if you ask nicely ( or with enough force ). it's not actually mechanized, and is instead a sentient wooden man
Gunpowder Tim (he/him) is the ship's master at arms! madman war veteran who I love dearly. he blew up the moon. he's great. I pick favourites. he's got mechanical eyes
Raphaella La Cognizi (she/her) is the ship's unethical scientist! nothing is off the table when it comes to research. nothing. theory is she mechanized her, but iirc that unconfirmed. she's got a mechanical spine and wings!
and Baron Marius Von Raum (he/him) who is neither the ships baron nor doctor. he claims to be both, though. Deeply unserious fella. he's got a mechanical arm
^ here are some good images for crew reference
OKAY! Now onto actual music
They have six albums and a couple singles!
Once Upon a Time (In Space) is an unconventional retelling of classic fairytales
High Noon over Camelot is a retelling of King Arthur
Ulysses Dies at Dawn is a greek mythos adaptation
and The Bifrost Incident is a norse mythos adaptation
there's also Tales To Be Told volumes I and II, and the two single Frankenstein and Death To The Mechanisms ( technically that one is part of an album but the album is just a bunch of their other songs from already existing albums )
The tales to be told albums contain some of the mechanisms origins!
One Eyed Jacks is Jonny's
Lucky Sevens is Ashes'
Lost In The Cosmos is Brian's
and Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser I don't think I have to say
Nastya has an origin song, but it was never officially put on anything. You can find it on the @mechanismslorearchive ( you can get any lore you want on there )
They also have a number of live shows ( you can find those on youtube ) and written stories on their website! I recommend these if you wanna get to know the mechanisms as characters better
that is the basic rundown. I'm not an expert on the mechs so if you're looking to talk to a metaphorical seasoned nurse instead of a med student I'd go to @bugsinthebayou or @gunpowderdtim (sorry for tagging yall)
#wallace says shit#asks & answers#mechs posting#HP!!#hope thats right I had to check your name#enjoy this messy and amateur summary#god I hope there are. limited mistakes in this.
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Imagine if the Bentley has the capacity to time travel like the car in Back to the Future.
There seems to be some timey-wimey tomfoolery that production is hinting at, with the “problems in the present and past” part of the description on Amazon. How do they access the past? If it’s simply something they can do because they’re celestial/occult beings, why haven’t they done so sooner?
My theory: Crowley is the only character we’ve seen manipulate exclusively time. Time and space are connected through space-time, and we’ve seen many characters manipulate space via objects appearing/disappearing, thus indicating they can at least manipulate space if not time as well, but that’s going into space science shit I only know from my astronomy hyperfixation days and I don’t expect the Good Omens production crew to use or adhere to said science—
Okay, let’s back up and start with what’s established, yeah?
The Given Information:
Crowley is the only character we’ve seen manipulate exclusively time. Specifically, he stopped it.
The Bentley is uniquely Crowley’s. It is imbued with Crowley’s demonic essence.
The Bentley plays exclusively Queen music.
My Theory:
Crowley can stop time on his own, but with the assistance of a focus, he can manipulate it even moreso— such as travel forward or backwards (or maybe even laterally? Inter dimensional road-trip, anyone?).
The Bentley is Crowley’s focus. A focus is something seen in fantasy/magical settings, it’s a device through which a spell caster channels their magic. Think Harry Potter’s wand, Gandalf’s staff, or miscellaneous magical artifacts.
Crowley is powerful, so he can do plenty of magic without a focus, as we’ve seen him do throughout the series. But traveling through time, that takes more magical energy than the usual miracle, more mana. So to travel through time, he has to use to summon that magical energy using the Bentley.
Side note: we’ve ALREADY seen the Bentley manipulate time!! The Bentley started playing Queen music before Freddy Mercury was even born!
Hypothesis: we will see Crowley travel through time using the Bentley.
Additional notes:
The jukebox in the pub also plays only a specific artist’s music. Specifically, it plays one song. If playing a specific type of music is linked to time traveling capacity, does that mean the jukebox can also manipulate time? If so, that makes it a focus, like the Bentley. If that’s the case, then who is its user?
The production staff are referencing Clue (the movie) a lot, which has already been picked up on by some fans. Why not reference Back to the Future, another classic?
Look, I hate to bring it up, but it’s way too pertinent to the topic and I’ve already dropped a “timey-wimey” on y’all— we been knew David Tennant played the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. He’s also reprised the role of the Doctor recently. So maybe they’re doing a thing with him playing time traveling characters??
I’m super willing to be wrong about all of this, btw. But can you imagine??? If I was right??? Dude, I’d be so fucking psyched. Time traveling Bentley for the win, let’s fucking goooooo—
Edit: someone asked Neil if the jukebox was similar to the Bentley, what with the playing only specific music. To which, Neil responded that we were going to be learning more about the Bentley. I’d say finding out the Bentley can travel through time qualifies as “learning more”, no?
#good omens#good omens speculation#good omens spoilers#Crowley#aziraphale#doctor who#bentley#can you fucking imagine#go#azirasheen#david tennant#azirowley#good omemes#good omens s2#good omens shitpost#good omens series 2#good omens season two#let’s get it#ineffable idiots#ineffable husbands#ineffable muffins#I need to know
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Not to be an asshole but like just because David Tennant/Tenth Doctor had the best viewing numbers of NuWho doesn't actually mean he's sooo uber special better than the others.
Like every doctor before and after he actually matters. Some of those doctors are beloved by like a lot of people.
It somehow just feels icky to me to pick up with David Tennant and Davies and like what? Fuck 11, war, 12 and 13?
Chibnall was bad enough about kind of feeling like he was snubbing 11 & 12's eras.
Like obviously you had misogyny and racism problems under Moffat. And we must, must speak up about that and make sure the show does better. And no he didn't stick the landing every time, The Wedding of River Song sucks. But like there were a shit ton of people involved in those years who like fucking put their heart and soul into that.
Matt Smith & Peter Capaldi along with all the companion actors (plus Gomez) deserve some goddamn respect. I do have just some big emotional attachment to 11 & 12 yes. I also however do not think every story under them was bad. They had extremely good stories! Like season 10 might not be popular but fuck does it kick me in the feels.
But like it's not like all the Tennant hype only affects Moffat's writing if you happen to hate him. This does feel insulting to Ecelston as well. I know he hates the BBC so like I get he wouldn't come back to the main show (his audios rock btw).
This whole thing also feels sketch because you're sticking him in between your first female doctor and your first main doctor to be played by a person of colour. Like do you just not trust that Ncuti Gatwa will be good enough to make people watch? Do you not trust your own writers (even your own writing) to be compelling unless you bring David Tennant back and give him a whole other marketing number (and the numbers, while sort of ridiculous at this if you look through canon, do have meaning to the fans)? Not to mention a new costume (No I don't mean he has to wear the exact same clothes if they don't fit but you can sew a copy of the same design again) and a whole big announcement about him getting a new Sonic. The costumes and sonics are HUGE signs for fans. Like people collect the fucking sonics you have the old ones referenced in the show, it's a whole part of 12's identity crises with the shades and the new sonic after re-accepting the doctor after losing Clara. The TARDIS can make these for The Doctor or The Doctor makes their own. It's a whole thing!
Also, do they have to also fuck with Donna's ending? Really? I get some people do the whole "Donna deserved better" shtick but her ending is heartbreaking, well-written, well-acted and done just so well. Sad can be okay! I'm with Ashildir on this one, It was sad and beautiful. (Yes she's not referring to Donna but the principle stands)
Also like, The Doctor fucks people's lives up. Donna wasn't the first up Companions to have shit destroyed by The Doctor!
In the words of Martha Jones:
You need to be careful, because you know the Doctor's wonderful and he's brilliant, but he's like fire. Stand too close and people get burned (TV: Sonatarn Strategem)
Like Journeys End aired in 2008! Could we just let the story stand on it's merits?
I realise the culture of like the media in the 2010s & 2020s is just fuck with shit that should have been left alone. I mean I guess if we're doing a distribution w/ Disney we might as well follow their storytelling formula.
I mean remember the whole Time Lord victouris project? Like I'm obsessed w/ Doctor Who and have been into the EU for a long time I didn't even try and keep up with it. It was like the high republic franchise in Star Wars so hard to keep up w/ the story when you have to get so many disparate pieces of media. And again it's all Ten focused.
Honestly, I have always loved Ten. minus all this fuckery he is fantastic. And i will go to the bat i don't think he's a fuck boy. but I also like am perpetually gonna be annoyed at him.
Being a money maker does not actually define the quality of the story in every case.
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Hiya! Your Secret Santa again!!
Sorry about that first question, I didn’t mean for it to be such a loaded question, but I’m quite glad that I did. Believe it or not, I’ve never read any of those actually, though I’ve certainly heard of “A Study in Scarlet” and I am quite interested in Shadow Chase (still meaning to start that, btw, I just keep getting distracted JDHKSLFSDF). So no worries about recommending me any of those, because I probably wouldn’t have read any of them without it!
Truth be told, I do shy a bit from Kaishin stories because a majority seem to mischaracterize certain characters, especially when concerning Kaito. But since starting Scion (which is really good, so far! I’m only less than a quarter through, but I’m enjoying it a lot!) I see your handle of the characters and so I have higher hopes for the fics.
That all aside, I’ve begun working on your gift, and as I was brainstorming I began to wonder: What are your thoughts on Hakuba? Which, that question then lead me to wonder what your favorite KID heist might be? I’m approaching “KID and the Four Masterpieces” in my current watch-through, so he’s a bit on my mind at the moment. So yeah, questions for thought! I hope you’re having a lovely day! Take care ^^
–Your DCMKSS
P.S. I do appreciate the Doctor Who reference, it has been quite a while since I’ve read a good “Allons-y” I’m sad to say, so I must thank you for the dose of nostalgia.
Oh no, it was a great question! I just had to take a couple of days to gather my links thoughts enough to answer! ^_^;
I certainly agree with you that character behaviour in fics can be rather hit or miss, which is tricky when the characters you love might not do the things you love about them. I'm very glad you are liking Scion so far, though! Trying to keep the characters in character is one of my main priorities as a fanfic writer, so I hope that they feel true to you.
I like Hakuba! His dynamic with Kaito has so much potential (not-quite enemies, but not-not friends either is such a cool dichotomy!), and I love how different it is from Kaito's dynamic with Conan/Shinichi. The constant game of 'I know you know that I know' and plausible deniability that they're constantly playing makes for a fascinating potential plot complication. I don't ship them personally, but I can see why people do for sure. I feel like Hakuba gets done a little dirty by canon (and fandom, sometimes), but he's still a good guy.
My favourite KID heist is SUCH a hard question to answer - there are so many good ones! How do you choose just one? (Kaito is my favourite, have I mentioned? I love him to a degree that is ridiculous).The more recent heists have been disappointing to me, personally, because he feels more like a plot device than an opponent, but any case that allows him to be the clever flash bastard he is is a win in my book. Do you have a favourite heist?
Hmm, if I had to pick one favourite, it would probably be the Miraculous Midair Walk. KID just has so much goddamn STYLE in that one, and I love watching Conan work his way through eliminating the impossible to come to the solution. Also, it's not a heist, but I will always have a fondness for the Magic Lovers Murder Case. KID going undercover to solve mysteries! Conan and KID working together! Dramatic showdowns after all the murder stuff is dealt with! AMAZING.
Sometimes, one just has to channel the Tenth Doctor, you know how it is. I'm delighted to have given you a little shot of nostalgia!
Have a lovely day, Santa! Take care of yourself as well!
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grunge rewatches Doctor Who (part idk)
this has been in my drafts since at least December... maybe? who knows... time means nothing but I'm pretty sure it was before the convoy occupation. probably gonna rewatch season 2 this weekend so have fun, or scroll past, or unfollow, or you know, do whatever the fuck you want, I'm no one's mother
back by absolutely zero demand, after months of not watching Doctor Who, I am now back at it.
1x11 Boomtown
oh it's the slitheen again. I'm assuming that's why I stopped where I did last time?
MAE!!!!
*poor little cake soggy bottom, poor little cake soggy bottom*
sometimes I feel bad for Mickey
and then he opens his mouth
Bad Wolf count: 2
that's a really nice public bathroom
I know this is still primarily a little kids' show but can we not with the sound effects?
"nothing exciting but he's mine" and a shotgun wedding. you sound like a real prize, Cathy
Doctor who? count: 1
Bad Wolf count: 3
I forgot how much I liked Captain Jack
Bad Wolf count: 8
bondage jokes on a children's show. ok.
Rose: clearly Mickey doesn't want to hear about all your exciting adventures, talk about something else for a bit
Mickey: be a little more supportive. your girlfriend is trying to share something important with you, be excited for her
also, bit skeezy to suggest getting a hotel for the night and then go "btw I'm sleeping with your ex-coworker"
full disclosure: I was painting my nails, couldn't really type for the last bit
1x12 Bad Wolf
oh it's about to go down
Big Brother is not really this old, is it?
the Anne droid
is that the first Torchwood reference?
Doctor Who predicting Arnold Schwarzenneger as president in a reality show themed episode as an extremely absurd possibility
god what a hopeful time they lived in
Bad Wolf count: 10
montages create an artificially high Bad Wolf count
bad wolf count: 11
2005: critiquing reality television, lack of reliable information, climate destruction
2021: much, much worse
I might take back what I said about how much I like Captain Jack. the innuendos are just so over the top, it's so out of place in the show
fuck you, Roderick
god Chris Eccleston was so good
I stand by my opinion that he was the right choice to bring back the show, it was the right choice for him to do only one season, and David Tennant was the right choice for the tenth Doctor
but god damn, Eccleston was good
it's really hard to understand the impact of the Daleks returning en masse for the first time when they've come back so. many. times.
1x13 The Parting of the Ways
skip recap
skip intro
I really miss low-budget Who
I mean, the power ranger Daleks are cool and all, but look at these janky little pepper pots with whisks for hands
do not blaspheme
really gonna go down the jealously route with Rose vs Lynda? really?
Jack kissing Rose and the Doctor in exactly the same way will forever be one of my favourite Doctor Who moments, especially because it was a conscious decision on John Barrowman's part to do it that way
did something significant happen in Marbella in 1989?
oh god
the Doctor sending Rose away will always be one of the most heartbreaking moments of Doctor Who
why am I crying so much right now
Rose, speaking for every single person who ever left their home town and unexpectedly found themselves back home against their will
(have you ever been called a snob for coming home for the holidays while attending university? by a woman with a stroller who spent all day in her pyjamas at the Tim Hortons? that was a real eye-opener)
paused at A Critical Moment to go see if I could see the aurora (nope, foggy as fuck outside) and then got distracted by the internet and missed commentating on a good 10 minutes of the show whoops
the moment that started my obsession with dorky lanky beanpoles
ok Christmas Invasion and then I'm done for the night
2x00 The Christmas Invasion
that's an awfully warm and sunny looking London Christmas
gosh David Tennant was cute
he still is, and he's aged like fine wine, but what a cutie
Doctor who? count: 1
okay that's a slightly better way of dealing with the whole left behind thing, Mickey.
still kinda shitty that you don't want your kinda girlfriend to worry about her best friend who may or may not be dying, and that you don't want to hear about any of the good things she's experienced, but playful teasing is at least less manipulative than Boomtown
still not great, but it's an improvement nonetheless
honestly the spinning christmas tree of death is peak low-budget Who practical effects and I unironically love it so much
Dame. Penelope. Wilton. I love you.
anything that challenges the whole "the American president is the leader of the free world [*barf*] and therefore gets to deal with first contact in an alien invasion" trope is A-OK with me
I mean, the UK Prime Minister probably shouldn't either, except in this case it *is* their probe so have at 'er
shouldn't it be the Secretary General of the UN? Aren't they the closest we have to a global authority?
idk as a non-American whose country's entertainment industry and consumer economy infrastructure are increasingly eroded by American companies, American exceptionalism in media really grinds my gears
and I like it when non-American shows stand up to that
got distracted again. this time by making cookie dough and discord
but I'm paying attention again just in time for David Tennant being great with his Lion King soliloquy
cheers, big fella
this is the reason I use "jimjams" so often
look at this adorable dork of a lanky beanpole just so excited to still have a friend
no, Mickey, she's not gonna stay, especially if you get all manipulative like that about it
love that's there's a twist on the snowing at Christmas trope, kinda disturbed by what the snow is. as it should be.
and that's a wrap. thanks for reading (ie scrolling past) a half-assed recap that nobody asked for and that I barely paid attention to in order to write
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🙌 Fic Rec Bingo 🙌
Created by @lightveils on Twitter, this sounded like a fun challenge to do - and I’ve managed to fill the whole card with #Malec fics! *In truth, I could’ve used a card for a number of individual writers on their own, but the fics I finally settled on are under the cut! ❤ Enjoy! And show the writers some love! :-))
👇LINKS TO THE 25 FIC RECS BELOW THE CUT 👇
*A FIC YOU LOVE WITHOUT KNOWING THE SOURCE MATERIAL*
✨ Beyond The Sea by @lemonoclefox ✨
Never played BioShock but the underwater city of Rapture was brought to life so vividly here, that it didn’t matter!
*A FIC WITH A PREMISE THAT SHOULDN’T WORK BUT DOES*
✨ How Rare and Beautiful by @glorious-spoon ✨
Having 'our' Malec appear to TWI's Magnus worked wonderfully, thanks to some very clever writing!
* A FIC YOU’VE RE-READ SEVERAL TIMES*
✨ Best Laid Plans by @superficialpeasant ✨
I'll always come back to this DEEPLY satisfying story of intrigue, authority, prejudice, support - and my favourite depiction of bad-ass, hot-as-hell Malec!
*A FIC YOU STILL REMEMBER YEARS LATER*
✨ Home by @otppurefuckingmagic ✨
I read this gem three years ago now, but I still remember the chills I got when the emotional build-up led to a twist that blind-sided me - in the best of ways!
*A COMFORT FIC*
✨ Higher Than The Big Trees by @carmenlire ✨
Getting updates for this lengthy tale, knowing it was only ever going to hit new heights of happiness each time, makes this a real heart-warmer!
*A CATHARTIC FIC*
✨Good Intentions by @alittlebriton ✨
There was only ever one contender for this - an alternative take on what happens after Malec's 3x18 break-up - because chapter 4 had me punching the air over both of them venting their shit!
*A FIC YOU’D PRINT AND PUT ON YOUR BOOKSHELF*
✨ Of Splendour In The Grass by @lecrit ✨
Prejudice, poetry, pining and period Malec, was captured so beautifully here that it deserves to be bound and displayed in pride of place imo!
*A FIC YOU ASSOCIATE WITH A SONG*
✨ Appassionato by @chonideno ✨
Thanks to this fic, I can't hear Liszt's Liebestrume No. 3 in A flat without thinking of Alec hitting all the right notes with his music-loving neighbour!
*A FIC THAT INSPIRES YOU*
✨Thousands Upon Thousands Made An Ocean by @ohlafraise✨
This emotional fic was a lesson in how to have a story pack a punch into less than 800 well-chosen words! Still hurts, even now!
*A FIC THAT BROUGHT YOU ON BOARD A NEW SHIP*
✨Lasă-mă să stau (Let Me Stay) by @superficialpeasant ✨
An absorbing one-shot relating to the writer’s Best Laid Plans fic, this unexpectedly charming love story between Underhill and Hawkstorm (HawkHill) is the canon I will cling to!
*A FIC YOU WISH COULD BE A MOVIE*
✨ A Dream Of Peace by @ketzwrites ✨
There are some fics too epic in scale and splendour for mere imagination to do them justice, and this historical tale of kingdoms and knights deserves to be watched in technicolor glory!
*A FIC THAT LED TO YOU MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE AUTHOR*
✨ Brooklyn Magic by @the-burning-tiger ✨
I've met so many through their work, but I'm singling out the brilliant,Tigs, here because of our ridiculous descent into poetical exchanges in the latter chapters of this fic - one of my earliest Malec reads! Sending cwtches, T! X
*FREE SPACE - A FIC THAT’S WORTH WAITING FOREVER FOR TO GET AN UPDATE - IT’S THAT GOOD!*
✨Working Hard/Hardly Working by @irisadler (on AO3) & @stupidnephilimlove ✨
I'm currently re-reading this sexually-charged getting-to-REALLY-know-you fic which includes relatable temptation, brilliant humour & a soft, sweet centre - believe it or not! Perfect title, btw!
*A FIC YOU’VE GUSHED ABOUT IN REAL LIFE*
✨Your Name For A Capital by @the-prophet-lemonade✨
This time-travelling tale of repeated love and loss was both rich in detail about Magnus' past and devastatingly bittersweet about what lay ahead in Magnus' future! His heartache made me cry!
*A FIC YOU ASSOCIATE WITH A PLACE*
✨Two Halves Of The End Of The World by @la-muerta✨
Batavia was finally brought to life for me, thanks to @tethysea's enviable talent for world-building, with all the scenic detail and historical references that help enrich the story itself!
*A FIC THAT MADE YOU GASP OUT LOUD*
✨The Right Kind Of Love by @onyxmoon (on AO3)✨
I thought the 'betrayal' at the beginning of this fic was hard to take, but Magnus dealing with the aftermath and his own insecurities was even tougher! Malec learning to communicate is always a balm though!
*A FIC YOU FOUND AT THE RIGHT TIME*
✨Free Of Charge by @lorenzobane✨
Magnus being appreciated and protected by his dedicated and devoted Shadowhunter in this short but seriously sweet fic was precisely what I needed after S1!
*A FIC THAT YOU WOULD READ FIC OF*
✨Lead The Way by @clockworkswans✨
Like a black hole, this Doctor/Companion AU sucked me in, and just like the Tenth Doctor, I didn't want to leave! Such a moving and fantastical journey - I'd love to hear more of their adventures!
*A FIC THAT MADE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD*
✨Don’t You Wanna Stay by @AlxSteele (on AO3)✨
Enemies to Lovers is a fave trope of mine, and when the stubborn denial and seething dislike is burned away with sexy humour and telling gestures, as in this gem, it's great fun to read!
*A FIC WITH A LINE OR TWO YOU’VE MEMORISED BY HEART*
✨You Who Have Come From My Old Country by @poemsfromthealley✨
"Even so, Magnus loved him, loved him, loved him" - very few writers could persuade me to endure a Malec fic that tells of unbearable loss and suffering - but the touching celebration of their legacy is what I take away from this!
*A FIC THAT GAVE YOU BUTTERFLIES*
✨Body Of Memory by @glorious-spoon✨
This memorable fic about amnesia effectively had S1 Alec being confronted with S3 Alec's reality - and I STILL feel Magnus' fear and Alec's confusion in my bones!
*A FIC THAT EMBODIES SOMETHING YOU VALUE IN LIFE*
✨ Magnus Bane’s School For Young Warlocks by @Miasunrise (on AO3)✨
Alec doing whatever it takes to protect his children is definitely something I can relate to, and this cleverly-crafted fic of finding new family gives depth and character to Max and Raphael!
*A FAVOURITE AU*
✨Walkers Of The Winding Path by @poemsfromthealley
The bewitching combination of mythical monsters, supernatural hunters and this writer’s distinctive way with words means I'm completely under this story's spell! I'll walk this path many times, I think!
*A FIC YOU STAYED UP TOO LATE TO FINISH READING*
✨My Body Is A Cage by @unrestrainedlyexcessive✨
This was me dipping my toe into an AU I wasn't convinced I'd enjoy, but thanks to this writer’s compellingly-quirky storytelling, I couldn't rest before knowing what befell these fated lovers!
*A FIC THAT MADE YOU FEEL SEEN*
✨Beautiful Distraction by @unending-happiness✨
Who better to colour my bespoke fic with every shade of me there is, than my parabatai, Brit! Welcome to my favourite pairing - Malec & Pandemonium! LY, B! ❤😘
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Okay, so here is what I have so far for the time and relative duels in space au:
-Tristan is the War Doctor (just, like, think of him with gray in his hair and a beard, cause if you’ve seen John Hurt in the Day of the Doctor special, you’ll get it)
-After him, season one!Yami Yugi is the Ninth Doctor. His hair is black, the spikes are WAY shorter, and the blond is there
-When he dies, he becomes Atem, who is the Tenth Doctor/Tentoo (becuase I fucking LOVE Tentoo). Has naturally taken on Yugi’s hair, except instead of my usual red for him, it’s purple because he’s not allowed to be a ginger
-Judai is the Eleventh, and that includes the baggage of childish delight and horrible, crippling depression
-Yusaku is Twelve, because of the large amounts of sass and care. I’m tempted to make him have gray hair btw
-Yugi has the role of being Rose, including wearing a lot of her outfits. His hair is naturally black btw, he just dyes it with the blond and purple because he likes to
-Joey is Mickey because both are amazing characters that’ll do anything for their best friend/love interest
-Tea has the honor of Donna!
-Mai is Martha and I love it, though I think I’ll remove the crush on the Doctor cause I didn’t really care for it, made me feel terrible for her
-Yusei will get the role of Clara, but won’t be used as a deus ex machina nor will he be a manic pixie dream boy, he will have a strong character cause I don’t want him to suffer like Clara did through horrible Moffat writing!
-Johan is River. Won’t be a deus ex machina and used for shipping purposes only like in the show either, fuck Moffat
-Grandpa is Wilf!
-Kaiba will probably be Simms!Master, because I can’t resist
-Ryou is most likely either Eight or Five, depends on how I figure this all out
-Takes place in England cause it’s easier to work with when it comes to using the source material from DW, which will result in English and Japanese names being used
-Sonic screwdrivers glow with associated colors of the characters, still working on that
-TARDIS is still the TARDIS cause you can’t change perfection
-Millennium Items... uhhh... I dunno, might figure out some shit with that
-Yugi and the Doctor is a ship in this, Nine!Yami Yugi and Yugi have a thing, but it is made more obvious when Ten!Atem shows up. Then we get Tentoo!Atem (who I refuse to call by that bullshit name from the Target Storybook) and I’m allowed to enjoy this ship, please let me have it
-Bad Wolf is still happening! :D
-Mana is Sarah Jane Smith, which might mean that Mahado is Four
-K-9 is still K-9, cause, again, you can’t change perfection
-Duel monsters can be aliens, I dunno
-Daleks, Cybermen, they can stay the same, unless if there is a reference to them in a ygo card cause I KNOW there are some references in the card game to DW
-I am open to suggestions and ideas
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reaction post typed while watching Good Omens (ALL OF IT)
my favourite novel is now my favourite mini-series and IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL
under the cut: a very long, spoilery six-episode reaction to MY NEW FAVOURITE THING EVER
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may 31st 07:36pm nz
i posted my episode 1 reaction a couple hours ago but that got ZERO NOTES so i assume people are either avoiding spoilers or aren’t interested, which is fine, but i’m just gonna put all my reactions in one big post so anyone who IS interested doesn’t have to read 6 separate posts c:
edit june 1st 04:08am: btw i watched using a free trial on amazon prime, which i’m pretty sure is worldwide. soooo if yOU WANT TO WATCH THIS, YOU CAN, FOR FREE
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EPISODE 1: In the Beginning
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04:03pm
idk how much i’m gonna type, whether i’ll post a reaction to the entire thing in one post....... or how much i’ll end up watching right now
kinda want to spread it out and save it as a treat for after i’ve done some writing
but right now i wanna watch before writing
so maybe i’ll do one ep, write something, then return to this?
edit: aahhaha that didn’t happen
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04:04pm
I’M SO EXCITED
I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
well... since 2011 when i first read the book
but regardless it’S BEEN 84 YEARS
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04:05
okay first off i did not know amazon prime did adverts at the start of their videos. so i was like SINCE WHEN WAS CHILDISH GAMBINO/DONALD GLOVER IN GOOD OMENS
and then
yeah
no
either way i thought it was a good opening
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W A R
NING
cool cool cool cool cool
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omg i’m used to where the netflix full-screen button is, and on amazon prime that’s the “next episode” button so i gotta be real careful
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dear god my video quality is TERRIBLE
i.......... i might torrent this show and watch it offline
this is horrendous i can’t see a damn thing
i have never seen pixels this big
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04:11
okay the quality calmed down after a minute
i loooove the intro, i love that it’s basically word for word from the book
i feel like i’d find it funnier if i hadn’t read the book 3 months ago
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also? god is a woman? yes
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04:13
is it just me or does the snek have a slightly david tennant-esque quality about it
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i’m so happy adam and eve are black
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04:17
omfg. aziraphale said “ineffable” and now CRAWLEY’S CHECKING HIM OUT TRYING TO SEE IF HE HAS ANY JUNK
WOW
...or y’know, looking for a flaming sword. SAME FUCKING THING.
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also i looove how FLUFFY azi is
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azi: “do hope i didn’t do the wrong thing”
i fucking love them both uhrgughhhuhuhughuhhh
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04:21
small sob for cuteness
umbella wings
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04:23
in the opening titles, crowley just stopped a spaceship and aziraphale turned it into fish
i feel like that was a douglas adams reference and i’m on board
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04:25
the entire time i read the book, up until i saw video promos of this show, i thought “crowley” was said the same way as spn’s “crowley”, as in “crahwlee”
not “crOhwlee”
i definitely like that they’re different though
both probably named after aleister crowley tbh. all of whom are queer.
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THOSE SWAYING HIPS
i haven’t found david tennant attractive in about 9 years but WHOOOP HELLO AGAIN
somehow attractive for entirely different reasons than before. like. my taste changed but tHEN
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i’m on crowley’s side, taking down a cellphone network is VERY ANNOYING
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04:35
crowley: shitshitshitshithsit
:D
i can’t wait for aziraphale’s big swear
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04:37
i miss eating sushi
sushi was great
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04:43
this baby delivery thing is sTRESSFUL
“aaaaurthurrrrr”
nooo
poor lady
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04:45
“little toesie woesies”
where’s the sister mary loquacious fan club and where do i sign up
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i’m glad they colour-coded the babies and did the playing card explanation because this part of the book always tied my brain in knots
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05:00
this is reminding me how utterly gross england is
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“MY POINT IS............. DOLPHINS”
YES
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05:06
see in the book
i never once realised that the nanny was crowley in disguise
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05:11
digging the snake tattoo sideburns
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05:14
and yeah the short hair looks good
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05:15
fINALLY crowley called azi “angel”
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05:17
crowley: “oh no no don’t do your magic act, pleeease”
the magic act scene is one of my fave parts of the book <3
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05:20
aw man they cut out the best part
i mean i get why
the kids shouted a bunch of gay slurs at aziraphale
and there were no secret service people with guns
but aw mannn
AND THEY CUT OUT THE BIT WITH THE DEAD DOVE AND CROWLEY BRINGS IT BACK TO LIFE FOR AZIRAPHALE
THAT WAS MY SINGLE FAVOURITE BIT OF THE BOOK
AND IT’S GONE
;C
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OH WAIT
THERE’S THE DOVE
OH GOOD
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aw man aziraphhale just brought it back himself
i liked it better in the book
they sat on the steps outside and crowley comforted azi and took the dove and fixed it for him, and then it flew off
idk i just had such a perfect image of that moment in my mind and this was..... good but not the same at all
could be gayer
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05:27
good dog
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05:28
crowley: *snifsnif* something’s changed
aziraphale: “oh it’s a new cologne, my barber suggeste--”
crowley: “no no i know what you smell like”
gayyyyyyyyyy <3
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05:31
okay that’s ep 1 watched!!! i’ll watch more maybe later tonight :D
ENJOYING THIS SO FAR
not as gay as expected ........YET
needs 400% more “angel” and “dear”
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EPISODE 2: The Book
07:42pm
pillar of salt guy: “something smells evil”
the fact crowley smells evil and yet aziraphale likes his company regardless says a lot
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07:49
fully expected crowley to say “i didn’t fall, i sauntered vaguely downwards”
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07:50
iiiii’m finding the narrator a little annoying
maybe it’s because i read the book so i know what’s going on
but saying “he has four items to deliver in his van. he works for this postage company and he’s making his first delivery in a formal warzone”.... idk i feel like all of those things could be shown visually? saying it rather than showing it probably saved seven seconds of airtime, but damn
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07:56
i wonder if the narrator was a later addition to this, for new audience clarity? the script for god just seems a little stilted, idk
edit: i kind of got used to it, but it was still jarring, which i’m sure was the opposite of the intended effect
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08:09
the saddest newt
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08:13
she’s kind of exactly how i imagined her in the book
and definitely my fave next to aziraphale and crowley
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08:17
i feel so bad for crowley’s plants
poor babies
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08:19
for some reason i imagined her as a redhead. kind of more like mrs weasley
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08:33
these wee children......... so soft.......... so smol
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08:25
v happy with the casting for pepper
tiny downside is that we lose another redhead
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08:29
i find the kids’ conversations hilarious because they’re the same age as harry potter when he goes to hogwarts the first time
idk if this is what eleven year olds are like in real life, but when i read the book i did feel distinctly like they spoke like eight year olds
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08:35
crowley: “i like spooky. big spooky fan, me”
he just sounds like the tenth doctor
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08:36
YEEE FINALLY CROWLeY DOING NICE THINGS FOR AZIRAPHALE
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08:48
"you know, crowley, i’ve always said that deep down you really are a--”
“SHUT IT”
DON’T YOU CALL HIM NICE YOU PRETTY BASTARD
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loquacious: “sorry to break up an intimate moment”
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08:45
i imagined anathema’s tripod thing to be about 5 feet tall, not a cute little knee-high thing
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08:48
freddie mercury: BIIIII CYCLE
BIIIIIIII CYCLE
yeah i was waiting for that
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crowley: “get in, angel”
HE MURMURED
DON’T MURMUR YOUR TERMS OF ENDEARMENT noo
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09:00
end of episode 2!!! i freaking loved aziraphale vs the book <3
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the credits for this ep credit konnie huq as someone named pam but idk who that is? i had a crush on konnie huq as a kid when she was a presenter on “blue peter”
OH WAIT RIGHT the lady on the breakfast show on crowley’s tv. aw such a small part. hoping we’ll see her again later
edit: nope. might rewatch that part to pay more attention. obviously i didn’t even recognise her after like.. 15 years
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EPISODE 3: Hard Times
09:05pm
brb gotta get some food
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09:14
and now i wait for food
EPISODE THREE LET’S GO
is this the one that’s just crowley and azi’s backstory?
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09:16
i can’t even put my finger on why but he’s getting more attractive
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09:21
ah yes
aziraphale is eating shellfish and trying to tempt crowley
“oh... that’s your job”
i love this part of their dynamic
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09:29
i adore when crowley makes aziraphale smile <3
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09:43
SAUNTERED VAGUELY DOWNWARDS
YEE
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i like seeing how crowley’s sunglasses differ throughout history
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09:36
“if they knew i’d been... fraternising”
this is such a forbidden romance i love ittttt
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09:49
CROWLEY SAVED THE BOOKS
and SOFT VIOLIN PLAYS
THIS IS A FUCKING LOVE STORY
k this is my favourite part of the show so far <3
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09:50
this angel just fell in love
right in that moment
i see cartoon hearts around him
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09:54
just had to pause for a second bc there was some broccoli in my tea :c
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09:56
awwwwwwwwwwwwww
he got him holy waterrrrrrr
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UNIVERSAL ANGLE OF HETEROSEXUAL LONGING
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definitely feeling a lot of “NOW KISS” right about now
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09:59
LAUGHING BECAUSE THE OPENING CREDITS ARE LITERALLY HALFWAY INTO THE EPISODE
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10:03
throughout the entire book azi just came across as the kind of person who wore glasses even though glasses were never once mentioned
I AM GLAD TO SEE GLASSES
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10:12
i like this colour palette and the gold in their makeup
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10:27
“we can go off together”
omg the world’s ending and crowley’s all RUN AWAY WITH MEEE
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10:31
okay then
good eyelashes
edit: i also like how their relationship was explained with a simple tap on the wrist: hurry up, you’re on the clock, i’m a sex worker, finish your call because i’m leaving
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10:32
episode three DONE
these eps don’t feel long enough
maybe that means the pacing is just right? who knows
i feel like i should be doing something other than watching this but..... why
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EPISODE 4: Saturday Morning Funtime
10:48pm
aziraphale is SOFT and he’s perfect like that <3
fuck u gabriel and your body shaming
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10:53
i want delivery guy to be okay BUT I READ THE BOOK
so............... i know he will be...... eventually
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10:55
how did they get photographs taken in the 1600s
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oh gabriel’s eyes ARE purple, i thought i was seeing them wrong
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11:02
“maud i love you”
noo ho hoooo
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11:09
a little douglas adams, definitely
BUT NO PEPPER POT DALEK
AWW
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11:10
the season is very much jumping between summer and autumn
though i suppose that’s the point, tadfield is just perfect
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11:12
“which the internet has begun to refer to as the kracken”
i wonder if good omens inadvertently inspired me to write The Wireless a couple of years back. wouldn’t be surprising
edit: no, couldn’t have, because the internet wasn’t much of a thing (or a thing at all?) in the book, given its publish date
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11:20
that’s a v nice dress/top combo
gosh she’s so pretty
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11:30
crowley: “we can run away together!!! alpha centauri!!!”
aw baby
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crowley: “i’m going home, angel! i’m getting my stuff, and i am leaving. and when i am up in the stars, i won’t even think about you!!”
THAT WAS A V SAD BREAKUP NOOOOO
why has there not been a single “dear” yet :c
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11:37
oh no, this part
i loved this in the book but i am NOT READY for maggots
damn you gaiman
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11:39
he’s so cute
and so gay
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11:42
uriel: “don’t think your boyfriend in the dark glasses will get you special treatment in hell”
he looks kinda delighted uriel called crowley his boyfriend
i would say he looks worried but this shot was used without context in the trailer and it came across as genuine joy, i actually thought he was looking at crowley
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11:46
i thought it was a strange throne before
a spider at the centre of a web
dark halo
yeah
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11:51
oh now she’s a redhead???
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also i’m glad they implied newt and anathema just kissed because the sex thing was weird in the book
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okay never mind
hmm
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12:05
aziraphale: “oh.................ffffUCK.”
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
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12:07
oh no
it’s happening
oh no
i hate this part but i love what happens because of it
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12:29am
i have eaten and now i have tea and i am back from MORE BOOKSHOP FIRE
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EPISODE 5: The Doomsday Option
12:31
nuuuuuuuuuu
and “you’re my best friend” playing while crowley’s tryna call azi
nuuuuuu
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“somebody killed my best friend”
jfhsdfjsdj
/sobs
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12:36
freddie mercury: “somebody find me somebody tooo ooo looove”
edit: the narration WRECKED this. it was so dramatic and visually emotional but the voiceover completely screwed with it and it was SO UNNECESSARY.
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12:46
crowley: “i lost my best friend”
he says, while crying, while talking to that friend
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THE ONE BOOK HE WANTS IS THE ONE CROWLEY SAVED
THEY’RE SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER
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azi wanted to share crowley’s body
and then said they had to get a wiggle on
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12:52
they cut out the hell’s angels / lesser horsemen
i figured they would, but still a shame
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1:54
in the book tracy’s “spirit guide” was native american but daaaaaamn that part really needed to go
now she’s irish which is... better, probably
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01:01
ron: “SHUT. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP”
this guy’s having the time of his life
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01:03
he wave
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01:05
1926 bentley; sexiest car right next to the ‘67 chevy impala
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01:08
omg gotta translate and explain the road
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01:13
OH NO the maggots are about to happen
they changed the placement of this but it worked for the pacing
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OH NO
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k well the maggots were gross but not as bad as i imagined
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01:31
omg the dog turned upside down rather than be picked up
i wonder if that was intentional
dog: I DO NOT WANT UP
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01:34
pfff he’s reading “american gods” by neil gaiman
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01:44am
10/10 flaming car
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EPISODE 6: The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives
01:51am
here we go...
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01:55
azi so happy that crowley said the dress suits him <3
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01:57
rip bentley
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01:59
aziraphale: “we are here to lick some serious butt!!”
crowley: “kick!! kick, aziraphale, for heaven’s sake”
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02:06
i freaking love the parallel between the Them and the horsemen in the book
and i love that they did face shots to show the parallel
pepper = war
wensleydale = famine
brian = pollution
adam = death
the parallel is less clear for brian and wensleydale, at least in the show. was more obvious in the book. but at the same time i kind of got confused between them a lot, brian was always eating, but wensleydale was named after cheese
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02:14
pepper: “i do not endorse everyday sexism”
/STOMPS ON WAR’S FOOT
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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02:25
shadwell: “anyone who wants ta get ta the hoore of babylon will have to get past me”
earlier anathema said “boyfriend”
may i point out that all the adults are paired up
shadwell & madame tracy
newt & anathema
......and....
aziraphale and crowley
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0:28
crowley: “we are FUCKED”
these two need a holiday
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azi: “come up with something... or.... or i’ll never talk to you again”
he knows crowley loves him aww
perfect blackmail material
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02:32
they went from trying to kill him to being his gay angel parents real quick
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02:35
thought they were holding hands for a second there
edit: regardless, a whole damn airfield and they’re 2cm apart
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02:39
happy ending for the postman, hooray~
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crowley about the bookshop, softly: “it burned down. remember? you can stay at my place”
awwWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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02:42
CROWLEY GOT HIS CAR BACK AND YET HE TOOK A TAXI
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02:45
anathema: “why is your car called dick turpin?”
newt: “dick turpin is a famous highwayman. it’s called dick turpin because everywhere it goes, it holds up traffic”
i laughed
this wasn’t in the book and i always wondered
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02:51
i wonder if holy water wouldn’t burn him because he’s too good
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03:00
gabriel: “don’t talk to me about the greater good, sunshine, i’m the angel fucking gabriel”
really enjoying these swears
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03:03
i thought so
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03:30am
paused for a bit to get ready for bed
i thought it was after 4am but nope
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“there would be other summers, but not one like this. not ever again”
that genuinely makes me emotional
i think that’s why it’s my favourite book, i can relive that summer with them
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03:35
omg
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OH MY GOD
WAIT
THEY
OH MY GOD
THEY WEREN’T IMMUNE, THEY JUST SWAPPED PLACES
HOLY SHIT
edit: THIS WAS NOT IN THE BOOK AND IT’S BRILLIANT AND I’M GLAD IT’S HERE
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crowley: “let me tempt you to a spot of lunch?
azi: “~temptation accomplished~!”
THEY’RE SO STINKING CUTE
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“just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing”
perfect
STILL NO USE OF “DEAR” THOUGH AND IT’S KILLING ME
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that ending with the bird made me teary-eyed
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credits: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS SATAN
WOW
OKAY
AKSFJDSF /snorts
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the end credits and the song i just wanna bawl my eyes out
i loved this so much and i’m so glad it was GOOD
i loved that they added so many people of colour. in the book i imagined crowley played by alexander siddig (star trek: deep space 9 era) but i guess david tennant makes a pretty good crowley too
i’m trying not to be upset that my favourite scene with the dove and aziraphale’s affectionate use of “dear” was taken out
but
this was damn good regardless. even gayer in places than in the book
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this nightingale song is my new favourite song
i never got the reference before
“and as we kissed and said goodnight, an nightingale sang in berkeley square:
GAY
SO GAY
i love
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the end of the credits “For Terry”
ACTUAL OUT LOUD SOBBING
TERRY YOU WOULD’VE LOVED THIS
NEIL DID YOU PROUD
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oh this was so beautiful
i’m gonna watch it again with my family probably within the week. i’m so emotionally tender now
azIRAPHALE WAS SO FLUFFY AND CROWLEY WAS SO NICE ABOUT THE BOOKS
ugh i love them more than ever
anathema...... i don’t know if i relate to her, want to be her, look up to her, want her to mentor me, live with her, or find her attractive. maybe all of the above. but she was freaking PERFECT. PE R F E CT
the casting was so... just right. thank you casting people for anathema.
like... i also didn’t mind the newt/anathema thing so much now. it was hard to tell in the book how much of a relationship they had after, but that smile she gave while lying in bed the morning after, that worked, it said a lot. and i like that it was her choice to burn the prophecy sequel rather than newt’s suggestion
gabriel was amusing. like.. i’m glad he wasn’t in the book. but he was great here. also really like michael and uriel. uriel was so damn beautiful.
i also would really have liked to see a mention of the fact crowley and aziraphale are both agender and potentially asexual. not even a hint of it here. buuuuuut it guess i know from the book. so.
my favourite episode was of course episode 3 with crowley and aziraphale’s 6000 year backstory. especially the 1940s bit where crowley saved the books <3
this show was was less confusing than the book too. ugh it was done so well
OH
we didn’t see where the soldier guy went when aziraphale zapped him away!!! in the book he reappeared safely back home and went out to see his family. to be fair i don’t know whether he died and went to heaven, but it was a nice thing to happen
and they took out the Them’s bully/rival gang, who was led by the third baby from the baby swap, and who won awards for his tropical fish. at least that’s what i remember. which meant the parallel about heaven/hell being rival gangs was lost here. but the parallel between the horsemen and the them was stronger than ever and i loved that.
look, i mean, 10 out of 10, EASY.
favourite thing? yes. yes, absolutely.
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congrats if you made it to the end of this!!! thank you for reading <3 AND GO WATCH THE SHOW IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY
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Can I ask why you use the "they" pronoun for the Tenth Doctor? I can't recall him ever showing any indication that he identified as anything other than male? Not hating or anything, I've just never seen anyone use that pronoun for the Doctor before and I was wondering about the reasoning. Love your blog, btw! ❤️
ty!!! and i mean, its more of a personal choice for me to refer to the doctor (any incarnation) with neutral pronouns by default. sometimes i'll use he, but usually i use they. i just hc them like that! cause of the whole, being an alien thing from an ancient dusty civilization and how the dr themself never fit into that civilization (or any others, really), and i know there's a few quotes in some eu books floating around that hint at some fun nonbinary stuff with time lords.
but either way, it's largely just my personal preference and headcanon for the character! ty for asking!!
#dw#tenth doctor#nonbinary#i dunno what circles you typically follow in the dw fandom#but for me its a v common thing for people to use neutral pronouns for the dr
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season 5 in my read through of every who novelisation in television order!
doctor who and the tomb of the cybermen by gerry davis
this is probably the best of the davis novelisations i’ve read so far - there just feels like there’s a great attention to detail and prose here. it also does nothing to resolve the very obvious racism of the original. in fact, it has the same ‘describing the character played by a black man as a giant’ and various other things that seem to establish toberman as different/alien to other humans, although he’s now apparently turkish, and at least they don’t have the physical gags about the doctor cowering away from him as he would one of the show’s monsters, anymore. kaftan is also now explicitly arab (she gets described as such), so take that utilisation of the scary foreigners trope how you will. as a result, i can’t really recommend this wholeheartedly, but i will tell you some things i liked. there’s lines like ‘the archaeologists had momentarily forgotten the dead man. it interfered with their work’, the doctor speaking ‘in that bright irritating voice that adults use to settle children’s quarrels’ which i love. we get some nice referrals back to jamie and victoria’s cultural contexts, including victoria thinking about her father. there are bass-reliefs of various invasions in the tomb, and the tenth planet cybermen are apparently a particular dynasty, which i thought was interesting. we learn that the professor knew one of the men who died as a ‘promising young student’ which is a nice touch of poignancy, and there’s a sombreness to the ending that feels like More than on screen. victoria ‘had been very struck by kaftan’s great beauty and self-assurance’ which i’m going to wilfully interpret as supporting my lesbian victoria agenda. on the other hand, i do think some of the attempts to look into klieg’s head and give him doubts feel at odds with the ‘ranting madman’ characterisation, which weakened them for me. general changes: we get a very different opening scene, cybermen are THREE METRES TALL (i doubt that’s conveyed on screen), the doctor looks up the cybermat in his alphabetically arranged diary (who journals like that??), this book takes place in an alternate reality where victoria has fair and jamie red hair.
doctor who and the abominable snowmen by terrance dicks
after having Too Much to say about the last one i think i might end up saying Too Little about this one. the number of novelisations i’ve read has given me some appreciation for ones which aren’t particularly special or different from the source but remain competent and engaging, and that’s a category this falls into. as per a lot of these novelisations there’s a bit more violence than usual (the captured yeti’s escape involves blood and explicit deaths); dicks adjusts a few of the special effects (robotic yeti have teeth and snouts, whereas the real yeti looks materially different from them); some parts are cut or altered (jamie doesn’t refuse to change into warmer clothing but does consider scottish mountains superior, the doctor now actively courts his idea about the yeti rather than running away from him when he says he has one); we get some insights into what characters are thinking and how they feel about each other. i hate the ‘it was in the nature of females to be contrary’ line - i know jamie’s from the 18th century but what with the war games too i can’t help but feel dicks likes giving him sexist lines. the narration refers to tibetan food as ‘strange’ and jamie and victoria are wary of it, which i’m aware might tow too close to ‘haha weird asian food’ comments for some people’s comfort. the food machine’s back, and doesn’t just produce weird blocks this time but actual food! the jewel in the lotus prayer (also seen in planet of the spiders, btw) is not something i recall from the original, but equally could be there and i’ve just forgotten - either way i’m glad dr who has an example of it where it’s not being used by villains, but is rather a source of beauty and a way to hold off mind control from the great intelligence.
doctor who and the ice warriors by brian hayles
again, fairly straightforward stuff. some things are curtailed (not so many ‘tardis landing’ shenanigans, penley’s journey with jamie isn’t detailed), some things are expanded on (for instance, we learn about scavenger shanty towns and garrett and penley were apparently good friends before he left, the frequency the doctor attacks the ice warriors with is apparently used in martian prisons), some things are changed (dr no longer refers to himself as a genius - i think that’s this one? - instead of the conversation about the women’s short skirts jamie and victoria mess about with a high-tech massage chair). i appreciated the ‘oh no, not africa!’ thing is qualified as ‘we’ll be away from the tardis’ but the line does mistakenly refer to the ‘country’. clent’s walking stick not being mentioned is frustrating because it’s erasing a televised instance of disability; victoria being described as ‘doll-like’ is weird and there’s one passing female character who’s just referred to as ‘an attractive girl’, which i found annoying, but other than that the book’s fine on that front. the doctor sometimes sounds more like jon pertwee when hayles throws a few ‘old chap’s in there. heads up for a bit more violence than on screen, including a brief description of how badly storr’s arm is actually injured. overall, if you read this one go ahead. it’s a good novel, but like a lot of those written in the seventies it’s mainly there to provide an alternative to an audience who couldn’t re-view a story, rather than to expand what we saw on screen.
doctor who and the enemy of the world by ian marter
i feel really mean for this because there’s nothing technically wrong with this novelisation, and ian marter’s a good writer, but now that the aired story actually exists out there in the world i don’t think this is actually...worth it? unless you’re really desperate to learn the full names of several supporting characters. most of the changes are stuff that’s cut to fit in to a <130 page novelisation - so the beach scenes are shorter, for instance, the chef has fewer scenes, the scene on the helicopter is shorter, and (most tragically for me) victoria no longer tries to elbow slam ‘salamander’. on the other hand (and i may be wrong here, i’ve thought stuff is additional material that’s turned out to be on tv before) i don’t remember her THROWING A SOUP TUREEN AT THE GUARDS SO HARD THAT IT KNOCKS ONE OF THEM UNCONSCIOUS. moving on to other topics: astrid’s dad was killed by salamander, we’re told that the central european zone authority hq used to be tisza palace, i’m like 90% sure that jamie represents victoria as his girlfriend to salamander on tv whereas here he says ‘a friend of mine’ instead, it apparently takes place around new years’ because there’s celebrations that leave the building where they meet fariah mostly empty, the cliffhanger stuff is resolved before it actually BECOMES a cliffhanger but marter gets some nice slightly surreal stuff about the effect of the time vortex on humans with the tardis doors open. as per with these novelisations, it’s more violent than on tv (my notes inform me that kent might have caught on fire?); not as per, benik calls someone a bastard! i’m sure that caused some pearl clutching in 1981. as a last note, this is at least the second novelisation that establishes victoria as wearing victorian clothes at the start, something that she literally does not do on tv after her very first moments in the tardis. what’s going on dudes!
doctor who and the web of fear by terrance dicks
fun fact if you at all care about me or my life, this was the first dr who book i ever read and my first exposure to this particular serial (and maybe classic who as a whole? i’m not 100% sure, it’s been over a decade). anyway, bogstandard dicks stuff, we get some nice insights into characters, how they think and how they think about others (for example, jamie grouping trains and spaceships in the same category). given that this is related to a previous story, we also have moments where he recaps the plot of the abominable snowmen for us. mr silverstein has his name changed to mr julius, presumably to avoid any intimations of antisemitism which is definitely a net positive; in what i’m assuming is an attempt at a similar vein the not-yet-brigadier thinks to himself that ‘the welsh usually make such splendid soldiers’, but i don’t think that works quite so well as an apology for evans. i do like the comments about him finding reserves of courage at two points, though, because it gives him a little more depth, even if he is still the worst part of this story. however, he does still get described as reacting to the sphere ‘like a girl frightened by a mouse’ which i hate, and which brings me onto a few moments that read as sexist to me: anne is part of a long line of who women that the novelisation writers see fit to introduce as ‘an attractive young woman’ rather than actually describing her as an individual , and i strongly dislike the alteration of the line from ‘i wanted to become a scientist’ to ‘i wanted to become a scientist like my father’, it feels like she’s no longer allowed to be intelligent on her own terms as opposed to relating to a man. on the note of travers, it’s explained that he became an expert in electronics in his attempt to study the spheres, which is why he’s now well-renowned; he also came under suspicion for mr julius’s murder but anne provided an alibi and he was so obviously horrified that the police left him alone. aside from that, the most obvious addition is that colonel lethbridge-stewart and the doctor now meet ‘on screen’, as it were, and there are both comments about their future friendship in the narration and an extra line where the colonel mentions sending a memorandum to the government about an organisation that will sort out things like this in future. less significant but which i definitely picked up on: it predictably skips the enemy of the world cliffhanger, victoria is wearing very different clothing (a jacket and slacks), jamie gets emotionally attached to the yeti he controlled (he thinks it’s brave, aw), the doctor tells evans smoking is bad for him in what i’m 99% sure is a ‘terrance dicks trying to model for the kids’ addition. not so much an addition as something i find hilarious: jamie is described as ‘towering over’ the second doctor, so either terrance dicks thinks frazer hines is taller than he is or patrick troughton is significantly shorter because there’s really not that much of a height difference lol.
fury from the deep by victor pemberton
ok stand by i have a lot of thoughts on this one. sorry. first of all the opening’s quite different and i love it, so much so that i almost don’t mind parts of the rest settling down into more standard novelisation form afterwards, because it sets up the atmosphere so well - it’s a minor thing but i also like the attention the writing repeatedly draws to how cold it is (the balcony floor of the harrises apartment has cracked because of it; it snows; victoria’s bundled up in wool) which i think adds to that. in terms of the opening we’ve got some minor differences - the foam fight is reconstituted, the doctor no longer explains the sonic to anyone, etc. BUT the main thing that stands out to me is that the stunning is spaced out so jamie and victoria are initially still conscious, and jamie tells victoria that he thinks the doctor’s dead. thanks buddy, as if she wasn’t having a hard enough time as it is. so now she has a solid amount of time where she thinks she’s all alone in the world and encounters the seaweed for the first time on the beach before going down herself, and like, we all know that victor pemberton is not actually going to kill off all 3 leads in the first chapter of this doctor who novelisation, but i like that he tried to convince us he would. on a lighter note, jamie is now apparently allergic to the seaweed because it makes him sneeze every time it shows up. the weed also ages people it possesses supernaturally. a few minor details reveal stuff about character relationships - and i feel the need to highlight the fact that van lutyens apparently doesn’t speak english with any trace of a dutch accent, just because it feels like a pointed jab at the one we got on tv. also his first name is pieter in case anyone cares. in contrast the chief engineer doesn’t have a name at all because everyone associates him so strongly with his job and the machinery that most of them don’t know his actual name. minor things: we’re allowed to say damn and hell now, so everyone takes advantage of that; jamie is so musically talented that he can snore a highland reel; megan jones is the daughter of a welsh miner; for some reason pemberton decides to suggest that the weed creature might have a soul so do with that what you will, spirituality wise; jamie and victoria explicitly see each other as siblings; there’s some stuff where jamie makes fun of victoria’s scream which i thought was cute (she treads on his foot in response). both ‘fury from the deep’ and the original vetoed title of ‘colony of devils’ get their titles dropped in narration, which i personally thought was neat. now for the stuff i don’t like: robson gets a fridged wife (he was driving the car in the crash that killed her) which was totally unnecessary and just kinda sat there, an uncomfortable point of misogyny ALONG WITH this book’s incredible amount of weirdness about megan jones. DID YOU KNOW ‘being put on the defensive made her look more attractive’, and ‘one could sense that she was a far more vulnerable and attractive woman than she had ever revealed before’. you wouldn’t do that for a male authority figure, stop it. also when they’re arguing harris concedes to her because apparently ‘the woman’ always uses seniority not reason to get her own way (which is kinda not true, she has logical reasons not to bomb the rigs - there are still people there!) which left a bad taste in my mouth as being at least very close to ‘ooh look at this irrational woman who can’t be relied on’. also when we get to the people in the weed, there’s this really weird line about ‘and one of them was a woman’ like ok great...why are we singling her out? describing the useless secretary of jones as ‘effete’ was also not great (i know pemberton was queer but it’s still a narrative of ‘this guy isn’t manly and he’s useless’). finally, in the scene where they’re checking the weed in the harrises apartment, it’s split into two parts: at the end of the first we have something new to the novelisation (victoria mentioning she saw the weed on the beach) but the beginning of the second feels like it was taken straight from tv without adjusting to this change and it feels slightly inconsistent. i have no idea how much this is just me seeing things. i would like to emphasise though that i did mostly enjoy this book, especially since i like victoria a lot and it had some nice insights into her and her relationship with the other two - plus, something that isn’t super common with these novelisations, it has some prose passages that i really loved and will be keeping for my little quotes blog :)
the wheel in space by terrance dicks
sometimes i look up these novelisations on tardis wiki, just to check i’m not imagining if something is/isn’t an addition, and, encouragingly, for this one it just says ‘to be added’. great. look, i get that it’s hard to squeeze a 6 part story into 40, 000 words, but this really wasn’t interesting to read, for the most part - it’s another one where large portions are just dialogue, for one thing. i will admit that there are minor things i like - the description of the tardis collapsing, the description of the cyber pods as ‘like soap bubbles from the bubble pipe of a child’ effectively takes the playful and associates it with danger, jamie comparing the wheel to a spinning top, the birth metaphor for the cybermen’s emergence. my standards have been dragged down so much by these novelisations that frankly i’m grateful at least one man’s handsomeness gets commented on, and it’s not just the women who get singled out. also, i know a lot of people like the ‘logic, my dear zoe’ line but it always slightly frustrates me because she is right in this case, so i appreciated that the dr mentally admits that. there’s a neat detail where zoe stares blankly ahead of her when she reels off facts, which makes her seem like she’d been programmed and works well with what we know about the way she interacts with the world in her own time - obviously this might be something i didn’t notice in the original because it’s missing. i could rattle off a bunch of small stuff like this (i find it hilarious that the doctor knows zoe’s in the tardis because he sees her crawling in behind jamie on her hands and knees; i do legitimately think it has a better ‘cliffhanger’ than the tv version by ending with the tardis in flight, rather than just the lead-in to an evil of the daleks rerun) but like...for the most part i don’t find any part of it particularly illuminating to the original, unless you count ‘illuminating how much of the back end is just people standing around in rooms’ without the charisma of actors performing the lines. it’s not bad, but for the most part it was just there - gemma’s death especially was something i thought could’ve been done far better in prose. what we have is almost completely tensionless, cutting from her overhearing the cybermen’s plans to her calling the others immediately, without showing any uncertainty or even foreknowledge that she’ll be killed (her knowing this is only mentioned after she dies). it just doesn’t work for me on any level. uh, aside from that...jamie is shirtless for his medical examination? if you like that kind of thing, i don’t know. also, at the end jamie thinks while looking at zoe that it’s already getting harder to remember victoria’s face. not particularly notable, i just found it a bit rude.
#doctor who#classic who#second doctor#jamie mccrimmon#victoria waterfield#zoe heriot#two#laura reads dw books#target marathon#this is so long lmaooo sorry#anyway i don't know what combination of being on holiday + owning three of the novelisations + it being two stories shorter than s4#+ not having to deal with 2 double length novelisations by a writer i don't really like#made this come out so much quicker but i'm glad it did#i've also found that listening to music while i do it's really helpful? i listen to music a lot anyway but if i put an album on and say i'm#going to read to the end of it it works wonders for my motivation
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tenth doctor adventures: vol. 2... my thoughts!!!!
basically, i think this is going to be a live-blog of sorts... i’ve got notepad open and i’m going to write stuff down as i listen and probably go back and add in some more in-depth commentary where i feel it’s warranted... here we go!
infamy of the zaross.
okay, right off the bat the theme song made me very emotional and long intensely for the days when i loved this show and got super stoked about watching. i mean the thrill running through my veins at this song man… god i miss it.
totally loved the beginning... it was a much-welcome interaction with jackie. and i loved her sticking up for rose from marge... god what an unpleasant woman
“flash mob?” lolol the doctor still proficient in pop culture slang i see
“well, i am that good” yes you are 😄
the taRDIS sounds ❤️❤️❤️
jackie doesn’t back down from these brutes at all it’s very IC
“stitch this” C L A S S I C 👍🏻
i love when the doctor is so angry he /almost/ appears calm it’s frightening as ever and i can picture it so well. i think they really did justice to how his rage tends to manifest
“we save planets, the three of us” w2g jackie
“the tall skinny thing” (in reference to the doctor) lmao
i like how rose played a huge part in saving the day in this story, and that they didn’t relegate her to a supporting role, or worse - a helpless one. that was one of my major concerns about these audios if i’m honest. it was a relief!
“oh you’ve got guns do you? i’ve got a screwdriver” - frankly amazing
i love rose’s speech to jess. just goes to show how far she’s come bc i think she used to feel similarly when we met her back in s1, you know?
“who just saved the world - karen or jess?” rose slayin’ it again! i also like how they didn’t put arbitrary family relationships on a pedestal in this story. that was one thing that annoyed me about the end of the idiot’s lantern, and i think a common thread that seems to run throughout dw.
“i’ve got the tardis. i’ve got you! (THERE WAS EMPHASIS HERE NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE) what else does a wandering time lord need?” YES THIS IS THE CONTENT I AM HERE FOR
“who wants to watch a tv series about me?” HAH!!! cheesy but i DO NOT CARE I LOVE IT
overall, i enjoyed this story a lot! i feel they kept everyone in character and i can’t recall anything cringe-worthy or that i wish they’d done differently. what a pleasant surprise! 😍
the sword of the chevalier.
rose still wandering off after all this time lol
“we were having a lovely day out, i was hoping for ice cream” how utterly domestic i love it
has the doctor been listening to too much sia btw??? he won’t shut up about that chandelier lol
“you little devil” admittedly at first i didn’t know WHAT she had possibly put on to make him say this, but in retrospect knowing it was ACTUALLY a devil costume i still feel like this was 100% meant as a double entendre the way it was delivered (thank you david)... they’re def gonna be roleplaying later
his name is LUIGI in this little scenario WHY omg
honestly i’m sorta bummed we didn’t get to hear ten attempt to sing
the doctor munching on sandwiches at such an inopportune time lol so typical
protective!ten is back with his angry growling voice and i am here for it
“you try and put a price on life you only expose how worthless you are” good line doc damn
“i’m not one for killing blows” no you aren’t bb and it’s why i adore you
when they addressed him as their ‘master’ and he was like ‘that’s more like it’ all seductive like ngl i sort of got off on that whole interaction 😂 i love it when the doctor gets to acknowledge and capitalize on his power for a second 🔥
“tell rose how good i am with a sword” ok at first i was like man he’s still constantly and desperately seeking rose’s approval i see and that was thrilling enough in itself BUT THEN IT GOT EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS
“about 30 seconds of good” - ROSE TLYER
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A KID’S PROGRAM GOD DAMN!!!! 😂
this is what they acted like isn’t it???
(also ten you gotta step up your endurance game bro 😂😂😂)
LITERALLY DIED OVER THIS A LONG TIME. STILL DYING ACTUALLY.
ANYWAY.
my only true issue with this story was i felt like they didn’t handle the ambiguously transgender character with as much sensitivity as i might like? but i also don’t feel qualified to offer an opinion here, i’d be interested to hear what any trans listeners out there thought.
aside from this, overall i still thought it a solid episode that felt pretty authentically rtd who. and it was just as vivid and easy to picture as the first story. made me feel like i was watching a bonus episode of season 2, which is quite a feat i think. i am getting sooooo nostalgic the longer i sit here listening. i miss these two so much.
cold vengeance.
they were going to go skiing and i am so disappointed they didn’t get to their intended destination bc if that ain’t the start to a glorious christmas fanfic idk what is
“me? guess? never. it’s always informed deduction.” too true 😂
losing the tardis... ah, classic ten/rose
i don’t think i’ll ever get tired of hearing david say ‘i’m the doctor’ (and lbr i don’t think he will either)
i love that there are scottish characters in this ❤️
“you believe you can give me (long pompous title here) an ultimatum?” “yes, i do” slay ‘em, babe
“i’m a time lord, and you do not want to get on the wrong side of me!” there it is again 🔥
“one chance, that’s all rose tyler ever needs.”
i do love that rose once again saved herself (with help) they really didn’t fall back on the ‘doctor has to save the helpless human companion’ trope in these stories and i am grateful for that, it was another one of my fears going in
“i was planning to come back” “yeah right, that’s what you always say” well, that stung 😟
“i’m not going anywhere without rose” that’s my boy 👌🏻
“nobody is expendable!” 🙌🏻
callum’s (sp?) mom seems strangely un-bothered by her son dying? or is that just me
“you don’t know what real honor and sacrifice mean. take it from someone who does” CHILLS
“after this, can we go somewhere warm?” did anyone else hear this with a 😏 ? or am i just still flying on the high of the last super-suggestive conversation?
another great story!
this whole experience was so much better than i anticipated. i had some characterization issues with volume one. the experience wasn’t quite as immersive as i was expecting; it did feel disconnected from ten’s original run in a way that’s hard to pin down. so i came into volume two quite worried the same would apply here, and it’d only be worse since this is OUR SHIP, the couple that means more than literally any other couple in all of fiction to our little fandom sect. any damage done to them was bound to leave scars, since all the lines were being read in their proper voices. i was so worried that they would mess up one or both of their characterization, or throw in something gross like a moffat casanova trope.
and i am SO GLAD THEY DIDN’T. i feel like they did my fave characters justice this round and david and billie simply NAILED their performances despite it being like ten years since they last played these characters opposite one another... i am simply floating on happiness right now.
i won’t lie and say i wasn’t wishing for more shippy tsr style dialogue b/w them, but we did get a few, and i think nothing but fanfic could ever satisfy me in that respect, probably ;) so i let them off the hook for that.
as long as they continue in this vein...
GIVE ME VOLUME THREE!!!
#bf ten audios#just me ramblingggggg#if anyone wants to chat more i am down#ten x rose#otp: she's all you want in the universe
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Fool Me Once, Chapter Eight: And What Comes After
Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Rating: T
Warnings: References to hallucinations, mental trauma, physical trauma/scars
Chapter One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven
Ao3 | ff.net
And that's all, she wrote!!
Thank you so, so much to every single person who reads this. This is my first major Doctor Who fic and the reception has been beyond anything I could have dreamed! My heart is so full and I feel so welcomed, so thank you again. From the bottom of my heart. I feel like I can't say it enough.
A very, very special thanks also to @chocolatequeennk for being my first beta, my incredible support as I took my baby steps into the world of the fandom, and just generally the best friend anyone could ask for.
Eternal and undying gratitude to @hellostarlight20, without whom none of this would be possible. You are my cheerleader, and your help has been absolutely invaluable. You made this story what it is, and I don't have words to express how grateful I am. You are amazing. Thank you so much!
(btw I’m not sure I ever tagged it before but I’m pretty sure this fills plenty of stuff for @doctorroseprompts, most notably post-Midnight reunion and Bad Wolf shenanigans!)
Rose had just finished her shower and was rubbing a towel through her hair when she noticed that the TARDIS’ hum had changed. She’d been more attuned to it since returning to this universe and even more so since becoming Bad Wolf again.
This sound filled her with apprehension, and she didn’t stop to think, instead wrapping the towel around her and stepping out into the corridor. The TARDIS was leading her somewhere she’d never been before, but she scarcely spared a thought for her unfamiliar surroundings.
There was a single door at the end of the hall and Rose opened it without hesitation, driven by the sense of urgency she could feel from the TARDIS, halting only when she saw the room on the other side. It was the same room the Doctor had taken her to sleep in - had it only been the night before? It felt like it years - and she could hear the shower running in the en suite.
She hesitated again- surely the Doctor had to be all right if he was in the shower - but the TARDIS only pushed more urgently in response and it overrode Rose’s reluctance. She pushed open the door to the bathroom without even bothering to knock, in a move that would have felt uncomfortably bold were it not for her worry for the Doctor.
“Doctor?” she called, over the sound of water. The room was filled with steam - he’d clearly been in there for a while - and she could barely see. “Doctor, are you all right? I’m sorry, it’s just, the TARDIS…”
Her voice caught in her throat as she found the Doctor, standing motionless under the stream of water, elbows braced against the wall and both hands fisted in his hair, hunched over as though the weight of the spray was too much to bear. She froze - she’d never seen the Doctor looking so vulnerable, or so human. She ignored his state of nakedness - she could sense distress radiating from him and she bit her lip at the realisation that he’d just been pretending, in the console room.
He really wasn’t all right.
How could he be? Her inner voice was scathing. His mind was invaded by an evil entity and then he nearly watched you die in front of him right after getting you back and then he thought you were going to burn. Of course he’s not all right.
Listing it all out like that made it blatantly obvious that the Doctor had been through hell these past forty-eight hours. That knowledge had her moving before she was consciously aware of it, reaching out a tentative hand for the Doctor’s shoulder.
“Doctor?”
The instant their skin touched, the Doctor jumped as though an electrical current had shot through his body, and his eyes snapped to hers, flat and dark and more than a little mad. She couldn’t stop herself from falling back a tiny step - the expression held nothing human at all, even worse than when he’d nearly lost her to the Dalek.
“Rose?” the Doctor rasped.
Rose smiled, but the Doctor was already shaking his head.
“No, how can you be here? You can’t be here, you’re in the parallel world…”
Rose’s heart sank. This reaction was more along the lines of what she’d been expecting when she first jumped back into this universe, for their encounter in the galley, and it threw her for a moment. Before she could think of how to respond, the Doctor continued.
“If you think you’re going to get to me by impersonating her, you are very much mistaken. Rose Tyler keeps me strong, keeps me fighting. I will always believe in her.”
Rose’s eyes stung with tears, and she swallowed to speak past the lump in her throat. “Doctor, it’s me. I promise it’s me. We’ve been through this once already.” She hesitated before reaching out again, taking his hands. He shuddered deeply at her touch, but it was not a pleasurable reaction.
The TARDIS surged in her head, and she knew what she had to do - what she should have done, long before. Rose lifted the Doctor’s hands to her temples. “Can I… Will you let me show you?” She held her breath.
Simple astonishment flashed across his features as he drew in a ragged breath, and it was that more than anything else that led him to accept, Rose was sure. She wondered, briefly, how long it had been since anyone had asked him to initiate telepathic contact.
She was grateful for his consent, but he was not gentle, and Rose winced as their surroundings fell away and he entered her mind.
How much of an idiot do you think I am? The Doctor’s voice boomed and cracked in her head. Rose, the real Rose, can’t do this, and more than that, she hates telepathy, so you are going to tell me, right now… Oh. His voice trailed off as he registered where he was and the love and welcome Rose was at pains to project. Rose.
The sudden, tentative hope she could sense from him galvanised her and she did her best to wrap the Doctor’s presence in all the comfort she could muster.
Doctor, you’ve blocked yourself off from the TARDIS somehow, Rose said, striving for calm. She can’t reach you and she doesn’t know why, so she came and got me. That’s why I’m here. Please trust me, my Doctor. I found you, I came back to you two days ago, and we saved the universe today. I was just showering in my room, and then we were going to snog in front of bad telly all night until I fell asleep.
She replayed each scene as she spoke; their reunion, and waking up together, walking among the planets at the Shadow Proclamation and him dipping her to the grating after they saved the Earth, right up to her mental image of her plan for the evening: of the two of them entwined on the couch, program completely forgotten. This is what telepathy was meant to be used for, and she could feel him watching her intently as the pictures flicked by.
Once she’d finished, it was like a wall crumbled to dust in the blink of an eye. He was suddenly with her, surrounding her, but his emotions were all over the place and she couldn’t get a read on them. She tried to direct his focus to the positive but his thoughts were too chaotic for her to keep up.
How are you doing this, Rose? They were suddenly standing on a barren heath, their bodies obscured by fog. Her heart ached that this was location his mind had conjured. She was fairly certain that he was fully dressed with his coat on, and she spared a thought to hope he’d afforded her the same courtesy.
I told you about Bad Wolf, didn’t I? Merging with the TARDIS gave me telepathic abilities and now that they’ve been reawakened I can actually use them. Rose was surprised - she hadn’t actually known any of that beforehand and realised the TARDIS had to be feeding her information. But never mind that just now: look, Doctor. Look in my mind, I’ll prove to you that everything’s all right. Better than all right. Whatever you need.
He came towards her slowly and put his fingers up to her temples, which surprised her since they were already in his mind.
Your perception of what I’m doing in your head, the Doctor explained absently. Rose tried to open her mind to him as fully as possible, but he pulled back almost immediately, awe and something like fear crossing his face.
Rose? He sounded just slightly more like himself, and Rose was glad of that, even if she hadn’t succeeded in fully reassuring him yet. There aren’t any doors.
I trust you, my Doctor, Rose said simply.
She felt his tremour in her mind rather than in his fingers, and he deepened their connection. Rose forced down the thrill she felt at being connected so deeply with the Doctor. Instead, she replayed another memory, this time of the conversation she’d had with the TARDIS, making sure to skip ahead to the part when Bad Wolf was made dormant again.
She got no warning. Every last ounce of tension left the Doctor in a rush of overwhelming relief that forced them both out of the connection. Before she could catch up with what was happening he’d hauled her bodily against him.
They were both naked, but Rose couldn’t have cared less about that as she focussed on comforting her Doctor. She ran her hands through his wet mop of hair, following the rivulets of water down his neck and over his shoulders as he trembled against her. She could tell almost no time had passed since they’d started their telepathic exchange, but the heat was still starting to get to her.
“I’m so sorry, Doctor,” she said softly. “I should have thought of this before, when we were alone in the console room, but telepathy doesn’t come naturally to me, I guess.” She kissed his forehead, and he buried his face into the crook of her neck. “We’ll just have to work on that, yeah?”
The Doctor huffed a laugh, moving to press his ear to her chest, presumably to listen to her heart, and Rose held him to her. Despite their current state of undress, Rose found that sex was the furthest thing from her mind in the face of the Doctor’s distress.
After a time, she chafed the Doctor’s shoulders gently.
“C’mon, Doctor, let’s get out of the shower and into bed, yeah?” The TARDIS had obligingly turned the water temperature down but Rose knew she must look like a prune by now. “More comfortable there. Come with me?”
He nodded, but then, adorably, averted his eyes as if there was anything he could avoid seeing. She chuckled and rose to her feet, finding it surprisingly easy not to feign modesty after everything they’d been through. The Doctor squeaked, and she looked down just in time to see his face, fire truck red, whipping to the side.
“Oh come now, Doctor,” she said airily as she stepped out of the tub, “it’s not like there’s anything there you haven’t seen before.” She found the TARDIS had provided her a robe, which she gratefully wrapped herself in. “Remember our trip to Vega Prime?”
They’d gotten arrested, which was very much business as usual, and then stripped for interrogation, which decidedly wasn’t. It was intended to put them in a place of vulnerability, but Rose suspected it had worked better on the Doctor than on her, which was why she rarely brought it up. From time to time they’d had adventures that resulted in varying stages of nakedness but on that particular occasion they’d both gotten an eyeful.
Or she thought they had.
“I didn’t look,” the Doctor mumbled, still facing away from her.
“Oh.” Rose didn’t know what else to say. She certainly had - it had been nearly unavoidable - and she wondered how the Doctor had managed it. She felt a brief flash of anger that he should make her feel like such a voyeur retroactively, especially considering how those glimpses had fuelled many a fantasy. “Well, I’m not looking now.”
No need to make him feel worse than he already did - she was, in fact, capable of some self control, and now was hardly the time.
She held out a towel, and the Doctor stepped into it, Rose taking the opportunity to wrap her arms around him as she wrapped him in it. Their embrace still felt strange with only two layers between them, but not wrong. Never wrong. He returned it woodenly, and Rose’s heart broke at the thought that there was still more troubling him. She squeezed, ignoring his lack of enthusiasm.
“I’m just gonna put something on, I’ll wait for you, okay?” She moved toward the door. “Don’t be long.” She looked back once and found him staring after her as she left.
Rose dried herself again, pulled on a sleep vest and shorts and got into bed, sighing in relief as she relaxed back against the pillows. They were just as soft as she remembered, and it had been a very long day. She scissored her legs together for a bit, savouring the sensation of the comforter and also the tingly feeling between her legs - just because nothing was going to happen didn’t mean it wasn’t going to affect her, after all. It was a feeling she was very familiar with, made all the more potent by the thought that something was going to change soon. Not now. Someday.
The Doctor entered a moment later, wearing a Henley and pinstriped pyjama bottoms. He looked at her lying in the bed, and she expected his gaze to skitter away, but he didn’t break eye contact until he laid down next to her, flat on his back staring at the ceiling. Rose didn’t know how to bring up the subject - he was fully dressed and yet somehow seemed more exposed than he’d been in the shower.
“Doctor-” she began.
The Doctor breathed deeply, closing his eyes, and Rose knew he was processing everything that had happened.
“You’re safe,” he said at last, without opening his eyes. “You’re here, and you’re safe. No side effects from the dimension cannon, you’re not going to burn from Bad Wolf.”
Contrary to his words, he didn’t sound glad… almost resigned. Rose bit her lip as she considered her response.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you,” she said, though gently. “That’s what the TARDIS has been trying to tell you.” When he didn’t respond, she propped herself up on her elbow, looking down at him. “Doctor? Why did you block yourself off from the TARDIS?” she asked carefully.
For a minute, it seemed like he wasn’t going to answer. Rose waited, before tentatively placing her hand on the Doctor’s chest, in between his hearts. His breath hitched, and it was like a switch had been flipped; he grasped her hand tightly in his own and rolled onto his side, holding it in between them.
“Oh, Rose,” he breathed, and Rose quickly flopped back down, welcoming the increased contact between them.
“I was scared, today,” the Doctor admitted. His face twisted. “Scratch that - I was bloody terrified.” The frank honesty in his voice shook Rose. He met her eyes, and that seemed to give him the strength he needed to continue. “I don’t know what I would have done, if I’d lost you today,” he said quietly. “I really don’t.” A mad light overtook his face suddenly and Rose fought the impulse to move away.
“Do you think they’d have stopped, Rose?” His voice was a little frightening, bearing echoes of a pain she couldn’t begin to comprehend. He was, effectively, immortal. Would they ever have stopped? “The visions. If you’d-” He shut his mouth audibly to keep the words from coming out and Rose freed her hands to cup his face.
“Now, you stop that,” she said fiercely. “Stop doing this to yourself, Doctor. You didn’t lose anyone today. I’m here and alive and well and I’m staying with you. I am never leaving you.”
Rose pulled the Doctor to her to keep him from seeing the cynical thought cross her face. Even when she hadn’t been physically present, she hadn’t truly left him, had she?
It was a uniquely poignant brand of guilt she bore - of course, she’d had no actual hand in the hallucinations but it was clear her image had tormented the Doctor almost to the point of madness. Was it any wonder he was having trouble coping?
“And that’s just the thing, isn’t it?” the Doctor burst out, pulling away from her slightly. Given that he’d been actively seeking maximal contact since they’d been reunited the movement surprised her enough that she let him go, sitting up a little straighter to mirror his posture. “You have to stay here, you can’t go home! The walls of the universes are closed, you’ll never be able to see your family again!”
Rose waited until the Doctor seemed to be finished, then placed a gentle kiss on his lips to prevent him from working himself up again. “Doctor, listen to me very carefully. I’m going to keep saying this as many times as necessary, but I really wish I didn’t have to.” She kept her voice gentle, mindful of the Doctor’s fragile emotional state. She was willing to repeat her promise of forever as long as it took but she was running out of words to use.
“I am home, right now,” she asserted, holding his eyes with hers. “Here, with you, on the TARDIS - this is home. Never the other universe. Yes, my family is there, and yes, I will miss them terribly, but I’ve been preparing for this day for three years. We all have. They understand. I thought, when you didn’t put up a fight in the console room, that you understood, too - that’s why I thanked you. I made my choice. It’s a choice I’d rather I didn’t have to make, of course, but my decision is never going to change. I choose you, Doctor. And I always will.”
The Doctor stared at her, and the look of incredulous hope in his dark eyes was one that she was becoming familiar with, though it still hit her like a gut punch. She wondered how much longer it would take for her words to really get through to him.
It seemed the third time would be the charm, however, as the Doctor pressed his lips to hers as though it was the only thing keeping him alive. Rose melted beneath the bruising kiss - it had been far too long since the console room - but there was still an element of desperation to it that she didn’t like. He was far gone enough that she had to struggle a little bit to get enough space to breathe, and Rose frowned, about to reiterate her question about the TARDIS, when the Doctor spoke instead.
“I love you,” he said, and the words shot through Rose like it was the first time. That had been about things left unfinished, but this… this was a claim. A beginning. This was the Doctor’s ‘never ever.’
Rose lost her breath. He usually only looked at her like this when she was Bad Wolf - seeing it when she was fully herself felt different, and she couldn’t decide how she felt about it.
“I love you, too.” The words came out in a rush.
His eyes grew impossibly darker, molten pools that she swore she could feel warming her skin like the heat of the sun. How could such a simple exchange affect her so deeply? She must have said the words hundreds of times before. Yet they were heavy on her tongue as though they were the only words she’d ever spoken, they touched her ears like they were the first words she’d ever heard.
The Doctor lowered his forehead to hers. “I spent so long today thinking I knew what the universe would do… what it always does. I’ve never known it to be kind.”
Rose made a low sound and linked her hands around the back of his neck, holding him against her.
“Getting you back, keeping you safe, saving the day… I was always waiting for the switch, after all that bait.” His hands caressed her sides, snaking around her hips, and she shivered against him. “It seemed inevitable. And when I was finally alone…” He tilted his head slightly, looking at some indeterminate point on the ceiling. “Expectation became reality.”
Rose squeezed her eyes shut and bit her lip, too easily able to fill in the blanks. “So that’s why you blocked the TARDIS,” she breathed.
It was easier than voicing what had really happened. He’d thought he was still back on the planet, Midnight, with the entity. That he’d been imagining his escape, their reunion, all the rest of it. She wished there was a way to hold him closer.
“No telling what the entity would have done with a sentient space and time ship,” the Doctor confirmed, mirroring her position.
Rose shook her head helplessly and kissed him again. She had her own fears and doubts about coming back, but mostly just ecstatic satisfaction at having completed her goal after so long. Her first Doctor had been wounded, yes, fresh from the War and raw like an exposed nerve, but never like this, a man for whom joy was a lie.
The Doctor kissed her back, the corner of his mouth turning up ruefully against her lips.
“And that’s the second time I’ve completely ruined our reunion, isn’t it?” The self-depreciation wasn’t like him at all, but this, at least, Rose had some idea of how to fix.
“Oh, I dunno.” At his incredulous look, she quirked her lips, noting with pleasure how he instinctively followed the motion . “We’re here together in bed, we saved the universe again like we always do - though with less running than I was expecting - and we’ve been snogging ever since I came back which is very much a welcome development.” Her smile grew, but though his expression eased, he didn’t return it. Rose sighed, taking the Doctor’s hands.
“Doctor, I love you,” she repeated. “I spent three years in the parallel world missing you every day. Sometimes the only thing that would get me through wasn’t the wild fantasies of what I wanted to happen, it was the memory of what I wanted to get back to. Just us, like this. Holding hands.”
She squeezed for emphasis and he squeezed back, his eyes never leaving hers, wide and fervent, and she knew he felt the same.
“So making it back like this? Being with you? Being able to love you and hold you and comfort you?” She kissed his cheek and felt a jolt of warmth spark from the contact. “It’s everything I could have wished for. Of course, I’m not happy that you’re hurting, but it’s you. The real you. And that makes it perfect.”
The Doctor let out a long, shuddering breath, closing his eyes and blindly pressing his lips to hers in a much gentler kiss, filled with so much adoration and gratitude that it left her even more breathless than their desperate snog earlier. Rose sighed into his lips, and they parted at the suggestion. She sank her hands into his hair at the same time as her tongue swept into his mouth and they both let out identical moans of relief.
The Doctor’s mouth was cool against hers, and he tasted like absolutely nothing Rose had ever experienced, except that it was intoxicating and she couldn’t get enough. What she’d said before was true - they’d been kissing almost from the moment she’d gotten back, but most of those kisses had been tinged with desperation and danger. It was glorious and she wondered how they would ever be able to stop.
“I feel the same way,” the Doctor whispered when Rose surfaced reluctantly for air. “This is perfect. You are perfect.” He rested his head in what Rose was quickly learning was his favourite place - in the crook between her neck and shoulder where, presumably, he could hear her strong, steady pulse. She nuzzled his hair, breathing in his scent. It seemed she’d succeeded in pulling him back from the edge, at least for the moment.
There were many more things they needed to talk about, simmering beneath the surface: Jack, for one, and how he’d kept that story from her, as well as his careless attitude towards his regenerations, not to mention the events of their separate ordeals and how they’d been affected by them, up to and including when they’d been parted in the course of the day. But all that would take time. Time that they now had, Rose thought fiercely, squeezing him tighter; whether she had anything to say about it or not, the universe was going to find her intractable on this point.
She coaxed him to lie back with his head in her lap, and set about trying to massage the stress lines from his face. She ran her thumbs over his eyebrows and down his sideburns. It suddenly struck her that she was finally here, in the same universe as her Doctor, able to touch him how she liked, the way she’d fantasised about for so long. Her fingers trembled a little, and she disguised the motion by sinking them into his hair again. The Doctor gave a little hum.
“This okay?” she asked in a low voice. Their intimacy was so new she felt the need to check. He was still lying stiffly against her, and she hated the thought that he’d been struggling alone all this time, but she was also exhausted, and hoped that she’d be able to overcome his stubbornness soon enough to allow them to sleep.
“Yeah,” the Doctor breathed, as she started lightly scratching his scalp. She cast about for a topic that would move them past this horrible day.
“So, I do want to find out if any of the planets I landed on don’t exist in this dimension,” she said at last. It was a calculated gamble, but she really was curious and it was a safe enough topic. The Doctor sucked in a breath, but he didn’t protest. “Of course, I don’t know the names of any of them,” she continued, “but I thought I could describe them to you and you could tell me if they sound familiar.”
The Doctor made another low sound, this time of agreement, and so Rose sought for some safe planets to mention: no need to bring up any of her more painful memories just yet.
“Hmm… Okay. Well, one that really stands out is this planet with crystal geysers,” she said, excitement pulsing in her voice. She hadn’t really wanted to leave that planet, it had been so beautiful. “Now I’m not just talking about geysers coming out of crystal or anything like that, I mean actual crystals shooting out of the ground like water. There must’ve been some sort of crystal particles in the soil because all the trees were shimmering too, like they’d absorbed some along with their nutrients.”
“Ooh, very good, Rose,” the Doctor said proudly, and Rose noted with satisfaction that the bleak edge had blunted in his voice. “That’s exactly what happens on Kira IV; the entire ecosystem is built on those mineral deposits and the way they react with the chemical composition of the second sun.”
“You mean there was a planet like that here all along and we’ve never visited?” Rose exclaimed in mock outrage, and the corner of the Doctor’s mouth turned up.
“The universe is a big place, Rose,” he said lightly. “I’ll put it at the top of the list.”
Rose tried again. “What about an entire forest of giant mushrooms?”
“Sounds like Quozaar,” the Doctor replied at once. “We’ll have to go there so you can check, but you need to bring rebreathers: the stench is something truly awful.”
“Really?” Rose asked, surprised. “The one I went to had this musty potpourri smell. Took me ages to get it out of anything but it wasn’t that unpleasant.”
She’d piqued the Doctor’s interest, which had been her intention, and everything else faded away as they traded descriptions and names back and forth, rapid-style. Though she would have given it all up just to be with him again, Rose had to admit it was kind of cool, having seen bits of the universe without the Doctor and being able to talk from her own experience rather than just being led around by him everywhere.
Rose was thrilled when, after a few minutes of steady going, her initial description did not meet with an automatic answer from the Doctor. She’d stopped actually massaging him and was letting her fingers drift aimlessly over his features, which were more at rest than she’d ever seen them, maybe since before the Olympics, or even earlier. He twisted his lips as he considered, and she watched the gears whirring in his big Time Lord brain.
“I can honestly say that doesn’t ring any bells, Rose,” he said at last, and she couldn’t contain her squeak of delight. “It was all underground, you say?”
“Yup! Just like Moria or something, it was amazing! All these geometric columns,” Rose enthused. She couldn’t believe her luck. Not only had she managed to find a planet of which the Doctor was unaware, but she’d had an adventure there that had actually ended happily. “My hopper normally landed me on the surface of planets so I was a little confused at first, but get this, Doctor: there were elves living there! Actual tiny elves with pointy ears! ‘Course I was expecting dwarves, but they were perfectly friendly to strangers…”
She told the story, keeping her eyes on the Doctor the whole time, whose eyes were closed, listening to her voice. She’d dreamed for so long about being able to tell him in person like this, the moment took on a dreamlike quality as she wove her tale.
“...And of course all the rest of them were standing about yelling ‘demon!’ Or at least I thought they were, no handy translation circuit after all. But Orta just stepped up and put her hand on the giant rock monster and it could speak through her. I guess it told them what Orta and I’d known all along, that it wasn’t causing the earthquakes, it was trying to stop them, because everyone calmed down and started trying to help. I hopped back once I was sure they’d stopped.”
Her voice trailed away as the story ended and she looked down at the Doctor, who was breathing peacefully, expression relaxed. To an outside observer it would look like he’d fallen asleep but Rose knew better. She shimmied down until she was lying next to the Doctor, and he wrapped his arms around her as the TARDIS dimmed the lights.
“I am so proud of you, Rose,” he said fervently next to her ear, and Rose had to blink back tears. When she’d told him about jumping his first reaction had been blind panic, and she hadn’t realised how much that had affected her. She snuggled into his chest and his grip tightened around her, and she was home. In the course of telling the story her mind had gone back to the time when she was without the Doctor, and she took comfort in the firm solidity of his body next to hers.
Rose was exhausted, already hovering on the edge of sleep, but there was one more thing she wanted to say, remembering the Doctor’s words that had started all this. “Doctor, I could have had a good life in the parallel world, maybe even a great one.” She worked one arm around his waist, pulling him closer still. “But there’s no such thing as a fantastic life without you.”
She opened her eyes to find the Doctor’s face, an inch from hers, staring at her like she was made of stars and wonder. He opened his mouth, but when nothing came out, he gave up and kissed her, his agreement ringing out with every movement of his lips against hers.
Rose knew that she must have fallen asleep at some point, because she awoke with the Doctor still curled into her side, but she didn’t remember when they’d stopped kissing. It set the tone for next week or so (she lost track) that they spent floating in the Vortex, learning to be themselves again. They did catch up on By the Light of the Asteroid, despite being thoroughly distracted by intense snogging sessions which meant they had to go back and watch through it all over again to actually follow the story.
The Doctor never brought up the med bay, even though Rose had been expecting him to since breakfast on the first day. She was surprised, but didn’t bring it up herself, knowing he couldn’t have forgotten, instead appreciating the respite. She guessed he’d gotten enough reassurance from her and the TARDIS that first night and was trying to do something nice for her.
They also explored telepathy, in fits and starts, ‘dipping their toes’ as the Doctor put it. Through their brief connections, Rose understood that the Doctor didn’t feel that his mind was a good place for her to be right then, and she accepted this, not being entirely comfortable with everything in her mind yet either until she’d had a chance to work through it herself.
Mostly, though, they rested; read together in the library, or stargazed out the doors of the TARDIS, or took picnic lunches to one of the TARDIS’ garden rooms. Anything that would allow them to stay as close as physically possible.
They spent a lot of time in bed together, though they had yet to actually take the step into further physical intimacy. Rose found she didn’t mind. Though her frustration in the weeks leading up to their separation had been thick enough to cut with a knife, she’d changed now, and so had the Doctor. They still hadn’t addressed most of what lurked beneath the surface of their quiet time together. Neither of them were ready. The difference was, this Rose knew it was only a matter of time, and let herself enjoy the kissing and increased intimacy, even though it never escalated.
Rose stayed in bed because she’d rarely allowed herself to do so in Pete’s World, and because cuddling the Doctor in his bed was quickly becoming her favourite activity. The Doctor stayed because she was there, but Rose thought he could use the break as well. They’d both pushed themselves to the limit during their three years apart and they took the necessary time to pull themselves back from that brink.
The Doctor wasn’t sure when he stopped watching Rose like a miracle who could disappear at any moment, but the change came gradually, helped along by Rose’s endless patience with him. He did want to run tests, but now that he had a moment to think, thanks to Rose and the TARDIS’ telepathic reassurance, he realised that being in the med bay brought up uncomfortable memories for Rose because of her time at Torchwood. This was supposed to be a healing time for both of them, so he refrained.
She also never showed any signs of restlessness in regards to their extended stay in the Vortex; though she never said so aloud, she’d missed the TARDIS, and vice versa. He likewise felt no prick of wanderlust, for once, and grasped the opportunity with both hands. He finally allowed himself to admit how difficult the past three years had been, what with losing Rose, the Master, and the entity, and was glad to be able to follow Rose’s advice, to allow his psyche to rest instead of burying it in more sensory input. Of course, the fact that he was able to do so at all without feeling like clawing at the walls was due to Rose’s presence. That wasn’t to say that those problems went away - they both still had their own demons to fight. They were just getting themselves in better shape to do so.
As the Doctor watched Rose over breakfast one morning, just over a week in linear time since she’d returned to his universe, he knew that this time, blessed and essential as it had been, was drawing to a close, and that a new chapter in their lives was about to begin. She’d been shooting him covert glances for the last day or two, and though she was still perfectly content, he could sense the wind changing.
He knew it would still be a while before he would be able to fully accept that the universe had relented and allowed him to keep her, and though it was tempting to hide away in the hopes that they wouldn’t be noticed, he would not squander this (second? Third? How many chances now had he been given with Rose Tyler?) time he’d been granted.
He’d told himself when she was lost that he would not waste a single moment, if he ever got another with her. Not that this had been wasted time, but there was a growing impetus behind Rose’s kisses and something would have to give - soon. More than that: he wanted it to. The thought both surprised him and felt like it had been a part of him since he’d been born into this body, this body made for the woman who was currently watching him from across the breakfast table.
“So what do you think about making planetfall today?” he asked brightly, and when he was rewarded with eager excitement sparking in her glorious eyes he knew he’d made the right decision.
“Do you have somewhere in mind?” Rose replied easily, and it was almost like nothing had changed. “Are we going to Kira IV?” she asked, and the Doctor shook his head, hoping his wince hadn’t been obvious. He hadn’t really registered it when she’d brought it up before but it bore far too much resemblance to a certain diamond planet for his liking. They’d make it there eventually, just not yet.
“Not yet,” he said. “It’s on the list, but an uninhabited crystal planet does not provide accommodations for the kind of activities in which I wish to partake with you.”
He barely managed to add the last two words, his hearts racing in his chest like he’d just run back to back marathons, amazed in some part of him that he’d actually managed to say anything at all.
Rose didn’t notice at first. “Oh, and what sorts of activities might those be?” Because he was watching her, he saw the exact moment when she decided to make it a sincere, rather than a teasing comment. Her voice trailed away when she saw the way he was looking at her. “Wait. You don’t mean…”
He kept his eyes trained on her, fighting the impulse to look away, to deflect. She was gripping her utensils like she was afraid they’d try to run away. He was gripped by sudden anxiety. Was it too soon? Was she not ready? Had he completely misread everything?
“...If that’s all right with you?” He made himself make it a question, telling himself he was lucky to have her back at all, that she wasn’t going to leave him over this.
Her eyes were round as saucers as she searched his face for a long moment. This had been so long coming, he couldn’t blame her for being cautious. “Oh, Doctor…”
The hope and joy in her voice galvanised him, and he reached across the table to touch her cheek, giving her time to pull away if his touch was unwelcome. She didn’t.
“Go pack a bag for a tropical resort,” he said gently, as she leaned into his caress, eyes never leaving his, though they sparked with lust and anticipation. “I’ll meet you in the console room.”
She leaped from her chair as though she was afraid he was going to change his mind (he cringed inwardly at how likely that would have been, for an earlier version of him) and seemed to struggle with herself for a moment before edging around the table to slip into his lap, capturing his lips in a passionate promise of things to come. He groaned against her mouth, his control over his bodily reactions tenuous now that he was anticipating losing them entirely, and her kiss heated in response.
He pulled back slightly with a soft pop, examining Rose’s heavy-lidded eyes which concealed an ecstatic expression.
“Go on,” he told her, startled to hear his voice an octave deeper than usual. “Pack. Or else we’ll never get there.”
She wriggled cheekily against him as she extricated herself from his lap, making his eyes roll in his head and pulling another low sound from him, before practically fleeing the room. The Doctor sat quietly for a moment, attempting to regulate his breathing, before making his way to the console room, in order to double- and triple-check the coordinates to make sure they arrived at the right time and place.
Give me a hand, old girl? He sent the silent plea to the TARDIS, and received a wave of almost giddy affirmation in response. It seemed she was in favour of his plans, and that was to the good, even if he wasn’t sure how he felt about his sentient time ship knowing of them in the first place.
The mental equivalent of an impatient huff was sent his way, and he raised an eyebrow. Oh, and don’t think you’re getting out of a discussion of what the hell that was the other day. Your little stunt scared me half to death!
A slightly apologetic whistle was his response, and he bit back a chuckle, something he wouldn’t have been capable of, even a week before. But then, a week ago, he hadn’t been travelling with Rose, preparing to bring her to the planet where he’d always intended to make love to her, in the nebulous future of his fantasies that he was forever dismissing but was somehow now a reality. He almost didn’t know who he was any more without the constant, gnawing grief. He couldn’t wait to find out.
Rose arrived a minute later, wearing a sundress and an ardent expression, both of which were equally flattering. She set down a suitcase and sauntered towards him, until he was backed up against the console. He felt a little bit like prey, and was surprised to find it wasn’t an entirely unpleasant sensation.
“So, where are we off to, Doctor?” she asked, drawing her fingers down his chest. He gulped, calling upon centuries of Time Lord restraint to keep from pinning her against the console, sod his plans. From the intent look in her eye, Rose knew it, too, pressing forward, though she was careful not to cut off his escape entirely. He shook his head inwardly - how could it be that this incredible woman wanted him?
“Oh, just a little place I’ve been wanting to take you for quite a while now.” He said the words flippantly, which was a mistake. Rose pounced.
“Well in that case, I have a few suggestions,” she purred. The Doctor only belatedly realised the double entendre in his words.
Oh, he was going to be very bad at this, wasn’t he?
He could see the conflict playing out in Rose’s expression: she was happy this was happening, enough to make her this bold, but she was also afraid of crossing some invisible line - a state of affairs for which the Doctor knew he once again had himself to blame. He allowed himself to relax, just a fraction, and Rose moved in closer, scenting victory. She pressed a kiss to the triangle of bared skin at his throat before slowly, torturously, skimming her nose along his jawline. The Doctor couldn’t suppress a tiny shiver.
“As - hm - tempting as I’m sure those suggestions are, perhaps we could wait until we’ve arrived at our destination to - ah - play them out?” His carefully laid plans were becoming more distant and nebulous as she purposefully undid the buttons of his suit jacket.
“You’re wearing too much,” was her only reply, which made him splutter incredulously.
When he’d gotten dressed he’d simply thrown his pinstriped jacket over one of the red tees he’d worn with his blue suit (a mourning suit which he would never wear again, not for a very long while). It was the fewest layers he’d worn since the Olympics, and Rose had to know that.
“For a tropical resort? You must get so hot in that suit,” she was saying, and he was, though not from the temperature. Never from the temperature. It took him a moment to be able to regulate his body heat like the Time Lord he was and not some randy adolescent human ready to pop off at the slightest touch of a woman, like he’d seen in all those awful films.
Gauging his reaction carefully, she moved her hands to his shoulders and slowly slid the jacket off them. He allowed it to happen, shrugging it off when it got caught on his elbows and tossing it to the jumpseat. Rose ran her hands down his bared arms and he shivered harder this time. Her hands were so warm. She hummed in approval.
“Much better.”
Wanting to regain a modicum of control, he smoothed Rose’s dress down her sides, where he knew she was sensitive. She jumped slightly, her eyes huge and darker than he’d ever seen them. He fought to conceal a smirk; as sensitive as he was to being touched, his naturally cool skin certainly granted him at least one advantage in this regard.
Slyly, he copied her sensuous caress, his hearts beating faster through his nervousness. He wasn’t ever this forward, and he thought he’d better get some practice in considering what he had planned for the day. It certainly seemed just as effective on Rose, and he felt a glimmer of satisfaction as he prepared to make his point.
“Thank you so much for taking care of it,” he murmured. “Now, where were we?”
Rose made a low sound, seeking his lips, and he sprung his trap.
“Oh!” he exclaimed, spinning away and leaving her dazed in his wake. He placed his hand on the dematerialisation lever, giving her a cheeky wink. “I think I remember.”
She smiled fondly and took his hand, glancing up at him through her lashes, his third heart that made him whole. The Doctor and Rose Tyler in the TARDIS, as it should be. He threw the lever.
“Barcelona!”
#ficandchips#Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler#episode fixit: s4 e13 journey's end#bad wolf!Rose#dimension-hopping Rose#hurt/comfort#romance#telepathy#in which there are Consequences for everything the Doctor and Rose have had to go through#but now they have each other#and they're together and in love#fool me once#chapter 8#pella writes
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keenie-bo-beenie replied to your post: rewatched a bunch of the ninth doctor’s episodes...
like that is completely fair and for the most part i agree, but my approach to doctor who is that ‘nothing is canon and the overarching plot doesn’t matter’. just kind of because… it’s existed for so long it has to contradict itself to stay afloat. do i prefer the original version of the time war? hell yes i do, it works so much better. but the change was inevitable because nothing is a constant in this show, so i just shrug and embrace that the time lords are back
that makes sense, i guess. it’s not really the retconning itself that bugs me. retcons are such a staple of this half-a-century-old franchise that there is literally an in-universe drug cheekily named “retcon” (btw when retcon was mentioned again last season i got so excited i hated most of last season but any reference to stuff from torchwood makes me excited).
it’s the fact that said retcon completely messed up the ninth and tenth doctors that bugged me. a big theme of new who has been the doctor’s survival guilt, and whilst on a surface level, getting rid of that sounds nice and cathartic in theory, but in effect it just felt... really cheap. frustratingly easy. and it made big aspect’s of nine and ten’s characterizations essentially meaningless.
#keenie-bo-beenie#i'm fully aware of this show's billion contradictions though#like reading the wiki page for ''earth history'' on tardis wiki is some bonkers contradictory stuff#at least six different random alien empires supposedly ruling earth often at the exact same time period#everyone forgetting about canary wharf and stolen earth and *still* being shocked at alien stuff#ugh#dw
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