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expectiations · 27 days

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I still find it funny that people call eleven a "deadbeat husband" and their marriage "toxic" but twelve is the "perfect husband" and their marriage "wedded bliss" all because of the few moments we'd seen between 11 and River were them being "toxic". yes of course! let's ignore how the minisodes show how that description isn't true and even how little moments in the episodes themselves – "what? that's it?" (why haven't you kissed me goodbye? are you being sly on purpose so I'd kiss you first?) and "they wouldn't bury my wife out here" and the music room is the heart of the home and it's not a ghost story, it's a love story – show 11 cared and put in the work and yes, they're going to have disagreements like the ones in TATM because duh who doesn't but it does not mean it is the entirety of their relationship but people have taken it and made it the entirety of their relationship.

#doctorriver #doctor x river #river song #doctor who #eleventh doctor #the doctor #twelfth doctor #yowzah #eleven x river #can you tell i am passionate about this topic? no? yes? maybe?#i blink my eyes in confusion(?) the absurdity of it all(?) when i see 11 described as a deadbeat husband #do people still not understand that we only saw like 3% of their relationship? that we didn't see *everything*??#i really have to post those damn wonderful twitter threads here #i thought i'd only be seeing those awful takes on twitter but hah no apparently not #and that other one saying river has no agency? river has no say in her life? river had been forced to keep her life as is?#that the doctor didn't exert that much effort for her the same way she did for him? i'm still trying to digest it tbh because what if i've #taken it the wrong way? but it came up again on my feed and it's still the same. damn. people really believe river had no agency? no choice #tia talks tish #dw musings

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 4 years

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tabloidtoc · 4 years

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Us, May 25

Cover: Is Ellen DeGeneres a Monster?

Page 4: Who Wore It Best? Camilla Luddington vs. Scarlett Johansson ✅, Bella Hadid ✅ vs. Leomie Anderson, Melissa Gorga ✅ vs. Brooke Burke

Page 6: Emily Osment ✅ vs. Ming-Na Wen vs. Laura Marano

Page 8: Loose Talk -- Mindy Kaling reminiscing about work, Chris Hemsworth on his dog gracing the cover of GQ with him, B.J. Novak joking about screen-time alerts, Mark Consuelos on the time he hopped a flight to NYC and staged an elaborate ruse because he thought wife Kelly Ripa was cheating on him, Miley Cyrus on FaceTiming with mom Tish Cyrus all day long

Page 10: Contents

Page 12: Hot Pics -- Tobey Maguire and girlfriend Tatiana Dieteman take a stroll, Carrie Underwood and son Jacob, Meghan Markle reads to son Archie

Page 13: Katy Perry dressed up as Mrs. Jumbo and her dog Nugget as Dumbo, Stacy Keibler and newborn daughter Isabella Faith

Page 14: Chrissy Teigen and daughter Luna, Joan Collins, Arnold Schwarzenegger pretend to do the splits, Neil Patrick Harris and daughter Harper and dog Gidget

Page 16: Stars proudly show off their grays -- Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Hilarie Burton, DJ Khaled with kids Asahd and Aalam

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Page 20: Stars They’re Just Like Us -- Reese Witherspoon has a hobby, Casey Affleck hydrates, Lucy Hale walks her dog Elvis

Page 21: Martha Stewart mows the lawn, Sylvester Stallone takes a nap, Shia LaBeouf goes running, Brie Larson and Elijah Allan-Blitz go shopping

Page 22: Love Lives -- Wells Adams and Sarah Hyland quarantine really well together

Page 23: Cynthia Bailey and fiance Mike Hill are being tested by the pandemic, Avril Lavigne and Pete Jonas are in tune with each other, Robert Herjavec and Kym Johnson no date nights are no problem

Page 24: Hollywood Moms -- Shawn Johnson on her daughter Drew

Page 25: Denise Richards’ three daughters have grown up watching her play with beauty products but she had strict rules for when her oldest girls Sam and Lola could start experimenting with makeup, Bekah Martinez’s 15-month-old Ruth hasn’t yet noticed her mama’s big belly pregnant with boyfriend Grayston Leonard, Shay Mitchell loves taking pictures of baby Atlas

Page 26: Hot Hollywood -- Kim Kardashian feels she needs some space from Kanye West

Page 27: Kate Middleton is the queen of recycling outfits, Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler it’s war

Page 28: A Day in the Life At-Home Edition -- Mike Colter

Page 29: The stars give us more reasons to smile during these trying times -- the biggest bop to come out of quarantine so far belongs to Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande in the form of their new song Stuck With U, Michelle Obama’s new Netflix doc Becoming filmed while on tour for her bestselling memoir serves as inspiration, Harry Potter News -- as part of the Harry Potter at Home project fans can listen to the first book read by Daniel Radcliffe and more, Rupert Grint and his longtime girlfriend Georgia Groome welcomed a baby girl

Page 30: Cover Story -- The Truth About Ellen DeGeneres -- monster or misunderstood? Ellen’s reputation has taken a beating in recent weeks

Page 34: The Ex Factor -- these former couples may have their differences but they make it work for the sake of the kiddos during the pandemic -- Anderson Cooper and Benjamin Maisani, Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead

Page 35: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson

Page 36: Style -- Countdown to Summer -- Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez and their kids

Page 37: Hailey and Justin Bieber, Reese Witherspoon with husband and kids

Page 40: Entertainment -- Monica Raymund on Hightown

Page 42: Take Five with Shameik Moore

Page 43: Logan Paul on the Valley Girl remake

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expectiations · 16 days

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The Husbands of River Song is not and has never been about the Eleventh Doctor being a deadbeat, distant husband (gross mischaracterization by the way) and the Twelfth Doctor being the "better, more mature, affectionate" husband.

It was about River Song. It was about River and how the events in Manhattan took such a toll on her. It was about letting us see River dealing with grief the way The Snowmen showed us how the Doctor coped after losing believing he had used up all his time with River.

Looking at THORS now with The Ruby's Curse in mind, I get the instinct (for lack of a word that I cannot remember) that the Manhattan incident Blue Roach read from River's diary was not the Manhattan episode that we saw in series 7.

On that note, I'd also like to bring up the fact that the Doctor grounds River and River grounds the Doctor. As Tree talked about in one of her tags, River's empathy is more cognitive than emotional and after musing on it for a bit – considering that the Doctor can no longer go to Manhattan (which may have changed in later series but I wouldn't know at the moment because I have yet to overcome series 7b) and that River does spend time with her parents in Manhattan post-TATM, would the latest Manhattan incident in River's diary be the funeral for Amy? Amy's death? Perhaps even Anthony's? I mean, we already know Rory died five years earlier than Amy. So, knowing how deep River's love for her mother is, it's not too farfetched to say that River spent that time with them. River was by their bedsides as they drew their last breath.

Then Rory's gone, Amy's gone, Anthony's gone. Where does that leave River? Where is the Doctor? (sulking on a cloud on top of Victorian London? trying to figure out the mystery of his newest companion? all while constantly mentioning a certain Professor Song who actually turns out to be his dearly sort of departed absolutely beloved wife?)

Without her parents (and her husband) to ground her, she goes on this maddened, grieving space Robin Hood spree. She seeks fun to fill in the void and takes up marriage as a hobby/side quest. Does she look for the Doctor? Perhaps. Yes, actually. Considering she crashed her latest sort-of-husband's ship onto a planet where she purported the TARDIS to be.

But... she's stealing the TARDIS. She could have just called the Doctor, yeah? So, she doesn't want the Doctor to know then. Well... yeah, considering she has two sort-of-husbands in hand.

So, River would just have gone on from one space Robin Hood spree to the next had the TARDIS not sort-of-stranded herself on Mendorax Dellora to make sure her Water stopped being stubborn and reconcile(?) with her Thief?

Also taking note of how River has read stories about them and knows that Darillium is purported to be their last night together (I could also bring up the fact that this is why I find it easy to digest the "River meeting regenerations of the Doctor younger than the Tenth Doctor makes sense and doesn't break cannon nor ruin SITL/FOTD" but that would take a whole other post). Does this River believe her time with the Eleventh Doctor has ended? The same way series 7b Eleven believed his time with older versions of River has ended? Is this all part of some grand fuckup in communication all thanks to their tangled timelines?

Maybe. Maybe not.

But has River not just been running from her family's death? Has River been running from her supposed last night with the Doctor?

"But River doesn't run." Oh yes. Yes, she does. She knows when to stand her ground. She knows when to charge. And she knows when to run.

"That's out of character for her." No, it's not. She's not invincible. She's this well trained assassin, yes. But invincible? No.

Invincible from the tendency to be blinded by their emotions? Obviously not.

River lies. And River runs.

She is not afraid of her death. She is afraid of the day when her husband, her Doctor, looks into her eyes and looks right through her. And it shouldn't kill her but it does. It did.

So she ran and ran until her bigger-on-the-inside Mum gently reached out and put her back together with the only person left who could ground her. Who she didn't recognize at first but still fell in love with (and would have loved even if he hadn't been revealed to be her actual, long missing husband). Who finally found out their last night wasn't just any night – it was a twenty-four year long last night. Who finally gave her a breather from all the running she'd been doing.

And oh what a night that was (it was the talk of the universe).

#tia talks tish #dw musings #i should be studying but look! i'm yapping away about fictional characters that nobody in my (offline) life knows about #and to whoever wants to yap accordingly or in the opposite manner please be kind to my remaining brain cell i'm just trying to make sense of #my own brain 👍🏻#laying all this out made me feel like that one meme with the guy about to burst his vein trying to explain the wall of stuff behind him #does all this make sense? most likely not. i refuse to reread it because it would just end up in the drafts if i do so and would not see the #light of day until - oh maybe six months from now #doctor who #river song #doctor x river #eleventh doctor #yowzah #twelfth doctor #the doctor #amy pond #rory williams #doctorriver musings #THORS has serious plot holes i'd like to banish forever but it still gave my gal River and her husband that much needed breather #so for that it's sort of forgiven (but never really forgotten)

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expectiations · 19 days

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once again, River's Doctor is any version of the Doctor who knows who she is. who knows that River Song is not just a name, it's a promise. a name chosen as a promise. much like how the Doctor is a promise too. who knows what River has sacrificed in the name of them. who understands why River's last words were "not one line. don't you dare."

the Doctor in the two parter opening for series 6 is still not her Doctor. no matter how much he may have flirted with her. he still doesn't know who she is. he still suspects she may have killed him. the distrust and doubt is still there. and the Doctor definitely doesn't like not knowing (sometimes).

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expectiations · 9 days

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going to the TARDIS Wiki to figure out the Doctor's ancestry is not for the weak

the way there are several versions of the Doctor's parentage leaves my mind reeling. one account where the Doctor is half-human on his mum's side, the other where the Doctor is loom-born, and then yet another one where the Doctor is maybe from another universe entirely. heck even the Doctor's supposed father's backstory has several versions. one of the backstories made the Master and the Doctor as half-siblings lol

i wonder if they'll do something to somehow merge it all together and make it make sense? like is that what RTD is doing?

as much as I am hoping all this is pointing to a River comeback, I find myself in disbelief that such a thing would ever happen. so i'm reading all these theories, all the callbacks from previous episodes and spin-off shows. my favorite is the "they're in a TV show" theory where someone is directing them and perhaps that would be the reason why the Doctor has several conflicting backstories because they keep rewriting it.

remember that part where Ruby's memories changed and instead the woman who dropped her off at the church pointed at the Doctor? oh and how about the accounts of the Woman Who Killed the Doctor and the Woman Who Married the Doctor supposedly being different things but actually ending up being the same person? the Doctor destroying but apparently not actually destroying Gallifrey?

this for me is an interesting bit that this woman could be the Doctor's father because well Time Lords can change genders yeah

but reading the part about them doing the Weeping Angels pose??? maybe someone has done the 'what if the Weeping Angels are actually Time Lords who'd been punished?' theory already. is there a fic or a post that explores that? it's horrifying and sad at the same time T_T like they're no longer mere monsters to me. they could be like zombies? humans turned into zombies. my mum could turn into a zombie but that would, to me, still be my mum except zombie-fied. idk what point i'm trying to make but the Weeping Angels are so Time Lord punishment coded to me

this post has gone in different directions much like the Doctor's backstory

#tia talks tish #dw musings #doctor who #the doctor #weeping angels #the doctor's parent #rtd2 era #river song #ruby sunday #fifteenth doctor #wow amazing i'm talking dw stuff but not doctorriver centric #tenth doctor

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expectiations · 11 days

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Thinking of how "left me like a book on a shelf" is from River's POV and therefore does not mean it is the entirety of the story much like how "the Doctor does not and has never loved me" was uttered from a River who was grieving.

Like the Doctor could have spent a long time putting the TARDIS in stationary orbit around the Library. The Doctor could have puttered about with the Library from years before it was shut down to ensure that everything would go smoothly while doing his best not to change a single thing. And on days when it is too hard, he just stares at the Library from his perch on the TARDIS door. Waiting, hoping, thinking. Trying to find a way out for her. For them.

And he does!

He finds a hundred ways to get her out of the data core. But...something always goes wrong. It's somehow never good enough. She's back, but she's not entirely there.

So he scratches it out, slaps himself, and tries again.

And again.

But his plans always fail.

But they don't. Not really. His plans could work. Could have worked. His beloved Sexy would help him. She'd always help him when it comes to her Water. But he was too scared. Too frightened of failure. Because one single mistake. One. Single. Mistake. And she's gone. He can never get her back. Forever.

So he runs. And runs. And runs. Until centuries has gone by and companion come and gone. Until he met a younger, more alive version of her. And then they had Darillium. And oh the joys of wonderful joys, what a night that was.

But things end. Even for him. They had to part ways again. Had to say goodbye. So he tries again. Picks up what his previous self had shelved. He tries. Oh how he tries.

But still. That fear exists. Is it worth it? Can he finally accomplish what he'd started a literal lifetime ago?

(He doesn't.)

Off on another lifetime with a new body. He's a...she now? Oh and shorter! Wow. That's new! I wonder what Ri–

On the rare moments she allows herself to succumb to sleep she goes to their his her study. She takes a moment to take everything in. It's unrecognizable now – the study that once was theirs filled with warmth and laughter and-

Every single space was taken. Covered by plans of plans of plans spanning...two...lifetimes now. Sexy still kept it just as it was the last time he she had been in there.

Their His Her favorite throw was still where it was – on their his her favorite corner of their his her favorite couch.

Nothing had changed but everything had changed.

She curled up and buried her face hoping it would still smell of her (It did. They never knew how it worked but somehow her smell still lingered anyway. They thought they were hallucinating at first but other people had been able to smell it too. Sometimes they forget but Sexy also lost her too).

She was a he again. The same face they had four lifetimes ago. The same face who was the first to keep the memory of their meeting.

But wh- what? Why? How? Is this it? Is this the body that finally brings her back home? A fitting act really. He put her in there and so he'll also put her out of there.

But... she wasn't there. Nothing was there. Nothing but chunks of debris and ashes and smelted...somethings.

When he blinked his eyes open (when had he closed them?), Donna's worried face greeted him. He blinked again and blinked. Nothing changed. Everything has changed. He had waited for far too long. He had made her wait for far. too. long. He feared of failing her but now he actually has failed her.

Everything was bland now. Was it just him or is everything a bit...on the side of grey? Donna looks at him like he might break. (He won't. He's a Time Lord. Time Lords don't break.) Even Sylvia had taken to treating him a bit more kindly.

He goes off alone with Sexy. His return to the Noble-Temple (Temple-Noble) household becomes fewer and further in between. One day he finds himself in Venice. Wonderful Venice. His Pond and her Roman (who wasn't yet a Roman) had gone here. There were vampires. And running and –

River?

No silly. River wasn't there.

He blinked. And blinked again. Made sure the sky was blue and the clouds still fluffy white. But was that his leather jacket that just whizzed by past him? Wait. Hold on. That was... Was that? Oh no. It wasn't. It couldn't be. Did they? No. They couldn't have.

But of course, apparently they did. Because that was actually his leather jacket wearing self that just passed by him again(?) tugging along his very-much-not-dead wife along running from... Hold on. Why are they running? What- Who's shooting at her?!

#cues in iconic doctor who intro lmao #hi don't mind me. i'm just being my melodramatic PMS self #it's reaaally wonky i think but argh whatever just spitting out my grief and frustration. come to think of it i find words flow easier when #i am upset lol? hmmm what does that say about my high school self who used to write chapters with 1k as minimum.#it's difficult dealing with people who simply say river is just another one of the doctor's marriages so this is me dealing with it #i had trouble knowing where to stop and then thought OH why not put nineriver in but make it Post-Library River???#lmao and i ended it there because i needed to stop (i have 3 – THREE – exams tomorrow)#dw musings #that turned into a sort of fic ish #doctorriver #doctor x river #doctor who #tia talks tish #river song #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #ninth doctor #the doctor's wife #tardis #what other thing can i tag my sort of fic #tia writes tish #post-library river song #yowzah #i pond queue #11th doctor #12th doctor #10th doctor

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expectiations · 20 days

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rereading The Ruby's Curse (when I definitely should be studying for exams) and River isn't a proto-Time Lord or a facsimile of a Time Lord, she's a secret, infinitely better third thing – the Child of Time (which is waaay better and cooler than some mere stuffy Time Lord imho)

#tia talks tish #dw musings #river song #the ruby's curse #child of time #child of the tardis #doctor who

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expectiations · 14 days

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I'd been ruminating on this for days now but this is so River "the Doctor does not and has never loved me" coded

#goodnight #i should be asleep #what am i doing with my life #tia talks tish #dw musings #ttpd #river song #guilty as sin?#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #don't mind me. just dumping my brain rot before i forget about it then get reminded of it then forget to share it again 👍🏻#doctor who #the doctor #doctorriver #doctor x river

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expectiations · 13 days

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My favorite random Doctor Who fun fact is that Five apparently talked too much about River that Tegan asked him to shut up.

#OH - i thought i already had this posted lol #now i can't remember where i got this from #OH - from Expiry Dating!!#that boxset is SURREAL #ten x river #five x river #<- kinda #tia talks tish #dw musings #doctor who #big finish #big finish audios #doctor x river #river song #tegan jovanka #fifth doctor #tenth doctor #i pond queue #once again clearing out my drafts lol

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expectiations · 25 days

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I'd been mulling over why Sarah Bishop holds a special place in my heart and after seeing a picture of her I realized it was because her hair color reminded me of River Song. Also, Alex Kingston <3

basically I'm just saying I love Alex Kingston a normal (absolutely not normal) amount, your honour.

#and now that i remember it sarah is the character alex portrayed that i fell in love with after river – or was it audrey #the point of whatever this is is that i love alex kingston and i am grateful she exists #anyways #bring back river song #alex kingston #sarah bishop #river song #doctor who #a discovery of witches #tia talks tish

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expectiations · 28 days

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I recently got pulled back into a rabbit hole that Rory Williams is a descendant of Caecilius (you know, the guy in Pompeii the Doctor and Donna saved). By saving Caecilius and fam, the Doctor has unwittingly ensured the existence of their wife (which they'll meet in the Library a few episodes later).

Then someone pointed out that supposedly, the Froshbishers in Torchwood was the descendant of Caecilius (since they're played by the same actor – Peter Capaldi himself) and that's why he ends up killing himself and his family to tie up all loose ends that never should have existed.

And I was like no–oh. OH. WAIT. The Froshbishers and the Williams could have both been descendants of Caecilius. We already know of the Froshbishers' tragic end but then there's Rory! Roranicus Pondicus, who seems to suffer from a tragic death every other episode. Penny in the air. What if that's why Rory suffers from frequent deaths? It's the universe trying to tie loose ends up but somehow Rory almost always ends up 'escaping' (for lack of a better word that I can currently come up with) the clutches of death – until of course, Manhattan. Penny drops.

But anyways, I think there's something beautiful in all that yapping I've spewed. Also, that could also explain why – or could be one of the explanations why River's death had to be a fixed point. Other than to prevent the Doctor from rewriting it, it was also the universe's final way of cleaning up the past.

#tia talks tish #dw musings #doctor who #rory williams #caecilius #river song #the doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #john frobisher #also there's something amusing about how the Doctor shares the faces of two other people who may or may not be their wife's relatives #i could also talk about how River may or may not have seen the deaths of her parents and brother. she was by their bedside as they drew #their last breaths. they lasted that long because anyone who dares to hurt them has to go through River first and anyone who was wise enough #to do their research first knew better than to touch the Williamses (is that correct)

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expectiations · 19 days

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my favorite thing about Tumblr is discovering these decade old posts about Doctor x River and finding out the backstory for that one note on my fave fic that said sorry for writing a time baby fic

#like damn the same arguments i'm seeing now have not changed for over a decade #doctor x river #doctor who #river song #eleventh doctor #the doctor #yowzah #twelfth doctor #tia talks tish #dw musings #as with everything else though the con is having to read the “12 is a better husband than 11” things

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expectiations · 21 days

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I just finished listening to Expiry Dating. nobody talk to me

#tia talks tish #expiry dating #ten x river #big finish audios #10river #10RIVER HAS MY HEART YA'LL #I HAVEN'T EVEN GONE THROUGH THE ENTIRETY OF IT #tenth doctor #river song #doctor x river #doctorriver #10 x river #tenriver #the doctor #doctor who #dw musings #I LOVE THEM A NORMAL AMOUNT YOUR HONOUR

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expectiations · 14 days

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it never fails to amuse me when I stumble upon a River Song hater and their reasons for hating her are... way off the mark. Like babes, it just shows you didn't understand the story. Bonus points when I guess correctly that they're shipping either cl*ara or r*ose with the Doctor.

like what is it with the Ponds and constantly being misunderstood?

#tia talks tish #dw musings #river song #doctor x river #doctor who #eleventh doctor #pond era #yowzah #the doctor #twelfth doctor #moffat era

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expectiations · 15 days

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I got what I'd been asking for but at what cost...

#doctor who #river song #big finish #big finish audios #tia talks tish #dw musings #because wtf is that even supposed to mean #i pond queue

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