There is a cacophony of sound in the form of the Doctor blowing a party horn with all her might while waving a noisemaker. Both she and Zinnia are wearing lopsided party hats, the infant kicking and screeching gleefully from her seat in the papoose strapped to the Doctor’s chest. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUU~” She warbles, obnoxiously off-key as she stomps into the room. “Zinny! Tell daddy how mooch you loov him! Give him a big BIRTHDAY KISS!” Theta grins and smooches him on the lips. “Let’s go!”

    It’s Koschei’s birthday! 

 “My DELIGHTS!  My DARLING and STAR!” 

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The Master blows dramatic kisses at wife and child, radiating an abundance of affection of which none but his family might think him capable.  

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      “COME!” he hams it up, expansive and theatrical. “Come unto my bosom, my GREAT loves!” 

He laughs a quasi-maniacal belly-laugh, the very one that’s earned him the title of “Kookaburra.”  

     “Where’s MY hat?” he demands, as he gathers them close.  “And how the HELL did you remember this face’s birthday?  Color me impressed, Goose.”

He peppers a trail of ticklish kisses against her neck, cheek and lips, and then, on little Zinny’s forehead.  

sclfmastery:

Super Important PSA 

I just want to make something super clear. ThirteenXSimm is my Thoschei otp but not once has it occurred to me that, because he is male-presenting and she is female-presenting, this should become a “good girl reforms bad boy story.” I DO NOT want that.  If you want to do that, fine, go to. But that will NOT be the content of MY blog.  

This is for several reasons:

  1. The good girl saves bad boy trope is hackneyed and implicitly misogynistic. 
  2. Both the Master and the Doctor are genderfluid.  Their notions of gender are not constrained by human concepts, including problematic concepts, of “roles” in relationships.  I reject misogyny as a trait of the Master in the RTD and Moffat eras, save as a verbal weapon and series of human beliefs which he does not himself ascribe to, because it makes no sense.
  3. From an outside-of-universe standpoint: this genderfluidity means they’ve never been a problematically mainstream “cis het” pairing and never will be.  
  4.  I want the Master to save himself. Because at his core, he is a being who craves autonomy and control.  He would want to rescue himself with the AID and GUIDANCE of a loved one (which is what I like to explore in my threads with Thirteens. He would not want to be spoon-fed salvation. Which is exactly why Missy in the Vault, moving though it was, resulted in tragedy. 
  5.  The Doctor deserves better than to be someone’s moral nursemaid.  
  6.  It would be boring. 

audaie:

sweetbotwithoutheart:

A sketch :3 Their height difference is just … lol. 

I still can’t believe that I took so long to start watching classic who… but the dynamic between 3rd doctor & delgado!master was amazing! Not to mention the master’s magnificent evil goatee! And his leather gloves, too ;P

Every time I think about this, I remember that moment in The Harvest of Time, where the Master claims the Doctor would be about his height and the person he’s talking to is like “Uhm. Nope.”