Tag: Anonymous

Can you please tag any political posts you reblog?

//Sure, I usually do actually, as simply the word “politics.”  This time I didn’t tag it because I legitimately feel it exceeds characterization as merely “political” that immigrant children are being ripped out of their parents’ arms by a president who is literally a neo-Nazi.   This is not a political issue, but rather, a human rights issue. 

There will be reblogs of political issues frequently on this blog. While I promise to continue to tag  them as “politics” or, in this case, as “human rights” because sometimes people are on fandom Tumblrs to escape the anxieties of world events, I will never stop including said posts on my blog, so you might want to just unfollow me.  No hard feelings on my end. 

why is thirteen already your favorite doctor? no hate, just curious

//I think because of a number of reasons actually! (And I don’t take it as hate, no worries <333 ) I’m actually really glad someone asked this, I’ve been meaning to articulate it.  

–The step in the right direction that is a female Doctor, allowing thousands of little girls to identify with the chief protagonist of one of the most central sci fi franchises of all time. 

–The sense that whereas Twelve (understandably) hit a rock bottom of disillusionment, solitude, and depression, Thirteen represents his resolve to regenerate “one more time” and press forward into a HOPEFUL future. Thirteen very much emblematizes HOPE to me. 

–I love Jodie Whittaker as an actor. I’ve already seen her in Return To Cranford and Broadchurch, and I’ve seen interviews and clips of her in other things, and she’s just this dorky jovial sweetheart who’s amazingly good at a breadth of roles.  

–The pairing of Thirteen with Chris Chibnall’s writing (I’m a big fan). 

–Thirteen reminds me of my long-standing first and favorite Doctor, Ten, who presents a similarly zesty childlike enthusiasm….but without Ten’s dangerous arrogant streak and propensity to accidentally use people.   Ten and Simm are really matched as a DoctorXMaster pairing, just like Twelve and Missy are, so it makes me happy to see some remnant of that era continuing.  

–Personal significance: her character arose into being right after A) my favorite character “died” and regenerated and I had to come to terms with the fact that, unless they take John Simm up on his recent offer to return to the show once again,  he’s never coming back, and B) I lost a crucial friendship in this fandom and felt about as rock-bottom as Twelve.  Thirteen being a fresh new part of this beloved series started to symbolize for me the fact that the future does hold good things; not all joy exists merely in a lost past. ❤ 

hey master, if you hate time lords/their society so much, then what better way than to rebel against their teachers and see value in all life and help others the way they would have hated?

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       “Shh, sweet little hearts.  It’s only a guest.” 

The Master looks up from the vulnerable cocoon of warmth and nurturance in which he’s caught.  There’s startling gentleness in bottomlessly dark eyes.  It’s residual from looking at his daughter, but beyond the miracle of a womb-born Time Tot, it’s the months and months he’s spent at the Doctor’s side in rare, honest, open communion, airing and nursing his wounds, and growing past them.  

Beyond any miracle, reform is painstaking work. 

      “Believe it or not … that’s become my goal already. Blame a blonde
       goose.” 

@forgediinfire tagging you because reasons)) 

holy shit I was thinking about the doctor and the master (as I tend to do) particularly in season 3 (bc I was thinking about the specific parallels between his relationship with martha vs koschei, and I just remembered the quote, “unrequited love can be survived in a way that once requited love cannot” and wow… ouch

//WHOAAAAAAA dang nonnie, right in the feels DDDDD: 

I’m glad Martha didn’t settle for the Doctor tbh, like look I love the Doctor but he’s rebounding from Rose, and the Master is his first and cardinal love whose venomous conduct crowded her out and outright abused her.  

I hope that doesn’t offend anyone who ships MarthaxDoctor, but when she said “you know what, I AM good,” I cheered because yes, you are, you’re a motherfucking DOCTOR, more than the Doctor will ever be a Doctor, and you saved the WORLD.  Don’t fall for damaged goods.

The Master on the other hand is every bit as much a trashlord as the Doctor lolol and they are so suited as antithetical but also as soul mates.  

And yes, it’s so much harder to mourn something for which you have a long basis, happy memories that are gone, because you have a reference point for what you’re missing. 

Or, for the headcanon thing: The Master pretends to despise yo-mama jokes, calling them infantile, but he secretly really loves them. (Wishful thinking?)

Send headcanons for my muse and I’ll tell you if I agree. 

PROBABLY.  The Master takes perverse delight in understanding “lowbrow” human humor, in part to draw the Doctor’s attention to the less savory elements of his “favorite” species, and in part out of an ambivalent desire to show that he can be “cool with” these same elements.