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Hey do you think Clara’s body being canonically frozen between one heartbeat and her last is an annoyance to her anatomically? Do you think her hands and feet are always painfully cold? Because she knew she was going to die and she faced the thing that was going to kill her as it approached. The moment between those two heartbeats her body would have been absolutely flooded with adrenaline- she would have been having the most intense fight or flight response in the world and she was frozen there. Do you think people comment that she unusually pale? Or do you think very bright light is painful for her because her pupils are permanently dilated?

The natural follow on to this is how do you think she copes with this? Cause like gloves wouldn’t work if she’s just not producing heat so do you think she’s a bit like a lizard and it’s not uncommon to find her warming her hands on the nearest hot object? Do you think she wears loads of bronzer to look more normal or just toughs it out? And the most important thing of all her solution to the eyes thing would 100% be sonic sunglasses bby

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Hey do you think Clara’s body being canonically frozen between one heartbeat and her last is an annoyance to her anatomically? Do you think her hands and feet are always painfully cold? Because she knew she was going to die and she faced the thing that was going to kill her as it approached. The moment between those two heartbeats her body would have been absolutely flooded with adrenaline- she would have been having the most intense fight or flight response in the world and she was frozen there. Do you think people comment that she unusually pale? Or do you think very bright light is painful for her because her pupils are permanently dilated?

The natural follow on to this is how do you think she copes with this? Cause like gloves wouldn’t work if she’s just not producing heat so do you think she’s a bit like a lizard and it’s not uncommon to find her warming her hands on the nearest hot object? Do you think she wears loads of bronzer to look more normal or just toughs it out? And the most important thing of all her solution to the eyes thing would 100% be sonic sunglasses bby

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You know what I don't see acknowledged enough? Most notably that the show never explains it, but I've also never seen fans put it into words.

Why Clara is so unsettled by 12 looking old when he regenerates. There's a whole thing in Deep Breath of Jenny and Vastra assuming the worst, that she wanted him young and pretty, but once Clara shuts that down they just ignore that she was unsettled by his age and focus on her seeing him as The Doctor, despite the change. They never take the time to acknowledge why she had that issue.

There are two big reasons, the one they actually imply a little is that when he looked young he felt approachable, like a peer, someone she could be comfortable with and stand beside, not someone standing over her (and that also reflects in their personalities; 11 was casual and easily put off balance by Clara being forward or flirty or controlling, while 12 (at this point) pretends he can't see her properly and is mature and disconnected and unflappable by anything she does.

But the big part... She just watched 11 age a millennium in a few hours. She watched, in drips and drabs, him live out his regeneration for so long that he died of old age, more or less. Then he regenerates, and instead of a whole new life, he's already old. How long does he have, when he starts off old? Does she have to prepare for another death already, when she just faced one, and had to fight to get him one last chance at life?

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Leyendecker study twelveclara commission for @itmethanh 🧡

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An underrated Clara moment is when she's yelling at The Doctor at the end of Kill The Moon and she says "Don't you dare lump me in with the rest of the other humans you think are so tiny and silly and predictable". Not "don't look down on humans. Stop being so arrogant", but "don't act like you're better than everyone else unless you admit that I am also better than everyone else". Like she's completely in the right for most of that scene, but that line is delightfully messed up.

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An underrated Clara moment is when she's yelling at The Doctor at the end of Kill The Moon and she says "Don't you dare lump me in with the rest of the other humans you think are so tiny and silly and predictable". Not "don't look down on humans. Stop being so arrogant", but "don't act like you're better than everyone else unless you admit that I am also better than everyone else". Like she's completely in the right for most of that scene, but that line is delightfully messed up.

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just some doctor/clara: [21/∞]

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he said. my new outfit… will be clara’s outfit ^_^

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clara oswald + hair moments 

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"we need more fucked up female characters" you guys can't even handle clara oswald.

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What were you bargaining for? What do you think? You.

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“After the Doctor and Clara pulled their cracker, the next scene had the Doctor unlocking his TARDIS in the snow and looking back at the house where Clara - the 27-year-old version - waved from the window. The Doctor made a ‘call me’ sign with his hand, entered his ship and departed… watched by Old Clara.”

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Doctor Who, The Complete History, Volume 80 (Last Christmas)

this refers to the version of the script that was written as Jenna’s exit

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Whouffaldi meme — [2/4] episodes → The Girl Who Died

Every time we do something like this, I keep thinking, “What if something happens to you?” — 12th Doctor

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Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman behind the scenes of ‘Mummy on the Orient Express’ | [x]

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something a little different from my usual text posts 😌

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The Doctor and Clara