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what if you were brainwashed, and then almost boiled alive, and it was so so scary, but then your friends found you and they gave you soft pajamas, and cried over you, and promised to keep you safe forever and ever, and wanted to have the world's longest sleepover with you, and then you told them you loved them but you had to leave the sleepover early cuz you had stuff to do in the morning, and they weren't mad because they love you too :(

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too hot for tv.

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i can't believe they just had sex right there on the page like that...

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"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu

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I’m glad they convinced Terrance Dicks that making the Master the villain in The Five Doctors would be too predictable because it’s so much funnier watching him run around trying to save a bunch of Doctors who absolutely refuse to be saved by him and who keep stealing all his stuff while he repeatedly gets knocked unconscious

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DOCTOR WHO

4.10 "Midnight"

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One interesting point of comparison between Turn Left and 73 Yards is the way they portray a "world without the Doctor." Turn Left does a sort of great man theory of history thing, where the Doctor is singlehandedly responsible for keeping everything from imploding at all times. As an It's a Wonderful Life take-off, and as a development of the season 4 theme where the Doctor keeps making repeated suicide attempts, the primary reason it offers for why the Doctor can't slash shouldn't die is his practical utility to the world.

In 73 Yards, in contrast, Earth's history seems to be basically unaffected by the Doctor's absence. The main impact here is on Ruby's personal life. It's not that the Doctor's absence ruins her life, per se (even if it remains a persistent point of wistfulness for her). It's that Ruby starts echoing the patterns of how the Doctor has lived their life. Pushing away everyone who loves her or wants to help her, because she's so convinced of her own secret monstrousness and unlovability that she manifests her "inevitable" abandonment into reality. Keeping an emotional distance from her romantic partners that dooms every relationship to failure. Trying to find the meaning of her life (and her suffering) by saving the world, only to remain aimless and unfulfilled.

For Donna, the only way to undo the dystopia caused by the Doctor's suicide turns out to be committing suicide herself. This tracks with the pattern of S4 where the Doctor's suicide attempts keep inspiring, and then getting supplanted by, copycat suicides (Luke, River, alternate timeline Donna, arguably/figuratively Sky). Ruby, on the other hand, dies of old age. She lived a life that was basically Fine, that had a few points of hope and meaning, but that was empty of any deep, lasting personal connections. Each of them Becomes The Doctor, and then gets the chance to go back and undo the Doctor-ified version of their life. Meanwhile, the Doctor continues to self-isolate and self-harm. 10 still pushes Donna away and sacrifices himself to save Wilf; 15 still pushes Ruby away and sacrifices himself to save Poppy.

But I think the differences in these two approaches suggests that this time around, the Doctor's ultimate arc is heading somewhere at least somewhat different. It'll be interesting to see where that one goes.

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Okay so. Im gonna write this fic. But. Gurathin understanding it has to leave. It has to leave so it can come back. Gurathin could never know he was free of his addiction until he could turn it down. Murderbot cannot know it is free until it can leave. Until it knows 'whatever you want' really is whatever it wants. If it stays, it will just keep being their secunit. It will never push itself. It will never try new things. They'll say it can do whatever it wants but it will never let itself learn to want anything until it can want things independent from them. Things beyond the next episode of Sanctuary Moon. It has to leave so it can come back. Gurathin knowing it has to leave them to choose them.

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MURDERBOT 1.10 "The Perimeter"

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Something very compelling to me about ART as an autistic person who really struggles with empathy not because it doesn't feel emotions (it feels them often, and deeply) but because it really really struggles to relate its own experience of those emotions to those of other people. And then theres Murderbot, who is, through a quirk of programming, the only person ART can actually really /feel/ empathy for. ART tries to think about other people's needs and perspectives, but it's hard because it fundamentally can't feel what they feel. With the exception of Murderbot. I think when Murderbot sent ART the "secunits dont sulk" file, that was probably the first time it experienced another person's emotions in a way that were at all recognizable to its own. No wonder it's so shaken and apologizes immediately. (No wonder it gets obsessed.)

I wonder if part of ART spilling the beans about MB was because after the RaviHyral trip its crew noticed it acting differently because it suddenly had an understanding of /what it feels like for other people to be in pain./

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Common Anime Trope episodes I Think Should Be Future Doctor Who Episodes

The Beach Episode Put the Doctor in one of those ridiculously charming 1950s-style striped bathing suits. Let them build a sandcastle. Let them be adorable. Do it, cowards.

The Hot Springs Episode Peak awkward character interactions. Steamy fog. Emotional confessions. Aliens in the water. Come on.

The Cultural Festival Episode They visit so many planets—give us an episode where the festival is the main event, not just background flavor. (Yes, I know some people will mention Turn Left or the one with the sun-parasite where the Doctor tells a story, but that’s not what I mean. I want parades! Weird alien food! Strange contests! Local drama! Give it the screentime it deserves.)

The Sickbed Episode One of them is sick or injured and the other has to care for them. Cue emotional vulnerability, soft character moments, and maybe a dramatic fever dream sequence. Please.

The Birthday Episode No one knows how old the Doctor is anyway. Throw them a party. Make it weird. Let the TARDIS decorate.

The Body Swap Episode Yes, I’m aware we had New New York and Cassandra in the Tenth Doctor era. But I want the Doctor and companion to swap bodies and immediately regret everything. Also it's been awhile and I want a little treat.

The Halloween/Cosplay Episode No, not “we go to the past and wear ‘historically accurate’ clothing” (or as close to it as this show likes to try). I mean a full-on costume party. A fan convention. A masquerade ball on a space station. Let them dress up for non time travel reason. Let the Doctor have fun. Let them cosplay themself.

Footnote for the Classic and Extended Media Whovians in the Room: If any of these have been done in Classic Who—I haven’t finished it yet! BUT I’d genuinely love to hear about it. Same goes for Big Finish, the novels, the comics,—if the Doctor’s thrown a beach party or been body-swapped with a companion in some obscure 1996 audio drama, please tell me. I want to know.

Also: fic recommendations also welcome. I know these tropes are catnip for fic writers, BUT I’d still love to see these in the show all the same.

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Spock is Gay ➞ A Collection of Evidence

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padme carrying the token of anakin’s eternal innocence and youth around her neck, preserving that little boy she met on tattoine even in death / palpatine encasing the adult, mangled anakin in warped black armor, preserving that hatred and violence turned submission, only to be released after his death . tbh

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Murderbot is probably the most embarrassing hyperfixation to have because oh really? You're hyperfixated on the 'hyperfixates on media to avoid the real world stress and anxiety' media? Is it. Is it to avoid your real world stress and anxiety, perhaps??

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Just a buncha Father Kreiner stuff.

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meeee i'd teach my kids to hate capitalism from day one ❤️