#LCC Winter comic con

[ingravinoveritas]

He looks so exhausted. He’s at ComicCon today and sorry to say, but it’s like watching someone close to burnout being paraded around.

Hope he’ll get some time off and someone to take care of him.

(Grouping these together because I don’t have the strength to answer separately and and keep trying to answer other Anons but then have more Anons coming in instead...)

Anon #1: I have seen a bunch of pictures from LCC today, and David looks super cute (as always), but most definitely also exhausted:

The second picture in particular got me, because the caption on the tweet that posted it just said how hot he looks. And of course, David’s hotness is always worth acknowledging, but to do what I just talked about in my previous response (ignore something that could actually be worrying) is just mind-boggling to me.

Again, this is not to take away any of David’s agency or to say he didn’t choose to be at LCC today, because he obviously did. But seeing things like a continuation of that “joke” with Peter Davison with Ty now involved again gives me that feeling of David being used as a prop for photo ops. I’m sure he was happy to do it, but again this is a man who we know puts the needs of others ahead of himself and never wants to not make people happy, so of course he wouldn’t refuse to do it, either (especially for Georgia, if she was the one who engineered it).

That dovetails nicely with what you have mentioned, Anon #2. Yes, Michael’s anecdote at MCM was about David being non-confrontational and needing Michael to speak on his behalf when it comes to voicing their mutual displeasure about something. And I do believe Michael himself needs the things I mentioned from time to time, absolutely--the two are not mutually exclusive--which is part of what makes their relationship so special.

The reason I believe Michael is that presence for David is because they have been that for each other in the past. One of the most vivid examples is from the GO season 1 press tour, which Michael and David talked about on David’s podcast: The excruciating photo shoots that they both hated. I expanded on this a bit more here, but the crux is that the only reason Michael didn’t full-on throttle the photographer was because of David. And when you hear them talk about it at length on David’s podcast and in other places since then, it becomes clear that Michael and David rely and lean on each other emotionally, and have been there for each other in every conceivable way.

So yes, I do hope David gets some time off soon and has someone to take care of him, who will allow him to rest and not feel the need to give any of himself to anyone, even for a short while. That’s something I also feel Michael does for him, but I imagine is difficult at the moment with Michael being abroad.

But hopefully David will be able to take it easy for a time after LCC is over. Fingers crossed...

[praxeus-13]

Hey people who are going to LCC tomorrow (Sunday), would anyone be cool with me meeting up with them in the afternoon. My friend has to leave early and I think I’ll get anxious on my own 🫠

I’m going to the Jodie talk at 3pm btw, so it’d be especially cool if someone would let me tag along with them for that :D

[smollnias]

Oh no! the 10th and 11th doctors have regenerated into funky animal plushies! help them travel through time and space to get their real form back! 🌌🪐

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these babies are finally finished and are travelling with me to be handed to David Tennant and Matt Smith in person! 🧡✨

I hope you like them, it's been a though work! 🧡