#The doctor has always been he/they

[backpackingspace]

Listen the only doctor that's been a women is 12. Even then that is only sometimes.

[timetravellingchav]

workplace safety poster in the torchwood offices

[politicalprocrastinator]

Christopher Eccleston did not kiss a man on the lips for you bitches to say that the doctor used to be straight

[camellcat]

just recently rewatched the end of time specials, and I can't stop thinking about the way the master caught the doctor only to let him drop anyway. hey guys. what the fuck? I like had a visceral reaction to that and I don't even know why. that's. what. why'd he do that. do it again

[mintedwitcher]

It's kinda funny to me how we have people misinterpreting the "Oh, is that the kind of man I am now," comment when literally one episode ago we had "Oh, do I say things like that now?"

Like. Besties, he's not confused that he "suddenly likes men", he's surprised that he can admit it. Out loud, without shame, without it being a joke among friends or something to distract someone in a high stress situation. He meant it, and he said it out loud.

That's what surprised him. Just like saying out loud that he loves Donna surprised him. It's not that he didn't feel these things before, it's that now he can actually say it.

[doctormichaelaquinn]

Russell T. Davies saying that the bigeneration doesn't just mean that David Tennant's and Ncuti's Doctor are both alive and well, but that EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR is also alive, waking up in the moment of their regeneration, with their own TARDIS, able to go out and have their own adventures still...this man really came back to Doctor Who and said "canon is a sandbox and I'm kicking down all the sandcastles" and honestly I love that for him. Can't wait to see what he does next.

[heavenb3nt]

Anyways. Academy era designs

[shima-draws]

My doctor: Hey yeah that's not normal I don't think it's an issue with your hip

Me: Oh?

My doctor: It's an issue with your spine

Me: OH

[andysambcrg]

#top 10 most insane news notifications i've ever gotten

[taardisblue]

not to be a broken record stuck on thoschei and spydoc as a continuation of twissy but. something something missy dying when she tried and failed to stand with and be more like the doctor. something something ttc being about the master trying and failing to make the doctor more like him. something something the master now trying to define the doctor, to literally be the doctor... and still failing anyway. he fell the same way missy did; failing to be more like the doctor. but this time; this time? she fell with him

[weedle-testaburger]

not to post about heartstopper again but tao is one of the most characters ever. it's like alice oseman said 'right so i've got this one guy who's cishet so as compensation i'm gonna make him just the best'

[grand-taire]

the thing that haunts me about sebastian moran is that, when he was first created by the fandom, he was often written as an inherently tragic character. he was literally created just to be with jim, and to ultimately not be enough for him.

seb couldn't fix his loneliness in the ways that mattered, even though he was closer to jim than anyone else; hell, he usually couldn't even keep the man entertained. jim was always just out of reach, even when sebastian's hands were on him.

he wasn't jim's answer. he was never going to win.

[cerullos]

this may be my pettiest rory take but even putting all of his nasty misogyny aside, i truly do find it laughable that so many fans believe eleven loved amy and rory equally. eleven would light rory on fire to keep amy warm!!!!!!!!

[quietwingsinthesky]

everyone wants eleven when she’s whimsical but not when she’s a deadbeat husband in her terrible marriage with river <3 none of you love her for her true self

[raywritesthings]

Won’t lie, I am incredibly disappointed in Doctor Who’s choice to make Yasmin Finney’s new character be named Rose. The fact that in his post about it RTD defines her as just “another Rose” - like did he really not learn his lesson already?

I don’t care if she’s from a parallel Earth. I don’t care if she’s Rose Temple-Noble, and therefore Donna’s daughter like some people are speculating. I don’t care if it’s just a random fluke (though I doubt that). The fact is, Russell already went down this road in series 3, when he constantly had characters compare Martha negatively to Rose, and in the specials, when he named the Next Doctor/Jackson Lake’s companion Rosita, and had Ten remark “good name”.

Stop. Comparing. Black Women. To. A White Woman.

All people are going to talk about is Rose Tyler, and how this new Rose is like her or not like her, how much they miss the old Rose, how much they hate this new Rose compared to Rose Tyler, why couldn’t the “real” Rose have just come back instead, etc. If she is actually Donna’s daughter as some theorize, then plenty of other fans will just be talking about Donna, and her sad ending, and how her friendship with Rose was so amazing and profound it got through the mindwipe and so on. The point is, they will be talking about two white characters who have already had their time to shine instead of the new Black character, just like in 2007 with Martha’s run. The show had finally gotten to the point where it didn’t need to reference Rose Tyler every five episodes, and now that RTD’s back he’s just swinging the pendulum completely the other way.

Freema did not go through so much racist, sexist abuse for him to just get away with repeating this on another actress. And Yasmin will have it worse, because she is trans. People out there on the internet are already going to be posting or sending disgusting, vile things her way, and reigniting the “Rose Tyler vs New Character/Companion” debate is just going to make it so, so much worse. The fact that in the show’s canon, Rose Tyler treated the only trans woman she ever met (Cassandra, who was an extremely transphobic caricature written by RTD and portrayed by a cis actress) with derision and disgust, calling her “not human” and saying she “would rather die than live like [her]” is either going to embolden some transphobic fans or be desperately swept under the rug by the production team. If I see anyone on tumblr making transphobic or racist commentary about Yasmin Finney, whether blatant or a thinly-veiled dog whistle, I will be blocking on sight.

Some people are speculating that this Rose is going to be the new companion to Fourteen. And as amazing an actress as she is and as awesome as it would be to have a duo of Black actors headline Doctor Who for the first time ever, it would be an awful idea to kick off this brand new era with a companion who shares the same name as a previous one. A lot of folks have said it already, but this obsession with RTD’s first era as showrunner is frankly putting the show’s forward momentum in a chokehold. If people can’t get over the past and enjoy new characters and stories and themes (and they don’t have to enjoy all of them! I certainly haven’t over the years), then the BBC may as well have just canceled the show again. It’s running on the fumes of nostalgia, and David Tennant isn’t going to save the ratings by coming back once a decade. If people refuse to care about any other Doctor, then I say just let the show die.

Yasmin Finney seems genuinely excited to be joining the show and working with RTD, whether it’s for this one 60th anniversary special or for something longer-term is yet to be announced. But she deserved so much better, and Black women and girls both cis and trans deserved so much better, than to be overshadowed by a white, cis woman yet again.

[rystiel]

doctor who is like: here is david tennant as the doctor, now before we get rid of him we’re going to have 2 doctors at once, then proceed to give david!doctor to a beloved companion for them to adopt into their family