#abt ian and barbara

[strawberry-selfships]

auh shes pretty………

[yesokayiknow]

barbara and ian's exit is an unashamedly joyful one. they laugh about the missing years! they have a pigeon chasing montage! they whisper goodbye at the sky and then run off giggling! and then as vicki laughs at their joy, too happy to let the loss of her few friends sink in, one just turns his head and very gently says that he will miss them. he will miss them.

[celaenaeiln]

12 am anon here. okay so uh we havent talked about it cause i rly dunno how to tell them “yeah i think ur rly cute and i love it when you ramble abt the things you like and sometimes i do wanna kiss u” . anyways what songs do u think are dick grayson coded

personally some that come to mind are surface pressure from encanto, bad idea right and brutal by olivia rodrigo, and nerves by dpr ian. spring day by bts specifically when it comes to donna and wally and all his other dead loved ones

*older post I'm getting to now, 12 am anon and girlfriend are happily together, I just needed time to collate a list*

But that aside, you are literally the cutest. You make me so happy every time ;)

Surface Pressure, Bad Idea Right, and Brutal are all spot on!

I'd never heard Nerves before but now I've listened to it on repeat

Spring Day (eng ver) hadn't even entered my mind but now it won't get out.

Honestly all of Taylor Swift's and Olivia Rorigo's songs match Dick so perfectly

Orange are feel goods/exciting/dramatic story creation types

Blacks are sad/meloncholy/reflection songs about the darker side

I guess this is a Dick Grayson playlist.

Songs-

Come Hang Out by AJR - The Titans with Dick

You're Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring - self-explanatory.

Warriors of the Mind

You're on your own kid

This kpop song (anon knows, you might too)

My Version of You by Beth Crowley - reminded me of Tim and Dick's relationship when they fought during Dick's Batman era

Stop you're losing me by Taylor Swift - matches Dick fighting with Bruce

Unstoppable by Sia - reminds me of how the entire Superhero community relies on Dick and how he reacts in response

Let the Games Begin by AJR - is Dick constantly acting and ready for attention. Dick dealing with Gotham high society

Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons - embodies him in his entirety. If there's one song that defines him, it's this for me.

Toxic Thoughts by Faith Marie - Him struggling with his insecurities of breaking his own records

Welcome to the Show by Britt Nicole - Robin Dick being a little psycho and taking his team on an adventure

The First One by Astrid S - careful. It's about Nightwing (1996) Issue #134. Not sure if it can be considered canon or not, it's a gray area for me

Leader of the Landslide by The Lumineers - Basically Dick's reaction to Bruce abandoning him with all the kids and him being protective of them. Relates to Gotham War most clearly but always

Fire by Gavin Degraw - Dick's bamfness and journey

Christmas Kids by Roar - Here comes Bruce's messed up attachment issues to Dick

Million to One by Camila Cabello - Dick's perfectionist issues and dreams of being greater

If You Go Down ( I'm Going Down Too) by Kelsea Ballerini - Dick and Donna's ride or die relationship.

Don't Think Just Run by Beth Crowley - Dick, leadership, and the superheroes' reliance on him

Labour - Dick hypothically getting tired of Bruce dumping every single thing on him

Panic Room by Au/Ra - Scarecrow telling Dick in Knight Terrors that his fear may be the scariest fear of them all. I'm just imagining everyone getting trapped in Dick's head and being forced to face his fear. That would be such a fun story to write.

Rise by Katy Perry - Dick will always overcome and thrive.

Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga - Dick with the Titans just as they score a major victory

Human by Christina Perri - Dick asking for a reprieve (in his head)

Human by Krewlla - Same but sadder

Dress by Charlotte Sands - Other people falling in love with Dick

Gold Rush by Taylor Swift - How other people fall in love wiht Dick told through the eyes of Barbara or Kori

Heart of Stone by Six the Musical - Dick's unwavering love for Bruce

Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths - Dick is Achilles.

Geronimo by Sheppard - Silver Age Teen Titans era except it's all of them.

Circus by Britney Spears - C'mon. He's performer born for the spotlight.

Je vole by Louane - Dick's message to Bruce about him leaving

Je vais t'aimer by Louane - The intensity of Dick's love that sometimes leaves his lovers entralled, breathless, and scared.

Location by AJR - Dick reaching out to someone (not necessarily romantic)

Bird Set Free by Sia - Dick lives for himself and his morals. He lives for peace.

She Sets the City on Fire by Gavin Degraw - Other people's point of view of Dick

Dark Paradise by Lana Del Rey - Dick's grief and mourning for Bruce's passing

Wonderland by Taylor Swift - Roy and Dick's relationship

Head Above the Water by Avril Lavigne - Dick being the superhero community's rock and leadership.

Nightmare by Halsey - Dick's a little wild but that's the reason he's still alive. This is just him going after Blockbuster.

Graveyard by Halsey - Dick literally keeping Bruce from destroying himself

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy - Just Dick raising super powered team after team and yanking everyone onto their feet

Pompeii by Bastille - Dick's perspective after the bombing of Bludhaven

The entire sour album by Olivia Rodigro - To describe Dick and Bruce after Bruce fired him

Troublemaker by Olly Murs - How literally none of his exes can let him go

Issues by Julia Michaels - Dick and Kori's relationship

See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth - Dick and the Titans

Monster by Eminem and Rihanna - The amount of times people have told Dick he was crazy and he laughed and did it anyway

Superhero by Simon Curtis - Teen Titans Dick

Thunder by Imagine Dragons - Dick always takes charge of himself and his own destiny

A Million Dreams, the Greatest Showman - It literally sounds like Dick's inner thoughts to make Gotham a better place

Brave by Sara Bareilles - It's reminiscent of Dick's speech to Conner

Secrets and Lies by Death Note the Musical - This is Outsiders Dick Grayson to a T

Playing His Game by Death Note the Musical - This is how Dick solves all his crimes and mysteries

Drinking alone by Carrie Underwood - Ric Grayson

[moonlitlex]

yall ever think abt that companion support group like. everyone else talks about how the doctor is such a cool guy/lady and an inspiration or whatever and ian is just sitting there like oh so THATS what happened to the freak who kidnapped me and barbara. i see.

[pitynostars]

reallyyyy need a fic of all the support group companions finding out various things about the dr and being shook like....

martha talking about the master and yaz and graham and dan and ryan being like O_O.... wilf being like "he was all of u once" and them all being horrified and bill's just like she turned me into a cyberman. and yaz ryan and graham are like. OHHHHHHHH. and clara's like yh my boyfriend was too ): and kates like yeah my dad was too ): and tegans like yeah this kid i knew was killed by them all too ):

ian nd barbara hearing about the dr's other bodies, the sonic etc

all the classic companions hearing abt the doctor losing gallifrey (TWICE)

graham and yaz finding out they were a grandparent at least twice + ian nd barbara finding out they lose all their grandkids

yaz complaining about this big secret that the dr refused to tell her all that time and clara's like. FUMING. like about to slap someone fuming. yaz is kinda worried for the next time the dr sees her but also touched.

idk abt all the ins and outs of the classic companions but. i need it.

[ssaalexblake]

i need to get back onto my classic who watching, but i am once again suffering  from companion loss and am not ready to accept this new dude yet. 

Most people do this with doctors, apparently, i do it with the companions. 

[roadimusprime]

Things I love abt the Aztec serial

-The moral dilemma

-The Doctor!! They are so respectful towards the Aztecs and understand their customs. I also like how he cares a lot about Barbara and Ian. I think this is the first time he’s been panicked over them. I also think this is the first time he’s actually said the words “i’m sorry.” to Barbara. (He got rightfully upset with her though tbh.) This might also be the first time he has called Ian by his first name as well. A lot of firsts in this serial.

-Susan being like “No one chooses who I marry. I’ll marry who I want.”

[bunnywand]

ellie’s “first doctor” thoughts..

so i’ve nrly finished watching the william hartnell doctor who’s for the first time now (just “the tenth planet” left!!) and here’s my thoughts on his seasons!!

- overall, i rly enjoyed them!! i was worried i wasn’t going 2 at first, bcos he’s.. kinda hard 2 get into?? 😅 like for the first 3 stories at least he’s such a rude bastard omfg.. 😭 but after those he gets a bit nicer, and i started 2 like him more!!

- i was also worried i wasn’t going 2 like the change of pace in them either (if u didn’t know, instead of stories being 1 or 2 45 minute episodes, the old doctor who’s are usually spread over 4-6 25 minute ones!!) bcos the first 3 stories were p slow and not much happened, but i think this improved by “the keys of marinus” and i started 2 enjoy them a lot more after that!!

- just 2 mention, i watched "marco polo,” “the crusade” and “galaxy 4″ thru the reconstructions on the dvd’s, the “mission to the unknown” recreation from last year on youtube, and “the myth makers,” “the daleks’ masterplan” and “the massacre of st. bartholomew’s eve” thru the fanmade animations on youtube, so the only stories i didn’t watch are “the celestial toymaker” and “the savages” (bcos the audio got taken off the animations on youtube.. 😔) and “the smugglers” (which is still on youtube, but i decided 2 skip so i can watch “the tenth planet” sooner 😅).. i might go back sometime and watch the ones i missed separately, i just didn’t mind missing them in this watch through bcos they didn’t rly seem like “essential” stories 😭

- so my favourite story was between “the space museum,” “the chase” and “the time meddler!!” vicki, barbara and ian were definitely my fav companion team and the concept of “the space museum” was just rly cool, “the chase” was a rly fun story, and i loved the meddling monk in “the time meddler,” he’s the only other time lord who’s been in it so far (apart from susan obvs) and i rly wish he’d come back more than just the one time he did bcos he was such a good concept 😭

- least favourite story?? probably “an unearthly child” unfortunately.. 😔 the doctor’s just too unlikeable in the first stories, and altho the first episode of it was rly good + interesting, the caveman story in the rest of the episodes was just.. so boring 😖 after the first 3 stories, they weren’t rly any stories i didn’t like tho, they all had something that interested me!!

- so, companions.. like i said vicki, barbara and ian were my fav companion team, and vicki was my fav out of them, and overall too!! i’m not rly sure why, i think she’s just rly nice and made for a good change after susan left.. 😅 barbara and ian were my next favs obvs, they weren’t the most interesting characters but they were likeable, and u got used 2 them being there bcos they were in it so long, so i think i was most sad when they left.. 😔

steven was my next fav, even if he did seem like a replacement ian sometimes, i liked the scene of him trying 2 leave at the end of “the massacre” bcos Fuck he went thru a lot in that story and “the daleks’ masterplan..” 😰 (which i wish had been explored a lil bit more..), after him susan (who is gonna have a Whole point in a sec) and then least fav was dodo.. not that she was unlikeable but, i just don’t think she did Anything for the few stories she was there, and then she.. just vanished halfway thru “the war machines” like????

(i haven’t counted katarina and sara in this bcos they weren’t around long enough, and i’m not counting ben and polly bcos i feel like they’re more troughton companions 😅)

- susan. she was Such an interesting concept (the doctor’s granddaughter!! another time lord!!) and i rly wanted 2 like her but she was just.. such a wasted opportunity 😫 she barely ever did anything (except get captured by the villians of the week 😟) and they never rly did anything w/ her also being a time lord (her using telepathy in “the sensorites” is abt the only thing i can think of 🤔) and it’s just like.. they could have done So Much w/ her but they just didn’t, and it’s a massive shame.. 😔

- other things 2 note.. so not much has appeared from like, later seasons/modern dw yet!! not saying that as a bad thing, it’s just interesting 2 see how it all develops!! so far apart from like, the doctor and the tardis, i think the only things from later dw so far are the daleks and (in “the tenth planet” that i haven’t watched yet) the cybermen and regeneration 😮

like for ppl who don’t know, the doctor isn’t even called a time lord yet (i think that term gets introduced in troughton’s era), gallifrey hasn’t been mentioned by name yet (i don’t think that happens til either pertwee/tom baker??) and there’s no sonic screwdriver either!! (i think that’s from troughton’s era too??)

so yh that’s everything i can think of 2 say rn!! i’ve rly enjoyed watching them, and i can’t wait 2 start patrick troughton’s era!! ☺️

[neotrinitythinker]

so, i have this headcanon that the first doctor didnt know a lot of earth terms for sexuality/gender, and susan learned abt them but didnt tell one. they eventually learned about them to help out ian and barbara who both went through a Crisis (finding out they're nonbinary and bisexual, respectively, and also in that order)

Extremely valid, i haven't finished that era but honestly 10/10

[strawberry-selfships]

new outfits unlocked

[gemvictorfromtheponyverse]

hey!! its lesbiantwelve!! ok,, here goes. i wish you would write a fic where team 5 and team 1 meet,, barbara and tegan bitch abt the doctor while nyssa and ian geek out over chemistry/science or smth like that!!

“So..this is what, four hundred years later?” Barbara asked, trying to get a grip of exactly where in The Doctor’s - apparently very long - Time Line Tegan had come from, along with the Doctor’s blonde Cricketeer self. “And he still doesn’t know how to predict where to land?” Babrbara couldn’t belive it. Once if these days, she was going to try and fly the ship herself, The Doctor be damned.

“And he still kidnaps people, might I add. I should be a Heathrow but by now I have a literal list of places he has taken me that is not Heathrow!” Tegan huffed, placing her hands on her hips as she glanced towards the door, wondering where both versions The Doctor had went.

“And I have a list of place we’ve been since The Doctor gave up trying to return us.” Barbara sigh, crossing her arms and wishing for the millionth time that The Doctor would have been more like Susan. His granddaughter, at least, had been willing to learn. But if all that Tegan told her was true, The Doctor was forever doomed to be careless and irritating and absomutely uneilling to recive any critisism or input from those around them.

Meanwhile, in another room, Ian and Nyssa was entierly unaware of their partners standung around and complaining about The Doctor. The both of them were instead inspect the food machine, pressing buttons and discussing theorietical mechanisms used inside it.

The only thing that kept them from dismantling it completely to look inside it and prove who was right, was their sense of respect for the fact that it was actual not theirs.

“I’m going to dig this out of our TARDIS, when I get back there. We don’t use it anymore so it should be safe to dismantel it in order to look at the inner mechanisms then.” Nyssa decided, Sighing as she looked over the machine, longing to find out its secret.

“Make sure you get some notes on it back to me. My students would love to hear about it, if I ever manages to get back to Coal Hill.” Ian answered insoecting the machine one last time from the outside.

“Will do. Now, you said we could take a look at the TARDIS fault locater, Mr.Chesterton?” She smilled at the older man, offering him her arm as she turned towards the door.

“It’ll be my pleasure, Miss Traken.” Ian accepted her arm, holding on to it and leading his lady back to the console room and an exciting date by the fault locator.

[alien-bodies]

personally, i think ian and babs should make an appearance in s11 and have a short adventure with thirteen. they could bring back jessica raine (from an adventure in space/time) as barbara and i think hari nef (an actual trans actress!) would make a lovely lesbian!ian

Gosh I would absolutely love Ian and Barbara to be on my TV screen again, tbh I’m not too sure how I feel abt recasting them?? Like it’s SO hard to recreate the many layers of a character again without doing a whackload of research, but if they had a small part somewhere that’d be Undoubtedly and Extremely Wonderful!!! esp with 13!!! I nearly wrote a lil fanfiction about that happening but got slam dunked by The Anxiety hsgjkdkhjyf who knows I might do that now Also Hari Nef is a goddess and I’m gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@lesbiantwelve there’s now a lineup at your Reboot AU audition, Hari Nef is there monologue blazing,, are you socks knocked????? i think so

[scriptscribbles]

sorry if you dont want to talk abt it but would you mind explaining whats happening with the dw discourse??

Well, basically, and I’m gonna stick it under a read more because I feel like it might be something people are sick of seeing (I know I am)...

David Bradley reportedly said recently that there would be some disagreements between the First Doctor and Twelfth Doctor in Twice Upon a Time as a result of dated views on gender.

"What we did emphasise [about the First Doctor] was the old fashioned nature and how he is from the 60s," revealed David Bradley, who plays the part opposite Peter Capaldi's more enlightened incarnation.

"He goes into the Twelfth Doctor’s Tardis and says ‘it’s a bit dusty around here, it’s in an awful state isn’t it? Where’s Polly? Shouldn’t she give it a spring clean?' And then Peter’s saying ‘you can’t say that’.

"[The First Doctor] brings all his 60s sensibilities, what’s lovingly called casual chauvinism," said Bradley, speaking at the London Film and Comic Con. "He’s just talking [as if] the [companions] are there just to help out, and do the dusting and do all the domestic chores – his attitudes to a lot of things come right from the 60s, so there’s a lot of conflict between Hartnell’s Doctor and Peter’s Doctor about how things have changed in the last 50 years... we had quite a bit of fun with that."

Someone asked me how I felt about it, and I said I was fine with it. Sure, an alien from the future isn’t going to be expressing period sexism, but an alien written by white, straight men in the 1960s sure as hell did. I believe it was @taiey that pointed out, for example, that when the TARDIS was likely to be destroyed, killing everyone inside, the Doctor lied to Barbara and Susan so they wouldn’t worry and just told Ian, which is pretty damn iffy with the chauvinism. Just little things like that that permeate the era. I don’t personally mind that being treated as a part of the character to reject it.

Other people, however, take offense to it and view it as writing the First Doctor out of character. They fear it will make a rather underappreciated Doctor look awful in the eyes of many fans for whom this will be their first encounter with him.

It’s likely to be only a few lines, but people have gotten extremely riled up about it and have been hurling some rather horrible words around as a result.

[passerby-boy-archive]

Doctor who ask even numbers

2. Top 3 companions

it feels like yr asking me to pick between my children??? uh. Jo, Bill and Fitz.

4. Favourite Dalek story

Remembrance of the Daleks 

6. How much EU have you seen

Some EDAs, a couple of VNAs, two BF audios and i’ve read the transcripts for a couple of BBV audios

8. OTP?

Doctor/Master tbhhhhh

10. Any ships ?

two/jamie, fitz/eight, theta/koschei/ushas, nyssa/tegan, barbara/ian, the gallifrey ot4.... i have quite a few

12. Favourite Doctor

once again making me choose between my children? eight. or seven. or three? twelve? icantdecideeeeee

14. How long have you been a fan for

since 2007!

16. Favourite TARDIS interior?

probably the original white ones? if we’re including other time lord’s tardises, the rani’s from the mark of the rani

18. Favourite Cyberman story 

don’t really have one tbh.

20. Least favourite story

day of the doctor and time of the doctor. (yes i can say two shhhh)

22. Least favourite Doctor (why?)

........four. imho, overhyped.

24. Any era’s that you would like to know better?

two’s! the teacher who ran dr who club at my school didn’t have many black and white serials

26. Favourite episode (or top 3 if thats too hard)

remembrance! the daemons and the empty child/the doctor dances are good too

28. Anything you want to see in the next season

do you want a list. uhhhh. gallifrey with actual characters who are not rassilon, acknowledgement of the wider eu. more weirdass offhand stuff abt the dr. more than one companion at a time. the new dr being awesome!  

30. In your opinion, will the Doctor ever be ginger?

has anyone told them abt hair dye yet

thank you!!!

[rachelbethhines]

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Relationship status: Single

Lipstick or chapstick: I prefer lipstick, though I don’t wear it often. 

Last song I listened to:  “Closer” by Postmodern Jukebox 

Last movie I watched: Does ballet count? Cause I watched the ABT version of Carmen today before work. 

Top 3 shows:

Boy Meets World

Doctor Who

Digimon

Top 3 characters:

Antoine D’coolette 

Eric the Cavalier

Goofy

Top 3 ships:

Bunnie and Antoine

Barbara and Ian

Cory and Topanga  

I tag @aggressivgammalko, @nodelinquent, @anchesann0, @theamazingsallyhogan, @hawkstine, @shewhowantsmouseears, @knuxmanic, @hedgehogvampire, @j-miel

Or you know anyone who wants to do it. 

[strawberry-selfships]

AM I FINALLY IN LOVE WITH BARBARA

DID IT FINALLY HAPPEN

AND IF ITS BECAUSE OF A SOFT MOMENT LIKE THIS WHY DIDNT IT HAPPEN DURING THE RESCUE SERIAL

OR LITERALLY ANY OF HER SOFT MOMENTS WITH SUSAN

whatever . the cause is behind me now . the point is IM STARTING TO DEVELOP A CRUSH ON BARBARA WHICH IVE ONLY BEEN WAITING TO HAPPEN FOR OVER A YEAR NOW

🥳🥳🥳