#and queer loneliness and is an integral part of his struggle. rather than another way of portraying the doctor as different and alien

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the way that ten craves connection in the form of deep love and devotion so bad but how said love and devotion can only really be offered to him in the form of him being "human" (being in a romantic relationship and getting married and settling down) which is something he both can't provide and doesn't really want, because what he actually wants is to travel with someone and show them the stars forever and he can never have that for very long because they can't accept the form of connection he can offer them (in that they always want something from him that he can't give or find someone else more important than him). the way doctor who cooked up a guy with such a deeply aroace narrative in a lab, a guy who doesn't think he can fall in love even when his brain gets fried and turned into 1910s AI Generated Standard British Man, a guy who can't say i love you to the person that he was basically created to say i love you to. and then they had like 6 separate women kiss him bc david tennant hot