#but i am enjoying the thought that he likes to be tied up and Dom'ed by a man

[ingravinoveritas]

Excuse me for screaming because i'm pretty new here so I didn't see it when it first was posted but, DAVID'S FUCKING OLD BED... THE HEADBOARD??? THE BENT IRON, SIS, PLEASE the way I never dug my own grave so fast just to lay in it because i'm DECEASED I mean, I had a feeling this man was kinky and also I heard he used to get around quite a bit (which if anyone has the 411 on that....spill) but jfc this takes it to an entirely different place... don't get me wrong, I'm happy to be in said place, I'm just shook LOL

Ahaha. Oh god, Anon. I read this when you sent it in last week and I’m so sorry I didn’t get to answer it sooner! This absolutely made my day when I read it, and it still makes me cackle. What can I say except WELCOME TO THE CLUB, we meet on Tuesdays, here’s your membership card, and please sit down and enjoy a hot (or cold) beverage.

So first of all, here’s the post about David’s bed, for those who might have missed it. And let me tell you, I only really “got into” David three years ago (when GO came out, natch), but I knew he was a kinky bastard almost right away, for a number of reasons. The thing is, I also knew Michael was a kinky bastard right away, but Michael makes it a lot easier to suss out than David does, because Michael says it with words, while David says it with his actions. Michael, for example, will out and out say things like “being chained up” when asked what his favorite part of playing a character was:

...Whereas David will do things like go on national television and appear in a skit where he is gagged and tied to a bed in his underwear. The skit in question was on a show called The Friday Night Project, and a full explanation of the skit can be found here. But for our purposes right now, let’s pull up the visual:

The minute--I’m talking the fucking nanosecond I saw this--I knew there was no earthly way that was the first time David has been tied up, because a first-timer would absolutely not look THAT comfortable and relaxed and like he’s been in that position more times than humanly imaginable. (Oh, who are we kidding--it’s VERY imaginable, because David.) So this coupled with the bent iron of his old headboard is just...

As for David getting around, I have definitely heard a great deal about that, and would suggest you check out @faggghaggg‘s blog for more juicy details, as well as @thetardisisblueandroseistoo, with whom I’ve had many robust discussions about David’s delightfully expansive kinkiness, probable bisexuality, and swinging tendencies. His appearance on Graham Norton in 2007 is also excellent fodder for this topic, given that David shamelessly poses for pictures and calls a man who answered a personal ad Graham put in a gay magazine called Glory-Hole (using a line David used when meeting extras while filming Casanova--”Hello, I’m David, I’m going to take you from behind), and breezily shrugs when Graham accidentally misquotes him and says, “Hello, David, I’m going to take you from behind”).

Honestly, it just goes on and on, and I’ve tried to document what I can on this blog (even though there is SO MUCH), so if you’re looking for any further reading material, may I suggest this list of David’s kinks that I compiled a few years back, as well as this post that highlights another one: David’s Welsh kink. My #kinky head canons: confirmed tag also has lots more kinky David (and Michael)-related discourse.

So hopefully that will get you set and going, Anon. Thank you again for making my day/week with this excellent message, and for letting me be the one to introduce you to the new place in which you have found yourself, and so many of us who have come before you. Thanks for writing in! x

[ingravinoveritas]

Whipping, you say? 👀👀👀 ~Domme anon

Hey, Domme Anon! Apologies that it took me so long to get to your message...I’ve been trying to hold off on answering anons until I finish the fic I’m working on (hence why I have a whole bunch of anons sitting in my inbox right now). But yes, it appears that our lovely David is shackled and whipped in Around the World in 80 Days...

And what inspired me to answer your message in particular is a just-released, previously unseen picture from the RSC of David as Richard II, looking absolutely ravishing in restraints:

My goodness, those delicate, slim wrists in those cuffs. His Richard is feminine and soft, yet so completely powerful. And David is such a beauty here it’s almost painful. I’m somehow reminded of the sketch he did on the Friday Night Project where he was gagged and tied to a bed, and hmm...could there be a pattern here?

Yes, I do believe there is a pattern, and it’s David unabashedly letting us know how very kinky he truly is at heart. Bless…

[ingravinoveritas]

Your discussion of Subby!David makes me wonder if you ever saw his skit on the Friday Night Project years ago where he pranks some estate agents by posing as being kidnapped by an uber-fan tied up to a bed in his underwear? It's truly a sight to behold. (If you've never seen it, you can look up "David Tennant Pranks Real Estate Agent on FNP" on Youtube and that should get you there)

Hi, Anon! Oh, yes, I absolutely did see that skit of David’s on the Friday Night Project (for those who haven’t seen it, it’s here) and have enjoyed watching it repeatedly, for reasons that will soon be very obvious...

The skit is essentially a prank setup that is a spoof of the movie Misery (based on the book by Stephen King), which stars James Caan as a novelist and Kathy Bates as an obsessed/deranged fan of his. In this instance, David is the kidnap victim of a crazy fan, and when the person being pranked goes into a creepy house, this is what they find:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and all members of the nonbinary nation: That is one David John Tennant (McDonald) gagged and tied to a bed in his underwear.

Now...if we lived in the reality where David Tennant isn’t a giant slut who had most definitely been tied up before this, he probably (probably) would have had the decency to look...at least mildly out of sorts. (As would anyone who is supposed to be in a skit where they’ve been kidnapped and tied to a bed by a psychopath with an entire shrine dedicated to them.) Yet David looks not only completely comfortable tied up, but like he is quite actively enjoying himself.

I was already having oodles of subby David-themed head canons before I saw this skit, but the sight of him tied up and gagged--as well as how utterly natural he looks in such a position--absolutely took my breath away. I don’t always see him as totally submissive, though, and I think a scenario such as this lends itself to David playing the role of a bratty sub...fighting and sassing his Dom just to get him (or her) to be rough with him.

I also think he wouldn’t (hasn’t) let himself be tied up by just anyone, and needs to trust the person implicitly to allow them to do something like this. Which is, of course, why I can so easily see David asking Michael to tie him up and gag him, because he’d be one of the few people David trusts enough to do it. (And because Michael would have so much reverence for such a lovely sight...)

So, yes, this FNP skit is fantastic--though I do wonder if anyone has ever pointed out the fact that the fictional deranged fan who kidnapped David was meant to be a man, rather than a woman (”He’s had me tied up here for two days”). Was that the hosts’ doing, or was that David’s choice? Very, very curious indeed. I still don’t know how this even made it onto the air (along with half the interviews David did in 2008, because he was saying and doing kinky shit all over the British airwaves for a solid two years), but we can all be thankful that it did...