#clara oswald

[thefiresofpompeii]

the ninth doctor trusted rose enough to believe she would stay with him after his face changed. and twelve took some convincing but towards the end of deep breath accepted that clara would stay by his side no matter how old he looked. but thirteen was so used to losing people. her previous self had loved clara and lost her, he had looked after bill and failed to save her, he had tried to redeem missy and (to his knowledge) lost that cause too. no wonder she wouldn’t trust yaz to stay for her fourteenth face. no wonder she believed she ‘had to do this next part alone’. she had grown quietly distant with the new knowledge that she was no longer even an ordinary gallifreyan, not something of this universe, but outside of it, alien even to the aliens. isolated and inaccessible, standing on an invisible pedestal her ancestors placed her on — a pedestal that more resembled a cage. glass walls on all sides like the forced regeneration chamber. thin glass wall between her and yaz now, transparent but too solid to break through. harder than azbantium when there’s no solid footing to stand on.

of course yaz would run when she saw her new self. of course she would leave. companions would never stay now, they would never fully understand. when thirteen said that she would need to do ‘this next part’ alone, by ‘next part’ she meant ‘the rest of her (potentially eternal) life’. it’s the classic gambit: push the one you love away before they get the chance to reject you. because they always will, now. either that or they die in horrible circumstances. better to flee like you’ve always done.

this is why the bigeneration was a narrative necessity, why the giggle was the perfect vision of a positive finale. the original version of the doctor gets to settle down with people that he won’t lose. people that he won’t turn away from. people whose hearts he won’t inevitably break. he’s sitting there in the back yard and he’s not going anywhere…

…yet somewhere out there in sheffield lives a police officer named yazmin khan. she’s not all sunshine and rainbows — all cops are bastards, after all. sometimes she takes her nameless rage out on a shoplifting suspect. sometimes she hands a parking ticket to a kid that didn’t deserve it. and sometimes she does genuine good for the community, sometimes she goes to the club and dances with strangers, sometimes she sits on the sofa and watches a documentary about space exploration and laughs at the painful inaccuracies. and many miles south, the doctor spends time with his family, but he’ll never get the courage to visit her. because she’d want to run away with him again. and he could never give her that, not anymore. anything but running.

yazmin khan loved the universe in the eyes of her doctor. oh, that doctor in the garden? the stay-at-home-doctor? he’s brilliant, but he would never be enough for her. his presence would never replace the cosmic vistas and myriads of stars thirteen gave her. and she’s never coming back

[tonsillessscum]

[just4xu]

[infinityinakiss]

"my boy only breaks his favorite toys" belongs to the doctor's companions.

[stupidthoughtsinwriting]

I've just finished season 9 and the husbands of River Song... I'm not well

[trixiethenerd42]

Clara: Do you really think this is a smart idea? The Doctor: Nope. Clara: Good. I'd be concerned if you did.

[claraoswalds]

Oh, is that who I am now? Well, it was never that far from the surface, mate.

[fedzzzart]

COMPANIONS

aaaaaah looking at them all together is so satisfying!! and i’m so proud of actually finishing this🥰

[londonclubofsherwood]

Twelfth doctor era of doctor who was incredible because it was basically just:

Clara: I can fix him (makes him worse)

Missy: I can make him worse (accidentally fixes him)

Bill: Well, I'm a lesbian and I'm going to be his friend :)

[vetyr]

Fixed Point in Time • Here's another illustration of mine for Magic the Gathering's Doctor Who set!!

AD: Matt Cavotta

[yesokayiknow]

absolutely obsessed with how people who love clara oswald talk about her

and they're right <3

[thefiresofpompeii]

last thing i will say about taylor swift tonight is it’s crazy how she wrote an album with ‘clara’ and ‘amy’ in the song titles and then said this

like that’s straight up a description of that scene in the parting of the ways where nine tricks rose into walking in to the tardis and returning home without him, never expecting to see her again, after everything that he’s shown her just condemning her to a life of mundanity

me when i’m autistic and see references to my special interests in everything. doctor who brain fungus

[tonsillessscum]

[kaetor]

the doctor dances!

[grandadtwelve]

you know bill is fighting for her life in the immortal(ish) queer ex-companion squad

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

The funny thing about Clara is that on The Doctor and Clara's adventures she's depicted as the more socially aware one who can be the "carer" in the face of Twelve's rudeness and alien nature. Than when you see her with Danny you find out her social skills are actually abysmal and The Doctor has such poor social skills they make her social skills look good by comparison