#doctor-of-fair-play

[citrinegay]

the Rogue claiming he can’t act and doesn’t know how to fake a fight with the Doctor only to immediately jump the shark and propose to him under pressure.

Yeah my man really does play dnd.

[shredsandpatches]

Somewhat pursuant to this post (in the sense of productions' need to determine a sort of moral point of no return that is clear and unambiguous onstage) I also find it a deeply funny indicator of cultural differences that British theater practitioners talking about staging Doctor Faustus always lead off with a sort of embarrassed "well, of course nobody actually believes in any of that kind of stuff anymore so we had to cut a lot and focus on the psychodrama" and Americans always start with "well, we were staging the play at a small liberal arts college in the American South so we had to tread very carefully..."

like, I'm not at all opposed to using mental illness as a framework for reading this play! I do it all the damn time myself -- but I also think you can't let yourself be embarrassed by the Christian structure of the play if you're going to stage it. It may not be real to you but it's real in the play and you can absolutely layer the psychology onto that. Even if "we" aren't believers and even if our immediate cultural milieu is pretty secular we're still living on the bones of the culture that produced the Faust legend and the culture that Marlowe was railing against. If it's real to Faustus it will be real to the audience at least for the duration.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[regicidal-defenestration]

Steven Moffat had like 3 separate metaphors he figured he could put in a Doctor Who episode some day and got given exactly one (1) episode to do it all in

[comicmancer]

I like this

[heartsdefine]

(spritzing her with water) don't eat that.

        “...i'm just trying to find the nearest little shop!” 

[weedle-testaburger]

unpopular opinion but actually i love when heroes refuse to kill their enemies and no one is gonna make me not love it

[orionsangel86]

Whilst I work I listen to a "dramatic instrumentals" playlist on Spotify that I have curated to include music from my fave shows at their most dramatic and climactic points and even though this playlist contains a whole multitude of music from classical to film scores and is over 5 hours long. The random shuffle just chose to play the following in this order:

Vale from Doctor Who

The End? From Good Omens s2

This is Gallifrey from Doctor Who

Vale Decem from Doctor Who

Don't Bother from Good Omens s2

My spotify shuffle chose violence specifically against David Tennant for the last 30 minutes.

(Admittedly there was a Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz in the middle there but that somehow makes it worse)

[fingertipsmp3]

Living in a small town for pretty much all your life is like being in a sitcom that’s been going on for way too long

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

I usually have imposter syndrome about my self-diagnosed imposter syndrome but every time I have a doctor’s appointment I have a number of crises during the day where I’m completely convinced that there’s actually nothing wrong with me and the doctor will be super mad at me for wasting their time

and I realise that’s probably not normal

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

this bitch and the mindgames he plays <- me abt the doctor ive written myself

[lazinesswrites]

Did I really wake up early and go all the way to the university library, in the rain, in order to motivate my self to actually work on my thesis instead of staying home and doing nothing, only to give up at lunch and write The Bad Batch fanfic instead?

Yes. Yes I did.

These clones are gonna be the end of me, clearly.

[cinnamon-phrog]

Fun fact: I nearly fainted today.

[irn-bru]

doctor who getting 10x its original budget is terrifying to me actually. it's supposed to be shit, that's what makes it so good

[rackartyg]

lov it when you tell your therapist a story about your childhood and she goes ‘that’s, uh, that’s neglect’

cool!

[heartsdefine]

↪ memes — accepting!

@isbrilliant said: ❝ i’m also worried about me, but i somehow seem to be worried about you more. ❞ thirteen

        “Dunno why, because I'm fine. Honest.” Rule One: The Doctor lies. This time they do it with their hands in their pockets and a shrug that's so much like a man they were once, all ego and rage in a pinstriped suit, before knowing her changed them so much for the better. “You know me, though. I'm always all right. And you, Donna Noble, have the whole rest of your life to live!” The Doctor smiles, but it doesn't quite reach their eyes. Still, there is some warmth in it. “Can't have you wasting it worrying about me. Not when you've a husband and a daughter now to worry over.”