#koschei-no-more

[clowns0cks]

no one is doing it like the master. they're the doctor's worst enemy. they're the doctor's best enemy, they're the doctor's best friend. the doctor's lover. the doctor's annoyance. the doctor can't live without them but also doesn't want to see them cause they hate each other. at the same time they want to also see each other cause they miss each other. the doctor's life it's intertwined in a unexplainable way to the master. at some point the master became the doctor. they decided to learn the entirety of earth culture just to spite the doctor. they've killed each other. and they're gonna kill each other again. no matter what the doctor does, the master will always be beside them either negatively or positively. if that's not dedication, idk what that is.

[picnokinesis]

"if there is any man left alive here, speak up and tell me: who killed all this mighty force?" and the dead replied: "child, it was you."

Finally, some art?! Yes well actually I drew this one all the way back in May for The History Between Us, a fanzine, which is being organised by the fabulous @77yearsteam! It's going to be included as a print to go with the special edition of the zine, along with a ton of other fantastic merch - and if that wasn't enough, the zine itself is going to be SO incredible! I've already had a sneak preview and it's full of a ton of incredible stories and artwork from some, following these two disaster timelords throughout their long and complicated history. Pre-orders open on 7th October, so make sure you check it out!

[fablesaesops]

i am BEGGING for someone to compile like a list of thoschei content so it's easier to get the Lore TM without having to wade through thousands of hours of content with minimal organization. what I wouldn't give for just a list era by era of what episodes to watch and where to find them

[moved-to-icecappen]

We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad.

[gwyns]

koschei, speaking mind to mind with elain: then come find me, my sweet seer

elain, realizing she wants to fuck the big bad evil wizard raw until she can't walk for a week straight:

[roselensedeyes]

i feel like people don't understand that rhysand didn't stop elain and azriel from kissing because he doesn't want them together, but because he knows azriel would easily defeat lucien in the case the autumn court boy invokes the blood duel.

[blangg]

*hands you these koscheis* is this anything

[huntquinlan]

thinking about elain’s story and bodily autonomy. i think sjm was very intentional in using elain’s powers to introduce us to vassa and koschei. how vassa’s body was corrupted against her will by koschei, and how her existence is now defined by the changes he made. thinking about how koschei has a lake full of swans who were once women who’s bodies he changed against their wills as well. thinking about how elain was changed against her will by a cruel king to teach a lesson to somebody else. how she was reduced to a body and then a tool, a means to an end (to demonstrate the power of hybern against her sister but especially people she barely knew). how even the tool used to change her, the cauldron, which once belonged to the mother and symbolically can be connected to the womb, was appropriated and used forcefully by the king of hybern.

i think about how canon suggests that the cauldron loved elain, that perhaps it gifted her the powers it did because it loved her. maybe the cauldron recognized then, that this poor girl was like it, and sought to give her the power to prevent what was being done to her, and what had been done to countless other women and girls by making her a seer. let’s not forget that elain’s vision of vassa helped them turn the tide of the war against hybern and that it was elain that struck the killing blow against the king of hybern in defense of her sister, another who was denied bodily autonomy. ultimately bodily autonomy, especially given the current political climate in the US is a really heavy theme to deal with, but i sincerely hope that this thread is continued, and that we will get to see an elain who is empowered, and empowered on her own terms. an elain who reclaims her body and her future, and helps others do the same.

[kaetor]

academy era ft. different character designs by me & my friend (top ones; blonde is theta black hair is koschei; bottom ones curly hair is theta short hair is koschei-- those r from@that-tired-artist hence the picrews)

[heavenb3nt]

Anyways. Academy era designs

[clowns0cks]

you know when you see a post that is SO good and they say literally what you're thinking about a show/character etc BUT they get one important thing wrong, a thing that for you is fundamental to the understanding of the show/character so you can't reblog it. Like you were so close. SO CLOSE.

[tinkerbitch69]

Thinking about the line about how the doctor fashions the people he travels with into weapons and how that is essentially what the time lords did to the doctor and the master throughout both of their lives…

[transmasc-rose]

Otherwise there's: Eleven goes through a mental health crisis that results in River putting him in Space Therapy.

(The location had once treated another Time Lord, a long time ago. Very few places could claim that without also being... well, prison planets.)

(The Time Lord was Koschei. It didn't work out.)

[camellcat]

you ever realize you never properly learned how to say a character's name, so by the time you finally HEAR it, you have no idea who they're talking about? cause I feel like I keep doing this and it's very confusing to keep being corrected like that

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me, the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you.

— Catherynne M. Valente (Deathless)

[youcouldbewonderful]

four saying "he's a time lord, in many ways we have the same mind" about the master and the thoschei brain starts running

the doctor and the master's complicated relationship is something that can be so personal... they're best friends but also enemies but also in love but also cannot be defined in a way that humans understand