#this guy is a doctor for context

[bethanydelleman]

The Britishness of this moment is striking me deeply:

Mr. Gibson knew all implied in these words, and felt that there was no effectual help for the state of things which had arisen from his own act [marrying imprudently]. It was better for them both that they should not speak out more fully. So he kissed her, and said,—

"That's right, dear! I can leave you in comfort now, and indeed I've stayed too long already gossiping. Go out and have a walk—take Cynthia with you, if you like. I must be off. Good-by, little one."

His commonplace words acted like an astringent on Molly's relaxed feelings. He intended that they should do so; it was the truest kindness to her; but he walked away from her with a sharp pang at his heart, which he stunned into numbness as soon as he could by throwing himself violently into the affairs and cares of others.

Mr. Gibson: I started to feel a little too much, so I strangled those feelings and put them back down in the deep. As God intended.

[the-meme-monarch]

ok sorry i didn’t go insane over emesis blue like i thought I would but it is making me scared irl now. i can’t turn over in bed bc what if there’s a severed head positioned like it’s peaking around the doorframe. what if i look over and The Butcher is there

[thunderc1an]

a jayfeather drawing I did a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to post

[samsrosary]

[sharkwing]

Something extremely funny about seeing Doc mad as hell over the machinations of a guy named “Jimbo”

[yikeshereiam]

why is everyone so attached to tara raeken??? there’s two whole other characters we actually saw theo murder with our own eyes and tara is who we're stuck on????

[quietwingsinthesky]

oh, yeah, another thing i noticed that was odd about s5 in comparison to earlier seasons was how much they relied on like. not the history of the doctor, exactly, but the image of that history. whether from little easter eggs of the first doctor’s picture popping up everywhere to i think the two(?) times in the season we get a montage of past doctors. and i honestly can’t remember anything like that happening earlier (with the exception of the time crash short, which felt more substantial to me and was also like. 7 straight minutes of david tennant being allowed to fangirl.)

and i say ‘the image’ because hell knows the RTD era was pulling from doctor who past left, right, and center, but it rarely felt like a moment of ‘look at this old thing, you remember old thing? old thing was cool and so are we for continuing it.’ and more like ‘here’s a species/character/etc from classic who. and here’s how they’ve changed and fit into the new world we’ve built for the show.’

I guess, the difference here for me is that. i haven’t watched classic who. s5 shows me a slideshow of doctors and to me, those are the guys i once ranked by how sexy i think they are. and not much else. i don’t have an emotional connection to an image. but take, say, school reunion? an episode that was my favorite even back when i was a kid specifically because i adored sarah jane? i had no idea who she was then, i only just figured out a little bit ago which doctor she traveled with, and exclusively all i’ve watched of her is that episode in s2 and the sarah jane adventures. and yet, that episode, without the context there for me, managed to make sense to me. i’m sure it was probably even more impactful to fans of sarah jane from classic who, but it didn’t lose its impact without that knowledge.

so, that’s a shift. i don’t want to say it’s a negative one, exactly, because maybe people who have seen classic who like these references and i’m missing something. but, to me, it feels a little more shallow.

[riddles-fiddles]

Those two motherfuckers share the same name and I think the range is so fucking funny

[chilope]

FUCK i think i might have been cringe today

[familyparadox]

Okay so on BBC IPlayer they put up a documentary from 1977 and they have this child psychiatrist who says Doctor Who can help cure autism.

Prescribed Doctor Who for Autism.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Garak in "Second Skin": I will NEVER sacrifice myself for you people I will ALWAYS selfishly save my own life that is a PROMISE

Garak in "The Search, Part II", three episodes earlier: [sacrifices himself for these people even when he could have selfishly saved his own life]

[galacticlamps]

Six eulogizing Jamie in Wreck of the Titan when he thinks he’s lost him again by saying “now he’s gone, gone on a journey to the undiscovered country. Without me.”

like. i do think he comes to terms with it a little fast (but I can’t really complain about that, because they get reunited again so soon afterward that he has to accept that he’s ‘dead’ quickly if we’re going to get to hear him mourning him at all - and there’s plenty of opportunities elsewhere in the trilogy to hear the Doctor stubbornly in denial/holding out hope about Jamie’s fate/s) but also - also. huh. im like, still struggling to find the right way to word this because like. That’s gotta be it, right? that’s gotta be the best & most succinct way of putting the Doctor’s feelings on not only losing his companions but death itself too, when you think about it.

Obviously the character doesn’t believe in any kind of religion we would recognize, but while they spend all their lives adventuring through the universe and constantly - no matter how old & experienced they become - stumbling across new and unknown people and places, there’s one place they haven’t gotten to see, but where all of the friends they’ve brought along on their adventures eventually wind up. And of course I think his horribly pained “without me” is a wish to be with Jamie specifically - it very clearly is one in context, since Six is explaining how this particular outing was meant to be a treat for Jamie, who doesn’t remember him at all, because he wanted to recapture “the good old days” when they traveled together on all their adventures - but it also reflects & emphasizes the fact that because Jamie’s gone, they’re both left to their travels, each one as alone as the other.

And the poem he quotes next (Walter Scott’s “Hie Away”) seals it for certain: “Hie to haunts right seldom seen, lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, over bank and over brae, hie away, hie away” - The Doctor evidently envisions Jamie, virtually immediately, as being in a better place (and there’s even something vaguely encouraging, hopeful, aspirational about it, given the imperative nature of the verb hie) - clearly living on in some way, somewhere, some when - but also, crucially, lonely, and on an adventure where the Doctor can’t reach him and join him on.

The way he talks about it, death doesn’t seem to be about an ending to Jamie’s life at all, but rather the separation between the two of them - and in the Doctor’s eyes, that’s just as worthy of mourning all on its own, despite how very accustomed he must be to parting ways with companions in all different kinds of situations by the time he’s in this 6th regeneration.

(idk, even outside the obvious doctor/jamie of it all, I feel like that says a lot about the character’s perspective on both death and goodbyes in general)

[picnokinesis]

Two fanarts in one day? I know, I’m shocked too - but I had a bunch of messy gender feelings earlier and so I decided to vent it out via sketching my au 13s. For those who don’t know - on the left we have Theo from my zombie au (who is transfemme), and on the right we have The Doctor from campervan au (who is genderqueer and transmasc). Anyway drawing them healed my soul a bit haha I just love them both so so much. My feral kids <3

[roseofcards90]

I like how in the Tsukihime remake Nasu decided to add two more people who also live in the fucked up Tohno mansion he really was just like “how can I make this place even more fucked up than it already is lmao”

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

that thing she does when shes like "it's like cars. wait you dont have cars. like horses then" the doctor should do that more often but with things that are alien to the modern day viewer. making comparisons to things from 2078 and getting blank stares and going "wait. too early. uhhhh" and then making a modern comparison. or then making a comparison thats a couple of years out of date like first they make a reference to something 2078 and ruby goes "what" and then they go "i mean ipod" and ruby goes "what" and they go "oh forget it this is taking more time than if i just described it"

[hanzajesthanza]

everyone seeing the new orbit hardcover editions of the witcher books come out