paint the stars;

you're not flawed, darling, you're just a little under-rehearsed. ☆ doctor who. tenth doctor & rose tyler enthusiast.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“love is the disillusionment of what you thought was love.”

— The Complete Stories, ‘The Egg and the Chicken (” O ovo e a galinha”)’ by Clarice Lispector tr. Katrina Dodson

[reyynas]

[ Antibes in the Morning - Claude Monet // Unbelievers - Vampire Weekend ]

[flipse-deactivated20210915]

[fedzzzart]

she’s everything, he’s just ten✨

[thexfiles]

so sick of television revivals and showrunners relying on the nostalgia factor to boost ratings and stay relevant. except for david tennant coming back on doctor who, that's fine and, in fact, encouraged,

[dyketrinitysantos]

get to know me meme: [8/10] male characters ⇢ the tenth doctor

‘Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I’ve never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! Oh, that’s rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.’

[stormbun]

I believe in her

[faint-glimmers-of-hope]

I think the moment that gives me the chills in Midnight (apart from, you know, EVERYTHING ELSE) is when the Doctor is trying to defend the creature and says “For all we know that’s a brand new life form over there. And if it’s come inside to discover us, than what’s it found? This little bunch of humans. What do you amount to, murder? Because this is where you decide. You decide who you are. Could you actually murder her? Any of you? Really? Or are you better than that?” Because it’s the moment you expect the passengers to rethink their own actions and become ashamed, but then one of them very seriously says “I’d do it” and it’s like HOLY FUCKING SHIT and you can see the Doctor’s faith in humanity shatter like a china vase in a matter of seconds 

I think those lines, simple as they are, are the core message of many scifi/alien films: what example do we provide for other alien life? What will they learn about humanity when they see us? Are we straight-up killers or are we a species that shows compassion? Do we show them war, or do we show them peace? And the scary thing is that there are people, many people in fact, who would say “yes, I am a killer” without giving a chance to anything else

[javierbardem]

[blueboxarchives-blog]

how easy it is to destroy– and how brave, to be alive

[metacrisisdoctor]

“Firstly, Rose is neither shallow nor stupid. She doesn’t settle for second best. She gets the person she fell in love with. And, as a bonus, he’s now able to spend the rest of his life with her, as she with him. Secondly, the very same person who experienced the heartbreak of losing Rose for the first time now experiences joy at the prospect of a lifetime in her company. In this full sense, the Doctor who lost, finally wins.” — Paul Dawson, Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside

[blueboxarchives-blog]

I think the thing that bothers me the most when people say things like, “How could the Doctor possibly fall in love with Rose? She was just a regular teenage girl and he was this ancient, amazing alien,” is that that, right there, was the ENTIRE point that RTD was trying to make through their relationship. You have this character, the Doctor, who’s been so many places and lived so long and is obviously brilliant, and you start thinking “yeah, he’s the best, he’s better than everyone else, he should only love/associate with people who are on the same level as him.” And then suddenly you have Rose — a lower-class shop girl with no A-levels — and the Doctor falls in love with her.

Rose breaks apart every elitist ideal, completely shatters the entire concept that some people are better than others because of their social status or profession or education or age, and her relationship with the Doctor shows that it isn’t these things that make people equals. Their story touches on what I’d say is one of the main ideas throughout all of Doctor Who ever, which is that every single human being (or alien) has the potential to do amazing things. That great deeds aren’t saved for the upper classes and the intellectuals. That people are equal because they are people, and if anything were able to make someone “better” than someone else, it wouldn’t be class or age or intellect. It would be the choices people make, how they create themselves. It would be kindness and courage, and sometimes cleverness — not book smarts, not education, just plain old ingenuity — all things which Rose has in multitudes and even rivals the Doctor in at times. You go girl. 

The point that Rose and the Doctor’s story makes is that you don’t have to be a certain age or from a certain place or background etc. to be extraordinary and worthy of another, as well as that love has the amazing ability to look past all of those things and see people for who they really are on the inside. I mean, come on, it’s the oldest story in the universe:

the princess who falls in love with the pauper 

the lady who falls in love with the farm boy

 the wealthy estate owner who falls in love with the woman of modest means

And you only have to look to real life to see that love looks past age too. So of course an ancient, time-traveling alien can fall in love with a young shop girl. Of course a woman with more compassion than the ocean could hold can fall in love with a man who’s killed billions. Because love looks at what matters. It’s really good at that. And if you think otherwise, you’re missing out on the entire message the Doctor has been trying to tell us for the last fifty plus years. And in that case, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.

[doctor-rose]

The Tenth Doctor ☆ | 2×01 "New Earth"

[kctebishop]

but if you close your eyes does it always feel like nothing's changed at all

[alonesomes]

“I burned so long and so quiet, you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”

— Annelyse Gelman, from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone

[squigglegigs]

thinking about….. how obnoxious these two were during tooth and claw yknow….

[dyketrinitysantos]

rose tyler + vaporwave aesthetic