robin!!

i suffer from a severe and incurable case of doctor who brainrot 22. use any pronouns you want babes

[robiniswriting]

when people start complaining about episodes of doctor who I know they’ve lost sight of what makes doctor who good. what makes doctor who good, you ask? the fact that it is, in fact, kinda bad. its camp!!!! its filled with kinda whack cgi and fake looking aliens and the occasional script that is so deeply emotional you get whiplash. that’s what makes doctor who good!!! its silly!!!!!!

[robiniswriting]

doctor who episodes range from the doctor running around committing heinous crimes for the greater good with the worst special effects and most confusing writing choices youve ever heard to a story so gripping and gritty and genuinely groundbreaking that you marvel at the vast number of creative minds that came together to make the show possible. these episodes air right after each other and are often written by the same exact person. and that’s what makes it so goddamn good

[monochromewater]

Adventure never stops in an ever expanding universe 🌌

[robiniswriting]

the doctor was born to be silly, forced to experience traumatic moments so severe that just one of them would justify a lifetime of therapy

[calypsolarts]

[robiniswriting]

peter capaldi rocking up to the doctor who set for seasons 9 and 10, wearing his own clothes: alright yall this is the fit for today just let me throw that coat with the red lining over it and lets get this motherfuckin show on the road! actually do I even need the coat this episode? what do you guys think? is this a coat episode or no-coat episode? or is it totally the other direction: a full-suit-under-the-coat episode? what’s the vibe?

[robiniswriting]

the reason why the doctor and martha never worked out romantically is because you gotta be a little deranged for the doctor to like you like that. martha had good self care, a healthy level of self love, and no predisposition towards codependency whatsoever. put more simply, she was way too good for him and he knew it 😭

[robiniswriting]

martha jones is real as fuck because the most normal reaction to the doctor once getting a glimpse of all their shit is getting the hell outta there and warning everyone you see with them in the future off of them 😭

[robiniswriting]

learned today that peter capaldi chose to make his doctor’s costume more dressed down and flexible so that it would be cheap and easy to imitate so any kid, matter their income, could cosplay the doctor. peter capaldi the man that you are <3

[kerubinart]

Rose made them bestie bracelets!!!

[robiniswriting]

martha jones is stronger than the us marines because i think i would have killed anyone that treated me the way the doctor treated her in cold blood. he starts off their time together by kissing her passionately in a hospital hallway and when she’s like “who are you omg?” he starts waxing poetic to her about this random girl she’s never met. and then he ends their time together by having homoerotic tension with and then sobbing over the body of a man who just made her have the worst year of her life. its a wonder she didn’t go apeshit

[spacerelativity]

she is actively making fun of his sonic

[robiniswriting]

obsessed with the times thirteen gets to go full inventor mode. she looks so cute with her lil safety goggles and protective gear <3

[nipuni]

Ten! my love 🥰

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on Jan 1st!

[rumple04-deactivated20260405]

🤍🪐

[robiniswriting]

rose and clara’s downfalls are the same — they thought they could stay with the doctor forever, that they could BE the doctor. the two of them fall in love with the doctor’s youthful facade. with rose, he leaned in to the illusion, even regenerating into a version of himself he designed for her, while with clara, he tried not to repeat that mistake — instead, he regenerates into a more honest version of himself, and clara reacts the same way I imagine rose would. she is shocked and unnerved, trying to connect the version of him she knew to the one standing in front of her now.

and then the doctor clearly tells her that he isn’t her boyfriend. but also that it wasn’t her mistake. he fell in love, and wanted desperately for her to be his equal, but he couldn’t lie to himself. he couldn’t repeat the mistakes he made with rose. he couldn’t continue to deny the truth of who he was — to deny that in any relationship with a human, no matter how kind and intelligent and wise, there is an insurmountable power differential between them.

the doctor is so much older than them both. so much vaster. both clara and rose make the same mistake. had the doctor been honest with rose, I wouldn’t be surprised if her story went very similarly to clara’s — after all, there’s no way in hell she would have ever left the doctor’s side willingly. like clara, she would have been shocked, but she would have stuck by him, and yet eventually, trying to be his equal would get her lost or killed, just as it did to her originally. just as it did to clara.

they are so similar, these women who love the doctor. and there is no denying that the doctor loves them back. but too often people ignore the power dynamics of those relationships, pretend like rose and/or clara were the doctor’s true equals. those people are missing the point of their endings, missing the fact that in the end, while rose tyler and clara oswald were brilliant, they shared the same flaw — they were human, and the doctor was not. is not. he couldn’t be, no matter how hard he tried.

[robiniswriting]

and don’t get me started on how thasmin falls in line with this perfectly. yaz is just like rose and clara — she loves the doctor and wants to know her, but she is utterly unprepared for the truth of her. the doctor, on the other hand, is at a loss. she tried lying and lost rose anyway. she tried being honest and lost clara anyway. she sees how much yaz loves her and feels how much she loves her back and she is terrified.

so she does the only thing she thinks she can do at this point — she pushes her away. she doesn’t even allow yaz to stick around to meet another version of her, because she knows that given the chance, yaz would try to stay forever. instead she gets ice cream with her, holds on just long enough to say goodbye, and forces yaz to move on, no matter how much it hurts. because at least this way, she won’t lose yaz forever. she can take comfort in the fact that somewhere, sometime on earth, yasmin khan is alive and well, protected from the doctor and all the danger that comes along with loving her.

[robiniswriting]

rose and clara’s downfalls are the same — they thought they could stay with the doctor forever, that they could BE the doctor. the two of them fall in love with the doctor’s youthful facade. with rose, he leaned in to the illusion, even regenerating into a version of himself he designed for her, while with clara, he tried not to repeat that mistake — instead, he regenerates into a more honest version of himself, and clara reacts the same way I imagine rose would. she is shocked and unnerved, trying to connect the version of him she knew to the one standing in front of her now.

and then the doctor clearly tells her that he isn’t her boyfriend. but also that it wasn’t her mistake. he fell in love, and wanted desperately for her to be his equal, but he couldn’t lie to himself. he couldn’t repeat the mistakes he made with rose. he couldn’t continue to deny the truth of who he was — to deny that in any relationship with a human, no matter how kind and intelligent and wise, there is an insurmountable power differential between them.

the doctor is so much older than them both. so much vaster. both clara and rose make the same mistake. had the doctor been honest with rose, I wouldn’t be surprised if her story went very similarly to clara’s — after all, there’s no way in hell she would have ever left the doctor’s side willingly. like clara, she would have been shocked, but she would have stuck by him, and yet eventually, trying to be his equal would get her lost or killed, just as it did to her originally. just as it did to clara.

they are so similar, these women who love the doctor. and there is no denying that the doctor loves them back. but too often people ignore the power dynamics of those relationships, pretend like rose and/or clara were the doctor’s true equals. those people are missing the point of their endings, missing the fact that in the end, while rose tyler and clara oswald were brilliant, they shared the same flaw — they were human, and the doctor was not. is not. he couldn’t be, no matter how hard he tried.