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ambertea

I did that job once.

pepsimayo

What are your pronouns and would you like to join my union

lactose-intolerant-nihilism

i love how this is always showing up on my dash entirely free of the context that the ood’s response to this question is ‘the beast shall rise from the pit and make war against god’

astro-the-silly

has anyone done this yet

akajustmerry

anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF

curlymcclain

the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who

ninthdoctorr

david tennant's acting choices in utopia haunt me

ninthdoctorr

glad to see i'm not the only one

sawxix

funniest possible singular sentence in the english language has already been conceived n it's the first line of the tardis wiki article on "sex"

sawxix

the past tense implying sex has since been eradicated. the six (6) different synonyms all with 1-3 linked sources. those extensive citations juxtaposed with the extremely vague given definition of "an action performed by two or more people" . it's so fucking good. I could never put together a sentence this funny even if you gave me a full paid year off 2 do it

teacupsandcyanide

Not to bring up something you said literally ages ago but I think once you said something like the tenth Doctor is slightly homophobic because he designed himself to appeal to Rose Tyler? Since I desperately want an explanation for why he acts like such a straight man in season 2 can you please elaborate on that I'm very fascinated by the concept of the Doctor having internalized homophobia

Oh boy oh boy this is might get me anon hate

For me, it’s more of a heteronormative thing, there’s an insecurity in and enforcing of gender as well as sexuality. The Ninth Doctor seems quite secure in his gender expression, and he’s unbothered by Jack’s flagrant pansexuality. Ten, by contrast, acts like Jack’s sexuality is an irritant or an embarrassment, competes with every man around him, and randomly says weird shit. His mocking Mickey by comparing him to a girl (“I’m seeing pigtails, frilly skirt”) and the time he was observing the hairs standing up on his skin and said to Rose “look at the hairs on my manly hairy hand” come to mind. Emasculating his rival and asserting his own gender as “manly” is pure straight man behaviour - though the latter also reminds me of trans mascs jokingly affirming their own gender, something I have done myself.

The Doctor is often a character who likes to take charge of any room they walk into, but there’s something about Ten that - particularly in season 2 - reads as a need to prove himself. He has this faint macho impulse despite not being a typically macho kind of guy. His masculinity is the geekish kind which is rooted in assertions of intelligence and uniqueness over brawn and mediocrity. Not all of this is distasteful or even explicitly heteronormative, but what is revolves around desirability to the women around him: he throws out “I’m a Lord of Time” to the King of France in front of Reinette, goes out of his way to belittle and humiliate Mickey, and gets cranky when Jack flirts with Martha. Sometimes I think half his distaste towards Jack’s sexuality is just him fuming that he’s not the prettiest boy in the room anymore.

As a kid, and even as a Rose and Ten shipper back then, I found it quite jarring that the Doctor was suddenly saying things like “yeah, still got it” after his companion made out with him. The sudden participation in the modes of heterosexuality was noticeable and strange. I know the Doyleist explanation for this is just that the writers, particularly RTD, decided that Ten was going to be a ladies’ man. My Watsonian explanation is that the Ninth Doctor died out of love for Rose, and then regenerated into what the Doctor estimated to be her perfect man. It’s an extension of something RTD once said about Ten having a vaguely London accent because he “imprinted” on Rose.

This sounds like I’m saying it was all terribly romantic, but to be honest, I think it’s all terribly fucked up. The emphasis here is on “estimated”, because the Doctor didn’t actually regenerate into Rose’s perfect man, he regenerated into the picture his own neuroses and biased observations painted of Rose’s perfect man. He saw her admire dark-haired white men with pretty boy faces, two out of her three other love interests are characterised as geeks, and most importantly he saw her initial reaction to Jack’s queerness and he internalised it.

Quite apart from her should-be-infamous “you’re so gay [derogatory]” moment, Rose acts entry level homophobic when she finds out Jack is attracted to men. We see her obvious dismay even when the Doctor and Jack make it clear that Jack is also still attracted to women, and she’s never quite as interested in him after that. I do personally believe it’s a matter of Rose simply getting used to Jack (him not being a shiny new attraction anymore) and being more attracted to the Doctor, who is set up to be her monogamous primary love interest, but it’s worth noting that the Doctor witnesses how queerness makes Jack less desirable to Rose. I think Rose is nineteen and sheltered and grows out of her homophobia, but the Doctor internalises it.

Rose’s perfect man, based on what the Doctor saw she admired and disliked in Mickey, Adam, and Jack, is intelligent, a bit of a geek but still stylish, charismatic, pretty but absolutely not effeminate, boyish but still a man, and straight as a ruler. And that is what Ten constantly asserts himself to be throughout season 2. It gets off to an abrupt start too - the Doctor literally leaving the polyamorous pansexual guy behind them. The inconvenient thing about cutting out the third wheel character so you can focus on the two you’ve decided are solely love interests to each other now is that it will feel like the Doctor getting rid of the competition, or worse, getting rid of the guy he could not pretend to be straight around. Adding in a scene where the Doctor homoerotically stares at him through a window while he’s all sweaty, telling him “I can’t be around you because you’re an abomination and make me feel all weird”, isn’t going to beat the allegations.

Even his flirtation with Reinette is tinged with some amount of performance. Not the romance itself, but the scene where he gets back to the ship after the party and Rose reacts like he’s her philandering husband. Ten plays up to it, because within heterosexuality a man being desirable to other women makes him even more desirable. There is a hint of pride that now he’s the object of jealousy.

This posturing lingers on into much of season 3 because he’s still trying to impress and charm Martha. I know people vary wildly on what Ten wants from her and what he won’t allow himself to want, but it does seem undeniable that he wants to be desirable to her. It’s interrupted by the arrival of the Master, who so disrupts the Doctor’s performance of heterosexuality (already made shaky by Jack’s return and continued presence) that he pretty much permanently shatters it. I’d argue the Master himself is aware of this, given the fact that he mimics and mocks the Doctor by taking up with a white blonde girl, who the Doctor himself later jokes was a beard. (Doctor, you can’t really joke that the woman who was meant to parody your love interest was a beard without some implications falling back on you.)

To be clear, I’m not making this argument in a bid to paint Ten as more problematic, but to find narrative context for the homophobia and heteronormativity that was written into the character and then somewhat abandoned. Maybe this is all an unfair assessment, and I have to admit it is difficult to extricate my perception of Ten’s gender presentation from the phenomenon of geek men idolising that exact gender presentation as desirable, relatable, and attainable. It is particularly interesting, but a whole other essay, to note the fact that the geek men who do this encompass both queer and straight, trans and cis, but that the the Tenth Doctor as interpolated into the genders of cishet geek men tends to resemble his season 2 self the most, while trans mascs gravitate more towards the disarrayed homoeroticism of his behaviour around the Master or his borderline GBF-ified tendencies around Donna. And honestly, I’d count myself as a non-binary geek whose gender was influenced by the Tenth Doctor, and for myself there has been a process of divorcing that posturing macho thing from the effervescent boyishness that remains charming.

#interesting!

benisasoftboi

Doctor Who Christmas special where the Doctor takes an aging tv actor back to the 1960s to see an episode of tv that’s been lost forever because the BBC junked it (he can’t prevent the junking, it’s a fixed point) and ends up fighting alien baddies and in the struggle the Doctor accidentally knocks a whole shelf of film reel into a fire because oh no! Turns out he was responsible for the destruction of the BBC archives the entire time! And then he turns to the camera to wish the viewers a happy Christmas

doctor-what-the-fuck-is-going-on

ily bill i miss you come back

linusbenjamin

Christopher Eccleston as Ninth Doctor Doctor Who Season 1 | 26 March – 18 June 2005

#FAVOURITE

contagiousgrace

I just don't think we ever wrapped up the Clown Sightings of 2016 in a satisfactory way.

doctorbluesmanreturns

I feel like we got the briefest glimpse of what it must be like for the people in the Doctor Who universe.

"Does anyone else remember the giant salt and pepper shakers that could fly being on the news awhile back? Was that some sort of movie promo?"

#there is black ice at the heart of queue

fanfeifour

Soft breeze

#there is black ice at the heart of queue

lover-and-lover

im obsessed with nine going “hi human girl i have had a handful of positive interactions with. wanna go see a budget equivalent of my trauma? they’re gonna play britney spears”

#there is black ice at the heart of queue

sherbertfish

nine is such an icon. he needs more rep. motherfucker got toxic by Brittany spears in his second episode. what songs did ten have? what did eleven have? twelve gets a pass cus he is also a butch lesbian. but nine is a butch lesbian AND had toxic in his second ever episode.

#there is black ice at the heart of queue