#third master

[wordswithkittywitch]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In this update:

Questions are answered. Stories end. Peri is still on fire.

Adric trusts the wrong person, and is forced to do something he would never otherwise contemplate.

An old enemy makes themselves known

Trigger Warnings:

Brief reference to infant mortality

Major character death

Fire

Possession

References to murder by neglect

References to Christianity, bible verses

Badly relocated bones

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Well, Finish Your Fucking Fics February has moved me to do what I’ve been attempting since January of 2016: post the final chapter of The Haunting of Wisteria Bay. It’s been a ride, I knew it would be long and take a while, but I wasn’t expecting this. Thank you for sticking with me through this.

(this update has been reposted with a working link. If you would rather read this fic as an illustrated ebook-style PDF, click here.)

[thecrazyanimegirl]

Thank you for the meal *-*

[romatoria]

[wordswithkittywitch]

Kind of embarrassing because this sketchdump is about eleven years old now, but here's some of my early Doctor Who sketches from my first watchthrough.

Descriptions under the cut:

A genderbent second Doctor looking surprised and holding a recorder.

The fourth Doctor and the third Master look down at K9 and ask, "Who are you talking to?" (the joke here is that K9 calls the Doctor 'Master')

The ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler hug.

Nine- I thought you were dead.

Rose- I thought I was dead, too.

Jack appears and hugs both of them, who look annoyed. Rose because his hand is resting on her bottom.

Nine- Dude, Jack... five minutes.

Rose- Which one of you...?

Martha pouts

Martha- I know what rebound was and I didn't want to be it. And so, I waited. I gave the lord of space and time space and time. Waited for two broken hearts to heal.

Martha looks crossly at the tenth Doctor and Jack Harkness, who grin at each other

Martha- AND THEN SOME OLD MATE COMES ALONG AND STARTS HO-YAYING UP THE PLACE!

Adric looks up at Rory Williams

Adric- ...they said the most interesting thing I ever did was die.

Rory- Cool story, bro.

Jamie McCrimmon holds up a bagpipe and grins at it with stars in his eyes. Inspired by the scene in The Abominable Snowmen.

More realistic busts of Donna Noble and Rose Tyler.

[wordswithkittywitch]

Doctor Who + Out Of Context DnD Quotes

Corsair bonus:

[wordswithkittywitch]

Doctor Who + Out Of Context DnD Quotes

[wordswithkittywitch]

Doctor Who + Out Of Context DnD Quotes

Bonus explanation of regeneration:

[wordswithkittywitch]

The uncomfortable thing about the drums being used to explain the Master's insanity is that Simm is arguably the sanest Master (and arguably the least Doctor-sexual). His reasoning was coldly rational and was based on him successfully exploiting existing systems. So "he's doing this because he's insane" is just very ableist. Now, Ainley? Ainley's bonkers.

A lot of people, quite wrongly, think “sane people think killing people is wrong, therefore, any murderer is insane”. This is ableist as well as bullshit, sane people kill each other. The very fact that insanity is a plea in murder cases shows that it’s assumed most murderers are sane.

Now, the Master? If we don’t assume anyone who commits a murder is insane, what evidence do we have that they are? Mostly what we have to go off is “how rationally do they behave” (which is most of my basis for mentally ill Doctor headcanons) and “do the characters who describe them as insane have any basis for it?” I’m not even going to ask for any background in mental health care, although I do headcanon that as being one of the many things the Doctor has studied. 

Usually, when someone is calling the Master insane it’s either based off of “I hurt people for fun, so I’m probably a sadist”, or “I don’t see other people’s lives as important”. Look, I can’t diagnose the Master and I’m going to stop trying. Do I think he’s mentally ill? In any of his incarnations? I don’t get that off him as much of I get it off the Doctor, because the Master seems to know what he’s doing and be in control of it. It’s just more destructive.

I frankly would believe that the sixth master is claiming mental illness so he doesn’t have to consider why he’s actually doing things.