he was impossible

Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

“The time winds will tear you into a million pieces. A million versions of you, living and dying all over time and space, like echoes.” – “But the echoes could save the Doctor, right?” – “But they won’t be you. The real you will die. They’ll just be copies.”

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

It is a mistake to equate Clara with her echoes, to take their characterisation at face value and apply them to the original Clara. But that does not mean that they do not say anything about her. Clara’s echoes are reflections, distorted but still mirroring the original - and they tell us quite a lot about the qualities which Clara values in a heroine.

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[tillthenexttimedoctor]

Moffat Appreciation Week: In Tribute to Clara Oswald

“I don’t think I’ve got the Chameleon circuit working. The outer shell might be stuck as an American Diner.”

This is the story of someone who stole a TARDIS and ran away. Of someone escaping death through a Time Lord miracle. Who travels in a ship with a broken Chameleon circuit, hurtling through space and time in the form of an odd Earth relict, towards adventures with their companion. Full of recklessness, cleverness and fun. This is the story of Clara Oswald.

And it has been hers ever since she took shortcuts through graveyard, since she had 101 Places to See and kept the book, since she stayed with the Maitlands and ran away in a time machine every Wednesday. Clara has always tried to have it all, between responsibility and all of space and time, between knowing her fears and turning herself into a heroine. Everything and beyond. To face death with courage in a heartbeat and stop off on the way is the culmination of who she has been since the beginning.

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[borntosavethedoctor]

I don’t think I’ll ever land.

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

“The most important leaf in human history. It’s full of stories, full of history.”

In The Rings of Akhaten, Clara defeated the Old God with nothing but a leaf. It’s a symbol of her mother’s history, Clara’s own origin story, and everything that could have been. When the Doctor calls her off the stage of her own death, of course she would refuse to let her past be taken from her. It’s precious. Even a life cut short retains the power of a myth, the beauty of a fairytale, the whispers of lost possibilities coming together until they are louder than everything which came before.

“Full of a future that never got lived. Days that should have been that never were.”

But Clara steals her days which never were. She does not change her fate, she expands it. A bigger-on-the-inside life, eternity within a singe moment. With her own TARDIS and her own immortal companion, this is more than a goodbye. This is a beginning.

The image of her history on the Doctor’s TARDIS falls to pieces, like the leaf did, like she herself did in the Doctor’s time stream. Dissolving into infinite possibilities. Scattering her stories in time of space. Through the universe, through future, past, and present. Even when she lands one day, grasping her past in her hand until it transforms into her future again and guides her towards her end, those stories never will.

“There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day we live.”

Clara’s adventures will not last forever, like adventures do. We all face the Raven in the end, after all. But until then, there’s room for every untold story, pressed between two heartbeats, every tale that ever was and ever will be. The final word on the pages of Clara Oswald’s life is still waiting for her. But until then…

“An infinity.”

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

“When I first wrote Clara, I thought, ‘Oh, this is fun. If the Doctor were a young woman living in contemporary Britain, it’d be a bit like her.’ Clever and presentable and funny but also thinking when is something interesting going to happen? The interesting thing between the Doctor and Clara is she can sort of play the same game he does. She can absolutely do that, she’s terribly clever, she’s got a wayward ego.” - Steven Moffat

[malloysicals]

Clara & favourite quote  → “ I’m not a bargain basement stand-in for someone else. I’m not going to compete with a ghost.”

[clara-oswald]

I’m an English teacher from the planet Earth and I’ve run off with a man from space because I really fancy him!

[borntosavethedoctor]

Clara & favourite quote

[clarapossible-deactivated201601]

Don’t even know who to thank

[raktajiino]

[captryanclark]

When it's *not* bigger on the inside...

[rosecutietyler]

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”

[attackoneyebrows]

are you okay? n o.

[varous]

You know what the big problem is in telling fantasy and reality apart? They’re both ridiculous.

[weliveandbreathewords]

Here’s a hot tip: Most girls don’t like being stalked.

[zaritoma]

Hope fills the heart and fades away.

[bruiselikeviolets]

the shadowhunter chronicles’ guys + name meanings

[ladyofvalyria]

my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.