mintybagels:

i was falling asleep and thought of this so now it’s like 3am jesus i need to go to sleep ok bye

littlealienproducts:

Silver Green Frog Ear Cuff by MXFStudio

sclfmastery:

stompandhollar:

reminding everyone that the in-universe problem with The Doctor and The Master isn’t “ooo horrible nasty enemies who hate each other and don’t get along and fight all the time but are also in love”

the problem is that they get along. the problem is that they can’t stop themselves from falling naturally into a rhythm of riffing off one another and enjoying the other’s company. THAT is the problem. the problem is that it works and that’s the thing that caused all their issues. they like one another. they just click.

Can get on board with this if we have one addendum: both of their current personae are developed specifically in defense of something earnest and real at their core. The difference is WHY.

The “Doctor” persona is a response to and attempt to improve upon innate character flaws. The Doctor wants to do better than they know they naturally tend to be, to counteract their own insatiable need for stimulation, their caprice and flight, their ability to manipulate. They are trying to use all those traits to help others, now, so that they can live with themself. This attempt to do better via the Doctor persona is ironically is the most earnestly Healer/Helper trait they have.

The “Master” persona is a response to feelings of abandonment, powerlessness, rejection and betrayal. The Master wants to never feel that helpless and expendable again, never wants to be in the position of being discarded, rejected, thought of as lacking or “wrong,” so they embrace their suspicions that they are “monstrous”–they turn that insecurity into awful and violent armor– in order to exact control. They want autonomy and they want to weaponize their persona of invincibility to protect that autonomy, even if it means stepping on every ant, even if it means being the one thing the Doctor can never fix.

That they genuinely click, are compatible to the marrow, is the reason why they keep trying to change each other, while clinging to those personae, and fail. Yes, it’s a vegetarian and a hunter, but WHY they hold fast to those clashing belief systems, and the fact that they don’t HAVE to, is also important.

daydreamycrustacean:

Just a buncha Father Kreiner stuff.

gwendaria:

trying to see Ruby’s mom’s face in the time window like

heimeldat:

WIP with a lot more detail than I planned heh. This’ll take a while to color.

ID: a black and white line drawing of the Thirteenth Doctor sitting on the floor of the console room making repairs. She’s surrounded by tools, draped with cables, and wearing her goggles. end ID

butt-berry:

He found a sword

heycupcake:

Thinking back to the Timeless Child arc and the Doctor’s decision to not regain her memories and to keep living as The Doctor.

A decision I didn’t 100% understand, until I remembered Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, where the protagonist always opts not to regain their memories and to keep living as whatever little critter they turned into, feeling completely fulfilled by the dangerous adventures and their precious companions, without a hint of desire to regain their past, bad or good that it was (and funnily enough, humans like you are creatures of legends, from another time or possibly universe).

And, because parallelisms are fun, here’s the list of options, following PMD logic, of how the Doctor ever came to be on Gallifrey in the first place (Pokemon spoilers ahead):

• powerful beings searched amongst the Doctor’s people for someone who could prevent the universe’s destruction; the Doctor was suitable but asked to have their memories removed first, both to have less distractions and to see if, at the core, they really were worthy (staying on topic, someone of the same species ended up on Gallifrey in a similar fashion, but as the result of a curse, and became the Doctor’s nemesis)
• the Doctor and their trusted partner were trying to prevent the future of a dead universe by traveling to the past and fixing it, but, while in the Time Vortex, got attacked by the entity who sabotaged the universe. They took the full blast to shield their companion and then found themselves turned into a humanoid with no memories.
• (I didn’t get the chance to play Gates yet, it’s long overdue)
• the Doctor is a reincarnation of an ancient being who fought side by side with another ancient being to defeat the Dark. They lost their memories after being bonked hard by the Dark’s emissaries, which then pretend-adopted them to keep them under control.

corallapis: