the doctor accidentally naming the daleks, giving them their battle cry, arming them with a plunger and naming the canonical event of their creation by accident is the most high-on-regeneration energy thing the doctor ever did
People who say The Avengers: Infinity Wars/End Game was the most epic crossover ever attempted has clearly never watched Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End.
My friend @caqtainunderqants and I were at Chicago TARDIS 2023 last week, and we were included in someone's TikTok! This ballgown Dalek cosplayer (thats.so.cosplay) asked multiple Doctor cosplayers to interact with her for the video. My friend was dressed as Two and I was Jamie, and we were happy to contribute.
NOTE: This is not my video. Here is a link to the original video on TikTok.
EDIT: OK, the TikTok hyperlinks aren't showing up, no matter how much I edit. I think this is an actual issue Tumblr has with blocking hyperlinks to platforms outside of Tumblr. You'll have to find the video on TikTok yourself.
I think the Daleks are one of the best representations of fascist ideology and the failing thereof. Mainly in that they're really pathetic more than anything. They're sad little creatures locked safely away from the world inside their shells and desensitised to everything but hate. They could never build a real culture of their own yet they are utterly and dogmatically convinced of their own superiority. They are an entire civilisation built solely to destroy and categorically incapable of anything else (literally. Their design is comically inefficient). The single smartest Dalek who ever lived ran the numbers and came to the inescapable conclusion that their species is doomed to failure and the only way for them to survive is to rethink their ways... so they killed him.
i really think something about the daleks was cheapened when they started turning humans into daleks
like, that's not the kind of fear the daleks personify. they're fascism, they're genocidal dictators who think they're inherently better than everyone else. the cybermen are body horror and the dangers of super-advanced tech, and when you give the daleks the cybermen's thing, it feels like both are just generic monsters
You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them. Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends.
DOCTOR WHO EPISODES
1.13 | THE PARTING OF THE WAYS