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etherealspacejelly · 6 months

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i feel like infodumping so here is my opinion of every new who companion!!

Rose Tyler

shes the og, shes That Girl, she is the moment! (lol, get it?) Rose was one of the best companions fr. her love story with the doctor is so beautiful and so tragic and honestly, he Needed her. ninerose >>> tenrose i said what i said. 9/10

Jack Harkness

very fun character! they kinda ruined him in torchwood a little bit. some of the earliest explicit queer rep in mainstream media i ever saw, if not the first! i loved his dynamic with rose and nine. 8/10

Mickey Smith

my sweet boy, my babygirl. he deserved so much better fr. dont get me wrong, i love Rose, but the way she treated Mickey was so mean. also the doctor hated his ass for no reason other than he was competition for Rose's affection. plastic Mickey was iconic. 8/10

Martha Jones

ICON!!! QUEEN!!!! i Love Martha soooo much. she was the only companion to Get Out and i love that for her, she deserved it. she slayed fr. however i do kinda hate that most of her character was simping for ten like. girl. stand up. 9/10

Donna Noble

Oh My God, incredible. cant wait to get her back!!!! the adipose scene through the windows???? hilarious, i can quote every word!!! she gave the doctor a run for his money and i love that for her. she was exactly what he needed after Rose and Martha, just A Mate. 10/10

Amy Pond

my favourite companion!!! eleven was My Doctor tho so thats probably why. every episode of season 5 is a banger. i love that she and Rory and River became a family to the doctor. love her. little Amelia is so cute and grown up Amy is a total badass. fish custard/10 10/10

Rory Williams

my beloved <3 hes so boyfriend fr. raised my standards as a kid. he waited 2000 years for her ;-; 10/10

River Song

hello sweetie :)

i love that her story was told backwards, very interesting narrative choice! knowing that she was always doomed to the library was so tragic. learning all of her secrets over each series was very fun and satisfying!! 10/10

Clara Oswald

hmm. not one of my favourite companions. she's ok i guess? the impossible girl thing was kinda cool but i dont really like her as a character. 5/10

Bill Potts

YESSSS! i love lesbiabs. lessbiens. women. her ending was super sad tho :(

she was cool and fun and gay 9/10

Yasmin Khan

hrm. boring. didnt have much of a personality, not really her fault the writing was just so shit. she had potential!! thasmin 4 lyfe! 4/10

Ryan Sinclair

yea. no. dont like how they made his dyspraxia a fun quirky thing that he just. magically got over somehow??? its a literal disability. my brother has it. it could have been so interesting to see how that manifested over the course of his travels with the doctor but its almost like they just. forgot about it?? also he was boring as hell. 2/10

Graham O'Brien

i literally didnt even remember his surname, i had to look it up. he was just kinda. there. a little more interesting than Ryan i guess?? but. still. 2/10

Concluding remarks

looking forward to Donna coming back and meeting the new companions!!! i hope the writing is better in this season :/ chibbers was Not It. anyway. thanks for reading my silly little ramble!! special interest go brrrr

#doctor who #rose tyler #donna noble #martha jones #amy pond #bill potts #clara oswald #dr who #special interest #robin rambles about his hyperfixations

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denimbex1986 · 5 months

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'Traveling with the Doctor is not safe and many companions already know that. So why did the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) have to hurt the Doctor like this? In “The Giggle,” we had to watch as the Toymaker uses fun puppets to completely wreck our emotions. At least, my emotions.

As the Toymaker forces the Doctor and Donna through a fun house of doors, he leads them into a room for his “game.” The Doctor (David Tennant) knows what the Toymaker can do. It is why he asked Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) to go back to the TARDIS the minute he realized who he was dealing with. Still, what ended up causing me such a visceral amount of pain was simply the Toymaker telling Donna the truth about what happened after she left.

Before the two even realized who they were up against, Donna was trying to ask the Doctor about himself and the non-stop world he was living in. He essentially ignores Donna, as he is wont to do, and instead points them in the direction of the Toymaker’s shop. But this led to what the Toymaker was teasing regarding all the companions that came after Donna Noble.

Donna didn’t know about the regenerations after her Doctor. She didn’t know about the other “companions” and the Toymaker didn’t leave any nuance in describing their endings. And let me tell you, laying out their stories with the Doctor like that, without any kind of explanation? It was brutal and wholly unnecessary.

My girls don’t deserve this!

The Toymaker uses puppets to show Amy Pond dying while the Doctor points out that she dies of old age, years after she is trapped in New York. Then he shows Clara dying and the Doctor again interjects that it was her own choice after she was done traveling. Bill Potts, who does die but whose consciousness lives on, is the one that the Doctor has a hard time justifying, and you can see it as he struggles to address it.

All three of these women trusted the Doctor. He tried to keep them safe and he did, for the most part. But the Toymaker sharing these stories without the nuance they deserve? That was rude to Donna. It was rude to Amy, Clara, and Bill. But boy was it rude to me, who loves Amy, Clara, and Bill oh so very much. Toymaker, that one hurt. Especially watching the strings of my beloved girls getting cut and falling to the stage below. Why did you have to make David Tennant relive that and cry?'

#The Giggle #Doctor Who #60th Anniversary #David Tennant #Neil Patrick Harris #The Toymaker #Amy Pond #Clara Oswald #Bill Potts #Donna Noble #Catherine Tate

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the-force-awakens · 10 months

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Someone else saw The Circle too 😭 I kid you not, I remember nothing about the film other than I came out of it going "what a massive waste of my time"

Oh, how I wish it was a better movie than what it was. The first time I heard about it was when my dad dragged me to see Kong: Skull Island with him and when the trailer started, I was immediately excited because Emma Watson was my fave actress as a kid and it also had Patton Oswalt and this was during my aos era, so I was already thrilled but then!!! it had Karen Gillan???? Who played my beloved blorbo Amy Pond? I was almost sold. And then, there was a voice over that just had me like "I know this voice I know this voice who the hell is this person talking I kNOW them - FINN?!?!?" and you know by the point I saw John Boyega, I was sold.

To this day, I think the trailer was a better film than the film itself. And I think a huge part of what made that movie such a let down was the trailer itself, because the trailer made it seem like so much more of a suspense/thriller and...what we got was decidedly not that.

(there's also the fact that the trailer made it seem like John was going to be properly in the movie and....not just in two scenes.)

Inexplicably, despite the fact that I think it's somehow the most boring film put together that painfully underutilizes its stellar cast (seriously can Karen and John do another movie together? I deserve that), my mom still loves it and thus I've seen it probably twice? More times, at least, than I wanted to. Either that, or that first time felt SO long that it seemed like two times.

#the trailer makes me so sad rlly bc there's clearly the bones for a good movie there! a genuine thriller that explores how little is private #about human life anymore #but that's just not what we wound up with #ask box #jubileen #I think it was after that and my many failed attempts to watch things for iain de caestecker and elizabeth henstridge that I became #far pickier about the movies I watched for the actors I like #which is why there's many movies of Oscar's #i haven't watched (or at least partially why. I've been banned from movies where he dies. understandably. and I don't wanna watch him play #bad guy so that really dwindles things down y'know!)#(but ofc I say that and genuinely love xmen apocalypse. the xmen hyperfix just comes first ig)

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bisexualamy · 2 years

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2, 10 and 16 for the dw ask game! ☺️

2. what was the first entire series you watched/remember ?

series 5 my beloved. it’s still the season that holds the most nostalgia for me.

already answered 10

16. who is your favorite doctor/companion duo ?

unsurprisingly i’m incredibly weak for the ponds 11/amy/rory trio. that specific found family dynamic is just unparalleled for me. they’re closely rivaled by 12/bill bc i LOVE a platonic father/daughter companion relationship (i’m generally anti doctor/companion romance with few exception)

massive shoutout to 3/jo who also slap. the whole unit found family of seasons 7-10 is amazing. 7/ace ofc, plus hex in the audios. and i LOVE 6/evelyn bc i love it when the doctor has older companions, also evelyn is amazing and the writers do a great job in some of their earlier audios establishing how they’re on a much more equal footing with each other bc of evelyn’s age and experience and the way their personalities mesh.

#thank you!!#higheldertala #hailing frequencies open

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summerdutkowsky · 2 years

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Doctor Who for the ask stuff

did you know that i love you? because i do. since i answered s1-4 i'll do this for the rest of the seasons

favorite male character: twelve and dan

favorite female character: CLARA OSWALD. clara is so special to me and the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me was when i was talking about all the reasons i love clara, her bravery and her loyalty and how she faced her fate strong and brave etc, and the person i was talking to said 'oh that sounds like you' and i almost cried because i was at a very low point and it meant so much to me

least favorite character: eleven and amy pond. i just didn't like that whole eleven era tbh

prettiest character: clara and yaz

funniest character: i think maybe dan

favorite season: i think probably season 9. it has the most episodes i love and i think the overall writing was the strongest

favorite episode: i have a very special place in my heart for clara eps but i think face the raven is my very favorite. it hits me so hard every time i watch it. i also love asylum of the daleks (because oswin my beloved) and arachnids in the uk (because the birth of thasmin and i love being right)

favorite romantic ship: thirteen/yaz! i love that i called it from arachnids in the uk and i love that it actually happened! i also really really love clara/ashildr which i feel is a very unpopular opinion

favorite family ship: yaz/dan/thirteen (i'm trying to think of canon family relationships but i can't really think of any that i really really like)

favorite friend ship: twelve/clara

worst ship: can i say river and the doctor? idk i just didn't like them at all and every time it was brought up i just zoned out

#whew so many opinions

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amelia · 3 years

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related to that last ask but now i actually have a question! what are your favourite episodes for amy as a character? (sorry if i’m pestering you btw you don’t have to answer right away ❣️)

it is absolutely never a bother for me to talk about amy pond!! gosh though this is a Question. okay. i did interpret this as episodes that are my favorite for the lens of My Understanding Of Amy instead of favorite pond era episodes as a whole if that makes sense? under the cut bc i got long as i tend to do

i think my number 1 has to be the big bang, because it really is just like. okay, pond era absolutely runs into the problem of frequently making stories/episodes that should be centered around amy's emotional journey actually about somebody else — but the big bang is all hers. it is all on her! she's leading the show SHE'S the one in the pandorica SHE'S the one who remembers the doctor into existence it is HER choice to say goodbye to leadworth and continue to travel completely without remorse SHE IS THE HERO. it goes from "time can be rewritten, he'll find a way" to AMY being the one who finds the way. rory and river and the doctor all of course get their Moments but it's unquestionably amy's spotlight moment the whole way through

i have also ALWAYSSS been obsessed with starless universe amelia and the way that she still believes in stars in a world where they DON'T EXIST the power of her mind and the conviction of her beliefs is a CORE TENET of amy's character, the doctor has NOTHING to do with it!!! it's just who she is !!! best character of all time <3

other things about the amy's writing in this episode i love: the line "the universe pouring into her dreams every night," space florida outfit <3, ok i obviously do not love this but i think so much about amy talking about the doctor at her wedding and her mother is still like "NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN… i thought the psychiatrists FIXED her" like once again !!! a UNIVERSAL CONSTANT that amy is the one who believes in things nobody else does and is LOUD about it and is RIGHT !!! (let's kill hitler tried to retcon this but it simply won't work on me ❤️ just like anything else about the let's kill hitler flashbacks ❤️❤️❤️), OKAY DOCTOR DID I SURPRISE YOU THIS TIME? <3

number 2, i think, is the eleventh hour itself? like it's just… i've rewatched it so many times and it's still the most captivating character introduction i have ever seen. i know i'm biased but i love it so much. her introduction as a clearly neglected seven year old girl (constantly think about the deleted line that has her talking to aunt sharon and saying "you're not supposed to leave me, i'm seven!" WOOF) who's not afraid of anything except for the crack in her wall… she has drawings up all over her house of burning houses, she draws smiley faces into her apples bc her mom used to do that, she can cook for herself way better than i could at seven, and she desperately just wants to leave. but when the doctor tells her he'll be back in five minutes, amy is already so used to adults leaving her and breaking their promises that she doesn't believe him. but he makes her believe anyway. and he doesn't come back.

and all of the rest of her character hinges on that introduction — of course she has to believe him, he was REAL, nobody can take his realness away from her even if she is the only one who believes. but he also left her all alone for so long, just like everyone else who was supposed to be there for her did, so what good does that to her? so yeah of course she grows up angry and bitter and hiding those layers of hurt deeply under the surface, scorning all attachment and serious relationships because she knows she can't trust them. she outwardly distances herself from her childhood self by changing her name but she IS still just such a child inside.

she's not ready to settle, to grow up, to become what everyone in her tiny village wants her to be, thinks that she should be — so when she gets the chance to GO, of course she takes it. but she's also not just going to let the doctor off the hook for [gestures] her entire life, you know? the exchanges "people always say that" "i'm not people, do i even look like people?" | "people always have a reason" "do i look like people?" "Yes." always just GUT ME. she may trust him but it's NOT a blind trust, it can't be.

number 3 has to be the beast below it just makes me SCREAM how good that episode is at really developing amy through her compassion for other people — right from the start she sees that kid crying and she thinks the doctor must ignore stuff like this all the time, and she says that she could never do that. she's learning and intuiting leaps and bounds about the doctor with everything he says to her — which is another one of my favorite amy character traits, the way she is SO quick to pick up on things about other people and analyze them. everything that she picks up about the doctor allows her to KNOW what to do to save the star whale, allows her to be confident in the fact that the star whale wanted to help the whole time. the choice is IN HER HANDS she IS THE HERO <3 as she always should be. you couldn't just stand there and watch people cry! all that pain and misery and loneliness and it MADE IT KIND. i don't care how overused that quote is it still HITS !!!

um. number 4 is the girl who waited but my very specific headcanon-ridden interpretation and cutting out all that garbage "rory's the most beautiful man i've ever met" "defying destiny causality the nexus of time itself for a boy" bullshit. idk there's so many terrible things about this episode but it also gave me so much to think about when it comes to amy it's on my mind a LOT. one thing i think about is the way it parallels amy's first abandonment by the doctor — not just in the obvious sense but in the way that she's actively fighting for her life in a hostile atmosphere, but nobody else SEES it as a hostile atmosphere. the two streams facility is leadworth like it really is. and what adds a more chilling component is the way the handbots signature line is "do not be alarmed, this is a kindness" — like all the people who were trying to convince amy she was crazy throughout her entire childhood really thought they were doing her a kindness. they thought they were helping her. but they were killing her. because she wasn't made for that environment.

beyond that i am just obsessed with 36-years-later amy she is an icon she is a legend she is the moment i don't care! every mean thing she said about the doctor and rory was absolutely deserved and in fact she should have been so much meaner! she is SO SMART she makes her own SONIC PROBES OUT OF CAMERA PHONES the fact that she even was able to SURVIVE THAT LONG and in COMPLETE isolation and still retain her own mental faculties is just insane to me it speaks so much about her insane mental strength oh my god it makes me sooo emotional i am tearing up a little typing this right now.

i just am always THINKING about the line "there he is, the voice of god. number one lesson: survive, because no one's coming for you. you taught me that" it says SO MUCH about her. oh my god older amy didn't want to die she'll be kicking and screaming and fighting til the end… i fucking hate this show and picking and choosing when paradoxes should apply OLDER AMY DESERVED TO LIVE

number 5 is probably the power of three but my own very headcanon infused interpretation of it. because it's like. the ultimate miscommunication/misunderstanding that exists between amy and the doctor coming to a head. where amy in 7.02 is like "i can't not wait for you, even now. (…) we think you're weaning us off you" (that line always makes me slow exhale … the phrasing of the doctor as a drug) and the doctor keeps insisting that's not true, "you'll be there until the end of me" "or vice versa" (and they have that loaded held stare and you know they're both thinking about what he said to her before he left in the god complex…)

but it's not until this episode where amy starts to actually believe he means it. at the same time she's spent so much TIME preparing for the inevitable moment where the doctor says goodbye and doesn't say hello ever again that she's not willing to fully hope that the doctor really means it when he says that he would never leave her permanently on purpose. and i love that this episode gives amy a lot of space to verbally communicate her emotions because the later pond episodes SORELY LACK THAT. and amy tells him, don't be nice to me, don't stop coming around just because you think that's the kind thing to do. even though she says herself that she doesn't know if she can have "both" — she knows that she can tell the doctor to stay, in her own way, and that he'll listen.

ideally they would have just gone off traveling together forever after that and the angels take manhattan did not happen but unlike what the doctor says about amy, i don't ever get what i want 🙃

also, this episode gave amy friends that weren't rory or the doctor or river so i love it for that on principal <3 i know amy had fun being the bridesmaid at laura's lesbian wedding. and kate!!

( i do hate that this episode ends with that conversation between brian and the doctor. i hate brian as a character and i will forever. won't get into this right now but OUGH )

honestly this list is kind of wobbly and might change if you asked me in a month so i'll just rattle off other favorite episodes / moments real quickly: the good night minisode (it counts!), RIVER SONG DIDN'T GET IT ALL FROM YOU SWEETIE (timeline frozen amy my beloved!), "i remember it so it happened so i did it," vincent and the doctor specifically when vincent tells amy that he hears the song of her sadness…. ow, i could write a whole other essay about amy's choice and how it is so much more complex than people give it credit for but this post is already so goddamn long

#i literally do apologize for how long this got but you have to understand i was holding myself back .#she is…. everything. to me. i could keep going for so long #amy pond #ask #jonismitchell

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burntlikethesun · 2 years

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if you're still doing dw day: the eleventh hour

'Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls, the pencils, and the fish'

This is not the episode you start newbies on. 'Rose' was purpose built for being introduced for new audiences, with you discovering this world through her eyes, you learn everything at the same time as her. With this, you start off, in the crashing TARDIS, with the Doctor- it ruins the bigger on the inside reveal! Which, btw, I really don’t care for the enormous shiny new interior, it just does nothing for me after my beloved coral theme has gone- it just feels like a tv set.

This episode is fine, it’s an ok story (the main thread being Smith and Jones (rogue alien criminal hiding disguised on earth, being hunted by the authorities, who gets defeated by revealing its true self) if it was put in the laundry on high heat with The Girl in the Fireplace (meet woman as little girl, return minutes later when she’s grown up)). There’s a bit too much going on though and lots of it is soured by knowledge of what is to come – ‘Silence will fall’ is teasing a convoluted mess, Amy’s missing parents are returned but never appear again, the cracks are left ambiguous until a throw away line nearly 4 years later in Smith’s finale episode. Olivia Colman is wasted. The Doctor’s Sherlock vision is silly (lol remember when people thought Rory’s name badge saying it was issued int the 1990s was significant rather than a goof)

Caitlin Blackwood is really good as young Amy… but then the pan up her legs when you first meet adult Amy 2 mins later is grim haha, male gaze example 101. Plus she breaks the tradition of the companion saving the day in their first episode- the most she does is while asleep, follow Eleven’s instructions when he says to picture the alien in its real form. Not particularly satisfying or active.

Rory is my most liked out of the main three in this ep. There’s a lot of cringe dialogue like Eleven saying ‘who da man!’ and Moffat’s penchant for calling phones ‘camera phones’ – all phones had had cameras in them for YEARS by 2010 lol. The food rejecting sequence in the beginning goes on about 4 times as long as it needed to be, it’s the same joke again and again and it isn’t funny!

People love to say how fairytale-like this series is but like.. is it? There’s just dialogue saying Amy’s name is like from a fairy tale, which… it’s literally just the word Pond lol it’s not like Cinderella or Rapunzel? I literally think a lot of people imagine this episode to be a lot better than it actually is, mainly due to them using HD cameras and lens flare etc. The raggedy doctor imaginary friend idea is a good one but it never gets explored enough imo. The Atraxi are lame! They get scared off by the same ‘look me up’ trick as the vashta nerada, and I’m a massive pedant because I know if a montage of monsters were done by someone who paid attention, they’d know not to include shots of Ood and Hath etc (are from the future, are not evil, and have never invaded Earth) or Reapers from an aborted timeline! Ruins the moment for me every time.

anyway yeah. it's not the best, thoroughly middling effort.

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ichabodcranemills · 2 years

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for the ask list: 17 and 23 dw? thanks !

17. Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

Oh, I love a good canon-divergence. But apart from the little ones (give Yaz a girlfriend! have 13 and the Master tenderly touch foreheads!) and the BIG one (give Donna her memory back, c’mon), the plot change I gave more thought about was season 7b.

I would have the Ponds until the end, but The Snowmen goes the same (the Doctor got into a fight with Amy, idk) and all throughout the season, we’d have these little glimpses of the Clara echoes. Not always dying, just small easter eggs. Then, at the end of the season, she shows up and jumps into the Doctor’s timeline, no explanation whatsoever. THEN 11 meets the actual Clara, and he doesn’t understand a thing, but he promises they’ll try to fix this mistery together (although he can’t tell her much because paradoxes). Soon after, he regenerates. 12 and Clara go about basically how canon goes, but only after they’re already best friends, ready to tear the world apart for one another, she realizes what she has to do. Save him because she did so already, and of course she would do this for him, she loves him (she had time to grow to love him so much)

Maybe it would be a mess, maybe it would be too close to River’s story, but I think I would love it.

23. Unpopular character you love?

Unpopular in the sense of “someone people don’t like”, I don’t think anyone. But I don’t think that the Arachnids in UK guy showing up again was bad and I wouldn’t mind seeing him one last time. I wish the Doctor had kidnapped him and returned him home humiliated and traumatized, a la Adam in s1.

But unpopular as in “someone the fandom doesn’t appreciated enough”, that would my beloved boy Ryan Sinclair, by far the most awesome member of the fam, someone who deserved to be praised by his arc and by being an all around sweetheart, and Thirteen’s favourite companion <3

Thanks for asking!

#asks #lupescx

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baezdylan · 2 years

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Ok, more Panic! + Amy stuff, because I know a disappointing amount about this band, which I usually wouldn't wish on anyone but this is important:

In earlier 2007, the band were writing an album that would eventually be scrapped and they would go on to write Pretty. Odd instead. The album was called Cricket + Clover and Ryan Ross (the lead guitarist / main lyricist for this era) described it as a modern fairytale that took place in a "strange world" and "mixed reality" (can you see the connections yet).

As far as I know, it was supposed to tell the story of doomed lovers, one of whom falls in love at first sight, based around the concept of the 7 deadly sins (...Amy+11's fatal flaw is pride...). Ross said in a interview that it “would have been animated if it had been a movie." (Amy Pond Coraline Universe 👀) "It was set in a somewhat alternate world" (all those universes....) "and it did not contain human beings, more creatures of some sort. Maybe." (this bit should be obvious) "They were not based anywhere in particular, just somewhere. It was more of a fairytale.”

This also ties into She Had The World, because then-bassist, Jon Walker, said that She Had The World was the song that was the most reminiscent of Cricket and Clover on P.O.....an album about doomed lovers -> a song supposedly about a dreamer that falls for someone who is uninterested (or, if you read it like me, a song about a dreamer being misconstrued as falling for someone and responding to).....

Anyways, it was scrapped for a whole host of reasons and there's only 1 demo (the Nearly Witches demo, my dearly beloved, I fell from the heavens as a fetish blessed with an operatic skeleton, and as the stars watch me descend) and a picture of some lyrics left of it, but had it been released, it would've been THE Amy Pond album, 3yrs prior to her first on-screen appearance

(also I would maim someone to hear this album in full, genuinely makes me feel evil that it was never released)

Ok hear me out: what happened to Cricket + Clover is literally so Amy???? The fact that it was supposed to come out three years prior to her first appearance -> non-narrative, non-linear nature of Amy's entire arc and character that we talked about. A concept that existed at some point in time and space, but never got to see the light of day in a true sense, yet still managed to affect reality in an unexpected way (She Had The World, Nearly Witches demo, remaining lyrics) -> it's literally frozen timeline logic... (Amy: I can remember it, so it happened, so I did it.) IT'S AMY!!!!! POV: the crack in her wall took her parents AND this album from her.

#💌restless wind inside a letter box💌#amy pond unrelated media universe #p!atd #but also yeah... would do despicable things to hear it

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onceuponachole · 4 years

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Touchy/11

Woah, the first drabble I’ve written on tumblr! A lot of people I know follow my wattpad account (cringe) so I’m doing this now!

Concept: Although 11 is known for being quite touchy with no sense of personal space, he’s always been a little more so with one of his companions.

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Per usual aboard the Tardis, it was fizzing with excitement. Giddiness was apparent throughout the console room, followed by the chipper hums and whirs of the Doctor’s beloved transportation herself. Speaking of the Doctor, he spun around the console like a child in a toy store, flicking switches and pressing buttons (though he most likely doesn’t know what all of them do). Watching his actions with amusement, Amy Pond’s lips quirked into a knowing smile. The next adventure was going to be a good one.

“Whad’ya think about Florana, eh? Haven’t been there in regenerations! It shouldn’t be too busy this time of year, what with the roses not in bloom yet. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it always makes me feel a hundred years younger!” the Doctor rambled, rocking on his heels and dashing to and fro.

“When have you said that?” I asked, hiding my laughter with a smile. I folded my arms over my chest, leaning against the railing along the middle platform.

“Oh, you know, just once really but I’ve always wanted to say it like that,” he shrugged, finally leaving the console to talk to me and the Ponds.

I laughed, no longer able to keep the feeling from bubbling. Taking the space next to me, the Doctor flashed me his signature grin and dove in to peck my cheek. His nose made contact with my face, brushing my cheekbone, and just like that it was over. I couldn’t help but grin back, feeling my face flush.

He’s always been a bit (okay, a LOT) touchy, not that I mind. Amy’s always said he kisses me more than her or Rory, but I’m not sure I believe it. He’s just the Doctor, he has a funny way of showing his emotions. Recently, however, his small moments of affection have given me a lasting effect. From short spurts of butterflies in my stomach, to an inability to talk without sputtering, he always had a way to make me feel special. It’s one of the downsides of his quirks, having to deal with the feelings after. I’ve never really considered it before, but it makes sense now to say that I’m smitten with him. And as far as I’m concerned, he has no clue.

Rory quirked an eyebrow, “No freaky aliens this time? I don’t want a plant trying to devour us or something.”

“No, no, nothing like that. Although I do suppose...,” the Doctor paused before shaking his head, “nope! No scary baddies out for us this time,” he smiled.

Rory let out a short lived sigh of relief as the Tardis jolted suddenly. A fizz, pop! was heard, followed by sudden darkness from everywhere except the time rotor in the middle. It’s cerulean glow dimmed significantly, making a sort of wheeze. Immediately, the Doctor sprinted to the center and experimentally flicked some levers. I followed, standing just a little behind so he had room to analyze.

“Power must’ve been shut off. Could be due to the amount of timey-wimey-ness...maybe the old girl can’t handle it,” he muttered, eyebrows scrunched in concentration. I pat him on the shoulder encouragingly, which seemed to startle him out of his trance. Gazing at me in the light of the time rotor, eyes gleaming, he snatched my hand from where it was resting at my side and cradled it in his own. His calloused thumb brushed circles over the back of my hand in an effort to comfort me.

I glanced at Amy, who had since shuffled to the opposite end of the console. She gave me a pointed look, mouthing a “see?”. I only shook my head in denial, before returning my attention to the Doctor.

“We could always try to reroute the power, the swimming pool is using an awful lot of it. Maybe there wasn’t enough of it going to the console,” I offered, smiling sheepishly.

“There’s a swimming pool in this thing?” Rory promptly exclaimed.

“Oi,” the Doctor retorted, “she isn’t a thing!”

“Alright you lot, we have bigger fish to fry. It’s gotten chilly in here since you started yabbering,” Amy complained.

“(Y/N)’s not wrong,” the Doctor continued, “it could be that not enough power is being transferred throughout the TARDIS. Rerouting it may be easier said than done though. I’m not sure it’ll work, but we can try!” Swiftly, he descended the stairway to the lower level, pulling me along with him. I looked at Amy and Rory, who both gave me a thumbs up. I rolled my eyes, wiping my free hand on my pants.

Although the lighting was dim, the Time Lord managed to grab his tinkering goggles and grabbed a fist-full of thick cord in the middle of the bunches of other mechanical wonders. I stood back to give him some space, shoes scraping along the steel, web-like floor.

The Doctor yanked on the wires for a few minutes, muttering incoherently, before piping up again. “(Y/N), can you help me out a bit? This hasn’t been moved in a while,” he laughed nervously, offering me his hand once more. I nodded, crouching next to him. He raised his arms in preparation to pull the cord out of it’s socket, but stopped abruptly. “Oh! Can we count down from three? I love three, it’s just such a lovely number.”

I giggled out a response, “Of course! That sounds more coordinated anyway.” We glanced at each other, or the silhouettes of each other, before we counted,

“Three....

Two....

One!”

and we tugged as forcefully as possible. The cord exited the socket aggressively, sending us tumbling. We crash landed with him almost on top of me, his elbow jabbed at my ribs, my legs tangled with his. I winced, sitting up, and the lights flashed back on. The TARDIS whirred appreciatively, resuming it’s normal tasks of whoosing the time rotor and lighting up buttons on the console. The Doctor sat up, grinning, and carefully placed his goggles on the floor next to him. I moved to the left, narrowly escaping his gangly legs, only to be pulled back in again and pecked on the lips. My face ignited in hues of pink, my chest rising and falling faster than normal.

“We did it! Well, actually you did most of the planning and the execution, so I suppose I should hand off the credit to you--” he stopped, mid-sentence, noticing my stunned silence. “What’s wrong?”

I gulped nervously, “Can we t-try that again?” I didn’t make eye contact with him and feared for the worst.

“Try wha- oh. That,” he mumbled, ears going red.

Tears stung my eyes in a fit of embarrassment. I shouldn’t have said anything, oh God he’s going to make me go home--, “I’m so sorry, I won’t do that again haha, I was only joking really, itdidn’tmeananythingIswear,” I sputtered.

The Doctor tilted my chin up with his hand, wiping my face of a tear that escaped. It was horrendously silent for a moment, before he whispered, “Do you like me?”

The tears fell a little harder now, I was mortified. “Yeah,” my voice cracked. “Do you? Like me, I mean?” Sniffling, I finally looked at his eyes. Those gorgeous green eyes, the ones that had seen more than I will ever know and whose intensity matched the thousands of galaxies we’ve flown through.

“More than you’ll ever know,” he replied. He leaned in hesitantly, before making contact with my lips. Kissing me, ever so softly, afraid that I was made of porcelain. I returned his slow passion with my own, resting a hand on the side of his face. I tried to push all of my feelings toward him into his brain, hoping, wishing that he knew how much I yearned for this. We separated, panting, and he smiled a smile so full of love that I felt weak in the knees.

Standing up, he brushed off his classic tweed jacket, and offered me his hand like he had so many times before. Quirking an eyebrow, he asked, “Shall we?”

I took his hand, smiled, still sniffling, and stood, not wanting to let go of him ever again.

“To Florana! Geronimo!”

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melancholydreadfuldream · 3 years

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hope is blood on broken glass

Fandom: Doctor Who

Summary: The Doctor found out what happened to a former companion after they left his care.

Warning: mention of torture.

The thing about being the companion of the Doctor is you can't stay with him forever. You would eventually have to leave the Doctor and the Tardis. You would have to try to put the pieces that is the life you have before the Doctor back on track.

The time the companion spend with the Doctor will change them for better or worse. They became changed by the experiences that sometimes they seek for a life that closely resembles those time with the Doctor. Like Martha who worked for UNIT, Jack for Torchwood, Sarah-Jane Smith who formed her own group, even Rose and the Metacrisis who also have a version of Torchwood in their world. They are all become a defender of Earth in their own way.

Some are able to somewhat returned to their mundane life and whether they were able to have a good life or not, well, the Doctor tried not to interfere or find out what happened to them. It wasn't necessary to add heartbreaks to see how they ended. But he always believe they will all be brilliant.

But you never felt that way.

UNIT has tons of file they collected about the Doctor and the companion he had over the years. They kept an eye on the companion from time to time.

(yn) (ln) was a companion of the Eleventh Doctor alongside Amy and Rory. But you left him after realizing you couldn't handle your unrequited feeling for him anymore. You felt less in his eyes, not as good as his fairy-tale princess, Amelia Pond, not as brave as Rory the Roman, not as brilliant as his beloved wife, River Song. The Doctor has his own family and that does not includes you, despite his assurance.

The last time you saw him, you had confessed your feeling for him despite knowing he didn't feel the same. For you, it might be the closure you needed to move on.

The Doctor couldn't say anything to you upon your confession and honestly you didn't expect him to. You had packed your suitcases, ready to leave the Tardis when he finally apologized to you. He hugged you and told you that you are brilliant and that you are one of his best friend. He didn't stop you from leaving, that hurts a little but you know it was for the best. The both of you could not handle the awkwardness after your confession. But he did tell you to call him should you need anything.

Life after the Doctor is as mundane as you thought it would be but that is your only option. And for a while, things just doesn't work as you wanted it too and you got so sad, so depressed. It was a year later, more or less, that life gradually less painful and more bearable. You finally got a stable job and the salary is good. You are okay.

On 14th December 2020, (yn) (ln) disappeared. UNIT case officer on the Doctor File assumed you were back with the Doctor until a missing person report is filed two weeks later. Even then, he still think you were out there, travelling with the Doctor. It won't be the first time a companion of the Doctor is reported missing by a family member as in the case of one Rose Tyler or in your case, your work friends.

Two years later, an FBI raid in New York revealed a strange basement on abandoned building where they found a bunch of people whom they assumed victims of human experiment considering their pitiful state.

The breaking news on the worldwide were talking about how these victims were actually the missing people from all over the world and they have been missing in various different years, ranging from two years up to seven years. Most of their cases has been dropped for the lack of trails of their whereabouts.

Martha Jones has worked for UNIT for a while now and has been privy to the Doctor File UNIT has collected over the years. She has read about your file and distinctly wondered what happened to you. She had asked Kate Steward once why she didn't contact the Doctor regarding your whereabouts.

Kate, too, has assumed the Doctor has lost you somewhere along the line of the adventure. After all, the adventures with him always consist of danger and there were many instant of the Doctor's companion files be labeled as missing or as to be assumed of the worst case scenario, dead. Also, she didn't make a habit of contacting the Doctor regarding a former companion, believing the Doctor has move on from them to new ones.

So, imagine their surprise, when a leaked list of the victim names from the FBI case suddenly showed up on the internet with your name among them.

Believing the case must be alien in nature, UNIT swoop in to take the case from the FBI much to their annoyance. And as Martha is charged to treat these victims, they really didn't know what to make of the case. Is it alien in nature or just plain old human cruelty?

These victims are all malnourished, you could practically see their bones through the skins. On their arms littered many scars from oh so many injections. Their wrists were marked with the heaviness of their shackles. All of their hairs has turned silver, presumably from the experiments. They weren't responding well with the new treatments and they weren't responsive.

You sat on your bed in your assigned room, staring blankly at the wall, unresponsive like the rest. That is until Martha mentioned the Doctor and you became hysterical, screaming and crying, scratching your skins till you drew blood. You were quickly sedated.

Martha and Kate started to consider to call on the Doctor, believing the Doctor might have some answers in regard of your reaction of him.

"He would want to know!"

"Would he?" Kate asked. "Look at her."

"I am looking! She need the Doctor!"

"Are you sure about that?"

"You really want to hide this from the oncoming storm?"

In the end, Kate relented to Martha's demand to call the Doctor.

Kate expected that they will get the Twelfth Doctor and his current companion, Clara Oswald, but instead a young woman in rainbow striped and a hoodie appeared before them, followed by three people they assumed her new companion.

"Martha Jones!" The Doctor smiled brightly as she went to give her a hug.

"Doctor." Martha is still eyeing the Doctor's current body. "What an upgrade."

"I know right?" She grinned. "Fam, this is Martha Jones, one of my best friends. And that is Kate Steward, UNIT leader." She introduced them. "They are Yaz, Ryan and Graham, my fam."

"Fam?" Martha raised an eyebrow teasingly.

"So what is the big emergency?" The Doctor asked.

Immediately the mood turned sombre.

"(yn) (ln)?" The Doctor repeated in shock after Martha and Kate explained everything to her. She glanced at your medical file and winced at what she read there. "I want to see her."

"You will but we have to warn you, she might not react well to you, well, to the Doctor anyway." Kate said.

The Doctor frowned.

7777

The Doctor, upon reading your file, know she has to prepare herself to see you at your current condition. She tried to school her expression as she walked toward you hesitantly, knowing your fragile state. It broke her hearts to see one of her best friends ended up like this. But she has to talk to you, get some answers from you.

She bend her knees in front of you and spoke softly to you, "Hey, (yn)."

You didn't even look at her. You were still mostly sedated.

"It's me, the Doctor."

That got a small reaction from you as you flinched harshly at the name.

The Doctor noticed this as she swallowed down hard. "I have regenerated. I am a woman now. You see?"

You glanced at her with a hint of curiosity but it was quickly extinguished.

"I'm sorry that this happened to you. Could you tell me what happened?" The Doctor asked gently.

You didn't answer.

The Doctor sighed in disappointment but as she made to move away from you, you whispered hoarsely at her. Your voice is small and filled with tremor. She nearly couldn't catch what you says.

"Where were you?"

"I... What?"

"Where were you? I called you. I called you. I escaped and I called you. But you hung up. They dragged me back. You didn't come for me. Where were you? Why didn't you come for me? I waited. I waited. I waited. But you didn't come." You whispered in a broken tone. "Why didn't you come?"

The Doctor and everyone in the room froze at what you said.

"Doctor?" Yaz called out. "What is she talking about?"

"I...I have no idea..." The Doctor answered in a shaky tone. "I..."

And then she remembered. You did call her in her previous incarnation. He was with Clara on urgent mission when he got your call just as he was about to left the Tardis, bearing some equipment he need to save the day. He was surprised to get a call from you but he was at the times in an emergency and honestly the call was mostly static. He was busy and told you to call him back again later and hung up. He hung up. He never called you back, too busy with another emergencies.

The Doctor blanched at the realization. Her hearts shattered with the knowledge she play a part in your misery. She could have save you. He could have save you. But she didn't. He didn't. The Doctor has unknowingly abandoned you to your fate, has not even realized you were missing.

"I am sorry. I am so sorry." She whispered to you.

You glanced at her blankly as you shut down again.

7777

"It wasn't your fault." Martha tried to convince the Doctor. "You couldn't have known."

The Doctor is feeling numb. She tried to focus on the rest of the victims but none of them in any condition or in enough of a coherent mind to talk. Between the sorrow and the guilt, she is furious at whoever did this to you. She vowed to find them and make them pay dearly for hurting you. You were still her friend, her companion and she has a duty of care. Whoever did this to you, they better be ready to face the oncoming storm, human or alien, they will all pay.

Martha tried to calm her down, sensing her anger at herself and at whoever did this. "What she need right now is you by her side, help her with her recovery, Doctor."

The Doctor know Martha is right but to be honest, she is afraid to face you. She doesn't know how you could ever forgive her for abandoning you in your time of need. She knew she could never forgive herself. River was right, the Doctor really couldn't handle the damage sometimes, no wonder River always hide her pain from her husband. The Doctor really is rubbish at this.

An alarm sounded surprising the Doctor from her lament. Martha is quick to deal with an emergency when seemingly two of the victims having seizures. When they were pronounced dead on the scene, the Doctor know she has to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible before the same thing happened to you. She will not lose you to this, not when she just found you again. And God help those who cause the Doctor to lose another companion for she will show them no mercy.

A/N: Just a short fic to pass the time. So this fic is also about Thirteenth Doctor having to deal with the 'mess' her previous incarnations unknowingly left behind. Originally I plan to make this longer with reader in a process of recovery but died halfway after reconcile with the Doctor but I just don't have the patience to write it hence I just left it at that.

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iron-parkr · 3 years

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Alright, I'll ask. How did you pick the fic title? Because gotta say "Count the Cost" has meaning, there, for sure lol

How did you pick your ocs' names? Do any of them mean anything?

This has been sitting in my inbox for a couple days and I'm so sorry!

So usually my titles come from song lyrics or something of that nature. "Choose Something Like a Star" is the title of Callie Jo's fic, and is actually the title of a poem by Robert Frost! We were going to sing an arranged version of the poem as a song in one of the choirs at university and I thought the lines fit well with Callie's story of looking at the Doctor for so long as someone to be worshipped, to give her life meaning, and eventually learning that the Doctor is simply a person who will make mistakes and will sometimes burn too brightly for her to handle. Idk I think it's pretty neat haha

"A Single Thread of Gold", Bernie's fic, comes from "invisible string" by Taylor Swift! Bernie's fic centers on her jumping around the Doctor's timeline, and the idea that there's something intentionally pulling the two of them toward each other, a thread tying them together and binding them with one another, which eventually leads to them falling in love, always really appealed to me, which is why I chose that title!

Now, "Count the Cost." Anna Pond, my beloved, probably has the most spoilery title of the three. It comes from a poem written for the show, specifically the episode 'A Good Man Goes to War', in which a lot of spoiler stuff happens that I won't say because I don't wanna ruin it if you do end up watching the show haha. But the poem is:

Demons run when a good man goes to war Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies Night will fall and the dark will rise When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost The battle’s won, but the child is lost

That last little bit? Demons run but count the cost, the battle's won but the child is lost? Very big foreshadowing for Anna's story, which I'm really quite proud of :D

As for the names, some of them just kinda happened and others took forever to figure out. I think I had Callie and Bernadette just sitting in my list of future OC names and I decided 'hey, these OCs will have these names!' Callie is short for Caroline, which in some cases means 'joy' or 'song of happiness', which is kind of ironic because Callie's story is not usually one of joy lol, and the Jo in Callie Jo is short for Joelle, the inspiration for which came from Joey @alinastarkhov! And Fraizer came from a town near where I live haha.

I wanted Bernie to have a last name that had to do with music somehow, because some of the characters call her Birdie and her nickname from the Doctor is his songbird, so you know, kinda needed the 'song' part of that. And Keke @kazinejghafa helped me pick between Singer and one other one I can't remember.

I think Anna's gave me the most trouble. Keke also helped me a lot with this one. Because I wanted her to have a name that started with 'A' just like her sister Amy, but there was another spoilery component to it that put a difficult twist into the naming process. But Keke was amazing and helped throw out tons of ideas and stuff and then Anna just stuck! And it's brilliant!

Thank you so much for asking!!

#answered #day tag #oc: anna pond #fic: count the cost #oc: bernie singer #fic: a single thread of gold #oc: callie jo frazier #fic: choose something like a star #fd: doctor who #**my ocs**#anna's title might be my favorite just because of the massive foreshadowing haha #but also i love the others as well #let's be honest they're all my babies

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raywritesthings · 3 years

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Ship Meme

I was tagged by both @ciceroisthefamilycat and @the-white-w0lf, so thank you both!

1. favorite ship

Can’t do it, how dare you? Instead, I think I will summarize at the end of this list what I think my favorite ships all tend to contain.

2. first ship: (Mary Poppins and Bert, Mary Poppins)

These two were OTP before child me even knew what an OTP was. The only bit I liked from the stage musical more than the movie was them kissing each other on the cheek.

3. first ship you were crazy for: (The Doctor and River Song, Doctor Who)

Oh man, can I just sit there for hours thinking about these two. Doctor/River was probably the first time I got into writing fanfiction specifically for the ship as opposed to just playing around with the characters for fun (it’s all on a very old FFN account - no, I’m not sharing the penname). There’s just so many layers to their dynamic and a crazy amount of chemistry to carry it off. The only reason I don’t still write as much for them as I used to is just because I wrote so much I’d need to come up with new ideas; but every so often, I still do.

4. newest ship favorite queer-platonic ship: The Doctor and his Ponds (The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, Doctor Who)

I haven’t been watching much lately, so I don’t really have any new ships at the moment and thought I’d highlight a dynamic that goes through a lot of different stages and results in so much depth and so much unsaid. The development of Amy and Rory’s characters and how their relationship plus their relationships with the Doctor and their growth into a three-person unit is endlessly fascinating to me (and I used to write a lot of fics about it, too). Not once did any character have to refer to the other two as a “fam” in order for us to get that they are family in every sense, and not just through marriage (as funny as that is). It’s a totally different dynamic than any the Doctor has really had with a set of companions, and I don’t think we’ll ever really get it again. And I’m okay with that. They are unique in the universe.

5. ship you like but no one else does: Karolsen (Kara Danvers and James Olsen, Supergirl)

Sue me, I thought they were cute in the first and only season I watched, and a big factor in my decision to not continue watching the show was hearing they retconned Kara’s feelings for James and broke them up before they even got to have a date (and then got her together with a white guy who owned slaves on his old planet but if I think about that for too long that’s not gonna be great for my blood pressure). The least the writers could have done was try out writing them as a couple since they spent a whole season building up to it.

6. ship you wish was endgame: Lauriver (Dinah Laurel Lance/Black Canary and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Arrow)

Anyone that reads my fics or my various Arrow ask game posts knows how much I hate what was done to these two. And frankly, by abandoning this relationship, the writers ended up completely sabotaging their protagonist’s hero’s journey to the point where he’s largely regarded as the biggest jerk in the Arrowverse, not to mention the heaps of disrespect they shoved onto one of DC’s most beloved heroines, and for what? Steadily falling ratings and a reputation of what not to do when making an adaptation. Should’ve just delivered on what you promised.

7. ship you wish had more screen/page time

As much as I believe Ginny needed to have a life separate from Harry for most of the books in order to disprove the “obsessed fangirl” argument people make about her, I still can’t help but feel like she would have been an invaluable asset in the Horcrux Hunt (plus she deserved to destroy one after the Hell she went through as a girl thanks to one). I hope blvnk doesn’t mind but tbh it’s her versions of the characters I picture more than the movies these days.

8. ship you wish has more screentime: HarleyIvy (Harleen “Harley Quinn” Quinzel and Pamela “Poison Ivy” Isley, Harley Quinn)

Now that these two finally confessed their feelings for each other in the season 2 finale, it’d be nice to see them navigate being an actual couple in season 3, whenever that may drop.

9. ship you wish was canon: (The Doctor and Donna Noble, Doctor Who)

It is bizarre how perfect these two are for each other, and yet... On one hand, I get that Donna was meant to be something different after two successive companions had crushes on the Doctor. But damn, if RTD didn’t accidentally just end up showing off how much deeper and truer the love between these two was than the infatuations or puppy love that came before. Doctor Who isn’t really a show designed to have a permanent canon couple, but I sure wish these two had had a chance to be for a little while at least.

10. ship you want to be believe was canon: Piercintyre (Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce and “Trapper” John McIntyre, M*A*S*H)

This show was made in the 70s and set during the 50s, so obviously any kind of confirmation of non-platonic bonds between same-sex characters was going to be a no-no. But c’mon.

So, to get back to question 1, overall I think my ship preferences tend to involve friends (oftentimes best friends) whose relationships grow from the platonic to the romantic (or sometimes even the reverse). Even when there isn’t necessarily a deep foundation/past to the characters, there has to be common, shared interests or goals beyond thinking the other character is hot. A lot of times these ships end up having different stages or layers and even sometimes complications to them, but when the chips are down they’re there for each other (unless the writers force them to make some ridiculous OOC decision to keep their idea of a plot going, but I digress...)

I tag @colorofmymindposts @basmathgirl @1-of-those-things and anyone else interested in doing this.

#ship meme #tag game #hope this was amusing/enlightening or maybe none of the above for you #emerson replies

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