#and then there's dhawan's the master and margarita

[roxannepolice]

#you know where this is going #but this is szał uniesień (frenzy of exultations) by władysław podkowiński from 1893 #and yes it was quite scandalous in fin the siecle #and there's a very dramatic backstory of passion and heartbreak behind it #that culminated with the artist cutting the canvas after breaking up with the model (the woman not the horse) #but onto the tag rants #I have been thinking of writing a review of I am the Master short story collection #which obv resulted in another wave of frustration with chibnall era's essentialism posing as existentialism #the collection has three stories relying on paralleling the master with the doctor #master of disguise where ainley dresses up as four #and night harvest which is basically an rtd era companion introduction episode #except the enigmatic stranger met by a too-curious-for-her-own-good young woman is the master #simple and works out as well as you might expect #(ainley gets outed because of gendered language and when you think simm will overthrow an evil system he goes i'll make it more efficient) #and then there's dhawan's the master and margarita #and obv i have an unjust grudge against this one because this title felt like a promise that was not delivered on #but objectively the story is good! just a bit overstuffed feels more like a draft of a novel than a novella #but generally the idea is that the master has his own pertwee-like camaraderie in soviet version of unit #and? has to? come up? with? illusions? to? *be*? the doctor? #idk if the aithor knew where potd will go or if cc read the story and thought *omg i have been so brilliant all along* #but this whole thing just feels so. #infertile. #like that's the only thing i feel when i look at cc's idea of the master as a self annihilating* character #*not self destructive they've always been self-destructive because destruction is a condition of construction #like berger's clown who always gets punched to the ground and always gets up they're an ironically redeeming figure #and their NATURAL similarities to the doctor are such a fruitful concept they were doing great fuelling the chemistry for 50 years #and now this. just. where do you go from this? #beyond spending a moment feeling moved by how moved i am what is to be my intellectual response? what's the discussion? #beyond but you see the doctor is good :33 because they make friends :33 and they make friends because they are good :33 ∞ #tw: negativity

[rowanthestrange]

The Master And Margarita Jacket

(Matthew Sweet’s Doctor Who version…but with a frisson of Bulgakov’s)

It’s done! With every bit of unphotographical glittery metallic paint that I can’t capture on camera even if my iphone skills weren’t rubbish.

@spoonietimelordy, @rearranging-deck-chairs, @bearinabandana and everyone else who Did The Reading of that one ‘I Am The Master’ novel but I’ve forgotten to tag because i’m so sleep deprived i can’t think any more but hopefully other people will, assemble!

Detailed closeups and explanations (with some spoilers) below:

Starting front top right side (face on). -Margarita herself, biting a mushroom. A more Cockatoo beak than Macaw, with red face instead of white, to make what exactly she is more mysterious. -The Master Who logo here is just gold, any shading didn’t look right when it was so thin.

Front top right pocket. Purple, of course.

-Next section down are these three. The ‘Never Stop Growing’ patch is my second favourite patch of the bunch. So many Master Themes, and plot relevant. -Then the little ‘Best Buds’ with the heart in the middle. I was inordinately proud of that idea. (Buds, budding, bigenerated vibe). -And then ‘Obscene Lotus’. That’s mentioned early in the book, and while it’s just described as a big purplish lotus, there’s so much sexual charging in that scene that, well, you gotta.

Me, reusing the ‘budding’ pun in a different capacity? It’s more likely than you think.

-The cover of the Penguin Clothbound Classic version of the original The Master And Margarita, that took multiple days to complete and so much agony. -The patch is a blank one that I bought, then painted the design to look like one of those stamps people sometimes put in books. Painted the border the same colour, then tea-stained it to look like old paper. Certainly in real life the colour comes out nicely. I couldn’t find his autograph (and sadly there’s an unrelated artist with the same name lol) but he got his doctorate in Wilkie Collins so I just looked up examples of that guy’s writing and tried to give it a bit of that vibe. Hopefully it’s the thought that counts. But hey, if anyone ever meets him and gets me a signature sample I can just redo it.

General mushroom patch - I like the fire kind of vibe and the looming.

To the other side!

So. You’re asking what’s with the daisy theme. Fair. So Margarita is also another name for a daisy in some languages. I choose to lean into that because it’s also the widely known symbol of Three - with that scene where he talks to Jo and recounts how a hermit living on a mountain helped dispel his depression by getting him to focus on the beauty of the flower (“and it was the most daisiest daisy”). Given that Three is essentially a character in the book, this felt like the vibe we’re going for. It’s perennial. It also is a healer of bruises and wounds, how can that not be relevant meta wise too to the Master’s new companion, hm? And okay yes, Mikhail does say he’s not a botanist, but if you can think of another way to get that message across other than botanical illustration page…

I like the patch because lightbulb, idea, full of mushrooms etc.

-‘I Am The Master’ being the name of the book the story is contained in, plus Fun With Identity. -Next the one bit of Real Art that I attempted to copy in glittery acrylics - Magritte’s ‘The Treachery Of Images’ or more commonly known ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’. The story not only of the Master’s experiences recently, but the story’s themes of hallucinations and deceptions; as well as being the symbol of Russian!Brigadier. -This patch is great isn’t it? A play on the Master’s apparent alcoholism or Russian blending in as you prefer, and of course, The Lighthouse of Martin!Doctor fame.

-Mikhail’s guitar for playing Brown Sugar and other ominous inference songs. -The formula triangle of Love, Food, and Music (I couldn’t think of a self-evident way to show his approach to food - Russian dumplings are, well, not exactly distinct). On its side so the glittery pink triangle points in a certain direction because he’s escaped places and I can do ominous inferences too Sweet. -Maybe controversial? There is a failed love story component in here though, that I just couldn’t leave unmarked. The Doctor, K’vo, and Jo all have their parts to play in that.

Now for the arms:

Here’s the right-side looking-on arm. -I repainted this mushroom patch to be the orange and green of K’vo’s. -You’ve already seen the long image of it above, so here’s just a snippet closeup of the motif that goes along both arms. Daisies linked in a chain with the words ‘daisiest daisy’ (if you wonder why everything’s outlined by the way, a) i like the style, and b) it makes glitter infinitely more legible and clearer to see if there’s a dark matt border around it breaking it up, especially with something as variable coloured as denim). There’s the sunflower in the middle because Margarita loves her sunflower seeds.

This is the other arm. Margarita holding a margarita in a margarita. What’s more to add? I used my shittest white (mixed with my fabric medium as everything else has been at every step) rather than @yesokayiknow’s excellent suggestion of Liquitex, which has saved me everywhere else, including those light patches. But here shitty kids basics acrylic is translucent enough to do some excellent work pretending to be glass and ice. The parrot patch has been altered to make the beak entirely black and her face red instead of macaw white, to keep her species ambiguous as literary theme demands.

To the back!

This Master Who logo is bigger, so it has the Master’s purple highlights like bruising.

Here is a small UNIT patch I modified to be a Russian one, globe focused on their continent (roughly). Sweet just translated the word ‘unit’ for Russian!Brigadier’s group, and the text is the re-cyrilliced version of that.

Skipping to the bottom…

Here referencing O’s collection of Doctor Information, Sweet adding to that with having distinct scrapbooks. ‘Manuscripts Don’t Burn’ is a line from Bulgakov’s The Master And Margarita (spoken by Satan in fact, mhmm) and became something of a rallying cry for oppressed Russian artists. I have ‘Author Unknown’ for the obvious meta with his and the Doctor’s memories, and likewise, the fact that flames are clearly present and burning lets the viewer come to whatever conclusion they like. #133 was chosen for the simple fact that in my copy of Bulgakov’s novel, and the one depicted on the front of the jacket, it is page 133 which starts the chapter The Hero Enters, where we meet The Master who has renounced all other names (who is very much, as Interference notes, the Doctor). They are glitter paint titles done on Hemline repair patches, black, brown, white, and navy blue. I know anything too painty on that area of the back will risk a lot of wear, and these are easily replaced when necessary (if still hours of lettering).

To the left most side…

This was the most expensive patch I bought, £12. But worth it. The mushroom stalk is silk.

Here I depicted in silhouette the scene of the Master climbing up to the Doctor on the giant mushroom. I chose silhouette so as not to draw the eye too much. I also added some 2ply black-black glitter cotton as part of his climbing equipment, attached on by some silver stitches for the…things I can’t remember the name of. It gives it a bit more 3D effect, but also keeps the thread close enough it shouldn’t pull on anything.

And at its base we have a reference to Mikhail’s chosen middle name. I chose to believe it’s relevant, Sweet’s too deep into this for it not to be. This is a cover I edited to highlight the namesake who actually travelled Russia and collected the tales of this book, and indeed, it does include the story of Koschei The Deathless. I edited the robe to be red instead of its original yellow, and added the quintessential Time Lord collar. But I think it’s perfectly passable. This is iron on transfer paper (dark) onto a very light grey polycotton to turn it into a patch. It…*cough* hasn’t had its edges finished or strictly been attached yet, but that’s a bit of handwork I can do as and when.

So finally back up to the middle

I’ve expanded out @spoonlesss-artbook fantastic angel-winged Margarita’s Master art. The Redbubble bag was only that big as it was (hemmed with bostik fabric glue like a true pro and attached as a panel) so it cut off a little, and it didn’t go the whole way anyway, so now we get some endings of the feathers, some all the way up to the arm of the jacket. I tried to blend it into the fire, one creature of both. And trying to get a multidimensional feel, boundary breaking. And again, very glittery irl so plays very well with the fire theme. It was fun when it came to colour-matching particularly the blue wing at the top, because the glitter gives it a bit of a sheen. I blunted it with a few careful washes of black so it still sparkles but is the right colour in most angles.

The Redbubble edit cuts @spoonietimelordy’s signature, so I copied it from the original and moved it over to the left side in some sparkly silver. Also internet doxxing my real life self on the bottom of the back as my own signature.

Doesn’t look like the sort of thing that would take weeks when you see it all together, but I’m really happy with it. I’m so grateful for everyone who’s shown their brilliant art to me and shared posts about painting all these years, cus it allowed me to absorb stuff and let me come out of the gate swinging! It feels thoroughly addictive. Even if I only know ‘use tiny brush’ for almost everything and glitter metallic is great for hiding sins. (And a ‘Ha!’ in the face of my mother keeping me away from it my whole life because of mess - I never got even a single speck on any clothes that wasn’t this jacket. I could’ve been doing this for years rather than just picking up a brush at the age of thirty-damn-one. But at least I’ve got it now).

And thanks to Matthew Sweet for feeding the worms in my brain too.

#the master and margarita #i am the master #matthew sweet #doctor who #dw fanart #the master #dhawan!master #jacket painting #mine #:) #(and you never ask a gentleman how much his patches cost)

[sanyuyuyu]

Spy Master finally met the Doctor

He was breathless and exhausted

The Doctor was fake and the comfort was fake

But this is exactly what he longs for

It hurts me by the idea that Master need to cheat himself to spend this time

“We’ve come a long way, you and I,’ said the Doctor.

‘I’ve come further than you,’ replied the Master.”

How delightful

How cruel

#dhawan!master #doctor who #spy master #third doctor #thoschei #doctor who fanart #my artwork #the master and margarita #sacha dhawan #Jon pertwee

[spoonlesss-artbook]

@rowanthestrange, Margarita's Master is now on my redbubble!

#digital art #digital painting #doctor who #doctor who fan art #the master #the master and margarita #dhawan!master

[tricksterik]

k'vo and the master because the master and margarita novel has captivated me (i'm not sure k'vo looks like that but i tried to go by description??)

#myart #dhawan master #doctor who #dw fanart #spy!master #the master #dhawan!master #doctor who novel #i am the master #dw the master and margarita #k'vo #i need an official picture of k'vo.

[higheldertala]

also i would have added a line from the master referencing jo when he was at unit, something like ‘where’s jo i always liked her’

#but maybe that’s me being biased 😅 #but also not because he speaks fondly of her in the master and margarita so i like to think im somewhat right #dhawan!master #doctor who

[mx-melancholic]

My biggest sin is that I have typed "the master and margarita" so many times it is now automatic in my keyboard, all the while not even referring to the novel by bulgakov

#doctor who #the master #dhawan!master #the master and margarita

[grxygreenrain]

I finished reading the Master and Margarita and thought it would be funny if O actually went to the Amazon years before the events of Spyfall and happened to run into a surprisingly grateful parrot that he's not actually met yet.

More under the cut:

(I also think the Master should just like have a macaw. And Ik that amazon macaws live like 50 years so depending on how old Margarita was yadda yadda– i think shes fine bc its scifi and I choose that.)

Unblurred ver:

#the master doctor who #the master and margarita #spymaster #dhawan!master #doctor who #O doctor who #i am the master: legends of the renegade time lord #i am the master book #Wahoo my art tag

[spoonietimelordy]

ok so for abusing capitalism to get art thing, I think here is my short list which you could pick from:

-Dhawan!Master with parrot (red macaw??) angel wings.

-Cat boi Dhawan!Master. Ears obvious headband or real, either is fine, pose etc. decision yours.

-Dhawan!Master (clean shaven) and Jo (elderly) friendship/ship whichever.

-Allsorts art.

-Probably anything else you think I’d fancy, might have missed, slash you want an excuse to try - let’s be honest you know my tastes.

(if the text is formatted weird, i’m sorry, it’s not letting me change it for some tungl.hel reason)

Let's go for the master and margarita art! I know you really want it ^^

so it's gonna be 40€

will be done by the end of the week.

#art commisions #fixed the price #I misread it as both the master and the parrot but not it's the master as the parrot #so just one character

[agenderhyde]

the master can't hypnotize themselves, nor robots, but they can hypnotize lizards

#cloudy rambles #doctor who #i am the master #the master and margarita #dhawan!master #the master

[jewishjanetandco]

Excerpt from “The Master and Margarita” by Matthew Sweet (final story in the I Am The Master anthology); pg 250

“And you admire this doctor,” said K’vo, matter-of-factly. “You want to be like him. So you made a copy of his life.”

“Admire him?” scoffed the Master. “He lives in a police box!”

“With his assistant?”

“No. Not as far as I know, anyway.”

K’vo paused. “What is she like, this assistant?”

“Loyal. Brave. So brave. I’ve seen her courage overturn the world. Banish demons.”

“You sound envious,” reflected K’vo.

“Perhaps I am.”

#beyond the clouds ( ooc ) #i control everything! ( dhawan!master ) #k'vo tag;; #adventures in time & space ( doctor who ) #i am the master #the master and margarita #i LOVE that the master admires jo. they just won't ever admit it.

[how-masterful]

No thoughts head empty only the master and margarita remains

#that story was EVERYTHING #and yes this blog will most likely have some spoilers so please be aware! #sacha dhawan #doctor who #dhawan!master #the master #bbc doctor who #spymaster #sacha!master #bbc #i am the master #the master and margarita

[rowanthestrange]

Since Dhawan!Master knew how to play the guitar in The Master And Margarita, given the transferability of the relevant skills, he could probably play the ukulele.

#novel: i am the master #the master and margarita #yes this felt like an important enough thought #to break hibernation to post it #and i stand by that decision #pretty-boy dhawan!master #could definitely roleplay #as a protagonist in #a hollywood-masquerading-as-indie film from the 2010’s #(or zooey deschenal’s love interest) #(who turns out to be a murderer) #(but you do find yourself rooting for him over her) #(maybe he kills her 15 minutes in and takes her life over) #(despite clearly being physically nothing like her) #(and weirdly everyone seems to be accepting this) #(and now he finds hiding the murder is the least of his problems) #(initiating a comedy of errors where he actually tries to prove it) #(just to get out of this life he stole) #(but he finds he can’t) #(he’s playing the ukulele) #(unable to stop himself) #(compulsively creating quirky girl photo collages on the wall) #(with the polaroid that’s permanently strapped round his neck) #(ordering $12 complicated starbucks orders) #(he hates coffee) #(and forever viewers will argue over) #(if it’s just a funny film) #(with a freaky friday kind of thing going on) #(or a metaphor for identity and locking oneself into stereotypes) #(and that the characters were the same person the whole time)

[sanyuyuyu]

Mikhail Afanasyevich Gospodinov

Spy master in the Soviet era

From the Master and Margarita

#dhawan!master #doctor who #spy master #doctor who fanart #the master and margarita #sacha dhawan

[bearinabandana]

Some of my journal doodles from the start of this year til now

1. Clown 🤡

2. Dhawan!master regen ?????? The concept?? Idk I don't remember

3. Lol gun

4. Crayon bored stuff & dinosaurs & hatching bored stuff

5. Kombi <3 with flowers

6. 13&master&yaz sketches plus @justepicstreetwolf's children plus that other page that I already posted I think

7. The master and margarita finale

8. People??? And the digestive system?????? AND the cardiovascular system?? I guess

9. Girl & post-it room

10. Lol gun again because I have rabies. PULMONARY SYSTEM THIS TIME >:D !!!! Uh.. and the digestive system again. And a heart. And some crayon guys

I have more :( but Tumblr just allows 10 pics so I choose the nicest of them

#my art

[fuckyeahthemaster]

List of Doctor Who Novels with the Master

Since this is pretty much becoming a Master Fanblog, I thought it would be cool to make a list of all the Doctor Who Novels out there that feature the Master or are heavily revolved around him for all the fellow Master lovers. 

PLEASE NOTE: This features written books only, not audios, poems, comics or TV episodes! There will be a separate list for those individual things!

If there are any I’ve missed, feel free to tell me so I can add it to the list. 

Multiple Masters

The Quantum Archangel

I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord

The Eight Doctors

The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy (from Myths & Legends #3)

The Face of the Enemy

First Frontier

Early Life/Koschei

The Dark Path  

Divided Loyalties 

Harvest of Time 

Delgado!Master

Deadly Reunion

Crispy!Master

The Dead Travel Fast (Part of the “I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord” stories.) 

Ainley!Master

Prime Time

A Handful of Stardust

A Master of Disguise (Part of the “I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord” stories.) 

Simm!Master

Alit in Underland (Part of the “The Missy Chronicles” stories.) 

The Night Harvest (Part of the “I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord” stories.) 

Missy/Gomez!Master

The Missy Chronicles

Missy's Magical Mystery Mission (Part of the “I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord” stories.) 

The Wonderful Doctor of Oz

Dhawan!Master

The Master and Margarita (Part of the “I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord” stories.) 

#doctor who eu #the master #masterlist