I'm sure [...] it's influenced by that, what he's [the Doctor's] been told recently, that, you know, his death is coming, his song is ending, there's certainly [...] the last jerk of a dying man, I think, in there, you know, why not? He's not going to go down without a fight, he's not going to go gently into that good night, he's going to rage against the dying of the light.
David Tennant in Doctor Who Confidential: Is There Life on Mars?
gonna reblog this post every time i get a migraine bc i鈥檝e tried to track them in every other way possible at this point and i always end up doing it for like two weeks and then forgetting abt it completely 馃檭
Literally can't get the image of marcia asleep on like. Some slightly tatty sofa in an abandoned house. And piled on top of her r these 3 tiny kids. And they just live like that bc marcia can't make the house look any nicer in case anyone sees into the windows. They can't use the upstairs bc the staircase has rotted the kitchen consists of a fire and 2 pots that were left behind in a cupboard and the bed is just. The sofa (and marcia if u happen to be 4 years old). And then silas comes along to take his kids back and marcia has to confront that she does in fact care abt those kids and she wasn't just taking care of them out of obligation 馃様馃様馃様 does she even know how to take care of children when they're not all basically homeless?? No she does not. But that doesn't matter <3
she acquires them at different times, jenna first and then the boys the next year. she tried not to acquire them, but jenna kept following her around (marcia doesn鈥檛 recognize her as the princess because the princess is supposed to be dead) and eventually gave up. together they saved septimus from the snow, and marwick found them shortly after because he considers himself responsible for septimus. they don鈥檛 leave her because they don鈥檛 want to go back to the young army and she鈥檚 safe enough, they think.
they warm up to her very fast despite her best efforts. the nights are very cold, and even though she sets them up in front of her best heating charms (she can鈥檛 risk the smoke from a fire) she often wakes up with jenna鈥檚 hair in her mouth, septimus crushing her legs, and marwick鈥檚 foot in her kidneys. she has no idea how to look after children but as long as they鈥檙e not freezing or starving she must be doing something right, right?