#tenmartha

[watchriverdale]

oh my god sorry the thing about the doctor and martha is that the doctor is doing so so bad. like hes spiraling and he knows it and he knows he needs someone with him and this time its not to show someone the wonders of the universe, its literally just because if he doesnt get some company soon hes going to kill himself. and so he picks (seduces) martha because shes brave and smart and competent and HE leans on HER the ENTIRE TIME!! he constantly puts his life in her hands and leaves her to save the day because he trusts that she can because THATS WHY HE PICKED HER!!! he picked someone just like him to look after him and then he has the AUDACITY and the GALL to turn around like why are you acting like me martha. Martha. why are you working for unit (like i did) why are you a soldier (like i was) why are you going to blow up your planet for the greater good (LIKE I DID!!!!!!). he chose a medical student and then was surprised when she took up the doctor mantle. he is so stupid

#tweaking the tenmartha amv and. urgh!!!!! #dw #tenmartha

[mooseglue]

MARTHA ❤️❤️❤️❤️ if Martha jones has zero fans I am dead

#doctor who #doctor who fanart #dw #martha jones #martha jones fanart #tenmartha #tenth doctor fanart #tenth doctor

[man049]

#martha jones #tenmartha #the tenth doctor #10th doctor #doctor who #nuwho

[twelvemartha]

#when they hug and the doctor picks martha up #you agree

#dwedit #dwgifs #marthajonesedit #tenthdoctoredit #tenth doctor #martha jones #ten #tenmartha #ten x martha #david tennant #freema agyeman #* #*gifs #the bounce when he lets her go....

[thenorthernchild]

here’s the cut opening scene from daleks in manhattan if anyone cares/has not seen it idk. anyways my favourite part is the eleven seconds of pure silence + tardis rattling

#the smile at the end i’m totally being So Normal about this #tenmartha #martha jones #tenth doctor #ten x martha

[northernfireart]

If you need me, I'll bе in my coffin You could come knocking, and I'll raise hell for you

#had this in my mind for too long #and I sacrificed three hours of sleep for this #was it worth it? #ye. #at least i hope so. let's see of I hate this tomorrow morning #song is: Will Wood - Vampire Reference In A Minor Key #for all my non will wood enjoyers: you should become one #doctor who #dw fanart #dw #dr who #doctor who fanart #10th doctor #tenth doctor #tenmartha #martha jones #martha jones fanart #northernfire art

[neat-crows]

So I've been re-watching dr who for the first time ever rn, with a friend who's never seen it before, so I'm seeing all these episodes for the first time since I was 13 and picking up on a LOT that I never noticed before, and holy shit the tenth doctor is SO WEIRD to Martha Jones, and nothing exemplifies that more than the sontaran stratagem/the poison sky.... like..... he is SO weird the whole way down.

When they first see each other again their introduction directly mirrors Jack and The Doctor's in Utopia

"Doctor" "martha Jones" laugh and hug

"doctor" "captain Jack" laugh and hug

And then! they have a normal interaction!!! WIN he asks how her family is and how she is, and they're smiling and genuinely seem like friends very happy to see each other!

And then.... donna drops the fiance bomb.

He turns with a look of.... almost anger? disbelief? and asks WHAT MAN?? Then martha explains who he is and the doctor....

he looks? upset? and then like, resigned? AND THEN martha admits that her fiance is kind of similar to the doctor, and then donna asks "Is he skinny?" and his reactions

is to make a face like "yeahh" AND START NODDING????? like he's taken Martha's admission to mean she's with a man that's just like him, and honestly seems a bit smug over it, and then when Martha says no-

he looks so taken off guard and betrayed ??????????? BRO we are less than 5 minutes in..............

He then proceeds to be tetchy with her, and to be fair this is mostly because of her involvement with unit, and his discomfort with how militaristic she's gotten - which I think comes both from anger at himself for how he's changed her, and also discomfort that she's no longer "his" Martha, she's changed, and he doesn't know her as well anymore.

he tells her off, he's snide and judgmental, he won't even look at her until she tells him to, and he's honestly bitchy - Until she explains herself, and tells him off for being so judgmental, i also think his line "oh so it's my fault" is very telling because..... it literally is? like yes, you put her in situations where she had to become harder and more used to violence......... and he KNOWS it. He's doing what he did all through series 3, which is feel guilty or bad and then take it out on Martha (that's for another post though) until she stands up for herself (get his ass!!) and then when she's finished she looks at him

determined, but eyes darting back and forth waiting for his reaction, on some small level hoping for his approval

and only THEN does he start to smile, and he tells her "that sounds more like Martha Jones." she's back to feeling like she's still his (to him, Martha is acting incredibly normal and platonic). The doctor has always had a weird possessiveness with Martha, going all the way back to their first episode where he hand picked her, and in this second of her looking for his approval, he feels that again, and he IMMEDIATELY started flirting again - please go watch the scene it boggles my mind how fast he switches.

I also want to be clear, Martha isn't flirting back, she's acting extremely normally. She's clearly taken the time away from him to get over, not only romantic feelings, but any anger as well. She seems to have come to terms with how she feels with everything that happened, and she loves and cares about him, but she's not naive to his faults - I also don't think she even picks up on him being weird to her in this scene. She's no longer in tune with his every mood swing, she's not here to fix him, or cater to his needs, and so she no longer notices these small moments from him.

AND THEN.... the clone.

He never flirts with the clone. The ONLY time, is the very first time they interact, before he's realized something is wrong.

he calls her over to come with him, and his face is honestly way too close to hers. bro is a menace. but then, maybe 2 minutes later, he immediately clocks that this is not Martha.

he realizes there has to be a spy and only has to consider for half a second before he turns and asks about her family, he's already realized she's acting a little off, and the second she answers he's 100% certain.

and he gets MAD. he tells her Donna went home because she's not like her, she's not "a soldier" clearly a shot at the sontarans, but also another subtle test, the real Martha wouldn't let that slide, and he wouldn't say that to the real Martha. He continues saying Avanti, instead of Allonse-y, which is interesting, because he already knows. He's not doing this to confirm his suspicions, he's doing this as retaliation. To confirm to himself he knows Martha better than this fake, he's toying with her. BUT. He doesn't go to save Martha.

The next episode, the doctor's daughter, he refuses to accept the label of soldier, but Jenny rightfully points out that he strategizes like one And this is one such moment. He knows Martha is a clone, he's mad and upset, he could go save her right away, but he doesn't. He doesn't because it serves him best to allow her to keep shutting down the nuclear launch.

It reminds me a lot of when Cassandra possessed Rose in New Earth, he played a long for a little bit, but that was just to figure out what was happening. He IMMEDIATELY tried to fix it, I just wonder if it was any other companion if he would have done this. If it was Donna would he have left her for so long? even if it was strategic? it's this weird conflict the doctor has now that he's very very protective and a bit possessive, but he also treats her like an equal on the battlefield, and it's a weird... trust? he has in her to take care of herself.

I kind of don't want to call it trust because that sounds too positive, but I don't know another way to phrase it, but it's a forced independence and self sufficiency.

but then, he finally goes to save her

He goes and cradles her face gently, and NOTABLY says "good, still alive" MEANING HE DIDN'T KNOW??? and still left her for that long...

but he holds her gently, and fully ignores the clone. He has his back to her, and then proceeds to taunt her. He tells her he clocked her right away because of the pupil size, thin hair, and he says she smells. but we know this isn't true.

Sure maybe those physical traits are true, but that's not how he figured it out, we saw how he did it, he clocked on because he knows Martha so well, but he can't admit that. He can't admit that he knows her just as much as she knows him, just like he couldn't tell Rose he loved her.

He is so deeply angry at this clone, he makes fun of her, he yells at her, he looks at her likes she's nothing

This is his face when he kills her. He doesn't talk to her, or even TRY to save her. And we know she is alive, she has memories, and her own thoughts and feelings, and the doctor kills her while gloating because of his immense anger for hurting Martha. An anger that is also guilt.

he does not speak to her like a person (which directly leads into his treatment of Jenny in the next ep).

Parallel that to how Martha treats her, they talk about their family and she even calls the clone Martha. She really is a doctor in a way ten tried and often failed at.

And then at the end, Donna asks Martha to come with them, and she says no, and that she's happy at home, but she's better for having traveled and come back.

And the doctor looks at her

With an obvious sadness, but also acceptance. He clearly wants her here, with him, but I think he's finally come to accept that that'll never happen, and he needs to let her go.

Edit: I Like their dynamic(mostly) This is not an anti tenmartha post Him being a freak is compelling

#dr who #doctor who #david tennat #tenth doctor #Martha Jones #10th doctor #the sontaran stratagem #the poison sky #the doctor's daughter #sontarans #unit #donna noble #tenmartha #kind of #long post #it kind of got out of control #didn't realize I had so much to say #sorry #I may have lost my point also but like #I want to make it so clear that martha is acting completely normal here

[casasupernovas]

DAVID: There's a great bit of writing, where Martha comes into the Tardis at the end of episode 13 and the Doctor tries to paper over the cracks. He says "we'll go - there's a - there's a burst of starfire right now let's go there or we'll go back in time we'll meet Agatha Christie let's do stuff let's go come on! He's not facing the emotional truth -

MARTHA: Yeah can you put me through?

DAVID: And She says I can't.

MARTHA: I just can't.

DAVID: And all the Doctor says is okay.

THE DOCTOR: Okay.

DAVID: And he knows. Because of course he knows. 'Cause he knows he's not behaved that well to her as well, he knows he's been thoughtless sometimes, and in that moment he accepts it. And yet, she saved his life, she saved the universe.

#doctor who #martha jones #tenth doctor #10th doctor #tenmartha #david tennant #freema agyeman #doctor who confidential

[khruschevshoe]

You think being dumped by text is hard? Imagine being one of the Tenth Doctor's exes (or not-quite-exes, we're counting brutal platonic break-ups here too).

#tenmartha #ten x jack #jack harkness #martha deserved better #martha jones #rose tyler #tenrose #timepetals #joan redfern #river song #lady christina de souza #donna noble #doctordonna #tenth doctor #doctor who #listen ten was a major heartbreaker #some of these are more serious than others #some of these were not his fault #but it's still funnier to make this this way #poll #the master #thoschei #astrid peth #can y’all tell mt preferences #god i should have added “don't you think she looks tired”

[aq2003]

ten and martha thankk you for the dialectics amv

#tenth doctor #martha jones #doctor who #dr who #ten and martha #my edits #aqmvs #tenmartha #i think they have every insanity and i am kind of totally obsessed with them. et cetera. #i originally planned to draw a comic but then realized my art skills are not good enough to do it justice gbless #also. not making that ten + flight of the crows amv bc it will change my mental health for the worse <3 #the lyrics to this fit so well if you uhh if you're brain damaged enough about s3 like i am and you're misinterpreting the song in #one specific way #10 era

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Does it ever hit you that Martha sat down in New New York and told the Doctor that she needed his honesty more than she needed to go home and that religious music played in the background at that scene and it was almost framed as a confession, in the most religious sense, and go a little bit feral? That as early as her third episode, she was framed as his equal, equally divine, equally a doctor, able to confront him, able to make him honest, able to sympathize with him, able to abide with him? That so few companions have ever spent so much time in one time period with the Doctor (1969/1913, for example), being with him/her, not running, just staying? That for every fucking thing Ten did wrong as John Smith/after coming back to himself in Human Nature/Family of Blood, he trusted her enough to leave himself vulnerable and human in her care, because he trusted her as a Doctor, because she was just as much a Doctor as he was? That Martha was, more than any other companion of the Tenth Doctor's, his equal, that her final speech about not being second was not just talking about her not being second best to Rose but about being second best to him? That she finally understood what had been true from the moment that they met and she closed Stoker's eyes and the Doctor realized that she had not just bravery and cleverness but a kindness that he had forgotten, that Martha Jones, more than anything else, has been and always will be The Doctor?

#meta #martha jones #tenmartha #tenth doctor #tenth doctor x martha jones #ten #put some respect on her name #martha jones deserved better #listen tenmartha were made for each other the same way that ninerose 11amy twelveclara were made for each other #they were made to change each other to depend on each other to have faith in each other to make each other their religion #we're always talking about the religious implications of ninerose 11amy twelveclara on this site as we should but the religion of tenmartha #unparalleled #they get outright religious music #they get hymns to frame their scenes #abide with me #AND SHE GODDAMN ABIDES #listen i'm pissed with what rtd gave martha post-s3 #especially post journey's end #no mention of her in the 60th anniversary specials & throwing her together with mickey in end of time #the last glimpse we have of her has nothing to do with her arc #gridlock #human nature #family of blood #last of the time lords #the doctorification of martha jones

[twelvemartha]

I'm right here. Standing in front of you. Please just… just see me.

#doctorwhoedit #rtdedit #dwedit #dwgifs #marthajonesedit #tenedit #freema agyeman #david tennant #martha jones #ten #tenmartha #ten x martha #* #*gifs #Defending Martha Jones Online Isn't Enough. I Need A Gun

[thenorthernchild]

the absolutely worst genre of anti-martha posts have to be the ones where they make her out to be some kind of predator. “oh, but he put up such CLEAR boundaries! martha refused to respect them and kept making him uncomfortable!”

…you mean the same guy that did this?

insane but i digress. also the same guy that did this?

even more insane. brother i promise you didn’t have to do all that. you could have spat and it would have worked.

also the same guy that did this:

you get what i’m saying.

my point is that he constantly blurs the lines of their relationship. kisses her, then tells her it was just a genetic transfer (doesn’t make sense), then he invites her to travel with him (oh just one more trip, oh just one more), shares A BED with her at HIS behest, and you lot can’t come to the conclusion that maybe martha is confused, that he’s sending mixed signals? no, she has to be a creep. get a grip icl

#like please ask yourself why that’s your immediate thought #doctor who #martha jones #tenth doctor #freema agyeman #david tennant #tenmartha #ten x martha

[loveinstreams]

ten so obviously loving martha but trying to stop himself because he knows he’s not emotionally available for that after what happened to rose but also he needs someone desperately to take care of himself and she does it and she’s brilliant and she’s a proper doctor and she’s amazing and she loves him but he can’t love her back not the way she wants not the way she needs but he can’t let her go he needs her he loves her he can’t leave her behind

#losing my mind over there #like it’s such a touching and tragic dynamic in a way but it’s also full of affection despite everything #and the fact that martha got to have a say in all of it #doctor who #dw #tenmartha

[northernfireart]

second request (silly) how about ten and martha? i loved her as a companion, sooo want her back 🫶🫶🫶

I miss Martha soooo much😢😢😢 love her 4ever

#and of course I suck at drawing her hair. I'll figure it out one day #10th doctor #tenth doctor #Martha Jones #martha jones fanart #tenmartha #ten x martha #doctor x marta #northernfire art #doctor who #dw fanart #dr who #dw #doctor who fanart

[andthedaysthatnevercame]

ten would literally be NOTHING without martha. she made him the most interesting & complex he's ever been.

#ten is literally just martha's mirror self #martha jones #tenth doctor #tenmartha #doctor who #.txt