Welcome! Huge Ninth Doctor nerd, as you can probably tell. he/they. Do a lotta Doc Who writing over on Ao3 under the name Artron :3c
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i’ve been thinking more and more that i should finally sit down and watch three’s run but… my guy.. .
my silly rabbit.. ….
What if Rose Tyler died after consuming the time vortex, and all that was left was the Bad Wolf?
Bonus:
Woohoo! Got over a thousand words done today overall for two different fics! One finished chapter I just need to reread over later and close to finishing up a one-shot for Metacrisis Doctor and Rose (my beloveds <3)
The Master and the Time Lord Victorious. You agree.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor & Original Daemon Character Characters: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Original Daemon Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Daemon Settling (His Dark Materials), Angst, Adjustment Period, Pete's World (Doctor Who), Introspection, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Post-Episode: s04e13 Journey's End (Doctor Who), Character Study, Double Drabble, Complicated Relationships Series: Part 4 of Daemon Days Summary:
One heart. One form.
But who are they, really, beyond what they've been made to become?
Found this at the shops today! Love it includes a short slitheen piece and early sonic designs!! Can't wait to give it a read c:
nuwho needs to get back in touch with the classic who tradition of picking up and physically throwing daleks
Rose Tyler's Wardrobe, Series 1
Hi everybody! It’s been a long, long, long time since I wrote a Doctor Who costuming post. I did Martha. I did River. And now it’s Rose’s turn. Well, for Series 1 at least. Series 2 and 4 will get their own posts. :)
I’m excited to do Rose, because she is quite a different creature than Martha or River. Style-wise, Martha was fashionable and neat and as tied together as an upper-class med student can be; River was full of swag and style and time travel. You look at either of their wardrobes and you go “ooooh” and “I wanna wear that!” And you get that reaction because the costumer wanted you to admire these characters and recognize whatever it is about them that gives them that style—in Martha’s case, that’s her elegant background, and in River’s, it’s her habit of living life to its absolute fullest degree. In more condensed terms, the very fact that they’re well-dressed relays something about them as characters, which is the point of costuming.
Is Rose like that, all stylish and gorgeous and decked out in cool textile items? Noooo. Rose is not much of a clothes horse—she gets some sweet outfits, but unlike Martha and River, those outfits are little gems sprinkled in among 2005 hoodies and jeans and godawful bags. And that’s actually really, really special, because it meant the costumer abandoned fashion and style and the temptation to dress Billie Piper as beautifully as possible to be real with the viewer, to have every piece of clothing count not for its aesthetic experience but for its ability to tell you who Rose is, with every grimy shoe and synthetic thread. Rose’s costuming is pure visual storytelling, and I love it. I love it.
With exceptions, of course. Because we all make mistakes.
So! With my gushing out of the way, let’s get on. Guess what time it is? PAJAMA TIME.
Yeah, no, I’m not going to analyze a striped tank top and white sweats as symbolizing Rose’s imprisonment within her ideal of self and her fundamentally pure soul. They’re pajamas, guys. Pajamas some costume person yanked off a rack and said “uh yeah this might be Billie’s size.” It’s a dull start, but don’t worry; it gets so much more interesting.
See???? Interesting! The look you see above—worn pink hoodie, cheap pink tank top, shapeless jeans, oddly loud messenger bag and a little Ninth Doctor to hold in one hand—is what Rose is wearing when we start spending any large amount of time with her. Now, I can hear you sighing: this outfit isn’t very glamorous, is it? I mean, Martha was fashionable. River was stylish. But this is so…..ordinary.
And you’re right: as fashion, as style, this is kind of a disappointing outfit. But to tell you about a character using only clothes? It’s AMAZING. Take a long look at it. What can we figure out about Rose, from one outfit?
Actually quite a lot.
Do you see how it’s a couple different shades of pink? This shows you the logic Rose uses when she puts herself together in the morning. While Martha has a solid color palette of reds and golds that she’s layered together in a way that suggests she learned how to look like a class act by osmosis, Rose very much got dressed by grabbing clothes from a drawer. There is a logic to it—pinks go together, right? and jeans go with everything?—but it’s not the elegant color palette Martha would have been acclimated to in her upper-middle-class household. Rose tried, but she didn’t think of going out of her comfort zone of pinks, or of making any fashionable combinations, like having her shirt pick up some of the colors from her bag. She had to get to work, man, she didn’t have time for that. (in technical terms, Rose is using a monochromatic color palette, while Martha uses a more grown-up analogous one. if color palettes are your thing, you get me).
it’s youthful: again, pink, and also the loose-fitting hoodie. She’s not dressed like a Young Adult Person with Career Goals Who Drinks Red Wine And Has a Resume. Rose still looks a little like a kid (also super comfortable).
it’s very, very casual—I’m kind of surprised even a shopgirl was allowed to be this dressed down at a department store, but I haven’t been in a big one in a long time so who knows? Rose is not here to impress anybody, nor really herself.
it’s not high-quality stuff, at all. It’s going to wear out in less than a year; you can almost see through the sweater, it’s so used. This kind of thing shows you that Rose can’t afford the best clothes, and also doesn’t care enough to spend the money she does have that way.
They’re working-class clothes: dependable, comfy, don’t stand out much. Kinda like Rose, when she meets the Doctor.
So already in one outfit, without having to know anything else about her, you know a little about Rose: she’s not the Anna Wintour of the Powell Estate, she’s not rich, she’s not dressing like she expects a lot out of her day—dressed like that, I doubt she even expects a promotion. It all reflects where Rose is going at this point: nowhere.
Good point, Jackie. And happen it does: the Doctor comes back. Rose, again, is not prepared to wow in the style department. Look at her.
I want to applaud the costume department for getting the tank-top-and-crappy-hoodie-with-bra-slightly-showing look down perfectly, because this is exactly the sort of thing normal unemployed nineteen-year-old girls wear. Like, wow. Stop spying on me, show.
Fortunately, Nine is not a fashion critic and takes Rose on board despite her tank tops. They go to the end of the world, and it’s very glam, and Rose zips up her hoodie and calls it good.
God, she’s so normal-looking. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show where the fashion was this level of accurately boring. Is the show whacking you over the head enough with Rose being normal yet? Is this post?
Just to whack you over the head with it a bit more, Rose is predominantly wearing very dark, ordinary, dull grays, which reinforces how very ~NORMAL~ she is. Considering that these sorts of things were what companions were wearing shortly before Who got kicked off the screen in the 80s, I kinda can’t blame the costumers for veering this hard into Smoll Ordinary Nobodyville.
Though she is still the Smollest Ordinariest Nobody of All, note that Rose is already wearing a deeper shade of pink/maroon than when she was folding shirts and watching Mickey dance. The symbolism, guys! Rose is already deepening and darkening as a person! Ooooh!
Even better, though? Look at Nine’s shirt. Look back at Rose’s hoodie. One adventure in and they’re matching, guys.
Literally one episode with these two and they’re already so adorable. How. Why, show. Why.
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor & Original Daemon Character Characters: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Original Daemon Character(s) Additional Tags: Episode: s04e12-13 The Stolen Earth | Journey's End, Alternate Universe - Daemons, Daemon Settling (His Dark Materials), Daleks - Freeform, Introspection, Character Study, Post-Regeneration (Doctor Who), Angst, Internal Conflict, Daemons, Ficlet Series: Part 3 of Daemon Days Summary:
Time Lords daemons don't settle, but he isn't altogether Time Lord.
And he isn't going to let the Daleks escape again.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor & Original Daemon Character, Rose Tyler & Original Daemon Character Characters: Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Original Daemon Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Hurt/Comfort, One Shot, Character Study, Daemon Touching (His Dark Materials), Canon-Typical Banter, Post-Time War Guilt, Touch-Starved, Introspection, Happy 20th NuWho! Series: Part 2 of Daemon Days Summary:
Why does the Doctor pretend his daemon doesn’t exist? They’re rarely apart, but it’s as if the Watcher’s all just that - a title. Observing from afar, only jolting into action when it’s strictly necessary. …Until she isn’t anymore.
The wolverine daemon chooses to break her own patterns, and Rose finds confirmation in what she’d already suspected.
DOCTOR WHO 1.01 ✧ rose
Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still.
the way he embarrassed his house so bad that he's the disclaimer on the wiki page
My submission for Haffy's art event (@/Haf_art on twt) :3
Posing as your not-yet girlfriend watches her home planet get destroyed by the sun 5 billion years in the future.
Classic first date.
(Ignore me giving up super quickly on the background lol)
“ It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure!”
“you never would you coward. (would you…?)”
the master getting teary eyed and scared when he realises the doctor is really considering to pull the trigger but still daring him to do it. He needs to know, he needs to see if the doctor is capable of it. is he? would he really? why is he still pointing the gun at him?
“go on then. do it.”
But he doesn’t want to die. you can hear it in his voice and see it in his face but he needs to know how far the doctor is willing to go. And besides he’s the master. He’s not gonna back down and plead. At least not in this regeneration. the subtle and terrorised headshake after works very well as there’s one part of the script missing in this scene
“don’t.”
and the doctor won’t.
Doctor Who ➝ Born Again
(Children in Need special)
For my dear(s) @labpracticum & @darth-tella — both of whom were thirsting over the ever-brief 'Ten in Nine's clothes' look earlier. As one does
For the @flashfictionfridayofficial prompt “stranger than fiction” - a bit of Classic Who fic.
When Ian Chesterton was younger, he loved science fiction. He devoured every magazine or novel he could get his hands on; relished the tales of impossible inventions, dystopian futures, bizarre aliens.
Eventually, his focus shifted from novels to textbooks, from magazines to research papers. Fiction had once fostered his own fascination with the workings of the world; through teaching, Ian strove to instill the same excitement in the students who shuffled reluctantly into his classroom each day.
He rarely has time anymore for science fiction, though it still holds a place in his heart and on his bookshelf. The teaching of real science is a full-time job.
But now…
Ian gazes at a sky of an unfamiliar color, above a planet some thousands of light-years and hundreds of time-years away from his own. He’s been to dystopian futures; befriended bizarre aliens. He travels in an impossible invention as a matter of course.
His life now is stranger than any of the stories he read when he was younger. Stranger than fiction, and infinitely so, for one simple reason: it’s real.
Ian smiles to himself. Maybe, when they finally get home, he’ll try his hand at some Sci-Fi of his own.
Do you ever think about how generations of people have been shipping thoschei since 1971
My favorite part of doctor who ever is when the doctor does their whole “I refuse to kill this villain/monster because of merciful moral reasons” bit and then immediately follows it with “so instead I will trap them alone in a barren hell dimension for all eternity”. It’s like that’s worse, though. do you get why that’s worse.
WAITTT....if you're still doing doodle requests I'd love to see Barbara 💖
okay Quite a bit of pressure to draw the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my entire life but here is Barbara!!
babs if youre out there id just like to apologise for breathing the same air as you