The Doctor - Not Strong Enough

"Baby farm" this

"Population going sterile" or "going mad and banning kissing" that

LADS THIS IS HOW WE CAN BRING BACK THE LOOMS

i really enjoy reading the doctor as an experiment in queer masculinity. he very often appears to be conventionally masculine on first appearances - but so often he subverts that. he can be violent, but he's against killing; he strives for peace, and remains a hero. he espouses kindness, compassion, acceptance - he's a scientist, not a military man. he keeps an open mind, and encourages understanding, even for that which most people think of as disgusting. he sees a dying insect, monstrous to human eyes, lethal to human bodies, and considers it beautiful. he dresses in a traditionally masculine manner, and yet his clothes are almost always a strange mix of styles, or several decades out of date. he's deeply rooted in victorian/edwardian fashion, which often just has the effect of turning him into a gay magician. he's often a towering, six-foot-plus, deep-voiced Authority Figure, and yet he is so gentle. sometimes he's queer in that he loves men, and kisses men, as someone adjacent to masculinity (true of practically all of his incarnations from eight onwards); sometimes he's queer in that he loves everyone, regardless of gender; sometimes he's queer in that he doesn't love anyone, and is an aromantic or asexual figure; sometimes he's queer in that he's detached from human or time lord understandings of gender; sometimes he's queer as in queer, as in weird. he's flamboyant. he's eccentric. he's your gay uncle. he can regenerate into bodies which humans are quick to identify as female, but throughout it all he seems to carry some vague inner sense of identifying with masculinity, but rejecting it in its conventional form. the doctor is queer, yes, capable of expressing himself in a whole array of ways, but more than that, he's queer and masculine. and i love that.

"why would they lie?" in the timeless children was such a ridiculous line of dialogue... the first thing the time lords ever do on screen is put the doctor on trial and then execute him and wipe his friends' minds against their and his will. there's an entire series called trial of a time lord where the time lords suck for a series straight. it's not like this is only in classic who or anything, either; in the end of time they're trying to destroy all of reality and in heaven sent they torture the doctor for 4.5 billion years. there's a whole spinoff set on gallifrey which is mostly dedicated to time lords being racist, their horrible political system with its democratic functions like deus ex suicida, and grinding up its character in the imperialist war machine then spitting them back out as infinitely worse people. there's a whole department on gallifrey dedicated to sneaky illegal bullshit and a whole device dedicated to wiping people, including actual children, from time so thoroughly that they never existed. i think, perhaps, the time lords might be bad people maybe

forgot i made this maybe one of you will find it funny

And with the Timeless Child. Regeneration energy is FROM The Doctor!!!

thinking abt @causalityparadoxes talking abt how this season is establishing the doctor as a god. how he literally breathed life into that butterfly, like how god breathed life into humanity. anyway,

Favorite Thirteenth Doctor moment on Eve of the Daleks

truly fifteen is the first doctor where i understand why everyone can't help but fall in love with them. like. their strange and earnest rizz is off the charts.

Space Babies / The Final Chapter / Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible / Cold Fusion

all that said, the circumstances of regeneration shape an incarnation and romana ii was born out of suicide (self-sacrifice, if gallifrey is to be believed). so. you know. lives shaped by suicide inevitably driven by and towards that act is it any wonder she's messed up if her first incarnation viewed suicide as a game and the second spent twenty years waiting to die