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Rose saw a photo of a man with a fantastic jaw, dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie. Then Clive kept the sequence going; an older, angry man in a brown caretaker’s coat, holding a mop; a blonde woman in braces running away from a giant frog in front of Buckingham Palace; a tall, bald black woman wielding a flaming sword; a young girl or boy in a hi-tech wheelchair with what looked like a robot dog at their side…

Russell T Davies’ Rose novelisation, inventing two future Doctors and showing us one of Thirteen’s adventures

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Shower thought of the day

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write-like-an-american:

I can name at least a few middle-aged-or-older mlm couples in media, but not a single wlw couple. Anyone else know any shows with older wlw? Especially ladies who are comfortably married/in a long-term partnership?

Last Man on Earth has Mary Steenburgen’s (who’s in her sixties I think) character married to a woman who’s in her twenties, the age difference is never even remarked upon

Broadchurch had an older lesbian couple, although the show’s finished now alas

Doctor Who has had a few older WLW (some married, some not) show up as side characters, plus there’s River Song (although who knows if she’s ever coming back…)

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One thing I did stumble across while researching pirates for Ravager fics was regarding Henry Avery, who Doctor Who fans will probably remember from The Curse of the Black Spot. In that he was a kinda cuddly nice guy played by Hugh Bonneville and um in real life he was NOT. AT ALL.

(It’s just kinda ironic – that was the season where everyone started analyzing the historical guest characters and questioning if people like Richard Nixon should really appear alongside a children’s hero like the Doctor, but Avery I guess was the one everyone missed.)

Forgive me for my stupidity, but why isn’t danny pink loved much?

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tillthenexttimedoctor:

mikelpen:

tillthenexttimedoctor:

I doubt coming “between” a popular ship in the fandom helps and that’s probably worth its own chapter in the book of how this whole thing went downhill.

But the short explanation for the hatred you often see for him would simply be: Racism. It’s not an accident that in spite of being an outwardly gentle person whose only crime is quietly asserting that he wanted honesty in a relationship (which? is a minimum requirement? to begin with?), people believe him to be aggressive and controlling. It’s not exactly subtle.

And the fact that people STILL call Danny a clone of Mickey seems to have very little do do with his actual character.

Bonus point for that being a complaint that started on the very day Danny Pink was announced as a character, with a picture of Samuel Anderson attached. Huh. I wonder why.

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toshikosatos:

remember how during the year that never was that woman sold martha out, but when things were back to normal martha brought her flowers because she understood why she did it and still respected her

even as so much of the fandom was hating on martha like mad, martha jones herself refused to villainize other women for the choices they made in difficult circumstances. and the more brilliant and badass and wonderful martha is, the sadder it makes people look for hating on her.

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