I got a fantastic dress from Primark last month and… it immediately ripped. I’m super sad about it. But while trawling ebay for a replacement (I have not found one yet) I did find a couple of dresses that would be really good for low cost Doctor Who cosplay:
Clara’s Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS dress option:
River’s The Husbands of River Song dress option:
They’re far from perfect obviously, but they’re not bad!
—What, people call you the Doctor?
—Yeah.
—Well, I’m not. As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got to earn that title.
One of the things I’ll always appreciate about Martha is that we got to see her in action as a doctor so often. This wasn’t a token job or a career. This was an essential part of her character. She was given real opportunities to act as a doctor, from performing CPR, to treating concussions, and even re-setting dislocated shoulders. And it influenced her every action; she’s just been kidnapped and drugged by Cheen but she’ll be damned if she let’s Cheen continue to use one of those patches while she’s pregnant. And being a doctor was so integral to her narrative, factoring prominently in her conflicts for respect. This was especially true with the Doctor, from their first interaction to her eventual departure.
You really gotta love Martha, the doctor.
fuckyeahdoctorwhosidecharacters:
fuck yeah, doctor who side characters! Rigsy, a talented young artist.
“So much of Doctor Who, and I know it’s always controversial to say, but so much of it is the story of the Doctor’s best friend.
People will say ‘oh, it’s called Doctor Who’. It’s not called ‘The Doctor’. It’s called Doctor Who. Who’s asking that question is as much the story as the person of whom the question is asked.”
~ Steven Moffat [x]
The Laudatio Tauriae is an inscription by a Roman husband about his wife, ‘So great was her sense of duty that, when the marriage proved childless, she offered divorce to allow her husband to seek a more fertile partner. His response speaks volumes: “…What desire, what need to have children could I have had that was so great that I should have broken faith for that reason and changed certainty for uncertainty”’ – Gwynn, David M. The Roman Republic A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2012)
Yeah, Doctor Who has parallels with Ancient Rome
Moodboards: Amy Pond
“There’s a little girl waiting in a garden. She’s going to wait a long while, so she’s going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story.”
The Claws of Axos ep.1 – The Doctor’s angry reaction to Mr. Chinn’s xenophobia
for historical context [and the ppl who think this show was ever apolitical,] this episode aired during a time when neo nazis were rioting and assaulting people across London, and the National Front was at its peak of popularity
I’d look with rather profound disbelief at anyone who watches Jon Pertwee’s era and labels it “apolitical”.
I remember that I used to have three main categories that I ended up mentally slotting Pertwee-era stories into:
1) energy sources
2) pollution and environmentalism
3) nuclear armaggedon
Classic Who has always been something of a blunt instrument when tackling what was going on in politics at the time – whether it was the debate over Britain entering the European Union (The Curse of Peladon), or having one of the villains be a caricature of Margaret Thatcher when the show literally had an anti-Thatcher agenda in the late 80s.
yeah i mean
the show’s blatant and intentional leftist ideology was pretty clear from the outset [they blew up a thinly veiled metaphor for Fascism in the second ever episode…], but try telling that to ppl to whom Twelve is suddenly and inexplicably ‘’too political’’
