danny pink appreciation week > day 7: free-for-all
you will sleep safe tonight
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danny pink appreciation week > day 6: samuel anderson appreciation
Samuel livetweets Danny’s adventures!
Day 5 of Danny Pink Appreciation Week is for meta! I’ve reblogged a bit already, but I was thinking, hey maybe now’s a good time to pose some questions and let the excellent meta-ers of tumblr do their work.
1) Did your impressions of Danny change as the series went on?
2) Do you think Danny and Clara would have lasted as a couple?
3) If Danny had survived the events of Dark Water/Death in Heaven, where would you have liked his story arc to go?
4) How does Danny compare to the other male companions we’ve seen in Doctor Who?
5) What’s your favourite character trait of Danny’s?
Farewell, farewell, O warrior brave,
Nobody can from Death thee save.It’s broken, that one. It doesn’t have a gun (Steven Moffat, “Listen” Doctor who) // All the soldiers looked exactly alike except one. He looked a little different as he had been cast last of all. (Hans Christian Andersen, The
Steadfast Tin Soldier, tr. by Jean Hersholt)Danny Pink
was the man who tried to be the Steadfast Tin Soldier in a world that didn’t
believe in fairy tales anymore. He was the silent vigil in a child’s world,
crippled, not in his flesh but in his heart; the spoon he was made of was childhood-brittle
and war-corroded. He was the timid lover of a paper doll, a girl made of books
and rustling steps, and the stubborn and cool antagonist of the Jack in-the-box,
of all trade, reluctant puppet master. He was the brave castaway in an ocean of
strangeness, where an alien guarded his school and London was flooded with
trees and howling. Always, he stood steadfast, unwavering in his love for the
paper doll, for home, for children, and iron-clad in his need for truth and
good. Danny was not a soldier when he did all those things, not anymore.But a tin
heart he got in the end.Danny died
for no reason at all, just like the Tin Soldier from the story. Probably put to
it by the Jack, a cruel child, instead of throwing him into the stove, put him
in a box of metal, a metal suit, with a metal weapon and a metal heart. Soldiers
keep the whole world safe. So Danny
burnt in flames a soldier to keep the
world safe from him. But Danny was not a soldier when he loved the paper
doll, cared for the children and came back from death’s belly. He was iron-clad
in his need for trust and promises. He burnt in flames for Clara.And here’s
where this is not a fairy tale: the paper doll didn’t burn with him.(Feel free to delete the rambling)
danny pink appreciation week > day 5: meta
(This may not be strictly meta, but it’s so beautifully written, I love it.)
danny pink appreciation week > day 4: fanfiction
Okay, Ghosts is really about Clara, but it has a Danny bit in it that I quite like:
“When I was a soldier, I accidentally killed a little boy,” Danny said
without preamble. And Clara stared at him. She thought she had been
expecting something even worse.“What?” she said again.
“I didn’t mean to. Afterwards – there was an investigation – they think
he sneaked into the compound to get his football – they said it couldn’t
have been prevented. But-”“It could,” Clara said, her mind suddenly zipping back to a room where
three men stood around a button, where three men nearly pressed it.
“Things like that can always be prevented!” She had once prevented them!“They said I wasn’t to blame.”
“God, Danny.”
“I know I was to blame, Clara. I’m the one who pulled the trigger. It
could have been anyone but it was me. I’m going to feel guilty about it
the rest of my life, but I tried to put it behind me. D’ya understand?”“Yes,” Clara said slowly. She had seen the Doctor kill. Hadn’t she? She herself had threatened to kill. And yet…that button. That room…
“How old was he?”
Danny didn’t even flinch at the question. “Ten.”
Clara noticed his lack of flinching, but she couldn’t assign a reason
for it just yet. “Did you become a teacher to make up for it?” She
thought the answer to that might decide their relationship. The answer
to that might decide, even, what Danny Pink was. “Teaching children, instead of…”“Shooting them,” said Danny, and she caught a glimpse of it then, the
very real shame and guilt and anger. “Yes. That’s why. I thought I would
do anything to bring that boy back, Clara. But I couldn’t. I could
only…make better soldiers, better adults, better people. Less careless
ones. Less stupid ones. That’s what I want to do.”
danny pink appreciation week > day 3: headcanons
I have many headcanons for Danny, and here they are in no order:
1. Danny does have PTSD, and the ‘thing’ he was going to in The Caretaker was his therapy appointment.
2. Danny is actually very fond of Courtney, and his death really had an effect on her.
3. Danny’s family situation is very complicated. His parents are dead (hence why he was in an orphanage) but he does have half-siblings, aunts, uncles etc around.
4. Danny is sometimes made fun of for his last name (especially in the army) but he doesn’t care and indeed wears a lot of pink specifically as a mild ‘fuck you’ to those people.
5. Danny’s favourite superhero is Falcon.
Danny Pink appreciation week day 3: a headcanon
Danny wanders the Nethersphere and eventually finds his way into a very different sort of hard drive, meeting a familiar faceHeadcanon ACCEPTED!
And River’s even wearing her army camo which says a lot.
Tell me this is a fic I can read?
It is not, but if I had more time/motivation and wasn’t already writing something I totally would make it.
EXCELLENT
In the real world, a soldier’s promise cannot bring back the dead.
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. -Albert Einstein
danny pink appreciation week > day 2: post/reblog some fanart
I can’t draw for the life of me so I’m gonna use today to draw attention to this beautiful fanart by tumblebuggie. It’s not just my favourite Danny fanart, it’s not just my favourite Doctor Who fanart, it might actually be my favourite fanart ever. Danny kneeling before the dead child, his expression, the poppies, the child extending a hand…it’s just intensely powerful. It says everything about war that ever needed to be said, even more than the actual episode it’s based on did.
I shall also probably reblog it for Remembrance Day in a couple months.
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