I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

>Did you really believe that?

#MY ACTUAL FAVE SCENE #SHE’S JUST LIKE #REALYL? #YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE MASTER? #AND YOU’RE GENRE SAVVY ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE THE DOCTOR IS DISABLED ASAP #BUT YOU LEGIT BELIEVE THAT THE KEY TO DEFEATING YOU WAS A GAME OF HUNT THE MACGUFFIN?

This scene is about so much more than that, though. Just before this gifset starts, the Master is looking past Martha to address the Doctor. “Such a disappointment, this one,” he says. “Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex.  This one’s useless!” He’s insulting Martha twice over — once with the literal insults he’s saying, and once by addressing his words to the Doctor rather than Martha herself. He’s completely dismissing her as worthless.

This is important — is critical to understanding her character’s arc, I would say — because it’s exactly the sentiment that Martha has been struggling with all season-long. The whole time she’s traveled with the Doctor, she’s felt as though she doesn’t measure up. The Doctor talks about how great Rose was, he keeps secrets from Martha, and then as John Smith he falls in love with Joan Redfern, rather than her. When she meets Captain Jack Harkness, he too enthuses about how amazing Rose was. And when he does, you can tell: Martha Jones doesn’t feel like she can even hope to equal Rose.

That’s what Martha’s journey is all about: struggling to find her own worth as the successor to someone who accomplished great things (not the least of which was winning the Doctor’s hearts). When the Master dismisses her from his consideration and insults her abilities to the Doctor, he’s externalizing Martha’s biggest fears.

And what does she do then? She laughs. She laughs in the face of her tormentor, of her own personal fears personified, and then proceeds to calmly and with a smile explain how she’s foiled his plans. She’s outsmarted and tricked the Master, one of the cleverest minds in the universe. In the process, she shows just how wrong his opinion of her was — which in a way was also the Doctor’s opinion of her and her own opinion of herself. It’s an incredibly powerful moment, and I think it’s the real climax of her dramatic arc that season.

It’s so much more than just being more “genre-savvy” than the Master.

#THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE #ok ok look they’re not even out of the forest yet and cosette already trusts this man #she’s holding his hand and her face is lit up with a smile #(i bet thats the first time she’s smiled in months) #and of course valjean is laughing and grinning back at her #and he’s feeling this new emotion in his heart and he’s not sure what to do with it but that’s ok for now #because he’s found this little girl and everything is alright for a little while #and in short you get this lovely image of two lost outcast souls who have found someone else to believe in at last #please pardon me while i punch my laptop screen and hurl myself out the window (vlajean)

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE PART OF THE MOVIE THAT RIPS ME INTO PIECES AND LEAVES NOTHING BUT A BLOODY PULP OF FANGIRL IN THE CINEMA SEAT FYI

wish his coat was yellower though

Brb, preemptively weeping.

Just the promo stuff for this movie has turned me into a wibbling ball of Valjean and Cosette feels… which have somehow collided with my Nine and Rose feels AND my Seven and Ace feels to form a hurricane of sweet awkward all-relationships-in-one so-unhealthy-but-it-works-for-us codependency.

(“Nice to meet you, Cosette. Run for your life!”)

OMG TIMELORD VALJEAN. Someone more familiar with the Who canon should write this. He and Cosette have intergalactic adventures helping the poor and destitute of the universe!

THE DOCTOR AND JEAN VALJEAN: One of them is a lonely old man haunted by a guilty past, outcast by his society, a trickster and a sly devil who nevertheless is on the side of angels, who keeps sort-of dying and sort-of coming back to life, who has a litany of names but his real one is his deepest secret of all, and he whisks away a lonely young girl with no future and shows her the wonders of life, and they both stumblingly learn love together in a glorious codependent sibling-parent-child-romantic-platonic mishmash and do an awful lot of running.  Also he may or may not actually be Father Christmas, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve.

The other, of course, travels time and space in a blue police box that’s bigger on the inside.

Cosette suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer weighed anything at all. A hand had appeared from out of the darkness and lifted the handle. She raised her head; a large, dark figure, tall and straight, was now walking beside her.

“My child, that bucket is far too heavy for you,” he said.

“Yes sir.”

“How old—” He paused and dug through the pockets of his coarse, yellow overcoat. He pulled out some sort of stick with a glowing green light on the end. He shone it around the dark clearing and then stared intently at the light. “How fast can you run, child?”

“Very,” replied Cosette, “as long as I am not carrying the bucket.”

There came an angry, tinny shout:  ”MONSIEUR THE MAYOR. I HAVE ORDERS FOR YOUR EXTERMINATION.”

“Is that your name?” asked Cosette.

“It’s good enough,” replied the man.

An enormous machine, like a pot-bellied stove on wheels, with two flashing lights on top of its domed head, some sort of strangely elongated eye, and two strange, miss-matched arms rolled into the clearing. “EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE.”

Monsieur the mayor hurled the bucket at the metal creature, dousing it with the cold water from the stream, and nearly knocking it over. 

Bewildered by this turn of events, Cosette could only say, “My name’s Cosette.”

“Cosette? Nice to meet you. Now run for your life.”

I

Margz…..

...fast without the bucket... cosette.

From Doctor Who (Classic Who) The Web of Fear

Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil (via joshschneider)

A really grand illustration of the tenth Doctor for an old friend. The lighting was a lot of fun to play with, I love the RTD-era console. 

Maybe want a neat present to give for the holidays?

Well I’ve got just the thing for you!

I’m (very) short on money to get people presents this year, so I’m whipping out some neat earrings to sell.

I’ve got a pair of tiny TARDIS, K9, and Tennant-era Dalek earrings you can buy. They’re...

beansprouts:

lostthehat:

domenicdemonic:

I bet he goes through companions rather fast.

Yes, David Bowie is the Master

raredeadly:

A note on the Doctor's sexuality.

dead-irish-writers:

—Doctor Who (via helloxminjoo)

dripepper:

This is silly.  A DALEK IS THE FATHER.

I am of the opinion that everyone in the world should follow Charles.

katherinethefabulous:

In addition to the aforementioned qualities, Charles also posts interesting things about gender, sexuality, and Doctor Who.