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Wykart brings a thrilling movie poster of the Immortal Squad to Gender Who?, my Doctor Who charity anthology. More of her art is on Tumblr. @wykart
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Proceeds to VT Pride Ctr.
What happens when your greatest enemy haunts both your past and your present? Find out in today’s Master Works spotlight, which focuses on Charlotte Pringle’s story “The Benefit of Hindsight.”
Master: Yana
Companion[s]: Jack
Plot: Tracking a temporal anomaly, Jack runs across a slightly anachronistic old man. But he’s perfectly harmless. Or is he…?
Why you should read it: Hilarious pansexual Jacks are everywhere, so it’s refreshing to read a serious exploration of him as an experienced warrior constantly balancing between hope and exhaustion.
Part that I love: The sneaky way in which Charlotte portrays the Master using his psychic powers on Jack.
So what are you waiting for? Buy your own copy, either in ebook or paper. Support your fellow DW fans while raising money for Migrant Justice! Act now, though, ’cause Master Works is only available till July 17th!
“Oh stop pouting, he’ll be fine. Let’s go before he resurrects.”
Fast forward to S13 where 13 finally meets Jack again… but it gets awkward real quickly because the Master is traveling with them.
I’m honestly putting off making some angst art that my mind is brewing by doing silly stuff first
Nine, to Jack: we’re friends, that’s the benefit.
Sometimes I worry about my friends’ conversations
*offers Simm!Master a hug* Isn#t it kind of unfair that the doctor always get all the hugs and love from everyone? I think you deserve some as well... :)
He definitely deserves something but it’s probably not a hug
TEAM TARDIS finally complete including my own custom versions of Martha and Mickey who don’t yet have their own patterns.
.. am I the only one who noticed just how much Jack seems to boost Martha’s confidence in matters concerning the Doctor??
Like, when Ten says that bit about unrequited love, and Martha looks so unhappy, and Jack just literally goes “You too, huh?” and she instantly perks up (well, not really - but at least she doesn’t feel as bad anymore). Or when Martha said she was going to vote for the Master and the Doctor just gives her a /look/ like he wants to say, ‘well that doesn’t say much’ (which, wtf??? but his constant underappreciation of her is a whole other can of worms) - and then Jack chimes in that he, too, was planning on doing that, and the Doctor suddenly believes them / believes something is going on.
Or of course, my personal favorite, the scene in Reset where Martha tells Jack about how an ‘impeccable source’ recommended her to UNIT (‘highly’ recommended her actually, so I guess that’s something), and he basically replies something along the lines of ‘he probs thought he owed you a favor’ and her face instantly falls, like she’s only now thinking of that possibility and being crushed with disappointment, but Jack just adds, smiling, “Guess we all do.”, swiftly and smoothly reminding her that she /did/ save the Earth, and she grins again, confidence reinstored.
Irdk, I just really love the Jack-Martha friendship - they should have gotten so much more screentime!!!
I still believe they became a poly 3 marriage with Mickey.
What are your thoughts on the Jack/Martha dynamic?
I HAVE MANY
First of all, they’re very important to each other. They both meet up at a point where they both need an ally - an ally that they both expected to have in the Doctor, but that he was in no place to be. There’s a lot of parallels between them during The Year That Never Was: they’re both hopelessly in love with the Doctor, they’re both well aware that the feeling is not returned but hope otherwise, they’re both treated terribly by him, and they’re both willing to forgive that mistreatment towards themselves.
However, they are not willing to forgive that mistreatment towards someone else, and that’s where they become vital to each other. They see that they’re not the only ones he treats callously (and Jack further sees this in what he pieces together of the Doctor and the Master’s past history), and that he isn’t going to magically wake up one day and treat them the way they actually deserve. Seeing how the other pines for the Doctor and is still, at best, ignored (and at worst, used and borderline abused) allows them to grow beyond the Doctor. It gives each of them the strength to say “no, actually, I deserve better than this, so I’m getting out.”
After the Doctor, they’re still very important to each other, still each other’s allies. It’s implied that Jack and Martha keep in touch, and that I think is a good thing for both of them. We don’t know what immediately after the Valiant to Martha, but for Jack, he has a pretty awful reunion with first his team, then John, and then finally Gray. All whilst processing the fact that the man he waited for over a century for could hardly bear looking at him anymore. If he hadn’t been able to call up Martha from time to time and just vent, I don’t think he would have had the strength to keep going. Even if he never gave her the full story of what was going on, even if he could only say ‘Gwen was getting pissy with me today’ when what he really needed to say was ‘they managed to replace me in the one place I thought I was genuinely needed,’ it’s more than he’s ever had before since Satellite Five.
And they keep that friendship going too. In the radio play “Lost Souls,” Martha pulls Jack aside to get him to talk about losing Tosh and Owen. And he actually opens up!! It’s brief, but that makes sense since they’re trying to prevent the universe from being ripped open at the time. It’s still huge that he even acknowledges that he’s hurting to someone.
There’s so much to their friendship, and I kinda wish we saw more of it from Martha’s PoV, but they are so good for each other, not just in a time when they desperately needed someone else, but also in the better times when they’re back within their normal support structure.
jack’s actual f a c e
Small watercolor paintings based on screencaps from the Doctor Who episode The Sound of Drums (Series 3, episode 12).
Utopia aired for the first time 8 years ago today
Doctor Who (“Utopia”/“The Sound of Drums”/“Last of the Time Lords”) mashup with other movie titles
