Knowledge is a deadly friend If no one sets the rules

Do you think Scarecrow had an innate fear of fire, or do you think there was a learning curve there?

The obvious answer is whatever is the funniest.

An important lesson was learned today.

god there's something about. about. the master will do emotional vulnerability, will do sincerity. but Only on his own terms, only when he can easily yank it back and taunt the doctor for responding in kind. and whenever the doctor tries to get it out of him when the master doesn't offer it up, he mocks him to get the doctor to back off ("Are you asking me out on a date?")

I think I finally put my finger on why I think "the Doctor and Ruby are trapped in a TV show" theory doesn't entirely work for me, though I don't hate it and definitely like it better than "the Doctor is a god actually" approach. First off, and that's subjective, but I just can't agree the writing is dramatically worse and more expository than before? Yes, after 6 regenerations which wouldn't talk much about themselves 15 just offhandedly informing Ruby his whole people are gone feels weird, but... look, pet peeve of mine, 12 giving a very beautiful but also incoherent speech about morality to the Masters to get them into a plan that didn't even involve them in any meaningful way and Missy having to hide from him that she has to kill Saxon for... reasons, is usually hailed as peak character work. All of this would make infinitely more sense to me if they were all aware that they are actually in a medieval morality play...

But no, what really worries me here is that if the reveal is that the Doctor is trapped in a TV show and aware of it... then we'll kind of finish the season not knowing 15? Like, we won't know which parts were a performance for the audience and which performance for Ruby, and which like... spontaneous expression of self? It would be kind of assuming we all know Michael Sheen and David Tennant because we've seen them performing themselves in Staged? Or, as if everyone that's seen A Hard Day's Night knows the Beatles because they played themselves? Yes, of course, whole world's a stage, and my alignment with symbolic interactionism has me acknowledge that even completely alone we engage in intrapersonal performance and there is no truer core self than the enacted one, but...

Like, if our existence is reality and fictional shows are reality(1), then shows within shows are kind of reality(2)? And if by then end of a season we remove reality(2), then we won't really know what's true in reality(1), anymore than reality(1) tells us much about our lived existences? Like, I LOOVE play with a medium, but it would just feel a bit wrong to do that in 15's first season? Other instances where this is done, say WandaVision, have a point of reference to what those characters are like in their "reality", which wouldn't be the case for 15? Am I making any sense anymore or am I floating off into higher regions now?

Ok, so having watched Boom, I think the question is, HOW MUCH IS THE DOCTOR AND/OR RUBY aware of the show framework? Because if we just mean, this is a thing, and they only SOMETIMES are aware of it when the premise tells them to, then fine, but when it's the matter of they are aware all the time, then the problem persists? Because, again, there's the issue of everyone being in a permanent performance all the time, and I think bringing in the matter of religion and sth sth religion is the society worshipping itself, and all your actions, no matter how hidden, are always witnessed by the God Above, so you act accordingly, might play into that, and it takes a tribe to raise a child and there is no personhood but the communicated one, but still.

Basically, my question is, is Sheherezade ACTUALLY trying to save her life by telling stories, or is she aware she's actually safe because she's a framing device?

This is a Glee fanfiction

— Steven Moffat in Doctor Who: The Fan Show

before anyone says anything about steven moffat and rtd being different you have to recite this quote ten times

We celebrate David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Prince for their gender-nonconforming amazingness as we should, but let us not forget

Annie Lennox

Grace Jones

Sinead O‘Connor

Dolores O‘Riordan

Patti Smith

Tracy Chapman

Please add if you like, i do not own the photos

Big Mama Thornton (photo credit unknown)

Joan Jett (photo credited to Brad Elterman)

Pauline Black (photo credited to Ebet Roberts)

Meshell Ndegeocello (photo credited to Raymond Boyd)

Tanita Tikaram (photo credited to Bernard Weil)

Gladys Bentley (early 1930s, photo credited to Sterling Paige)

Jackie Shane (1967, photo credited to Jeff Goode)

Nina Hagen (1983)

Phranc (1985, photo credited to Frank Gargani)

k.d. lang (1993, photo credited to Richard Young)

episode one: we rescued the space babies and the bogeyman, yay!

episode two: we went back in time to meet thr beatles and saved music!

episode three: doctor who steps on a fucking land mine.

💥 rockstar baby

moffat said i only get one chance i HAVE to fucking kill the companion and bring them back to life in 45 minutes if that’s all the time i have. companions have to be dead for a little while, it’s good for them, it’s like enrichment. adds flavour. and he was right

Finally posting something doctor who related :] this is a drawing from a while ago of all the doctors (except 14 sorry 💀 it looked better having 6 plus it's just david Tennant again sorry to all the 14 fans)

gay as fuck to switch from speakerphone to regular to talk to your best enemy

GAY AS FUCK HOW BREATHY HIS VOICE GETS TO SAY THE DOCTOR’S NAME?????

“Master.” “I like it when you use my name.” sir.

Just love easter eggs in Doctor Who - especially ones that span across years and years of the show, and this episode brought us all the way from 2005:

To 2017:

To 2024:

This episode was 19 years in the making.

And personally brought me from 2 to 21.

Ncuti Gatwa, you are a brilliant actor!! That was one of the best that I have ever seen on a doctor who episode. I really didn't see the moment with Ruby [REDACTED] coming, and just so many things happening at once. They are doing such an amazing job this season, and I absolutely can't wait for the next episodes to release! Once again, my emotions are all over the place, and Doctor Who is my hyperfixation. I'm so obsessed with this show, and i'll never stop being in love with the craziness of it all. I could continue to ramble on and on, but we're all thinking the same exact thing. More or less, anyway. Steven Moffat..you wild, wild man. Nice work.

Moffat getting more and more angry as he gets older and I'm loving it.