Hi! Hello Traveller! You Must Be Tired, Have Some Tom With Cats, On The House.

hi! hello traveller! you must be tired, have some tom with cats, on the house.

CAT LORD?!

Ah, the epic final battle between the fourth Doctor and the Master, in which the Master trips over the Doctor's scarf and then they kiss on the lips.

I’ve had this exact thought a LOT, especially since I’ve been playing with my own OC Doctor, but I won’t get into that. But I AM going to ramble at you!

I hate how big and empty the current TARDIS. There’s a lot of room to run around, but it’s just white and metal and…kinda useless for the story??? Like the characters don’t have anything to interact with.

8, 11, and 12’s TARDISes felt very lived in and interact-able, and it made the TARDIS feel more present in the stories. I love when the Doctor gets a little lonely and his TARDIS gets all decorated. At the start of the TV Movie we see how much the 7th Doctor has gotten comfy with his gramophone and bookcases all in the big front room. They could set whole stories running around in 11’s TARDISes because of there were things to look at and play with. He sits and repairs the underneath in his little swing, and they run up and down the different little levels. In the S7 TARDIS that 12 inherits, there are bookshelves and cushy armchairs for him to brood him, and the chalkboard!! The chalkboard!! I don’t need nor want to stroke Moffat’s ego, but his run had some damn good TARDISes.

If the show is trying to stay “14 got all comfy living with the Temple-Nobles, but threw that all away after having to eventually leave them” THEY SHOULD SHOW IT! There’s so much between 14 and 15 that got trashed bc of the “clean slate” they’re trying to do, and GOD I wish the TARDIS was all cluttered and lived-in, with pictures and relics from all the people he’s loved on full display. And if they don’t want to do that, keeping the console room squeaky clean and boring, just give us scenes in the TARDIS of storage rooms or offices decked out like how 12 had his in S10.

Sorry to word vomit at you, but I’ve got a lot of feelings about this and I was happy to see someone share them.

I do really love the current Tardis, the ramps and cool lights and the jukebox and it’s just so futuristic and fun.

But something I was really hoping to see was how it would evolve as it was lived in. All the little trinkets and clutter and coats strewn over the railings. Where is the dirt? Where are the reading nooks? Hell even a few plants!

It’s so futuristic that it feels almost sterile. All that harsh light and solid white and unoccupied space.

Sure I guess it could be a metaphor for something internally for 15, but right now it just feels like a missed opportunity, especially in the context of trying to cram characterization and Ruby and 15’s bond in 8 episodes.

I have no art skills so join me in the theater of the mind:

14’s Tardis full of little souvenirs because Donna loves bits and bobs to remember where they went and Rose is an equally menacing collector. A chaotic shoe corner by the door. Sting lights wrapped around the railings. A corner dedicated to Rose’s crafts, a scraps of felt scattered and a few lovingly placed googly eyes that make the Doctor smile when he finds them. A picture wall, a too-plush couch, and some glow in the dark stars dangerously placed on the ceiling.

15’s Tardis still looking brand new despite months of traveling. Maybe a few post-it notes on the console. A jukebox that is rarely touched. All that extra space making Ruby’s absence even more apparent and constantly salient. The lights are bright white and the walls are bare and the metal is shiny. There’d be an echo if the Doctor had someone else to talk to.

Never understood people who say Five is 'too soft' because... have we been watching the same show? Were they asleep during the first season, which he spends being dismissive and cold with Adric, an issue that was never resolved when Adric was brutally killed? Do they, like many of the show's adversaries, mistake his outward appearance of 'harmless, affable English fellow' for weakness, even though he could switch from that to being your worst enemy on a dime? His continued dry humour, now bitter and sarcastic, in the face of danger or evil is one of the character's most compelling aspects. He hardly changes his outward demeanour, and his continued affected politeness makes him seem all the more dangerous as you see the fury and outrage boiling underneath, and you see a plan form behind his steely eyes.

And if he is sentimental sometimes, why do they see it as being 'too soft', instead of what it truly is: a need to atone, after the universe punished him for his harshness towards Adric in the worst possible way? Adric's death haunts Five for the rest of his life, and you can actually see it in Davison's portrayal, even if no mention of Adric occurs in the script. You can see Adric's ghost in the wild desperation in Five's eyes during his final serial, while he rushes to give his life to save his companion. Because he cannot let this happen again because of him. And the last word out of his mouth as he dies is 'Adric', as we come to the heart-wrenching realisation that his mind is not filled with his own imminent doom but with thoughts of that poor boy, of how he killed him, of how he never got to show how much he cared for him. Of how much it hurt that he could almost be forgiven by trading his life for Peri's, but still he could never go back and save Adric.

And that's why my blood boils when people say he's 'too soft'. He's one of the few classic doctors with a character arc, for god's sake, and it's all about him being too harsh.

I love the second and last outfit they are so cute, she is one adorable girl <3<3

here ye, here ye, I have art to dump! Yucky crunchy scans from my phone! My dad (cool) bought me some Doctor Who stickers from like 2007. They rip easily and they are barely sticky but david tennant freema agyeman so its okay. also the two at the bottom of the first below Adric are OCs I've had rotating in my brain for a while and I've been chipping away at a fic for a while now.

In addition to my sketchbook, I've used the stickers on...other things as well. you know how the rear windows on cars have stick figure families somewhere? It's like that, but K9. oh yeah and amogus he's there too