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I love strong female characters. I want them to cry and have someone protect them.

It seems like we're expected to not ship Donna and the Doctor because they are individually complex and interesting characters.

Throughout their time together, their interactions are built upon giving deeper insight on who they both are individually, rather than extensive shipping fodder or teasing about the nature of their relationship.

Donna doesn't save the Doctor at the end of The Runaway Bride because she was the only person in the world who could have. She saves him because that's who she is. She is kind, and compassionate, and empathetic, and there's no way she would have left him there.

It's not so much a grand commentary on the nature of their relationship, and how they are 'just so cosmically meant to be', as it is a moment for her to show us (the audience) who she is.

It's not because he already has some kind of undying love for her, he never would have listened to anyone else, or because he's willing to live only for her, or any of that.

It's that she's the kind of person who reaches out and cares even after a really rough day, when the spaceman is scaring her by drowning spider babies.

The moment is about who she is.

And they keep being allowed to be like this, where their interactions aren't relegated to being only about their relationship with each other. If anything the way they interact with each other is used like a launching point to deepen our connection to each character individually.

(Probably because we're not supposed to ship them lol. Okay definitely.)

I have to come back and elaborate on this with further specific Doctor/Donna when I get the braincell back from Bora Bora, but basically:

I love a fictional relationship where the writing is focused on deepening my understanding of and affection for each character individually, and then letting me come to the conclusion, based on an intimate understanding of each character's deepest convictions, insecurities, fears, and values that I want these two to be together.

The thing is, there is a wealth of writing out there that spends all of the character's screen time telling you to ship the characters, all too often at the expense of our investment in the characters as whole people outside of that relationship.

In my tastes, it is far more compelling and satisfying have the chance to fall in love with both characters individually without the writer feeling the need to bathe every moment of interaction in big flashing signs telling me: THEYRE EVERYTHING TO EACH OTHER!!! GET IT? LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!!

It's so literary to me. Pride and Prejudice isn't iconic because Lizzy and Darcy spend every moment together, talking about each other, pontificating on the nature of their relationship and why a hypothetical reader should totally ship them.

They actually don't have a lot screen time (or page time) together.

It's iconic because we get to see who both characters are, what they value, how their failures affect them, why we should love them both.

And for the majority of readers, loving them both is enough to convince us to love them together. Why? Because we know them well enough to know they will be good together.

@love-in-the-time Right on in the tags as always

You can just tell from his face here that he knows the doctor/donna relationship was so special and real in a way that none of the other 'ships' up to that point had been. Honestly, more special and real than almost any other ships on the telly (to me).

They really are two people I can imagine being happily together forever tbh relationship goals

Donna: “I’ve had a go at being a fairytale princess, and I’ll tell you what I’ve learned–” The Doctor: “No happily ever afters?” Donna: “Precisely. Except with you.”

The Tenth Doctor Adventures - Death and The Queen

I feel like this is a lot of Ten and Donna’s relationship.

You got to promise me you're going to take care of her. 

from deleted scenes (♥♥)

i think my favorite type of relationship trope is "stopped believing in love a long time ago" and "genuinely doesn't think they're worthy of love" falling for each other in the MOST romantic way possible

“The best.”

Donna Noble, everyone.

4.03 | Planet of the Ood 

Me after Midnight:

I would fall on a sword for this man

Me watching series two of nuwho for the first time:

Ten is okay I guess. Don't get why people are obsessed with him. Miss Mr. Eccleston.

Me after the one-two punch of The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones:

Oh. I get it now.

Me watching series two of nuwho for the first time:

Ten is okay I guess. Don't get why people are obsessed with him. Miss Mr. Eccleston.

Me after the one-two punch of The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones:

Oh. I get it now.

I just realized that in The Doctor's Daughter gif they are literally just holding each other, which makes their immediate denial ten times funnier.

Like Donna rolls her eyes like "I can't believe this."

Girl. He was just wrapping you up and you were just holding his arm.

Shipping Challenge: Day 1 - Current Favorite Ship [x]

↳ The Doctor and Donna.

Look at Donna’s reaction to this.

She looks like she could cry from just this one gesture. And the Doctor does it naturally, as if she’s deserving of common decency like everyone else, which she clearly feels she is not. He shows her care, which is profoundly lacking in her life.

“The Doctor and Donna healed each other and made each other better.” – Catherine Tate, Return to the 11th Hour

This is why Donna jumps in front of him later against the Racnoss. He really wraps her in his jacket, a gesture of compassion. It’s one of the foundations of their love story, besides the laughing.

A few words on Donna Noble

I have a friend, who is a man, who hates Donna Noble, and it upsets me every time we talk about it.

Let me tell you why.

Donna Noble is all the girls and women who feel like they’re too loud, and take up too much room. They are all the girls and women who have opinions; who want to be heard, but nobody really wants to listen.

But they keep trying anyways. They keep being loud, and they keep taking up room because they don’t know how not to.

They’re not Disney Princesses.

They’re not the love interest.

They want to be the hero of their own story, but they don’t feel like they matter enough to make it happen, because in all the stories they’ve seen, they’re the sassy, goofy, too-loud friend.

Donna was for us girls who want the world, but the world’s not so interested in us.

The idea that we matter, that we’re important, when everyone has told us for forever that we’re not, was huge for me.

So my friend saying he didn’t like Donna, kind of felt like he was saying he didn’t like me.

Ten and Donna always perfection.