Doctor Who text posts: Twelve edition – pt. 2

the doctor and clara say "I have a duty of care" instead of I love you

metamorphoses, ovid

Wherever she is, is where I’ll go.

(op)

I've got a hobby, thanks. It's you, by the way.

Controversial take but this felt like more of an age gap than Twelve and Clara. Matt Smith plays a decrepit old man falling apart at the seams as a twenty-eight year old. Decrepit old man plays a twenty-eight year old guitarist pining over a girl. Make sense?

clara oswald is a manic pixie dream girl, but only in the literal sense of each of those words, the non-metaphorical meaning. manic not in a cutesy ‘teehee i’m so quirky’ way, but in an ‘i’m an actual control freak who wants to be able to successfully balance two very different lives and be competent in leading both of them. apparently i also need to sleep and eat and relax like a normal human being??’ way. pixie not in an ‘uwu whimsical’ way, but in an ‘assertive woman of short stature who may or may not be a mischievous trickster entity from a distant mythological past, one that looks adorable at first glance but embodies ambiguity and mystery’ way. dream not in the typical sense, but in the ‘i walk through the valley of the shadow of death and fear no evil; i appear in your mind at inopportune times; you can’t get rid of the idea of me, i haunt you like a persistent nightmare’ sense. girl as in impossible.

point is, she is much-deserving of the label in a non-derogatory, non-dismissive way, but as a genuine expression of awe and fascination

My impossible star 🌟

insp. / insp.

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