You can call me Oracle (or Li).
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My top choices for actors I think should play the Master, in no particular order.
Okay I know lots of people have had this idea already but I am very in support of it for self-indulgent sapphic reasons: Jodie Whittaker. The Centenary special planted the idea of a body-swap and even though it didn't happen, it could probably still be used as justification as to why the Master would regenerate into this face. also i can't find the post but someone somewhere had the idea of introducing a Whittaker!Master by pretending to be a multi-Doctor special (since time lords canonically forget when they cross their own timelines) and i haven't been able to get the idea out of my head since.
One day, I was struck by the thought that Taliesin Jaffe would probably be really good at playing the Master, and I figured there had to be a decent overlap between Critters and Whovians so I immediately went to tumblr to see if anyone else has had this thought before. which led me to Eric's TBD RPG and the discovery that apparently, Taliesin Jaffe has had this thought before! So he has technically played this role already. That being said, Eric's TBD RPG was obviously not canon to the BBC and I think they should give him a shot on the actual show.
Jack Wolfe. As I kind of elaborated on here. I just think he really has the range for it.
literally just let Sacha Dhawan keep playing the role forever and ever
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i love posts that have a definitive line after which it's clear you can just go back to whatever it is you were doing. nothing intelligent will be said
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protip for everyone, but mostly boys in this case:
when you are on a date, and someone has an interest you don't quite get, instead of saying lol lame, try saying hmm i don't quite get that, please explain that to me, and then listen as the other person talks about why that thing is something they are in to.
you might learn something which recontextualizes the matter, and you will definitely learn something more about your date, which is the entire point of dating.
you don't have to be a superfan by the end, but you will have shown you can be chill and take an interest in stuff, which is much more likely to result in a second date instead of being ditched in a coffee line.
Reverse love triangle where character A is trying to play wingman and set character C up with character B, and character B is trying to play wingman and set character C up with character A, and neither A nor B realises what the other is doing.
RTD trying to make his seasons "pro trans" while Rosie and Donna call the doctor "male presenting" and the Rani calls herself a "Time Lady" and the thirteenth calls the fifteenth doctor "male" Mister T Davies put on the clown shoes
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glad that in between an out-of-nowhere "belinda is happy with a baby she never asked for and also didn't have before the doctor rewrote reality without her consent" and the rani getting eaten by a skeleton we also got to see the thirteenth doctor call all the other doctors "male" because *checks note* they are played by cis men and she is *checks notes* not
reminds me of ‘something a male-presenting time lord will never understand’ - why is rtd so obsessed with the doctor’s gender MATTERING? it doesn’t matter, so he has to draw attention to it, thereby stupidly ruining the entire point. thanks
watching classic who for the first time but already knowing all of the Stuff That Happens is so stupid because i can't even post through it the way i would with anything else. like i can't say 'i've only had adric for a day and a half but if anything happened to him—' because i know exactly what happens to him. everybody knows. it happened over 40 years ago
It really is such a shame that they biffed Belinda’s story so hard, because the whole unwilling or accidental companion angle is such an underexplored concept in NuWho. Like, it’s one of those ideas that classic Who played with all the time—people who didn’t want to be there, who got swept up in the chaos by accident or circumstance—and it always added this fascinating tension to the dynamic. You’d get characters trying to balance survival with curiosity, or resentment with reluctant awe.
But with Belinda, they only really committed to that for maybe three episodes. And then they managed to fumble her arc so catastrophically and in such a wildly unpopular way that we’ll probably won't see another companion like her again for ages.
Which sucks, because that archetype has so much narrative potential. The friction between someone who doesn’t want to be part of the adventure and a Doctor who can’t stop chasing it? That’s storytelling gold. And instead, they tossed it aside.
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i know the psychic paper can read either what you want it to read or what the reader is expecting and it's often a bit ambiguous which one it is at any given use but i like the risk involved in if it's just kinda always the second one? i do think it's usually the second one, and then the doctor, like, moulds the expectations by talking while they show it? but we saw with rose that it's not always like that
but anyway i do like that idea that the doctor pulls out the psychic paper, and because they walk into places with an air of authority they expect the person theyre showing it to to expect them to be an authority. and that usually works! but not always like in witchfinders when the king shows up. or just whenever when they pull it out and go 'oh havent had that one in a while' or like with hyphen with a 3
this is more words than this post needs to be i was just watching 12x5 and i liked this little sequence, like:
[id: 13 holding up the psychic paper in front of the judoon and watching the judoon's face carefully]
whats it gonna be?
[id: after the judoon says it reads imperial regulator she glances at the psychic paper like a bit mischievously]
alright i can work with that
[id: and then she looks back to the judoon]
recalibrating
idk i just like that little element of risk! a bit of a gamble! what if they say something youve never heard of! it's fun, keeps you on your toes
I thought it might be fun to compile ship stats for The Doctor. Because of the uniqueness of The Doctor I have split them up by incarnation. Let me preface this by saying I'm taking my numbers from AO3, so this will only show those ships being the focus of fanworks in the past 20 years approximately, so it will not most likely be an actuate representation for Classic Who.
For characters like The Master there may be a few different incarnations shipped with one version of The Doctor in most cases I took the overall number unless there was one version of the Master that was the clear favourite. I excluded all reader and original characters.
This was for romantic ships only, there is lots of fanworks focused on the Doctor's friendships, but that wasn't what I was currently interested in. I picked the top five ships for Doctors 1-15, unless I could not find five significant ships to include. Survey was completed on July 31, 2025.
The First Doctor does not feature in a lot of romantic ships, but we do see our first appearances of Rose Tyler and The Master, they will become a recurring theme.
Second Doctor/Jamie is the overwhelming favourite for this version of The Doctor. Plus our first polyam ship.
Third Doctor
-Third Doctor/The Master (Delgado) (279 fanworks)
-Third Doctor/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (117 fanworks)
-Third Doctor/Jo Grant (52 fanworks)
-Third Doctor/Rose Tyler (35 fanworks)
-Third Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith (33 fanworks)
Third Doctor/The Master is the most popular, but this is not surprising considering this is the era in which The Master was introduced.
Fourth Doctor
-Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith (226 fanworks)
-Fourth Doctor/Romana II (77 fanworks)
-Four Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith/Harry Sullivan (66 fanworks)
-Fourth Doctor/The Master (36 fanworks)
-Fourth Doctor/Rose Tyler (29 fanworks)
Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith is the most popular with half of all Fourth Doctor romantic fanworks being about this pairing.
Fifth Doctor/The Master is popular for the Fifth Doctor, but it seems they are shipped with a wide variety of characters
Sixth Doctor
-Sixth Doctor/Peri Brown (243 fanworks)
-Sixth Doctor/The Master (Ainley) (38 fanworks)
-Sixth Doctor/Rose Tyler (29 fanworks)
-Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard (18 fanworks)
-Sixth Doctor/River Song (12 fanworks)
The Sixth Doctor is overwhelmingly shipped with their companion Peri. Plus, this is the first time an audio only companion makes the list, and the first appearance of River Song.
Seventh Doctor
-Seventh Doctor/Ace McShane (83 fanworks)
-Seventh Doctor/The Master (31 fanworks)
-Seventh Doctor/Rose Tyler (17 fanworks)
-Seventh Doctor/Romana II (11 fanworks)
-Seventh Doctor/River Song (6 fanworks)
The Seventh Doctor does not feature in a lot of romantic ships, but his most popular one is with his companion Ace.
The Eighth Doctor is unique. Here we also have our first tie-in book character.
Ninth Doctor
-Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler (3285 fanworks)
-Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler (460 fanworks)
-Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness (325 fanworks)
-Ninth Doctor?The Master (Scream of the Shalka) (94 fanworks)
-Ninth Doctor/River Song (32 Fanworks)
The Ninth Doctor's most popular romantic ship is with canonical love interest Rose Tyler. This also sees the introduction of Captain Jack Harkness, who is also a popular option for the Ninth Doctor. One note, Ninth Doctor/Donna Noble was tied with Ninth Doctor/River Song with 32 fanworks, but I could only pick one for the chart.
The Fifteenth Doctor will probably see more fanworks over time, but currently his ship with Rogue dwarfs all others.
Certain trends seem to occur with most versions of the Doctor, he is usually shipped with his current companion. Also, Rose, The Master, and River Song seem to reoccur over and over again for the majority of the Doctors.
I hope this was fun and informative! I'm sure I made some mistakes along the way so take it with a grain of salt.
