All Things Doctor Who

idk if it was said before but if i were master/missy id kms repeatedly until i’d regenerate into looking like clara oswald. I would haunt that old man and i would torture him just by being clara oswald it would be so good >:)

without hope.

Laugh hard without hope

The thing about Clara's crashout in the s8 finale is that she didn't do all that simply because she was grieving. She didn't threat the Doctor just because she needed her boyfriend back that badly. It was rather because Danny's death reminded her that she was only human, and she did not appreciate that realisation. Although Clara was always in touch with her own humanity, her time with the Doctor rendered her detached from from the mundanity of human life. I mean, she was THE companion to a god-like alien who was also the only person in the world whom she felt truly akin to, and just by being with him she played a huge role in his own magic life which gave her the notion that she was not like other people, that she was as otherworldly as the alien she accompanied through time and space. So when her human boyfriend simply dies by a random car accident it's a huge blow to her own conceit. She's larger than life, right? She shouldn't experience loss like that, people around her weren't supposed to die in such an ordinary way. Thus her own sense of otherworldliness along with her guilt over her past emotional infidelity resulted in the messed up state of mind that saw fit to threaten the Doctor –a very powerful being and the person she loved the most– with taking away the most important thing in his life. Her actions were a desperate attempt to regain control over the situation, because if Danny's death was an uncomfortable reminder of her vulnerability as a human being, then she would turn things around and get the upper hand through magic. She was not limited like other humans, after all.

@clarainthecloisters because your tags are literally what I was thinking and I also recognised the exact scene as soon as I saw the gif without the words beneath:

i'm genuinely so obsessed with the twelve/clara dynamic. like,,,,

It's very interesting to me that in Heaven Sent there's a high chance that Clara telling The Doctor to win is something part of the cycle. The Doctor goes through the same acts and thought process over and over again, this more than likely involves the inevitable thought of giving up only for his memory of Clara to lift him up.

From an earlier version of the script:

@clarainthecloisters :

i literally cant believe that we’ll never get a ship like 12clara ever again… like i don’t know of any other fandom that has this level of insane selfless and selfish universe-destroying codependent relationship. like a love that turns both people into the best and worst versions of themselves. where it’s better in the end for them to be apart than together??!! i feel ill and i need to lie down now just thinking about them

“Clara, I’m not your boyfriend” but he goes to Hell with her in an attempt to rescue her dead boyfriend for her