Doctor who? -Yes, quite right

There's some Wizards of Mickey vibes here...

must feel good af to be a 1920s dandy calling your gay lover "old thing"

must feel good af to be a victorian dandy calling your gay lover "my dear man"

the less obvious connection between all of these people is that their personal histories have been rewritten

The only way forward is to stop treating masculinity as synonymous with harmful, monstrous, or dangerous.

There is a fundamental difference between "men are dangerous" (wrong, bioessentialist) and "the patriarchy allows dangerous men to exist unchecked" (true).

the doctor’s whole entire “i can’t kill you but i will seal you in an empty dimension where you will suffer alone forever” thing makes complete sense when you understand the doctor as an immortal exile. you probably wouldn’t get it.

the thing is 5master is such a compelling dynamic. fucking hates his murderer's guts x guy who was so terrified of dying he discovered the top 5 worst ways of avoiding death and then set out for his life goal of pretending to be himself and failing because he has fundamentally changed and instead biting and killing forever. guy who wears full beige with a stick of celery x guy who wears black velvet and sometimes a dracula cloak. most angelic looking blond man that gasps and moans x guy that speaks in the universe's most evil seductive manner possible. world's biggest asshole x world's angriest cat. most repressed man x runner up for world's campest villain. guy who only gets pyrrhic victories x guy that always loses. they hate each other so much that they'll end up having horrible sex about it. they both genuinely want the other one to die, except one of them doesn't want it to last, and that one isn't the one that's supposed to be the hero. the master works so hard to keep the doctor including schemes that are blatantly designed to make the doctor have fun and the doctor would beat him to death with a large stick if sufficiently provoked. the master never stops thinking about the doctor whereas the doctor forces himself to never think about the master unless someone else brings him up, even to the point of ignoring obvious disguises, because he's deeply deeply betrayed by him. to some extent the master has given up on winning the doctor and has settled for having him in snatches. the doctor can't stand how much he still wants him. and so forth