The hero is supposed to spare the villain ( Read more... )

He's been sleeping a lot, lately - that is, more than usual, which is still less than a human, but she notices, and she worries ( Read more... )

( Master )

On a dying world, he watches a Lord of Time scream ( Read more... )

Curt: We set out to change the world and ending up… just changing ourselves.
Arthur: What's wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing! … If you don't look at the world.
(Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine)

"Why didn't you take it?" The Doctor looked up from the console, bewildered surprise softening his features and making him look young; the wayward child running ( Read more... )

One day, the Doctor arrived on a planet ( Read more... )

"Imagine the spokes of a bicycle wheel. Each spoke is a damaged or truncated reality, a sort of dead end in Time. They're formed by changes in established history, some big, some relatively small, which cause the flow of subsequent events to spiral out of control. Often catastrophically." - The Axis of InsanityHe is tempted, sometimes, until he ( Read more... )

Tegan looked distraught. This was not, in truth, an unusual occurrence, and he almost attributed it to the shabby hotels rooms the four of them were sharing and got on with telling her it was supper time. Or perhaps the fact that they were in Australia but he could hardly do anything about that ( Read more... )

It wasn't that the Doctor hadn't planned to smile for some time after he left ( Read more... )

She watches him awake, lips curving as he assesses his surroundings, so quickly, so efficiently. She can feel his mind buzzing already, working through the possibilities ( Read more... )