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iheartgeek:

As promised, Photoset of Tardis motorcycle. Pictures courtesy of LejonAJohnson and Photo Knight on Flickr.

I just can’t. I mean honestly. This is TOO MUCH. I love it. And I imagine Fenno, he of the untitled work-in-not-exactly-progress, would ALSO love it.

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likeafieldmouse:

Anselm Kiefer - The Seasons (2010)

1. Summer in Barjac — The Renowned Orders of the Night

2. Snow Melt in the Odenwald (text beneath title reads: Goodbye, winter, parting hurts but your departure makes my heart cheer. Gladly I forget thee, may you always be far away. Goodbye, winter, parting hurts.)

3. Ygdrasil, Autumn in Auvergne

4. Wreck of Hope

Here is some incredibly evocative art for your Saturday. I look at these and stories well up, and so many feelings. 

fer1972:

The Olive Fairy Book illustrated by Kate Baylay

This is fabulous. Literally.

(via terribleminds)

emchughes:

Twelfth Doctors I will accept:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor (35)
• Romola Garai (30)
• Sophie Okenedo (44)
• Richard Ayoade (35)

I know it’s a long shot that Steven Moffat won’t cast another young white man (sigh), but of the three categories fans are calling for (black, female, older than 40), I feel like a black man is probably the most likely, and a path of least resistance for the writers if they’re looking to inject some diversity.

Given the way the show handles race and gender, a regenderation (I’m sorry, I had to) would seem to entail a more pronounced change in personality/politics/ways in which the Doctor interacts with the universe & his/her companions. With a black male Doctor, Moffat could keep casting pretty, young “impossible girl” companions (diversity & characterization of companions is another issue altogether), and write off concerns about the Doctor traveling to past, more openly racist eras on Earth with a throwaway line about how “the past isn’t as different as you might think” (see: Ten to Martha when she expresses concern about walking around Elizabethan London in The Shakespeare Code).

With a female Doctor, they’d have to redefine the established relationship/sexual tension with the companion, and deal with issues of possible non-heterosexuality - the horror! - in re: Rose and River Song (though maybe not, as I can’t imagine Rose will ever return post-50th Anniversary Special and River’s storyline seems to be over). I know the show has had some wonderful queer characters over the years, but there’s a significant difference between Jack Harkness or Jenny & Madam Vastra popping in for a story once in a while and having a queer title character. I don’t know that the show (or its audience) is prepared to make that leap. 

I’m also quite wary of the idea of a female Doctor written by Moffat, given his track record on female characters in general. 

Older than 40 would be fascinating and I’d love to watch it, but I think it would probably get nixed by BBC execs - given the demographics who are watching New Who (especially in the States), they’ll most likely want to keep it Young and Sexy.

Also, no Idris Elba. I’ve already decided he’s the next Bond, so he clearly won’t have time to film both.

And if you want to keep your blood pressure down today, don’t search “new Doctor” on Twitter. Just don’t do it.

I was going to sit down today and write out my thoughts on the 12th Doctor, but this post has pretty much said EXACTLY what I was going to say, only more clearly. Of all the writing today online about the Doctor, this is one of my favorites. It is not frothing at the mouth, for one thing. Plus: These picks? YES. The big picture of Chiwetel Ejiofor? YES. The significant issues surrounding casting a woman in the role? YES (although one suspects that Helen Mirren, say, would fix Moffat pretty well).

Although I did have a tiny moment, just now, of wondering whether the Twelfth Doctor/Twelfth Night thing that just happened in my head would actually work. Hmm.

And as much as I love the Harry Potter movies, and think the world of Ron, I can’t see Rupert Grint as the Doctor (I can, however, completely see Fred or George Weasely, so there’s that). 

Now I suppose we just wait and see what happens. And hope they don’t screw it up (looking at you, Colin Baker years…looking at you).