farewell to my beautiful thirteenth doctor. i love you so much and im sorry that fandom often just flattens you to “woman” while other doctors get lengthier descriptors like “old man in a child’s body”, “grumpy but kind scot” or “the dashing hero” and then you see how they describe thirteen and it’s just “woman”. thanks guys. such creativity. you couldn’t come up with, i don’t know “deeply repressed but kind” or “always building gadgets” also rtd getting so many flowers for the reality war having a moment where thirteen says “i should say i love you to yaz” (paraphrasing here) and saying that he “confirmed” thasmin is such bullshit. if you check the script for the reality war uploaded by the BBC, that line isn’t there. and it’s been confirmed that was jodie whittaker’s idea (which tracks, she and mandip have been #1 thasmin shippers). and thasmin was already canon. it was unconsummated but it was very clearly canon. thirteen says that if she’d date anyone, it’d be yaz. it just doesn’t happen because it’s the wrong time. thasmin isn’t queerbait (neither was beronica in the end, i do think the pilot kiss is an edgecase but by the end of the show it wasn’t) but people are so quick to assume that just because they didn’t kiss, it doesn’t count. thirteen is also an incarnation defined by her inability to let anyone in and so her having a full fledged dating arc would have never made sense unless you had her for like 7 seasons and developed her out of that stage but that’s not how doctor who works. you usually do three seasons and you’re out. i like what we got a thasmin. do i wish we had more development, yes, but i understand that it wasn’t planned from the beginning and that also the fact that we even got series 13 and the specials was a fucking miracle due to the PANDEMIC that i’m very forgiving. anyway, love the thirteenth doctor and if my recommendations for her are series 11-13 and the specials, specific episodes would be The Woman Who Fell to Earth Demons of the Punjab It Takes You Away Resolution Spyfall, Part 1 / Spyfall, Part 2 (Part 1 is really good) Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror Fugitive of the Judoon Can You Hear Me? The Haunting of Villa Diodati Revolution of the Daleks Series 13: Flux (it’s six episodes but very serialized) Eve of the Daleks Power of the Doctor (just pretend she turns into Ncuti Gatwa)

ooh thanks for the episode recs! and rip thirteen, she may be gone from this tournament but i personally will never forget the absolutely batshit things i learned from reading her propaganda. from the bbc apologizing to the public because people actually complained en masse that the doctor, of doctor who fame, famously a bit of douche, was bad at emotionally comforting another character when they…