Myrkurrr - Myrkur

Thinking about how the creature in "Midnight" targeted the Doctor not because he's the smartest or most dangerous, like he assumed, but because it identified him as the Different one, the only non-human in the group, and therefore he was the most vulnerable one. The one everyone was most likely to turn on, and the creature could take advantage of the humans urge to weed out anything different, anything they might PERCIEVE as a threat

Brody Dalle ・ The Distillers @ Reading Festival, 2004

Let me put you on a ship On a long, long trip Your lips close to my lips

Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:

the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good

but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe

and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)

(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)

but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with

and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is

jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS

(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)

Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him

and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him

and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto

BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM

Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man

Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER

AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE

jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone

because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift

jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE

there is no more human character than jack harkness

Dave Gahan & Stefan Olsdal, (31/01/1997)

My first #tbt (it had to be right!). Me and one of my heros @dave_gahan__ in London 1997. This is after @placeboworld and @depechemode performed on the now defunct (and missed) #TopOfThePops. We performed Nancy Boy (#4 in the UK charts) and Depeche Mode did Barrel Of A Gun. I was tripping on cloud 9 as this band has had a massive influence on me musically and personally. I spent my awkward teens covering their songs and turning the lights off in my room to immerse myself in their latest release. My isolation from the world had the best soundtrack! What a gentleman and talent Mr. Gahan is, and his bandmate Andy Fletcher was the best host serving us drinks in his restaurant Gascoignes in St. Johns Wood that chilly night. I had to give Dave our album (#placebo), and here he shows it off in all its fuzzy glory. I hereby praise the mighty Mode, long may you rule! x © stefanolsdal

Thinking about how Doctor Who took the comforting sentiment that is "you are not alone" and turned it into a threat.