[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 055 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/YpdIbxW.jpg

[intrigueing]

Someone needs to watch The Curse of Fenric. Hamsters? Try guardian angels.

[riddian]

I've been thinking of rewatching The Curse of Fenric, but some asshole kept barging in and chopping onions during all the good parts. D: _{I love it so}

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah...but if I have to choose between a hamster who spends my entire life inside of a plastic aquarium or a hamster who runs around in a mecha hamster ball, I am going to choose the more awesome life.

And people can love their pets as much as they love family members. So, doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.

Oh yeah.

[kaijinscendre]

[(Anonymous)]

Just because you have a ridiculously long lifespan and can regenerate from mortal injuries and therefore outlive everyone you love, doesn't mean they're any less important to you.

Only shallow, small-minded, small-hearted people judge love by exclusivity.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a fucking ridiculous thing to say.

[(Anonymous)]

fuck that i wouldn't even care if we weren't very attached to each other at all, if i'm offered access to a time traveling machine i'll fucking take it

[(Anonymous)]

yep

[(Anonymous)]

This so much! Nobody's worth pining over anyway if they don't care that much about you, so enjoy the experience for yourself, for crying out loud.

[making_excuses]

I feel this is the same as people believing there is only one person in the world who is right for you...

It is possible to love more than one person, it is possible to be important for someone even if there is someone that comes after you or was before you. You can be the most important person in someones life for a while, and that is good enough at least for me.

Tho I wouldn't want to be The Doctors companion either, I don't really want to leave everything behind and not know when or if I come back.

[(Anonymous)]

I really like this font. Can anyone tell me what it is?

[mautradutor]

I have two feelings about this:

First, I also never want to be a companion, but for different reasons. As a companion, a person faces a lot of dangers and life threatening situations, and often their loved ones stopped her, too. I would not want to go through anything like that.

Secondly, I do not think actually are disposable. The Doctor is very long-lived compared to the people he brings with him, so he goes to see his relations with them as temporary. This does not mean that he does not care about them or just sees them as pets. I've met people who've only been for a very brief period in my life, but still they have touched my life and I'm glad I knew them.

[(Anonymous)]

I would be happy to be one of many people an amazing person loved, and the Doctor is one of the few fictional characters I can imagine actually growing fond of me. I just don't want to be a companion because I'd be terrible at it.

[(Anonymous)]

To the Doctor, their lives must pass in the blink of an eye.

... So? Not to be abrupt, my apologies, but being a companion isn't just or even always primarily about how much the Doctor cares about them. Some of it is about exploring time and space, some of it is about realising things about themselves, some of it is about escaping their lives and finding new ones. Some of the companions moved on from him rather than he from them (Jo, Tegan, Martha, etc). Some of them needed to get away from their places in time and he was a handy ticket out that became something more important, some of them never wanted to be the in the TARDIS at all but grew because of their experiences there, some of them were so damaged because of their experiences that they left because the joy of travelling with the Doctor wasn't enough to offset the dangers they lived through. Some of them just found things worth staying in place for, and sent him onwards with their blessings.

It's not about the Doctor loving and leaving people and replacing them once they're gone. It's about the Doctor needing company and finding it in the random strangers thrown his way, what those people go on to become because of him/their experiences, and how they impact and shape him in the process.

I'm not sure I'd want to be a companion for the same reason I'm not sure I'd really want to be a superhero: vastly increased chances of dying horribly or, given Who, fates much worse than death. How much the Doctor will care about me and remember me is a bit down the list, since he seems to remember more or less everyone he randomly meets, let alone travels with.

[silvereriena]

I personally wouldn't want to be a companion because I know I'd do something dumb and get myself killed within the first 5 minutes of an episode. They're pretty damn dangerous adventures. Although I dunno, maybe a quick picnic with the Doctor wouldn't be too bad.

[diet_poison]

I don't think he sees them that way at all.

People are different from pets in that they have full ownership of themselves, full sapience, agency, potential, etc. and the Doctor recognizes this about everyone he meets. He misses his companions who aren't with him anymore and it's a burden for him, and I also think he really wants them to be able to live their human lives to their best potential. When a hamster dies, you cry, and a few years later you might still feel sad but you don't have any lingering questions. I bet the Doctor wonders all the time about his past companions and how they're doing and whether they've succeeded in following their dreams.

...someone explain to me...

[(Anonymous)]

...why everyone ITT is going on and on about "being loved" or "loving the Doctorr" or other romantic claptrap? Because that's a relatively new innovation with the reboot. And not a particularly good innovation, either.

[(Anonymous)]

I think being important to the doctor even if only in what seems like the blink of an eye to him, would beat the completely pointless lonely life I'm living right now.

[11thdoctor]

I always say I'd rather be the doctor than a companion. Living so long, travelling in time and space, feeling time and space, understanding time and space...

Every time I try and imagine how tiny one person on this planet is (both physically and time-existence wise) compared to all that is out there which I will never know about and see... I'd love to be able to just see it all.

And then imagine even the doctor is still amazed at things...

I just... I need a moment here. Being a timelord in a tardis is like the ultimate dream.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I don't think it be a good idea for me personally.

I love the idea of being able to explore all of space of time, just not with someone as temperamental as the doctor. I'd probably piss him off really quickly because I don't carry the same 'ethical code' as him. If some alien tried to attack me I wouldn't blink an eye at killing it. (The Doctor seesaws with being okay with this or not.)

[(Anonymous)]

Considering that even with a normal human life-span, we will all know and care about people who do not remain with us our entire lives. There are people who will die before you or move far away and fall out of contact or just otherwise pass from your life, but I'm sure you don't think of them like hamsters. Just because the Doctor is pretty much guaranteed to lose most people he could travel with one way or another doesn't mean they are like lesser pets.

[gondremark]

I hear you, OP.
Myself, I have no interest in being a companion, I just want to be a Time Lord.

[(Anonymous)]

Shouldn't the decision weigh more on what you get out of it? Your short life is all that you get to experience, choose to do something awesome with it.

[(Anonymous)]

You've got way too much pride!