Tensimm - Blog Posts

Watching Last of the time lords and shipping tensimm but I'm shaking my head the whole time so you know I don’t approve of The Master’s actions towards Martha’s family and Jack

real reason donna lost her memories is bc if she had been in the end of time she would have taken one look at the doctor master weirdness and locked them in a room until they actually figured out their issues

something something the doctor having this incurable ability to see the beauty in everything, no matter their intentions.

am completely aware that it’s Not That Deep, and that this has nothing whatsoever to do with thoschei but i’d like to use it as an example of the many times the doctor’s seen the master commit atrocities yet still, found the beauty in them (by them i mean the master)

the doctor is literally strapped to a chair here. he’s been kidnapped, rolled about and slapped yet; he still will not give up on the master and their childhood dream to wander the stars together. he can’t help but think his old friend could be more, could be beautiful again. he’s the only person who can see the master’s potential for good, although he is known to be evil. he admires the master’s intelligence, when anyone else would think nothing of it because of what he uses it for.

with that admiration also comes a deep yearning for them to be equals again, not just in their cleverness but in their ideals. they are inherently the same but they don’t stand on the same side and that causes a wall in their relationship, a wall which the doctor would like to tear down by guiding the master towards goodness.

and i’d like to add that the situation’s a bit different here, obviously, since the doctor and missy were already trying to make their friendship work again. so the doctor reminisces and feels nostalgic about their past, he is hopeful about their future and wants his friend (bill) to understand why. their history’s not just history, it’s an endless cycle of meetings and goodbyes. they’re never truly gone from each other.

bill even goes so far as admitting being scared of missy. however the doctor can’t give any response to that, can’t make any promises to his friend because his oldest friend needs his help and he’s already made up his mind. he’s aware he finds a monster beautiful but he does nothing to change it.

and last but not least, this little thing. i can’t even begin to get into the atrocities spymaster committed towards the universe at large and the doctor specifically. the entire episode is filled with mentions of his past crimes, and there’s no forgiveness to be found this time, however the doctor is still noticeably unable of ignoring his brilliance, quite ironically, in the same manner he tried to be her and have a companion to “bask” in it.

all this to say— the doctor clearly associates ingenuity with beauty on top of just admiring the two, especially when they come together. and the master, being the doctor’s first friend, and a brilliant one at that, fits every criteria. the doctor’s also not just alien to humans, but alien to their own species and anyone else in the universe when it comes to how they perceive the master. therefore, the master may be beautiful to the doctor, but to everyone else, they’re evil.

don’t care much for the drumming bit but the i forgive you healed me 

The drumming. Can’t you hear it? I thought it would stop, but it never does. It never, ever stops. Inside my head. The drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming.

writing doctor who tensimm fanfiction on a busted laptop just as god intended. connecting with my ancestors rn (2000's tumblr fangirls)

'Cause there's nothing else to do Every Me and Every You

Going back to my roots (drawing Tensimm shipping fanart)

Tensimm - Phone call

The famous scene where the Doctor and the Master call each other.

Master: "Are you asking me out on a date?!" Doctor: "YES, YES!"

This is how it truly ended, trust me :]

The doctor and the Master

|| Part 1 ||

The Doctor and the Master

|| Part 2 ||

i think all these saxon things in new season are caused by simm!master just chilling with fourteenth doctor in a cottage and that's it. no evil plans, just two retired old timelords doing their retired stuff together and i refuse to believe otherwise.

I won't deny I'm gonna miss you when you're gone

sorry for not posting these guys for so long

[person clearly not over the end of time arc] im over the end of time arc

so something really bad is happening to me.

i saw the post a few days ago and i thought of them so i wanted to make something with it

Yummy.

Atleast he's not eating humans this time

stupid sketch of them I hateeeee them I haaaatttttteeeeeeeeee theeeemmm (currently gnawing in fhem hard hard hard h)

I'm going to start posting here more because I've remembered that tumblr is not like other social media and people will not kill me with two tjousand hammers if I make one million posts about the guys in my brain. People may even enjoy it. insane. anyways here's some theta doodles I did as well

the raccoon is there because im on holiday in germany and a girl came up to me and asked to draw a raccoon in my sketchbook and who was I to say no

Only £40!,!!!!

having tensimm as my favorite doctor master pairing feels so fake because all the other thoschei sufferers have either some unique mismatch or a niche extended universe pairing. like sorry its the y2k toxic yaoi that attracts me. i like my twinks with bleach blond hair and my whores with catholic guilt

thank u so fucking much for bringing this up bc i was rewatching this scene the other day and it made me think of how well that scared little headshake actually works. this whole ordeal is already sad as it his with the doctor pointing a literal gun at the master but the masters refusal to deliberately show a hint of emotion makes it worrrseeeee just like u said you can see it in his face and hear it in his voice but he wont say it. even in his final moments he can’t bring himself to, like u said, plead with the doctor which is so fitting for especially this incarnation of the master i think

“you never would you coward. (would you…?)”

the master getting teary eyed and scared when he realises the doctor is really considering to pull the trigger but still daring him to do it. He needs to know, he needs to see if the doctor is capable of it. is he? would he really? why is he still pointing the gun at him?

“go on then. do it.”

But he doesn’t want to die. you can hear it in his voice and see it in his face but he needs to know how far the doctor is willing to go. And besides he’s the master. He’s not gonna back down and plead. At least not in this regeneration. the subtle and terrorised headshake after works very well as there’s one part of the script missing in this scene

“don’t.”

and the doctor won’t.

*crawls out of a dark hole with doctor who fanart after not having posted any art for almost two months* haha hey.

when i first watched the bit where the oods were explaining how all of the universe dreams of the master i thought What the fuck would he need to be doing that for but that was just his way of saying honey im home. got inside their heads and practically tortured every sentient being that exists Just to send the love of his life an intergalactic message. quite sweet actually if you think about it

realized i dont post enough tensimm on here, so here's a plushie doodle of them!!

Another sketch from Magma 🤧

We could be beautiful.

Favourite ship dynamic: no one truly knows what exactly is going on between the two characters, including the characters themselves. But whatever it is, it's written in the fabric of the universe.

thinking about time lords and their fucked up little society again and i just realized how devastating the revelation of the drums in the end of time is in relation to the master's character.

because of all the renegade time lords in the universe, i think it's the master who most exemplifies the philosophical outlook that the time lords have towards the rest of the universe. they're stuffy observers, administrators, yes - but this position is one they've decided for themselves because of this concept of supremacy over other life forms. imposed and upheld this idea that other species that lack a time sense are less-than, primitive. and the master buys into this hard.

and i mean... compared to the doctor, the master is good at being a time lord. he buys into these supremacist concepts, this idea that every other species (and especially humans) is practically a meaningless ant in the grand scheme of the universe. takes it to the extreme, yes, but its the same underlying principle. he's a good student (despite whatever chibnall might think) - that one time lord from terror of the autons (identity forever a mystery) (its brax) even says "he did receive a higher degree of cosmic science than you." the master could play their game if he wanted to. he's remarkably comfortable with being on gallifrey/the idea of gallifrey(in eot/tlotl) than the doctor ever is. where the doctor avoids the subject of the lord presidency like the plague, the master is like "well if you kill the president you ARE the president! and then you have all of gallifrey!" and when the doctor destroys gallifrey (nominally), the master tries to rebuild it in the sound of drums/last of the time lords. tries to emulate their society. honor them in his little fucked up way. he brings them back from the time war!

and what does he get for it? how did the time lords treat him in response?

they decide to implant the sound of drums in his head, stretching back until he's a child. puts this insufferable noise, this splitting headache, in his head for his entire life. all so that they may live while he dies. because he is diseased, because of them. he has swallowed the pill, bought their propaganda, he has followed the rules, he tried to rebuild them he tried. and in response he is chewed up and spit out like trash so that rassilon's god complex can survive while the universe crumbles.

how crushing must that be to someone? to have your whole worldview - that you are better, you are chosen, you are special - come crumbling down in a few short moments? to see the revered founder-god of the civilization you have so desperately tried to revive look at you and say "you are diseased," even though he was the one to poison you in the first place?

and as his heart is torn to pieces... when rassilon says "no more," and charges his gauntlet, the master - who has spent countless lives fighting death with his bare hands - does not move.

part of me thinks he does not want to.